Penance Threads

Who: Donovan Brightly
What: Trying to pretend the river isn't there only makes it more dangerous.
When: Trial Night! May 3rd! this is late but I got stuck :P
Where: 5th Circle: Anger
Status: Narrative, complete
Warnings: Unhealthy relationships, gaslighting, internalized anger, internalized blame, mentions of parentification, nongraphic mentions of physical child abuse.

( Donovan tried to swallow back the anger and choked on riverwater. )

Who: Miss Pauling
What: Trial
When: Extended trial night (May 4-7)
Where: Violence circle
Status: Narrative, Complete
Warnings: VIOLENCE. Lots and lots of violence. Dehydration, extreme heat, heat exhaustion, blood, injury, murder, extensive murder, I cannot tag enough on the murder, bodies, disposal of bodies, death, firearms, assorted weapons, deliriousness and altered mental states, Miss Pauling being really okay with killing her friends, questioning of purpose

( CONTRACT 99 )

Who: Vaizel, others (Aion)
What: Trial night
When: Trial night! (May 4 Backdated)
Where: Third Circle, Indulgence
Status: Narrative, complete
Warnings: War, violence, death, guilt, briefly referenced sex, dishonest relationship practices, alcohol, and blackmail, conflict with authority, evasive coping

( That is an order. )

Who: Nikola Orsinov, disembodied narrator
What: Trial (May 4 backdated)
When: Trial night (May)
Where: 1st Circle, Limbo
Status: Narrative, Complete
Warnings: Clowns, mentions of blood, people-eating horrors, identity crisis, loss of identity, multiple personalities in one body, psychological mocking, puppet themes, body horror, general horror

( You could never find a sadder clown )

Who: Narcissa Black & The Oracle
What: Telephone Call
When: After trial night
Where: Spire of Ascension
Status: Incomplete, closed
Warnings: None

I saw the sign
And it opened up my eyes
I saw the sign
Life is demanding
Without ( understanding )

Who: Michael Afton & the many faces of Ennard
What: Trial
When: Night of May 3rd
Where: Anger Circle
Status: Narrative, Finished
Warnings: IF THE IDEA OF SOMETHING ALIVE BEING IN YOUR BODY IS UNCOMFY TO YOU DO NOT READ THIS, GORE GORE GORE, Blood, Vomiting & throwing up blood, being moved/getting puppeteered/loss of control of your body, this trial made me itchy, Ennard is kinda gross if you think about it, Elizabeth Afton gaslights, gatekeeps, and girl bosses her way in this one,

( Come with me, I’ll show you how to be a metal man )

Who: Chester Penasa & a whole bunch of people, but mainly his mom
What: Trial
When: Night of May 3rd
Where: Indulgence Circle
Status: Narrative, finished
Warnings: Body horror warnin’ for Chester as always- being impaled, smoking, swearing, spoilers for my own comic lol,

( For the first time in a century he felt like he was floating )

Who: World End (Feat. Hallucination of his old eve Niccolo)
What: Trial
When: May 3rd
Where: Indulgence Circle
Status: Narrative, Finished
Warnings: TRAUMATIC, On screen Cannibalism/ Vampirism (idk if u can consider it cannibalism cause he's a vampire? But I’m gonna put it anyway!), Eating of live things, If you have ANY sensitivities to eating/eating of things maybe skip this one out, graphic descriptions of hunger/vomiting/starvation, Thoughts of self inflicted vampirism, on screen character “death”, demons, ANGST, loss of control, blacking out, hurting loved ones, lots of running, it’s called Gluttony for a reason, The Italian has hover text, hover over it to see a translation, Spoilers for several recent chapters of Servamp!!

( You can’t run away from your demons when they’re inside you. )

Who: Mephisto Pheles (feat. Satan)
What: Counting the seconds until he can claw his way back to the surface.
When: Trial Night!
Where: Treachery Circle
Status: Narrative, Finished
Warnings: Big ol’ warning for VIOLENCE, On screen character death, necks get twisty and not in a goodway, SPOILER WARNING FOR BLUE EXORCIST! BIG ONE! Warning for like mild gross body imagery- Mephisto’s true form has clock hands through his neck idk what to say, arguments, 1,873 words of Mephisto insulting the shit out of Satan, we’re loosin’ sins this time folks, also why do I keep writing about necks?

( How can you rewind time? You turn the hands back one by one. )

Who: Narcissa Black
What: Trial
When: Trial Night
Where: Treachery
Status: Narrative, finished
Warnings: I don’t think there are any, other than Narcissa’s usual charming self

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the ( queen )

Who: Zidane Tribal, and a beautiful daydream
What: He knows this shit, really, but the reminders help.
When: May 3rd Trial Night
Where: 6th Circle: Sacrifice
Status: Narrative, Complete
Warnings: Depression, self-isolation, mild language, general FFIX spoilers

( It’s alright. You don’t have to talk right now. Just listen. )

Who: Tsurugi Kamiya
What: Feeling the loss of a loved one
When: April 21st
Where: Demon’s Den
Status: Narrative, finished
Warnings: Violence!, A LOT BLOOD, On screen NPC death, Fighting happens- kicks, stabbing, getting hit, injuries occur, Leorio is probably gonna smack him for this, I mention Taishi Touma so he gets his own warning,

( Even when is heart was as heavy as stone he still sailed through the air with grace. )

Who: Ling Yao, Edward Elric, and Alphonse Elric
What: Ling broke into their apartment
When: April 13th (BACKDATED TO LING'S DAY OF ARRIVAL)
Where: Room 107
Status: Ongoing
Warnings: Spoilers for FMA!

( They won't mind. )

Who: Edward Elric
What: In which there is a table, a gift, and some suspicious notes.
When: Trial Night! (yeah I know this is super fuckin late)
Where: 2nd Circle: Lust
Status: Narrative, Complete
Warnings: Ed's foul mouth, FMA Manga spoilers

( He'd had this temptation laid out in front of him not too long ago, too )

Who: Dyse Alzia
What: Trial
When: Trial Night
Where: Sacrifice
Status: Narrative, Finished
Warnings: Lol I'm back at again with another trial, if you want the OST for this trial, WARNING FOR DISSOCIATION & DISSOCIATIVE FEELINGS, warning for loosing touch with reality, being submerged in water, exhaustion, bad mental habits- negative talk, habit coping habits- self slaps, another little snippet trial I suppose,

( Still tangled up in lies, I see I’m just a fake, phony )

Who: Tsurugi Kamiya
What: Using a Star
When: Trial Night
Where: Graphite Heights, 109
Status: Narrative, Finished
Warnings: Mikuni, negative self talk, mentions of pining, discussions of what the world is like during trial night, just a short little thing,

( Do you wish to use your star and remain alone with your thoughts tonight? )

Who: Yukine
What: Getting a kick in the pants
When: Trial Night!
Where: Anger Circle
Status: Narrative, finished
Warnings: Spoilers for Season 1 of Noragami, Corruption! Corruption!, Minor warning for possibly creepy eye rolling/ unusual eye placement, Mild body horror, lots of crying too

( Falling in the black, slipping through the cracks. Falling to the depths, can I ever go back? Dreaming of the way it used to be, can you hear me? )

Who: Zidane Tribal
What: Zidane knows he needs to make a choice...
When: Trial Night!
Where: 1st Circle: Limbo
Status: Narrative, complete!
Warnings: Spoilers for FFIX, violence, talk of destruction and genocide and violence.

( Fight me! That's what you've been doing this whole time, isn't it? )

Who: Donovan Brightly
What: Violence is Nova's job, after all.
When: Trial Night
Where: 7th Circle: Violence
Status: Narrative, complete
Warnings: SERIOUS WARNING HERE for self-harm, intentional and reckless self-endangerment, and suicide. Please take care of yourself and do not read if you are at all hesitant or about this. Also warnings for probably inaccurate gun descriptions, gun violence, choking, nausea, vomiting, dehydration, falling from a great height, abusive relationships, general violence, mentions of murder, foul language, aaaaand blood. ...I think that's everything?

( Is this my trial? Listening to you talk? I could’ve done that back home. )