it appears that ryuu ended up stumbling upon the bal'kar...and ultimately became one herself.....the method of the transformation was a quite literal rebirth, consumed by anothers feeder-tentacles she ended up a squishling within an egg...feeling the love of her new family, the bal'kar....when she emerged she was quite energetic...and here she is as a fully developed member of the bal'kar hive~ perhaps you'd like to join her? im sure she wouldn't mind helping you become a part of her family~


so i recently stumbled upon the whole concept of the bal'kar, particularly through a recent comissioner funny enough....and after a while ended up making what i think is the forth(fifth?) alternate form of ryuu
this one being another that developed through some lovely and rather wholesome rp~

to give a rather short summary of the rp, ryuu met some particularly friendly bal'kar, and after learning much about the species from him...realized that the bal'kar are basically one big...and quite lustful family of sorts. this...dug up feelings of longing in ryuu...
due to her rather tragic backstory of losing her family and all her loved ones in a bloody and brutal attack she was left to wander...her and the few others who survived... because of this she broke down into tears, hugging the kar in question, who was in their guised form..the kar comforted her, having suffered similar tragedy...and essentially offered her a place...with a new family...the bal'kar

in the end ryuu accepted this offer and was swallowed by a feeder tentacle, and reborn as part of the hive

hopefully you enjoy this~ i have a couple other kar-related artworks related so stay tuned ~

Edit: I may go back and redesign this, seems I got some details wrong
No biggie kars are like

Super complicated tbh-