permenant scars
The body, with haunted marks
To atone for the mortal sins
Must you walk the dark
path again today?
Basically, this is a thread on a little theory about the Trinity Blood's Vatican I've been formulating in my head for a while, mainly due to the amount of IonxEsther shippers trying to say "But Abel and Esther can't get together even if they wanted to because Vatican clergy must be abstinent for ze rest of their lives!!11111" (The door swings both ways, by the way, if that was true, guys.)
I believe that in Sunao Yoshida's vision of the world of Trinity Blood that the abstinence vow that priests and nuns of today usually take has been taken out. Why? Several reasons, really. (And yes, some of this is meant to be humorous. I like to make people laugh.)
1. Hey look guys, it's the Armageddon!
Let's see here...Oh look, Trinity Blood takes place in a post-apocalyptic time in which humanity is on the brinks of extinction and there are a bunch of creatures which seem to resembles vampires from ye olde literature! What do you do when humanity's about to die!?
Breed like wild animals and hope your children will drive off the invaders, that's what. And a bunch of priests and nuns running around and NOT reproducing just hinders the process, you know? And seeing how the Vatican is one of few human military powers, they're naturally going to have a good chunk of non-breeders, aka 'freeloaders' in the harsh terms of survival of the fittest.
2. "Leon, dear, I'm pregnant!"
For those of you who have watched more than two or three episodes, you'll know Leon Garcia de Asturias, aka AX Agent Dandelion, our lovable jailbird character. Now, please refresh your minds- why is our gentle lion-mane of a priest have a jail sentence? Oh that's right, he killed 16 clergymen and his *whoops* WIFE. And he was going to be put to death, but Caterina, everybody's favorite Lady of Steel, pulled some strings to get him only a 10,000 year jail sentence (not like humanity's going to last that long at this rate, but hey, it got Leon out of death.). "But Michiiiiii~" I hear you scream, "how do we know he went freaky with his wife?" I say this is a stupid question, because for 1.) Newlyweds promptly do it when they're out of sight. I don't care where you're from, that's the bottom line, and 2.) he has a daughter! And unless you're a suscriber to the "I got a baby because the stork put it on my porch/I kissed somebody and I got pregnant/other stupid explanation" crowd(s), we all know what happens in Vegas. That's right, booze, gambling, and soiling of the bedsheets! What a wonderful town, people.
3. They don't call Francesco a b*****d son just because he's got a stick up his butt.
Again, if you've watched more than two or three episodes, you'll know that Cardinal Francesco di Medici is Caterina's a*****e-for-a-half-brother. Now is where I steal a bit of Yoshida-sensei's work from ROM I (I'm sorry, senseiiiiii~ Please forgive me).
"He was Duke of Florence, Cardinal Francesco di Medici. An illegitimate child of the previous Pope and half brother of the current Pope, he was an executive in charge of the Department of Inquisition in the Vatican, Secretary of Vatican Papal Doctrine, and Commander of the Vatican Military."
So what exactly did that tell us? For one, Francesco is the half brother of Alessandro (and Caterina, as their relationship is mentioned just a paragraph or two or three later)...and a nice juicy tidbit that the previous pope was a bit of a manwhore and slept around a bit...POOF CAME FRANCESCO! Woohoo! And assuming that Caterina, Alessandro and ol' Francey had the same father(if they had the same mother, they would be technically non-half siblings), the previous Pope must have married Alessandro's mom (who croaked), then married/banged Caterina's mom, (then both were likely massacred as seen in flashback in episode 5 of the anime) then died. What does all of this mean? Well, it means that the Pope was allowed to sleep with women he wasn't married to AND marry any woman he wanted to. So if the Pope, the highest power in the Vatican, could do crazy stuff, so could the rest of the clergy.
So ends my crazy theory.
I believe that in Sunao Yoshida's vision of the world of Trinity Blood that the abstinence vow that priests and nuns of today usually take has been taken out. Why? Several reasons, really. (And yes, some of this is meant to be humorous. I like to make people laugh.)
1. Hey look guys, it's the Armageddon!
Let's see here...Oh look, Trinity Blood takes place in a post-apocalyptic time in which humanity is on the brinks of extinction and there are a bunch of creatures which seem to resembles vampires from ye olde literature! What do you do when humanity's about to die!?
Breed like wild animals and hope your children will drive off the invaders, that's what. And a bunch of priests and nuns running around and NOT reproducing just hinders the process, you know? And seeing how the Vatican is one of few human military powers, they're naturally going to have a good chunk of non-breeders, aka 'freeloaders' in the harsh terms of survival of the fittest.
2. "Leon, dear, I'm pregnant!"
For those of you who have watched more than two or three episodes, you'll know Leon Garcia de Asturias, aka AX Agent Dandelion, our lovable jailbird character. Now, please refresh your minds- why is our gentle lion-mane of a priest have a jail sentence? Oh that's right, he killed 16 clergymen and his *whoops* WIFE. And he was going to be put to death, but Caterina, everybody's favorite Lady of Steel, pulled some strings to get him only a 10,000 year jail sentence (not like humanity's going to last that long at this rate, but hey, it got Leon out of death.). "But Michiiiiii~" I hear you scream, "how do we know he went freaky with his wife?" I say this is a stupid question, because for 1.) Newlyweds promptly do it when they're out of sight. I don't care where you're from, that's the bottom line, and 2.) he has a daughter! And unless you're a suscriber to the "I got a baby because the stork put it on my porch/I kissed somebody and I got pregnant/other stupid explanation" crowd(s), we all know what happens in Vegas. That's right, booze, gambling, and soiling of the bedsheets! What a wonderful town, people.
3. They don't call Francesco a b*****d son just because he's got a stick up his butt.
Again, if you've watched more than two or three episodes, you'll know that Cardinal Francesco di Medici is Caterina's a*****e-for-a-half-brother. Now is where I steal a bit of Yoshida-sensei's work from ROM I (I'm sorry, senseiiiiii~ Please forgive me).
"He was Duke of Florence, Cardinal Francesco di Medici. An illegitimate child of the previous Pope and half brother of the current Pope, he was an executive in charge of the Department of Inquisition in the Vatican, Secretary of Vatican Papal Doctrine, and Commander of the Vatican Military."
So what exactly did that tell us? For one, Francesco is the half brother of Alessandro (and Caterina, as their relationship is mentioned just a paragraph or two or three later)...and a nice juicy tidbit that the previous pope was a bit of a manwhore and slept around a bit...POOF CAME FRANCESCO! Woohoo! And assuming that Caterina, Alessandro and ol' Francey had the same father(if they had the same mother, they would be technically non-half siblings), the previous Pope must have married Alessandro's mom (who croaked), then married/banged Caterina's mom, (then both were likely massacred as seen in flashback in episode 5 of the anime) then died. What does all of this mean? Well, it means that the Pope was allowed to sleep with women he wasn't married to AND marry any woman he wanted to. So if the Pope, the highest power in the Vatican, could do crazy stuff, so could the rest of the clergy.
So ends my crazy theory.
A single flower
blooms in a frozen,
ruind capital.
What does she
see through her blue eyes?
A future full
of hope, or
just despair?
