tags via @chubbybunny25 but i might as well share the ideas huehuehuehue
as far as i can remember, the only time ive talked about catholic!ethan is when i made that joke about how ethan couldve been a hot priest if he hadnt died, then bread (@m4gp13) made this hilarious post about priest ethan using catholicism to win the idgaf war against olympus LMFAOOOO
however extensive conversations about catholic ethan have indeed been had 😁 bread threw around some ideas of mr nakamura possibly having been a priest who was defrocked because [gestures to ethan] and just ethan in general having had a religious upbringing. this results in a very interesting cumulation of shame and a crisis of faith because not only is ethan a child out of wedlock, he’s a child of a pagan figure. to cope with it, ethan ends up developing some uh concerning ideas of suffering and martyrdom especially in the name of what he thinks is the mission/purpose of his life. and in the spirit of the martyred saints he spent his childhood reading about, he’s very willing to let nemesis yoink his eye. if you take into consideration his being queer as well, that causes some more gnarly stuff too.
it also creates a very interesting dynamic for ethan and kronos, who's been around since the dawn of time. i made a joke about ethan once going to confession (more for the comfort/familiarity of the ritual than out of actual faith) sometime before the battle of manhattan to ease his conscience, only for kronos to be waiting for him outside the church like a lost guard dog. "why are you praying to other gods, I thought we had smth special :(" or whatever HAHAHAHAHAH joke it may be, but thats the general idea of their dynamic
then ofc hot priest ethan is an offshoot of catholic ethan. 😂 breakup (kronos) so bad you become religious again. he'll kill a monster AND exorcise a demon, dont test him
