Artful

Description:
"Artful is a French Magician who's had a deep connection to magic since birth, and WAS a popular celebrity before his... "incident." After one of his performances went particularly badly, Artful let his emotions get better of him and resorted to "taking out his frustrations on his entire audience." He now lives his life as a criminal on the run, too afraid to turn himself in and deal with the consequences of his actions."

About:
Artful is the second Killer in Die of Death. He is a trapper who relies on both his base abilities and their benefits while utilizing Repurpose to chase down Civilians and deal consistent, albeit low, damage. Artful needs to be smart and needs to take advantage of his abilities, as his low damage and speed make him struggle without proper use.

Gender: Male
Pronouns: He/Him

Artful is a white skinned Robloxian with an angry face that is covered by a black half-broken mask resembling a Phantom of the Opera mask. He is dressed in a formal attire consisting of a wide-brimmed black top hat or fedora hat, a white dress shirt with a black tie under a black vest with black trousers and black shoes.
Artful also wields a black and white magic wand.

Swing:
Artful swings his wand forwards over the span of 0.25 seconds, dealing 20 damage to anyone he strikes.

"With a flick of my wand- I bring your wildest dreams- into reality...!"

Implement:
After a 1 second windup, Artful creates a wall that slowly rises up out of the floor over time at his position. The wall is 10 studs wide, and 5 studs tall.
Walls have 100 HP, and lose 1 HP overtime. Civilians can attack Walls in order to speed up their destruction process. He can only have 5 walls up at a time, attempting to place down a new one will replace the oldest Wall.
If Artful walks through his own Wall, it will temporarily be opened up for anyone to pass through for 2 seconds.

"The only thing stopping you from achieving your dreams are the mental roadblocks you set before yourself!"

Copywrite:
After a 2 second windup, Artful creates a MusicBox at his position.
The MusicBox has a range of 50 studs, and if a Civilian enters its range, they will receive heavy slowness and be highlighted to Artful, one person at a time.
The music box CAN be destroyed, but it does not passively lose health over time.
Artful can only have 2 MusicBoxes active at a time.

"Like what you hear? All the music here is made by yours Truly! You can buy it at the Giftshop!"

Repurpose:
Artful slows down for 0.5 seconds and reaches forward with his wand, "Pocketing" whatever and whoever is in range.
Pocketing a Wall puts Implement on a 5 second cooldown, and allows Artful to throw a projectile, which deals 15 damage. If a Civiilian is hit by this projectile while being farther then 15 studs away in distance, they will be ragdolled for 1 second. The projectile cannot pass through walls and has a small splash range upon hitting something.
Pocketing a MusicBox puts MusicBox on a 10 second cooldown, and allows Artful to speed himself up using it. The MusicBox floats above him, and he stops in place for 2 seconds, then gives him a sizable speed increase for 5 seconds, alongside highlighting any Civilian globally.
"Pocketing" a Civilian puts Repurpose on a 15 second cooldown, and allows Artful to create a Puppet. The Puppet has a brief animation of being summoned, before actively hunting down the nearest Civilian to it, stopping at nothing until it reaches its target.
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Similar to walls, the Puppet has naturally draining HP, and perishes when it hits 0 HP, and can also be attacked by the Civilians to be killed early.
If the Puppet reaches and attacks someone, it'll deal 15 damage and then slow itself down for 1.5 seconds.
Attempting to Repurpose a Puppet will simply destroy it, and give him the same effects of a pocketed wall.

"Who's to say you can't teach an old magician new tricks?"

Artful is 26 years old (as of release of the game).
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Artful's birthday is on January 16th.

Artful's full name is Jean "Degaré" Fromage.
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When translated literally, it becomes John "Lost" Cheese.

Artful is French, as stated in his in game description.
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He speaks both French and English, although with a French accent.

Artful is about 5'9.
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Artful is currently the shortest out of the killer cast.

Artful is a Civilian. Without his outfit, makeup and mask, he looks like a regular Civilian with a dark green shirt (torso color).

Artful is bald.
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HOWEVER, It has been said that he wasn't always bald. He cut his hair completely, as it got in his view during performances.
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His hair color was black, alongside his hair being described as smooth and wavy.

Artful used to make his own music for his shows, implied in the description for his Copywrite ability. ("Like what you hear? All the music here is made by yours Truly! You can buy it at the Giftshop!")

Artful is good at golf.

Artful had a pet goldfish named Goldie.
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Goldie has since been released into a pond at a local park due to Artful being unable to care for them due to him being on the run.
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Despite this, Artful always wanted to have a big fluffy dog, but he never considered himself responsible enough.

Do not eat Artful's cooking.
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He still doesn't cook.
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He at least cleans his food before eating it.
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He makes sure he doesn't eat anything unsanitary that could get him sick or poisoned.
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This led to him learning to identify poisonous plants apart from edible ones, however, the list is rather short, due to most of the plants being edible.
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He spends most of his time scavenging, hunting, practicing magic and trying to cope with what he'd done to his audience.

On a scale from 1-French, Artful is a solid 4-5 on the French Scale.
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He speaks the language, eats the food, enjoys the culture, and has the accent.
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However, he isn't mega crazy about anything.

Artful's previous job was performing his duty as a construction worker.
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Artful was involved in an accident that resulted in him getting paid leave. He used his free time to go back into studying magic, and as a result, he learned how to do real magic instead of mere tricks. He hence changed his career to turn into a full-time magician.
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A building fell on top of him and nearly crushed him, however, he survived with only slight injuries.

Artful has a degree on engineering.

Artful likes Italian cuisine.
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Artful's absolute favorite dish is anything with noodles or general pasta, his personal favorite is Gnocchi Pasta.

Artful's favorite fruits are pears and dragonfruits.

Artful can only swim with pool floaties.

Artful enjoys cheesy romance shows.

Artful's not always moving, staying at one place from time to time.
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He occasionally leaves to gather supplies for himself. During this process, he takes off his make-up and wears clothes people don't expect him to wear.
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He puts the make-up back on to hopefully keep unlucky wanderers away. (So they run away when they see a mass murderer)

Artful most likely returned home after the incident, to grab some money and release Goldie into the wild.
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It was stated that he doesn't have a small amount of money on him and he's good at hoarding.

Artful's favourite subject was math particularly due to a teacher that would spend extra time with him to figure it out and never made him feel stupid or he was falling behind.

Artful is the youngest child in his family. He has two older brothers.
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Growing up, he had less attention compared to his 2 brothers.

Artful was originally going to take over his family's business (which is primarily construction).

Artful's family used to watch his shows when they had the opportunity.
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His mother was very fond of his decision and supported him the most.
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His 2 brothers were supportive too.
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His father was not too happy about it, as he sees it as a pathetic waste of time, however, when he saw how much money Artful gains, he kept those thoughts to himself.

Artful had a self-titled "#1 fan", her name being Lizzy.
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She was a regular, showing up to basically every performance, she frequently went to meet up and talk with Artful after his show up to the point that she was easily recognizable to him.
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She gifted Artful a stuffed teddy bear which is his most treasured gift. It was gifted to him fairly early on into his magician job, and really cemented to him that he could be an inspiration for people.
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She was originally thought to be dead after the events that took place during Artful's incident. Artful feels especially guilty for this, believing she was dead.

Artful would be very scared of Pursuer.
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In a scale of 1 to 10 of how scared he would be of him, it would be a solid 9.

Pursuer wouldn't eat Artful even if he was desperate because the smell of his excessive amount of makeup would make him throw up.
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Pursuer would still kill Artful though.
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Though if Pursuer were to see Artful without his makeup he would just see him as a regular Civilian and would eat him.

Artful's music box calms down Harken because it reminds her of someone she knew. However, that person is no longer around.

Although Artful never met nor heard about Devesto, if he did meet him, he'd try to run away, because of both Devesto's intimidating height and his own guilt.
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Devesto has seen posters for Artful's shows, but was never interested in seeing them.
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He doesn't know about Artful killing people during one of his shows.

Before being on the run Artful wanted an apprentice or co-host to run shows with, but he ultimately never found the right person to try and teach his magic to.

If Artful were to hone his magic abilities, it is very likely he could learn healing magic.
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Artful could also be devastatingly strong if he took the time to study magic harder.

Artful's walls are manifested out of loose nearby material, but they are not sustainable for long term, because the stability rapidly declines over time, meaning that they would eventually collapse back into dust just like in-game.
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Artful hasn't tried seeing how long he can make a wall remain.
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Long term, as he starts getting a better grasp on design, and the little intricacies of magic, he could basically manifest mansions with a flick of his wand, or build flying houses.

Artful's music box ambience is a heavily distorted version of "Piano Sonata No 16. in C Major, K.545: I. Allegro"

Artful is likely to be inspired by the old building tools; specifically, the Copy tool.

Artful used to be called "Infestent" when first added.

Artful has 3 scrapped abilities.

Artful's name means "(of a person or action) clever or skillful, typically in a crafty or cunning way."

Artful's head appears on the Deck of Death.

The name of Artful's ability Copywrite is a play on the word copyright, which can apply to music (which the MusicBox created by the ability generates).

Artful says "Oh, mince." in his death screen. The word 'Mince' can be a French slang that can be used to express mild frustration such as 'Darn' or 'Damn'.

Artful is the only one of the Killers to be an actual Civilian (if he takes off his mask, suit, and makeup).

Max Stamina: 100 (180 in Showtime LMS. Showtime LMS requires a Civilian with the banana peel ability to be the last one alive)

Walk Speed: 9.5

Sprint Speed: 26.75

Health: 750

Playstyle: Zoner / Trapper