New killer idea:The Maestro
Realm:The Grand Theatre
Movement speed:4.4 m/s
height:Tall
terror radius:16 meters
The Maestro is a towering, unnaturally thin aristocratic figure draped in luxurious crimson and black garments resembling royal opera attire from centuries past.
His long coat flows like stage curtains behind him, decorated with golden embroidery resembling twisting musical notes and thorned roses. Black gloves cover his hands completely, though sharp claw-like fingernails protrude from the fingertips.
His face is pale and almost mannequin-like,expressionless,flawless,calm.His eyes possess a faint crimson glow .
His weapon is a grotesque modified kusarigama, but its curved blade resembles an ornate opera mask with two eyeholes. He constantly peers through these holes while hunting survivors, as though observing actors on a stage.
Lore:
Even in the Entity’s realm, there are beings whose presence feels less like flesh and more like a performance written into reality itself.The one now known as The Maestro was not always such an entity.He was once human…Born into a fallen aristocratic family that had long ago lost its wealth and influence, he grew up beneath the crushing expectations of parents obsessed with reclaiming their former glory. From childhood, they molded him into what they believed would become the perfect masterpiece.Every flaw was punished.Every mistake corrected.Every movement rehearsed.And above all else:
he was taught opera.
They brought him endlessly to a grand theater near their home, forcing him to absorb every performance until his entire existence revolved around the stage itself.Eventually, he no longer desired love.Only admiration.Only perfection.And eventually:
he truly believed he was above humanity itself.
When his debut performance finally arrived, it was flawless.
At least to him.His voice was perfect.
His movements divine.
His performance transcendent.And yet the audience applauded others.Inferior performers.Voices weaker than his.Actors beneath him.The judges praised them instead.For days he obsessed over the humiliation.Not because he doubted himself.But because he realized something far worse:The audience simply lacked the ability to comprehend perfection.
He concluded that to truly make humanity understand greatness, he would need to become like them.Literally.He began surgically removing the faces of his competitors, stitching them together into grotesque masks in an attempt to imitate the very mediocrity the audience loved so much.He believed that if perfection wore the face of imperfection, then finally the world would applaud him.He returned to perform once more.But instead of admiration:
there were screams.Authorities stormed the theater.He was arrested.Taken away.And never seen again.By humanity.
But something had noticed him.
The Entity saw in him elegance,artistry in torment.A killer unlike the others.So the Entity performed an experiment.It granted him power approaching divinity itself.And in that instant:
humanity disappeared from him forever.The first thing he did after annihilating the prison and police station that held him was return to his beloved theater.Then he erased it from reality.Not out of hatred.But ownership.The theater became part of him:Now every Trial is a stage.Every survivor is an actor.Every death is a performance.
And The Maestro waits eternally for the applause he believes he deserves.
Passive Ability:Grand Performance
whenever he directly sees a survivor his movement speed increases from 4.4 m/s to 4.6 m/s ,this effect lingers for 5 seconds after losing sight of the survivor.
Special Ability:Skin Stealer:after downing or hooking a survivor he may spend several seconds in a small animation in which he uses his weapon to surgically carve off the face of the survivor and wear it.While wearing it he is disguised.This ability has a 60 seconds cooldown.
Disguised effects:he visually becomes the stolen survivor,copies the injured sound effects,copies their silhouette and movement shape,conceals his weapons beneath his clothing.
The survivor:appears only injured on the survivor HUD and has their aura hidden from teammates.
While the killer is disguised every survivor emits their own terror radius whic basically lets them know once it happens that the killer is disguised but because every one has a terror radius they wont know which survivor isnt actually a survivor.Though the Maestro doesnt copy humanity perfectll,he still has some small clues that appear every 5 seconds for the survivors to find which one is actually the killer.These clues vary from the following:unnatural elegant pose/slow head tilt towards a survivor/blood dripping from the face/red glow in the eyes/distorted breathing/weapon briefly visible.The time that any of these clues last varies between 0.5 seconds to 1 second.
While a survivor has the skin of their face carved off cannot heal past the injured state and suffers from broken,deep wound,mangled,hemorrhage after being rescued or recovered.The survivors can do an emergency treatment and use a full medkit to remove all negative effects and allow them to heal him past injured state but he is permamently blind until his face is restored because they have his whole face covered with bandages.
The killer while disguised cannot attack ,instead once he presses the M1 he slowly takes of the mask and lets it fall on the ground(this takes 2 seconds),after that he can attack,the dropped mask has its aura seen by both the survivors and the killer.
Survivors can grab the mask and staple it back on the survivor with a short 4 seconds interaction.
Second Ability:Always watching:The Maestro raises his weapon to his face like opera binoculars,allowing him to massively zoom in ,he can see scrath marks and survivors and gens,basically any action from very far,but while he is looking through them his movement speed is reduced to 3.8 m/s.The cooldown for this ability is 15 seconds.
Perks: 1st Perk:Eagle's Eye:1st tier:losing sight of a survivor reveals them with killer instinct for 5 seconds.10 seconds cooldown.
2nd tier:reveals the survivors aura for 6 seconds.20 seconds cooldown.
3rd tier:reveals the survivor's aura for 6 seconds and gains 8% haste for 8 seconds.30 seconds cooldown.
2nd Perk:Soprano:1st tier:increase the terror radius by 15%.
2nd tier:terror radius sounds remain maximum intensity regardless of distance.
3rd tier:survivors inside the terror radius scream every 5 seconds.
3rd Perk:Backstage:1st tier:gain 5% haste for 5 seconds after hooking/downing a survivor.
2nd tier:gain 10% haste for 10 seconds after hooking/downing a survivor.
3rd tier: gain 15% haste for 15 seconds and reveal all injured survivor aura for 5 seconds after hooking/downing a survivor.
Add-ons: Visceral add-ons: 1st:Iridescent opera lens: Survivors viewed from the ability Always watching have their aura continuously revealed while centered in view.
2nd:After undisguising gain undetectable for 20 seconds.
Very Rare add-ons:1st :Royal Threading:The clues while he is disguised happen every 10 seconds instead of 5.
2nd:Golden Stage:After hooking a survivor windows/vaults/pallets within 24 become blocked for survivors for 12 seconds.
3rd:Shattered Monocle:Survivors seen by the killer using the ability Always watching get 5% hindered while he is looking at them and for 5 seconds after he stops.
4th:Silken Gloves:Vault speed is increased by 10% while his passive ability is active.
Rare add-ons:1st :Crimson Powder:Survivors within 8 meters of the killer after he undesguises get blindness for 5 seconds.
2nd :Stage Perfume:Scrath marks remain visible 3 seconds longer.
3rd :Torn Invitation:Survivors hear a fake terror radius while repairing a gen if more than two are repairing it at a time.
4th:Heavy Curtains:After the ability Always Watching ends he gets 5% haste for 5 seconds.
Uncommom add-ons:1st:Silver Applause: survivors suffer from oblivious for 10 seconds after the blinding the killer while he is disguised.
2nd:Velvet Curtain:Survivors within a dropped face have their aura revealed to the killer.
3rd:Fractured Stage Light:After undisguising gain 6% haste for 6 seconds.
4th:Choir Conductor's Baton:the clues happen more frequently but last less.
Commom Add-ons:1st: Cracked Mirror:his passive ability last 1 more second after losing sight of the survivor.
2nd:Bent Sewing Needle:reduces the time he takes to undisguise by 1 second.
3rd :Dusty Playbill: gain 25% more bloodpoints in hunting.
4th:Tarnished Bell Chain: Slightly decreases the cooldown of his abilities and perks by 2.5%.
Mori:every mori tranports the victim into an endless version of his favourite opera theatre,a stage,a spotlight and The Maestro performing for an invisible audience.The first person he moris,he grabs them by the neck,snaps his fingers,the screen goes black,then they are suddenly in a giant opera theatre,The Maestro teleports himself and the survivor on stage,slashes with his hand the neck of the survivor,the survivor falls on his knees chocking on his own blood as The Maestro takes a glass used for wine,puts it under the bleeding neck and fills it with the survivors blood before penetrating the throat completely with his hand coming out from the other side,then he tears the head out and holds it in his hand like Prince Hamlet held the skull when he said:'to be or not to be,that is the question.' in William Shakespear play:Hamlet,he then spills the glass full of the survivors blood on the ground and nods his head dissapointed and dissatisfied ,before crushing the head.
Second time he moris in a match,it starts the same,teleporting them but this time the survivor is at a seat watching the previous mori happen before him on stage,when the killer finishes the first mori,the lights go out for just a milisecond,the killer is nowhere to be seen,then the survivor turns around slowly to see the killer behind him,before he strikes his head with his weapon,destroying his skull with such a violent yet elegant and precise strike that a small blood founain happens from the cracked skull to where he places another glass ,fills it with blood and takes a sip under his mask,before smashing it on the survivors face and nodding dissapointed.
Third time he moris in a match,same start,the survivor is forced to watch both previous mori happen before him,one after another, at the end of the performance the killer bows and closes the curtains, suddenly the thatre lights go haywire, opening and closing without real motif. The chandelier hanged in the middle of the opera house, comes crashing down burning the survivor alive.
Fourth and Last mori he can do in a match.He teleports the survivor again,though this time it is different ,there are countless other survivors on the theatre watching him perform all three previous mori one after another,he finishes ,waits but nothing happens,so he starts screaming at a very high pitched note, the pressure causes the ears of the survivors to explode,then the eyes , then the heads and then the rest of the body,then the whole theatre starts to shake and falls on top of them,the killer screams so highly that the falling debris disappear,now the survivor that got morid is the only one left,he understand the assignment,and he claps for the killers performance,the killer bows elegantly as bouquets of flowers rain on what is left of the stage,and the killer to show his appreciation that someone finally recognised his talent,manifests a door for the survivor to escape,the survivor walks through the door and gets instantly crushed by a giant version of the killer,he shrinks down again looks at the squashed dead body and the pool of blood ,nods dissapointed and then leaves through the door and closes it behind him.
Voice lines:
Downing a survivor: 'How disappointing','That was your best?','And yet you still fell…','A wasted talent',;Even silence is more artistic.'
Hooking a survivor: 'You are insignificant,nothing but a mere mortal,…I AM A GOD!','Take your talent…backstage','Your part in this play has come to and end,…so has your life'
Spies from afar activation: 'This stage is far to small for both of us,…I must adjust','I see everything…I know everything.','I shall observe you,…properly'
Skin stealer activation:' I am a better version of you,… a much better one.','You won't need this face ,not anymore.','This is how you were meant to look,beatiful.','Let me refine your appearence,into something better.'
When disguised:'We are all performing…after all…','Trust is a fragile script.','Watch carefully…or don't','Do you not recognise your co-star.'
Face drop/reveal form:'And the curtain falls.','Act over.','No more masks.'
At the mori start:'Finally,…the true stage opens.','You will be remembered…briefly .','Let me correct your performance.'
Menu/Lobby Idle voice lines: 'They all think they understand performance…they do not.','Silence is the audience that never lies.' , ' Every world becomes a stage…eventually' , 'I do not kill…I refine.' , 'They applaud to late…always to late.' , 'Perfection requires no witnesses…yet i provide them anyway.' , 'Even gods require an audience.'
Lobby Hover/Selection: 'Ah…another performance awaits.' , 'Try to keep up with the script.' , 'You may survive,…if you are entertaining enough.'
Escape/Endgame Collapse: 'Too short…far too short.' , 'Is this all you had to offer…disappointing.' , 'I was promised art…that was everything except art.'
Chase voice lines: 'Applaud…and I might just let you live.' , 'Run then.I need movement for the scene.' , 'Yes..show me desperation.' , 'You are finally acting properly.' , 'Do not disappoint me mid-scene.'
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