Ultimate Skin Idea: Cosmic God Kindred
The biggest let down of the new Jhin legendary skin is possibly the fact that thematically the skin could have easily have been for Kindred, poetic murder is a shared parallel between them and it kickstarted an idea of what should now be. The diolouge changes for the Jhin skin teases the possibility of a higher being above Cosmic Jhin which already seems like he a higher being above other cosmic skin line skins. He references god a lot, maybe that god is Kindred. Why Kindred? Other than the poetic similarities, Kindred is already a god like being as it is the personification of death itself in the base lore already and the duality of Lamb being mercy and and Wolf being fear lends its favor for a ultimate or, at least a legendary tier skin. Aka, Lamb a cosmic radiant dawn like persona and Wolf being a destructive black hole, a real force of nature.
Walk and Auto animations Something that I really wanted in skins and really appreciate about Pop Star Ahri is that her walk/run animation is entirely disconnected from her "weapon", in this case the orb (she walks around with it floating in front rather than it being in the palm of her hand). Similarly I've always wanted a skin where say, a character with a gun would walk around with it holstered (Lucian) or even a character that uses a gun in the skin instead of the base bow (Ashe). The problem here is that when you change too much from the base character players will feel alienated and wont immediately understand what is about to happen should they randomly encounter them. Kindred avoids this problem, with her already unique walk animation, mask and glaringly obvious wolf roaming around her Kindred is in my opinion, removed from this problem. My immediate thought about the auto attack animation (and by extension walk animation) is that kindred walks around without a weapon in sight and then when the play chooses to attack, a gust of cosmic magic forms a constellation of stars resembling a bow in Lambs hand and fires a shooting star, crit animations can simply just change this entire process from blue stars to red.
Lamb and Wolf As mentioned prior I think having a dark cosmic amalgamated force of nature black hole Wolf and a more celestial dawn Lamb works perfectly as just the base skin for this Ultimate, pre forms :)
Forms I feel like all ultimates needs forms, how are you going to top the others if you dont? Kindred forms are simple; Change visual forms based on the type of character class (Enchantress, Juggernaut, Assassin, Vanguard etc) that Kindred is currently hunting. meaning the skin will have 12 forms (11 Subclasses like those listed above + "Specialist") or simply 7 forms for the main classes (Marksmen, Slayer, Mage, Fighter, Specialist, Controller, Tank)
Ability Animations I feel like you get my direction so i wont waste writing a paragraph here. W - Dark cosmic dust R - Black hole, the animation that counts down when the invulnerability will end and heal will pop (yes, there is a visual countdown) is instead a star being spirally sucked towards the center from the edges. The ultimate of Kindred is supposed to already (in base lore) be a contradiction of Wolf and Lamb, so making this a contradiction of the two ultimate skin personas works especially well too.
