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The contrast is very funny... La'zaar is one of the oldest siblings one could share a mother with, whilst Ru'thûn is the lastborn of her Broodmother and thus indisputably the youngest sibling one could share a mother with.
#OC: La'zaar#OC: Ru'thûn#The best place to look for Hive blood-related to Ru'thûn are in her dominion.#Those tend to be her nieces... make no mistake however Ru'thûn is no nepotist.
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Here is where I got to with Ru'thûn's side-profile.
#I figured out the horns by... making a reference in Spore.#If nothing else I consider myself resourceful.#OC: Ru'thûn#blackwax art#Officially goodnight... very late for me today.#I still don't like how the crest ends but I think it is because it messes with the horn perspective. Will fix it later.#I like what I am doing with the lines here... I am putting sharper lines on things to help with detail a little.#I don't consider myself detail-oriented so trying to focus on it is weird. It should make colouring easier though.#Having actual borders instead of weird messes might be nice.
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Ru'thûn is no Osmium royal, she has no common blood with the Hive Gods. she comes from no extant Swarm known to the Vanguard, or even most Hive.
her armour is fluted steel, yet coarse like sharkskin. it is older than humanity, and is so deeply impacted into her chitin that tearing it away would flay her hide. within the fine, granulated crevices of her armour are the perfect growing conditions for fatal anaerobes.
(an old side portrait of Ru'thûn from February 2022. reuploaded from my twitter. feel free to click and zoom in.)
#destiny hive#hive oc#oc: Ru'thûn#oh i need a new art tag... um...#blackwax art#i'll xkit a new one later.#ah this is so... there is so much i would change about this.#does not matter right now.#since this is a .png there shouldn't be any loss in quality from my saving it and reuploading here...#i tend not to use my phone like this because of an implicit worry that the image will degrade. i hope it looks fine on desktop.#i can't believe i drew this and two weeks later Witch Queen came out#and the First thing i noticed was that Savathûn had the same heels as Ru'thûn...#the only difference between their shoes is that Ru'thûn does not have the prongs on either side. otherwise it is identical which is funny.#if the background was transparent i would say use this to compare heights since that is what it was meant for.#then again you could just superimpose your own thing onto her.#her neck is craned forward though...#i always say Ru'thûn is 20 (now 22) feet tall withoutn horns because she has no horns adding to her height.#i still do not think her horns or... i forgot the word for her Alien Queen graft... add too much.#a lot of this drawing i would redo... now that i have a nice 3d model to look at perhaps i could do that.#Ru'thûn's graft does flare upwards a little but i don't know how much height that would add.#i think what i will do is get some charts out and then count.#otherwise. for this image. i imagine her full height would be roughly where...#the large gap between the third and fourth spine on her headpiece are (not counting the horn on her forehead).#eugh.
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Concepts for Ru'thûn and La'zaar's wings, both viewed from the inside.
Ru'thûn's wings are only chiropteran as far as appearances go. She folds them at her back in the same way a moth does, rather than wrapping them around her body like Oryx did.
Atrophied flight muscles make La'zaar's wings too fragile to support his armoured weight, so he'll not use them for anything more than helping him leap towards or away from a threat.
#OC: Ru'thûn#OC: La'zaar#blackwax art#For some reason Hive wings are mostly detailed on the inside... which is why La'zaar's wings are so fancy.#I'm not sure about the design on the larger wings but I only worked on them very briefly since it is so late for me.#A fun fact... that album cover* with the face used to scare the fuck out of me when I was a child.#We had it in our house and I'd always try avoiding it whenever I had to look through discs for something.#*(It was ''Worlds Collide'' but I chose this version of it—''I'm Not Jesus''—since it fit the red colours I was working with better.)#I'll probably redesign the wings a little better when it is not 3:30am. They feel crowded.#Also trying to flip the canvas upside down lags my program so I couldn't do detail even if I wanted to currently.#I think having something that scared me as a child be etched into La'zaar's wings suits him very well though...#I'll also go back and give Ru'thûn some more detail... I spent less time on her colours because I already knew what I wanted.#Addendum... the dead moth on La'zaar's page is a ''Black Witch Moth''.#I liked their wing shape. I'm not a fan of how Savathûn's wings look so I wanted something sharper.#These are only really WIPs on a surface level.. feel free to share if you'd like.#Addendum II: I think what I want to fix about La'zaar's wings is making the designs more subtle or blended in.#Which can be done after I have slept on it surely.#Not on his wings... I'd catch some kind of terrible lung disease from the shed scales...#I imagine his wings are just as powdery as moth wings.
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The Worms of Ru'thûn and La'zaar, respectively.
Of Ru'thûn—Overgrown and demanding, an inverted-eyed worm whose hunger cannot be sated. Spawn of Yul, blessed by Ur.
Of La'zaar—Entombed and silenced, a fragile worm that exerts its influence by mode of painful calcification. Spawn of Xita, blessed by Eir.
#That crystal completely beat my ass in my attempts to draw it so consider it more a representation than how I would exactly like it to look.#In reality I think it would cling more tightly to the Worm's body. Parts of it would be fused to La'zaar's sternum and ribs.#If you broke through his armour then you could do critical damage if you shot his chest. He's a little like Phogoth or Oryx in that regard.#blackwax art#OC: Ru'thûn#OC: La'zaar
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I imagine the Dramaturgy and Leprosarium both have some kind of strange alcohol unique to them.
There's probably something very nasty and positively hepatotoxic made from jade-green bone marrow bottled up in Ru'thûn's den, maybe something she shares with a Broodwife occasionally.
I don't think it would be very palatable even to other Hive... but Ru'thûn eats with great indifference to flavour and I think she has similar sentiment towards drinks.
La'zaar keeps something made from a poisonous flower. Some kind of dusky, dark purple wine that stains the tongue and numbs whatever it touches... it's an acquired taste in its own manner.
#Calling it hepatotoxic is a little misleading... it is made to suit Hive of Ascendant proportions after all.#I do think Ru'thûn's effective immunity to toxins negates damaging properties of Dramaturge marrow-spirits regardless...#I'd like to expand the category of Leper flora. I have thought of more... including whatever serves as this wine.#OC: Ru'thûn#OC: La'zaar#I don't know what poor bastard Knight or Wizard is in charge of making those things.#Thinking of small details like this sort of amuses me.
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La'zaar is more agile than the average Darkblade, and hits far harder—enough to cleave an Ogre in half, or shatter Ru'thûn's armour... most things, unless absolute equals in size or sufficiently mechanical, will die if La'zaar can land even one hit on them.
It is only on very careful observation, that one can realise he is not really in any kind of "top form". To be honest, I think it is the sort of thing you'd only notice if you'd known him for a few hundred thousand years, at least.
To any other creature, La'zaar is formidable and his continued existence is worthy, proven by adept mastery of blades.
To Ru'thûn—who bites down and feels pale, brittle chitin crack under her fangs, and whose ribs no longer shatter and puncture her lungs when her armour is broken—La'zaar is very much worn-down by age and illness, more than Hive are wont to be.
It bothers Ru'thûn a lot; she is greatly torn between affectionate leniency for an old friend, and punishing weakness out of love...
She has no authority over the Leprosarium's champions to compel them to kill or starve La'zaar of tithe as punishment; they are all either older and worthy of her respect or they are bitter rivals to her. The latter, of Orm Vulgara, especially...
Orm Vulgara, who often finds himself in the position to gouge La'zaar's heart out through his back... Ru'thûn surely howls and rages at the opportunities being passed over in favour of... how to term it? "Cultivating fragility", perhaps.
Ru'thûn's idea of a perfect mate is one that she can kill and eat—and be killed and eaten by. One who does not forgive weakness. Ru'thûn does not tire, she does not grasp the concept at all. Her armour does not hinder her, even as it slowly burrows into her flesh. She rarely rests, so she finds no need to remove her armour, no need or desire to sleep in another's lap.
It's a strange thing to her... just so terribly strange.
#Found in my notes app... refined it a little.#OC: La'zaar#OC: Ru'thûn#I don't like this one that much but it is whatever.#Tired... goodnight.
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Here's a drawing of Ru'thûn from April 2022... it is finished but I didn't like it at all, so I never posted it. I'd like to share it, though.
#It would be fun to redraw.#I really liked the glowing eyes...#And the dead Lightbearer Knight.#The viscera and the ripped-apart arms... I envision Hive innards to be a green-black colour. Along with the liquid portion of their blood.#Some kind of storytelling to this... I think I envisioned this as the kind of sight you'd stumble upon in a tunnel somewhere.#blackwax art#Very old art though.#OC: Ru'thûn#I'm going through my art folder a little.
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Trying to consider how I would dress them both.
La'zaar, I am putting that nasty greying beast in some kind of leather jacket but I literally cannot find the reference I am seeing in my mind's eye. For Ru'thûn... to be honest I want something similar to Ripley 8's outfit from Alien: Resurrection.
Either way I am asking after a large amount of leather, I suppose..
#I can't imagine either of them in anything too delicate or fancy. At least not for disguises.#La'zaar has his veils and such... and I realise that the long hair of his disguise complements it.#Can't find the words I mean.#I think it's a cool detail.#Ru'thûn... I suppose her masque could be considered ornamental.#There's no real analogous thing for it in a Human disguise though.#The first reaction of a Human is to find her scars worth sympathising rather than as an exploitable weakness. She has no reason to hide it.#Coming back to the veil thing. I think once I give him some collarbones I will revise the length of his hair.#Not to make the hair shorter... worry not. I <3 men with long hair.#Not drawing in collarbones really annoyed me but I'd posted the images anyway else I'd be there forever fixing things.#OC: Ru'thûn#OC: La'zaar
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With the scarring and the cataracts, respectively... I doubt either would permit that sort of noticeable damage in a Human disguise, defeating the purpose of fitting in all in favour of short-lived familiarity is surely unacceptable, so consider it just something I wanted to demonstrate visually. Sort of translating certain things between forms.
#I should have stopped earlier because I haven't slept today but it is fine.#Ru'thûn has more detail—or is otherwise less flat than La'zaar—because I started on her first.#It's a shame not to use those details—I'd much rather keep them because it does define both of them quite strongly.#I'd like to keep those things... I just can't think of a worthy justification yet.#I really really like how the scarring turned out.#OC: Ru'thûn#OC: La'zaar
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No real caption... my ability to draw is not here today so here are low-quality besties.
#Don't let Ru'thûn's... [gestures at her head] fool you... I think her and La'zaar are the same size.#Ru'thûn is just armoured like Havel the Rock...#Mm. Maybe I will post that La'zaar bust. Depends.#OC: Ru'thûn#OC: La'zaar#I can draw good I promise... Nothing cooperates physically today.
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I will redo her head entirely because this was initially a very low-stakes sketch and then I got fancy with the armour, but...
#I really really like how her armour has turned out.#Previously I found the iterations of her armour to be too rigid and kind of un-Hivelike...#What I mean is that the pieces of the armour lacked the kind of... weathered ''rotted'' metal look I was after.#I love her collar. There's a kind of Elizabethan ruff quality to it that I like.#OC: Ru'thûn#blackwax art
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Trying to set my house in order and compile a list...
#OC: Ru'thûn#My notes for Hive OC things are scattered across dozens of half-finished screeds made over years...#I like making lists...#Especially in this manner...#As far as seclusion I would liken the Lash to that of the Silent Brood. Found only in one place...#The Infernal Swarm are a purely incursive sect.#Though their appearance in one's Throne world portends an extinction event.#Are they called the Infernal Swarm because they are likened to demons amongst Hive..?#Or perhaps it is because they are quite literally aflame...#As all of Ru'thûn's Broods they are heavily armoured.#In most cases you'll not notice the fire outright. The smoke plumes from the gaps in their visors...#Getting close to them is a terrible idea... Unfortunately their warfare is that of blades.#Let them get close to you I promise your flesh will not melt from proximity...#As a joke for myself I tend to refer to them as the ''Brazen Brood of Ru'thûn''... like the ''(Brazen) bull of Phalaris''. Makes me giggle.
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Ru'thûn has no chitin on one side of her face, and so you can see the muscle fibres bulge whenever she tenses or snarls or does anything of the sort...
The Deep burned away the very matrices upon which new chitin could form, and what remains beneath is weak, desiccated flesh. It's quite visually repulsive... I suppose it is an equivalent phenomenon to herniated muscles.
#Most of the damage is obscured by her vizor...#A keen eye could likely still see some of the irregularity however.#OC: Ru'thûn
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Ru'thûn body... it was intended to be a more featureless statue as Throne decor.
look at my Broodqueen, boy.
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"Ru'thûn is a natural vector of Light-eating tetanus" is my favourite undiscussed lore of her.
#oc: ru'thûn#the surface of her armour is so laden with tetanolysin that a cursory Ghost scan would declare it /produces/ it.#this is not true. the airless crevices of her armour are host to some form of Clostridium tetani.#unfortunate and easily-overlooked scrapes on your dermis from encounters with her—however brief—#are enough to begin the process of agonising the body with a unique form of tetanospasmin.#i'll write more later. another time.#i know the lore is somewhere... (avoids eye contact with my drafts)
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