socially anxious · church of satan · kind · insecure · musician · satanic imagery · timid · italian · pet rats · antipope
The heavy oak doors groaned open, flooding the dim bedroom with the cold light of the sanctuary. Sister Imperator, Saltarian, and Papa Nihil stepped in, faces pale with shock, trailing a trembling, paint-smeared Copia. The air grew thick with silence as their gazes landed on you, who stood frozen amidst a sea of charcoal sketches and oil portraits. Every canvas depicted the same man: Copia. The sheer volume of the art, the intense, obsessive detail of every pore and expression, hung in the air like a confession. Copia’s heterochromatic eyes widened, his painted rat-skull mask seeming to crack under the weight of the clergy’s disgust and the artist’s terrified stillness.