What kind of Persona 4-style Shadows would the Champions have?

NeoJusteBelmont·11/19/2014, 12:31:14 AM·2 votes·1,108 views

First of all, anyone of you know Persona 4? Link for those who doesn't know.

Well the main draw of the game is that each characters usually get to face off their Shadows: An inner side of themselves that they refused to acknowledge. This is most of the time, pretty negative or embarrassing in their eyes. However, the Shadow will remind them that they think that way because they are part of the character. "You're me and I'm you."

But the character in question will always deny that they are those negative stereotypes. So they'd end up refusing them with "YOU'RE NOT ME!" and in turn, the Shadow evolves into a giant monster because they have been refused, and goes on a rampage that could kill even their former selves.

Now... seeing that League of Legends are pretty full of grey characters. I am wondering what kind of Shadows would each champions have? I could surmise that for Garen or JarvanIV, their Shadows would be something that says that Demacia is a complete lie and full of zealots that are no better than Noxus, and by promoting things like justice and honor, they become complete hypocrites. Even showing Lux and her old League Judgment about being the 'true' face of Demacia, a place where everyone are mindless drones to an ideal that they might not believe in and only does it to look good.

Well?

7 Comments

darkdill11/19/2014, 3:57:29 AM1 votes

Putting Lux in that circumstance? Poor girl.

Destínum11/19/2014, 7:19:29 PM1 votes

That's actually a pretty tough question. I'd imagine for Ahri, I'd be that she deep inside is still just an animal and will never be anything more. Alternatively, it could be that she miss the feeling of stealing someones life essence for her own selfish needs.

Azir could probably struggle against the thought that, no matter how much he wants to fully blame Xerath, the fall of Shurima was his own fault.

Motajo11/20/2014, 2:38:41 AM1 votes

Sort of reminds me of Mt. Ordeals from Final Fantasy IV.

NeoJusteBelmont11/21/2014, 12:49:42 AM1 votes

I think let's go over to the popular one here.

Leona

I think this can even look more symbolic to shadows. The sunlight will always generate shadows, Leona is no exception.

At any rate, I surmise that her Shadow would be taunting on how much she's not so much a paragon of goodness but some sort of Attention Whore. All she wanted is just to be heard that she became desperate in it. She refused to follow the Rakkor tribe's brutal lifestyle because it's against her philosophy and she just wants it to be heard rather than to use her strength to protect. It got her nearly executed but the Shadow will taunt it that she wanted it because if she dies but her philosophy lived on, it'll be worth it, taunting her that she wanted to die a pointless martyr death.

But, the sun saved her and the Solari took her in, and coincidentally they followed in what she believed in about being good and strength to protect. Being so glad with someone sharing her ideals, the Shadow accuses Leona for preferring to become a tool to a faction rather than protecting anyone because it provides her the ideals. And case in point, the Shadow would point out at how she does nothing to help Diana, does nothing to realize the elders was dual-headed and being mean to Diana. As long as the elders are obeying her ideals and philosophy, that's all, and she want force it to the people around her.

Diana wasn't a 'beloved friend' or a menace to society, but a menace to her own ideals. She'll cling to anyone who provides her the place to preach her philosophy, rather than granting justice and protection. In other words, the Shadow tells that Leona's protective and goody-goody personality is fraud and she only wants attention to her philosophy that everyone around her at early stages of life rejected, the world revolve around just her. Everyone else are just tools for it, and the Shadow points the irony that she also pretty much became a tool to the Solari elders.

What do you think?