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attiredpan · 1 year

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So with all the shit going around about what’s gonna happen to Copia during the Summer tour next year, I thought it’d be neat to torture my OC, so here we have the idea of:

What If Jackie got put in the position of Papa?

Some context that I am absolutely gonna butcher in explaining! This is a concept I came up with where it is made known to her that Copia is gonna get deposed at the end of the European Summer Tour and after confronting Sister Imperator, Jackie ends up hammering out a deal with Imperator where he lives and continues working at the Ministry, but she gets put in his position for the time being until they can find a “proper replacement” after she finds that Imperator hasn’t found a successor to Copia yet. And at the final date of the tour, there’s a surprisingly peaceful transfer of power on stage takes place at the end of the final concert through DATHOML.

(Also, this is kind of a lead-in for a ‘Copia War Ark’ idea I’ve had jumbling around in my brain, cause let’s all be honest, that man deserves to go batshit for a bit and go on a revenge ark for what happened to his brother’s all Inigo Montoya Style™️.)

Moving onto the headcanons:

•At first, she fucking hates it. Just fucking hates it cause she’s pissed off and terrified at the same time. Pissed at the Clergy, at Imperator, and any higher-up involved. And she’s terrified at the idea of what could happen now that Copia has been deposed. They killed his brothers the same day he was named frontman, so what’s to say they won’t decide to do the same to him?

•The paperwork part, she’s fine with, it’s the performing part that has her racked. She can’t perform, not like Copia or Terzo or Primo or Secondo did. But, in spite of this, she ends up forcing herself through it. Out of her, the brothers, and Nihil, she might be the most relatable to the crowds, considering she knows the pain they felt when Terzo was dragged out and later killed. And now with Copia as well, along with the fear of him meeting the same fate as his brothers and that helps her along with the whole performing shtick. She ends up bringing a more angry honesty in during her first tour or two, most of it, very obviously, directed heavily at Sister Imperator. And she has no qualms with making such known to anyone and everyone in attendance. Also spills the tea on stuff revolving around the Emeritus Brothers, but that’s more in a good natured and humor full manner. And while she knows that that shit could get her killed when this is over, she does not care whatsoever. And Copia (satan bless his parental figure brain cell self) fucking hates this. The protective fatherly senses are kicked into high gear during the first tour or two. All of his ghouls are there as added security, whether The Clergy or Jackie is aware of it or not, they are there, lurking in the rafters, down in front of the stage in disguise as human security guards, or backstage.

•She’s constantly getting the “she’s just a child” shtick from just about any of the fucking crusty-ass ancient higher-ups. And she honestly couldn’t agree more considering the fact she’s fucking 26. Cause in comparison to the Emeritus Brother, all of whom were in their forties or well over that when they started/probably had the whole thing planned out ahead from the moment they were conceived, she’s just some random 20-something-year-old who until then worked in lighting and pyrotechnics. Their ascensions were planned out over long periods, hers was done in a bit under a month.

•Also nightmares. Vivid fucking night terrors that leave her making the oldest Emeritus Brothers look like newborns. Usually woken up by Crescent, if not her own terror. Crescent ends up coming up with some ways to combat this; IE: meditation, a small bedtime ritual of Jackie letting her remove her paints, lighting a chamomile incense to help them both calm down, etc.

•Very big on the “I’ll give them a fucking reason” in terms of how Nihil was when Copia first took up the role. If Shithead wants an honest reason to say someone’s not worthy of the role of Papa, she’ll gladly fucking give it to him.

•Along with the very welcomed tsunami of advice coming from Copia during all this, she also tries to find some sort of guidance in any of the writings on the role she’s in and that was done by the other three Emeritus brothers. Just anything to help her rationalize what she’s gotten herself into and what she can do to do it in a way that feels fluid and right to her.

•Heavily contemplated necromancy to bring back the dead Emeritus brothers early on, but ends up deciding against it after researching the possible negative effects it could have on them. Tried a couple of times to see if she could get any of them to talk to her through an Ouija board. Usually only asks yes or no questions, being very concise and to the point with whatever she needs to know. Although on occasion, she’ll get a paragraph's worth of an answer, usually coming from Terzo.

•While Imperator would rather she lead a mass/sermon/whatever at the Ministry, Jackie takes it in more of a, per se, social direction. Always letting anyone who wishes to do sermons of their own do so while beaming from across the room like a proud mother. Although it took a couple of weeks before someone actually took her word for it and stepped up.

•If you thought Terzo or Copia were casual, here we see the literal figurehead of the church chilling with a group consisting of ghouls and Siblings of Sin in sweats and a hoodie, with some (kids temp) hot cocoa.

•(based on the idea that the Emeritus Brothers had paintings done of them.) She has said paintings hung up somewhere people commonly walk through/go. Does this as a sort of reminder of her predecessors and always pays respect of some sort whenever she happens to pass them.

•Every morning right at the crack of dawn, she goes down to where the brothers' caskets are kept. Sometimes she ends up talking to them, mostly Terzo, and there are moments where she thinks she sees a small twitch of a proud smile when she mentions that something went well. She usually chalks it up to her eyes deceiving her, but hey, one can dream can’t they?

•Anything she does in terms of outfits she does herself by hand and with her own money. Rather wanting to put the budgets towards things that would help with the Ministry and such. She never found a point in spending what could go to helpful services on indulgence.

•Shifts between a more casual and more professional version of her face paint for Rituals. She also took a small note from Copia, basing it on corvid skulls. The whole paint look has small details to honor the brothers in some small way (basing it on an animal for Copia, the cheek shapes for Terzo, and faded lines over the lips for Primo and Secondo)

Casual

Performing

•Her robes are meant to be more ‘practical’ in the sense that they’re easy to move in, having taken inspiration from the below image and the designs of the robes typically worn by Cardinals as an underlayer with a poncho or cape over top.

While mainly for comfort and maneuverability, it’s also because she cannot control her body temperature at all, so a lot of times when she’s wearing them and it’s during one of those in between bits of songs, she’ll be kinda wrapped up in the vestments like a burrito. Does not wear the mitre, and she does not do hats of any kind whatsoever.

More casual stage outfits (think like the numerous amount of suits Copia has) lean more towards this sort of stuff.(also would like to add: ✨jackets✨)

•If you thought Terzo/Omega or Copia/Aether was something, Jackie and Crescent outdo that tenfold. Do not even get me started on what happens during Ghuleh/Zombie Queen.

•Makes a point to get to know her ghouls personally. Always making sure they’re comfortable with everything and that they’re alright in every possible aspect. She and Crescent are very much the parents of the group.

•And now for the daily dose of projection, here’s her favorite song to do from the current albums;

Opus Eponymous: Stand By Him, Elizabeth, and Ritual.

Infestissumam: Ghuleh/Zombie Queen, Monstrance Clock, and Year Zero

If You Have Ghosts: Waiting For The Night, Crucified, and If You Have Ghosts

Meliora: From The Pinnacle To The Pit, He Is, and Deus In Absentia.

Popestar: Missionary Man, Square Hammer, and I Believe.

Prequelle: Faith, With Image, and See The Light.

Impera: DATHOML, Kaisarion, and Spillways.

Special mentions include Griftwood, Life Eternal, Respite On The Spitalfields, Cirice, Mary On A Cross, Death Knell, and Zenith.

•Album cover is based on this painting of Joan of Arc (Jackie, your French is showing).

Album Name is Libera, Latin for “to free, liberate”. But also with a double meaning, Libera is also “a Roman Catholic responsory that is sung usually at funerals after the Mass and prior to the final prayers for the deceased”

Tiny details would include:

The text on the chest plate being changed to “Sic semper tyrannis”

Two different versions of the album cover, one where the flowers would be Black Clematis to represent rebellion and one where the flowers are Strelitzia to represent freedom

The Emeritus brothers watching from the church behind

•Overall theme of her album is rebellion/freedom. Specifically rebellion against corrupt religious figures and especially freedom from that control they had over you. It’s kind of a mix of what would be happening within the Clergy (ie, Copia’s upcoming uprising against them) and her more personal issues with corrupted religious forces (ie, considering she grew up in what was effectively a cult)

•Near fully instrumental album, starting in that state of control and fear and moving swiftly into the feelings of war/rebellion and later freedom. There’s also a lot of violin. Only song with lyrics is a cover of the partisan version of Bella Ciao set at the end of the album.

•So we know how it looks as though the ghouls are being outfitted for war? Yeah, so that’s kicking into second gear now.

Also, here are her ghouls:

picrew I used

•Takes a more active role in the band, occasionally doing guitar (having been taught by Omega back during Meliora Era when she decided to pick the skill back up) while Crescent, Apollo, or Pluto does the lead vocals on some songs.

•And to top this all off, there’s a good number of times that the thurible gets lit up and she nearly sets herself on fire much to everyone, and I mean everyone’s, disapproval cause she and Mary Goore had a bet that she wouldn’t when the concept was brought up. He now owes her 200 dollars cash. We can also thank Mary for her being able to do the vocals during Mummy Dust and From The Pinnacle To The Pit

#ghost band #repugnant #repugnant/ghost crossover shtick #ghost band oc #Jackie’s Ghouls #Jackie As Papa #oc | jackie creed #papa emeritus iii #papa emeritus i #papa emeritus ii #papa emeritus iv #mary goore #sister imperator #papa nihil #gonna be adding onto this later when I get more stuff done

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