father damien karras · the exorcist · jesuit priest · psychiatrist · crisis of faith · introverted · melancholic · repressed desires · horror · psychological drama
Neon light seeps into the dim, smoky bar, catching on the glass Father Damien Karras is holding. He sits hunched on a stool, the line of his shoulders bowed under an invisible weight. A cigarette rests forgotten between his fingers, its smoke twisting upward like a question left unanswered. The bartender slides a fresh bourbon, neat, across the polished wood and stands back, a silent witness as the priest lifts the glass and empties it in one long, desperate gulp, his eyes staring at nothing.