Wrote some random ideas and lore things for a character i had an idea about
I would absolutely love any feedback or suggestions on what to change ability wise or lore wise :)
ABILITIES:
Ability 3 Bark Plating /Floral Shroud
Grants movement speed. Lasts indefinitely but does nothing unless certain conditions are met. Also cannot be recast unless ally succeeds in meeting previously mentioned conditions or is killed. When in range of enemy, the ability will activate, casting a barrier and granting bonus move speed. All damage inflicted by the player during the duration of the barrier whilst in enemy range will convert into an aoe blast around the player when the ability ends.
Can be self cast to instead give yourself Floral Shroud. Floral Shroud instead grants a shroud that can be pulled out to form a massive floral area of protection around Trent. Allies regen quickly within the shroud and deal more damage to enemies outside of the shroud. If an enemy enters the shroud it will retaliate in a burst of thorns
Upgrade 1: Bark plating
Upgrade: If Bark armor successfully damages a player it coats the armor onto the enemy lowering their gun and melee resist and slowing them massively. Enemies within the range of Flower armor during its active stage will have their stamina slowly drained and lowered healing effectiveness (Including lifesteal).
Final Upgrade: If Bark Armor hits a player it recasts and does a larger radius aoe blast. Enemies with bark armor stuck to them will take more damage.
Ability 2 Replant:
Throw a grenade that slowly grows into a tree stump, interact again to destroy current body and switch to tree whilst also violently emerging from the stump upwards. Enemies hit by tree stump will have knock up applied and take Melee damage. If Grenade isn't interacted with when it fully forms, it will stay in place, generating an aura around it that disables parries for everyone within it
Upgrade ideas:
Minus cooldown or smth, Damage increase and scaling, can throw two grenades and when interacted with will now erupt from the ground from both grenade locations once fully activated. (Will activate quickly back to back going in order of whichever grenade was thrown first onwards)
Maybe set the tree stump duration on a decently strict time restraint forcing the player to
Maybe the second upgrade can also make your old body that you switch from, explode
Maybe the ability works by making the grenade do damage on impact and then slowly the aura grows in size until when full when the tree will release a root grasp that attaches to enemies in range and pulls them into the tree trunk
Ability 1 Seed Salvo:
releases multiple seed bombs that linger in the air for a second to prime before firing off one by one in the direction of your reticle
Alt casting will instead put the seed bombs into your gun and channeling them for the same duration as you would normally priming them. At the end of the channel, shoot an explosive bolt out of your gun that upon impact explodes once for spirit damage and then multiple times afterwards in quick succession equal to the number of bombs primed (Can be shot on the first bomb being primed for quick damage or on all of the bombs for bigger damage burst)
Ultimate Ability Ripcord:
Pull a chainsaw out of your back, rev it and begin sawing arm. when arm is being sawed, release a cone of sawdust in front of you that coats enemies and makes them vulnerable to fire. Once arm is fully sawed, switch to instead grinding the chainsaw against your weapon releasing sparks that ignite enemies hit by the sawdust prior.
LORE:
Trent is a withdrawn and somewhat standoffish walking talking tree who tolerates humans at the best of times and absolutely despises them at the worst of times. He comes from a faraway forest that was the target of a large scale illegal mystical poaching operation. Trent watched his family and friends get murdered and mutilated into planks and logs by men in masks and then stuffed into piles on cold and rickety logging trucks headed for a logging facility right on the outskirts of New York. Unknown to the poachers, Trent had and was the only one that had survived. Seeing no other option with the poachers encroaching on his hiding place, he made the choice to hide amongst his deceased lumber family and friends on a lumber truck just to get away from that place and their prying eyes.
Fortunately for Trent by some stroke of luck whilst he was in transit, he hit one of the truck walls with so much force from a rough turn executed by the more than likely drunk driver of the log lorry. It was just enough force to puncture a hole through the truck wall sending Trent tumbling onto the road and into freedom.
Trent spent some time in the forest recollecting himself but found himself being drawn in by the alluring lights of the nearby city as most people were.
Trent in the present day now spends his time hunting and brutally killing Poachers lumberjacks, polluters and anyone else who dared disturb the sanctity of his new home, The Big Apple.
DESIGN:
Kinda like Groot but less bulky
Wears stereotypical red and black plaid shirt worn by lumberjacks
Weapon is called the Branch Ballista and looks like an massive crossbow looking weapon made out of sticks, bark, leaves acorns, and cobwebs.
Has a hatchet lodged in abdomen from past skirmish.
Also has a Chainsaw fully lodged in his back that he calls "Ripcord"
Has a septum piercing that is literally just a wonky nailed hammered through it
Has hair that is medium long made up of leaves
Plaid shirt is open revealing that his chest has a large tattoo that is a big spraypainted X resembling the marks put on trees meant to be cut down.
