some Iska + Rhuv thoughts bc they're as blank as sheets except for how Iska gets heartbroken when Rhuv always dies first in the NPC encounter
Iska probably had a larion companion back in Bastion so she knows how to take care of animals and form relationships with them, she keeps three giant mawrats alongside Rhuv, calling them Emiya, Furu and Viko for now
Rhuv is very aggressive even for a soul eater and would hiss and snarl at pretty much anything/anyone that breaks boundaries and gets too close, there's no canon gender but I'll assign them he/him in my headcanons
Soul eaters legit have 3 sentences of lore so I'll just say in my AU they aren't officially a part of the Mawsworn unlike the shadehounds unless you somehow train them to not eat you
Rhuv definitely tried to eat Iska when they first met, he was disrupting soul transfers in the area by eating them and killing other lesser Mawsworn so Krala sent Iska to deal with him
But then a hurricane conjured by death elementals swept them both up in the middle of the fight; afterwards Iska's wing got impaled by a rock and she dislocates her left shoulder, Rhuv got hit by debris on the head and ended up disoriented with staggered movement
Now they couldn't really pick up where they left off from the fight so temporary truce
Iska sees how Rhuv tries to hunt souls but keeps missing lunges, and she realises she hasn't seen him fly at all despite having wings, not during the hurricane either or the fight. She looks closer and his wings are actually torn and injured from previous fights and he's isolated from the other soul eaters bc of his aggression as well.
And in turn Rhuv sees Iska trying to patch herself up, tries to fly but can't, and survey the area for a way back to Desmotaeron but they're in the middle of the Beastwarrens surrounded by other hostile Maw creatures/Mawsworn that don't care about an injured Mawsworn kyrian and soul eater
Iska does eventually spear some souls with her good hand so Rhuv gets food, Rhuv gets her some mawrats the same way a cat gives their owner dead rats as a gift so they survive for the time being
