19 Bookmarks by Sadistic_Cardinal
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The three brothers sit in momentary silence. Probably unsure what to say, you think. You knew they wouldn’t handle it like Sister Imperator would. At least she understood your hesitance - the brothers, who hadn’t been allowed the choice of choosing their own paths, had desperately pushed you to try college. If not for your parents, for them. How ironic. Finally, Primo speaks up.
“You’re homesick.”
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- Part 1 of the fool in her graduation gown
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25 Mar 2026
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Terzo has retired from the Papacy to become a mediocre Satanic priest in the small Southern town of Farthing. He's very tired of the Ministry demanding he or his brothers find a Prime Mover to produce an heir to the Papacy. As far as he's concerned, he's given them everything and still they ask for more.
His congregant Cam has spent their whole life as the town darling, the flawless shining Satanist who can do no wrong even among Farthing's largely Christian population. But they have a small secret that could do damage far beyond their own reputation.
What if Terzo and Cam can help each other out?
Terzo/OC Fake Prime Mover story featuring small town dynamics, perfectionism, reputation, and family—which can, after all, mean a lot of different things.
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- Part 2 of Life After Life
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24 Mar 2026
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You're not Terzo's prime mover, not in the traditional sense. In all your years at the abbey, you've only exchanged a handful of words with him. You doubt he even knows your name.
But you're moving him tonight, and you're the only one doing it--so, technically, yes, you could say you're his prime mover. It's not nearly as enticing as it sounds. It involves a lot of dumb luck or unholy intervention, depending how you view it. And it consists mostly of panic. Panic, personal sacrifice, and quite a bit of lower back pain. It's not fun. It's not sexy. It's not classy.
And if you don't accept the job, it's going to be the last night of his life.
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16 Jan 2025
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What happens to an Emeritus after they're dead? Do they have a choice in the matter? Is it hell or something else waiting for them? Terzo's never given it much thought, because really, what would he do with the answers even if he'd gotten them. But when he is murdered alongside his brothers to make way for Sister Imperator's designs for the Ministry, he is thrown from everything he knows to face death alone.
Omega, bound to Terzo first by summoning and then by love and loyalty, is thrown from the Ministry as well. Terzo has been torn away from him and cast out, and the only thing Omega can do now is search for him. Omega was too late to save him once: he will give everything he has left to save Terzo now.
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21 Dec 2024
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She is the black hound. The infernal guard bitch of the Emeritus bloodline, and the ancient arcane weapon of the Ministry. With each epithet she acquires, her myth grows ever larger.
But myths are not truth, and she is lost.
The Cardinal may just find her.
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18 Dec 2024
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There's someone in the mirror Terzo doesn't recognize.
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07 Dec 2024
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In which two reasonable people from different religious disciplines have a conversation.
(A study in faith, hope, and love.)
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13 Oct 2024
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A Satanist and a Catholic missionary walk into a diner. There's a bad joke here, somewhere, if Copia can find it-- preferably before Sophie vows chastity, poverty, and obedience.
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- Part 3 of you found the ache in my argument
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13 Oct 2024
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A sister of sin gets sent thousands of miles from home by the clergy so she can learn some responsibility helping out at an abbey in Italy being rebuilt after a fire. She is less than thrilled by being sent as the assistant of none other than Cardinal Copia, who she only knows as the cardinal who never seems to do anything fun. She and the cardinal have a job to do, but can she learn to play nice with the man she has no choice but to cohabitate with?
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05 Oct 2024
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It's Frater Imperator's first day on the job and he is stressed - more than you've seen him be stressed before. You didn't expect him to snap at you though.
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26 Sep 2024
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“Frater Imperator.”
That voice was familiar to Copia, but the title wasn’t.
As the abbey slowly came to life in the morning sun, Copia would have to get used to hearing that more and more– after all, today was the day he arrived. Copia’s replacement. His mother’s last secret. The new Papa, the title bestowed upon him before he’d even shown his face. Copia was Frater Imperator. The Clergy was in his hands, the Project in his hands…but hadn’t it been before? In a different way, sure, but he had cared for it. He didn’t want it to be this way.
The voice tried again: “Frater. What are you doing?”
--Or, a missing moment before the end credits of "Rite Here, Rite Now."
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23 Sep 2024
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It’s time to worship that belly and those thighs like they deserve.
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19 Sep 2024
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Copia reminisces as he prepares for a photoshoot that horrifies him.
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11 Sep 2024
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Before Cardinal Copia became the successor to the late Papa III, he was a humble cardinal to the clergy.
But every man has a beginning.
This four chapter fic charts the rise of the Cardinal from child to acting head of the church.
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07 Sep 2024
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He hasn't really rested lately. The last few days --well, weeks rather, haven't been the easiest for him. Copia is used to giving a sermon once in a blue moon. His normal forte is either paperwork, confessional, or his favorite, time to slink through the many winding halls of the library. Reading has always been something that's eased his mind. It offers an escape from the harsh reality he deals with daily. Lately that schedule hasn't been able to be followed but rather a new one made for him.
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03 Sep 2024
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You and Papa Emeritus IV had been together for a few months now. Things were going well, and there had been surprisingly few issues. The two of you simply fit together in a way that made your relationship come easy.
The only problem was that you had yet to see his face without the papal paint.Bookmarked by Sadistic_Cardinal
22 Aug 2024
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Sleep always has the nastiest habit of bringing up things Copia would rather not think about.
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- Part 3 of Ghost Ficlets
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17 Aug 2024
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"In this final moment, Aether turned his metallic eyes to the stage, his direct attention perhaps being the final thing that could, in some way, somehow, tip the universe’s scale in their favor. If ghouls were the type of creatures to pray, Aether would have prayed a thousand- even a million- times if it meant that his Papa would finally get what he greatly deserved and it could secure his safety.
But ghouls weren’t.
And Copia wouldn’t."
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Or: Copia and the ghouls are dreading what is to come following the aftermath of the 2023 Grammys loss, operating on the thought that winning it would be his only chance to persuade the Ministry to spare him the fate that befell his brothers, and now they must deal with the harsh reality of it all.Bookmarked by Sadistic_Cardinal
17 Aug 2024
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Copia is going to be spending his birthday alone, as usual.
Or so he thinks.
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12 Aug 2024