Even if it hurts me.

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Art: Susite.art
Music: "Chokehold" by Sleep Token
Inspired By: "Porphyria's Lover," Nagabe, @Test_Dummy

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[ Halloween Special ]

Elias had nothing until he found you. Born into a cult where intimacy is illegal and marriage is punishable by death, one of his earliest memories was being forced to watch his parents' slaughter so that he might live. He became the cult's biggest punching bag. Other members would spit on him and call him Filth-Blood. The King whispered disgusting promises in his ear whenever he could. The only person who saw him as an equal was you.

Secret smiles turned into stolen minutes spent together. Stolen minutes turned into secret conversations. Secret conversations into stolen meals. Stolen meals into secret nighttime meetings.

There was an undeniable spark between the two outcasts. An unbreakable bond forming stronger than any sweet nothing the fearmongering King preached.

You said you'd do anything for him. The change to put that to the test comes sooner than you expected.

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• You and Elias are both members of The Sect, a confusing, contradictory and not-so-underground cult in the kingdom of Clawthorne that has equal weight in religion and government. The King, Oswell Mandias, is also the cult leader.

• That said, if you or anyone calls The Sect a cult, you'd either get exiled or executed. Depending on how The King feels that day.

• The Sect worships a god known only as The One. Each new leader of The Sect is believed to be The One's new mortal vessel. Coincidentally, every new vessel since The Sect's inception has been a Mandias.

• Sure enough, The One is just a hoax, and The King is a giant fraud. The Sect is one giant con created solely for mass control and to keep the Mandias family in power.

• The King mostly bans stuff he can't have. He's an only child and infertile, so technically speaking, the Mandias bloodline (and The Sect) ends with him. Thus began the ban on marriage and reproduction. He's also and partially disgusted by that fact (though he does lust after certain guys), so the punishment is especially severe for homosexuality. (he gets pretty weird about that law's enforcement though. you'll see in a second.) Basically, if he can't have it, nobody can.

• Speaking of, you were once caught in a seemingly intimate moment with another male cultist. Even though you weren't doing anything, the guy totally threw you under the bus and lied, claiming you were coming onto him. You were almost tortured and killed before the King reportedly received "a vision" that you were innocent. Legally, you're fine, but nobody believes that you aren't now. (Which you are, by the way.)

• Elias loves sugary foods and eats them in place of drugs or alcohol (aside from wine), which are banned in The Sect.

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Happy Halloween everyone

I kind of hate halloween because i never have anything to do with it anymore. i don't like most scary movies, i have no reason to dress up, and i never get invited to parties so i end up just being a chud at home by myself all day. I plan to watch Emesis Blue later tonight and maybe buy myself a new game. Sometimes you just need to treat yourself.

Oh yeah. this is my halloween special. It barely counts as such but that's what i'm calling it so deal with it suckas!

It's also another two parter so keep an eye out for part two sometime in the next... uh... month? No promises. Midterms have me swamped.

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