hear me out: i kinda think of Kovik, Vosik, and Aksis as grotesque parallels to the Hunter-Titan-Warlock trio
Vosik literally guards the Wall–a different Wall, but still the same concept. he seems something of a frontline commander, the boots-on-the-ground force that propels Aksis’s grand ideals into action. even in design, he’s bulky and made for power, faceless save for his many eyes in the same way that Titan helmets tend to be domed but elaborate fortresses, and carries a literal “burden” on his shoulders
Kovik not only infiltrates places his kind previously would never have had the gall to set foot before, he sets up shop in them and makes them his. he scavenges materials and even pieces of actual enemies and modifies them for his own use–he even has echoes of Eris via his utilizing a plucked Hive eye. he’s even “hooded” in his own way, with his SIVA triangle head. he’s lean and sneaky and extremely ruthless, and his strategies (such as using an enemy of his as a distraction + offensive force against other enemies so he can pick them off from another front more easily) are inventive and could only work for someone like him
and then there’s Aksis, the mysterious religious figurehead with no origin who appears to a once-great culture now barely staving off exctinction, claiming a connection to some technological god-being. but that’s another post for another day. Aksis, ingenious and mad and cloistered away to experiment endlessly on himself until his own work literally consumes him, leaving notes and research logs behind as the only vestiges of who he was. when he appears dead, he rises seconds later, more aggressive and casting out orbs of burning death. where Warlocks are known to “float,” he is perpetually suspended above the battlefield, with no feet to touch the ground with
