#i keep using my old apologist tag instead of the proper one

[violant-apologia]

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sorry for saying i'd get to these quickly and then just not doing that. i accidentally became the Kiss Chronicler. the Smooch Secretary. the Canoodle Curator. so that's been taking up a bit of my time

(this is a Long one so i've put them below the cut!)

📓: Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc? this is actually something i'm not too great at? i don't listen to a massive variety of music and when i do i don't tend to pick up things for OCs

that being SAID i did literally have a whole thing the other day about how president heartbeat (by everything everything (my favourite band (i saw them a few months ago it was AMAZING (they played my two favourite songs of theirs which i've never heard live (this tangent is getting way too long so i'll stop now))))) and i was thinking about how well it works for briar in a lot of ways:

Do you live in the new world On the grave of the old world? With a coffin of sunlight That you carry upon your back?

And I wanna be useful And I wanna be hopeful What's the matter with hopeful? I just wanna get out of here

bonus pilgrim's dawn/mr bricks lyrics:

Were you born in a cave now? Do you live in a cage now? If you burst into flame now Will they call you a human being? And your spine is a glass spire And your flesh is the concrete And your blood is the sewer And your skin is the city wall

🌕: If this oc was an animal, what kind would they be? a red deer! but a weird tiny-bit-fucked-up red deer. i actually commissioned art of the behooved apologist from the-ashenstreaked-doctor a little bit ago:

and i went into why here! it also has a cool deer video if you're into that

🌍: What are this oc’s religious views? ooooohohoh, i'll use this as an excuse to talk about the church at burrow, since that reflects his beliefs quite well.

the apologist is a supporter of the great chain of being: the inherent superiority (even godliness) of beings further up the chain than humans. they're not beyond reproach, they're not faultless, but they do matter more than human beings. (whether One Judgement matters more than a billion humans is a question that still weighs on his mind, though)

regardless, he believes that the path to greater meaning in life is through community: to become part of an entity greater on the chain than yourself. that entity may be a grand devil and its church, for example, but it could also be a group of equals. being a valuable inhabitant of a city elevates you, in some way, to the level of a city. service to a star brings you, in that same way, closer in godliness to a star. ascendance through servitude.

the burrow church supports this ideology both by fostering its own community (it is the roots which hold pilgrim's dawn together) but also by encouraging worship of all higher beings, within the neath and without. it toils to complete the arduous work of a complete theology which captures every being it possibly can, while dressing the whole thing up in the trappings of more established religions.

ask game here!