New Killer: The Ballerina + New Chapter: Ballet of Blood

The Ballerina

Backstory: Lili Somorjai loved ballet dancing when she was very young and this love and passion for dancing was picked up from her mother, the only parent she lived with. Her mother was once a successful ballerina and before she had Lili, she was on top of the ballet world. Although her mother had no choice but to retire being a ballet dancer once she was pregnant with her daughter which was almost a dangerous & fatal choice to make because being a ballerina wasn’t a job, it was a lifestyle and if she were to keep up doing her ballet performance while in early ages of pregnancy chances are she would have made a miscarriage, not to mention that a ballerina needs to be in perfect shape & form. So with signs of pregnancy via a large belly would cause loads of raised eyebrows and suspicion, she couldn’t afford losing her baby through abortion either so she had no choice but to retire which in the ballet world might as well be translated as “suicide” as once again; being a ballerina was more of a lifestyle than a job.

Thankfully, Lili’s mother was able to afford other jobs that kept her own life going, allowing her daughter to be looked after by relatives while she is away and making sure she gets out in time to pick up Lili from school. However, despite this change of lifestyle;her mother. no matter how much she tries to move on from her ballet lifestyle, her quitting was still one of the most talk about subjects when dancing gets bought up and what they say about her retirement wasn’t met with positive feedback at all, as if retirement was a crime. It made a huge impact on her sanity, because everywhere she goes she sees people talking about her retirement a few years prior, thankfully no one recognized her as on stage she would wear heavy makeup to hide her face. But she still has trouble focusing at some points in her life, all she did was quit a job to look after a child, why is the ballet world so cruel about it that they would continue to talk about it to this very day?

Then when Lili was getting older up to the age of 7, she noticed how her daughter was becoming interested in ballet. Although her mother tried to get her away from being interested in ballet, not wanting to put her life hellish life she did, because ballerinas usually start from childhood and in the process their childhood would get stripped away, but Lili was stubborn and kept on watching ballet videos, enchanted by their movement and beauty and it didn’t help calm things down once Lili started watching videos of her own mother on stage (who she doesn’t recognize due to the makeup she was wearing in those videos), her mother almost went out to burn away these videos but as time went on since Lili turned 7 she was becoming more mentally unstable.

No one would shut up, no one would move on like she is trying to do, the world of ballet still talks badly about her, she has read on comments that quitting from ballet might as well be suicide because ballet is not a job it’s a lifestyle and these were getting to her head bad until something in her mind snapped. She can’t escape the world of ballet…but she was too late on going back…instead she’ll find a replacement, that’s it…she’ll find a successor in her place, that way she would not only game fame and recognition but also respect again, so she picked her daughter to be her replacement… Lili shares mostly the traits of her mother the most, she doesn’t have any traces of the father who left them with the exception of the brown hair and brown eyes…she would be perfect replacement…she could lead a cover up that she was back in the ring when in reality it was her daughter doing all the work…

So at the age of seven she started to teach Lili ballet…but it should be noted that her daughter’s name was actually “Lily” her mother is actually named “Lili” but her mentally unstable mother hopes to change that by making her daughter have her mother’s own name instead, but she was of course hiding these things from her daughter “Lily” as her daughter was super excited to finally learn ballet…but little did the poor girl know that by becoming a ballerina she was basically giving up her entire childhood and soon her whole life.

At first it felt fine but as months went by her mother was becoming to act stricter with her training, she wanted Lily’s body to stay in shape like hers so she no longer picked up with a car anymore, instead they walked home which wasn’t close to the school at all.  Lily wasn’t allowed to have her favourite meals anymore, instead her mother fed her only light amounts of food of her choosing…basically food that she herself ate when she was learning ballet herself, after all a ballerina needs to be in perfect shape and she was trying to make her daughter feel more like her own mother rather than herself, after all she also started off ballet at the age of 7 too so her daughter needs to go through things just like her.

One time, Lily begged to her mother that she wanted to quit but instead her mother snapped, slapphing across the left cheek & saying that you can’t quit being a ballerina because it’s not a job you can just quit, it is your life and she pushed her training even harder. Soon Lily was starting to get blisters that hurt her feet but her mother pushed saying that those are meant to be expected when doing ballet. As years went by she forced Lily to live her life more, such as forcing Lily to change from her old school to the one she was taught in, Lili even lied by saying that her daughter’s name was “Lili” and even assigned her to ballet class without her say so whenever “Lili” gets called out in class she must respond to that name because that is her now.

“Lili” was 10 years old when she joined the ballet class against her will but the years of training made her top of the class and when she went to perform live on stage in a school play everyone cheered especially her own mother feeling “proud” of her. After all she saw her younger self on stage that time. Although just because she was proud doesn’t mean things were over, Lili also forced her daughter to not have any friends as she herself didn’t have any either. Lili was doing everything she can to make her daughter go everything she went through so her daughter can be convinced she is her own mother and Lili can only smile about it.

Soon “Lili’s” room which were filled with her favourite toys and decorations would be taken away to an orphanage in favour of the things her mother had when she was her age, her mother was now just plain abusing her…Soon “Lili” really started to call herself “Lili” as if that was always her real name, soon she started ballet like there is no tomorrow in hopes she would have her own mother stop being horrible to her and it was working in both favors. The mother Lili was glad her daughter was taking ballet seriously like she did when she reached that age while her daughter was beginning to accept her new role with a broken mind, either way the mother Lili was happy things are progressing and she cannot wait for her daughter to reach teenage years…because that is when she shined in the world of ballet, but her own daughter felt like a machine, only dancing ballet for the sake of ballet dancing and pleasing her mother in the progress. When “Lili” reached around 16 years of age she entered college but her mother then used money she had over from her own ballet days to afford laser eye surgery on her daughter’s eyes to make them blue just like hers.

In the past she forced her daughter to use blue contact lenses but now they are permanently blue and she even used permanent hair dye on her daughter, changing it from brown to dark honey blonde just like her's, each year that goes by she was beginning to look more and more like her own mother. Her mother was pleased to hear she would be passing her ballet tests soon & once she reaches 18 years of age it was her time to go to Julliard and then kick off her ballet career once she graduates, yet little did she know that this would come at a very huge price.

During this time “Lili” was becoming more and more like her mother, not just in appearance and talent, but also in personality, not very sociable, always makes sure ballet is her number one priority, doesn’t want to hang out with friends…but she still remembers she was once a girl named Lily, but her mother pushed her into being someone else and it was too late for her to change as in her mind doing ballet was all that matters and she didn’t have the courage to tell anyone because as her mother said; quitting ballet is a definition of suicide, but so was giving up her old life.

Meanwhile her mother was planning ahead on her daughter’s coming years…she received images of the future, in a year from now, she would be killed by her own daughter who would finally snap from all of the abuse that she suffered from her. After seeing this she was desperate, no way would she would die by the hands of her daughter. So changing plans for once she used the money she had left from her ballet days to bribe the university into making “Lili” graduate early at the age of 18 so she can officially begin her career in ballet.

Her daughter was confused on why she was suddenly rushed but her mother didn’t answer and afterwards went all over the earth from the USA, to England, to France, to Japan, & even Hungary and had her perform in many theatres where she gained phrased and popularity, although at the time her name wasn’t revealed, Lili wants her daughter’s name to remain hidden for now until she is much older, to trick the world into thinking that the original Lili Somorjai has come out of retirement. Unrealistic as this plan was…she was beginning to feel glad things were going in her favour. Her daughter was the talk of the town and her daughter surprisingly felt happy about the fame…because it was making her mother proud which is why she never stopped dancing, she didn’t want her mother to feel angry, she didn’t want to her teachings go to waste…dancing was all she desired now, her own mother twisted her daughter's mind, She never said anything about it but her daughter’s body was unlike her own during her age, she at one point would have considered giving her daughter plastic surgery all over her body but she feels like that would have been a bad idea…so the curse will have to do. Everything was going as planned until one fateful night....

On the night before Halloween a tragedy occurred at the Alicia Markova Memorial Ballet Theatre, when "Lili" failed a performance. Her mother was both devastated because all these years of training her went to waste.... and her mother was also so infuriated that she sliced her mouth from side to side & underneath her eyelids with a sharp knife & yelled at her, telling her that she ruined her life & name & reputation and assaulted her physically on stage in front of everyone exposing the truth to the entire audience watching, this triggered something deep inside "Lili", after years of abuse & a ruined childhood/old life taken away from her cause her to finally snap in a rage, violently rip the knife from her mother's hands & slit her mother's throat with the knife, severing the woman's jugular veins, killing her instantly as all of her blood sprayed over her & the audience. This frightened everybody & caused them to run out the theater screaming.

That's when Lili briefly came to her senses & realize what she had done. At first, the 19 year old dancer felt horrible & regretted murdering her own mother, and how much damage she caused, she ruined her mother's name fame & reputation & ended her life. However, She also realized something else: it felt kind of good to kill, It gave her another purpose in life. As the fateful night of the murder made headlines worldwide. Lili wrote a fake suicide note to the public and went into hiding. She enjoyed being the ballerina of death as she even weaponized her tutu with deadly, long spikes & blades as well as deadly blades on the end of her pointe ballet slippers & finally embracing murder & ballet, combining them to become the graceful killer of death.

25 years passed & Lili was now the same age as her now dead mother & now resides in the theatre where she failed her ballet performance & killer her mother on October 30th. Throughout those years progressed, horror stories of visitors & people disappearing in the Alicia Markova Memorial Ballet Theatre became national legend. Eventually, the theatre was abandoned as it became too dangerous to even set foot in there. The mysterious disappearances were never solved. Meanwhile, no matter how many victims Lili killed on the stage where she took her mother's life, she'll never quit ballet dancing as quitting ballet is suicide because ballet was not a job, but a way of life. Destiny was calling to her. As the theatre began to deteriorate in structure & design, she finally realized her fate, to become not just a famous ballerina like her now dead mother, but to kill while doing so. Once a promising ballerina following in her mother's footsteps, Lili had become a dreadful ballerina of death for any mortals unlucky enough to cross paths with her. This pleased the Entity, and it sought to indebt Lili the Ballerina into the service of it's bidding.

Weapon & Ability:  Each killer has their own unique weapon and ability. The Ballerina's primary weapons are the bloodstained knife that was used to kill her mother, the spikes on her tutu & the blades on her ballet slippers with cut through the life essence of the souls for the Entity. Her ability, Curse of The Sugar Plum Fairy, is a ballerina music box that the Ballerina wields. The music that the box plays is a distorted & macarbe version of Tchiakovsky's The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, which can reveal the survivor's location to the killer, if the survivor gets way too close to it. If The Ballerina is in active pursuit of a survivor, he can sick the raven on them, which will briefly hinder them as it attacks. It has to be winded up first, but when the survivor gets too close to the music box: The Ballerina will have full sight of the survivor & the trail that they leave behind, making it easy for the killer to find them & attack them. A survivor can sabotage the music box, however this takes twice as long and doubles toolbox usage if one is applied. Once deactivated, the survivor can not get detected unless they are get to close to another active music box, in which case the killer will have full insight of the survivor again. The Terror Radius is increased by 50% & the trail the survivor leaves behind will not disappear after a while. However, sabotaging & deactivating the music boxes require separate toolkit actions, with the deactivation sequence taking precedence. If The Ballerina is not in active pursuit of a survivor, she can still place the music box & wind it up on the the spot wherever she is. If the music box is playing the song with a survivor nearby, it will simply reveal their location to the killer.

Perks: LETHAL EN POINTE: Generators are damaged quicker than ever. With this perk, The Ballerina can damage generators & destroy planks quicker than before with the cooldown greatly decreased. This also is helpful when chasing survivors with a 5% chance of putting them in the dying state in 1 fell swoop of an attack. DEATH IS FOREVER: Once hooked by the killer, There is a huge percentage-based penalty for any failed escape attempts, which speeds up the sacrifice procedure by 25%. The chance of them getting sacrified quicker increases per tier. The hex totem must be cleansed in order to disable the effects of the hex. However, once the first hex totem is cleansed, the hex is able to transfer to another totem elsewhere on the map, where it again must be cleansed to disable its effects. This hex is able to transfer up to twice per match before being disabled completely. SWAN'S GRACE: Even killers can be light on their toes. The Ballerina can leap over planks, obstacles & vaultable walls with ease without slowing down. This is very helpful when chasing survivors.

Map: The Ballerina lurks inside the dimly lit & abandoned Alicia Markova Memorial Ballet Theatre where she failed her ballet performance & killed her mother & other victims in her path.

Accompanying Survivor(s): Daniel Hart, Connie Moore, Jennifer Perkins, Frank Rogers & Maria Case

Name:

Daniel Hart

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Playstyle:

A spry survivor who can mess with the Killer’s senses, while still having an escape route in dire need.

Appearance:

Daniel Hart is the shortest out of the male survivors. He has pale apricot skin, and small facial features, he has bright hazel eyes, contained in square rainbow prescription glasses and he has a single bandage on his nose. He has short honey brown hair. He has a dark grey beret hat placed at the top of his head, also stained with stickers. His dress shirt is cyan, when in darkness looking a navy teal, he wears light blue jeans.

Lore:

Daniel Elias Hart was a drama club member at his high school. He had a dream in acting in movies and plays as well as TV. For his 3 years in high school, he would be seen with drama club rehearsing the lines for his role in each play he is in. Then one day, while trying to rehearse for his play, which is a play version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Heart of Darkness, Daniel needed to truly fit into his character, who was pretty dark & brooding, so he went to a dark abandoned theater to try and find something to fit into his character, only to find that he was not alone. He knew that the outcome of this would truly lead to his capture into a dark world.

Perks: 

A Friend Indeed: When rescued from a hook by a survivor, the perk activates and sets your healing state to 30/40/50%. A Friend Indeed has a cooldown of 90 seconds.

Seen Through Different Eyes: You have an uncanny ability to make yourself invisible from the killer's aura reading. Cooldown takes 60/45/30 Seconds.

With Precision: You have an uncanny ability to slip out of danger. After being chased for 80 seconds you can dash to the nearest pallet in a 5 meter range. After you dash to a pallet you can either instantly throw it down, but has an extended recovery time if there is no pallet near you, or hide behind an object in the map like behind a wall or a generator. This can only be used once per trial.

Name:

Connie Moore

Difficulty:

Pro

Playstyle:

Connie is a swift and agile survivor who can silence noises that she makes thanks to her gloves on her hands so she doesn’t alert the killer.

Appearance:

Connie Moore is a young mocha skinned, brown eyes woman with strawberry blonde hair in a tight, high ponytail. She wears a standard violinist’s pantsuit uniform, complete with white gloves & stiletto heels.

Lore:

Connie Ashleigh Moore is an up-and-coming violinist. As a violinist, she cares for her hands, usually caring for them & protecting them by wearing protective white violinist gloves. She was on a field trip with her music class friends on one fateful day to Alicia Markova Ballet Theatre, which was rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of a ballerina who killed her own mother and various others. Out of curiosity, Connie decided to see inside the haunted theatre, but that would lead to a mistake that would get her marked by the Entity.

Perks:

Silent Escape: With this perk active, Connie Moore can knock down pallets, vault over pallets & windows and not make a sound to alert the Killer of her location. Silent Escape has a cooldown of 60 seconds.

Dotzauer Dash: You are more fast on your feet after being unhooked by another survivor. You can dash to the nearest generator, hook or locker Works well with Silent Escape.

Women’s Chivalry: When rescuing a survivor from the hook, the perk activates and sets the injured survivor's healing state to 30/40/50%. Women’s Chivalry has a cooldown of 90 seconds.

Name:

Jennifer Perkins

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Playstyle:

An altruistic survivor who can toy with the Killer’s Senses & find the perfect escape route without fail.

Appearance:

Jennifer is a young woman with pale pink skin, blue eyes, & long golden blonde hair. Jennifer wears a purple tee shirt with a white turtleneck sweater underneath, denim jeans, & white shoes.

Lore:

Jennifer “Jenny” Perkins is an aspiring future actress that dreams of starring in TV Shows & Movies on the big silver screen. While on the way to an audition for a TV Commercial, Jennifer took a wrong turn & wound up in the foggy forest where she tried to find some help with directions. But instead of finding directions, she ends up encountering 4 other survivors & end up having to work together to escape The Entity.

Perks:

Lights, Camera, Action!:  Jennifer Perkins can mimic the caw of the Entity’s raven to confuse the Killer, giving survivors enough time to escape if they are being chased. Lights, Camera, Action! has a cooldown of 90 seconds Jennifer can also use this to alert survivors when the killer is nearby, which will make the survivors aware of their surroundings if they’re not being chased by the killer. 

Distraction Counts: With this perk active, you can use ventriloquism skills to “throw” your voice to a generator, pallet, hook, locker, or window far from you by 15/20/30 meters to throw the Killer off of your scent. Has a cooldown of 120 seconds, the noise it makes can mimic one of the survivors or even herself.

Lead The Way: Once 3-5 generators are repaired, you can scout the area for a perfect escape route that the Killer won’t detect you nor other survivors taking said route. Can be used only once per trial.

Name:

Frank Rogers

Difficulty:

Expert

Playstyle:

Frank is a crafty survivor who can fix and power-up generators in a few minutes & sabotage hooks without the need of a toolbox. He can also use wood from broken pallets to create dummy decoys to trick the Killer.

Appearance:

Frank is the same height as David. He has tan skin, green eyes, short dark brown hair & wears a light grey graphic tee shirt & black jeans with an artist’s smock over it.

Lore:

Franklin Rogers is your typical average everyday neighborhood all-American sculptor & artiste who dreams of becoming a famous sculptor like his idols & attends a popular art school that is in high demand & very hard to get in. While searching for inspiration for his next masterpiece, Franklin decides to head to a theatre for inspiration to help fuel his creativity & imagination. But instead of inspiration, he found the Entity’s avatar wanting a sacrifice. So it’s up to him to escape with 4 other survivors in one piece.

Perks:

Dummy Time: Once a pallet you threw down is broken or you sabotaged a hook, you can use the wood from the broken pallet, or objects like the broken, cleansed totem or sabotaged hook to create a decoy of yourself or one of the other survivors to trick the Killer. It can be damaged & destroyed by the killer. The decoy can resemble one of the survivors randomly.

No Tools Needed: With this perk, you can sabotage hooks without the need of a toolbox. Though you still have to aim at the right time, so you don’t alert the killer of your whereabouts. This perk can be used up to 4 times before going on cooldown. No Tools Needed has a cooldown time of 60 seconds

Runaway Escape: If you are the last survivor on the map after everyone escapes/is sacrificed/killed. You gain 5% Movement Speed, allowing you to dash to the nearest Escape hatch. This can be used only once per trial.

Name:

Maria Case

Difficulty:

Beginner

Playstyle:

Maria is a graceful, elegant, & swift survivor whose grace can help her easily get herself out of dangerous situations and from the Killer’s Aura. She is also very comforting to other survivors.

Appearance:

Maria Case is the shortest out of the female survivors. She has caucasian bright apricot skin, when in darkness is a darker tone of tan, bright azure blue eyes & princess long honey brown hair with a pink hair bow on top of her head. She wears a light pink, skin tight, sleeveless ballet leotard underneath a pink striped turtleneck sweater, with a picture of a little female ballerina red panda wearing a pink tutu and ballet dancing en pointe with arms over its head, over said leotard. She also wears a pink ballet tutu skirt with a thigh length denim miniskirt underneath & white knee-length leggings, which are light gray in darkness, & pink ballet flats.

Lore:

Maria Case is an upcoming & aspiring ballerina with optimism & a bright future ahead of her. She has learned ballet from many famous ballet teachers & ballet dancers when she was young, especially her idols. Maria Case was born into a wealthy & powerful family. But while she is an innocent, pure, sweet & friendly lady, she can be a pushover at times, which leads to some situations that Maria can’t handle herself. While on the way to rehearsal for a ballet she has the role of prima in, she ended up getting lost and made a wrong turn into the deep dark regions of a forest where she encounters 4 other people. What’s worse is that she is being watched by an unknown figure known as The Entity. What's worse is that they are all being stalked by a killer. So Maria must work together with these 4 survivors to escape. This is where her ballet skills are put to the test because they are vital for her to escape.

Perks:

Odette’s Grace: With the altruism of an angel, every survivor you rescue gives you a stack that boosts your Healing state time by 25%. When you reach 4 stacks, your Healing state increases by 100% and giving you or the survivor super armor, making it difficult for the Killer to damage you into the dying state during a chase if either you or the survivor is already in the injured state. This perk has a cooldown of 120/80/60 seconds.

En Pointe Glissade: With the swiftness of a swan, every vault over a knocked down pallet or an open window, you recover your movement speed even when in an injured state, you gain a stack of Movement Speed boosted by 2.5% (10% if you get 4 stacks). This perk has a cooldown of 90 seconds

Grand Jete Of Faith: With the grace of a ballerina. You can leap over open windows & thrown down pallets without making a sound. This perk has a cooldown of 60/40/20 Seconds.

New Map: The Alicia Markova Ballet Theatre

Map:

The Alicia Markova Memorial Ballet Theatre. An Indoor Map with a stage in the middle as well as various halls leading to lower or higher levels in the area. The map is dimly lit, full of chairs in the stage part, has multiple floors & balconies, and a lobby where the escape point/exit gate is.

Layout:

• Geographic:
• Square Tile: carpet/wood/marble
• Does it have floor? Yes.
• How many sections? 7
• Extra info
• Pallets: One in the hallway, the other on the stage. Other pallets at regular spots 
• Windows: many in the halls, one in the lobby, none in the stage
• Stairs Yes.
• Generators: either one can be in The Stage, the balconies, & The lobby, the rest are scattered throughout the map
• Hooks: on the stage and one outside of the lobby. Other hooks spawned randomly

Miscellaneous:

• Lockers amount and location (Normal
• Exit Gates location (Normal)
• Special Feature? (On the Stage part of the map, there is a lever that opens a trapdoor on the stage that can lead any survivor or the killer to the bottom level of the map, which is a grave trapdoor that takes you, any of the 5 survivors or the killer below the stage.)

Lore:

Once the most famous Ballet Theatre that was built in the 1800’s, now the lurking grounds of The Ballerina. Many disappearances & murders have happened here since the incident of October 30th. It is also rumoured to be haunted. No one knows what happened to those who entered the theatre, but what is known is that they were never heard from ever again.

Dead by Daylight is a 4v1 horror game wherein four survivors must work together to escape a merciless serial killer who's hunting them down. Each survivor has a unique backstory and role within the game. I'm excited to add my first survivor concept to the roster! Most of my Dead by Daylight fan art is killer concepts, but every DLC in the official game adds a killer, a survivor, and a new map, so my eventual plan is to design survivors for all of my killers accordingly. I chose the Ballerina to be the first lucky winner of getting their own survivors. Daniel, Connie, Jennifer, Frank & Maria's characters are inspired by all stars in the arts from music, painting, dance & acting. Daniel is a drama club member at his high school, Connie is an upcoming aspiring violinist, Jennifer is an actress-in-the-making, Frank is an artist who does art from paintings to sculptures & Maria is an up-and-coming ballerina. I felt that they'd be a good fit to accompany the Ballerina because the Harbinger's map is a theater, which is exactly the kind of place these 5 survivors would end up. I plan to design Maria's perks to deliberately counteract the Ballerina's, while the perks of Daniel, Connie, Frank & Jennifer are designed to help out other survivors, so these six characters will end up being a perfect storm once I design their concepts. Oh, how much I would love to see a Ballerina DLC Pack in the official game with these 5 survivors!