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Hey everyone!
Was brainstorming with a friend and roughly have cooked up a character that takes inspiration from Dorian Gray in that he has a cursed painting.
So their lore:
The man is a cheat/trickster from the south so they would talk with a charming southern twang. looking somewhat fancy as he is someone you could find in gambling dens (so he would know wraith well enough). He is known by the nickname 'Wyoming'. Why? Because it would be funny dialogue if when mirage interacts with him he acts confused why their are TWO Wyomings.
An old acquaintance of Lady Geist and charlatan in their heyday. Now finding themselves a local politician back south with a desire of wanting power and influence they traveled to the Cursed Apple to find the Mystic capable of placing binding Oathkeeper. He had employed their skills to make a pact with a spirit that could grant him such. He asked the spirit for power and all he had to do was trade his soul. He accepted and shortly after he bound the spirit to a painting of himself thinking this would circumvent their agreement. As he bound the spirit to the portrait, he unknowingly bound his soul to the state of New York. Now unable to leave, he seeks the patrons power to allow him to leave his city prison.
That is the lore, the gist of it being the cheat/trickster could not out do the spirit in wits. He thought his plan to bind it to the portrait of himself would cheat their pact, but it traps him in New York (as my friend said "do to some layline bullshit" lol). Now he seeks higher powers to override the pact so that he can return. Same idea of how Geist wants to deal with Oathkeeper
they would have fun lore drop dialogue with Geist groaning about the burdens of dealing with spirit pacts and Wraith implying she knows about his cheating or asking for him to come by again.
I realized I cant really flesh out upgrades so just throwing out WHAT the abilities would be.
Kit/abilities/weapon:
Weapon: Revolver- make it interesting a double chamber revolver that has two ammo cylinders allowing for both barrels to fire in quick succession or at the same time.
1st- spin the revolver barrel, reloading and giving a lucky shot proc to the bullets upon activating. When ult is active, all bullets will activate the lucky shot proc, gaining bonus spirit scaling. I do like the idea of an upgrade increasing their ammo size or perhaps their ammo capacity scales with spirt so that in their amplified state it will passively increase ammo size.
2nd ability- An escape/evade ability. Jump INTO the painting to become temporarily immune to damage. Like pockets brief case. Where damage comes from reflecting damage back while he is in the painting. While ult is active, when in the portrait emit an aura siphoning spirit resist.
3rd ability- Half baked idea, but i want it to be a play on the idea of campaign Mudslinging and/or his talent of a silvered tongue trickster. Like in using this ability it draws all NPC aggression to the target while decreasing their resistances allowing your team to deal more damage.
Or maybe as long as their are allies around or based on the number of players in this ability- so like a large AOE silence wave in a sphere around himself- for the total amount of people in his sphere of influence grant buffs to yourself and teammates and equal value debuffs to the enemies inside. When activated during his ult, the could be increased values or adding an affect that would synergize with the bonus spirit scaling.
4th ability- The ultimate plays around the idea of this spirit having his soul. Their binding of this spirit allows him to shortly manifest their powers. Trading places with the spirit in the portrait in exchange for power. When swapped all of his abilities receive large scaling of spirit. Their weapon damage converts to spirit damage with generous spirit scaling too. Their is no timer for the duration of the form, however, receive damage as the ability continues to be active.
Visually i can it as him interacting with this portrait and he stretches it tall and the switch happens.
At the very least I can see deadlock having a snake oil salesman politician who happens to be indulging in some mysticism. Thoughts? Agree or disagree on that? The kit is honestly second to me writing some lore and where they could fit into the world of Deadlock! If anyone likes the character lore but would do the kit differently go for it!
Was brainstorming with a friend and roughly have cooked up a character that takes inspiration from Dorian Gray in that he has a cursed painting.
So their lore:
The man is a cheat/trickster from the south so they would talk with a charming southern twang. looking somewhat fancy as he is someone you could find in gambling dens (so he would know wraith well enough). He is known by the nickname 'Wyoming'. Why? Because it would be funny dialogue if when mirage interacts with him he acts confused why their are TWO Wyomings.
An old acquaintance of Lady Geist and charlatan in their heyday. Now finding themselves a local politician back south with a desire of wanting power and influence they traveled to the Cursed Apple to find the Mystic capable of placing binding Oathkeeper. He had employed their skills to make a pact with a spirit that could grant him such. He asked the spirit for power and all he had to do was trade his soul. He accepted and shortly after he bound the spirit to a painting of himself thinking this would circumvent their agreement. As he bound the spirit to the portrait, he unknowingly bound his soul to the state of New York. Now unable to leave, he seeks the patrons power to allow him to leave his city prison.
That is the lore, the gist of it being the cheat/trickster could not out do the spirit in wits. He thought his plan to bind it to the portrait of himself would cheat their pact, but it traps him in New York (as my friend said "do to some layline bullshit" lol). Now he seeks higher powers to override the pact so that he can return. Same idea of how Geist wants to deal with Oathkeeper
they would have fun lore drop dialogue with Geist groaning about the burdens of dealing with spirit pacts and Wraith implying she knows about his cheating or asking for him to come by again.
I realized I cant really flesh out upgrades so just throwing out WHAT the abilities would be.
Kit/abilities/weapon:
Weapon: Revolver- make it interesting a double chamber revolver that has two ammo cylinders allowing for both barrels to fire in quick succession or at the same time.
1st- spin the revolver barrel, reloading and giving a lucky shot proc to the bullets upon activating. When ult is active, all bullets will activate the lucky shot proc, gaining bonus spirit scaling. I do like the idea of an upgrade increasing their ammo size or perhaps their ammo capacity scales with spirt so that in their amplified state it will passively increase ammo size.
2nd ability- An escape/evade ability. Jump INTO the painting to become temporarily immune to damage. Like pockets brief case. Where damage comes from reflecting damage back while he is in the painting. While ult is active, when in the portrait emit an aura siphoning spirit resist.
3rd ability- Half baked idea, but i want it to be a play on the idea of campaign Mudslinging and/or his talent of a silvered tongue trickster. Like in using this ability it draws all NPC aggression to the target while decreasing their resistances allowing your team to deal more damage.
Or maybe as long as their are allies around or based on the number of players in this ability- so like a large AOE silence wave in a sphere around himself- for the total amount of people in his sphere of influence grant buffs to yourself and teammates and equal value debuffs to the enemies inside. When activated during his ult, the could be increased values or adding an affect that would synergize with the bonus spirit scaling.
4th ability- The ultimate plays around the idea of this spirit having his soul. Their binding of this spirit allows him to shortly manifest their powers. Trading places with the spirit in the portrait in exchange for power. When swapped all of his abilities receive large scaling of spirit. Their weapon damage converts to spirit damage with generous spirit scaling too. Their is no timer for the duration of the form, however, receive damage as the ability continues to be active.
Visually i can it as him interacting with this portrait and he stretches it tall and the switch happens.
At the very least I can see deadlock having a snake oil salesman politician who happens to be indulging in some mysticism. Thoughts? Agree or disagree on that? The kit is honestly second to me writing some lore and where they could fit into the world of Deadlock! If anyone likes the character lore but would do the kit differently go for it!
