ODIUM | DARK BTS AU

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   Evil may seek out those who are vulnerable, wishing to finish or demean their faith to God and his authority. They'll feed the human mind with abhorrent thoughts, corrupting their perception of themselves, others, and the world. People of this creation will simply deem it as mental unwellness, dismissing the presence of otherworldly sins.

NOTE: Leviathan is the original body. Levyathan is a part that has been cut from that body, which then became the demon of Envy. (Difference in name is the 'i' and 'y' in the spelling)

The Leviathan were the first creation of God. Brutes that trooped the Earth eons before God presented human and angelic formulations onto Earth. They were ached with blood-lust and spoliation, far too rabid to co-exist with any of God's other creations. So God devised the Second Heaven, Purgatory, where Leviathan's were casted into the murk land designed for torture and penance of vile souls. Here, the sinners endure the Whip's and Rein's.

Jeon Jungkook, his preferred guise of a name within Earthly creation, can hark back to the memories of Leviathan. His demon name is Levyathan. He was the only Sin that had not descended into the Abyss as a fallen Archangel. He was a torn piece that had been severed from a Leviathan when it had attempted to devour the moon, slain by Jophiel. That amputated piece had fallen at the same time as Lucifer and his army after the War in Heaven. He hadn't woken to Lucifer's voice like the other's had, primarily Asmodeus, Mammon, and Belphegor. But when he saw the now Archdemon's rise, he felt inspirited by Lucifer. And with his prompt memory of Leviathan's damnation in Purgatory, Levyathan—Jungkook, inherited Leviathan's envious nature and hatred towards Heaven.

Leviathan, as a sinner of Envy, had been set in the second Cornice of Purgatory where he, along with the other envious souls strived for purity. The envious would wail out examples of immense gratitude and love of others. These harrowing voices would be the Whip Of Envy; Examples of virtue to counter the soul's vice to guide them to grace. They lay in the cast of a bruise with their eyes sewn shut, for every man's success had bruised the men blighted by Envy, and their eyes grew sickened by envying all the fortune they saw in others. Blinded and bruised, they cry—validating one another as they never did in life while chanting the 'Litany of the Saints' with three intangible voices whining out scenes that depict immense thankfulness.

There are two other voices, the voice of Cain and the voice of Aglaurous. Cain, who protested to God over his punishment, and Aglaurous who weeps at her sinning of Envy against her sister. The envious spirits that follow the two voices will cry after the Angel of Gratitude, Sariel, who sings the fifth beatitude. The begrudged souls will respond with, "Rejoice, you have won," regarding a unity in mastery over their sins. This would be the Rein of Envy.

   Jungkook sat with his head leant on a mirror, toughing a 'sewing needle' through his skin. The needle had been shaved from the Tree Of Life, for it had been the only material that could inflict him—his skin being too resilient for human weaponry to penetrate it. Satan, Wrath had given him the woods of the tree to express gratitude for his loyalty to Hell, though not being an Archangel like the others. Wrath had acquired the woods after shattering God's sovereignty over human creation in the Garden of Eden.

The needle had been vigorous and lively like the tree, shielded with silver to veil it's origin of material. It ruptured through Jungkook's skin as he pressed a torn piece of flesh from another man's face progressively over his eye, embroidering the skin over his own. He set down the needle, prodding at the severed skin.

He peered at the mirror, his decrepit hands lowering to slowly dig at the thinning weight of his thighs.

He stared at himself, drawn to the man who once wore the face. Jungkook sometimes wished he could take the face of Pride. Lust too. He found them both to, though demonic, carry the most angelic attraction. But he knew very well that it'd cost him much more than his ungodly spirit if he ever dared to try. He didn't want to have his own face severed by Pride, nor his heart torn to pulsate in the hands of Lust.