Liberated Amumu Skin Idea

Malconis·3/13/2016, 9:40:05 AM·2 votes·841 views
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I remember the first time I saw anything "League" was the music video "The Curse of the Sad Mummy." I loved the music and the story behind it, but once I started playing, I realized all people were doing was playing off of him always being miserable, so I decided to go the other way. I actually have the entire story behind this skin in particular, as well as a hand-drawn picture, but, unfortunately, I can't figure out how to post the photograph I took of the hand-drawn picture. Anyways, the story behind the skin is that after Amumu joined the League, he met Nasus (the LoL equivalent of Anubis, the egyptian god of death), who felt pity for the bandage-wrapped boy. Once Nasus heard Amumu's story, he offered to try removing the curse. Amumu agreed, and Nasus was able to remove the worst part of the curse, the uncontrollable despair and impossibility of friendship. Once the curse was gone, Amumu emerged from the majority of his wrappings, and while still able to use the bandages to his benefit, he could show his true form. After the curse was removed, Amumu's memories also returned, and he remembered that Azir, or at least his mortal host, was his father. The skin is similar to existing Amumu skins in that it has bandages wrapping the hands and feet, as well as the eyes, but the rest of his body is covered by a long, belted shirt, similar to Link from the LoZ series, but longer and cream-colored. It has caramel colored skin and black hair, and is more evenly proportioned than existing Amumu skins. I did do the drawing in 30 minutes at 2:30 in the morning, so that's probably not quite as accurate as what I had in mind, but it's decently close.

7 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer3/13/2016, 9:58:49 AM1 votes
  1. Nasus is only connected with Anuvis by a similar appearance.

  2. The League of Legends does not exists as an entity in the lore any more. As such, your scenario would not occur

Yumifries3/13/2016, 10:33:59 AM1 votes

Looks like a baby lee song.

LostFr0st3/13/2016, 10:48:26 AM1 votes

If this ever was a thing it would need to be his ultimate skin. Since ultimates are to represent the 'true' champion in their 'ideal' form. I don't think they'd want to make two 'liberated' Ultimates though (Spirit Guard Udyr is 'liberated') Isn't Amumu in line for some tweaks with the tank roster project?

Malconis3/16/2016, 9:49:32 AM1 votes

The original concept actually had him with sort of shimmering silver wings, but I left them out because A) they'd be too hard to draw at 2:30 in the morning with nothing but a mechanical pencil, and B) there are so many champions that already have wings, I wasn't sure if it would be cliche or not. And yes, I know it looks funky, but I haven't really tweaked it yet. Probably should... But the arms and legs were supposed to be a bit lankier, sort of like Jinx or Ezreal, and the head was supposed to be a bit bigger in proportion to the body, because he is, after all, still a child. And Avantel, thnx for that comment, I did not know that... whenever I pull up lore on a character, it usually has something about how or when they joined the League.

Malconis3/19/2016, 1:33:35 AM1 votes

I tried to redo the drawing, but I screwed up the head pretty badly. I made the knees and elbows thinner, to give him more of that little kid/ awkward adolescent look, and I tried to reproportion his head so it would be a bit more like the original Amumu skins. His eyes would actually be showing, but I couldn't get the shape right. The bandages would still be wrapped around his face, but his eyes would be visible through them, unlike Lee SIN (I just looked in the League launcher, and realized I had his name wrong before)