#askwretch

Looming Gaia Fandom: THE CUTEST SMOL BEAN!!!

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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:

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

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

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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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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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