i had an idea while watching some DBD for a new unlisenced killer. Since original content is a good thing this also prevents them from having to fight for a lisence for another killer. Even with the unknown right around the corner i feel like this would also be a solid killer idea.

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The serpent; at first glance one would assume it would be a mythological Naga, if not for the pattern of scales tracing further up than the would be humanoid waistline. Featuring an almost predator-like jaw with it not seeming to fully close but an interlocking set of fangs coming from both jaws as well as a pair of unsightly claws that seem to tear and rend flesh with ease.

The power would either be similar to plague's via spitting acid but rather instead of making the survivor broken after a certain period of time it will instead take a health state after 15 seconds if left untreated, it would also not be able to be put onto objects in the normal sense like plague who can literally projectile vomit but rather a small half second interaction. Survivors could cleanse it and prevent the health loss by finding jars of anti-venom littered around the map.

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Otherwise it would be releasing small snakes in a cone that would go about 30 meters hissing along the way to latch onto the survivors and progressively slowing them down up to a max of 5% (not including hindered status/forced hesitation) Survivors could rid the snakes either like the artists crows or by finding some snake oil around the map and pull them off. Similar ish to doctors how he shoots lightning in a cone to make survivors scream

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Perk ideas would be Anything that makes a loud noise notification shows the survivors aura for 2/3/4 seconds (including other perks that 'reveal a survivors location' but its just a loud noise notification.) inflicting hindered on survivors for 5 seconds when fast vaulting through a window (countered by things like lithe/overcome/sprint burst/ other exhaustion perks) and could not be applied on an exhausted survivor. Lastly performing a basic attack (M1/RT/R2) on a survivor will spread their status effects (excluding broken/killer inflicted status's) to other survivors within a 10/15/20 meter radius for an equal duration from the struck survivor (Survivor just uses sprint burst with a 60 second exhausted status, gets hit around 40-45 seconds that remaining duration is spread to other nearby survivors. spreading statuses to a survivor who already has them will simply add the duration onto the status.

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Mori could consist of coiling around the survivor and squeezing them to death, letting loose a flood of snakes to hold and bite the survivor while they succumb to a poison, or the killer literally just eats the survivor leaving no body to witness the final pose in similar to dredge.

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Let me know what you think and if it would be a solid idea to throw into DBD