New killer: La Llorona/The Weeping Woman

Jarred2504

Been wondering on the concept of the game having a killer based on real life, cause of course we have tons of killers from popular franchises and original characters sometimes based on killers from others games or stories, so why not have a few killers based on someone real or someone in like folklore.

History: La Llorona is a figure well known in Latin American paranormal stories, mainly in Mexican folklore. To summarize she was said to be a mother who was outraged with her husband for having an affair with another woman or just leaving her for another woman. During her heartbreak and grief she drowned their children in a river. Then after the realization at what she had done she apparently killed herself or died of guilt and after her death she is condemned to wander around rivers and creeks in search of her children, her cries and screams of despair heard echoing around river banks and other water sources. Some people in parts of southern Mexico and in Central America have reportedly seen the silouette of cloaked woman and heard a woman crying around various marshlands and rivers. She is mentioned and remembered through festivals held near the time of Dia De Los Muertos.

So heard the basis of the story surrounding her now onto how she would play as a killer in DBD

As for design there are various costumes and drawings depicting her appearance with many of them sticking to roughly the same basic style which is a woman wearing a white cloak or dress, sometimes looking like a bride.

Statue of her

So I am imagining maybe something like a short 5'3 woman with a white cloak around her and hood over her head but her face still visible with her eyes a bit red and tears going down her face.

Gameplay wise: One of the main things is she will be now the second killer to make noises that can be heard in her terror radius, like the The Huntress lullaby, she will make various crying and wailing sounds that can be heard by survivors in her terror radius. For attacks her melee I am thinking should be either her using just using her hand and sharp fingernails though feels a bit unoriginal given quite a few killers like this, maybe wielding like a conquistador dagger?

Special ability will be called "Grief" this is an ability that makes her cry out and if a survivor is close to them they will be impacted and scream indicating they have been given what's called the "grief effect", when a survivor is affected they will be given a "false terror radius" making them think the killer is closer than she actually is even if not in the actual terror radius and why a survivor is affected the killer is undetectable to the other survivors, additionally affected survivors will occasionally scream revealing their auras.

Mori: Wont really be anything special but in reference to the legends the mori will be that a small pool of water appears on the ground beneath the killer and survivor, she will pick up the survivor and slam their head down face first in the water simply drowning them and leaves their corpse in the water.

New map: The waterways

This will be a new swampy map as part of the Backwater Swamp realm. Unlike the others this map will have a mix of Aztec and Mayan style stone architecture and old aqueducts scattered about with a few creeks that you cannot walk across except with a few bridges making the map a bit more of a maze. Its design will be more about making use of the creeks instead of like rocks or other props so a lot less cover from ranged killers or to hide behind.