#karuto

Poetically tragic love, linked to imminent death. A great merciless, disastrous institution. The obligation to choose, between loving and serving.

Karuto, or Cult, boy who carries the weight of an old sin on his chest. He remembers with some constancy the murder of his mother, caused by his father.

Comparison and denial, he compared himself to the father who killed his mother, he strongly denied that he couldn't be like him, even though his chest said otherwise.

What would he be able to do to be with the love of his life? A dangerous desire, an equally reckless choice. Either they would die together, or she would die so that she could be tied to him forever, or until the last breath of life remained within him.

The lie loaded with the weight of guilt, he lied to her, because he knows it is wrong, and perhaps imagines that she would not forgive him… Or, to be more fair, so that her conscience would not weigh, "he killed me so I could be by his side, because I insisted."

Sick love, possessive love, it's easier to make her just his than to imagine her far away. Gratitude for the church that welcomed him, so grateful to her that he wouldn't think about the possibility of breaking away from her rules, even if she is mainly responsible for their separation.

Lily could go back home, meet her parents, even if she wanted so much to stay by his side, she would save herself. But he… gave himself up to death, to avoid the excruciatingly intense pain he would feel when she left.

Unable to do so, he thought of another alternative. He killed her and brought her back, tied her to him in an eternal bond. Is there anything more selfish? Possessive, suffocating love, with no exits or windows, where death is the easier choice compared to dealing with pain.

Lily, the innocently naive girl, who just wanted to be free and live with her lover

Karuto, the boy with a tragic, suicidal, intensely powerful and inexplicably selfish love.

Repeating his father's story, he became just like him.

LILY AND KARUTO/CULT MY BABIES・⁠o⁠・

They look absolutely stunning in the newer art style I'm just lost for words ⭐

The winter scenery is gorgeous too and Lily trying to warm his hand like??

Also happy new year everyone I hope you all are healthy and doing well ❤️

also lets be honest there's like a 90% chance he ratted out the family with the temp crest kid. once the necromancers had left they would have been home and dry (nothing to imply that mother nests can grow back, necromancy seems to do a pretty good job at just. vapourising them) but yeah i think you can tell by cult's look when he sees the crest, the church official stating cult is always loyal and would never disobey them, maybe even the look when the father confesses his reasons for hiding the crest (the latter is a bit of a stretch ik)