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Fan concept: Artist-themed warframe


Xepthrichros
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Name: Picasso (placeholder)

Tl;dr - Using a special drawing tool, you inscribe various symbols to bring forth different abilities.

Passive: Picasso's artistic dexterity has benefited his gunplay, granting faster holstering speed.

Ability 1: Sketch

Conjures a magical papyrus that functions as a short-term shield that blocks damage from one facing (like Volt or Garuda's shield), and serves as surface for drawing. You then use a special void-energy-pen similar to the old mining tool, and draw symbols on this papyrus. Different symbols have different effects.

Horizontal stroke -> Slash: Sends forth an energy blast similar to an energy stroke from Excalibur's exalted blade, but slightly larger width. Procs slash

Vertical stroke up, ending with a ball shape --> Levitates enemies in front of you off their feet, like Titania's first skill, but they don't float too far away... confusing and rendering them unable to attack. Crowd control

Vertical stroke down, ending with a ball shape --> Amplifies gravity of enemies in front of you... rooting some to the ground where they stand, while knocking some of them over (like blast proc). Crowd control.

 Infinity symbol --> Weapon ammo buff, grants ammo recharge (no need to reload) for an amount of time

Peace symbol --> Disarms enemies in certain area.

Lightning symbol --> Shoot forth lightning bolts, proc electricity

Fire symbol --> Shoots forth a fire wave, proc heat.

Water droplet symbol --> Rains a barrage of water similar to hydroid's 1.

Writing Z Z Z --> Put enemies in front of you to sleep.

Smiley face --> Buff user morale, slightly increasing speed of various movements

Sad face --> Depresses enemies in a certain area, making them move a bit slow, and susceptible to panic just from seeing a tenno appear

Tornado-shaped squiggle --> Summons one small tornado

Exclamation point ( ! ) --> marks target area as a point of curiousity, drawing nearby enemies to walk over to investigate (range should be lower than ivara's so as to not outclass her niche)

Star shape --> Emit a bright light akin to radial blind (but smaller radius)

Nuclear symbol --> turns a target into a radioactive hazard for a while, that deals radiation DoT to things in a small AoE around it, and a 20% chance to proc radiation status. Target can be inanimate surface, or an enemy.

 

(and more ideas to be added later maybe in the edits. looking forward to ideas from others too)

Ability 2: Archive 

Once you learn this skill, it begins saving the last sketch you have drawn. Can save up to 4 sketches in a mission. Tap 2 to cycle between saved sketches. Press and hold 2 to activate the power of a particular sketch, without having to re-draw it. To replaced a saved sketch, toggle to the undesired saved sketch, and use the first ability again to draw something new and the new drawing replaces it.

Ability 3: Exhibition

The archived sketches are re-accessed and shown off to the team - granting team-wide buffs. Some of the sketches will have functions re-adapted. E.g. Normally, Fire symbol creates a fire wave. But in Exhibition, it becomes a buff that grants allies +x% heat damage (maybe less than Ember so to not outclass Ember in this area)

Ability 4: Living Art

Based on your currently selected archive artwork, you summon a beast based on it.

Slash summoned beast can be a ninja-like spectre (coincidentally we are space ninja...).

Water summoned beast can be a Kappa monster (Japanese folklore) that goes around melee-ing enemies and shooting pressurized water blasts from its mouth.

Radiation summoned beast can be a radioactive bullet sponge sludge monster that goes around clinging on to enemies and hindering their movement while also damaging and proccing radiation.

Fire summoned beast can be a phoenix which shoots fire at enemies while also possessing slight healing capability for allies.

Sleep summoned beast is a dream eater ghost, floating around the map and putting enemies to sleep while eating their dreams (killing them) to produce health and energy that is then distributed to the team.

And so on

 

All names... even examples of what sketches produce, can be considered placeholders.

Reason I came up with this idea:

I was watching Cephalon Shy's drawings. I think Cephalon Shy can be the point of contact for the quest that will introduce us to this warframe and his or her lore. (and have Simaris say "ART IS IRRELEVANT" and dissuading us to help shy) After you complete the quest, you can also buy Cephalon Shy's voiceover as an optional mission announcer to replace the Lotus. I look forward to being derided for failing to protect an excavator, or for bringing Mag to a mission.

Also, I feel it will be nice to have another warframe that has a novel, unique mechanic on a scale similar to Octavia. Octavia has a mandachord... so was just thinking how to have another warframe with something different.

Just a quick for-fun idea I thought up.

Edited by Xepthrichros
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