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Poppy the Hero Slayer/Murderer.

MysticalRaven·4/21/2018, 12:27:10 AM·3 votes·3,627 views

So we all know that Poppy has a powerful hammer and she's looking to find someone worthy of wielding it; 'The hero of Demacia.' Because her dying friend entrusted her with the task. That's and all cool but...

She's been going around killing Demacia's heroes since the kingdom was founded. These people who are heroes in their own right, that have done heroic deeds that caught the little yordle's attention in the first place, are being killed by Poppy and her ignorance. AND SHE DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE.

The thing is, she's been doing this for hundreds of years, since the first bricks of Demacia were laid. How have people not caught on to this small creature showing up, offering them the hammer, then reclaiming it when this hero goes off and inevitably dies due to the hammer not finding them worthy?

Does she not care about the family of these heroes? The sons, daughters, wifes, husbands... Even the people they could have continued to save had she not intervened? She knows full well what will happen to these people and still does it, what is wrong with her?

This is kinda messed up when you think about, really.

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Sharjo4/21/2018, 12:39:18 AM9 votes

Probably has a lot to do with a few things:

Glamour. No one's seeing her as a yordle unless they're innately magical or on Poppy's wavelength. She wouldn't look that suspicous.
She's a wandering warrior and in the one time we've visually seen her handing off the hammer to someone (A Hero's Calling), it was because he actually asked for it. In the heat of battle this'd be seen as a woman warrior handing a knight a hammer to fight with, and them him getting pummeled.
It's not really Poppy's fault that these people die. In her mind she sincerely believes in these heroes of Demacia that she finds, which is why she hands off the hammer to begin with. The fact that they then go and die isn't really on her hands, since given the situation in A Hero's Calling, the guy would've dived in to fight the cragbeast anyway, and likely would've died.

Poppy's main problem is that she's got crippling self doubt. I don't know why, but it probably stems from when she lived in Bandle City (Which is probably where she lived anyway), and just didn't feel like she fit in with the other yordles. Maybe she was bullied, maybe she got abused, I dunno. Hell it might've been something later; something during her time under Orlon or after his death that instilled a sense of "You're worthless" in her, and at this point she's come to just accept it and move on from failure, not because she thinks she could realistically do better, but because she just has to. She's kinda in a mental rut by the looks of things.

She clearly does care; A Hero's Calling paints that very clearly; she's saddened when the knight dies, knowing that, in the end, she was wrong in her choice and he died due to that. Again that's not technically her fault; he would've went in anyway, but Poppy's not of a sound enough mind to think that. Every dead hero candidate is another burden on her shoulders to find the actual hero, which probably only worsens her since it's another weight that's keeping her from seeing who the hero actually is.

That's just my interpretation though. Either way it's not like she's malicious or uncaring, she's more unconfident and troubled. Her quest is what gives her hope and zest in life. Failing in that probably stings hard since it's all she's really got.

DerMangoJoghurt4/21/2018, 12:31:53 AM3 votes

Where does it say that people unworthy of the hammer die? Sure, the guy from Poppy's comic died, but the hammer didn't contribute towards that in any way, other than being as useful as a normal hammer.

Edit: Apparently it's right in her bio, my bad

Each time she has attempted to pass the hammer on to a potential hero, the results have been disastrous, often ending in the warrior’s death.

MysticalRaven4/21/2018, 12:44:45 AM3 votes

She's potentially done this hundreds of times over her long life. I know she's not going and giving people the hammer trying to get them killed. But really, after how many years, how many deaths/disasters is it going to take for her to realize that she shouldn't be giving this weapon to people on the chance that they live. It does a whole hell of a lot more harm than good.

Leopardo1444/23/2018, 6:11:56 AM2 votes

She seems to give it to a person when that person is fighting another thing, so they mostly would've died even without her there. Example: guy in the comic. He was brave/stupid enough to try and fight the thing, even though he has zero power.

MysticalRaven4/22/2018, 4:27:39 PM1 votes

She's been at it for hundreds of years though. She can't rationalize it by saying it's for the greater good when she's done so much damage.

Toppien4/22/2018, 7:23:40 PM1 votes

all yordles are evil i tell you, they are the incarnation of all that is wrong with runetera, even the demons and warwick fear them

the only one that can face these antideluavian horrors is kha'zix (and i suppose vastayans, since rengar is at the same level as kha'zix)