I’ve somehow missed reading Tokis’ story up until now and oh my god it was the most wholesome thing ever! Tokis deserves so many cuddles from his human. Now I’m curious as to what kind of goopy god oozes and slimes worship?
Ahh, I’m glad you enjoyed it! It was a great prompt. There was a part two that I forgot to link on it (fixed now), if you’re interested. It’s sfw.
The deity the oozes and slimes venerate in my headcanon-universe is a genderless creature of the darkness (but it’s not evil). It is worshipped by many of the creatures who dwell in the darker places, and is sometimes referred to by them as the Watcher. It’s usually depicted by its worshippers as an amorphous, black or very dark blue entity, like the slimes/oozes themselves in their ‘natural’ state, but it has innumerable eyeballs (a bit like Hermaeus Mora from the Elder Scrolls franchise). It is supposedly capable of breaking off facets of itself into smaller globs of slime to be in multiple places at once, though it usually returns to itself after a while.
Some scholars say it’s merely an ancient, primordial ooze (and not a deity) that lives in the depths of the earth, and others say it doesn’t exist at all, since it rarely (if ever) seems to involve itself actively in the lives of its worshippers. Its worshippers preach peace and non-violence, which seems to fit with the general temperament of slimes and oozes in my universe, which is mostly passive/chilled out, and rarely aggressive. To be a ‘worshipper’ of the Watcher is more like saying you align yourself to a code of beliefs, rather than actively venerating an entity, although many find meditation in trying to contact the creature through prayer. Some slimes/oozes, it’s said, have been able to detect its voice/vibrations through the earth, but others say that’s impossible.
Tokis is very earnest, so when he prays to the Watcher, he seeks guidance and reassurance, I think, rather than actual contact with the entity.