Multi-Mind A Common Theme Recently

Ifneth·6/5/2018, 12:13:34 AM·13 votes·9,545 views

Three recent rewrites, one rework, and four new champions have featured multi-minds.

Nautilus and ‘something’ Varus is three minds, one body Kayn and Rhaast Swain is reverse-possessing a demon Zoe is an Aspect Kai’Sa and her Suit Karma and the spirits Pyke and ‘something’

Even Xayah and Rakan were slightly affected by something outside their heads (the ‘music’). I want different motivations for our future reworks and champions.

Edited in light of comments below.

11 Comments

HonestJohnTheCon6/5/2018, 12:38:44 AM7 votes

You forgot Ornn, Evelynn, Urgot, Irelia, all other major releases.

In my opinion, Kai'Sa doesn't count, because they don't communicate and the suit doesn't seem to be sentient. Unless the Void corrpution takes over her brain/soul/essence(?) she doesn't count.

In addition, Nautilus had the multi-body shtick before his rewrite, so I'm also saying it doesn't count.

That being said, it has been a common theme recently. I'm pretty OK with it in general, but I understand wanting something else.

Also, what do you mean by "different motivations"? All the characters on that list have wildly different motivations, barring Kayn and Varus (because it's the same scenario +1/-1 entity) and Pyke and Nautlius (for reasons unrelated to the multi-mind scenario). Even then, only Pyke, Zoe, and to a lesser extent Nautilus are motivated/controlled/manipulated by the extra entity involved.

GreenLore6/5/2018, 8:06:33 AM4 votes

Why is Nautilus on the list?

Yes he was transformed by an outside force,but he still seems to be himself,all the decisions he makes are his own and unlike Pyke he doesn't have a voice in his head.

KestrelGirl6/5/2018, 1:47:37 AM2 votes

You forgot Karma.

Kai'Sa doesn't count, the suit doesn't control her much if at all.

FurriesAreHot6/5/2018, 1:02:01 PM2 votes

Kindred Arent they technically the same entity?

Crow Nebula6/7/2018, 4:06:09 PM1 votes

Agreed. This whole "spirits possessing people's bodies" is wildly overused, as if the lore team have no idea how to write actual character motivations. It smells to me of Graham McNeill's (and perhaps also his former editor Laurie Golding's) influence. While working on the Horus Heresy books for Warhammer 40,000, McNeill had a nasty habit of removing agency from characters and giving it away to "daemonic influences" and suchlike. A notable example is the character of Fulgrim, who was originally conceived as a superhuman who became corrupted by his own unrelenting pursuit of perfection. There was so much potential depth to this angle, yet when McNeill rewrote him, he turned him into someone who just picked up a daemon-infested sword and wielded it long enough for the daemon inside to make a new home in his body and push him into the corner of his own mind (sound familiar?).

The backlash from the fans was so bad that McNeill decided to write a followup story in which Fulgrim expels the daemon from his mind, but remains corrupt anyway. Yeah, makes sense.