The Martyr
An iterator with much cultural significance, it was revered. It is one of the first few iterators too, with its puppet having degraded and most of the organic parts missing or rotted. It is wise, and many seek out their opinion, but they say very little.
Speech: Does not use any punctuation aside from periods. Random capitalizations.
Sixteenth Boundary Collapse may have been obvious to some as a No Man's Sky reference. The reference is more than just its name (16, Boundary failures/iterations) and the crimson Atlas markings.
The horns were based off Priest Nada, and the outfit takes after Apollo. Them being a corpse is unrelated to the NMS theme though, I just felt inspired after playing the game for several hours straight during my RW fixation.
I had also designed the corpse'd version of them before I gave them a head, as the head's design wasn't all too important to me. The original concept behind the old guy was just "What if I made an iterator without a puppet?" and then realized that would prevent it from performing tasks. So instead, I went the route of just... taking its face away. Literally a "faceless" iterator. It's a hard concept to implement, and Horizon of Sulfur ended up doing it better.
I now see the puppet now as the main "control" room of an iterator, as it's where all the talking is. The rest is just as important, but the puppet gives the iterator their own face, either for themselves or their citizen's city. I can't take away SBC's puppet, but I can sure damage it to hell.
