Dead by Daylight Killer Concept of Death/Grim Reaper

Lexx_Slasher_Noed

(extended it)

Ok so I was thinking about Dad and all of the Killers and variety and I wondered...What about Death itself the Grim reaper as a killer in Dead By Daylight? like

like I know the grim reaper is more of a concept than an actual being but wouldn't it be interesting to have one in this game? it's so freaking cool

I plan on putting more thought into this concept and maybe making a profile for it but i wanna know what you guys would do with the concept of death.

The Grim reaper is such a broad subject and idea that the possibilities are Literally Endless and the Freaking End of the Solar System is the limit to what they could do for him

what do you guys think?

what would they be like?

what would his power be?

what would his lore be?

how would be his movement animations?

what would his perks & add-ons be? 

To put my honest opinion on what this killer would be like in my opinion I feel like obviously, the killer wouldn't be the actual Grim reaper but instead, the entity twisting someone into the Grim reaper or the Grim reaper in an image Or it could be the actual Grim reaper plucked by the entity both of them having an understanding and making a deal together Like a situation with pyramid head the Grim reaper seeing the constant loop of death in the entities realm wishing to actually take the souls into the afterlife is unable to complete this task and instead accidentally gets trapped in the entities realm

As for his power, The power could play on multiple different themes The imminent threat of death I could play on the darkness I can play on the idea that the Grim reaper is always watching I can play on multiple different themes since the Grim reaper is obviously a character who has many different interpretations across all mythology

ARABIAN EQUIVALENT Mawt

GREEK EQUIVALENT Thanatos

JAPANESE EQUIVALENT Shinigami

EGYPTIAN EQUIVALENT Anubis

NORSE EQUIVALENT Valkyrie

PHOENICIAN EQUIVALENT Mot

ROMAN EQUIVALENT Mors (Letus)

hell, he could make all of these characters different cosmetics for him :L But granted all bringers of death have different interpretations and powers so it's not really clear what it would be like

I just want to know your guys' input Do you think the Grim reaper could work as a killer or do you think the concept is just too broad and intangible Do you think behavior would be able to implement the Grim reaper effectively or they would end up failing completely due to the fact they don't really have the very solid groundwork to work with

Granted then we have killers like pyramid Head and Sadako These two characters had very vague abilities when it came down to their actual source media but dead by daylight took these characters and made them into something Yes I do consider the fact that They were pre-established and had abilities and personality traits in their pre-established media to play on

But so does the Grim reaper The Grim reaper or death has pre-established personality traits all across mythology that dead by daylight could play on I don't know The possibilities are endless and that's a good thing and probably a bad thing

I don't know what are you guys think Honestly I'm just intrigued on how this character could be implemented and how this character could work

Blue_Archer33

I think that it would be hard to fit into the lore of the game because The Entity would have to be able to contain Death and use Death to it's own liking/will. Sure, you may argue that the same could be said about the likes of Myers, Pyramid Head or Dredge, but we're talking the characterization of Death here. The best argument for why Death would work would be to say that if the Dredge (the manifestation of bad thoughts) could be placed in the Entity's realm, so should Death. But this argument feels more complicated than that. Not one single culture seems to have the exact same concept of the characterization of Death.

TLDR: not sure if lore would allow Death as a character, but I'd argue for the attempt.

TarunCosmo

Having a long reach scythe would be rad, but to counter: it doesn't make contact if you are point blank on the person.

Special ability: Tension/Fear

When a survivor fast-actions in a chase, 30% chance they will stumble inflicting 3 second slowdown, exhaustion, and aura read.

I can go on, but BHVR should hire me. :p

UnknownKiller

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3137965#Comment_3137965

At most they could manipulate someone to look like the grim reaper and not so difficult idea.

Yatol

doesn't technically the entity fill that role from a certain sense?

tristenbennett381

Death would be an awesome killer! Maybe it could have a similar ability to that entity from Final Destination