[Hero] Saint | Nun with a Gun (many guns actually. and artillery. and a nuke.) | [WAR] [IS] [HELL]

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The Great War, spurred on by the power vacuum immediately following the first Maelstrom, was a time of the most catastrophic violence the world had ever seen. The tremendous growing pain of a world expanding to fit its new bounds. Cities and countrysides leveled by dark, feral magic its casters could not even comprehend, thrown out with the soul intent to destroy. The world has moved on from this dark age, forbade and censored such hideous mystic horrors so they may never fall into any's hands again, but its weeping wounds still remain. The Saint is one of them.

A simple woman of the cloth, whose home in rural Germany was razed into no man's land, she was caught at the epicenter impact of a demonic bomb, frozen in horror and awe at the sight and whistle of it falling upon her... and yet, burning from within and without, surrounded by rubble and blood, she rose still from the ashes. The infernal blast found a home in her reverence for its power.

A figure of mystery, known only by stories of horrendous casualty and the smell of brimstone, the Saint now joins the ritual with the stated wish to "cleanse the world of war for good," though her endless infernal arsenal would suggest some complexity to that seemingly pacifist goal.

Her weapon, Deliverance, is a heavy, mid-range rifle with a 3.4 second long reload that, uniquely, scales with spirit, going down to around 2 seconds at high spirit power.

Ability Notes:

Rocket jumping with Bombard gets you just above a McGinnis wall without double jumping, in terms of height.

Strafe is a sustained channel during which you cannot shoot or cast abilities (other than prepping your ult), and the portal stays in your hands during the channel, allowing you to shield yourself and aim it around. Its area of effect is a widening cone (like Nox Nostra) that has damage falloff identical to that of her weapon.

If you die during the detonation delay of Rapture, it doesn't go off.

Personality and Character Interactions:
She is uniquely dissociative in a very specific way - the war harrows her to this day, and yet it is what she is, the singular focus and lens by which she sees the world and acts, and the only way she can reconcile that is to practically shed her human self, speaking almost entirely in terms of faith and justice, her dialogue a continuous sermon.
Though she is devoutly Christian still, she does not speak of God much in her dialogue - While she believes in the divine and most certainly the infernal, she no longer believes in a singular, loving God, for no benevolent and omnipotent force could have put war on this earth.

• Seven respects her deeply. She, in turn, loathes him on a spiritual level.
• She shares a mutual respect with Vindicta and Grey Talon.
• Ivy wearily looks up to her.
• Her and Warden apparently fought at some point in the past. She disregarded the event, while he is still looking to neutralize her.
• Drifter comments on how "homely" her infernal armory is to be around.
• She actively indicts and lambasts McGinnis and Fairfax as a whole at every given opportunity for being warmongers. She respects Pocket for trying to get out of that, after she learns who they are.
• She quotes an old German story and Paige absolutely geeks out about it.
• Lash calls her "chrome dome," "Mommy MOAB," and "babe-tist" multiple times, and says that she should 'worship' him just as many times. She is miraculously one of few on the cast to actually find him even half as funny as he does himself.

(I would draw her myself like I did Mortimer but im so tireeeddd and just wanna get her kit out now so you get Artillery Witch mini)