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fellsilver · 3 months ago

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It's that, even if all the Seven do call Mys.tra "Mother", that address always has a double meaning. There is always a two-fold weight. "Mother" because She is their mother, and "Mother" because She is their goddess, the Mother of Mysteries. She often takes a maternal approach to Her faithful, but while a person's mother may be separate from their goddess, that is never possible for the Seven. Mys.tra is bred in their bones, in their soul. The beginning of all and the end of it and the middle between. There is no difference between "mother" and "god". It's not even overlap; it was always one unbreakable circle.

#OOC / HOLLY.#shit's complicated for them #Mother / Mother of Mysteries is literally one of the addresses for and titles of Mys.tra #so even when they call Her Mother they are still calling Her Goddess #even when they claim that mother-daughter bond they claim that bond of supplicant to a higher power #though there's additional layer of meaning — though they can arguably claim a closer bond #the tether of 'faithful' is always wound around it #they are the 'faithful' who step perhaps closest but can never step beyond that boundary #they are leashed and tethered by it #thinking about how you can easily easily easily argue that they were born Mys.tra's Chosen and never truly had a choice in it #that she is in them inextricable from them and what does faith mean when you have no choice #the lamb can love the shepherd. the shepherd can love the lamb.#the lamb will still be slaughtered and the shepherd will hold the blade.

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