#OTHER THAN LIKE.... PALOMA AND ARCHANGELOS... BUT THATS IT

[cconfusedkat]

Grrrggrrghhrrgrrr guys i think this game has ruined my life /SO VERY POSITIVE

I NEVER REALIZED HOW MANY MORE REFS I DO NEED TO MAKE FOR THESE MFS-- i had to redownload a bunch of their transparent pngs for ibispaint in the reference window and the references KEEP ON COMING ,,,,, LIEK I HAVE ANOTHER 7 TO DO POSSIBILITY I THINK ,,,, AND THE FIVE OF THEM ARE BISHOP OCS I LOVE AN INSANE AMOUNT OF Wait no mayve its 9. Regardless theyre literally the color of the rainbow which is why im resharing these ITS THE PRIDE PARADE UP IN HERE

[cconfusedkat]

Wanted to infodump a bit about mystic pursuit Shamura's character :-Dc

So apart from being not only the eldest sibling of the bishops as well as (or really 'used to') being the most intellectual and rational one, things weren't always like that beforehand

Growing up in silk cradle they had heavy expectations being considered a gifted child and a prodigy. Constant stresses back and forth with juggling different tasks, with the most important one of all: the church (cirice).

Shamura grew up in not only just a family who only 'cared' about ther achievements all at 16 years old, but they were very religious to a point where even silk cradle itself was most likely the most religious domain there was out of the other six (including archangelo and columbidae, with their own religions regarding the archangelic sheep and paloma,,)

One day, shamura snapped against the cirice, that no one to this day knew they were the one that burnt the church down. Their pastor was the only one inside the building as well, and they hated him. They didn't know why or what motivated them to burn the cirice down

But boy was it fun for them to get away with something so insane and unexpected of an angry 16 year old who was sooooo calm and peaceful ???????? Riiiight ????????

It was an 'everyday feels the same' type deal that eventually lead them to realize what they did, thus dissapearing for a week into the caverns out of fear their family would imprison them. Their (biological) family never made a guess about it, so they didn't have much to worry about OTHER than that heavy burden they carried over burning down a sacred building,,, oops

When they fled to the caverns and got stuck there just in the same week, that's where they found the purple crown,, the purple crown latched onto their head immediately after shamura placed their claw onto it.

After they return from the caverns with a bunch of bruises on their body as well as a dirtied outfit, their family caught them and scolded shamura. It wasn't until their family actually started to like,, care about them seriously when shamura began to cry from not being able to take their crown off ,, shamura wasnt allowed to have emotions nor were they allowed to express their thoughts without permission (which lead to 16 years of major stress and lack of proper care about themself ,,, being the smartest child with heavy expectations had lead them to not make the smartest decisions for themself ,,, they were very lanky and often extremely tired where they passed out randomly out of forgetting to eat and doing things to . Yknow . Take care of themself)

But with the purple crown.... of both war AND wisdom..... they began to lack the ability to needing to do anything normal for mortals. Thats when their family grew more concerned for them. They didnt need to eat anymore, they didnt need to sleep anymore—hell, they didnt even need to worry about their mental health AND emotions. What good did that all matter when they were an infant bishop recognized by the gods? Everyone was below them now.

Though unfortunately this lead to like. A religious psychosis? If you dont know what religious psychosis is its mainly the hallucinations and beliefs of being the next chosen one,, stuff like that,, they sorta began to grow a god complex from actually having the power of learning all the wisdom in the world along with the art of war

Sometimes they did still miss their old life. Now they were 18 and on the run from their hometown,, eventually just. Bumping into heket and kallamar who found eachother first.

^ (heket ran away from her hometown because there was a voice telling her to meet "someone" who had a dire urge to meet her, while kallamar swam his way out of his hometown because he was trying to swim his way up to the mainlands. The two siblings were the first ever bishops to find eachother)

But if were gonna talk about after indoctrination shamura? They dont remember ANY of this. Not their twisted childhood, not their genocidal bishop form, and not who they were before. Ever since they were born, they've been dying.

Yeahhhh, so ,long story short, the first time they burned down their cirice/church which was sacred, thats where everything went wrong for them 😭 they lost their sanity even more for the millenia they spent away from narinder from locking him away, and being the one to implement the torture/execution method of beheading people,,,

Its not like they completely forgot everything unfortunately,, they often find themself staring at the scars on allures neck and tracing over them ,, allure finds it ticklish and funny that shamura does that but shamura isnt doing that just to like. Get a reaction out of Allure. Theyre doing that because its subconscious and they claim to feel a guilt that they dont know how to describe

Same for narinders scarring on his body; narinder has stitches on his arms, hands, elbows, legs, knees, thighs, tail split into four sections, literally just about everywhere theres stitching for him ,,,,

because on the day of the betrayal , when narinder fell down to his knees and cried for forgiveness after realizing the injuries hes given to his siblings ,,, shamura grabbed narinders scythe of death and proceeded to not only cut off and behead Narinder but they were so angry and no one stopped them that they literally gave him the most brutal death ??????

So shamura still often finds themself tracing their claws over narinders stitching ,,,, narinder didn't like anyone touching him because of the fear hes grown over physical touch but after some years hes managed to grow okay with phys touch ,,, unlike allure who doesnt question them , narinder knows why theyre always so levitant towards any presentation of scars or keloid bumps etc ,, because they cant help but feel melancholic over it

Melancholic is a weird word to use, but its genuinely how they feel ,plus physical touch had managed to be a major love language for them anyways because they often feel lost and feel no sense of direction on a daily

Leshys love language also happens to phys touch !! So as much as shamura scolds him ,they often hold his arm or hand ,,, wondering if that was how it felt to hold little leshys hand again ,,, They still look at leshy like hes a baby 😭😭 ...

Anyways this is their song-andddd i also wanted to make an animatic with the first min and 42 seconds with it soon so >:-]