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silverjurors · 7 months ago

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Thinking about the difference between devotion and duty. Thinking about doing something because you want to and doing something because you have to. Thinking about love and violence and how they can be the same thing. Thinking about how taking away a stranger's loved one can be a part of duty. Thinking about how taking away a stranger's loved one can be the ultimate act of devotion. Thinking about how duty can become devotion. How you gain new forms of duty through devotion to someone. Thinking about-

#yes this is about #janus the silver death #and also #xavier the silver death #silver being weird #mcd rewrite #devotion and duty and how they overlap and seperate is a pretty big theme in my rewrite i think #adoni is devoted to pheonix drop. garroth has a duty towards his family. laurance is devoted to adoni.#dante has a duty towards adoni and pheonix drop that BECOMES devotion.#zane has a duty towards o'khasis and the church of the divine. zane is devoted to himself. to his own power.#to the things and the people he sees as belonging to him. he's devoted to them the same way as you might be to a pet. it starts as duty.#it becomes fondness. then devotion. then love.#irini has endless duties. she gave up the child she was devoted to so she could fufill that duty to the world.#scyar only has devotion. devotion to his daughter. devotion to his anger. devotion to his grief and his revenge.#i have thoughts

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