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Killer-Survivor swap
Fun little showerthought in the dead of night, but if you could switch one Survivor and one Killer to the other role, who would they be? Why would they fit for this role swap?
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Wraith is up there. He is entirely a victim of circumstance, and in the old lore it was said that he was so inhuman and weird looking because The Entity had to torture him and warp him around to get him to kill. Pretty much everything about his lore tells us he was not just a nice guy, but an actively good, hopeful guy who had that hope destroyed. No court on the planet would convict him, so him being a survivor makes sense.
Before The Trickster was revealed I would say Kate to killer, because the cast is overwhelmingly lopsided in horror archetype towards 'problematic disfigured provincial person most likely with an axe and some sort of weapon to mangle you' when the landscape of horror is so much wider and the cast is lacking the 'completely normal person who fits perfectly into what society thinks a respectable powerful trustworthy person looks like but is actually a narcissistic psychopath' killers. The Patrick Batemen archetype, if you will. Kate being a loved, seemingly girl next store celebrity with a super dark 'personal life' would have been a great angle to plug this hole while doing something real with it: there is something uniquely terrifying seeing someone you would say is 'platonically trustworthy' looking running at you with blood splattered on their face and a manic look in their eye.
As of now? Maybe Jake? He is sorta a isolationist survivalist and while mechanically it might be hard to make him feel different from trapper that is also sorta a thing we don't have right now.
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I'd like to see Nea as a Survivor instead of Killer.
But in all seriousness:
New Killer: Ash Williams. Machete and a Chainsaw. Plus it'd be pretty awesome.
New Survivor: Rin Yamaoka. C'mon. You know you want it. I'd also accept Amanda Young. Then you could safely boop the snoot.
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Nea and Quentin are already killers. Nea is the entity themself and Quentin murdered beauty.
Yun-jin and David would probably be the most probable killers.Yun-jin has an obsession in her vanity, in addition to her resilience. Her lore makes her out to not be the best person either.
David is the guy who fixes problems with his fists. Violence is literally prerequisite #1 to murder.
As for killers, Wraith, Pig, Legion, Plague, and Blight are probably the most likely. Wraith isn't necessarily violent; he is clearly revolted by the revelation that he has committed murder in his lore (until he killed his boss but we don't talk about that). Pig is just a normal human being who follows Jigsaw around. God knows why she's working for the entity, maybe he has better employer insurance. Legion is just a bunch of teens with knives. Give their knives to David and watch them freak out. Plague didn't do anything malicious either, she's just a jingoistic devotee religious nut. Blight is pretty much just watered-down Doctor. He doesn't seem to have any inner maliciousness, just obsession with experimentation.
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