[Champion Concept] Marie - The Paintress of Worlds

(No prologue. This is a Champion that I’ve had in my mind for a longer time and wanted to create her to finally stop the voices in my head. I HEAR VOICES IN MY HEAD.)

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#Lore "My favourite colour is black. Why, you ask? Because black means nothingness – and I AM nothing" - Marie, the Paintress of Worlds

"Despite of her normal life, Marie Merian was no ordinary girl, more than that; she was different than the others. She wore every day different clothes with different colours, to express her mood, her wishes and her dreams in public. Rumours and prejudices let the people dissociate from Marie, but she never shed a tear.

*To live in a world where none accepted her, she created her own world - in her mind. Her dreams influenced her, helped her to draw pictures beyond imaginations. Her memories were the dearest things to her since her parents died when she was young, and so she holds to them with every day and every moment she was alone. The world of colours was accurately taken in her paintings, but for Marie, her world was most alive and real in her dreams. *

*A powerful and malevolent being, specialized in devouring and conquering the world of dreams of the people in Runeterra, had found another victim. Disguised as a friend in her dreams, Marie fell right into the devourer’s trap. With each dream, the invader consumed more and more, until nothing but emptiness was left inside of Marie. Miraculously, Marie’s personality was not utterly suppressed, but rather changed. *

All of Marie’s colours have been taken by the dream eater, but one colour could not be taken – the colour black. Marie turned crazy, as the dream eater did not only eat her dreams, but also her memories. Accidentally, the dream eater awakened her true powers, a power to control the colours. She managed to drive out the devourer, and gained part of her memories back. Marie, knowing that this world is either black or white, joins the League in order to fight the mysterious dream eating creature, to gain back her memories, colours, dreams and fill this world with more life."

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#Appearance
Marie looks similar to these pictures down below. http://abload.de/img/21189mvzpr.jpg

http://abload.de/img/the_creative_magiciannbamg.jpg

Her weapon is a great paintbrush.
http://abload.de/img/weapon_by_himmapaanq2bx5.jpg

(I don’t take credits for these pictures)

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#Champion Explanation

• Marie Merian (Maria Sibylla Merian) is a 19 year old girl who dreamt of a world colourful as none could imagine. She’s somewhat a perfectionist, but quite enjoys everything if it is creative and created with passion. Her quotes sound like she’s depressed, but she’s actually just realizing that her world has been invaded and destroyed. Her dreams were the only thing to keep her away from the cold and distance reality, and now more than ever, she believes that she herself is nothing compared to the bigger painting of this world, thus wants to paint this world!
• When Marie is first met, she seems to be a very cold and antisocial individual. She is cranky, sarcastic, irritable, very foul-mouthed and often prone to mood swings. She will not hesitate to voice out her opinion or express her thoughts, regardless of how it would make everyone feel. As one may experience during a extended period, it becomes apparent that her "lack of emotion" is basically just her way to deal with her own shyness, insecurity and naïveté. Marie sometimes expresses her thoughts in poems which often deal with depressing themes like farewells and existentialism, questioning her own origin. Besides this, Marie is into fashion, loves nature (another major theme in her poems) and is apparently concerned about her figure, which is why she only eats healthy food.
• Marie is inspired by various sources and you can see that in her abilities too. Her Lore partially is inspired by the anime Black Rock Shooter. Her Q ‘Bloodred’ is inspired by the PS2 Game Okami, where a god in the shape of a wolf strikes with brushstrokes in order to deal damage. The W ’Cerulean’ is inspired by .. nothing to be honest; The idea of leaving trails primarily, but secondarily paint the “world” was just too awesome, for me. The idea of E ‘Citrine’ is inspired by One Piece where in the early episodes (at episode 200 or so) there is a devil-fruit user who uses colors to move or change the personality of persons hit by – in her E the enemies are in a psychological way forced to stay (stunned). Her Ultimate is partially inspired by Black Rock Shooter too, as in the anime there is a black character in the dreams of the female protagonist who controls the black character in her dreams.
• *As you may have read it – Marie Merian joins the League of Legends because she wants to fight the malevolent dream eater who took most of her memories, thus dreams, thus colours away. *
• *The malevolent creature who devours the dreams is a character that I have created long time ago. The first appearance was at Kenshi - The Fallen Swordsman and the second at Arkheim – The Tyrannic Avatar. Originally, it was a woman who sought for endless knowledge and wisdom. Over the time, she turned to a creature that haunted the dreams of the people, devouring and gaining access to the memories of other, as she herself lost her memories through the time. She is extremely old, perhaps old as Anivia. *
• *Marie uses a great paintbrush. This is inspired by the digimon franchise and the digimon Taomon who uses secondarily a great paintbrush. Her abilities are based on using colours to create her own world. *
• *Marie is supposed to be a great mage who can deal good damage and control the battle through crowd control. However, she somewhat tends to be a secondary assassin as her burst potential can be very overwhelming once the player gets to know her mechanic. Best played on mid, perhaps top – can also be used as a Support, but will have a hard time against a strong ranged enemy poke combo. *

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#Stats
Health 435 (+81) Attack damage 56 (+3.1)
Health regen. 5 (+0.78) Attack speed 0.625 (+2.9%)
Mana 225 (+50) Armor 22 (+3.0)
Mana regen. 7 (+0.55)
Magic res. 30 (+0.0)
Range 500 (Ranged) Mov. speed 345

#Abilities

#Innate Passive - 'Formula ':
*Enemy units who are hit by Marie’s abilities, are marked with the corresponding colour for 3.5 seconds. If a enemy unit is marked with two colours at once, the colours fade and will deal bonus magic damage equal to 15% of Marie’s max Mana. *

#Q (Skillshot – AoE - DoT) – ‘Bloodred ‘:
*Marie takes a swift strike with her great paintbrush, sending forth a straight line (650 range) bloodred coloured brushstroke and leaving paint-splatters for 2 seconds on the ground. The brushstroke deals instantly 45/65/85/105/125(+45% AP) magic damage, and enemies staying in the paint-splatters have their bodies cut with magic, they receive every 0.5 seconds 5% of Marie’s max Mana as magic damage. Enemies hit by are marked by the colour bloodred. *

• **Mana Cost: ** 50/65/80/95/110
• **Cooldown: ** 14.5/13.5/12.5/11.5/10.5
  http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/brush-stroke-5408646.jpg

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#W (Toggle ability) - 'Cerulean '
Toggle On/Off: Marie lays the brush on the ground and wipes the ground in front of her and colours with the colour blue (Cerulean) wherever she travels. Enemies, who walk on the trail of the colour, are slowed by 25%/35%/45%/55%/65% and get marked by the colour cerulean. Allies who walks on the trail have their* movement speed increased by 15%/25%/35%/45%/55%**. The trail won’t disappear until Marie has not enough Mana or the ability is toggled off.*

• **Mana Cost: ** 15/25/35/45/55 every second
• **Cooldown: ** 1.5 second
  http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/blue-paint-stroke-brush-4933024.jpg

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#E (AoE – Stun - Trap) - 'Citrine ':
*Marie sweeps with her giant paintbrush one time 275 range around her location, she draws a yellow circle and marks targets hit by with the colour yellow (Citrine). She deals to enemies hit by 55/75/95/115/135(+35% AP) magic damage and stuns them for 0.7/0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5 seconds. The yellow circle stuns all enemies who walk on it, except for those who are already marked with the colour citrine. The circle will disappear after 2 seconds. *

• **Mana Cost: ** 100 at all ranks
• **Cooldown: ** 18/17/16/15/14
  http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/21259962/2/stock-illustration-21259962-yellow-circle-clipping-path.jpg

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#Ultimate (Transformation – Cooldown Reset – True Damage) - 'Obsidian':
*Marie unlocks her hidden potential and ignores all other colours. From her inner strength, she calls upon herself a transformation. She becomes engulfed in black colours, with a slight purple touch. Upon Activation: All of Marie’s current basic abilities Cooldown are reset, and for 6 seconds, all of her basic abilities have the colour black(Obsidian) and will deal true damage. *

• **Mana Cost: ** 100
• **Cooldown: ** 110/95/80

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dgxAe0f13ss/UWgAO11ZKkI/AAAAAAAABMM/SzO1Ae4wDZ8/s1600/Nehemaaaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg

#Concept Explanation

Isn’t she wonderful? Marie can turn her normal abilities, which doesn’t do much damage, to annihilating combos. Without items and at level 18, she has about 1100 Mana. This is 172,5 bonus magic damage when two colours are combined. Even though, it’s not enough, right? There are far more Champions who deal better damage and faster damage. Well, if you look up the kit, you’ll see following: Marie can only combine two colours, the other stays wether unused or unable to use in a combo, right? NO! For example: You activate Q and then E and deal your 172,5 bonus magic damage. Now you activate W and mark the target – immediately use your Ultimate, it’ll reset all of your cooldowns and will set all colours to black. And what a surprise - black counts as a colour. With the previously used W and combined with the new W black, you have your two combos that deal 172,5 true damage. But beware, once transformed, you can’t combine two abilities to activate the passive, as all abilities are black. But beware, when you mark a enemy with the colour black and your Ultimate wears off, you can combine another colour (If it isn’t on Cooldown) in order to combine and deal bonus damage! Isn’t she magnificent!?

• Innate Passive allows Marie to deal bonus damage if she combines her abilities. In order to combine, she needs to get close.
• Her Q sends a line of path to deal initial damage and then afterwards damage over time for these who stay in the line of path.
• The W leaves a trail of colour, slowing enemies and boosting allies. It cost every second mana, which can be very draining, especially in teamfights.
• E gives Marie the ability to set off a trap or to escape.
• Last, but not least - The Ultimate that transforms her into a black princess, using the colour of black to deal true damage with her basic abilities.

Marie is strong against melee Champions who focus their fights in close range like Fizz, Talon, Garen. Marie is weak against ranged Champions and those who can burst in the same time like Viktor, AP Ezreal, other Marksman. Marie’s a good Champion to survive the laning phase and turn the tide in mid to late game. She has the potential to trick her opponents, but it will be harder the more the enemy knows how she works.

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#Quotes

If Marie meets Champions on the Fields of Justice, she will tell them what colour she sees when seeing the corresponding Champion. In special cases, she will perform something.

All Shadow Isles Champions: “Hatred for the living ones – you are black as your empty souls”
All Piltover Champions(Except Jinx): “Metallic, definitely metallic colour”
If Jinx is near: “Wait, you think explosions are colours? You might be a genius, or just crazy, perhaps both”
All Ionian Champions: “You are white as the enlightenment itself”
All Demacia Champions: “Your artificial light makes you darker than most other colours”
All Yordle Champions(Except Ziggs & Gnar): “You sweet pumpkins are my favourite colour in this world”
If Ziggs is near: “You know that bombs are not a form of art, do you?”
If Gnar is near: “From the outside sweet as chocolate – From the inside red as the fury”
All Noxus Champions: “You like war and battle – you are beyond red dead redemption”
If Azir is near: “You shine bright as the sun, but you burn like a merciless fire”

If Lucian is near, Marie draws on the ground a picture of Senna and says “I can’t bring her back, but I can help you to remember her smile”
http://abload.de/img/927052_51483988197491szarj.jpg

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#Possible Skins

Feral Marie
http://abload.de/img/__hazordida40.jpg

Void Marie (Female void possessed Marie with a paintbrush that behaves like tentacles)
http://abload.de/img/primepaintbrushpoleart6ybc.png

Princess Marie
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/300/7/7/77182b69effa3adcd51dc4330dce0486-d6rzq0y.png

Goth Marie
http://abload.de/img/archlich-bespectacledgey2a.jpg

(I don’t take credits for these pictures)