[slides into your dms] hello i'm coming to you with this because you're the only one of my dash who will have the context to consider this but...
karlach in a dead by daylight crossover where the entity snatches her on the brink of death to become a killer.
thoughts?
Oh, interesting. Dare I say evil? It's an idea I've never even considered but now I'm considerin' it
Functionally as a Barbarian I'm sure her gameplay would be reminiscent of the Oni (honestly realistically she'd probably be a skin for him if she got added to the game) with a rage meter that allows her to instadown a Survivor if she hits them during it. I don't think she'd be as fast as the Oni in a Rage though, but maybe she'd also gain immunity to Blind while she's in it. Maybe it would fill up based on how long she's in Chase for rather than blood, which would be an excellent looping foil but still workable for the survivor.
Visually she'd probably be a lot more scarred up, maybe with some new tattoos styled after the Entity as marks of new ownership. Her engine might beat black or perhaps look a little more orange and ichorous like the Blight.
There's a bit of lore that I can't remember if it's fanon or canon but it says that the Entity fucks up, tortures and/or mutilates its Killers if they defy it, so I reckon Karlach would have a few more scars. Maybe that's what the new tattoos are. Maybe one of her eyes is blackened or her broken horn is.
Of course, then there's the Backstory(tm) which i went mad with as soon as I read this ask. The Entity feeds on the loss of hope, so I had to imagine in what circumstance K would completely lose that spark she has through the game. My thoughts, of course, turned to the possibility of her having to return to Avernus after everything she's been through in-game.
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The stench of Avernus had almost become comfortable. Familiar. There had been hope, once, that she would return home to Baldur's Gate. To life. But that hope had died somewhere down here and was rotting with the rest of the corpses she had left behind.
Karlach could barely remember who she was before, nor how many eternities had passed in the grip of this endless Blood War. Her skin was no longer her own, marred and marked by claims of ownership and scars alike. Flames licked at her arms, her legs, her breasts, burning fingers never leaving her be. Her chest, hollowed and replaced with infernal machinery, churned and rumbled in time with the ceaseless war drums. The only company she had were her comrades doomed to die, and the devils who owned her every breath and memory.
Her axe plunged into the skull of another lesser demon, feeling the easy crunch as it tore through bone; the weight of the blade as it was dragged down by the corpse before it lifted free with a spurt of blackened blood. She would have been ashamed, once, of the pleasure this brought her. The power. The only control she had down here -- to choose her targets well and kill them swiftly by any means she chose. After everything she'd sacrificed, that control was the only reward she could cling to.
She blinked, and the demon became a person. A young man, broken in the grass, light missing from his glassy eyes as they stared at her, widened and frozen in the terror of his own death. She remembered, then, the tears in her companions' eyes as they sent her back to Avernus after so long trying to find a cure for her failing heart engine.
She remembered the despair coursing through her as she realised she had no other option.
She remembered fighting her way through the hordes again, losing the vigour she had always fought with before. No more rage. No more hope. Just despair and bitterness at the cards she had been dealt.
Perhaps she grew a little sloppy. A little careless. Let in a strike that should have been easy to parry. Allowed the demon's blade to tear through her flesh. Allowed the pain; the only thing left to remind her she had ever been free.
She remembered the panic as blood clogged her throat and choked her breaths. What had she done? Was this really how it would end, alone here in the darkness to be forgotten like every other Gods-damned creature in the ash?
She expected the fires to take her. She remembered the thick, dark fog that blackened the air around her instead, carrying her somewhere unknown.
Her new war. Her new home.
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oops i posted this on AO3 as well because crossposting is good posting
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have you ever drawn Haunted Moonstone as that one Medusa AU where it’s basically Medusa-fied character x partially blind character and like since they’re blind they can’t be turned to stone
personally I think Haddie would be this hardened warrior blinded from battles sent to end the life of this man-killer serpent only to discover this beautiful redhead that she can’t quite see but like Mikaela doesn’t mean to hurt people she can’t help it so she’s so gentle with Haddie it’s like impossible for Haddie not to fall in love with her like—
okay imma cut my rambling short lmao cause like my question is basically have you ever drawn/thought of those two in that AU because I can’t stop thinking about it
I’ve done this AU before on my RE8 blog with Donnela! It’s definitely one of my fave AUs, I’m happy to have an excuse to bring it over here<3
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I have recently entered the world of DBD, I still don't understand everything, but I like it. My question is, does Wally have any attack pattern or style? °^° (By the way, I adore him^^)
(Welcome to the world of DBD lol~ Enjoy your stay UvU)
(also big secret, i adore him too jksnfkjsab XDD /lh)
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A DBD AU where the Entity isn't a evil god, but a supernatural Mob boss with the Killers and other "Associates" as their muscle.
Survivors are those living on mob turf, on the mobs list, people trying to take the Entity and/or Killer(s) down, or ones who just got caught up in a bad situation.
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