Pyke does have a real short story
Pyke isn't the only champion to have a criminally short written backstory, but he doesn't need one when his voice lines ARE his short story.
Though I agree with just about everyone that the interactions between champions deserve to be far better than they are, I like the fact that if you put all of his voice lines in the right order it tells his tale.
In the youtube video after a couple minutes in the beginning and again closer towards the end, it starts to seem like Pyke talking to someone about what, why, and who he is; but the lines are probably in the same order that their respective files are in when looking at them in the game. From the little bit that is arranged into a story I get the feeling that pyke has always been a murder-happy cutthroat, even in life. I feel that he was forced to walk the plank, thus giving birth to his hatred for captains, and perhaps the line "you betrayed me Kalista" is because she was either his captain (who later suffered a mutiny?) or a crew member that ratted him out. One thing i see people confused about Pyke's character design is the fact that he has a list, but the list always gets longer and never shorter. With the character and story revealed through the audio, I think Pyke literally wants to kill everyone and everything, but he makes a list so that he actually feels like hes working at it instead of just killing an endless horde of things.
I do not know how to edit videos together but if someone can arrange the lines in the order that the writer wanted them in, i would love to see that. Then maybe we can have a little more clarity about who, what, and why Pyke is.
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