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I don't really understand spiritual experiences, but the way Ive heard them described makes me think about how I often try to empathize with what slaves feel. Honestly worship of Master seems even more intense than worship of God. That flattie slave who hangs around here sometimes that has been even more anxiety filled than usual started saying "Lord Master", with a similar kind of syntax to how some people describe the christian Lord God or the Lord Jesus. Of course you'd worship Jesus even more if you lived in His house and spent every single second of your life improving His.

I think soulbound is the word to use. It does manifest as complete and total slavery especially in its most extreme forms but I think that word communicates that idea of a person not only being completely attached to another but also completely beneath, and all in a completely consensual way.

Actual movement on recognizing this as a formalized religion is probably a completely lost cause, at least not until several centuries worth of history happen in the next decade or whatever. But there is something real here, way more real than stuff like goreans. The fact that my philosophy heavily works off of the feelings of slaves as center to the entire religion means that I actually think it could make inroads as a formalized subculture if it was to really take off. People in general would be way more okay with it being focused on thinking about those who submit, and that would in turn lead to more people believing in it since I kind of think a lot of humans actually do want maybe a 20-30% intensity version of being this kind of slave. Most people are not leaders, not at all.

(also this additional Lychkin picture of a forced smile in that set is peak)