So... was Oryx a Disciple?

Rhulk makes a deal with the Worms while they are practically dying and you think this is an incredible feat of power. Meanwhile Oryx kills Akka the most powerful Worm of all, while the Worms were at their peak of power and you have the audacity to speak that Oryx hasn't done anything that comes close to Rhulk. LOL. Again, Rhulk's meeting with the Worms is the equivalent of Goku dying of cancer, I get to his bed with him literally dying, and I make a deal with him and say that I beat Goku: See how I took him as a slave. -- Seriously, this is idiotic. In fact, not even Rhulk claims something of the genre, the only ones who say that are people from the fandom like you. Indeed, Rhulk himself recognized and envied the power of the Worms.

Savathun alone imprisons Rhulk and leaves him in a state where he doesn't even know if he'll make it out alive, the only reason he doesn't die is because he manages to use Scorn to corner her and the fact that he spent billions of years analyzing her. In conservative estimations of power. If you consider that each of the sisters is the same level as Savathun, what do you think would happen if Rhulk faced all 3 together? I answer you, he would die without having the slightest chance.

Rhulk is not much stronger than Nezarec, Nezarec's bad luck was that Savathun took him completely by surprise, meanwhile Rhulk was literally sent to spy on her, for billions of years, which allowed him to know her, her abilities, her personality, her tricks, this made it impossible for her to approach him like she did to Nezarec, otherwise he too would be dead like Nezarec.

"My Witness… whether I survive Savathûn's betrayal or not, the Upended will ensure we salvage our perfect goal. The final abyss… awaits us all."

Oryx is stronger than all the sisters combined, and that's not to mention the power to take. Savathun is the weakest, followed by Xivu Arath and then Oryx, Xivu Arath was able to cut planets in half, in one lore she cuts multiple moons in half with a single swing of his sword, Crota is able to do the same, Crota was able to destroy worlds with his sword, so much so that this is one of Crota's own titles, Crota didn't need an Upended to destroy worlds, he simply took his sword and split the worlds in half, simple swings of Crota's sword were capable of leaving craters on the Moon, and Oryx considered Crota a failure at times.

Auryx on her walk through space froze entire worlds and broke them just by passing near them (theory: Auryx was using stasis in this lore), the simple act of her walking through the vacuum of space and passing close to planets was enough to freeze- them and destroy them. Seriously, there is nothing in Rhulk's lore that has feats like that of Oryx that I just mentioned or of his sisters cutting moons and planets, again his only feat is to face and take a rib from a character who has no feat and who served as a lookout for a group of individuals who were literally dying of starvation and who if left in that situation would die. Rib that this character could have another thousand ribs and he didn't even miss the one that Rhulk took. Oryx's power was so great that Savathun and Xivu Arath had to abandon him and leave him alone, Oryx's power was so great that his sisters simply began to accept the fact that he was ridiculously powerful and became more concerned with the fact that Oryx's own sons would also surpass them, with Savathun becoming jealous of Oryx's daughters, and Xivu Arath fearing Crota's overwhelming power, with Crota often being compared to Xivu Arath. Considering the fact that Rhulk was trapped and almost died by Savathun, Oryx doesn't even have to face Rhulk, Crota single-handedly destroys Rhulk. Crota and Xivu Arath take Rhulk for dessert.

Savathun, Xivu Arath, Oryx, they are not considered gods for nothing, they are more than capable of killing any disciple of the Witness singlehandedly. Stop overestimating Rhulk, he's strong but he's not that strong, the Witness themselves say that there are dozens of beings at the same level or higher than him. Nezarec in general terms is a bigger threat than Rhulk, if I were some advanced civilization I would be much more concerned to know that Nezarec is coming to invade me than Rhulk.

The only reason we were able to kill Crota and Oryx is because they are extremely weakened when we fought them, with Oryx having his own worm start to devour him when we faced him in King's Fall, that's how weak he was, but still it is said that we only won because he came to the Solar System as a father in search of revenge, if he had come as King of the Hive he would have won.

Rhulk was full power but he didn't fight seriously, he only fought in the end and that's why he lost. Oryx didn't even fight seriously the entire war, he was extremely weakened and literally dying without the guardians doing anything, and even in this state he would have won if it weren't for his hatred blinding his judgment, that's a feat hundreds of times more incredible than Rhulk.

Rhulk is strong, and in the ideal and favorable scenario for him, he can even become a threat to a Hive God like Savathun who is not physically strong, as happened when Savathun herself faced him and was at a disadvantage, but that does not mean that he can defeat any of them and at any time, even with Savathun he almost died and he was still trapped, and even when he was trapped inside the Pyramid he still believed that he could die and that would happen at any moment. If he was in the same position as Nezarec he would definitely have died.

When you look at his feats in the lore, Rhulk in terms of power is exactly where you would expect someone in his role to be, he is a threat to the Hive Gods and other powerful beings in the Destiny universe, powerful enough to fulfill your mission as a disciple, but weak enough that the Witness needs more disciples, and weak enough that other allies of the Witness gain prominence, with Rhulk himself feeling envy of them or anger at a being he considers to be inferior, getting on the list of candidates to become a disciple.

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