r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Musprite • 15d ago

Discussion It has nothing to do with goonability

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u/PratalMox 15d ago

Is Magical Artist not an instantly graspable urban-supernatural character fantasy?

It's certainly more mundane than the Rat King, the Baba Yaga or the undead Crash Test Pilot, but it's in the same ballpark as a psychic chess hustler or a sinister nurse.

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u/LegendaryPolo 15d ago

i think her not being obviously magical is a big part of it. like the sinister nurse has a glowing evil eye on her bag, she is very definitely in the occult. magical artist kinda just looks like an artist.

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u/Horror_Prior4765 The Doorman 15d ago

I mean doorman is just a doorman until you add the nuance of who he is.

Judgment without details is a choice.

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u/Emerycurse 14d ago

Doorman looks pretty uncanny without any context though, Violet has nothing outwardly noteworthy

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u/okerobelin 14d ago

Tbf, back when the doorman model was founded in test mode, some people also said he looked bland, since he just looks like a doorman... until his ult was founded.

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u/KonaMation 14d ago

I would argue the same for Holliday, and McGuinnes. Nothing outwardly noteworthy compared to the characters around them. But by being "normal" they stand out more. The ordinary humans fighting on the same terms as an immortal Electrokenetic and Doorman. Violet could be the same as page. Her magic speaks more than her design, take away her bibliomancy and Paige is just a woman who likes to read, and if her torn up Vote poster is anything to go by, there might be more to Violet than we can see.

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u/HKBFG 14d ago

holliday is a boring AF design, yeah.