Skull Merchant's First Skin Proves this chapter is a sex grab

Oh wow! Sadly sex and horror is a together, be it cheesey, be it hot and horror, me it where campers go around a campfire and drink and well.....we all know how Jason died lol, it's always been a thing, will always be a thing, yes I wish myself a little bit more horror though sadly I still ######### myself when ghost face comes around the corner or Myers is staring at me lol!

I'm just extremely worried at the fact that there's people playing this game that are genuinely aroused by a mutilated ghost, a putrefied priestess that keeps puking herself, and so on.

Next chapter is baywatch with new killer Pamela Anderson, in full swimwear and surfboard.

I get called a sex addict, a mentally ill individual and lots of other nasty things IRL by some people in the street just for being bisexual while there's people out there getting aroused watching mutilated stuff, animals, vomit, etc. It really bothers me!

Her design comes across a lot like a skin made by old men for boys/men :)

It's not like she is the first female skull sniper with blatant close-ups of her butt and boobs.... oh wait... Kojima did that already. Maybe Kojima is doing their skin designs 🤷

Skull merchant at least has hair... lmao

esp with vampyres, I am not sure what the huge problem is with her clothes? yes do I wish they got the Predator in her even if they did the sexy walk sure, am I a huge fan of the new killer? no she looks like some BDSM Mistress about to spank you but hey her clothes are fine :)

I remember the crop top thread. Some people gave you major ######### over that for no reason which was hilarious.

Here you go. Front and Back.

Edit: I've been Ninja'd but I'm leaving it.

calem, im sorry, but there are female killer who have been sexualized for years in dbd, huntress is a perfect example of this so is the artist as well, she was the "mommy" of dbd for a while, but also who cares, its only a game as well, we are all here to have fun, not not pick and cry about something that actually does not affect the game or gameplay, maybe keep discussion to things that are affecting played games a and suck might be more useful here , also may i remind u of all the skins dropped in the past that are sexualized or can be, aka spirit from the new game hooked on u whos skins are now moving to dbd , trapper in his tighty whities, and a few others, so why stop and pick on this killer when its been done many times before, once again this is a game we are here to play and have fun on, so if ur just gunna cry about cosmetics, then maybe its time to hang up dbd and move on

To be fair, Huntress "mommy" is caused by us fan artists, not Devs, like most other killers.

drone mommy?

And how many skins do we have now with topless guys and ripped muscles? I think you can handle one scantily clad female in the see of GD beefcakes.

Although, the lore has nothing to do with the sexy walk and appearance.

So... <_>

Considering the outfit is supposed to come from a manga, if you've ever seen one it's pretty par for the course.

The difference is that the sexualization of those characters came up from the community organically and was then requested. This is just... "Hi, nice to meet you! Would you like to treat me as a sex object despite having no idea who I am?" kind of vibe. If people in the community started sexualizing Dull Merchant and requesting sexy skins, that's when you make the sexy skins... not before they even know who she is.

And before anybody asks: yes, it felt kind of the same way with Vittorio but not quite as insidious because the first time they did it with a new character it was an anomaly. But now they've done it with 4 new characters in a row (Vittorio, Skull, Renato, Thalita) implying a pattern of just creating conventionally attractive characters with revealing outfits right out of the gate purely for profit, which is pretty scummy.

I can't quite see how they'd be "forced" to do anything requested considering the sheer number of majority consensus community requests that they regularly ignore (i.e. make Red Forest smaller, nerf some of Blight's more egregious add-ons, incentivize not camping hooks, etc.).

Ah I see what you mean there. Though, at the end of the day, for me personally, I'd rather have the sexualization come from the community and then be responded to by the devs instead of the other way around, as when BHVR does it for a brand new character it just comes off as a scummy business tactic.

I was interested to see if they would ever do it, but I was hoping it would be for more reason than 'sexy because manga because sexy'. Like, she's just tautologically so.

And literally nothing makes that walk work.

To be fair, almost all aspects of her design have weak explanations, or no explanation at all. I have no idea where her tech comes from or how she learned to create it or why it's made of skulls or why her mask looks so goofy or why she's even called The Skull Merchant. The sexy strut is the least of her problems, in my opinion.