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Despite everything, as quite every not-educated person of the XV-XVI century, Callisto actually is deeply Christian.

He is intelligent enough to not live his homosexuality or his dressing like a woman as sins [in fact he truly thinks that if God made him this way, he have to fully live as God wanted him to] but the very nature of his profession leads his conscience to prick him, and because of that, for years he didn't dare entering a church.

He eventually met a Franciscan friar, Ambrogio da Lucca, who made him realize the a sincerely penitent soul doen't have to fear, no matter how dreadful his sin was.

Callisto then began a tradition: he would go to curch just once a year, for the Christmas Eve's mass, and before that day, he would spend one whole day doing penitence, to mend his body from his sins by the mean of self-mortification.

When he was in Firenze he would hide at Brother Ambrogio's to do that without being bothered or interrupted, now that he is in Roma he is already facing the problem of HOW to find a suitable hideout, and having killed someone, he in struggling also with the need to punish himself more.

The scars from the flogging are the reason why he always wears a bodice, that and the corset training.


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Even if I'm not Christian, I UNDERSTAND Chatolicism, and Christianity, because my granmas are both really really devoted... that's why I actually like to have a character face some inner turmoil caused by religion, and it's not for disrespect or anything.
I find Chatolics hate for their mortal body and their need for penance fascinating under a psychological point of view.


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~DawnFang705 Nov 17, 2012
Da fuq is this???!!??!!? The Da Vinci Code?
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~Fan0Fox Aug 13, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I love it!
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~LadyNorthstar Aug 13, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
thank you :heart:
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~Arithusa Apr 9, 2011  Student General Artist
What a story.. ;A;
I really like that you looked at the situation from a psychological point of view. It's so incredibly interesting! Poor Callisto though.
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~LadyNorthstar Apr 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
thank you tesoro :love:
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~InvaderLi Apr 9, 2011  Student Digital Artist
he reminds me of silas from the da vinci code! :)
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~LadyNorthstar Apr 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
yeah, it's the same kind of penance after all ;3
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*DeeNuke Apr 8, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
Well, that is twisted!
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~LadyNorthstar Apr 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
a bit, but I love messed up characters xD
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*DeeNuke Apr 9, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
It's true. They are more interesting like that! :nod: Good job! :)
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