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I don't think there is any force to either claim. Deontologists are generally concerned with rules not salvation, and consequentialists are generally not ego(t)ists.
I'm not sure to what claims you are referring. If you mean, for example, the claim that Alicorn is a deontologist, then I should point out that she has publicly confessed. If you mean my implicit claim that Giles is male, then I confess to jumping to that conclusion without sufficient evidence.
I think I misread your comment.
Consequentialists are sometimes egoists.
And egoists are almost always consequentialists.