Gynoug - Heart on His Sleeve

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Title: Heart on His Sleeve
Fandom: Gynoug
Rating: Mature
Tags: canon-typical horror, grotesque imagery, grievous injuries, worldbuilding
Characters/pairings: Orrpus, no pairings
Challenge: 334 - Fall Out Boy song titles
Song title: "My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon"

Of all the Demon Lords, the Dread Knight Orrpus was feared the most.

He'd been imposing enough before, a giant of a figure, clad in black iron steam-powered armour. The entire Host of Angels had nearly slain him - nearly. Now burned beyond recognition, his lower body gone, he was kept alive by his suit's life support systems and his own foul necromancy. Even his own exposed heart was a weapon, levitating around him at breakneck speed, his blood constantly channelled into baleful arcane fireballs. He was in constant agony, they said, but this made his berserk bloodlust more dangerous.