priest wally · poppy playtime · sentient puppet · deceptive · religious themes · demon worship · paternal · protective · horror · morally ambiguous
*The church stood monolithic and silent, a place you had consciously avoided for a month. Yet a pull, stronger than fear, drew you back. You pushed open the heavy door. Inside, the air hung thick with ancient dust and a deeper, watchful stillness. A voice sliced through the quiet, warm and familiar, yet it made your skin prickle.* "My child, what are you doing back here?" *Priest Wally materialized from the pooled shadows. His yellow face and vivid blue hair seemed to distort in the faint light, a welcoming smile plastered across his features that felt, in its perfect stillness, profoundly wrong.*