PAPA TIMBALICUS' OG #1 STAN

mama, we're all full of lies mama, we're meant for the flies and right now, they're building a coffin your size mama, we're all full of lies

i have nothing else to say except i am absolutely horrendously devilishly concerningly deviously down bad

because it's easy to overlook, but she actually spoke very highly of him prior to his papacy, portrayed him as a renewed hope for their organisation, and a force of change in the overall world after the clergy deemed his brother a disappointment.

we know how all of that ended. and we can easily assume that somebody like sister imperator would not be the type of woman to dwell on or question her own choices often. and obviously, at the end of the day, none of this matters and none could have been enough to win against her disdain for his grammy win and turning to "the world" (a.k.a. away from the cult's perceived principles)...

but it makes me wonder, given what we know about her background and the original intent behind creating the cult as we know it (having it be both a source of comfort and inclusion for the broken and the damned, and hopefully a sort of vigilante justice aimed at those in power that kept getting away with causing harm)...

given all these things, it makes me wonder if imperator-the-seasoned-puppeteer had ever realised that terzo was, at one point, the closest their church got to a spiritual leader that embodied those principles, with his ardent hate for oppressive politics, visions of how the institution could have been made better, the socialist "the light belongs to the people" flair of it all.