"sins against the sins of the vulnerable are sins all the same."
late upload, but a combination of real life issues and events left me needing to roll the idea around in my head a bit longer in order to portray the feeling in a way that i wanted.
because this lacks context, it's important for me to say: every person in this image, seen or referenced, has done something wrong to varying degrees. no one is innocent. they have made bad choices or have bad beliefs.
this is a recurring nightmare for laz; trapped in cocytus, the deepest circle of hell reserved for treacherous oath-breakers, frozen in ice as he's forced to listen to what he believes others say about him. some of it he's heard before, some of it's inferred, all of it is deeply real to him and a truth he struggles to question.