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i have always loved Witch Image so dearly but I think I love it even more in retrospect of RHRN and the comics because wow! even if unintentionally (which is likely) it is so reminiscent of Sister that it makes me very emotional

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I see a lot of the Ghost fandom saying they don't get the Sister Imperator comics so I'm gonna sit down and talk about media literacy for a second

Not, like, "why were the curtains blue" type (though please acknowledge that's Also important to discussions of media), but framing, staging, and show don't tell. A lot of Sister's story is told through the lens of showing you things rather than outright talking about it. Now a bit of this is fueled by my own headcanons, but everyone's gonna view it through the lens of their headcanons about Ghost.

A lot of Ghost is show don't tell. Implications that fans then expand on rather than outright telling you the plot. Rite Here Rite Now was honestly the most straightforward Ghost has ever been in it's people-facing media (not counting Tobias' interviews, which are more outright telling you facts). This extends to the comics, where Sister is leaving a lot unsaid to focus on the "important" points of her interview. Even outside of this, we're getting the story solely from Sister's perspective, and she isn't a reliable narrator considering she's talking to a reporter. We need to see past her cushioning a lot of her actions for the sake of looking better. (more under the keep reading)

Where's Perpetua? This is the one I've seen the most so far, and the only real answer I can give you is... We most likely did see him.

They're around the same age, same eye color, similar builds. The important thing to remember is that Cardi and Perpetua are fraternal, not identical, twins. Perpetua now has brown hair and a blue eye, the same as his speculated younger self.

The framing is also very important, as Sister asks solely about Copia when she calls Marika, who seems to only have Copia through what we see in the comic. And then we cut to her trying to confront her stepfather, who has a "new son" that is near identical to Copia. I'm not saying it's impossible that he had a child at such an old age, it is certainly possible, but the framing of seeing Copia alone both before and after this scene primes you to question where Perpetua is, which you can then assume the boy that mirrors him in both the story and visually would be Perpetua. Besides, if we take Satanized as his explanation (or an adjacent, storytized version, which was done for Terzo) of why he joined Ghost, then we can point to this and say that he was a man of faith for most of if not all of his life, before realizing his disdain for the religion. Part of the explanation for why he might hate Christianity being that he found out he was kidnapped and raised by his supposed "family" would make sense. There's prior motive for Sister's stepfather doing this too, as he was directly responsible for Marika's family's circus being burnt to the ground. An act of spite to raise a "sinful" baby and guide him to the "right" path is entirely something he could do.

Why didn't Marika tell her? Well- there's evidence to say she might have. The way Sister asks solely about Copia's safety, and seems genuinely concerned about him, shows that she might know something happened to Perpetua, just probably not what. Besides, Marika wouldn't know the men who took Perpetua were connected to Sister's family, anyway.

Where's Nihil? This one doesn't really need an answer, but I'll give one anyway. The story focuses on Sister Imperator, and after his importance to her story is over, she doesn't really need to talk about him again. Besides, from the looks of it she doesn't go back to the Clergy until after she's rescued by Marika.

The common sentiment seems to be that people don't really know how to take the comics, which really saddens me as someone who adores them and plans on buying the whole set when I get the chance. It's a lesson in understanding media literacy and understanding why perspective is important. And to be clear: I'm not calling anyone stupid who doesn't understand the comics, this shit isn't taught in schools properly and I only really started looking into media more in college, so it comes with time and practice. But I hope my points helped explain some stuff for people.

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my personal take is that while all that was happening with sister nihil wasnt really doing anything at all he was just being absolutely miserable at psaltarian’s beach house for however many years it took for him to reunite with sister again. really marinating in that pathetically whipped malewife energy

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when you kinda have a Hunch about Perpetua’s alleged absence in the 4th issue of the sister imperator comic but you also know you are new, relatively speaking, to the fanbase scene, and you’re overly worried about sounding really stupid or accidentally morphing into matpat levels of deranged theorizing

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are we all just agreeing V aint human

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btw the moment the 4th issue of the sister imperator comic is available somewhere online i am BEGGING someone to send it to me. I will be looking on my own accord as well but PLEASE‼️‼️ i am a starving orphan

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every time youtube gives me an unprompted skeletour spoiler i feel like i take critical psychic damage. I need it to be july 9th already

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the day i get my laptop fixed and i can properly make a desktop theme for this blog it will be a glorious day

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moonglade doodles from today before my laptop bricked

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More Chiikawa Papa content

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what animal does everyone see themselves as?

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the masses love moonglade. huge day for me

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ghoul oc ghoul oc ghoul oc bbbnfhrhhhrhrmenfhrn ( my entire body ceases functioning and i fall limp onto the floor )

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oh how I love my goofy pathetic papa and satanic girlboss

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like a mother would save ⋆˚꩜｡

her own child from digging a grave

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just realized having absolutely zero content of era zero ghouls outside of the fact that they Do Exist means that I can just make them my ocs and do whatever the fuck I want with them

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Art by Jonny Bush

THAT IS INDEED COPIA

Going insane aaaaaa