Had a big brain moment while fiddling with a sim tray opener idly, and used to it straighten some of the bent pins on the old borked cpu. First time since I last did on a socket-able cpu on a laptop a long while ago, and did it by eye (also used my phone camera to verify and couple more fine adjustments). Also cleaned up some thermal compound that had gotten on some other pins on the chip very carefully with some alcohol pads. It smoothly went back into the cpu with little to no issue, and cleaned off the residual thermal compound off the thermal spreader. Now just gonna leave it in there and lets it overnight and a full day to doubly make sure any water has been evaporated as it was 70% isopropyl so don't want to take a chance on any of the 30% sticking around in there.

Will still look to get a new cpu since this one was also on its last legs since I've spotted a burnt spot on one of the pins in the cpu anyways.