#im kind of really scared to tag this 😳 putting worship stuff in the main tag always makes me feel really cringe

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

woaugh a post that isn't abt wig or maxy?? crazy dude💥💥💥

i'm still here slowly adding the dst cast to the worship au that exists solely in my mind... figured WX would be fun to work on, so i designed a little somethin somethin that i'm pretty happy with.

i also developed some actual like. story based stuff but i'll put it beneath the cut bc its long as hell lol

since the timeline of worship takes place long before anything vaguely resembling modern technology, turning them into a 'robot' in the conventional sense was completely off the table. however, there exists a deity who's very eager to accept… 'donations' of the flesh, as they are Her only way of experiencing the mortal world first hand. while WX does not consider themself a loyalist to Her in the least, She was their only method of shedding their flesh… they didn't really have a choice.

that being said, they don't regret it in the least. with every body part they sacrificed to her, they carved themself replacements from foraged stones (most of them stolen from since destroyed monuments to the goddess in question. she… probably doesn't mind that). they don't know what the runes on their body mean and they also don't really care, beyond the fact that it looks epic as hell.

considering they've given up their flesh and replaced it with stone, WX's sense of touch is god awful. you could slap them on the back of the head and they wouldn't even feel it. they only experience pain if something begins to crack at the stone, and even then that pain comes from inside the stone, and not always at the exact source of the wound

... though they want everyone else to think otherwise, WX still has a major part of their flesh left behind… that being their head. it isn't actually stone, just shielded by a hollow stone helmet. any attempts to remove and replace it would lead to their death, and at this point they've since stopped attempting. though, they still sacrificed what parts of their head they could safely manage to.

they've given away one of their eyes, one of their ears, and their tongue- the latter-most being the only part they bothered to replace (with a knot of cloth, so as to keep the ability to speak). they hadn't really considered what that would do to their depth perception until after, but they still don't really regret it. even if they can't aim properly. or see anything directly to the right of them.

(i like to think they still yell despite not being a robot; half because they can't really hear, half because they need to shout through the helmet for anyone to hear them, and then a third half because they are just naturally loud and would probably still be screaming even beyond the two factors)

also i have no fucking clue how poorly this universe's wagstaff (currently undesigned) would take it. idk what he'd do. lose his mind most assuredly. which to be fair i would too if your bestie/protege started working with ancient gods to seamlessly replace their flesh with a stone imitation.