Fate:In Minds, the relationship between creator and created is painted as not dependent on fate. Life, both of the characters and Dave, is painted as the consequences of action and inaction, bringing out the idea of personal responsibility (Minds pages 127, 133, 136, 146 - 147). This idea is returned to in connection with projection, when fractured destiny is discussed (pages 194 - 199). Cirin refuses to accept new ideas, remains in consensus with her old worldview. She stays this way, later reshaping (controlling) reality/memory as she has done before to fit her worldview (Minds pages 150-175, Going Home pages 349-356).
"Die alone, unmourned and unloved":Cerebus ends the book determined to change, but so far (up to issue 262) he has remained entrapped by much of his old paradigm (Cerebus' life is the baker, and Cerebus is the bread), leading to anger, frustration, and confusion. He tries to control others while not controlling himself, and assumes himself to be a victim of things beyond his control. Whatever change is happening, is happening slowly. By the end of the book, Cerebus is forced to see that the fate foretold by "The Judge" is an eventual consequence of his own actions (Minds page 251). At the end of the book, he has decided that he does not want to die as "The Judge" said, and is humbled (Page 281). If I'm right about the Judge, at the end of Church and State Cerebus himself was intuiting the consequence of his then current course of action, and being brought face to face with it through the projected Judge. So it could just be "true"; just as Cerebus broke one destiny, he could break another. The pair of Cerebus and Cirin set up in Reads is dissolved, Cirin's decision made, still on her previous course.
Destiny:(Flight pages 139 - 146, 150 - 151). Reform: Transformation. Action based on exception taken to any consensus, within or without self.
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