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Wraith V / Through A Glass Darkly
I admit to maybe being overly obsessed with this thing.
Because of (naturally) the colours (and the fact that at 100%, it looks like a flatlining heart monitor, as if we needed more indications this is a symbolic death). Vash in red/magenta and gold, Knives in blue/white and violet - until it's complete. Then Vash wakes up, suddenly all-violet, while Knives is left only with blue and teal.
Why would that be? Because Vash is at last consciously using his powers? Maybe. Likely.
But I, at least, would also like to believe Tesla has more to her story than forever remaining an objectified victim, though I know I'm probably deluding myself. (I'm interested to see just what, if anything, Orange plans for her. I've always felt there was more to her perspective.) I like to think she's present too, in her own strange way, and not simply as part of Knives.
What do you think her opinion would be of these events? Of her brothers?
What choice do you think she would have made?
I, personally, suspect Tesla would have had powers both to bring and to take, just like Vash. I doubt his personality being destroyed and his body brutally exploited to access those powers (never mind the purpose they're accessed to fulfil) is a plan she would want any part of, whatever her opinion of humanity. I think Knives had no idea what he invited upon himself making contact with the Core, something that exists outside of time. I think Tesla and Vash are both stranger and more existentially terrifying beings than even he imagines.
Knives baptised his brother in order to make him fit to receive divinity - and in Christianity, divinity comes as three parts in one. Not two equal opposites, as Knives conceptualises himself and his twin, but a singular whole expressed as three aspects. Parent...
Child...
Spirit.
His plan worked perfectly. He could not have made a bigger mistake.
Having been baptised, having received the spirit, the answer finally comes to Vash, and the truth.
Whose side are you on? Who are you?
See, it's made a point in Stampede, more than before, that the twins are almost physically identical. The resemblance is close enough for them to be mistaken for each other, something which Knives exploits. Even spending so much time so far apart, it seems inevitable that they influence each other. When one looks into the other's face, he sees his own reflection as in a mirror.
Though that almost never happens in the series. Knives and Vash almost never share the same eyeline.
They don't see eye-to-eye or face-to-face. Not until the very end.
The English dub, the finale, the question Vash asks as he finally begins to cry - "Who are you?" There's a reason he asks the question in those words.
Roberto said it in the first episode in the scene where we met Vash as an adult, hanging in the desert. "This clown's the big bad Typhoon? Vash the Stampede⌠who are you?" (The first time Vash gets called a fool or a clown, and not the last.)
Vash isn't quite sure... or rather, doesn't know who it is that he should be, if not what he is now. He's only ever been a counterpart, either allied or opposed, to his brother, and Knives has made it very clear what he thinks of any attempts to be anything else.
The question Roberto asks is the question the whole series builds towards answering because Vash isn't certain there is an answer, without his twin.
Until the moment he sees his brother, really sees him, and finally realises... that is not his reflection. He can't see himself in this mirror. There's something missing. And if that isn't his reflection, then who is he, looking? Who is Vash?
Whose side are you on? Who are you?
Human or Plant? Gun or Superman? Darkness or light? Yin or yang? Water or fire, heaven or earth? Are you a spirit, or a body? A machine or a living thing? Daydream or nightmare? Monster or angel?
Both? Neither?
The answer he ultimately gives is... not choosing an answer. It's looking beyond the question and the assumptions that it carries; being truly free. Knives has no right and no means to dictate who it is Vash becomes, and he never did. The question he asks is meaningless, and the dilemma he presents is false.
There's no choice.
'Cause I'm Vash the Stampede.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13: 12-13)
The only true struggle is the struggle against oneself. And, at least in that moment, love wins.
#trigun stampede#trigun meta#tw bible#tw abuse#by implication#shape of a lost girl#five drafts later still don't know if this makes any sense but screw it. screw it i'm publishing the damn post i am DONE#sorry if this is too catholic#there's layers#that verse was in mamoru oshii's ghost in the shell#everybody say thank you to the english dub writers#also no i am not actually done with this madness
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cast out of paradise
#please see my vision here#PLEASE#sorry for injecting my catholic trauma into the silly superhero show guys I canât help it#the fallen angel#invincible#invincible show#invincible fanart#omni man#omniman#nolan grayson#mark grayson#debbie grayson#crismakesstuff#the original painting âthe fallen angelâ is just SO HIM#the grief the despair and anger about his own choices#ITS NOLAN!#ok but if you guys let me ramble if I had to assign biblical roles to the graysons#i can see nolan as god himself (or lucifer but more so god tbh) debbie is mother mary and mark is jesus#the whole âlamb of godâ motif just fits mark wayyyy too well#also I saw someone make art of debbie and mark as âla pietĂ â and Iâve been a changed person since#AGAIN SORRY FOR THROWING CATHOLIC IMAGERY AT THE SUPERHERO SHOW#this is how my brain wants to cope w it ig ;-;#catholic imagery
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i worship a nameless god of rage
click for better quality pls | follow up to this
#fantasy high junior year spoilers#fhjy spoilers#dimension 20#d2 fhjy#rat grinders#buddy dawn#again sorry to be ex catholic on main but the verse fits#or at least in my head it does#there was supposed to a piece between this one and the first one that i didnt draw bc this one was cooler#i am only part way through ep17 and i had to pause bc its stressing me out#i will probably redo the first one some day#yes this is referencing the fallen angel by alexandre cabanel#my b if that was unclear there's probably too much going on in this colorwise
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the kids as teens!!! them standing one by one under cut
#fop anw fanart#fop anw#fop#fairly oddparents a new wish#fop a new wish#fop fanart#hazel wells#dev dimmadome#jasmine tran#winn harper#fop hazel#fop dev#fop jasmine#fop winn#it's embarrasingly obvious one of them lives in my head rent free oh god#i accidentally made dev look like too much of a nerd oh well#dev hates black and white the same way dale hates lemonade#i'm sorry if they come off as tacky i spent twelve years in a uniform at a catholic school i have zero idea how to dress#my art#kernels of brainrot
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everyone loves sunny! (but are too repressed to do anything about it)
(catholic school au)
#sorry for not posting omori for a while. would u believe me if i told u that this one comic took me THREE DAYS to actually start.#it was in my head for THREE WHOLE DAYS before i put tablet pen to tablet screen#anywayz... catholic school au lives on i guess#basil and kel are repressing their queerness. aubrey is just weird about romantic feelings#and sunny is sunny (undoubtedly repressing his own feelings too)#omori#sunny omori#basil omori#kel omori#aubrey omori#sunflower omori#suntan omori#sunburn omori#fan art#comic#omori au#becki draws stuff n stuff
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5p yuuram bloood twww
#i feel bad for tagging this yuuram cuz its so far from canon LMFAO i will for organization but like...#yuuram#mine#kkm#comics#fanart#its been so long since i got to draw a comic im so happy im flourishing#uhhh anyways#hc time. i think yuuri is the type of person to act before he thinks and therefore i think he would be the first to initiate. not exactlu a#unpopular interpretation of yuuri but i think he likes wolf before he knows it and so his body acts b4 he recognizes the feelings wihin him#i also think wolf wont initiate first cuz his love towards yuuri is very. um. catholic and political lmao.#cuz hes a dog and a human weapon. he thinks the suffering is part of his job. like born duty. and i think he likes it too#cuz theres eomthing about being able to pour ur soul into being obsessed w someone in a gay codependent relationship w/out worrying ab them#reciprocating LMFAO#anyways i think wolf loves in a way that is very intentional. his love is a weapon that he gives to people. its not something to indulge in#i also thinkk his love is a weapon for himself. to sharpen and use. like motivation/justification to exist and also DUTY BABYYY#i talked too much#wolfram von bielefelt#shibuya yuuri#(comic is abuot yuuri. talks about wolfram instead) sorry son.
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Itâs incredibly frustrating to me when people say that Catholic faith is evil and whatnot. Because it goes to show that theyâve never actually looked into what we believe. We believe that everyone has the capacity for good. Everyone deserves second, third, fourth, fifth, INFINITE chances. Everyone is worthy of love. Everyone is worthy of respect. Everyone is worthy of change. Everyone is worthy of happiness.
But, instead, people only focus on the bad history of the Church. As if the Bible and Jesus havenât stated MANY times before that humans are flawed creatures. That humans will be humans and use free will to do bad things. That includes using the name of God to do bad things. And itâs even more infuriating when people act cruelly to Catholics because of our religion because itâs an âevil and fascist religionâ (an actual thing Iâve heard way too many times).
Catholics, at least ones who actually know shit about the Bible, know that telling people âYouâre going to Hellâ is a sin. Catholics know and can acknowledge that the Church has done bad things in the past and that we have done bad things. But we are NOT the past. There are reasons we look up to Jesus and the saints. Like I said earlier. One of the key points of the Church is that we believe in redemption. Just look at Saint Paul.
#Sorry for the rant#I have just seen and heard way too many people hate me and my siblings of God just for being Christian#And it pisses me off#because they clearly know nothing of what we actually believe and WHY we are part of the Church in the first place#Catholic#catholicism#christian#christianity#christian living#christian faith#faith#faith in jesus#Saint Paul
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a few quick questions on Machete, what breed is he? I love the angles of his snout and the proportions remind me of a borzoi though I don't think he is one. Also, does he have a set age for when he's a cardinal? I picture him to be around mid-30s or so. Wonderful art! love your stuff and find you an inspiration :)
He's a fictional breed called Podenco Siciliano, which is closely related to modern day Ibizan Hound (pictured below) and other Mediterranean rabbit-hunting podencos. I usually just default to calling him a sighthound since he's somewhat of a provincial mongrel and not meant to be purebred anyway.
As for the age, mid-30s sounds about right. I think the current timeline goes something like this:
0 - Born to a lower-middle class family in Sicily, father is a tradesman, has three older brothers. Generally considered a runt, is weak and sick all the time, parents suspicious of his unusual colors.
3 - Gets left at a monastery and raised by monks as a foundling. Nervous and meek kid, but the monks think he's endearing and do their best to support him. Is taught to read and write, which is a massive advantage at that day and age, and learns rudimentary Latin through exposure.
9 - Apprenticed to a Neapolitan priest, moves to southern part of mainland Italy (or Kingdom of Naples as it was called, it was ruled by Spain actually). Does chores and runs errands in exchange for education and experience.
15 - The priest gets elevated to a bishop and decides to sponsor Machete's further studies at an acclaimed university in Venice (in Northern Italy). There he studies theology, medicine, arts, law, philosophy and gets fluent in Latin and adequate in Greek. Befriends Vasco but their relationship is short-lived.
21 - Ordained a priest. Leads a parish somewhere in Papal States (Central Italy). Is generally well liked but doubts his career choice from time to time.
26 - Becomes a part of the Papal Court in Vatican, mostly because of the recommendations of his former mentor and professors, good reputation, excellent track record and sheer luck. Still a priest but assists bishops, cardinals and the pope himself directly. Moves to Rome. Becomes pope's unofficial confidant due to his obedient and hardworking nature and because of his lack of prestigious family connections that would render him a threat. Slowly starts to gain wealth.
30 - Created a cardinal (which is the second highest position in the church after the pope, and it's at the sole discretion of the pope who becomes one). Is also a bishop as a technicality. Handles administrative jobs, tons of paperwork, at some point he's in charge of a lot of the political correspondence and diplomatic missions. Still the old pope's trusted advisor but disliked by the majority of the cardinals, who see him as an outsider, sycophant and a potential disruptor of the status quo.
34 - Meets Vasco again. Vasco has become a succesful politician in Florence, he's married with three children.
38 - The pope dies and Machete's status falters. He starts to work with the Roman inquisition more. Oversees trials, torture, excommunications and executions of heretics, witches and most of all, protestants (since we're reaching Counter Reformation times and the Vatican is Very Worried about the spread of Luther's ideas). Isn't having a good time at all but keeps up the appearances. Gets infamous. The beginning of the true villain era.
40 - Grows increasingly more disillusioned with life and his ideals, as well as the corruption of the Curia. Burned out, paranoid and desperate. Uses scare tactics, extortion and legal trickery to expose and undermine his enemies, but gains them faster than he can keep up. Employs spies, thugs and assassins. Feared and loathed.
43 - Gets assassinated and dies in disgrace.
#answered#jaydenchapstick#sorry this turned out sorta long#and kinda bummer too#all of this is subject to change if I end up thinking of something better#not set in stone just the current grand picture#the ages are approximate#the history of Italy and the workings of the catholic church are both such clusterfucks holy moly gosh darn#I've done research but don't rely on my word that this is all accurate and feasible in the end it's fantasy rules#whenever you see him wearing any red it's a sign he's at the cardinal phase these positions are color coded like that#Machete
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something i thought of at 4 am
#i originally intended to post this at halloween but i'm too lazy to wait for it arrive#so i'm posting it now#for any catholics following me: deeply sorry for this#hetalia#hetalia world stars#aph america#aph russia#hws america#hws russia#rusame#amerus#hetalia fanart#alfred f jones#ivan braginsky#my art#aph usa#hws usa#hetalia america#hetalia russia#don't join their church they're batshit insane
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Education headcanons:
Although some of these are canon
Giorno: is still in highschool, but stopped showing up for class when he joined passione. He still makes a point to always be learning, but only focuses on subjects he is interested in. He knows lots of information about the biological world, but has no idea what certain historical figures have done, unless they were particularly interesting to him. Also he sucks at spelling words correctly. In elementary school he wrote a research report on different types of bugs and accidentally released a bunch of bugs into the school and that apparently bothered some of the teachers and other students.
Bruno: he has like half of a middle school education, and his grades were never super high because he would spend time helping his dad with work instead of completing his homework. Up until his parents divorce, then his dad wanted him to focus more on school. But that stopped after his dads incident, and he started providing for him and his dad and protecting him. He asked Fugo to teach him some math, and Fugo reluctantly agreed. But Fugo will go out of his way to try to avoid having to tutor the man because Bruno has a rough time understanding simple concepts and it makes Fugo want to resort to violence. But Fugo respects Bruno and doesnât want to snap at him because he knows he isnât trying to piss him off, Brunoâs just dumb as fuck sometimes.
Abbacchio: has a highschool education and went to the police academy. He also has a few basic college courses under his belt. He had a âhave to learn in order to get the job I wantâ mentality towards school, opposed to being super interested in it. He failed PE in middle school and was bullied for it so badly that he started working out everyday so that would never happen again. Also I kinda think he has a photographic memory, which his stand reflects well. He went to a Catholic highschool and his parents were upset that he hadnât met a nice catholic girl by the time he graduated highschool.
Mista: has a highschool education and wasnât really interested in getting any degrees, kinda just wanted to fuck around in his young adult years. Math made him cry, and not because he didnât understand it, he was actually good at math. But the number 4 would haunt his papers. Asked a lot of questions during class. were they ever relevant? No. Did he ask them? Yes. âHey teach, so gravity. Like what if instead of the earth having a gravitational pull some rando named, uh, Seth did. But ONLY Seth, and everyone was constantly being pulled towards Seth and if you jumped youâd land back on Seth. How would we survive as a species if that were the case?â
Narancia: elementary school dropout. Gets distracted super easily. Would rather do anything but school, however he is very sensitive about having not even finished elementary school. He will pep talk himself into wanting to learn math and things, and then he will start again and will remember why he hates school. But itâs worse when he actually goes to school and sees eight year olds that understand things better than him. opposed to Fugo tutoring him and only having to feel stupid in front of the smartest person he has ever met, like everyone else feels stupid around Fugo too so.
Fugo: you know, the gifted child that went to university super early. Smartest one in the group. He was the kid that would use his pencils entirely until they were sharpened into tiny little things you could barely hold. Also he bites his pens and pencils. He thinks the pencils are more flavorful. Oh and erasers, those tasted good too. The other kids never wanted to play with him because of his short temper, but that didnât matter because his parents told him that only stupid kids use recess time to play. Classrooms were super overstimulating for him, with that stupid LED lighting that made him feel like he needed to blink his eyes a hundred times. And then doing that would make him feel dizzy and irritable. Like the lights were the worst amount of bright and the worst shade of the color white, and if one of the bulbs flickered he would feel like throwing up. His parents thought he had been drinking once after being in a classroom for too long, but no it was the lights.
Trish: she isnât stupid, but she was definitely the type to get others to do her homework for her. Is in the middle of highschool. she would spend all of study hour planning elaborate schemes to skip class with her and her friends. Wanted to go to college but wasnât sure how she was going to pay for it, her new plan involves passione money. That or she is going to become famous, if Bruno and co. would actually let her live instead of saying things like âitâs too dangerous with other mafia members knowing your nameâ.
#jjba part 5#headcanons#narancia ghirga#bruno buccellati#leone abbacchio#guido mista#jojos bizarre adventure#pannacotta fugo#trish una#giorno giovanna#Abbacchio grew up Catholic headcanon#because I need someone to project religious trauma onto sorry#also am I the only one that canât stand that one particular type of overhead light they use in schools?#I legitimately canât drive if Iâm in a room with those lights for too long#Iâm more of a leave the lights off and let the sunlight light up my home kinda person#if the power ever went out at school I rejoiced
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hi for the love of everything hello
#miguel o'hara#atsv#long post#<- probably going to be my most used tags of the year at this rate fkjsdjfk apologies kings#this post is laser aimed at Vin my beloved migutual (miguel mutual fjskd) because ive had so much brainrot over our chats#esp concerning miguel's misery submission to fate while not assigning cosmic meaning to the suffering canon perpetuates#THE FACT HES A LAPSED CATHOLIC IN THE COMICS TOO. CHRIST.#canon as the naturalistic force akin to a god itself that will smite you if you break it's rules <- to this man. OH BOY. fuckk....#she came. she posted a huge miguel edit in the tags. she left jdskfjkds. genuinely IM SORRY if youre on mobile this is huge fjkdsh#tunes talks spiderverse#migedits
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my original characters that i neglect
#ianriley#some of these are old#its whatev#ocs#original character#theyre the worlds freakiest catholic priests#i dont draw john often because his hair is too long. sorry buddy.
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As you all know, I was raised in one of those wack ass "non-denominational" pentecostal churches. I was always taught anyone not pentecostal/baptist/methodist or within that realm weren't actually christians. Essentially, if your group had a Nameâ˘ď¸ like Mormons, JWs, Catholics, etc. then u were that group, not "[That Group] Christians"
#sorry it's biased towards pentecostals it's unfortunately my frame of reference#So I put pentecostal and baptist together#not those (anyone that ids as a christian of any kind [including those in this group if they feel that way])#and then ppl not christian in anyway (other faiths and the groups specified if you don't see ur group as christian)#specify in the tags if you want#also specify in the tags if you picked some but not all#cause I've heard some say catholics are but JWs and Mormons aren't#some that say JWs are but catholics and mormons arent#i've never seen anyone say mormons are but the others aren't tho for some reason#I think because of the polygamy but idk honestly#usually if mormons are considered JWs are too#and catholics always are if the other two groups are#if I start Reformation 2: Electric Boogaloo then so be it#ex christian#ex catholic#exmormon#exjw#exvangelical#religious trauma#wanna give everyone a chance to vote in this lol
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Todayâs sketches while in vc đ
#hatsune miku#nicholas d. wolfwood#stein soul eater#shiro from blue exorcist was gonna be here too to complete the Catholic smoker trio#but then Miku took his spot#sorry shiro#sketches#digital art#procreate
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Guys... infighting is never the answer. Guys are you listening? Infighting is what our oppressors want. No fuck- don't go after the lesboys and the neopronoun users and the bi women who have boyfriends- fuck no guys no- you're letting them divide and conquer! Guys PLEASE!!
#sorry im like.... ugh#if we're breaking down the gender binary we have to break down the sex binary and the concept of rigid sexuality too#even if you dont understand someones identity doesnt mean its.... wrong#like there are so many things i dont unterstant#i dont understand the concept of infinity and i dont understand space time and i dont understand the bounds of the human mind#but that doesnt mean those things are... not real???#like come on guys we sound like the catholic church suppressing the idea of the solar system opposed to a system orbiting the earth#things famously have nuance when it comes to human experience#lgbtq#queer#queer community#queer infighting#lesboys#neopronouns#xenogender#bi women#colby rambles
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Josef was already made for me, but I really was given the question what if he was made even more for me. (Been calling angel!Josef a "Featherchampion," but that's subject to change)
Since it also was a popular question, and by popular question I mean I thought about it to then be asked about it in quick succession: he gives "wing hugs" by going under the arms and around the torso. He is not immune to Alain's pleading face.
#Unicorn Overlord#Josef#angel!Josef#Alain#He also does Big Stretch extending full wingspan when sitting/idle too long#wing canopy over the face is for when he's taking his mid-day old man nap#vanillaware didn't do this to keep me from reaching phase 2 of my boss fight#I'm sorry I was raised Catholic#and instead of getting religious devotion I got angels are cool af#insider insight to my exact emotional state for this:#I was listening to Heritors of Arcadia while doing the second sketch
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