Forgive Me, Father

"Forgive me father for i have sinned."

"Minamahal tayo ng sinasabi mong Panginoon kaya dapat din nating mahalin ang ating kapwa, pero nang mahalin natin ang isa't isa - ito ay isang malaking kasalanan?"

Bible in one hand, rosary and faith in the other. Emmanuel Herod wanted to be a priest, a server of God because he believes it's the only way he can go to paradise to finally see his parents.

Emmanuel was the seminary's golden boy and everyone's role model - until Asmodeus Set came. Emmanuel never expected that once in his life he will be tempted by someone's presence - by a man.

Asmodeus was supposed to be his destroyer - that was his purpose, his name. But he found himself shattered like a fragile object in the hands of God's servant.

The name of a demon who set heaven on fire and called it a joke until he met him and learned what it meant to be burned instead. Since he met a man named Emmanuel, he found heaven in his ruin.

Holy water against smoke and psalms against whispers until he said one thing his name forbade; "I don't want you to suffer because of the temptation I am to you."

Emmanuel Herod Santillan × Asmodeus Set Lystan

TW: Blasphemy, religious guilt, toxic coping, guilt and self-hatred, homophobia, bullying, abuse, and drugs. Please read at your own discretion.