Petition to change Kindred's Homeguard Animation

TheOneTrueBrand·1/12/2017, 3:15:34 AM·9 votes·841 views

Honestly, right now it just looks plain goofy, not fitting of Kindred's theme at all. When Kindred first came out I had an idea of what the homeguard would look like. I imagined Lamb backflipping onto Wolf and riding on top of him while crouched like Lamb is in the splash art, it would fit their theme of being equal partners and it would just plain look amazing.

I mean really, if you saw Kindred sprinting at you, Lamb flailing around goofily, would you be scared? Now imagine if you saw Kindred rushing at you with Lamb on top of Wolf, both glaring at you as Lamb readies an arrow, wouldn't that be much more fitting for Death itself?

6 Comments

Hrbrt1/12/2017, 4:23:26 AM2 votes

Lamb's run is ridiculous and never should have went live with that animation.

TyrekGoldenspear1/12/2017, 4:31:32 AM2 votes

I mean, death in itself isn't really all that scary. It's the unknown aspect and our own inclinations that make it so.

If anything, Wolf should be the scary portion of death, the savage and brutal kind that many people fear, such as death in war, or by blunt trauma, or drowning.

Lamb is more of a peaceful and accepted death. Like, everything about her from her soothing voice to her weapon of choice alludes to a more silent and painless passing. A death by her hands would be more akin to simply dying in your sleep. Nothing inherently scary about that.

Mordecai1/12/2017, 5:06:15 PM2 votes

Kindred is still in this game???? I thought they deleted her a few patches ago.

MinaZer01/12/2017, 5:57:03 AM1 votes

The exact same should and can be said about Camille , good as fk not fluid. look like they are limping

Voidzilla1/13/2017, 5:05:52 AM1 votes

I don't know, if I saw a humanoid vaguely lamb-like thing with a weird wolf mask running directly at me flailing its limbs in an inhuman fashion, I'd probably be freaked out. Conversely, if I saw that same humanoid lamb-thing surfing atop a shadow wolf head, I'd probably be more inclined to say something like "totally rad!" and riff a nonexistent air guitar.

In all seriousness though, Kindred's homguard sprint looks really wonky in-game. Maybe make it so that Lamb and Wolf almost switch - Lamb legs fade away and she turns into a wraith-like entity while Wolf manifests at least his forelegs and hounds down the lane. Adds a little story to their movements, wherein the deformation of one more fully forms the other, a sort of equilibrium of essence.