ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ sᴇᴇ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴜᴘ ᴛᴏ sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ's ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴs.

[interpersonally]

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[interpersonally]

Well, you're a pious man, aren't you? Or, did that start after you napalmed the chapel?

And what was intended?

[holyposition]

I was raised Catholic.

I don't know. Maybe it isn't for us to know.

[interpersonally]

So, no.

Maybe we learned what we needed to.

[holyposition]

So, yes.

What did you learn then?

[interpersonally]

That there were never any limitations in the first place? That I let who our father was bleed into every decision I made or didn't. I didn't need to learn that, though. Damon and I's real father left his own, indelible mark.

[holyposition]

Was there any truth to the version of him that I knew?

[ The immense grief he'd carried with him the entire month. He doesn't feel it anymore, but he remembers the ache. ]

[interpersonally]

Barely.

[holyposition]

You're really cagey. Has anyone ever told you that?

[interpersonally]

Our father was cold. Nothing Damon did was good enough for him.

( And he killed his sons for being vampire sympathizers. )

[holyposition]

And you?

[interpersonally]

I was the favorite son. His heart was still full of hate.

[holyposition]

So I...sort of took your place? Things were strained with you two, in fantasy Italian world.

[interpersonally]

Guiseppe, in the fantasy Italian world, stood by his family, even if he disagreed with them. Family was everything to him. The real Giuseppe crossed his family. And didn't hesitate to cut us off when he learned we don't have the values he thought he instilled in us.

[holyposition]

I'm sorry. That must have hurt.

[interpersonally]

🤷🏻‍♂️

[holyposition]

Sorry. I'm not trying to pry too much. Just make sense of things.

And before you start, I don't want to debate about it again. I just wanted to fulfill my promise.

[interpersonally]

Do you have any other questions?

[holyposition]

Roza said you shared some kind of magic. Is that true?

[interpersonally]

( Roza... )

She has magic. I don't have magic. But, we were stuck together in the Tunnel of Love at the carnival. A kiss stopped us from revealing our secrets to one another. Is that what she's talking about?

[holyposition]

I don't know, she went completely insane after that.

[interpersonally]

After what?

[holyposition]

After telling me that. She started going on and on about how the stars told her to marry a serial killer.

[interpersonally]

Well, she does ( elipsis, elipsis )
talk to things, energy
her magic isn't like magic I'm familiar with.

[holyposition]

That's a kind of request a reasonable person says no to. Even if the stars said so.

[interpersonally]

Maybe she isn't a reasonable person.

How often has the stigmata been... bleeding?