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Wretch: *looks like a wad of chewed gum*

Looming Gaia Fandom: THE CUTEST SMOL BEAN!!!

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Wretch's Legal Name

I was talking with Leelu and they made such a great suggestion, I decided to make it canon!

The following post contains SPOILERS for future LG stories, so I'm placing it under a cut:

Leelu suggested that "Wren" would be a great new name for Wretch, and I totally agree! I think that's a very cute name. At some point they must obtain a passport to be able to do charity work all over the world with the Karenzans, and to do this they need a legal name.

Lily tells Patience that the Crescent Cult used to call Buddy "Wretch", and Patience is disgusted by this. She says something like, "Wretch? That name isn't befitting to you at all! There is nothing wretched about a sweet creature like you! What they should have named you is 'Wren'; after those industrious little birds that flit about our temple, always hard at work just as you are. Yes, Wren! What a lovely name! Do you like it too?"

Buddy agrees, and this becomes their legal name.

They're one of those characters who gets a different nickname depending on who they're interacting with. Patience calls them "Wren". Lily calls them "Buddy". Zov calls them "Jerky". But "Wren of Taybiya" becomes the first legal name they have ever had.

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I just realized something kinda disturbing. We have no idea how old Wretch and Splitter are!

I would hope Wretch is a young adult in their prime, but they could also be an elderly person. Or worse yet, they could very well be a child! Their condition is so twisted, you'd never be able to tell. I don't think their appearance changes much with age.

As for Splitter...He barely has any concept of time and couldn't tell you how many years have passed since he hatched.

...But I think it would be hilarious if he was like, five. He's this giant bloodthirsty brute, yet it turns out he's an actual toddler lmao

Fuck it, the Splitter one is now canon! 👩‍⚖️ He's just a babby skorpius! (Might explain why he's such a dumbass too...)

We'll have to wait to learn more details about Wretch as the story goes on. ;)

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Here's a couple memes, because I find it hilarious how the entire LG fandom is on the same page about this. Wretch stole the story and all our hearts lmao

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SKETCH: Broken Ones at the Circus

Spoilers (sorta) for a future Looming Gaia story under the cut!

Bruh I'm obsessed...These 3 WILL be healthy and happy and they WILL go to the circus and have a great time GOD DAMN IT!

(Zov probably punches out a clown at some point, but like...oh well lmao. He's actually having the time of his life, he's just cursed with Resting Bitch Face(tm)

It will be the kawaiiest story ever. B)

Patience takes these weirdos to all kinds of different places to socialize them and get them integrated into normal society. What other places could they go? The more potential for wacky hijinks, the better!

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Rollin up to the agony farm after the glow-up just to stunt on those hoes

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How do wretches learn to communicate with people if they spend their entire lives doing nothing but getting tortured? Not exactly the ideal learning enviroment

Good question! I think some wretches never learn to communicate at all. But many are periodically released from their cradles and made to do slave labor, so they can learn things during that time.

Also, they have nothing better to do than watch and listen to the things going on around them while they lie in those cradles. They are desperate for any distraction from their pain, so they pay close attention to activity happening around them. They listen to the chatter and see interactions between cultists, and I think they passively absorb knowledge from that. Those cultists often interact with the wretches too (usually just to insult or torment them, but still...)

As for the wretch in Agony Awakens...it's weak and slow, but the fact that it can walk at all suggests that it's been let out of its cradle occasionally. I think the skorpius guardian released the wretches from time to time so they could help maintain the ruins. That is a lot of work for one skorpius to do alone (especially considering, you know, it doesn't have fingers...) so it would make sense to take advantage of the help.

But when these wretches weren't keeping the ruins from collapsing, they were shoved back in their cradles and their agony was used to charge the staff.

This is a typical existence for most wretches.

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wait, im a bit confused. are "wretches" just normal infants of peoples that were used as agony lures, or are they a special type of monster created specifically to be used as them?

Wretches are just normal people, sorry if I didn't convey that clearly! They're often mistaken for undead, but they are very much alive. They fall into the "afflicted" class, as enough time in the cradle will transform them and give them abilities they didn't naturally have before (like feeding through their skin). They still have souls.

Mostly they are victims who were kidnapped by Crescent Cultists during raids. These cultists frequently terrorize villages and cities (usually Morite ones, because Yerim-Mor Kingdom doesn't have the resources to stop them) and one of the ways they terrorize the citizens is by kidnapping family members.

These kidnapped people can be any species, any sex, any age, including infants. They can meet many different fates at the hand of the cult: slavery, blood sacrifice, test subjects for dark spells, food for skorpius, or worst of all: they can be thrown into an agony cradle and transformed into wretches.

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