Volcanic Destroyer

## Traits

**Volcanic Destroyer** is one of the Shadow Creatures. It is one of two that reside in Streamisp.

## Official description

*"The damsel of destruction, the one that lurks within the lava, one that swears to shroud whole biomes with cyan lava and purpling rocks... both of which are signs of its incoming presence. It is said that Volcanic Belt is the result of the untamed rage of this creature. Rage that not even the Energy Crystals that safeguard Streamisp can contain."*

## Character

### Physical appearance

Volcanic Destroyer takes the shape of a genie-like humanoid with dark purple skin, fragmented on the skull cap and arms, revealing bright cyan lava with ocean blue gradients. It has cyan insides featuring rounded eyes in a permanent state of tears, blackish eyebrows, and it wields a yellow diamond along with a blackish, zig-zag diadem.

Behind its head, Volcanic Destroyer has a flowing mane, also made of bright cyan and ocean blue lava. On its elbows, it has blackish diamonds, and its hands are large, dark purple claws. While it often hides its bottom body within lava, it consists of eight, merged tentacles. It wears layered, dress-like armor with a yellow diamond above where the heart would go.

### Personality

Being a Shadow Creature, Volcanic Destroyer is mindless and all it properly thinks of is to bring hecatomb to where they've been assigned to -in its case, Streamisp.

## Development

Volcanic Destroyer was conceptualized in Late 2021, though the earliest hints of it date from Late 2020. Its original name was **Oriba Cruzana**, and it was created as one of LastyGhost's character designs for *CRiTORA*.

Oriba was a Volcano CRiTORA whose presence could be indicated by faraway smoldering. Aside from this, not much was revealed about the character as most of the plans intended for it were canceled: while never publicly revealed or discussed at the time, the form of Volcanic Destroyer was originally intended as a second form for Oriba's infected self.

Its intentions were the same: it would have destroyed everything and then be taken down by one of the project's main characters. Because this was too absurdly dark for *CRiTORA* the idea was quickly scrapped.

The concept would not be reutilized until Early 2023, in which the alternate form was the revival of Oriba, but now as the actual character form. The place it hails from has been known with *Reckon Crystal*: it is currently unclear if this character will appear in its confirmed sequel.

### Design

Oriba Cruzana's design consisted of a sentient volcano without much going on aside from sporting a band with a rhombus-shaped emblem on it, and optional thunder; in Late 2022, she was given squared eyes and fuzzy eyebrows, though most of her design was the same.

When it was first produced, Volcanic Destroyer had wings on its arms and a simpler design, though its color palette was mostly the same. It would not be changed until its redesign as a LastyGhost character in Early 2023, in which the wings were replaced with a mane.

### Name

Its nickname alludes to its volcanic origin and intentions should it not be stopped on time.

## Trivia

* It is referred to as a damsel despite being genderless.