If there is an internet rule for every character there is a religion swapped version of that character, I’d like to see Pagan/Wicca versions of them like they have moved out of the bible belt (especially Texas) and into a mostly blue state where they can preserve their freedom of religion from certain religious nutjobs.
Make one with a gunstaff that’s still in Texas plz
hurr durr austin.
turn that shit blue then we’ll talk
Heard
Hmmm.
Are they ignorant to the “art” that will be created inspired by this, or was that their intention?
They’re using childish cartoon characters to attract young children to the church. I don’t think they care who does what with the characters as long as they get more kiddies to diddle.
The Catholic Church has a new mascot.
It’s a small child.
And you know there will be a ton of rule34 made… There’s just pedos everywhere…
Oh my god yeah.
“How do we distract from all the child molestation?”
“Loli mascot?”
“Genius, go out and buy a 3d printer so I can get my hands on her ASAP!”
Target demographic: lolicons
I would say the target demographic is Catholics. That’s an important distinction, because it includes shotacons too.
And actual pedophiles.
yeah thats gonna clean up their image
Finally the Catholics have discovered religion!
So they choose Luce, so close to Lucifer, and they expect the Internet to NOT bring it up? There’s Lucy, Daughter of the Devil on Cartoon Network for shit’s sake.
Nevermind the connections to Death Note, a far more popular anime about Light Yagami, and the subtle connections between his name and Lucifer the Lightbringer.
This seems so much worse on it’s face, even if you leave out the undertones of children’s abuse by the church and Rule 34 that will come out (which are worse, but the church keeps trying to bury it)
Luce means light in Italian. Lucifer means “light bringer” and the mythos is about trying to steal the light (luce) of god. It doesn’t mean “luce” is bad.
I guess the Catholic church overestimated the education of its followers.
It’s simple word association. I’m aware of the Latin translations. I’m also aware that most people are not going to think about it too long, and immediately going to jump to conclusions. They also believe in Bigfoot. What end of the Bell curve are we talking about, here?
I know nothing about anime, but I guess it is not that bad? Luce is straight up “light” in Italian, and Lucifer just means “the one who brings light” because it’s the Angel’s name, before the fall according to the fairytale. So from their POV it should all make sense.
I dunno, he’s a serial killer trying to remake the world by looking everyone he doesn’t like and it’s pretty mainstream.
Even without that, drawing attention to Light seems weird. Could’ve been “Peace”, “Faith”, or “Love” or whatever.
This is just 12 years of Catholic school talking, but it’s a strange name to pick that ties to a lot of less than desirable stuff.
But Light is like a generic incarnation of god but also knowledge, revelation etc., it’s way more absolute than peace or even love. I think Light does make sense from their perspective, and in the catholic symbolism it is identified basically with all positive stuff.
You had a bunch of other references that make sense eh, I am not familiar with them, so I respect that people might have different perceptions.
I get things like “enlightenment”, etc. But the average person (at least in the US) that isn’t already Catholic has a strong possibility of already being told they aren’t real Christians, and isn’t going to know or care about etymology, and will assume it’s Lucifer. They could call the main character Satin after the cloth and it’s have the same effect, even though they aren’t related.
Don’t apologize for their systemic pedophilia, et al.
Uh?
Because an official anime boy mascot would be too apropos?
There’s more than the one who are (I assume*) boys, also I don’t understand what you mean by ‘would be too apropos’, could you explain?
* I assume because I couldn’t find much information about the side characters other than their names Fe, Xin, and Sky. All the references on the Wikipedia page just say their names and include the photo at most or don’t even acknowledge them at the least.
Young boys especially, but young girls too are probably a little touchy for them to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the Pope still doesn’t have a moe moe
Think it took 15 seconds before we had this Obvious NSFW https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=luce_(vatican)
I can’t be sure this was the primary use-case that the AI inventors envisioned, but it’s hard to argue that it’s not successful at this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All technology isn’t created for porn, but it is immediately used for it. I’m ~90% sure the Apollo missions were trying to find green chicks to fuck like in Star Trek.
OFC, I KNEW IT
Guys are always ready to work. r63 next?
wtf is r63?
“for every character there is a gender swapped version of that character”
If a male version of a character exists, there’s a female version that someone has made.
Idk what it has to do with the Catholic Waifu though.
There is already, in the r34 link above… Ruleception
Now there is rule 85 version of it.
Already trained image LORAs https://civitai.com/models/899944/luce-vatican-mascot
And the not so family friendly one… https://civitai.com/models/900249/luce-vaticans-mascot-pony
Already trained image LORAs https://civitai.com/models/899944/luce-vatican-mascot
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mother fuckers
Haha, need to log in for nsfw…
For young people? What? That doggo there has me rediscovering my faith
I mean, look, it’s wearing a hat
That priest looks stoked
Are they running so low on young people to molest they’ve resulted to youthful dolls?
These are useful for luring new victims back to the rectory.
“Hey little girl, would you like to come to my office to read from the old testicles?”
Pope played Elden Ring and fell head over heels for Ranni
Look, she had 4 arms, a body to kill for, and had a way of getting in your head
She’s no Goldmask though. I want to get me a man that can T-pose on reality until he figures out how to prove god wrong
Several ways.
Yeah, pedos do what pedos usually do
