#ektayuk

SkekEkt X SkekAyuk (EktAyuk) - The Dark Crystal

Skeksis are a violent evil species who all fight each other and backstab. Not SkekEkt and SkekAyuk. They hang out, gossip, discuss their tastes and health, and SkekAyuk held a welcome home banquet just for SkekEkt. There is a reason why the fandom has shipped them and seen them as the Gomez and Morticia of TDC for years.

SkekVar/SkekZok - The dark crystal

SkekAyuk:

Out of all the Skeksis, skekAyuk is the biggest pleasure seeker. He’s addicted to the short highs he gets from indulging in pleasures as a way to cope with his fear of death and keeps doing so at the expense of everyone around him, mostly Gelfling. 

Aside from eating, skekAyuk also copes by making jokes about his own stress. He surprisingly leans towards a lot of self-depreciating humor.

He gets impatient waiting for food to be ready. This is part of the reason why (aside from their tendency towards sadism) the Skeksis’ cuisine involves a lot of raw, and living, animals. 

SkekAyuk can be one of the most dangerous Skeksis when enraged, especially when he feels cornered. His strength when in this temperament can be comparable to some of the stronger Skeksis. 

SkekEkt:

Since skekEkt is in charge of architecture, he often goes out of the Castle to oversee construction projects all throughout the Skarith region. 

His vanity hides his growing self-consciousness over his aging body. A lot of his trial and error makeup is done to find ways to make himself look younger at the expense of the podlings he experimented on. SkekEkt also loves, along with the equally self-conscious skekOk, making fun of the other Skeksis and Gelfling for various surface-level reasons (and towards each other in secret).

SkekEkt is scarily attentive to detail to the point of having the best emotional intelligence out of all of the Skeksis. He is able to tell what someone is going through right away and is very skilled at picking up secret information. He even rivals skekSil in that regard. The Chamberlain would seek skekEkt for his information to use for his own ploys and saw the Ornamentalist as a powerful political ally.