Auntie Christine

Christine Pumila (usually called Auntie Christine) is a recurring antagonist in Salvation Quest. She is TJ's aunt and a staunch atheist.

Appearance
Auntie Christine is a slender, tall woman with pale skin and bobbed red hair. She has orange eyes and sharp features. She is usually wearing a dark suit or suit dress.

Personality
While Christine seems friendly at first, her true colors are quick to show. She is rude, quick-tempered, and demanding. She also intentionally tries to undermine Christian values, believing that religion is ridiculous. She is very vengeful after she perceives that she has been wronged.

Summary
Auntie Christine is first introduced in the episode Uh Oh, It's Auntie Christine. She is John Richards' estranged sister, and she shows up at their household for several years. She quickly tries to undermine the morals of the Richards household by being rude, bossy, and encouraging immoral behaviors. After she tries to get TJ to miss church, he has a talk with his parents and they agree that Christine needs to be evicted.

Her next appearance is in TJ Versus the Teacher. She is the substitute teacher for the Crusaders' class in Grandshire Christian School. She teaches the children about evolution and encourages them to behave like wild animals. The Crusaders inform the Principal about this, and she quits after being embarrassed by TJ in front of the class.

She appears for the final time in Divine Intervention, where she is rallying a group to combat Christianity in the town of Grandshire. She initially garners a large amount of support, and her followers dismantle every plan that the Crusaders have to stop her. Eventually the Crusaders form a counter movement to draw her followers away; this is a huge success and Auntie Christine's protest is foiled.

TJ Richards
Christine and TJ are sworn enemies and on very bad terms with each other. Since TJ is an advocate for Christianity and Auntie Christine is aggressively anti-religion, they butt heads whenever they meet. Even though TJ tries to give her a chance at first, he quickly realizes that she is set in her ways and isn't willing to be saved. Christine is always trying to find excuses to mess with TJ's life, first by infiltrating his family, and then his school, and finally his whole community.

John Richards
Christine was estranged from John for a long time before they met again. John was initially delighted to see her again, but then quickly became disillusioned from her behavior.

Trivia

 * Auntie Christine's name is a pun on the term Antichrist.
 * Her last name, "Pumila," comes from the scientific name for apples. This is probably a reference to the Forbidden Fruit.