#high priestess!māríte

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high priestess!mārīte: oh... :,) <- shes crying because she feels cared for

shes just staring at maecetis and is chanting "mom! mom! mom! mom! mom!" at her. sigh.

Maecetis: I not only got a high priestess, but also a daughter. I don't mind this. :)

I just know she wants to kill her priestess' biological mom, I just know it. She finds her, fantasizes about killing her, and then is like "Okay, I'v gotten all of my rage out. Time for me to love the daughter she left."

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imagining that high priestess!mārīte has seen Līva die. or at least went to her funeral. she's a mortal, while mārīte hasnt been one in a *very* long time.

she doesnt know what to think about her biological mother. she doesnt really remember her, but then she looks in the mirror and sees what she *did*

she cant help but miss her. maybe she's beating herself up for never bothering to get to know her before it was too late. but it was already too late the moment Līva herself decided it'd be a good idea to cheat on a god with a different god

....Does that mean God!Martin is here? What type of god is he?

Or is High Priestess!Mārīte's biological father someone else in this AU?

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high priestess!mārīte is laying down and taking a nap on god!butcher, but she's not happy about it

in fact, i think she'll end up just yapping for *hours* now.

maecetis can check up on her in 12 hours and see that, in those 12 hours, she has not slept a wink. sigh. i'd say lock her in a dark room all by herself but then she'd lowkey spiral

.......... although... she is saying over the years with maecetis, shes developed an irrational fear of the dark.... :) because now all she knows is that light = literal safety

its irrational and she knows it is, and that nothing will happen, but still. maybe overtime her nighttime vision has also dulled and become less sharp, due to the abundance of her time being spent in a blinding light. :)

So the true solution is locking High Priestess!Mārīte in a room with no one else but the room has an abundance of light. It is being done as we speak.

Even better, Maecetis is going to personally provide the light (without being there in the room) so her high priestess can feel her power through the light and know she's still watching over her as always.

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high priestess!mārīte: thats like. so uncool :/

me: are you salty your goddess went mom mode on you?

hp!mārīte: ... yeah :(

she feels like a dog in a kennel being put in time out, and yes she will be huffy about it

god!butcher is teasing her though, and is just saying she can use him as a pillow. he'll keep an eye on her... despite not needing to. he also missed his sorta-kinda-maybe-daughter :)

See, High Priestess!Mārīte? You can be with people you haven't seen in centuries. Yay for you.

Go to sleep.

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"she really would drop her high priestess off at God!Stone's temple because it's a place to sleep"

high priestess mārīte, reading that: i dont need sleep-

me: 🤨

hp!mārīte: mhm :) im.... fine >:33 !!! totally <3 rise and grind and all that <3

me: uh huh...

hp!mārīte, totally not passing out in the middle of who-knows where: yeha..... 😴

Maecetis will just pick High Priestess!Mārīte up and take her to God!Stone's temple, then. And oh look, there's a barrier in place that specifically keeps Mārīte inside the temple until she has a good amount of sleep.

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well now im haunted by the idea of high priestess!mārītr dying. and frankly i dont wanna be haunted by that at 5.30 in the fucking morning

so. instead im just thinking about her getting increasingly stressed overtime, and maecetis making her pay a visit to god!stone's temple so she can rest and take a few days off

something something her basically needing to get dragged there, because she doesnt want to leave her goddess' side, but just cant help herself to relax when entering the temple for the first time in a century, because it feels like the weight of the world has suddenly been lifted from her shoulders and like she can breathe again

i see her seeking out the temples high priest in particular. just for a long, long chat, about how he handles his duties while still remaining sane. but then again bro has an uhfair advantage, due to being in a temple of literal sanctuary

maybe she should have asked her own father's high priest instead. he too, is alone with sylvester in the temple, surrounded by relentless rot and decay

Maecetis would 100% make sure High Priestess!Mārīte takes breaks and because of how barren her realm is, she really would drop her high priestess off at God!Stone's temple because it's a place to sleep.

God!Stone wouldn't even mind, he'd greet Mārīte with a bright smile and take her into a bear hug. He has missed her so much and his arms are so warm, a cocoon of warmth. He tells her to stay as long as she needs, it'll be nice to have her in the temple again.

And I'm sure the children of the temple flock to her, asking her all sorts of questions about Maecetis. They want to hear stories of her life with the goddess, because they're convinced Maecetis takes Mārīte on adventures.

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stares at maecetis with my big ole eyes: please?🥺 tell us? 🥺 we're gonna be niceys about it 🥺🥺🥺 i prommy 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

i have a few ideas of my own. something something what if she cant be reached if she truly dies;; in the realm of the dead. not lucifer ii's hell tho. methinks you said sarabi was supposed to be the god of death, but couldnt be.. so. she's in the real god of death's realm now

or in limbo. between life and death. maybe something happens and she gets stuck there, unable to live, but unable to die. >:)

but.. hm. i still wanna keep pestering a literal goddess for the real answer. that won't come to bite me in the ass later, right? :) /lh

You are correct in that one of the places Maecetis wouldn't be able to reach High Priestess!Mārīte if Mārīte was dead and in the pantheon's underworld. And it's because the god of death knows damn well that she would try to bring Mārīte back to life despite knowing she shouldn't and couldn't.

As for another place she can't reach Mārīte... Well, she's still being tight-lipped about that.

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me, reading the post: "Maecetis wouldn't want that-"

hp!mārīte: then its not happening, fuck you

sigh. shes attached. great.

....... which would make it hurt even more if they were forcibly separated :) though theres probably very few places where maecetis *couldnt* read her priestess;;; but imagine if there were;; >:))

((i have no thoughts what could possibly make maecetis be unable to locate mārīte tho))

Maecetis: I'm not telling you where I can't reach my priestess.

She's being a party pooper. :(

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im now remembering that. oh yeah. hp!mārīte comes from the god au herself. it would be fitting if she became a godess *eventually* :)

or maybe not. her mother was a mortal, so it seems unlikely she'd get accepted as a fully fledged god, due to still being half-human

something something would maecetis even *want* her high priestess to ascend further? to leave her alone again, after a millennia of solitude in her realm? hmm....

Maecetis wouldn't want that, but she wouldn't stop it. Because her high priestess deserves divinehood.

Oh man does the thought of being alone again hurt her so much.

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high priestess mārīte feels hella awkward now. she still thinks maecetis should get the attention, instead of her. she's *just* a priestess, right? she has no right to steal the spotlight from her lady.

so. hp!mārīte is just sorta awkwardly sitting next to me, staring at me. none of us know what to do.

Not the awkward silence between you two. RIP to you.

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me: :)

high priestess mārīte: im flattered, but i feel like i should not be taking away the spotlight from my goddess

me: oh come on ;) you know you want the attention >;33

hp!mārīte: you are doing a piss poor job at persuading me

so. welp. i mean;; it could be *very* fun to write about her. shes basically a completely different character from the canon mārīte;; hmmm;;; ideas are not idea-ing

Maecetis is saying to take all of the spotlight, High Priestess!Mārīte. Take it all.

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cat high priestess!mārīte becoming an omen that her goddess is nearby;;; ough, thats so good;;

imagining she could also become an omen of good fortune. i can see that she lets little kids play with her, and not react if they happen to, during playtime, accidentally slip off a chain from her neck, or better yet, she willingly lets go of it. if its later sold, is none of her business, but it has to be children. and she can likely tell their intentions from the beginning, and avoids kids who seem a little *too* eager to see her, likely being told by their parents to seek her out on purpose

i love cat hp!mārīte;; shes a cutie

or, better yet, how funny would it be if she herself ended up getting worshipped. shes staring at me and shaking her head 'no' rapidly at that idea, but methinks its funny and lowkey possible

I love this idea. That's all I got for you.

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high priestess!mārīte is eepy right now, and is snuggling up next to maecetis. ig even immortality itself cant pry a good nap from her hands. imagining shes too nervous to actually *touch* maecetis, so shes just like... 3cm away from touching her instead. and shes somehow *very* content with that

;; thinking of how cat mode hp!mārīte probably looks like shes worth a million bucks, with the gold shes wearing. as a *cat*.

imagine setting her loose on a street. wowza. ppl would try to hunt the poor girl down instantly ;-;

Maecetis: *gently pulls High Priestess!Mārīte closer to her*

I feel like people have tried to hunt High Priestess!Mārīte down because of how much gold she wears, but they quickly learned the hard way that they should in fact not do that. Maecetis has killed a few mortals for the message to not mess with her high priestess to sink in.

Anyone who sees a cat with a ton of gold on said cat knows they should not hunt the cat down. They know better now.

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i think sk!mārīte straight up just shut down in my head. shes disassociating so hard. shes not on the planet with us anymore lads

but shes also vaguely staring in the direction of maecetis like a kicked puppy and. girl. you were warned *by* her to not do this. what do you expect her to do now, huh?? sigh.

i think the mārīte next to me in the brain is just a husk. theres not a single thought behind those eyes and i mean that in a bad, scary way. shes scaring me a little, actually.

shes saying she wants to strangle me now for making her do this, but alas, shes the one who went out of her way to kill a man

Maecetis, after staring at Serial Killer!Mārīte's universe for a while: Alright, I can reverse time so you can change your decision, my dearest. But only if you actually change what you've done. You can do that, can't you? My beloved High Priestess is somewhere inside of you, even if you are a variant.

Serial Killer!Stone: You didn't do that for me!

Maecetis: You do not regret what you've done. In the end, you'd waste the offer of changing your decision.

Welp, Serial Killer!Māríte is now back at the moment Maecetis begged her not to kill Sylvester and Sammy's killer, but she maintained her old memories (which will be erased once she chooses not to kill the man) so that she knows what will happen if she goes down that path.

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high priestess!mārīte is just sorta scooting forwards to maecetis. shes happy to see her :)

Maecetis hugs High Priestess!Mārīte, because her favorite (she's literally your only priestess, Maecetis) priestess deserves a hug. And Māríte gets a pat on the head too.