hypostatic union
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A faithless exorcist lets a painter into her life—along with the demon that’s possessing her.
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It’s been three years since Exorcist Lavender stopped communicating with God. Those three years have been an ongoing crisis of faith, one that Lavender has been fruitlessly dissecting with the help of the others in the abbey.
And then the Mother hires a painter for the church ceiling.
Axel Fernandez is self-assured, punk, strangely stoic—and, it turns out, possessed by a demon. It’s more powerful, more aggressive, and more connected to Axel than any Lavender has ever seen.
The goal is simple: exorcise the demon.
Easier said than done, for an exorcist without faith.
Even harder, when it turns out the demon can provide everything Lavender wants: submission, ownership, and an all-encompassing sexual connection as tantalizing as it is forbidden.
As Lavender grows closer with both Axel and her demon, the world around her becomes more chaotic. Death continues to find her, and putting souls to rest requires finally questioning everything she’s ever believed—potentially destroying her connection to a Church that doesn’t look kindly on uncertainty.
Can she commit to that destruction?
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This story contains three partners in two bodies with typical natal vaginal setups, all of whom use she/her pronouns.
Content Warnings (Preemptive)
List may be incomplete and is subject to change.
- Discussion of past rape/sexual assault
- Discussion of/short depictions of past torture (and discussion of child torture as a widespread cult practice)
- Heavy discussion of genocide (specifically against indigenous Turtle Islanders)
- Depiction of cultism
- On-page and off-page death
- Ableism
- Depiction of nonconsensual exorcism
- Extended discussion of child death
- Vomiting (mostly of blood)
- Racism
- Extended discussion of and engaging with religion (main cult religion is based largely on Catholicism)
- Extended cigarette smoking scenes (one main character is a smoker)
Kinks (Preemptive)
List may be incomplete and is subject to change.
- Dubious consent
- Sex including cunnilingus during period
- Degradation
- Blasphemy
- Semi-public sex
- Dom/sub dynamic
- Honorifics
- Multiple orgasms
- Stone top