#ahos

Yeah, A House of Sins is a very old discontinued story I was making when I was a teenager. Everything to be found is on my tumblr tag or in whatever old videos I’ve posted on my yt channel, but the most that was actually written about it was through text exchanges with a buddy years ago.

AHOS did help me a lot through navigating my religious weirdness as a teen, and I didn’t end it because I’m ashamed of it (mostly), but because as I grew up and figured out my belief system I realized that I just kind of didn’t need that story anymore. I’m a theology/bib studies major and a lot of my ideas in AHOS were wrapped up in modern cultural Christianity/demonology rather than actual textual studies that highlighted the real historical people groups who created and practiced those religions (which I find to be way more important than the shallow ideas usually presented in pop culture … rambling, anyway)

And, also, again.. I was a teen writing that story lol. I just didn’t get a lot of things right and even though I have reused some ideas from AHOS for current creative endeavors, it would be too much of a hassle to try and fix everything and continue on with the story as-is.

If I were to ever properly return to AHOS, it wouldn’t look the same at all. For now I’m fine just occasionally poking at it for fun, rehashing some designs, and answering asks like this about it :]

The general idea for the story was: Lucifer is actually a tragic villain and now commits many escapades to try and stick it back to God. He has family issues with the archangels—his brothers—and his employees are other fallen angels as well as humans-made-demons under his authority: these are the seven deadly sins, personified by people whose lives Lucifer thought best resembled their respective sin.

This story was also tied up with a spinoff called Copper & Bones where Lucifer finds love in a human and blah blah blah it’s kind of just an edgy redemption story because I had a lot of big feelings about what forgiveness and redemption and nuance meant in a religion that supposedly cared a lot about all three but was represented by a church whose hypocrisy spat on all of those ideas. AHOS was a both vent piece and fun creative outlet all in one. I had a massive amount of worldbuilding that went into it but, again, I mostly only use it now for pickings for my newer stories and otherwise let it remain a fond memory.

So, I’m sorry there’s really not a whole lot to find on that front. If you’re curious, I also have the #copper & bones tag on my tumblr, it was like a prequel to AHOS and a lot more grounded, too. I would consider most all of the religious ideas in those stories to be very outdated, and if I do ever come back to C&B or AHOS I’d love to display more compelling commentaries on Christianity beyond just teen vent pieces yk? Lol