Joey survivor full concept, artwork, perks, tome

Slowpeach

So this has been a long time coming. For a while now I've wanted Joey, Susie, Philip and Rin to be survivors. An alternate universe where they made different choices and were taken as survivors rather then as killers. So this is the collection of artwork, tomes, perk ideas and such that I've collected. I wrote the tome but the artists will be given credit as due.

First up is these models from es_nio_arts. Originally my concept was for Joey to turn while still in the realm with the entity aware of the impending betrayal and ordering Frank to kill him in order to set things right. I came up with the alternate universe later.

This second one is for another idea which I may still follow up on. A series where I give tips to survivors about the game from the killer's perspective and things they may not be aware of such the Legion being able to see survivors hiding in lockers after the first hit with Feral Frenzy. I intended to be able to edit the blackboard to read whatever I want it to say for the given topic.

I hired someone to do basic survivor art as well from reddit. u/seth_putnam. I think he does look better with short hair then without even if the 'official' model is bald.

Last and far from least. I got everyone's favourite Rin and Yui fan. @C3Tooth. Yes I know, it took me long enough to upload this :D. They did these concepts for potential cosmetics. First up is a more summer style. The smiley being sideways is symbolic of being away from what the Legion originally stood for which was originally meant as a sarcastic statement.

Second is an outfit that he wore when he was working as a bar guard/bouncer for a club. Uncommon for someone so young but I imagine he got it from a connection at a prior job.

Third is a formal outfit. In the tome I've written Joey is keeping an eye on Susie at her prom/formal to make sure that his and Julie's fears regarding Susie's 'boyfriend' don't come to reality.

Last of all, I decided to let C3-Tooth do what they wanted with a super hero concept. Joey being a cosplayer I admittedly thought his outfit would be well... super hero like but they instead did this pool party/super hero cross. It works :D.

Credits

Models: @es_nio_arts

Standalone survivor Joey: u/seth_putnam

Various cosmetics: @C3Tooth

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Perks

These Perks are more designed as flavour. The values and effects, I don't care about, merely the name and the theme of the perk reflecting my take on Joey's survivor personality which I'm aware could all be rendered moot with the rumoured visual novel.

Special Interests (Based on Joey's interest in cosplaying video game/comic book characters).

You've always paid attention to every fine detail in subjects others care little for.

- Whenever you start to fix a generator, bless or cleanse a totem, you always know where that generator or totem is. This works for up to 1/2/3 generators and/or totems at a time. Totems and generators are also highlighted when within 6 meters of you.

“Time to show my expertise” - Joey

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Originally designed as an anti NoED but since it’s nerf (goes to show how long I've been thinking about this) it’s another perk that can be used to track totem or generator locations. Also useful for finding pesky hidden totems if running boons albeit with a much smaller range then small game.

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Scapegoat (Based on Joey's history of being fired)

When things go wrong, people blame you.

- Whenever the killer would receive a noise notification, you also receive it, it is targeted at your location instead and your aura is revealed to the killer for 9/7/5 seconds. This effect has a cooldown of 30 seconds. In addition when you and another survivor are working on a generator and they miss a skill check it will look as though you missed the skill check.

“People tend to blame me for things I don’t do” - Joey

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This is for players who wish to 'engage' with the killer and draw their attention from more vulnerable survivors. More flavour then anything else.

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Defiant Resolve (Based on Survivor Joey refusing to give into peer pressure)

You are willing to take a hit in order to protect someone vulnerable no matter the personal cost.

- When taking a protection hit that doesn’t inflict deep wounds any survivor (including you) within 30 meters makes no grunts of pain, leaves no pools of blood, leaves no scratch marks and gains 5% haste for 10/12/14 seconds.

“Better a sheep then a directionless madman” – Joey’s final words to Frank

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Designed as an anti tunnel perk but also useful for a protection hit play style. 

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Lastly the tome.

I tried to keep the tome style in the sense of the word count but admittedly I couldn't fit everything I wanted to such as how things go based on whether Joey goes survivor or killer at the end which is based on whether Joey stabs the cleaner at the hardware store or not. If he doesn't Frank ends up stabbing Joey after a scuffle and both are taken by the entity but they use a video for some things and that may work. There may be errors, I haven't had anyone edit it. Again, I'm aware all of these may be rendered obsolete in a few months :D.

Perseverance

- Part 1

One of those days had turned into one of those nights. Fired from his retail job at Ormond Electronics, a scapegoat for things far above his pay grade. Now the night of his graduation prom the girl who he had finally worked the courage to ask out had been lying to him the whole time as an elaborate plot for her and their group to bully and laugh at him.

Covered in fruit punch as one last final insult from her actual boyfriend he sat there and reflected. No one came to his aid, it was all Joey’s fault after all. As far as the staff were concerned he was a ‘problem’ child.

“You look like someone who wants to plot revenge” a young female voice draws Joey from his thoughts

Joey looked up and saw a girl around his age in a black hooded coat, hazel eyes, freckles, a firm expression

“… Could be… Never been very good at that. People tend to blame me for things I don’t do”

The girl smiled knowingly “Well maybe you haven’t had the right teacher. I’m Julie”

“Joey…”

Some strategically placed objects behind the wheels of cars, some sauce and syrup on car doors and a more surprises inside their vehicles gave Joey at least something to salvage the night. Perhaps in more ways then one...

- Part 2

“I’ll be there earlier then planned…” Joey held the payphone receiver closer to him so he could hear and be heard over the noise of traffic and construction outside.

“That doesn’t sound good…” Julie detected the disappointment in Joey’s voice

“Got laid off…”

“Really? They seemed so pleased with you”

“Business is folding… Nothing they can do but sell and the new owners are hiring their own staff”

“Damn… Well hey I guess I’ll see you soon then”

“Yup” Joey flatly answered hanging up

Joey couldn’t hide his disappointment. This was a good job, on the road delivering things from one end of town to the other, the hours were weird sometimes at all hours of the night but that was an advantage as far as Joey was concerned. Simple, easy, to the point and he didn’t need to deal with people, neither customers nor staff members gossiping behind his back.

On the plus side Julie’s parties were great, Ormond had to be one of the most boring desolate places to live and by contrast Julie was so full of life, rebelled against the standard in ways that nobody else in his life seemed to. In the short time he had spent with her he had learned more about himself then he had his whole life. More importantly perhaps that it wasn’t him who was the ‘problem’, it was Ormond and the sheep who lived there. All content to live the same way, do the same thing and shun anyone who dared to be different.

- Part 3

Julie’s parties were not large affairs. Only a few close friends. None of the sheep.

“Hey you” Julie greeted Joey with a warm smile “I haven’t you introduced both of you yet. Joey this is Susie, Susie Joey”

A small girl with a timid expression with short black hair wearing a pink cardigan and a short old fashioned flowery print dress. She looked extremely out of place here, though Joey was not one to judge.

Before Joey could say anything Julie continued “We are going to give Susie here a makeover…” Julie’s grin widened

Susie timidly laughed “I… really doubt Mom will approve”

“That’s the entire point… Come on! I will make you a star… or at least… someone else”

“… I’d like that…” Susie smiled in a sinister and cheeky way that made Joey immediately see what Julie saw in her

“I get what you mean… I needed a make over of a different kind”

“You meanwhile need to crush those boys at that game” Julie remarked to the arcade machine in the living room. “They are getting unbearable”

“Time to show my expertise” Joey smiled knowingly

Julie clearly had a gift of seeing potential. Before meeting her he was so tense, so hung up on invisible rules and social structures that the sheep had. He hadn’t broken free completely, he still needed to earn money to support his Mom but perhaps one day things would change forever.

- Part 4

Almost a year had passed since meeting Julie and Joey’s fortune in the job department had not changed. He had been a labourer, worked at the theatre, a box hauler, even had a brief job as a guard at the local bar but the owner was forced to fire him after Joey got into a fight with a his former school bully who then threatened to sue despite Joey following the rules to the letter.

Julie shook her head and sighed as though disappointed in Joey as he told her the story “Funny thing about rules. The sheep decide what the rules are and change them whenever they want. Now a job at the supermarket… bleh…” she stuck her tongue out and pointed to show her intense disgust

Joey wordlessly agreed. The owner was a tyrant.

“Hey guys” Susie entered Julie’s living room “I have a date for the prom. I can’t believe he asked me out, I have the biggest crush” She beamed from ear to ear

Joey’s heart sunk… it sounded too good to be true and it was “… It’s a trick… he’s just setting you up for a fall”

“No!” Susie folded her arms outraged “He confessed his feelings for me, he’d been too shy to say anything and I’d been too shy to ask and well…” she beamed again

“Nobody hopes I’m wrong more then me, but I don’t think so”

“Julie?”

“I’m with Joey on this… something smells”

“Fine then… You don’t believe me, but I’ll prove you both wrong” Susie stormed out of house

After a moment of silence making sure Susie was out of ear shot Joey spoke up

“Don’t worry I’ll look out for her”

- Part 5

Joey finally finished his exhausting eight hour shift at the supermarket, he still had time to make Susie’s prom. He was in the back fixing his tie before putting his suit on. He looked in the mirror and felt like he was Atlas Flint about to infiltrate a masquerade ball. He didn’t have an invite to Susie’s prom of course, but was confident he could sneak in.

“What are you doing?” Mr. Robinson the owner stepped in

“Got a date tonight…”

“You have to stock the shelves before tomorrow”

“I’m in early tomorrow. I’ll get it done before we open”

“No mister. Now”

This was not the first time Mr. Robinson had pulled something like this. Well not tonight. Julie was right, the sheep change the rules to suit them. Joey looked outside at the rain, stole an umbrella and headed outside with no intention of coming back.

He drove up to the function hall and saw Susie in a gold gown running out from the building clearly distraught. Joey quickly parked the car, opened his umbrella and dashed out into the pouring rain to Susie who was in tears.

Susie gasped in surprise when she saw it was Joey “I’m sorry Joey… you were right… of course were right. Why wouldn’t you be?”

“Shh… shh… shh” Joey pulled Susie closer to him under the umbrella and held her with his left arm.

She sobbed into his shoulder and Joey silently comforted her.

- Part 6

Susie looked to Joey apologetically “I didn’t know I got you fired, I’m sorry”

Joey shrugged indifferently “I didn’t get fired. I quit. You were more important”

After hearing about what happened Julie held a party to console Joey over losing another job. Julie then introduces someone. Frank. It’s immediately obvious that Julie is very taken by Frank and it doesn’t take much to figure out why.

They discuss their taste in foods, movies which then goes onto serial killers, Julie’s favourite subject. Frank was not from Ormond and it showed. He had a very similar liveliness to him that Julie had but unlike Julie he had experience to back it up.

Julie often talked a big game and Joey respected her a great deal but when it came to following through most of their antics were at best… amateur. Joey of course was hardly one to criticise because it’s not as though he could do better but it was evident that Frank had a lot to teach all of them.

As the night went on and Frank and Julie were still talking Joey had to leave for a job interview the next morning but it went unnoticed. He didn’t mind. He was pleased that Julie had found someone that was on her level, that it wasn’t her teaching but it was her that was learning.

- Part 7

Something was wrong. Usually messing with the sheep and destroying their social structure brought Susie such joy and a cruel little smile but currently she seemed deep within her thoughts and an unshakeable frown across her face.

“What’s going on?” Joey removed the street sign from the ground

“Nothing…” Susie answered unconvincingly as she put the incorrect street sign in place where the old one had once been

“… It’s still going on isn’t it? That damn cheerleader”

“I really want to slash her throat” Susie seethed sharing her darkest thoughts that she would only ever fantasise “Still… Just leave it…”

Joey wouldn’t. Whether emboldened by Frank or just unable to tolerate it any longer, Joey wanted to get her to back off. Pranks wouldn’t send the right message. No. He wanted to make sure that if she even thought about messing with Susie that she’d remember what Joey had done to her.

- Part 8

A few weeks passed and tonight was the night. Her parents were out of the house on a trip somewhere. His prey was alone. He waited in her bedroom having set up his plan. Predictably as she entered the room she tried to turn the light on, nothing happened. She then moved to her bedside chest and turned on the lamp there.

“Deidre Summers” Joey announced himself sitting in the open window wearing a skull mask, black bandanna and hoodie tossing the removed light bulb up and down.

“Who the hell are you!”

“Your worst nightmare. I don’t think your parents would approve of what you’ve got in the cabinet there”

Deidre opened the closet and found some drugs in a plastic bag. She wasn’t sure what it was but knew it did not look legal.

“Those aren’t mine…”

Joey laughed evilly “You hold a lot of value for the truth for someone who spreads so many lies about others”

She remained silent and Joey continued “Just like you didn’t cheat on your boyfriend last night. Or didn’t cheat on your exams” Joey threw two photographs at her revealing her in a compromising position with another guy at a restaurant. He had set it up to make an innocent fall look like something else. The other was acquiring test answers from a corrupt teacher, an actual truth.

Deidre gasped finally figuring out what was going on “What the hell do you want? Just stay away from me!”

“Oh I will… if you stay away from everyone else. I hear about you being a jerk to anyone and you will learn just how much you stand to lose...”

Without waiting for a reply Joey leaped from the window and made his exit

- Part 9

Susie seemed in better spirits laughing as she and Joey entered their abandoned cabin hideout with a bunch of stop signs with photos included of how the easily the sheep collapse without their structure.

“I got a new job at the hardware store too”

Frank eyed Joey unusually “You won’t hold that for a month”

Julie laughed “I’ll take that bet”

“Done deal”

“I’ll be bold and say he’ll hold it for at least three”

Julie eyed Susie “Very brave indeed”

Joey sighed “Really guys? You are betting on how long before I screw up?”

Frank shook his head and sighed “You care too much about money”

That was easy for Frank to say, he only had to worry about himself. Joey had responsibilities and had to take care of his Mom who only had him to rely on. All his talk about ideals, the corruption of education and all that stuff was all very well but in the end it was just ideals and talk. The world was a conveyor belt because it couldn’t survive being any other way. Still, Joey did wish he could break free of that reality.

Julie changed the subject on hanging the car emblems she and Frank stole and adding Joey and Susie’s stop signs to the collection.

- Part 10

Mr. Richards the owner of the hardware store approached Joey clearly in a rage “You and your friends have been stealing from here. I saw you stealing a chocolate bar just before closing”

Joey knew what was coming next he might as well answer back give at least some satisfaction “Really? Search me then, search my stuff. If I stole it you should be able to find it. So where is it?”

“I don’t know! I never have proof but I know it’s you. Things have been going missing ever since I hired you. Well no more. You’re fired”

“There’s a surprise! I’m a little insulted actually… If I was going to steal something from here, I’d aim much higher then a chocolate bar…” Joey shouted back outraged

Mr. Richards visibly fumed “GET OUT!”

Joey turned on the spot rising a middle finger behind him as he left. He couldn’t believe that it had happened again and so soon. He had tried his best, persevered against all the things he hated to try and survive but in the end it didn’t matter.

Upon sharing the news with the group Frank collected on the bet and then Julie suggested they get payback, raid the place, get supplies and set it on fire and let Ormond know the wrath of the Legion.

Maybe Frank was right after all. Ideals were better then trying to adapt to an environment hostile to him. Maybe it was time he let go and embraced who he really was.