Basically building drafts for the Priest!AU planted in my head by… Bread? Bvckbiter? Can’t remember at this point lol, ANYWAY.
Yeah!
So one of the clergy serving the Catholic community of whatever small-town Ethan has found himself in is Sr Margaret (an OC) and basically one day Ethan speaks to her, in semi-vague detail, about the Titan Army and the 2nd Titanomachy and specifically Luke, and… basically explaining his relationship with/to pagan gods and what some of his struggles with fully devoting himself to serving the community for God’s glory first (because the problem has never been fully devoting himself to serving a/the community—it’s doing it with the sole intention of glorifying God’s name as is expected of him, first as a Catholic then as a Catholic priest ie the divine purpose of work and vocation) and Sr Margaret tells him “Maybe your struggle comes from the fact that this Luke fellow seems to have been a Christ-like figure to you” and it clicks for Ethan in that moment
Other notes include:
- Luke is now Lukronos, a sort of failed Apotheosis where they aren’t really one or the other but just… a result of that disaster. Lukronos is interested in possessing Ethan, and he makes sure Ethan knows it. Ethan is very open to his advances in the dead of the night, but he acts like Lukronos doesn’t exist in the daylight (excuse to write smut)
- Mr Nakamura was ALSO a priest and ALSO struggled with being called away from his vocation by pagan gods (how he and Nemesis got Ethan and how he ultimately left behind his priestly vows) Mr Nakamura’s dad was ALSO a priest and ALSO struggled with being called away from his vocation by pagan gods (TBD further) — importantly, Sr Margaret has lived to see three generations of Nakamura’s serve as priests and do their best to not be catnip to the cats that are the Greek pantheon
- Alabaster is there! His story is a bit more… wooh! Anyway I’d have to reread his canon stuff to prep appropriately, but basically he finds a home in Ethan’s church. Also a LOT of divergence from canon for him.
- Nico is there too! He’s known as a demon hunter to the people of the small town. Mayhaps Nicobaster.