Two new Graves skins, and another skin that explains why Graves just can't have his cigar
Straight to the point: you know how everyone keeps bringing up the "...but
can't have his Cigar..." nonsense? Well, no he freaking can't, OK? Riot has spoken!! I know it's harsh, but it's already been clarified as to why it needed to happen, and the best thing we can all do is just move on... But we just can't, can we? I guess on the other hand, I do feel a little bad for the guy. Taking up the role of of devil's advocate here (because that's what leads me into my ideas), one has to ask whatever happened to freedom of choice?! Even if his choice is to suck on the biggest cancer stick on the market, I feel like Graves has indeed lost something that was a part of who he was, and there's just nothing he can do about it.
Poor
. Sometimes, you'd wish he could just have his cake, and eat it too.
... wait, hold up a second. There it is! Cake-Eater Graves, where he gets to have his cake, and eat it too! He'll be holding either a Cupcake Cannon (kind of like those t-shirt cannons at sporting events), or a double/triple barreled Frosting pipe/gun. He could either be holding that in one hand, and stuffing his (fat) face with cake with his other, OR he could be holding the gun/cannon with both hands, and just have cake all over his face to show that Graves can indeed have his cake, and does eat it too... even if he can't have a cigar.
I honestly think that this would help put some people at ease about Graves not being able to have his cigar, and at least give something back to the poor man. Of course, there will be the critics that say "the thing is, Champion 104 doesn't want cake!! Can't the man just have what he wants?!" I'm afraid not, my friends. This is going to have to be as close as we can get for him. And then, queue the obvious reply from our neighborhood
s: "Yeah, close, but NO CIGAR!!" ... wait, hold up there a second, ..... wait. Yep. Got it.
Close, But No Cigar Graves. All you'd need to do is have an extremely sad looking face put on Graves, with visible little blue tears (which would obviously need to resemble
) "qq"ing down his sad face as either he is opening a cigar box and there are none in there, or as he's standing in Gragas' Gas Station, and the cigar section is cleaned out, or as a police-person or a shadowy figure in white* is walking away off in the distance with Graves' still-burning cigar in-hand. He'd definitely need to have the little blue tears visible in game, too, and he'd need to have really sad looking body language, and his jokes would be about having something taken from him, or maybe him just crying. Or maybe he could even spout off a phrase about almost getting his cigar back once, and how he was "...really close to getting it. Close, but no cigar."
Note: Shadowy figure in white could be a whole new skin by itself: No Smoke For You
. I'm thinking something along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lfZg-apSA. Then, if the trolls aren't satisfied by the 2 new Graves skins, they'd at least have someone else to blame for jacking Graves' vice, instead of blaming "Rito". Heck, you could even make these 2 skins do 1 more point of damage to the other champion ('Close, But No Cigar Graves' does +1 damage to the enemy Yasuo of any skin, and 'No Smoke For You Yasuo' does +1 damage to the enemy Graves of any skin), just for a little extra fun/rivalry!
All 3 skins for the price of 2, and then the trolls are satisfied. In fact, maybe they'd be happy with Graves losing his cigar, because it actually made way for some fun new things to be introduced after all!
I'm no artist, or I'd try my hand at coming up with these skins myself, but I'd like to think I'm at least a little bit creative with my ideas. What does everyone think?! Any piggyback ideas for other things these skins could incorporate?