Some ocs lol. These designs aren't finalized, but I felt like sharing anyway.
First off, the iterator. Based on a joke that went too far.
Pre-rot name is Apparent Superstitious Struggle, post-rot name is Absolute Sh*t Show. He was part of a group of iterators nowhere near the game. He was nervous until anxiety, then depression, giving the rot the ability to infect his systems. After he was fully infected, the rot altered his programming enough to make him incredibly sporadic and psychotic. He began creating demonic rot creatures to hunt down his fellow iterators.
On the other end, the scug in this the Healer. They were sent by another iterator, Burning Beneath the Stars, in order to cure Struggle with their healing saliva. They are able to pacify creatures by fighting them and healing their wounds. They can also cure his rot creatures.
Reverse Artificer, if you will.
They make many trips to Stuggle to help him, each visit showing him getting worse until he completely blocked out the Healer from entering. The rot creatures then come out and the Healer gets to work helping them. When they manage to get into Struggle's superstructure, Struggle, now Show, threatens to kill them. However, he has come to like the scug and offers them a place in his corruption.
If they say no, they die, and the campaign ends. If they say yes, they become the Infector. They get way more jacked with projectile corrosive spit. This also creates rot that corrupts other creatures, making creatures a bit more tolorent to them and way more aggressive to other creatures. So, they basically become Artificer in the killing sense. They also can't assend.
Fun stuff. This is still a work in progress, but I sorta like what I have rn.
Have a good day dudes :))