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The Headless Horseman Killer Idea

vore
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So I sat down the other day and thought, why isn’t the Headless Horseman in DBD? He’s a popular folklore character and has been around for a very long time. So I have come up with a power, perks, and a mori.

First off the power:

Power: Galloping Dread

  • Special Ability – Call of the Steed
    • The Horseman builds up a Terror Gauge by hooking survivors. A token is granted upon each hook. Once the horseman has two tokens he can summon his spectral horse.
    • I personally think this adds a way to keep the killer cycling hooks instead of tunneling because a token will not be granted if the same survivor is hooked twice before the horse is summoned.
  • Special Attack – Hellride
    • While mounted, The Horseman gains a speed boost similar to Oni’s Demon Dash.
    • Survivors hit during Hellride are instantly downed (1-hit).
    • Movement is harder to control—sharp turns reduce momentum.
    • The horse can shatter dropped pallets but cannot vault windows.
  • Drawback:
    • The ability has a limited duration before the horse vanishes.

Next the perks:

Perk 1: Harbingers Pursuit When you begin a chase, gain a burst of speed: • 3/4/5% Haste for 6 seconds. • Survivors within 8 meters of you when the chase begins suffer from Exhaustion for 10 seconds. (Chasing feels like the Horseman charging down prey.)

Perk 2: Haunted Groundswell Whenever you kick a generator: • The nearest survivor within 20/24/28 meters screams, revealing their location. • That generator regresses at 100% of the normal regression speed for an additional 4/6/8 seconds without needing to be kicked again. (Represents the cursed aura of the Horseman spreading fear through the land.)

Perk 3: Reaper’s Claim After hooking a survivor: • The auras of all other survivors are revealed for 3/4/5 seconds if they are within 16 meters of the hook. • Survivors who rescue within 10 seconds of you hooking suffer from Mangled and Hemorrhage for 20 seconds. (The Horseman “marks” victims, punishing those who rush to reclaim them.)

Now for the mori:

I have two ideas for this. One could be the horse trampling the survivor as the horseman comes to claim the head of the survivor and after it is claimed he attaches it to his neck only for it to burn away. The second is he charges on his horse past the survivor knocking them down and charges again swinging his axe to cleave the head of the survivor. The survivor would obviously be Ichabod Crane though I haven’t thought too much about his perks etc.

And for a map you could literally just do sleepy hollow. It could be an old village with a church and such. One edge of the map could have the bridge that he can’t cross. Obviously out of the boundaries of the map. Hooks could be decorated with severed heads and skulls. And there could be a decaying corpse of Katrina the love interest of the main protagonist of Sleepy Hollow somewhere on the map.

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