#dragg-reven

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Dragg-Revens, Draggs from Revena of Vrykola

Left to right: Psyphon, Deimo, Set, Glam

Every sapient species on Vrykola has evolved differing forms of energy absorption and transference abilities alongside ordinary heterotrophic structures and organs due to the infrequent sunlight, heat, and food. Skipping even the simple process of photosynthesis, they directly add absorbed energy into their nervous system and empower their body without consumption. Black is a popular color to wear because of this.

All Draggs are white, blue, or black, those from Revena having various horns/spurs and gaps between their radius/ulna and tibia/fibula. Eyes are most commonly warm colors with blues being rarer; the energy they output match the color. Their eyes desaturate depending on the level of energy in their body, turning completely gray as they enter torpor.

Sexual dimorphism also affects horn/spur size and placement, as well as mouth structure. Their noses have no cartilage or flesh covering due to the cold on Vrykola.

Their blood is black, so thinner blood-filled membranes like lips and nails are also black. Insides of mouths are gray, and scars vary from gray to black.

Dragg-Reven limbs are multidirectional; any human direct a limb takes can be reversed, and their heads can turn 180°

They have jellyfish or lobster-levels of immortality and just keep on going on. All natural forms of energy (ex. light, heat, plasma, lasers, fire, electricity, radiation) will not harm them if absorbed. Omni-energy, being an artificially-made form, will harm them whether absorbed or not. Magic/mana, including the light, heat, lasers, fire, and electricity it creates, is also unable to be absorbed. They are resistant to the effects of corrodium until they attempt to absorb its radiation, whereupon then it would mutate them.

A vrykolakas is a Greek vampire, a draugr is a Norse undead, and a revenant is a general term for undead.

Draugar are described as varying from white to black to blue ("death-blue", "corpse-pale", "black as hell", "black as death" from bruises, etc). A vrykolakas differs by being red, from being so full of blood. So beings on Vrykola who are red instead of white/blue/black are known as Vrykolans. They too have regional variants like Draggs, leading to species like Vrykolan-Revens, or Vrykolan-Fenras, etc.

Deimo comes from dread in Greek.

Glam is based off Glámr from the Grettis Saga, a faithless shepherd who died fighting off a monster terrorizing his town and subsequently took its place. He's the origin of the word glamour (Glámr's eyes), meaning magical illusion, where he cursed Grettis for killing him the second time; his unnatural eyes appearing to haunt Grettis in the dark for the rest of his life.

When Glámr died the first time, he was found entirely black (from rotting), swollen to the size of a bull, and every single bone in his body broken.

Technically, he's not described as a draugr, but people always lump him in with the concept anyways.

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Ragnarok redesign

Occam’s razoring and bringing some character/design themes full-circle. I’m making him a Dragg-Fenra from Vrykola, Psyphon’s homeworld. (They’ve never met. Psyphon would ask “isn’t that the guy who tried to eat your sun?”)

Dragg-Fenras only absorb and output solar energy as opposed to all forms of energy like Dragg-Revens. Absorbing stars the size of our sun would be impossible without the help of his ship designed to achieve this.

Ragnarok is the Norse mythological apocalypse, where the sun is eaten by Fenrir. He has blue skin, a skull-like face, and energy powers, and Draggs are already named after Norse undead. Hence, rewriting him to be from the planet of people with energy powers who look undead. So I exaggerated his gory features (including a typical Dragg gap between his tibias and fibulas) and gave him hair tufts that resemble ears to look more like a wolf.

And also since I’m cutting out all the Osmosian whatever including Kevin’s dad being a Plumber, I’m thinking that Ragnarok will be an old space pirate nemesis of Kevin’s from that stretch of time in OS between Grudge Match and Back With A Vengeance, probably running into one another in the Null Void from time to time until UAF-era.

If it’ll make him more important, maybe Ragnarok can even replace Aggregor. Both are long haired enemies opposing Kevin voiced by John DiMaggio (though in my heart, Ragnarok would be voiced by Clancy Brown), so is it that much of a difference? Parallel to rewrite UAF Vilgax emulates Ben’s original playlist, Ragnarok emulates Kevin’s matter/DNA/energy absorption mutation in an effort to beat him at his own game and then some.

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Glam was a Dragg-Reven shepherd on Vrykola who fled after Vilgax's invasion and eventually joined the Space Plumbers.

A happy-go-lucky, silly big teddy bear guy who loves animals, just coming in and out of the background of episodes...

unless they ever arrested Psyphon and held him at his station.

See, the thing is, Vilgax invaded Vrykola and Psyphon went turncoat and assisted him in destroying it. And proceeded to sully their reputation with further invasions on other worlds. Ergo, it is absolutely on-sight if any Vrykolan is within his vicinity and aware of his general location.

Once arrested, Psyphon himself would probably suggest that if they have any Vrykolan officers, to relocate them and not tell them why, because they can and will try to assassinate him. He's not volunteering this info out of self-preservation, because they can only try to kill him even if he's in handcuffs, but out of a general "hey, this might be a complete headache for everyone, so as a heads-up..." Gets ignored because why would anyone take his advice.

Glam would use his authority and arsenal, and put everything on the line to ensure his opportunity to take out the person who betrayed their homeworld. He wasn't pretending to be who he was up 'til now, but joining for this express purpose of being part of the forces who fight Vilgax (and consequentially Psyphon) and deciding to take this route when he finally gets the chance, having never really expected to get this close to him. Glam loves what the Plumbers have done for him, but not enough to abide by their rules when that means not getting back at Psyphon.

Psyphon would just be goading him the whole time, A) fully expecting his advice on dismissing Vrykolan Plumbers to be ignored, B) this not being the first nor the last attempt on his life, C) finding anyone defending Vrykola and its leaders' honor to be idiots, and D) knowing he can kick most anyone's ass even handcuffed. So he's not taking it very seriously. Been there, done that. He has very little respect for a fit pitched in order to bootlick an already-fallen moldy-ass oligarchy who wouldn't give a shit about Glam either, or the planet they maintained where his life was absolutely miserable until it fell apart.

a lot of "the Exequiance aren't gonna fuck you!" "do their boots taste like real leather?"

Glam: [actively shooting] my house was destroyed! Psyphon: [in handcuffs, on floor] aw, well, I wouldn't know know how that feels, I NEVER HAD ONE Ben: [literally shielding Psyphon] you are making it SO hard to defend your life

And to top it all off, while Psyphon feels that Vilgax is the one true authority that everyone should swear fealty to (and he interprets everyone fighting against that as not accepting reality), he cannot respect Glam betraying the Plumbers by trying to kill him, after all they've done for him AND Glam making a pledge to them. He's just asking for some damn consistency, and he can't find jack.

again, he's over assassination attempts and has for a while been critiquing their motives and avenues of attack. Glam's is the messiest.

and Psyphon's not saying all that cause he doesn't want to get assassinated. As an intensely loyal person himself, he finds Glam's conduct to be a very insult to the concept of loyalty itself, and an insult towards the Plumbers who did a lot for Glam (even if Psyphon doesn't actually care about AND has issues with them).

He'd call Glam a faithless worm, and say that Vrykola, the corrupted hellhole it was for him, had birthed three monsters. Himself, Ragnarok, and now Glam.

When the dust settles, after breaking a shit-ton of laws, Glam goes on the run as a renegade Plumber (still in the uniform though probably worse for wear), biding time until another chance to clash with Psyphon.

Ehh,,, that's the general story idea.

If you're wondering how he gets that helmet on, the white and black parts snap off around the root of his horns.

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Omniverse never bothered to name Psyphon's species so I'm making it up rn, he's a Dragg-Reven

dragg as in draugr and reven as in revenant cause he has a skeletal thing going on, at least in UAF

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Psyphon will be smart, but he should protect his fin.

I think he must feel immense pain and lose concentration when he is receiving a strong hit there.

Animals that have a dorsal fin are used to stabilize and prevent it from turning on itself.

And you know what happens when you remove a shark's dorsal fin.

it's not just a you thing, a lot of people compare Psyphon to a shark and tbh I don't really see it.

is it the head horn, plus his boss being an octopus man? Maybe I'm splitting hairs but I think it's too conical to be a fin. if it was flatter like squished on both sides, maybe, but I'm calling it a horn

was that the direction they steered his OV redesign in? like with the sharp teeth and no skull nose? tbh I won't forgive them for scrapping his skeletal/undead thing

so obviously I do steer him and Dragg-Revens back in that particular direction, but I ended up leaning back into sharks a little bit with some ideas of their life cycle, but also that their horn is (in part) for electroreception. can sense energy sources within the area

the horn itself way too dense and enmeshed part of their skull to break, you'd probably have an easier time breaking their neck pulling on their horn than breaking the horn itself (still harder than a human cause Dragg-Revens are double-jointed, as in all joints that normally go one way on a human can go the other way naturally for a Dragg, and can move their heads 360°ish around)

yanking on a Dragg's horn is probably like their version of hair pulling in a fight: too easy and a dirty move

not to say it's immune to anything, it's probably incredibly distracting and feels very not good when it's pulled around

on Vrykola, hands and horns have cultural significance so they probably have their own version of Transformer's empurata where they're cut off as punishment

Psylax only kept his cause he was more useful with his hands, but if any Vrykolan got Psyphon back to their home planet, that'd be the first thing they'd do to him

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What was life like for Psyphon on his home planet? (what happened there for him to feel grateful to Vilgax)

What were the customs or traditions of his species?

Picturing servitude and/or hard labor during a prison sentence, generally treated like dirt

Ostensibly could not be kept well enough or else he could rebel so he was kept from a lot of sources of energy, absorption of which is like eating with shortcuts. Even though Draggs look like vampires/undead and crave "sustenance" like them, they really do love sunlight and heat and get stronger with exposure to them. Which means he gets put in fireproof rags, locked in a dark room, and occasionally given a candle to savor

It's not something I put a lot of thought into or wanna show, not cause it's so horrible, but more as something you'd just see glimpses of and understand better than an in-depth showcase

But either way one of the people putting him in that position thought that bygones were bygones and a common enemy would unite them and Psylax when Vilgax invaded. Like yeah, you were kinda like the dirt under our heel, but you’ll fight alongside us for the planet you live on, right?? Lmao no he Pirate Jennies their asses

Psyphon literally can't grasp that constantly wishing for the painful death of everyone on their planet up to and including family isn't a universal experience. He just assumes everyone operates like that and thus usually confused or intrigued when basically no one acts like it. Tetrax really didn't appreciate his insight

I'm picturing Psyphon's region of his homeworld as feudal, medieval undead-looking lords and their feudal medieval undead towns with some tilled land (cause it's cold and cloudy a lot of the time)

Dragg-Revens probably evolved from being underground hence the hunches, and probably still like to be underground. Just for the image of them busting out of the ground like zombies, but tbh you'd hardly mistake them for one. If you saw a group in public they would look like a flash mob of goths.