destiny heritage posts

other media wants their aliens and monsters to have aesthetic appeal above anything else; even if something is meant to horrify you, they want it to be good to look at. anything that makes a design unattractive past a certain point is usually left on the cutting room floor. and this is an understandable practice! humans are a very aesthetically inclined species!

but look at the aliens in destiny!

they’ve got weird stuff going on! cabal faces straight up look like a scrotum! psions are soooo egg-shaped and malnourished looking, and hive have a bad case of muppet mouth on top of looking like human skeletons with bug parts grafted on. eliksni are gangly and awkwardly shaped and in-game they are constantly hunched over.

a lot of the times (except for with the hive), these features are covered with armor and helmets, and i think that's pretty unfortunate because the base designs for these guys are so interesting to look at!!!

the same principals go for unique enemies like rhulk and nezarec. they're ugly!!! and that's the appealing part!!! rhulk's head is long and almost perfectly cylindrical and his feet can't decide if they're hooves or paws; nezarec has a face like a rotary phone and a second, vestigial thumb, as well as weirdly shaped monkey feet.

and it would be one thing if these features were presented to evoke horror -- but the thing is, i would argue, they're not. they're just presented. it's never a matter of "look how scary this thing is." even though we meet most of these aliens as enemies, their looks are allowed to just... be what they are. they don't look like that to scare us. they just look like that.

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Taniks, the Scarred - a classic. died four (five?) times and it’s inferred he’s not quite done yet because I heard that after you defeat him in DSC you can still hear him laugh

Omnigul - died, then canonically came back (“undid her death”), which infers she has a throne world, and as we have yet to kill her in her throne world, she’s most likely still vibing there

Saint-14 - we’ve SEEN his grave, then Season of Dawn happened

Tevis Larsen - we see his body in the Black Garden, then years later Aspect is released and tells us how his consciousness is in fact very much alive and trapped there

Praedyth - we see his skeleton in the Vault, then, once again, Aspect is released and tells us he is still in some way trapped there. Now time is a blurry mush when the Vex are involved, but I believe what’s happening in Aspect is being caused by either the Darkness closing in on Sol or the Lunar pyramid stirring - so as this is a paracausal force, it can very well mess with Praedyth’s fate and allow him to escape the Vault safely before he dies there. If you want to debate this, @ing me is very welcomed!!

Ir Yût - we kill her in Crota’s throne world, but then she can be seen attending his death ceremony in TTK

The Undying Mind - the name says it all. We kill it twice in D1 and then it comes back yet again in Season of the Undying

Xol - we kill him in Warmind, but in the Whisper mission he still whispers to us and it’s inferred he actually lives, in some way, within the Whisper of the Worm sniper rifle

Mara Sov - she literally died in TTK and came back only because she found a way to escape into Oryx’s throne world and then into her own

Toland - he died (at least his body was sundered) but then also Ascended and is now an orb

Omar Agah - Eris (and all of us) believed him to be dead, but then we learn in Shadowkeep he’s actually a bug

Asher Mir - the Exodus quest and lorebook made it seem like he died, but then the friendly Harpy morse-codes “ASSISTANT” to us, so like… you know

Ana Bray - believed to be dead at Twilight Gap, turned out to actually be in hiding so she could discover her past

Lady Efrideet - believed to be dead by everyone including her closest friends (Saladin and Tyra), turned out to have run off to form a pacifist colony in the outer system

Nokris - we kill him in Warmind, he later comes back in Season of Arrivals

Sepiks Prime - we kill him in D1 vanilla, in RoI is ressurected by SIVA

Atheon - we canonically kill him again in TTK as a part of the No Time to Explain quest

Techeun Shuro Chi - believed to have died in the battle of Saturn, turned out she was Taken and later freed by Guardians

Techeun Sedia - same as above

Techeun Kalli - same as above

Paladin Leona Bryl - believed to have died in the battle of Saturn, turned out she survived and later was supportive of Petra in the political clash about whether she should take the position of Queen or not

Urzok, Aspect of Hate - formerly Urzok, the Hated, killed by Guardians and later resurrected and Taken by Xol, fought again in the Whisper mission

Drevis, Aspect of Darkness - formerly Drevis, Wolf Baroness, killed by Guardians and later resurrected by Xol in the same manner as Urzok

Ta'aurc, Aspect of War - formerly Valus Ta’aurc (yes, the Valus Ta’aurc), killed by Guardians and later resurrected by Xol. He is encountered yet again in Dares of Eternity, and from Xûr’s words it appears he recognises his killer so it’s still the same person

Crota - killed by Guardians, encountered again in Dares of Eternity - from Xûr’s words it appears he recognises his killer so it’s still the same person

Zydron, Gate Lord - same as above

28. Alak-Hul, the Darkblade

12. Asher Mir: Escaped into the Vex network at the end of Exodus. Brought us and Misraaks along for a fun little field trip this year before ditching us to go do more cool Vex stuff. 30. Oryx: His heart’s in Touch of Malice and his body’s not actually doing anything atm but it’s just like. Percolating on Titan’s floor. And uh. growing?

Submitting for consideration:

34. Ir Anûk & Ir Halak - the only way to unlock their Grimoire cards is killing them at Crota’s death ceremony in Last Rites, they come back later in the raid. They’re also the creators of the Oversoul, so it would be strange if they didn’t have any means of preventing themselves from dying

35. Šimmumah Ur-Nokru - killed in Warmind, comes back as Lucent

36. Ecthar, Sword of Oryx / Shield of Savathûn - killed in TTK, comes back as Lucent

37. Vorlog - one of the Court of Oryx bosses, comes back as “risen in heresy” in Ghosts of the Deep and killing him over and over is part of the mechanics. Where do you keep all these corpses Sav????

38. Kudazad, Binder of Savathûn / Bound to Xivu Arath - a high value target from Titan, later their skull is found by Kelgorath and they get resurrected to serve Xivu Arath

39. Val Ca'uor - Spire of Stars boss who later gets resurrected and Taken by Xivu Arath, returning in Season of the Deep

40. Praksis the Technocrat / the Defiled - killed in Beyond Light, returns as a Scorn in Seraph

41. Phyris / Once-Phyris, the Exhumed Tether - Eramis’ friend who was resurrected as a Scorn after death

42. Kabr - Kabr’s Glass Aegis loretab quite bluntly says “i speak again and was wrong i am still him and i am now them” (a reference to iirc The Aegis grimoire card, where Kabr’s last words are “If I speak again, I am not Kabr”), so. There.

45. Randal the Vandal - originally from D1 vanilla, comes back in RoI as Perfected, and then again in the 30th Anniversary Pack

46. Eramis - killed in Beyond Light, returns in Plunder

47. Sloane - in the same vein as Asher, presumed dead / MIA after Arrivals but returns in Deep

50. Fikrul, the Fanatic - it’s his whole shtick at this point lol

51. KELGORATH

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