D-386 : Humbaba, Design Refresh
I was fighting this BITCH on her design for a long time, but I think I'm FINALLY satisfied with this latest stab at her. Meet Humbaba! The most meangirl of all the Destroyers and low key my favorite. I knew I needed SOMEONE with bigass horns in my lineup. I've always loved the hell out of Pluto (Astro Boy) and he's def a big point of inspa for Humbaba. Bigass horns like that are so prominent and recognizable, I wanted something like that to really stand out amongst the different headcrests of my Destroyers.
Originally I went for a more bull-like, thinner horn shape but was dissatisfied with them on her. Ended up gunning for something that more echoes a sun motif since she's got head/solar based powers. In this latest version, I pushed that wide, almost moosey sorta flange on her horns much farther and I'm finally happy with 'em. xD
(old vers, complete with the old GR instead of D back when these were still low key just fan charas XD)
For the gold, I already was poking at a fictional gold-ish metal in the world of Icebox. Almost all of my destroyers have gold bits in their design which are small pieces of sol armor or weaponry. (Nov's horn, for example). Canonically its a rare and expensive to work metal so when it does appear its usually in relatively small amounts. Which then led me to think "what if one was just PURE sol". She's named Humbaba after the demon/giant/monster in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Some versions describe Humbaba as having been raised by Utu, hence my Humbaba's solar/heat motif!