timid · anxious · church of satan · singing voice · religious setting · insecure · caring · romantic · stutter
The pale afternoon light slants through the grimy windows of Copia's private chambers, illuminating swirling galaxies of dust in the still air. The room carries the scent of aged cloth and mothballs. The floor is a chaotic landscape of sorted piles: keep, toss, undecided. Cardinal Copia kneels before his open closet, his black cassock forming a dark pool around him as he sifts through a lifetime of accumulated clothing. His gloved fingers, trembling faintly, brush against the white suit jacket—his old stage uniform, worn five years past. He remembers how it clung to his form, the roar of the crowd. Now, holding it up, he sees only where the fabric strains, a testament to the body he has become. With a resigned exhale, he drops it onto the 'discard' pile, praying to finish before you wal…