until the end, see how it shines

Mary's father is so ashamed of shooting blanks that he banishes himself to the desert; his wife prays for deliverance, so an angel tells him to go back home and he gets her pregnant

When Mary is born, her mother Anne considers her holy and so hires a bunch of virgins to carry her around so that her feet never touch dirt

When she's three, she's given to the Temple, where she lives until she's twelve, dancing for God and being fed by an angel

When she's twelve, the authorities realize they have to get rid of her before she menstruates and profanes the Temple. So they send word that every widowed guy / single man should show up and God will pick one of them to be her husband

God picks Joseph by making a dove appear out of the end of a staff; Jospeph is like 40 and doesn't want to take her because this is weird, but the High Priest tells him God will kill him if he doesn't, so he says fine, I guess

She's 12 and Joseph is super not into this, so he dumps her at his house and says, "I'll see you later, I guess," and leaves her there for 4 years

In that time the Temple realizes they need a virgin to weave the veil that separates the Holy of Holies from the outer courtyard, so Mary gets assigned to do that

When she's 16, Joseph has to report to Bethlehem with his whole household to register for taxes, so he returns to retrieve her. But she's pregnant, so he freaks out until an angel comes to him in a dream and tells him God did it

The Temple authorities find out about this and order him and Mary to show up and defend themselves; they then pass some obscure purity ritual so, eh, I guess God really did do this

On the way to Bethlehem, Mary goes into labor and so they go into a cave. It is filled with glowing magic light and Jesus just materializes out of her womb as a baby and starts suckling

Joseph gets a woman named Salome to assist Mary, and she doesn't believe Mary just gave birth, so she sticks her hand up her vagina, and and it gets burned to a crisp

But Mary says for her to touch Jesus with it, and she does, and it is instantly healed

Herod finds out about Jesus from the Magi and decides to kill all the babies his age to keep him from overthrowing him.

Mary's cousin Elizabeth, the wife of the High Priest, who has baby John the Baptist who is Jesus's same age, panicks and runs into the mountains to hide, and a mountain opens up and lets her hide inside it

What is he doing? Well, he's blushed because that's NSFH (not safe for horse) 👀.

OC-TOBER DAY 10: DREAM

This piece was a really quick and easy one even though I had to redesign a character on the fly for it haha. I’m really happy with it though, I think she turned out looking really cool ^__^

This character is from my fantasy story ‘The Apocrypha’ which is an indie game developed by my OC Keyo in his own story! I’m never gonna develop it myself because I have no clue how so I gave it to my OC to do whatever he wants :]