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Re: Father Lantom

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Oh awesome! Glad to know I'm not alone in my theory. That sounds really cool! I'm a christened Catholic but ah, really really lapsed and the only experiences I have with priests is that I've gotten during Mass. And I've not been to Mass for oh probably a decade by now.

But I keep seeing Father Lantom as like, this missionary/volunteer who ended up in so many places. I've figured out a rough timeline for him - born in the 1940's; probably decided to become a priest in his late teens/early twenties. Did all the work for that; which takes about six years! Spends his late twenties/early thirties in Hell's Kitchen (where he meets a young Jack who is at the oldest in his early teens) which puts him into the 1970's. Spends time as a missionary in either the Pacific or Africa (or both) with brief periods in the United States (but not Hell's Kitchen) and by the early 1990's has been assigned to Rwanda. Gets out of there in the late 1990's or early 2000's - once all the Civil Wars in the region have stopped because I don't see him as the type of man to leave until he's sure he's done all he can. Possibly got pulled out because of all the wars? Either way, comes back to the United States and as soon as possible goes back to Hell's Kitchen because he's senior enough to have a choice and he wants to go home. And here he meets Matt- and then asks around to find out what happened to that Jack Murdock kid who'd told a young priest - who didn't yet believe the Devil was real - that he had the Devil in him.

Idk if that's a very accurate timeline... I've been trying to research it but it's still a lot of cobbling together and well, no personal experience. Also sorry to just unload my headcanon at you...