I'd like to point out that there's a Lovecraft tale called Pickman's Model that may be the inspiration here. The tl;dr is, ostracized artist seems to have entered a Faustian bargain (willingly or not) with some sort of demon; has the ability to paint anomalous moving paintings, but has to occasionally literally fight his demons with a gun.
My guess is she got in contact with dark powers to get her magic abilities, and now can't escape the deal. Sort of like Geist.
The more likely inspiration for Violet might be coming from a Chinese myth about a demon who painted themselves to take on a human form of a beautiful woman. Would definitely track with her broken vote poster featuring a similar green skinned demon.
Her hat and blouse fitting is very french/european, so style wise she's kinda a mess if we're talking character design lol. Makes sense that korean could work, theres like 8 countries she could be from just going off her design
This is cope, but there’s something here about the beauty of New York. The capital of the world where culture splashes together like waves —or Valve doesn’t particularly care for cultural consistency
They are mixing things tastefully thus far. Shiv is a mixture of elvis, with Puerto Rican 50's fashion, or holliday with 1800's western fashion mixed with 30's/40's leather jacket styles, so im praying that violet and baba will be a mix thats also tasteful
To be fair, Baba just means "grandma" basically, right? I assumed what they were going for was that she wasn't literally Baba Yaga, but like, New York's Baba. As if every country could have its own Baba archetype who rides around on (inanimate object) with feet. The idea that a Baba could come from anywhere.
Idk, if the game is assumed to take place sometime around the late 20s to early 40s the timeline absolutely lines up for her to be a second, or even possibly a third generation Russian/Ukrainian immigrant. If that's the case then the only accent she would have would be a New York one.
Dawg if her ult or her abilities are just her dropping the facade entirely and turning into a full ass demon creature, I will eat crow so fucking hard LOL
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u/TinyYeehaw 14d ago
im honestly gonna wait until she finally drops to pass judgement. i feel like the disarming look is a bait and switch but who knows?