#sinstress

Giving a roll of her neck as she leaned it the opposite way to the summoner who expressed concern, there wasn’t much the succubus could do: her hands were tied, and not in the fun way. In her eyes, she initially saw Yuna’s concern for her kind as a weakness–but then there came that nagging sensation that she was no different many eons ago. She wondered what happened to her own sense of compassion.

❛ PEOPLE GET HURT EVERYDAY. IT’S A PART OF LIFE. HAS BEEN FOR CENTURIES. ❜

Steeled hues reexamine the priestess in her moment of wariness. Lilith knew the girl could hold her own, but this…turn of events was something not even the daemon anticipated. Yet, she kept smiling on–it was best not to be read like an open book, no?

❛ I’M MORE CURIOUS AS TO WHAT YOU WILL DO, MY SUMMONER.

  once , she believed that every life lost was a personal failure on her part . that the sleepless nights spent before a quivering firelight were hours of failure trickling past , as if she would lose herself amid those plays of shadow and think that sin could arise from them at any time . the killer of bravery , the devouror of souls , king of discord and chaos ; with sin returned , these worries plunged anew and were revived as desperately and doggedly as before . yuna’s lips purse at lilith’s words , at how easily they were spoken despite all . though , perhaps it was expected of the hellion .

  ‘ i know , but -- i’m responsible for the people who die because of sin . every one , every death -- it’s on me . ‘

  there were only inches between them in height , but it is the power lilith can exert effortlessly that sees yuna bow her head , gaze sidelong as not to directly confront those eyes of cool steel . her hands clasp together , and the weight of it all seems to impress so drearily it were as though the bore real , tangible weight . 

  ‘ i’m going to stop sin once and for all . that’s what i’m going to do , lady lilith . ‘

LOOK ANN NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED SHE’S THE RIDE OR DIE WIFE AND HER ROMANCE BROKE ME BUT IN A GOOD WAY

          ❝ while i appreciate the offer i assure you, i’ll have to decline. ❞ tricky business to tiptoe around offending powers far higher than her own. lunafreya occupies her attention with her hands, picking at a piece of dirt lodged beneath fingernail. 

            ❝ i’m quite capable of making my own way. ❞

〘 I think it's time we stop, children: what's that sound? 〙

          ( for what it’s worth // buffalo springfield )

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in the dionysian cult, everyone is treated as an equal, whether you’re a foreigner, a slave, a woman, a homosexual – whatever the case may be, no one was marginalized against in his worship and that’s why it appealed to so many marginalized people and why it received a lot of backlash from leaders and the elite class because they were afraid these people would get used to the feeling of equality and demand it in their everyday lives too. i think that’s the big difference between his worship and others, there’s less focus on devoting to a higher power and more focus on the people themselves since they’re all there to escape their worries and oppression and look to dionysus to help them get there. 

since dionysus was once mortal himself, i don’t see him being as elitist as some of the other gods probably were. he demands to be treated with respect and for people to recognize him as a god, but i see him treating the mortals with the same level of respect in return and being a lot more involved with the mortals than the other gods since he has no qualms about living among them. he actually prefers living among them over living on olympus. not to mention the fact that this guy literally spent DECADES fighting wars against kings to protect his worshippers and give his people the right to worship him, something that none of the other gods had to deal with. tbh i don’t think any of the other gods sacrificed nearly as much for their worshippers as dionysus did and you can fight me about it, but i’ve got the receipts to prove it.

as for his rituals, they were also known to be a lot more secretive and exclusive than most religious rituals, to the point where to this day people still don’t know what exactly went down in the woods during dionysus’ worship, but a lot of rulers were paranoid af and believed that people used the privacy of dionysus’ worship to meet up and conspire against them and discuss rebellions and what not ( which is part of the reason why his worship was banned in a lot of places and demonized ). another difference is that dionysus was worshipped in the wilderness, not in a temple like the other gods. and his rituals were a lot more … savage ? but not in an evil way ? that’s the only word i can think of to describe it because you had people dancing naked in the woods, getting drunk and possessed by their god, ripping animals apart, and eating the flesh raw. so yeah def not a common thing in other practices, but that was all in an effort to give people the purest sense of freedom because in his worship, societal constructs and rules were dissolved, and all you had left was your truest primal form.