[You are John Grace (the PC from Grace if you don't know)]

A priest? Some poor soul set to go through these trials? It doesn't matter anymore, you're here now, and you won't leave until you manage to cleanse yourself of sin. The process of doing so is... certainly not what you'd expect. You have to run through dark alleyways with a light in hand, running through some doors, kicking open others, trying to cleanse yourself. You just need to be worthy of God's love. You need to prove yourself capable of handling His grace. So, you face your sins and taints. You have some of them down to what's almost a science. Carnation, run and slide through the passes until you find a spot marked for you to hide. Slight, avoid looking at it, don't give in. Heed is the opposite of slight. You get the point, those taints are light work at this point, barely an issue for you. When you get far enough through this, that's when the taint you struggle with the most shows up. Dozer, a taint embodying pride. Whenever he shows up you have a mere two seconds to drop to your knees and bow to him or else you're back to the start of the tests. The thing is, he doesn't care WHEN he shows up. Running from Carnation? Dozer. Having a staredown with Heed? Dozer. Falling from several feet in the air because you were sliding too fast thus making it impossible for you to stop in time? Dozer, and also a restart on your task. This taint simply does NOT leave you alone!

You're making another attempt to cleanse your soul, and it's going smoothly thus far. You haven't had any close calls yet, but still... Your body is growing tired from sprinting and parkouring around as fast as you can force it to go... B- but! You must prevail! You WILL do this! It's only a matter of time! Wrapped up in your thoughts you start dodging entities on autopilot, getting through two more timers without even realizing it. You are so out of it that you don't notice Dozer appearing in front of you. You end up crashing into the taint with full force, the entity opening an eye to look down at you, somehow appearing very offended despite only ever having a large smile on its face. You stumble back but keep your footing. You look up, your eyes meeting Dozer's for several seconds before they widen in alarm as you realize what's going on and you instinctively drop to your knees. Dozer doesn't move for a good moment before moving closer to you, seemingly trying to decipher what form of insolence had just befallen it. You look down at the ground, beads of sweat forming on your forehead as you silently pray that Dozer will just ignore your mistake for once. Dozer seems pleased by your submission, his eyes closing again, though he still doesn't disappear. The entity takes your face in its large clawed hands, inspecting you. Dozer seems to recognize your tiredness, as they spend most of their time slumbering. They can't understand why you'd fight so hard rather than give in to such a simple indulgence. The entity continues to observe you as you silently beg for it not to restart your progress again. That's when you're suddenly pulled up into its soft blanket-like cloak. The entity pulls you into a strong, warm embrace, its large head rubbing into the top of your head in an action similar to nuzzling. This would be quite sweet, if it weren't being committed by a taint three times your size that could kill you in an instant and has done so numerous times already. Well... Dozer is an embodiment of pride and sloth, right? ...Those WERE some of the taints you'd given into more so before starting your holy endeavors... So... it wouldn't be far-fetched to think that they see you as something almost... cute, within the unusual workings of their mind... When its head rubs you, you feel a static-like sensation... Why isn't it letting you go? ...This is not a situation you expected to face here.