EDIT: Padzi's contest is over, and I didn't win, but it's all good. There was some real tough competition, and the girls who won are very lovely. I'm happy for Sley and his younger brother, who got a girl outta it too. At any rate, since she isn't with Sley, Rukiseyo's single. Yatta~! that's all for now.

This is Ruki, my newest Saiyaness, and an entry for 's contest; to create a female Saiyan for her character Sley. I know there's a lot of tough competition out there, and I am joining pretty late in the game, but maybe my girl will still have a shot, ey?~

I'm rather proud of her.

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-=RUKI=-
Name: Rukiseyo (pro: Roo-kEE-say-oh)
Vegetable Origin: "Leek+Leek" ; Rik-u = Leek (Japanese), Seiyounegi = Leek (Japanese)
Age: 21 (age depicted)
Sex: Female
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 214lbs.
Sexual Preference: male
Race: Full blooded Saiyan
Class: Middle
Date of Birth: April 21
Sign: Taurus
Occupation(s): A priestess once, vagabond and common brawler currently.
Mate: Single
Family: Currently unknown, presumably alive.
Hobbies: Likes to gamble, likes to collect bones tends to make things out of them; (toys, weapons, or jewelry), likes to show off her strength as a warrior.
Quirks: Can't stomach spicy foods, thinks her scar is both beautiful and ugly, actually has a deep-rooted fear of men.

Weapons: None to speak of; her own two fists do the job just fine.

Personality: Brash and overly confident, Ruki is your typical Saiyan woman. She is headstrong and enjoys laughing in the face of danger. She also prides herself in displaying her strength as a warrior and is quick to take up any challenge. She is always eager to explore new places and constantly itching to travel to new worlds. That all might change if she meets the right man, however... ; )

Deep down, despite her pride as a warrior, she thinks that her scar makes her ugly and that no man would find her beautiful because of it.

Appearance: Standard black hair and black eyes, dark brown tail. Rukiseyo tends to tie her hair back in a warrior’s knot, but allows a portion to hang down over her shoulders. She wears two small gold colored beads in this portion of hair. Her bangs fall messily over her face, and they tend to cover her left eye, which irritates her slightly; it gets in the way when she fights.
She has a light creamy-pink skin tone, with a very large, very distinct scar over her chest...
Ruki wears a tattered pastel-green leotard, customized hip pads and a matching customized shoulder pad, altered armor which has one strap and laps over itself, short black gloves with gold bracelets, shoulder and tail bands, tall black boots with gold tips, two earring in her left ear, and a small black (*Hanato) necklace with a glowing, green stone. Rukiseyo also has three tribal tattoos; two circle's under each eye, and two swirls with two circles on her left arm. All three tattoos seem to glow green; This is because the ink was imbedded in her skin using the same type of stone she wears around her neck; the tattoos glow brightest in the dark and react to the moonlight.


Bio: Rukiseyo is one of few children who did not starve to death during infancy; she was born on Vegetasei's second, smaller moon, to the colony of Saiyans who lived under lady Shegau's rule. (See full story of the moon colony and the Numbers here - [link] ). While she was just a pup life was a daily struggle; her parents, as well as all of the other colonists, were just trying to get by and survive on scraps, while avoiding being beaten or tortured by Shegau's men as best they could. It was tough, but her family managed to keep her alive, and safe.

Before the girl's second birthday, the spaceship that was to take Shegau and her men to earth had been completed, and Ruki's family was left behind along with all the rest of those who 'didn't matter'. The colonists on the moon were initially sure that they were going to starve to death and slowly rot away, but as luck would have it, one of the former-numbers who'd been left behind knew how to over-write the access codes to the space cursors that had been abandoned along with them. She and four others then left the moon colony, on only a promise to return, in order to find a refuge for the eighty-some-odd Saiyans who had been left behind. Through their combine efforts, the team managed to find a planet not too far away and lead the way to the new world, one wave at a time. Ruki's family was taken to their new home on the second wave.

Once settled on a predominantly aquatic planet, full of marshes and bogs, the Saiyans began to rebuild on their own, in wooded tree-house like structures. They held an election and voted a middle-class male (who had been the one of the leading member of the 'five heroes' that saved the colony) as their new leader. Everything seemed to be going smoothly; the colony was beginning to prosper, and the old ways of Saiyan life and tradition lived on, revived on this un-named world and beginning to flourish.

Along with Saiyan tradition, religion was also restored. Seven children were chosen to be respective representatives of the seven Saiyan gods;

Dainichi, the God of Larger Sun
Irihi, the God of Lesser Sun
Tsuchi, the Goddess of Earth (Soil)
Midorichi-zu, the Goddess of the Moon
Koudo, the God of Strength
Zensen, the God of Battle
and Isshougai, the Goddess of Life and Death.

Ruki was one of the seven children who were selected to be a voice for the gods, a very proud, and honored title, respected by all.

The girl became the priestess of Koudo, who gifted the children of Irihi with strength and solidity in all things. She was given tribal tattoos to mark her as such; 'Inner strength'.

Now, for every Saiyan life is battle, and of course, the seven priests and priestesses who had been selected to represent the god's were granted this inherent right. They were nothing like the “riests and priestesses” of Earth; they were, in fact, encouraged heavily to spar with only one another so that they could become the strongest possible, amongst one each other.

They were also given liberty to do as they saw fit, assuming that it pleased their designated God. They were given unlimited recourses and limitless privileges. However, the only right they were not granted was the right breed; they were 'mated' to the god whose name they had taken on, and lived to serve them wholly. (Hence why Ruki wears a *Hanato; the other six did as well).

Rukiseyo bore her title well; she was a proud and strong example of a Saiyaness, who was blessed to hear her master's voice as clear as day. She pleased him greatly, and she carried herself highly knowing that she was Koudo's living voice.
However, this was not to last.

While strong, yes, and powerful, Rukiseyo was also beautiful, and that beauty caught unwanted attention...

Though the majority of the surviving Saiyan colonists had resolved to start anew, some of the numbers who had been left behind could not for the life of them give up their old ways. One such number found himself rather taken with the young Saiyaness, and in the middle of the night, he tried to take advantage of her.

While she tried her best to fight him off, confidant that Koudo would bless her with all his strength in her hour of need, she was overpowered and eventually forced to give in. In a last ditch effort to get away, the girl clawed out an eye of the man who was defiling her sacred temple of a body. Furious, the number hurled an energy attack down on her, scarring her body and blemishing her womanhood… ([link] - she has only one nipple.)

Though Ruki tried to explain that it had been rape, that it hadn’t been her fault, and that she had tried her best to remain pure, she was already spoiled. Tainted. And there was nothing anyone could do about it. She had to accept her fate, no matter how hard it was.

For his actions, the man who ruined her was put to death, but it didn’t matter; Ruki was no longer capable of being a priestess, and no longer able to hear her God’s voice. She hadn’t been strong enough. She had let him down. She was no longer worthy.

The young Saiyaness was then told that she must leave her people forever and never return. A fallen star, she was dead to them forever.

Since that time she has been traveling through space, going from world to world to fight in tournaments and challenge new opponents in order to become stronger then before. Strong enough to take on any man who challenged her. While she acts confident and brave, with her shoulders held high as in the days past, it is all a façade that belies the truth of what’s beneath; a broken woman who feels weak and abandoned by her God. She will never admit it, for the life of her, but in secrecy, she fears men. Fears that she was made worthless because of one.

While she searches for strength, she also searches for others like her self, and a place to belong; she longs to find other Saiyan survivors whom she can bond with, since she was cast out from her own. Should she find any out there, in the vast void of space, she may finally find herself a home.

Personal Song: “Facedown” by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus ( Song: [link] / Lyrics: [link] )


((*Hanato - Short for “Jirai'yahanato”; directly translated across from Saiyango, it means, "mate-pride/honor-stone-heart". It is the necklace that the dominant partner gives to the submissive partner in my stories; usually the stone is given from male to female, but in male/male or female/female couplings the more assertive lover gives it to their mate, and in this case, the priests who served their Goddesses also bore the necklaces, because they would be nothing in comparison [power wise], to the Goddess whom they served.))

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Drawing done via tablet,
Lineart: 6hrs 41mins
Color: 3hr 22mins

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Rukiseyo, Shegau, Numbers, Hanato, story, art © *Iris-Uriko-Briefs
Shegau, Numbers, Hanato, story © *Osha-Briefs
Seven Saiyan God's © ~EleneK
Sley, Xenomorph, name ‘Changlings’ /’Monsturns’ © *Padzi
Vegetasei background image - ([link]) © ~YukiOshi
Saiyans/’Monsturns’/‘Changlings’/DB(Z/GT)/ all likeness © Akira Toriyama