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TWST Dormheads & their corresponding sins , as to why. Very opinionated, so please don’t stone me. I’m also doing this from memory. I have no idea if this makes sense… so just bear with me here.
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POSSIBLE SPOILERS
RIDDLE ROSEHEARTS as the sin of lust
I know, appalling start. Hear me out here though; lust is often heavily correlated to sexual overindulgence or sexual induced desires. But, in fact, lust is an over excessive desire for anything—could be money, power, or other desires seen as mundane (as food, sleep, etc.) Now stay with me now…
With Riddles, he is initially fixated heavily on rules, wanting order and is heavily bent on rule-abiding with absolute precision. Of course, however, he didn’t develop the idea the rules had to be followed precisely; nonetheless, this importance on rule following spiraled into a dependency of some sorts in that idea.
I don’t necessarily think Riddle has the need to be right about things, rather more so that he has seen that everything he was forced to abide and told were the rules were the right thing and the only right way.
It practically flares up in NRC, especially since he is faced with students who were failing & dropping out (from my memory, as he said that when he was housewarden, no one has failed or dropped out.) He’s not used to seeing the rules—something he views as absolute law and probably close to sacred—being broken as if they’re simply suggestions.
The over excessiveness starts probably around the storyline, I’d say. With Ace and Deuce disgracing Heartslaybul, Riddle is beyond furious at this point, the anger being accumulated rather than just because of the two. He wants to restore everything into an order where the rules are followed because, again, that’s all he has known for a solid portion of his life. It turns into lust for obedience for the rules, which in turn causes him to harm others.
LEONA KINGSCHOLAR as the sin of wrath
I’ve seen people argue he’s the sin of sloth/envy, but I think those two fit some of the other dormheads rather than Leona. So why wrath, out of all sins? Wrath is most typically understood as revenge or heavy resentment of sorts or uncontrollable anger.
With Leona, it is understood he holds resentment for being secondary in quite literally everything he has known. It could be argued he envied everything, but I’d argue the resentment lead to other behaviors that do not necessarily fit into envy. Envy is something akin to wanting what someone else has—which can be argued with Falena (with the whole Lion King storyline)—but I don’t necessarily think Leona envies Cheka.
I could be wrong, but I do think he holds resentment to the Cheka rather than envy, especially since because he knows that instead of skills it’s bloodline/inheritance that determine a ruler. That knowledge that any efforts he puts in is essentially pointless makes him angry towards that system.
Additionally, at the start of the storyline, Leona isn’t seemingly ambitious or eager to do anything, much less feel much or be emotionally involved things. It’s not a contradiction to his anger or resentment, but more so an effect rather—having lived with suppressed anger and resentment for so long could possibly lead to detachment. After all, if you lived so long being unheard, would you care to say or do anything?
The boiling point, I think, is when the entire plan starts. It sparks something different. He has authority, something he was so angry that he didn’t have, so having it challenged and ultimately almost taken was not a possibility he wanted. Then he was revealed? That absolutely set off the compiled anger.
He is blinded by wrath—anger—that he endangers a lot of people, even out of OB. One example is that he uses King’s Roar on Ruggie. Fueled by his emotions, his anger is uncontrollable, and he ultimately ends up lashing out and honing that anger to harm someone.
AZUL ASHENGROTTO as the sin of pride.
I have no idea if this one is also a hot take, but I feel like it was either this, envy, or greed. I do think the other two fit other dormheads, and so I decided pride for Azul. Pride is known to be an excessive love of self or self excellence. This is tentative, but being prideful, surprisingly, can fall into superficiality—more specifically in a way that places one person in higher esteem than another or glorifying themselves.
Azul envisions himself as a benevolent being, having offered many contracts to others (with a catch, most often than not). He paints himself in such a way that it can almost be presumed he believe himself better than the people he signed a contract with.
He also exudes an overconfidence in his contracts and their supposed invulnerability. So much that it becomes the reason they were destroyed by Leona. He believed his tactic had no folly, which is a common trait for pride—that a person is infallible.
Out of the most common traits of pride, overconfidence is the most prominent with Azul in the story.
Azul also finds fault in others, slightly. The first example that comes to mind is of him yelling to Floyd for a mistake, accidentally striking the side of the vault with his contracts. A weak example, but partially shows another aspect of pride in his character aside from overconfidence.
A final aspect of pride is vanity. What others perceive of the appearance—more so in reputation and character. Azul’s entire desire was to erase his former self, crafting a new appearance that was powerful and unquestionable. He was constantly worried of what others viewed him as, going so far to attempt to erase himself from a photo. (Of course, this is not without reason: his bullying stemmed this flaw, yet it is a flaw no less).
KAMIL AL-ASIM as the sin of gluttony
Alright, this one may be a tad, just a bit, smaller justification. Gluttony is characterized by overindulgence in anything, but most typically associated with eating. It also includes a wasting of resources.
To start, Kalim sets a multitude of parties, some with no particular reason aside from purely wanting to. The frequency of these spontaneous events are an example of his overindulgence; it’s done for pleasure rather than necessity (or rather, in contexts of parties, for reserved occasions).
In turn, these lavish parties are often filled with food and other elements to create such a grand occasion for a minuscule reason. This contributes to the waste of resources—of both material/supply, time, and effort of others.
VIL SCHOENHEIT as the sin of envy
This, too, is a tad easier to rationalize. Envy is depicted oftentimes as a want to something others have. It can be mistaken with jealousy, which is a fear associated with loosing something already obtained.
Vil is already well-grounded, well compose, and aware of his own self. He strived for perfection and refined aspects of himself to achieve that perfection. Yet still, he falls secondary to others, constantly being portrayed as a villain.
The basis of argument is that he feels envious of people such as Neige, not Neige himself. He envies those who have the potential and already do equate to him in popularity yet significantly who visibly seems unburdened by work or lack the skill.
Since Neige so happens to be the alluring charm people declared as beauty, Vil’s envy is mainly channeled to Neige.
Overall, his envy is not so because of Neige, but more so of those who get to remain in the attention and spotlight, who he acknowledges to be protagonist roles—while villains (which he portrays) are often left in shadows,—without trying. It especially infuriates him, spiking his envy, as there is also the addition that he strived to get the main role, but he never got it.
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