Thread by @KrisAtLarge

one of the most difficult things for Kris, having to host ME as a particularly unruly fictive introject—always running like a freight train, often running into walls or other trains—has been the fact that I'm religious.

I am religious in a very peculiar mode, too.

~Chara

I'm a little bit failed Catholic priest (Martin Scorsese and I are like kindred spirits there), a little bit chaos-mage, a little bit the wild-eyed Sibyl getting kicked in the head by Apollo (again)—I'm a lot of things in religious terms, none of them easy to live with.

~Chara

Kris has some kind of religious trauma that we've yet to unpack. those of you who know #Deltarune knows that Toriel and Kris's brother Asriel seemed to have been churchgoers, and Kris was undoubtedly dragged along, but from what they've hinted, they got little out of it.

~Chara

unresolved trauma, buried trauma, leads to inhibitions and aversions that are otherwise hard to account for. we've had a lot of difficultly simply in persuading Kris to feel comfortable with silent, eyes-closed, hands-clasped *prayer*. I cross myself; Kris doesn't get it.

~Chara

heck, *I* don't get it. all I know is, I was taught to cross myself and I still do it when it...feels appropriate. I haven't nailed down (hah hah) why those moments happen. why do people do *anything* religious? it's a feeling or mood, much of the time.

~Chara of Pnictogen