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i don't know of it's been said before, but i find so interesting how every single one of the people in this scene are waving with the same hand

should we pay attention to that? was it a coincidence? or did they do it on purpose to fuck with us?

pls why is swiss so happy to see copia leave lmao

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how do i decide the title for my book, i'm in between two options but idk which is best

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there's a forgotten earth ghoul? (at least i hadn't heard about crust) also! dew wasn't the first to change element either?

I made a guide to all the ghouls and ghoulettes!

I was trying to familiarize myself with some of the ghouls from previous eras so I made some notes for future reference. I think it could be useful to anyone else too, especially new fans, so I included all the ghouls and I thought I’d share it here <3

I spent a lot more time on this than I’d like to admit… I don’t have much of anything else to do with my life anyway.

To get info I used thebandghost.fandom.com and this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/kW3rFn4DCMc?si=TOjeVpcfgE1CI6Az

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i was thinking about the clergy, and since it's the only semi-coherent thought i've thought these last few days, so i'm sharing

we know the ministry bulding is this cemetery thing where productions film at, but in-lore, where could it be?

rambling under the cut, there's much talk about christianity/religions

these are just my thoughts btw, so don't take me too seriously, also i have more thoughts about this so maybe in a few days i'll post them

not all of the locations have ghouls, they are exclusive for the biggest congregations

the clergy has a network of churches/abbeys/monasteries/etc spreading through (at least) countries where the religious majority are christianity and its derivatives, and mostly they do what other satanic churches do, fight the bigotry, piss off the extremists, counteract religion-based actions that don't really represent the everyday people and all that

they serve as a refuge for people that have nowhere to go, specially those affected by religion and religious environments 

the clergy and the ministry are technically different things, the clergy is the group of churches, abbeys, the ministry and other different locations. the ministry is the "main" building, where the papa lives, from where the bureaucracy is done, where the ghouls are summoned and where most of them are

even though i love to imagine the buildings glamoured away and being under spells that make them invisible to outsiders, i don’t think they would do it, mostly because they want people to know about them, that’s why they created ghost 

about the band, they are a project inside the anti-church, they have many more projects and programs, mostly social projects, like having siblings of sin feed the homeless and volunteer at animal shelters and stuff like that

jumping back at the ghouls, they have their own, separate and exclusive wing at the ministry where they can just exist without the need to glamor and pretend to be humans, most siblings of sin don’t even know they are demons and think those are just rumors

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my neighboring village is having celebrations and hearing the music gave me an idea

imagine the ghouls discovering folk and traditional music from all over the world, in other languages, learning about instruments they couldn't even have imagined, new ryhtms and dances and cultures

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i want to write but i have 0 ideas

i've been re-reading my book cause first i got to a dead end and i have no idea how to keep going, and second i realized it's getting too long/boring/repetitive and idk how to fix it

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There's a post going around Tumblr about how if you're post-menopausal and have bleeding, you should get it checked by your doctor. I brought some minor bleeding I'd had up in a doctor visit earlier this year, prompted by that post, and this week, after a biopsy, I found out I have cancer. It's early stage and the survival odds at 5 years are 99%. I have an oncologist appointment and we may have caught it early enough that surgery alone will be sufficient treatment (no radiation/chemo).

So that post may have saved my life and it may have made my treatment a lot easier too.

If you get into menopause and then start bleeding again, really, get your reproductive innards checked out. The life you save may be your own.

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i powered through the drawings and i finished the ghouls' portraits! you can see them under the cut, i also added a few notes but ignore them if they're too much

feel free to suggest whatever you think i could've done better, i did my best but i know there's many things to improve, i tried a different way to color and i'm not too familiar with it

first, i know the piercings are not accurate, i realized too late second, i made ghouls' eyes, horns and skin colors change depending on their element, so each element has its own physical characteristics

Phantom and Aurora

i followed the hc that phantom had a hard time in the pit, so he has a few marks here and there, but he's so happy now. the thing around his horn was put there by aurora, and he loves it

aurora obviously is the princess of the pack so she's all adorned, also, i debated between giving her purple and red eyes, but i think it would be so funny to see a tiny, all pink and princessy ghoulette with blood red eyes, also! she's supposed to be a bit iridescent but i don't think it looks too good

Cirrus and Cumulus

cirrus got her hands on hair dye, so of course she had to get creative

i thought about giving cumulus cloud hair, but it was too much for my skill level

Swiss, Rain and Mountain

swiss is a mix between quint and fire (later i realized he should be a mix of quint and earth), so i tried to reflect that but i'm not too sure i did well. he too got his hands on hair dye, but he had to be supervised to not make a mess

i tried to make rain as ethereal as possible, but i don't think i did too well

i subscribe to the short haired mountain hc because i don't think long hair is too practical (though the art of him with long hair is just *chef's kiss)

Aether and Dew

i'm not too sure about aether, i think he looks too normal? idk, but here's him anyways, otherwise i like he has a very approachable expression

and dew, he has a gold tip on his horn because it chipped and it exposed a bit of nerve and it hurt him, it was a gift from mountain. his horn are also a bit blue, from when he was a water ghoul, the shape changed but the color didn't

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this is so good!!!!

I really like how this one turned out💙 here’s the speed paint hope yall enjoy 💫✨

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i noticed that the only ghouls in most of the behind the stage scenes are the same three (swiss, rain and aurora) and it's kinda funny to think that's because they're the ones that could make it to the filming

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i just had a thought, which maybe is obvious but i just realized? (also i guess it's just a plot hole but anyway)

nihil says his father, grandfather, etc were papas, so possibly there has been hundreds of papas (assuming the ministry has been around for long)

but why is nihil papa zero? and why are the emeritus brothers papa i, ii, iii and iv if there's been at least like ten papas before them? (yes i tried to count the his father's father's)

maybe it's about the order they fronted the band, so who were the previous papas before the ghost project?

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An absolute insane stream of consciousness about ghost and everything else...

Been thinking about the title "Emeritus"....

It has meaning:

- a person retired from professional life but permitted to retain as an honorary title the rank of the last office held.

....Now I'm assuming the ministry works how the actual catholic church works and the choose a name. Like when your picked to be pope you pick a biblical name instead of your real name....

Their real names being... primo, secondo, etc.... and in assuming those are first names unless Nihil was able to find women with numerical last names IN ORDER all willing to having his satanic church bastards. Which for him seems possible but I digress.

It just seems like an interesting choice of title. (Especially for a wild little sweed) and what he was trying to say... perhaps just that they are "past their prime"? They have the title only because they are old?

Also thinking about the usage of "bloodline"... now we all think it's because of Nihil and his breeding fetish. Which may be true. But I'd like to bring up the secondo Papaganda where the "special ghoul" is talking about Secondo and the bloodline...

We can pretend that in this universe, those characters are... real? Easy. Or perhaps they are all "choosen" perhaps the bloodline actually being more children chosen by darkness? Or the devil? Now the three confirmed brothers and now also Copia are all Nihil children, we are about to get Papa V... and is realistic to believe it's Copias twin (also because his name is literally copy in italian) but a copy of who? The only other character could be .... Father Jim??

I'm 100% sure that his name was picked for this reason... but is he being dethroned? Is he dethroning?? We don't know much besides that he's kind of a shit priest and uses cum as hair gell....

And that all other Papas have been dethroned as well for also not being good at their jobs. Interesting. Maybe a comment on hypocrisy with the satanic church having higher standards for leadership??

Also Copia is Imperator now...

Which literally means commander. But commander only lead armies... they aren't kings or emperors and even Sister Imperator was answering the phone to someone she was respectful and obedient too. (See that one chapter when nihil was on the toilet)... I'm pretty sure it wasn't Psaltarian.... but what does that name mean??

My best guess is either someone who documents OR

Which is basically a kinda early guitar.... so hes... the band manager??

I don't think he's running the church. So there are way more characters and story to uncover.

What I can say I at this point... we know absolutely nothing and nothing makes sense.

Fuckin... since we know copia is Imperator and Nihils kid and he's the youngest... and Secondo and Terzo are 3 months apart and can't have the same mother.... Nihil had had 3 children with a minimum of 2 other women already by the time he met Imperator.

And let's pretend everything we see in the MV and the chapters is canon legit. Nihil was a little unsure of what was going on at the party... but that doesn't mean he wasn't already part of the church. We know that Ghost is just the public relations section of the ministry. Not THE MINISTRY... they are important but one one piece. They are the face or figure head. Which is pretty much said word for word. PAPA STILL ANSWERS TO A HIGHER POWER. Who or what we don't know.

Nihil and his father (and his fathers father, his father... his father... hid father's father's father... his father) are all part of the bloodline. All this means is that they are related or choosen by... the devil? That Dracula and the Canadian guy who wrote "Hallelujah" are related??

Or that all of these characters/people are entertainers.

Is the ministry just a record label? Each papa a musician trying to make it?? It's all a metaphor for stardom?? Probably.

Basically papa nihil could have easily been part of the church before he met Imperator. She just got him involved in the ghost project (her project by the sound of it). Then when it fell through got nihils kids involved... cause... why. We don't know.

We have Nihil who is... nothing.

Psaltarian that... writer? Manager?

Imperator the commander.

Defroque the cum guzzling priest.

And the Papas who are all already passed their prime?? but they picked the name.

But nihil wasn't an Emeritus.

Unless nihil was the name he picked and we don't even know his name... and he named his kidd first second and third cause he thought it was funny.

Also it's 100% that Imperator named Copia.

Is he a copy of his twin (or just a copy in general) or is he a copy of his father? Or of her????

Please dear fucking unholy shit can someone hyperfixate with me....

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i'm trying to finish the ghouls' drawings and i had a few ideas about them

picture aurora, the princess of the pack, loving makeup, very girly, has so many dresses, all pink, and iridescent

ghouls discovering hair dye! the first time, they all went crazy and made a mess, but they got it under control now

imagine the possibilities when its time to decorate their horns, they get so creative

also, piercings. to some of them its very intimidating and others rock a full face

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i know this may be contradicting to what i've said before, but

parting from the hc that ghouls are people who lived and died, imagine if the multi ghouls are ghoul-born, have ghoul parents and were never human, that's why they have mixed elements

imagine swiss and aurora as kits, listening to their parents telling them stories about humans and how they used to be before they died

them being summoned and finally getting to learn how humans really look like, how their parents' world was like, them trying to find something about their parents while they were alive, and them imagining how it would've been like to be born as a human kit

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In this Meliora era interview, Tobias suggests that Terzo has a nicer personality than Secondo because he had a better mother.

I like to imagine that Terzo had a caring and supportive mother who instilled in him good manners and respect for women. He is definitely the more empathic of the two brothers, maybe due to this. I also like to think that he became responsible and inclined to protect the weak because he was the only male around his mother, whom he cared for.

I also found this post on the official Instagram. Whoever this woman was (Tobias' mother?), she was very proud of her son.

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why is writing a book so long and complicated