#Energy Conclave

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[conclaveyaoi]

[hellishunicorn]

when Cardinal Benítez recognises the efforts of the nuns during the conclave:

[callmekamel]

get you a beautiful man who can play both a bitchy vampire and a babygirl Pope

[chillentertainer]

thinkin' abt a little john wick conclave au where thomas lawrence is an aging assassin who keeps trying to retire but then is forcibly brought back for "one last hit" (first said to him half a dozen hits ago). lawrence is tired and depressed and he might be really good at his job (and that might be the only thing he's good at) but that Saddens him. because is his only purpose in life to be a Butcher?

not to mention he just recovered from prostate cancer and is now thinking a lot about the afterlife and god and sin etc etc. he's sure he's destined for hell no matter what he does now. is there even any point in changing?

one day he's in rome, surrounded by all these churches. and he enters one. he goes into a confession booth. every week, he confesses minor sins that turn into lovely but frivolous discussions with the anonymous priest, who lawrence can only identify through his gentle voice and bright, easily elicited laugh that reminds lawrence of morning birdsongs. over the weeks, this blossoms into a strange kind of friendship.

finally during a discussion about their favorite kinds of tea, lawrence interrupts the priest's recommendation of kahwah, which they had so often in their time in kabul, and was so delicious, and they just can't find anything close to what they had here, isn't that a shame, and i beg your pardon, what??

i kill people, lawrence repeats. all the time. i want to stop but i can't. i want to retire but they won't let me. i'm afraid being a murderer is how i spent most of my life, and i'm afraid it's how i'll spend the rest of my years, too. i'm the lowliest of sinners. i'm the evil that should be wiped clean from the earth. if god cast me down into the fires of hell for eternity, again and again, i would gladly welcome it.

and there is a heavy silence during which lawrence tenses, waiting for a horrified outburst or some rage.

but the priest says, with infinite compassion in his tone, you are still here on earth with us. and so god, in his mercy, has given you time to beg forgiveness and find redemption. make amends, however you can. take no more life, not for any reason. you say you want to stop. then stop. i believe you have good in your heart. you would not have come here if you did not.

thomas says, yes, yes i will, i swear on His name. i'm sorry for having wasted all your time these past weeks, i should not have done so.

and finally he says, goodbye. because there's no point in returning and attempting to continue this friendship, not when the priest must be so disgusted and would want nothing to do with lawrence any longer.

the priest says nothing in return and it hurts but lawrence knows he deserves it. he deserves far, far worse, and god, why can't he be punished now or just die and suffer eternal torment, and then, maybe, maybe, his soul could feel some bloody relief. but the priest said, make amends. can't make amends if you're dead.

so lawrence returns to his miserable apartment, to try and make amends, whatever that means. he decides to leave rome and begins to pack. he wanders the streets in a daze and gives all the euros he has on him to a beggar. on saturday, the day he would've gone to confession, he buys kahwah from a bemused shopkeeper.

he returns to find his next assignment on his kitchen counter in the form of a usb stick. he doesn't want to open it. but if he leaves it alone for too long, they'll send agents to track him down and he'll get an earful from aldo. better to open the assignment and fool them now. he'll disappear from rome right after.

lawrence plugs in the usb stick. there's a name he doesn't recognize. he clicks through the research on his next victim that ray had meticulously assembled. there is a video. he hits play. a voice starts speaking. and lawrence spills his hot cup of kahwah all over his keyboard and trousers but he doesn't care because fuck it all, he does know his victim after all.

it's the priest he sat next to week after week, chatting about the merits of herbal medicine and whether agatha christie or arthur conan doyle wrote better mystery novels and about the incompetence of world governments. it's the priest he just confessed to about his true nature, that he wasn't just some englishman adrift in rome, but a cold-blooded killer. it's the priest that heard this and offered him a way out, anyways.

it's vincent benitez.

the video continues, as benitez smiles and waves at a young child, his dark eyes luminescent and kind.

now he has a face and name to the voice, lawrence first thinks, in a daze. he’s even more beautiful than i imagined him to be.

his second thought: what the hell did benitez do to piss somebody off that badly that they want him dead?

[houppellande]

Hey worstie!

Song

[jaxreadswhimsybooks]

I love Bellini and Lawrence/Lomeli sm like what do you mean they were passing notes and communicating through Bible verses during the voting

[vinnocent]

Out of the depths have I cried to you, hear my voice

[whoopseydaisy]

[melancholyskittle]

oh this is supremely stupid. twice why did you have to make a song called “turtle” what’s wrong with you; you know what i have to do right. studying for finals is overrated i just need luck of the old man yaoi fr. this is self indulgent as hell but figured i’d share with the class. enjoy i suppose!! :D

(also!!! i’m sorry if any of the korean timing is off, i don’t speak or read the language but it seemed weird to not include the korean ver of the lyrics for a fully korean song? i took them off an online source so i hope it’s all okay!!)

[roguekaiju]

Papa's Conclaveria

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[damian-janus-pendragon]

Well, I guess I’ll finally some of the conclave fanart I’ve been working on

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Some of the drawings/doodles individually under the cut:

[hexxxcapades]

i need to blabber about my animal choices for when i doodled some of the Conclave characters as animals here

Sister Agnes -- Domestic Shorthair Cat

I felt a cat suited Sister Agnes's energy (quiet, watchful, unwilling to interfere until the pivotal point, where she strikes and aims true) well. I considered using a rabbit for her (docility, humility, etc.) but rabbits are typically perceived as agitated/anxious, which is the opposite of what she is. Her breed is nonspecific, but I drew heavily from the British shorthair, and I plan to make her markings emulate Siamese or Burmese cats.

Cardinal Tedesco -- Domestic Longhair Cat

Like Agnes, I didn't want to label Goffredo as a particular cat breed (I think it would be interesting if belonging to a particular "pure" breed is some kind of socioeconomic marker, but that's another conversation), though it's pretty obvious that he appears to have a good bit of Maine Coon in him. I chose this breed because of its somewhat imposing/imperious appearance, though they are purportedly "gentle giants" (which Goffredo is....definitely not). It's pretty obvious that he wields his appearance---the full cardinal regalia, the golden pectoral cross, etc.---as a tool to establish dominance, so it seemed fitting to model him after this breed.

Cardinal Bellini -- Greyhound

I chose the greyhound more so for the appearance than anything else. They're lean, wiry, and elegant in appearance. However, I do think there could be some parallels between their temperaments/breed traits and Aldo. For example, intelligence = self-explanatory, laziness = Aldo's unwillingness to take decisive action, non-confrontative nature = Aldo talking shit about Goffredo behind his back but never quite facing him head-on, independence/introvertism = Aldo's failure to win over his fellow members of the Curia, and so on.

Cardinal Lawrence -- Border Collie

While watching this movie with a friend, we both remarked on how Thomas's taciturn demeanor just seems like a really thin veil for deep-seated anxiety/agitation. Where Aldo is kind of outwardly neurotic, Thomas directs it all inward. He's giving working dog breed that is both severely overstimulated and severely understimulated at once, and is thus thinking about gnawing his own leg off 24/7. Someone get him a chew toy or something, damn. Also, herding dog as the manager of the sheep?? As the guardian of the lamb of God?? The symbolism is just too good to pass up.

Cardinal Benitez -- Goat

Initially, I was thinking something like rabbit, possum, or perhaps even a bat---all diminutive and meek/shy animals. But in the end, I went with a goat (breed nonspecific again), just because something appealed to me about the imagery of a lamb of God, just...slightly to the left. A prayer answered, but not in the way one might expect. Also, just like Vincent, goats tend to be hardy and have a strong stubborn streak. One of his horns is broken---a very visible marker of the hard circumstances he has experienced. He's the first bovid (mammal belonging to the cow/sheep/goat family) to be elected Pope. This mirrors Cardinal Adeyemi, too, who I plan to make some sort of West African cattle breed. Racial/national divisions aren't easy to represent in this context, but I tried my best! 🤞🏽

[cocomoraine]

oh cardinal bellini, you would've loved 'nothing new' by taylor swift.

[chillentertainer]

saw some tweets condemning people for thirsting over cardinal tedesco bc he’s a fascist and it’s like… babe we know. we ALL know he’s a conservative racist dick, but GUESS WHAT?? he’s not real. so we can do whatever we want with him foreverrrrrrrr