Crawler Legend concept
Name: Crawler
Title: Reality bender
Class: Skirmisher
Charming face, horrific human-spider robot body.
Body has void-technology themes to it just like wraith, but with much more neon-lighted cables and electronics.
This character comes from an unknown dimension and invades the apex games as its former reality is being obliterated through advanced void-warfare, however through technology that dimension is forced to move at a significantly slower pace, allowing this character to hop to other dimensions hoping to stop the catastrophe. This character is not a good person and will do whatever it takes to save its reality.
Effectively mirroring Zoom’s theme, where zoom is shot in the head, but slows time to such a crawl that his final moment is extended into days and years, hoping to find a solution before time catches up to him.
This character comes from a dimension where Wraith’s experiments worked out successfully and void technology became the new standard of weaponry destabilizing reality and destroying it in the process through conflict. This character fields vastly superior void abilities than any other character in the apex games.
Passive: has a heads-up HUD notification if an enemy is within 50m, similar to the solo’s mode.
Tactical: 30 second cooldown, 2 charges, teleport a small distance in any direction, just like Ash’s ultimate. Slows and locks the character in an animation before and after teleporting.
The teleport special effect looks clean and round, not ripped and rough like wraith or ash’s, almost appearing like a droplet of water dropping in calm water, but with black-purple colours instead of black-blue like wraith’s and Ash’s. Signifying the perfection of void technology to an almost magical degree.
Void bomb: everyone in a huge area moves in slow motion, bullets fly at 50% speed, characters move at 50% speed. But actions like revives and reloads are still at normal speed.
Due to this legend borrowing a bit from Ash, Ash’s ultimate could be replaced with “sword core” being the bustersword from the final fantasy event, where she uses her signature sword instead.
Void bomb zone is very large and is black-purple, as if the map is clouded in shadow and all light has turned purple.
This character will be quite agile, able to scale buildings and obstacles quickly, but being locked out of instantly shooting prevents this from being a perfect mobility tactical. Ultimate adds a unique gameplay loop and strategies by slowing the game down significantly, and possibly making gunfighting very difficult for a limited time. Making the routine gunfight play feel completely different.
Note that the name “crawler” is both a reference to the backstory where the former reality moves at a crawling pace and that this character scales obstacles so fast that it could be seen as crawling.
This character’s design was mainly inspired by Warhammer 40k warp spiders, soldiers that slip through hell to gain the ability to teleport across reality. And of course, by Zoom’s story theme, bending the fundamental laws of reality to delay a catastrophe in a desperate search for a solution.
Note also the symbolism that Crawler can use the void bomb to slow the game down, buying its team precious time to reload, heal and possibly escape. A mirroring of its backstory.
Zoom's backstory: https://youtu.be/mWUJA3CrapE
