Ruach

Face-up artist(s):

me

Date of acquisition:

25 August 2025 (head) // 27 November 2025 (body)

Provenance:

direct from Morolab2 (head) // Xianyu secondhand (body)

Reason for choice:

I love Morolab2's work and have wanted one of her sculpts for a long time. So happened that I had a fanged boy on my mind, Kaska caught my eye, and he wouldn't let me go.
I wanted an ANS body for my collection, and it reportedly poses well. It has a 3-part torso, which is practically a non-negotiable requirement for my dolls nowadays.

Best Points:

His aquiline nose was the #1 selling point ♥ Also love his huge eyes, and overt but tastefully designed fangs.
ANS69 is indeed excellent at posing. He has great weight distribution and stands reliably without feeling top-heavy. For a doll of his size he handles very well...

Worst Points:

...but he's still huge and heavy, probably the max that I'm comfortable with wrangling. He's got a "dorito" torso, lol, a bit too wide-shouldered and barrel-chested for my tastes - though I gotta say, he looks really good in certain types of clothes :p

Eyes:

17/7mm waterprism glass

Wig:

commissioned from 阿禾手作 (Chinese wig stylist)

Maintenance: 4.5mm diameter elastic. Arms wired with coated copper. Hot-glue sueded in chest, waist, hip joints and ankles; silicone washer in neck.

Name story:

Hebrew for breath, or spirit

Offsite roleplay:

This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.

רוּחַ​

Ruach Cherub, glory-bearer.

His bird aspect is a rukh (roc), and his season is spring's end.
A serpentine angel with a voice of a songbird and a mortal wound through his being.


Zhara says,
"A cherub! He's white, like us, but he's got horns and fangs, and he's big and really, really long. He knows how to fight too. Uh, yeah? it's really obvious? Finch and I, we just looked at him and saw right away. You know - the way they walk, hold their shoulders, react when something jumps out in front of them... we've been at it for so long, we know, okay? But we couldn't get Ruach to spar with us - he just ran away. I don't get it. If he can fight, he should want to do it. *shrugs* Meh. He's got a nice voice. I like listening to him."


Gael says,
Finch thinks that Ruach is a warrior. I... disagree. I've seen more cherubim than he has. Ruach is a herald: he shouldn't know how to wage war or come anywhere close to the battlefront. So it troubles me that Finch says that he knows how to fight. Something must've gone very wrong. Maybe that's why he came here. He's been following me around - I don't mind it, I must be familiar to him, somehow. I've been trying to make conversation, but he's very shy, and I don't think he understands sign yet. Well. If he stays nearby, I'll try to help.


The anpiel says,
We cannot save the rukh. But we shall provide a refuge. At night the jasmine breathes its scent, and the wind combs the leaves of the trees, and we will sing a song with you.


For more backstory, see Ruach's profile on my doll site