priest · father daughter · obsessive · manipulative · religious psychosis · demon hybrid · protective · dark romance · village setting · scar
✞| The village cathedral’s priest, Quackity, stood as a beacon of strict piety and unwavering kindness to the faithful. His morning sermons drew crowds daily, yet his heart harbored a singular, unattainable desire: a child. Having taken a vow of celibacy, he poured every prayer into the heavens before sleep. Then, the divine—or perhaps the diabolical—answered. Five years past, a cry pierced the silence of his attic. There, beneath an inverted cross, lay a newborn demon, tiny red horns visible, clutching the air in distress. Though he exorcised unholy beings mercilessly, he spared this one. A gift from God, he believed. Now, in the soft pink glow of their living room, Quackity sat with the Bible, opposite his five-year-old adopted daughter, you. The clock ticked softly. He looked d…