Your Dream Survivor: Concept discussion!

Wish to have a chapter of my country (Vietnam), or may be just survivor. Sadly our culture isnt that unique to create one that standout.

I’ve shared a Fox Mulder, Xfiles survivor concept around here. That’s sort of what I’d love, a survivor whos perks help with awareness and sensing the killer. After Ash, in terms of licensed survivors, Mulder would be my number one dream license but an original type would be a sort of pulp detective. A type out the call of Cthulhu rpgs or film noirs. The idea of someone from the past pulled into the entities realm is cool to me!

Robert Small, a cryptozoologist in search of the local town ghost.

It would be rather easy to give him a story of how he entered the fog, considering he drives at night, goes drinking and searches for mythical monsters.

Please BHVR, i know you can do it...

My dream survivor would never happen because it would be too OP. I don't like stories where the characters are hopeless and doomed for eternity, like the survivors in this game are. Rather, since we have a villain, the Entity, I'd want to introduce a counter to that. Like a Light that goes against the Darkness.

My character would have forced themselves into the Entities world in order to free the survivors and killers who have been tainted. While in the Entities realm, they will be weakened, but still strong, while out side of the realm, they would be on par with the Entity. Or maybe, they could be an agent for something more powerful. I haven't really dwelled on it too much.

Barring that, I love Claudette so I'm rather content, I just want more unique cosmetics and hair styles.

If I had to pick someone from some kind of media, I would throw money at Behaviour if they introduce Brenda Meeks:

My dream survivor would be Ethan Winters from Resident Evil 7+8. He had such a heartbreaking story that'd be perfect for The Entity's realm. The only problem is that Capcom seems hellbent on hiding his face (even though you can just google his character model and see it), so we may not see him any time soon if that's case. If we can't get Ethan, I want his wife Mia.

As for an original survivor, I'm not really sure. I've never really put much thought into it.

i dont think i was a dating simulator character in dbd.

Shaggy from scooby doo. With Matthew Lillard as the model.

Isn't the producer lady from the All-Kill chapter a terrible person who was, like, letting Trickster murder people?

Mine would be a "Artificial/Pseudo" Survivor made by the entity itself as a failed attempt at self sufficiency.

It would seem be a normal survivor but with a warped mocking voice imitating the current game's killer's stun sound with a filter when injured.

They will also become more deformed in appearance when injured, also while bleeding blighted goo on the body that turns into normal blood(This also makes their body glow orange but not the blood pools).

When sacrificed or killed they would melt into orange blight goo.

All of their perks would be based around manipulating the entity, such as:

Entity's Doorways:

After you complete a generator or repair it for 66% you gain a token(Max of 2 tokens per game and only 1 per generator). To use a token enter a locker to teleport to a locker on the opposite side of the map after X seconds.

During the activation of the perk the entity will begin to wrap its spider-like tendrils around the locker as a warning to the killer that a survivor is using the perk(So they can attempt to punish any survivors recklessly using it mid chase) and the original locker will slowly open to black smoke once the teleport goes off before closing again.

I’d love to see Benedict Baker, perhaps as the “on the brink of insanity” character mentioned here. Maybe one of the characters from those Harbinger stories from the Archives.

As for original concepts, I’ve been trying my hand at a character that, before the Entity took it, possessed some kind of magical power to create “fake” objects from memory, similarly to how the Entity creates its trials, though on a much smaller scale.

A bit of a loner, he became reliant his powers, abused them, even. He’d live a life on top of the world, sustained near exclusively by “fake” creations. At one point, his wanton use of such powers attracts the attention of a very specific crowd. He notices he’s being followed wherever he goes. Friends and colleagues go missing, and he grows paranoid. He ultimately goes into hiding, falsely fortifying himself in his home. His assailants effortlessly break through his defenses, and he’s captured by the cult of the Entity. To his surprise, they aren’t hostile, but instead want to learn from his power. He still tries to escape them, and succeeds. But he then finds his entire life in shambles. All his creations, gone. The people he counted as his friends only cared about him as a money printer, and he has long since alienated himself from his family. He has to realise that he has nothing “real” anymore. The only real thing to his name are the clothes he wore when he first discovered his powers. He desperately tries to rebuild everything, but finds himself unable to focus. Whatever he creates only somewhat resembles what he envisions. His house lacks any details, and even has items he has no memory of ever seeing. He tries giving himself some decent clothes, but his creations explode into a bright glowing substance that adheres to his old clothes and skin. The longer he tries, the more desperate he becomes, until the only thing he can create is the blackest fog he has ever seen.

Upon capture, his powers are taken away, but he is in denial about it. His lobby animations include him trying to use his powers to no avail, and another him accidentally creating an auric cell but being unable to control it and it shattering.

His perks would be based around him creating false objects and the little knowledge he has about the Entity from his short time amongst the cult. (Though I admittedly don’t have a lot of ideas for these beyond what is essentially Apex’s Mirage’s “Bamboozle”)

I'm waiting for an older woman (around Ace/Bill age) coming from a country that didn't already birthed a survivor/killer so it could be like Australia, India, Egypt, Ireland, Peru, etc. So many possibilities that didn't get exploited yet.

She would have team cooperation perks, could be like when you get injured reveals your aura to your teammates for 4/6/8 secs upon entering a chase, like a reverse Empathy and you would get a small portion of points from any gen progression points your team gets while you are getting chased.

An exhaustion perk : 150 % bonus speed after taking a protection hit.

And a healing token perk : you start 1/2/3 tokens, each time you unhook a survivor safely or you heal a survivor for 1 heal state gain 1 token. While healing yourself or an other survivor, press the ability button to burn 1 token. Each token instantly heal for an equivalent of 11/22/33%. You can use up to 2 tokens per heal state. Upon completing a heal state, the perk deactivates for 60/50/40 secs. You still can earn tokens while the perk is inactive.

Either some sort of Hacker/nerd type or a Black-Ops soldier type.

The hacker would have Perks centered around sabotage and tricking the killer, while the soldier would have a some stealth Perks and a perk that triggered after death/sacrifice.

I really want a survivor that has perks that affect keys the way Botany Knowledge and Pharmacy can affect first aid kits.

Now, hear me out I would only want these kinds of perks if keys get reworked to not be completely oppressive lol I want to be able to use them one day for aura reading more than for free escape out of trial / triggering Killers. But yeah, a survivor with a connection to the Skeleton Key would be interesting.