New legend idea
Name: Phineas
Nationality: British
Profession/Description: Eccentric tinkerer
Type: Offensive
Image: (Attached image is not my own, I can't find a good representation of my idea, but I'm thinking like a skinny older guy, British explorer, tinkerer type, steampunk sorta look, maybe even tie him into the lore by making him Wattson's father? Who knows).
Voice/quips: Heavy British accent, old and raspy, man of few words, very "no nonsense" old school sort of attitude. Things like "All this talk of energy, shield cells, and "the ring". Nothing is tougher than a cold, hard hammer in the right hands". Or "Enough talk, there's a duel to be had". Maybe "You call that a fight? I've seen more fight in a wild rabbit". "Codswallop! I'm being fired upon!". You get the idea.
Abilities:
"Perk": Low Profile, due to being a smol boi.
Passive: Invent. Can combine grenades in inventory to invent a dual-purpose grenade (i.e. Explosive arc star, thermal explosive grenade, and perhaps a new status effect when combining arc stars and thermals - temporary blind/deafness/mute, for a duration in proportion to how far from the blast you are, sorta like a flashbang perhaps). If this isn't strong enough by itself, perhaps the added ability to double-stack grenades?
Active: Resupply. Pressing the ability button results in a short, snappy animation of pulling out some leather pouch of "makeshift ammo", and both equipped guns are fully reloaded regardless of which of the two are currently held (with ammo from inventory only, to prevent conjuring "Get out of jail free" ammo). For example, if you're in a gunfight, you're using an R301 and run out of ammo, quickly switching to a Flatline to finish off the opponent as the reload would've been too slow and dangerous - A quick press of the ability button, and both guns are fully reloaded again ready to rumble without missing a beat. Slightly longer cool down for this than the average ability, due to it's ability to change the tide of battle.
Ultimate: Turret. (Takes 5 seconds to deploy).
Pulls a rusty, beat up, blunderbuss-on-a-tripod-looking contraption out of his backpack, sets it up, allowing anyone to take control of it and lay down cover fire, offensive fire, distraction fire etc at a possible angle of 90° degrees, for a modest duration. Can fire like a cannon/catapult perhaps, slow rate of fire, big projectile, large bullet drop, but damaging enough to be a credible threat and effective at temporarily holding a position or choke point. Projectiles must hit directly to cause damage, not area of effect damage like Gib and Bangalore. Short duration to prevent abuse, say 25 seconds before it "crumbles" into a heap.
(Edit: As has been rightfully pointed out, a stationary ult may cause problems in terms of snipers/grenades etc, but as I just mentioned later in the thread, I feel everything must have a strength and a weakness. Perhaps make it so that it's shielded from the front, and only vulnerable from the side/back? Or maybe we can make it more of a slow, detachable carryable gun instead of a stationary one?)
Yeah. I think that's it for now. It's 3am here after all.
Edited: Altered from a Nordic, viking type of guy to my original British old man idea due to the apparent potential clash with Bloodhound's background etc.
