Will Twitch get a new color text in the lore update?

Ralanr·12/9/2016, 6:44:18 PM·2 votes·1,218 views

For those unaware, Twitch actually does have lore color text.

http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/twitch-color-story

Now there's nothing really wrong with his text. It's pretty fun and paints Twitch as (perhaps one of many) boogieman of Zaun. But I do have a personal gripe with this story.

It's too short and it's told from an outsider perspective. These are honestly not bad, but I'll explain my gripes below.

Too short: every other color text revealed feels like a decently long short story. Something that I want to sit down with a nice beverage and read as I'm eating breakfast or preparing to go to sleep (no I don't take drinks to bed). Twitch's however feels too short, like something you could easily finish on the can. Nothing really wrong with that but I feel like it shouldast longer.

Outsider perspective: from a story telling perspective there is nothing wrong here. But personally I feel the stories are more engaging when they're first or third person story telling from the champion. Giving us a look into what they think as they commit their actions rather than just learning what they did. Jayce, VI's, and Orianna's do this very well. Jayce's calculations in battle and his frustration in dealing with kids, VI's boredom in waiting for the reason why she was called in, and then there's Orianna's realization when discovering what Fieram is.

We get into the heads of these characters and it feels great. I don't get that with Twitch.

Now there's another reason why I brought this up, an ulterior motive if you will.

That's right, I'm talking about Sion's color text.

http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/sion-color-story

Now it does tell it from Sion's perspective, which is something I love because I feel Sion's point of view isn't something we'll see often when he impacts the lore. He's become merely a weapon held by a magical leash. But my issue is that it's so damn short.

Call me selfish (I know I am) but I want more! Granted I'd also like some detailed history of his life before death that supports or disproves my headcanon that Sion and Riven are related by blood (and a skin to go with it) so it's clear that I'm pretty unrealistic.

I asked about Twitch because I feel that how they tackle him in the lore update will be how they tackle Sion. I know it's asking much for two color texts, but I saw how Camille got two and I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

7 Comments

Sharjo12/9/2016, 6:55:01 PM2 votes

I suppose it depends on what they really wanna do with Twitch. I can see them publishing a new colour text since Twitch's short story's been there for a while, and there has yet to be a champion's lore update where there wasn't a new short story with the exception of Ezreal, but even then his short story was released to kinda help soften his single paragraph lore, and it was released only a few weeks before the Piltover event, so it's an exception I'd say.

I'm wondering right now as to what's gonna happen lore wise when champions with already updated lores are targeted for VGUs. Champs like Pantheon, Mordekaiser, Rammus and Skarner fall in to this category. Will they get something extra? Really curious.

Chromatic Eagle12/9/2016, 10:50:42 PM1 votes

Personally, I'd rather not have to read 130+ stories that are as long as say Jayce's. Not all champions need one. There's a charm, or even benefit for short and to the point outside views on champions.