i am so sorry for coming into your askbox so often. but i do really need to say my various re-readings of frwad have helped me somewhat come to terms with my own religious struggles and in general it's an incredibly comfortable fic to read because it just lays the issues i have with religious environments bare. i may be a lot softer than the mc (to my own detriment) but i can really identify with their issue of wanting so badly to be loved but instead finding themselves being used over and over. as well as having soo many gripes with the church. it's one of the times i can read a reader insert fic without feeling and extreme disconnect from myself and the mc despite being a lot more soft and generally reserved, because on they're more similar to what i'm like on the inside lol. SORRY THAT THIS IS SO MUCH. it just genuinely means a lot to me. ;_; - 🧸 (i am signing my asks from now on because i'm feeling bold tonight.)

No no please never apologize for sending me asks 😭 It literally makes my day to see something in my inbox.

Honestly, I’m stunned and amazed and absolutely blown away that the fic has been able to help you even a little.

I was raised Catholic, which might be obvious from my writings. And while I think that the art that has come out of the religion is beautiful and inspiring, I was disillusioned from the actual practice from a young age. I suppose now I’d be agnostic, but there’s just so many things that give me pause in spirituality and religion.

I have to admit that zeroing in on the fictional Church of Favonius has been a little bit of a sport for me. They give seeds of doubt about the Church within the game, and there’s so many odd things to it, so I just ran with the idea and imposed my own religious doubts onto MC. I’m especially interested in the idea of someone being brought into the Church with nowhere else to go, but not fully subscribing themselves to its beliefs and practices despite having to go through the motions for the sake of their survival.