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What's your favorite character's lore?
So, I'm not a super big lore guy in video games, gonna be honest. I'm a little slow at times, so super crazy and complex stuff like Bloodborne or anything else at times just kinds goes over my head until I really sit down and think about it. Usually it just feels like a lot of information was spewed out in front of me rather quickly. Or it just doesn't peak my interest.
Which was happening in dbd for me, I didn't really find it too interesting, you get a small portion of information about the killer or survivor to get a small understanding of their personality and that's it.
That was the case until Dead By Daylight's 2018 Halloween event. This event was by far my absolute favorite and it always will be. But, what really sparked it for me was the cryptic stories of a survivor who's gone mad studying the Entity's serum in the hopes of recieving incredible power. I loved this little story so much, it made me think about this mysterious figure day in and day out until the event was over. Then it got released again with said Killer, which made it even better. I loved reading his story and seeing what motivates him to continue serving for the Entity. The power kinda made me upset though.. but his story was amazing. But The Blight's story got me interested in learning everyone's backstories for now on.
What about you?
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I like hillbillys rift story it really makes you feel for him.
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Yui. Reading her lore made me fall in love with her.
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I like Adams lore. Mainly because I relate to it in some ways
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It is pretty sad, I feel bad for him
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Clown. Simple, effective and realistic.
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She is a very motivated and dedicated person that sparks hope. I can understand why so many people like her
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The Clown's lore makes me the most interested to read because it gives you a glimpse inside Kenneth's (Clown's name) psychopathic mind.
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I get what you mean. I guess in some weird way, I relate with Jeff
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Dwight went from the town's punching bag to a metaphysical eldritch world through unknown means overseen by a higher deity hellbent on his complete and utter destruction while simultaneously feeding on his fears, anxieties, and inhibitions as he makes desperate struggles to survive the unsurvivable.
Dwight also isn't very good at sports and can't handle alcohol
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Killer:Ghostface
Survivor:Jeff
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I relate to feng's lore tbh I love EVERYTHING about feng Legit everything her design lore perks EVERYTHING
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Wraith and Plague. I'm always a huge sucker for the tragic figures. I also really liked Legion's initial lore as four kids spiraling hard out of control, though their rift lore paints at least two of them as aspiring sociopaths the whole time, which feels a little less... real, to me.
Hillbilly's rift story is absolutely incredible, though. Wraith's was great, and Plague's isn't fully out yet, but eesh, if there's one in the archives that shook me, it was this one. The constant juxtaposition of the lives he sees through the TV and his knowing that his own shouldn't be like this as he falls deeper into insanity and violence, and finally accepts it all and goes to forge his own way free of all of them, is just brutal. "He's own kind of hero today." What a line. It's not often you're brought to root for the guy who kills his whole family and a police squadron, but the whole thing was so painfully human.
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I think Kate's story is beautiful and has an air of romantic tragedy to it. The idea that she had sort of sold her soul for fame and deviated from her feel-good country music to something more commercial, the fact that she became sort of entranced by a sad melody inside, that it called to the Entity as she played it in the woods.
It kind of has a siren song feel to me! Only it is typically the predator luring their prey to them through the music instead of the other way around like with Kate and the Entity.
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I'm a fan of the Doctor lore. Damn I really like it. 👍️
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I like huntresses lore, it's so unique and original. It fits no cliches in my opinion.
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Blight or Deathslinger.
Because one is a person driven to madness through his experiments but goes into the rabbit hole which is the Entity and eventually becomes a killer because of the serum.
Other because I love good revenge story and he is a bounty hunter with a big o'l brain.
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I love Elodie's and Felix lore.
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Ghostface but I'm biased
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Dwight.
According to his lore he's an unpopular and unwanted guy, so someone's gotta have his back.
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I really like Elodie, Yun-Jin, and Kate's lore.
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Blight is my favorite killer for lore, since he may just be the most important character in the story.
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Waiting on Jake’s lore.
For now it’s: Yui’s, Hillbilly’s, and Hag’s.
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Jane, Yun-Jin & Twins' lore has all stood out to me.
Jane trying to keep everything together, Yun-Jin wanting self-fame, and the Twins' facing discrimination just by existing... their lores just seem so relatable at times and it's so interesting too.
Edit: Typo
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Trickser.
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It’s in the pfp 🥶
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Jeff’s lore is very grounded and wholesome
Deathslinger’s is very gritty and dark yet realistic and a good depiction of the time period
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I guess I would say Kate!
though I also really liked the more vague (and shorter) backstorys of the first few chars.
I think later on the backstorys got a little too complex and the emphasis seems to drift to independent, very successful, young and attractive people, especially for the female Chars.. I liked the more simplistic and everyday-like chars and storys.
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God. Where to even begin?
The lore of the entity before it was retconned, the lore of Blight before it was retconned, the lore of Nurse before it was retconned.
Basically the lore as it was before the writers decided to go full Marvel and re-write everything not realising that less is more.
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Huntress for sure, I love hearing about how she couldn't bring herself to kill the little girls, I think it shows how each killer has sympathy and wasn't always the way that they are.
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What do you mean retconned?
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For me the coolest lore is PH's. It's hinted that he's literally in Entity's realm to punish her via starving her of emotion which is the only way to hurt the entity we know of.
He's making holes into her realm through the torment trails, allowing power of Silent hill seep through to let him use the cages and final judgement so that entity doesn't get as much nourishment from the trials.
I'm so glad I wanted the video by Pixel bush entertainment which analysed PH's lore in DBD, making me realise how fitting and elaborate it is.
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Spirt because holy ######### she and I can relate.
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Blight I just find it really cool how he was originally a survivor and became a killer.
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I.. I'm both lost and super entertained. Did the Entity see PH and thought "It would make for a fine servant" but, then accidentally released a parasite on to itself which it now can't seem to be rid of or? You'd think the Entity would be strong enough to kick PH out
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My favorite area of the lore revolves around Legion and how Jeff painted their mural, they disappeared, and then years later he also disappeared. There's lots of fanfic of the legion members coming across jeff and freaking out that so much time has passed
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I will admit that it is nice, I'm glad they're the first orginal characters who met each other before
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Oni's lore is badass. The rift carried David's lore, making it one of my favorites.
I also like Trickster's, it's pretty terrifying. Yun-Jin's also pretty good, a survivor that's genuinely selfish. Plus I like the connection to her killer counterpart.
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I'm not the one to properly explain it, if you're interested go watch Pixel bush entertainment's video on Silent hill as that would make much better job at explaining it then I would. It's really good one as all of his lore videos are.
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I definitely will now, this makes things interested and very complicated now haha
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I watched the video. Wow. That..[BAD WORD] me up good. Thank you for that
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Dweet's.
I want to give the little guy a hug.
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Retroactively changed.
The entity used to turn survivors into killers when their hope of escaping completely ran out. Now they get dumped into the void for no reason.
Blight used to a victim of his desire for power which lead him into willingly becoming a killer to sate his addiction to serum. Now he was unwillingly turned into a killer when he tried to escape.
Nurse used to have murdered all of the patients in the asylum because her mind had snapped after spending so much time near the insane. Now she decided to kill everyone because of, and I'm not kidding, eugenics.
These and so many more arbitrary story changes have done nothing but made the lore of dbd cheap and less engaging. "Modern" writing styles need to die screaming.
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It’s gotta be the doctor for me. I always wondered if he was always rotten or if it was just a case of people reinforcing his bad habits. But after reading his rift dude is straight up evil to his core
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A few of those I can explain, the Nurse one however... yeah. You got me there. That's a pretty questionable writing decision there.
For the survivors turned killer portion. That's still a thing, but it just hasn't been focused on. A survivor who's been pushed through and through, becoming more and more hopeless wouldn't be good for the entity and would dispose of it. I actually prefer this explanation more, it ties in with...some unfortunately real life circumstances that I don't want to get into. But, they're husks that serve no purpose. However, a survivor that is tired of being tortured and wishes the inflict the torture onto others might recieve the Entity's blessings. If you're proving that is. Again, you were tortured right off the bat, so the Entity would be rather hesitant on making that decision, it'd want to see you grow your hatred more into something it can actually use.
Blight's lore. I don't think that was retconned at all. I thought his was rather explained well. When he arrived to the realm of the he was a survivor who's goal was to escape, which his fascination with the pustule flowers comes into play. He devotee his time in experimenting on killers and himself in the hopes to over throw the entity. But instead, it became a symbolic representation of addiction, just like he was in the opium den. When he was banished, he started to withdraw horrendously, but believed he was so close to cracking the key. Talbot made a promise, survivor nor killer would stand in his way anymore. (I botched the wording on that one) The Entity took interest and took him in. Yeah, it definitely seems rather odd
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Oh yeah, it's a little horrifying
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