Let Him Be Free!

Hey! We've started posting our new multi-chapter fic about Terzo and Copia that we've been working on for the past six months. Unwittingly, it has become an alternative to the RHRN storyline, as the plot originated before the movie came out. An alternative with a lot of blood, darkness, and gore, but with an attempt to give the characters the development we think they deserve. It's called 'The Chains That Bind Us'.

Actually, this story began when V @grim-kazoo-player and I shared a sudden coincidental feeling with each other: Terzo is alive. Not as a person in lore chronology, of course. But as a complex of ideas. Ideas have a certain persistence and vitality; they outlive their bearers. As V's namesake from Alan Moore's comic said, "There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof." A little time passes, and already a whole crowd of people in identical masks goes to storm the cordons, and the English Parliament goes up in flames.

As another author we like states, the gods are alive as long as they are worshipped. Every idea created by man is fueled by belief in it. Amazingly, the Third Papa's fame has not faded even after seven years of his absence; the echo of his thunder still rumbles across the planet, igniting hearts. This sense of the uncompleteness of his story was what breathed life into this work.

The fic is written in Russian. If you don't read Russian, you can use an automatic translator. Also we are very much waiting for your comments: in Russian, in English, in Quenya (we can read runes), in any language you use. The Ghost Empire is international!

Characters: Copia, Terzo, Sister Imperator, Omega, Nameless Ghouls

Tags and warnings: AU, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Bromance, Magic, Revenge, Pre-Slash, Violence, Psychology, Psychological Horror, Trauma, Psychological Trauma, Tortures, Depression, Character Study

Summary: The fifth era is about to end. Copia realizes that his time is coming to an end, but sees no escape from the threat looming over him. Will he suffer the same fate as his predecessors? In a moment of hard thinking about the future, a mysterious visitor bursts into his life.

YES! OMG THIS!

I feel for Cardi I do but… my soul breaks for the other Papas that were treated like garbage and they’re fucking dead in a plexiglass coffin.

At least Cardi has a position and he is alive!

Terzo, Secondo and Primo deserved better and much more respect.

I need a comic with their backstory + CAN WE PLEASE SEE THEM IN GHOST FORM IN CHAPTERS?????

(I do live strongly for those characters nv)

The V in papa V perpetua stands for virgin

This is real?! I thought this was a shitpost at first. Terzo!😂

And by the way I can’t get the Papastrello thing out of my mind.

Babies, no need to argue over the correct version of Terzo.

He is feminine:

x

He is masculine:

x

He is so poor he can only afford a paper bag:

x

He is rich and only travels in a limo:

x

He is the hero of the people:

x

He is a self-centered manipulator:

x

He is a womanizer:

don’t know who to credit for this.

He’s not even straight:

x (14.04) 

He’s confident:

x

He’s silly:

x

See… there is a Terzo for every occasion, every characterization, he can be anything.

He’s free and one day he just woke up and decided the only label he was willingly to identify in was “menace”.

He would be such a good father.😭

Small Child: I need help with my homework.

The Intelligent and Wordly Terzo:

This may be the horny talking, but I think Papa V is going to be very shy at first. UGH! He's so cute! I want to---just---do something that would make him flustered! I can't wait for fanart like this guys!

Do you guys think Kevin Kaufmann could have foreseen the impact he'd have? Did he know when he became a stagehand for Ghost that he would be dubbed "Jesus", become part of the show (Nihil trying to choke him) and eventually be in the movie and having to actually "act" as a character of sort? But the character is just himself?

He literally exists in the lore now, was he aware that that was a thing that could happen when he took the job? Did Tobias know?

He truly is the Morning Star himself😍

So one day @blackbird5154 and I decided to use the same reference for a young Terzo drawing, after she sent it to me to discuss it, and we agreed to post our drawings at the same time once we both finished, because that’s what people in the fandom are supposed to do: collaborate and support each other, instead of fighting over who’s right.

This is my version. Now go check and support hers! 🌹

To me, this is what Bishop Necropolitus Cracoviensis II used to draw when Cardinal Terzo was his muse in Kraków 👀

Reference image 👇🏻

I also did a papal corpse paint version. Check it out under the cut 👇🏻

Terzo truly was the shining and the light without whom we cannot see.

@vpyre

sorry if this reply is annoying i just love seeing peoples comments in the tags!!!! here's what i personally think:

i don't think the true mission / cause behind ghost has ever changed. Sister Imperator is evil lmao.

i think they just never told Cardi that was the goal. or perhaps he doesn't think they're really serious about wanting to bring the end of the world. either way, he doesn't seem to believe in that at all. the idea of death (his or anyone else's) is very scary and upsetting to him.

i think there has already been a Papa who believes mankind can be saved from its intellectual decline without the world needing to end, and that was Terzo. he was so hopeful for the future. and i think that's why Sister Imperator hated him so much. (i'm working on a post rn that kinda talks about this)