Ruth Baxter

Ruth Baxter is a lab assistant aboard the Hyperion Three, caught in the crossfire of Doland Riven’s illegal botanical hybridization experiments. Once a methodical technician, she now exists as a half-transformed hybrid—thick green veins web across her limbs while a single leaf sprouts from her skull, her nervous system yielding to synthetic botanical invasion. Her final moments burn through the pain as she issues desperate warnings about the experiments’ lethal consequences, her voice cutting through the chaos before dying in Doland’s machinery. A cautionary figure, she embodies both victim and unintentional catalyst for the disaster unfolding around her.