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[copias-thrall]

How would the Papas handle a s/o who has anxiety? Not rocking back and forth anxiety but freeze in place anxiety.

Papa Nihil: He handles it pretty terribly, tbh. He’s definitely one of those people who wants to tell you to shake it off, to decide just not to be anxious. That's how he got his boys to get over stage fright, and look at the rockstars they turned out to be! He doesn’t understand the hot tears and hurt feelings from you that come after, and it makes him frustrated. He’s just helping you to toughen up! It takes a shouting match and you almost breaking up with him before he listens to what you’re trying to say in all seriousness. You pull books from the library and print articles from the Internet (Nihil knows how to use the Internet, but he will get distracted watching cat videos and forget what he’s doing) to help him understand that the anxiety isn’t something you can just turn off and will. He still struggles with the concept of toxic positivity, but he’s learning that even if he doesn’t understand, he can be helpful and supportive by not pressing the issue and comforting you afterwards.

Papa I: He's been around the block. He’s known other Siblings (and some of Ghouls when they were newly summoned) who’ve had the same issues, and he’s found that breathing exercises are the best thing to do in the moment. So, when you freeze up, he just shuffles closer to you, puts a comforting hand on your arm, and whispers in your ear soft instructions on how to breathe. He keeps his own breathing even and his voice steady as he directs you. If you’re up for more contact, he’ll pull you against his chest so you can breathe with him. Most of all, he keeps calm—he doesn’t exacerbate the situation by reacting with anxiety himself, nor does he get irate with you. He’s always got a willing ear if you want to talk. Primo is content to help you when he’s around, but he does get concerned for when he’s unavailable, so he encourages you to see a therapist to work through whatever is causing your anxiety.

Papa II: Look. If you’re with Secondo, it’s because you like it when he takes the reins. You like letting go and letting him do the thinking: you give up control, and in return, he takes care of you. To be in a relationship with him means you have a lot of trust in him. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s going to be soft about it. He knows about your anxiety—you can’t be in a relationship and keep things like that from him—and he treats it just like a Yellow situation. He’ll make sure you’re focused on him, and he’ll walk you through whatever is causing the upheaval to find the root cause and resolve it. This is not a scene, he’s not going to demand that you calm down…but he is going to insist that you trust him and that you let him take control of you. And if you follow his instructions and let him take over, he might just give you a playtime reward later (he’s all for a little positive reinforcement when appropriate!).

Papa III: Will probably panic a little the first time it happens. He wants to know how to help you, and when he doesn’t, his anxiety skyrockets. It’s a terrible feedback loop of anxiety between the two of you:  frozen in place, and he’s hovering and near tears. When yours passes, you get annoyed with him and he stomps off in a huffy fit. Later, you seek him out, contrite—willing to talk it out—and he’s like, “It’s ok…I forgive you.” And that’s it. It sets your annoyance off again, and you have to make it clear to him that it’s not your job to comfort him. It turns into a whole Thing until one of his Ghouls smacks him upside the head and tells him to get it together and support you. He quietly admits that him failing at making you feel safe made him act out, and the two of you sit down to discuss how he can help next time. He doesn’t like to be bad at things (except paperwork), so he becomes the Abbey expert, natch.

Papa IV: You would think this nervous, awkward Rat would react poorly, but that’s exactly why he doesn’t. He knows what it’s like to have an anxiety attack intimately, which means he knows the best techniques to ease the feelings. He had to overcome his stage fight in order to be the best frontman he could be to continue the success of the Ghost project! Copia has you focus on him and he talks you down while comforting you. You’re embarrassed, of course, but he won’t hear of that talk. Later, he takes you back to his quarters, where he makes a nice cup of tea and sits down and talks with you about the different techniques he knows. If you’re not already seeing someone about it, he can recommend a top-tier therapist—and if you don’t want to go that route, he can teach you his favorite coping methods. At the end of the day, he just wants to make sure you know he supports you and that you can always come to him.

[go-go-devil]

The White Eye of Emeritus

Alright motherfuckers, it’s been too damn long since I last posted any Ghost headcanons, so here’s my own lore about the white eye we’ve come to know and love, specifically how it first came to be as well as the dubious origins of how the Emeritus “family” was created!

Since this is over 1,000 words I’m gonna submit this as part of Emeritober this year, since I quite like this one. Also available to read on AO3!

Strap in folks, this is basically gonna be a Demon Pope history lesson!

TW: Mentions of sexism and body horror

Of all the traits that each of the abbey’s unholy popes possessed, there are none as unifying and diabolical as that of The White Eye. Always on the left eye, always as pale as the full moon, it is the ultimate symbol for which one reveals their unyielding devotion to Lucifer and all the Great Demons that serve under Them, and it is through this property that each Papa is granted the ability to perform black magic in our mortal realm.

It was a gift first earned by The Original Papa Emeritus Nihil back during the Middle Ages, after the sacking of their original abbey in Florence. Even after the surviving Siblings of Sin were left without a home or leader (their first elected pope having been captured and subsequently burned at the stake), his devotion to the art of black magic and natural leadership skills played a significant role in helping the survivors make their exodus to the north. Upon settling in Linköping he found himself powerful enough to attempt a direct contact with The Olde One, asking for Them to grant him the magic of Hell itself as a means of assuring his people’s prosperity in this new land.

His request was granted. He used his magic given to him by The Eye to summon the first ghouls into our Earthly plane, and with their superior strength and elemental powers they helped construct the Unholy Abbey of Linköping for the Siblings of Sin to reside and worship in. With the further aid of these ghouls alongside the skills of many witches, he then weaved a dark mist to shield the abbey from discovery by those who fought for God, granting access only to those who wished to serve the Will of Satan. Those Christians back in Florence had mockingly named their previous pope “Papa Emeritus” after his forced retirement, so Nihil chose to keep the name to show how even death cannot stop one so devoted to the devil, and thus the unholy title of all future Papas had been born!

Now as to how The Eye can be earned, well… this is where things get complicated.

For a long time, there were no consistent guidelines for electing someone as the next Papa. Some were able to perform either the same or similar contact rituals that the original Emeritus 0 was able to do, those of which were always incredibly dangerous and could violently kill the seeker attempting spiritual communication with Hell. There were even others that had arrived  already possessing this white eye by some chance supernatural event, having instinctively searched out the Unholy Abbey through supernatural guidance, although these cases are significantly rarer.

As for gaining The Eye via rituals, the only criteria they had back in the olden days were that the person needed to have lived and studied in the abbey for at least 10 years and completed seminary, be highly skilled in the art of black magic, and needed to possess a penis (The Serpent with Which They Could Use to Deceive). Unfortunately, sexism in regards to leadership roles affected even the protofemenist teachings of the Satanic Church for the longest time, and nowadays the abbey is sure to teach of the multiple women & trans men of the clergy who most likely did possess the abilities needed to become Papa but were not allowed to.

Well to be fair, there were two Papas elected that were not cis men: an intersex person and a woman, those being The Original Papa Emeritus Secondo and Terzo respectively. Emeritus II was "traditionally masculine" enough to be allowed an attempt at the contact, while Emeritus III had come to them already possessing The Eye, and thus they could not ignore her rightful title (although they did still refer to her through he/him pronouns, stubborn bastards....).

And that's how it was for much of the abbey's history. Emeritus was merely a title to denote whichever random person was lucky enough to achieve it, nothing more. However, everything changed during the early 1800’s when a single idea dawned on the current Papa of the time. The previous two Papas before him had both happened to be his father and grandfather, so if that were the case, would that mean that the power of The Eye could be inherited?

Testing his Lamarckist hypothesis, he waited until both his sons had come of age and then forcibly subjected them to the contact ritual under the implication that their bloodline would automatically grant them access to this magic, which caused one to die horribly and the other to successfully be gifted with the coveted white eye. Through the combination of this “successful discovery” alongside a desperation to reclaim the earthly magic that was starting to disappear as well as the backing of an upper clergy becoming more and more corrupted with each passing decade, the title Emeritus had been officially morphed into a dynasty.

Perhaps there was some truth in the inheritable properties of magic, since more Papas were made from that starting lineage. Yet when put into perspective, the costs of this practice were truly far too great to justify the means.

Dozens upon dozens of teenage boys were subjected to these premature contact rituals and suffered disgusting, needless deaths at the hands of their fathers, all in the hopes of finding the one “worthy” heir to the Papacy. Harems, which were once simply a source of pleasure for a Papa, became a mandatory method of producing enough sons. These women were impregnated so often that many ended up dying from birth complications, and those who were able to successfully give birth either had to raise their daughters all on their own or risk seeing their sons bodies be twisted and shredded beyond recognition after an unsuccessful ritual.

Our current day Nihil had four brothers before him; three whom he never knew, and one he was forced to forget. They did prove to be failures after all, so why memorialize them? It truly was nothing short of a miracle that he was able to survive the ritual at such a young age. Once he got The Eye and all the magic it provided him, along with the aid of one Sister of Sin allied to his cause, he wasted no time in usurping his wicked father. To further emphasize his separation from his father's legacy, he reset his title back to Emeritus 0 as a symbol of how he was going to lead the Satanic Church into a new Golden Age, one where he would never subject his heirs to such needless destruction.

Ironic how he ended up accidentally achieving what his own father always dreamed of: three sons that proved themselves apt enough to survive the ritual and earn The Eye. Granted, he did forbid his children from attempting the contact until they had fully developed their knowledge of black magic and had completed seminary, but it is quite intriguing how he managed to produce this many heirs to the Papacy in such a short span of time.

Could an outside force had helped him in some way, possibly enhancing the heritability of his magic with supernatural means for the sake of their achieving their own ends?

…

Of course not! Who could possibly do something like that?

[asktheboywholived]

Happy Father’s Day!

Shout out to all the HP dads! 

^ Not you. 

[toopunktofuck]

I Am a Dog - Spoonboy

Over the course of these times We have been beaten up like dogs We have been starved We have been victims of neglect And our histories erased These are the hands around our necks, But when you're squeezed this hard you burst It's cause and effect Because if you back a dog into a corner She will bite you wherever she can

[soundvsvision]

Do you ever stay up real late and then get an idea for something real dumb

So at the Chicago ritual Copia kept asking what day it was and every time someone said Thursday he would say "you mean...Friiiiday, right? It's Friday"

I was thinking about this last night and thought "ha ha Copia really gotta get down on Friday"

Which led to Rebecca Black's Friday

Which led to this Rebecca Black Friday parody

Plz ignore my shit moon and lamppost I drew this in like half an hour don't @ me

Yeah the lil rat boy looks deranged but I will not apologize for that one lmao

The screen cap I'm referencing from in case you haven't watched "Friday" in seven years like I have:

[jimothybarnes]

good evening mr Barnes!

sometimes on hot summer days when the ghouls are bored, they will gather on the courtyard and do impromptu summer festivals for papas and siblings and other ghouls and everyone really

mountain and cumulus make homemade icecreams (or sorbets? gelato? fresh with mountain grown fruits!)

swiss helped rain build a mini waterpark with slides and kiddie pools and rain becomes a moving talking water sprinkler, but he has fun doing that because he gets to annoy dew

aether and phantom do magic shows for the children

aurora has a facepaint/nail art stand, mostly for the kids but sometimes the papas come too, even sister once got her nails done by rora

a bit counterproductive, but dew does fire acrobatics/fire shows thingy… i once read someone hc (either that or somewhere in a fic) that fire ghouls can absorb heat, so subscribing to that, maybe he can contain the heat of his fire to not bother anyone, and the tricks he does are cool, sometimes with sunshine too so they can do even crazier tricks

cirrus with balloons and kites! she helps those who want to fly their kites, and also is a master at making balloon animals and other shapes

thank you very much see you next time!

Good afternoon Bex! 💚

You’re absolutely right.

There is a whole big table in the shade with a wide variety of ice cream, nice cream, popsicles, sorbets and gelato. They experiment with flavours and combinations and Mountain will grow any herbs and berries between his horns on commands to garnish and decorate the desserts. Cumulus will shape the most intricate and beautiful popsicles, making the most fantastical creatures the kits and kids can think of.

Swiss gathers up a bunch of children, motioning for them to be quiet (they all giggle almost uncontrollably and the adults just pretend they can’t hear). They watch as Rain sneak up on an “unsuspecting” Dew and hug him tight from behind while showering them both with water. Swiss falls over from laughing at the squealing delight erupting from the children

Aether and Phantom conjure up the most amazing creatures. They play tricks and creature illusions so magnificent even Terzo has to wipe drool from the corner of his mouth where it hangs open in awe.

Oh Dew and Sunshine put on a show that’s so scarily impressive they end up with a gaggle of enamoured Siblings following them around for weeks after. There are pictures of what I imagine they do at the bottom of this post.

Cirrus has set up a balloon and kite making station, and she and Aurora make the coolest balloon creatures and help the children get their kites to fly like real dragons.

The ghouls put up little festivals like this several times a year and they’re always a big hit. Even Sister Imperator has a good time, and sometimes the papas will beg the ghouls for a festival when she’s been extra difficult for a while.

The fire show