#ironically im typing this as my snake is slithering on and over my legs and i am trying very hard not to crush her

[ahamkara-apologist]

What's a fact and/or headcanon for Osiris that you wanna share with the class

ough this is something quick and easy i can pass out without needing to draft a wholeass essay on it, i'll bite

Osiris has OCD, that we can extrapolate from canon, but one of the intrusive thoughts he must have suffered from with was not picking up or holding any small animals/children for fear of accidentally crushing or burning them if he lost control. He never would, ofc, but the nature of intrusive thoughts is basically that your brain goes 'hey wouldn't it be fucked up if this thing happens' and then shows it to you in explicit gory detail, so logic hardly matters there. Sagira was one of the few small living beings that he had no problem with grabbing because the fact that she was his soulbonded partner + mechanical in nature meant that him accidentally hurting her was nigh-zero. Even his own paranoia couldn't convince him otherwise

I like to think that as of late, he's begun to work on getting more confident about this with Saint and Misraaks- holding pigeons, letting Eliksni children climb up onto his shoulders, petting cats. But it's something that he's only just now beginning to let go of, and it's not because he's lost his Light- it's because hes learning to trust that when others say they have faith in him, its because they have a legitimate reason for it