the pope of all people? seriously?...
sigh... i guess every church/religion in a fantasy world has a PRETTY dark side...
It's because church have been a dark organization coated in light pretty much for all it's history, so of course most story would show them that way. Many pope in the past did unforgivable things, most obvious one is of course the witch hunt, which happened because the pope was paranoid. Also while the church aren't as evil nowadays, they are still far from being a light organization they like to make others believe.
I really would like to see a proper church with a non-evil pope for once. It's one thing that in rl the church had some problems, but it's a different matter entirely that every goddamn manga/webtoon/novel/whathaveyou paints western religion as evil. They wouldn't do that to their own - oh no, their good gods are always good and their priests are always holy, but the moment it's based on the western religion? Childeating, murderous, satanic fanatics. Fucking hell. I've a big tolerance, after the first few times I've seen this I stopped giving any fucks, but over the years the sheer number of works demonising western religion started getting to me recently.
Doyun's Self destruct sequence... initiated
phase 1: grew up in an overprotective family... completed
phase 2: became a late bloomer... completed
phase 3: had your secondary gender expressed pretty late... completed
phase 4: retain your naive-ness, and can't be honest with oneself... completed
phase 5: reporting your situation to mom (and bro)... completed
phase 6: digging your own grave... in progress
... Why? because I grew up in similar situation as him.
My father was regarded very highly in his company, society, and his colleagues... but at home he's no good father or head of the family and having very short temper. He didn't resort to physical abuse tho, and instead he 'choose' verbal abuse... and just forget what he said soon after, even if he said something that hurts pretty bad. We can only bear it... silently
Gosh... just... awwwwwwwww