Briar-Cosplay: (The Hunger for Battle)

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Briar, on the other hand, is a much newer but equally fascinating addition to the Champion roster.

She represents a completely different form of wildness:

One driven by instinct, hunger, and uncontrollable emotion.

Personality

Briar is driven by an endless “bloodlust”.

She is less of a calculating anarchist and more of a warrior who loses herself completely in combat.

Her character is shaped by a dark, almost gothic melancholy that can suddenly transform into pure fighting instinct.

Aesthetic

Dark colors, sharp details, and an almost animalistic presence define Briar’s design.

She appears like someone who exists between two worlds:

Human and monster.

Her appearance captures the tension between vulnerability and uncontrollable power.

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Gameplay Feel

Briar is an aggressive force that thrives in close combat.

She throws herself directly into the center of battle and uses her transformation and abilities to overwhelm opponents.

She represents pure risk:

High damage.

High commitment.

High reward.

Background

Briar was created near the end of Boram Darkwill’s reign by the Black Rose’s hemomancers. She was designed to be a new type of living weapon created purely out of blood magic and not requiring sustenance to survive.

Though designed to be a perfect assassin, Briar was completely driven by a hunger for blood, entering a constant state of hemomania. Despite this, the Black Rose sent Briar off on her first mission which ended in a gory failure as Briar entered a frenzy and killed everyone indiscriminately. Realizing she was too dangerous to control, the Black Rose created a special pillory with a hemolith gemstone to both restrain and focus her mind, taming her hemomanic instincts completely.

When the disgraced general Jericho Swain began his coup over the Noxian empire, the Black Rose quickly deployed many of their living weapons and experiments to fight him off. Briar was deployed among them and had the special job of killing Swain himself. Once she was given to a handler to help direct her, Briar was released from her pillory and immediately devoured him and everyone around her. Unfortunately, Swain managed to escape her bloody frenzy and his guards managed to capture her, restoring Briar’s pillory. Now restrained, Swain was able to transfer Briar to a holding facility, locking her in a cell with many other living experiments that had been employed by the Black Rose.

Alone in her cell, Briar was unable to die from starvation and simply focused on her hunger. Initially thinking the many crazed wails of the neighboring cells were her own voices, Briar came to realize they were other living weapons like her that were captured. While listening to them however, she began to realize how boring and single-minded her neighbors were. Not wishing to become like them, Briar instead decided to seclude herself in solitude within her cell.

Briar sat in solitary confinement for years, finding entertainment in eavesdropping her guards’ conversations, pestering them for raw meat and agonizing whether she should race her pet spiders or eat them. She would eventually wonder about the world outside of her cell and, while toying with her restraint, managed to loosen the hemolith in her pillory. She thought about the neighboring hemomaniacs and their simple-minded hunger for blood and decided that she wanted to be something more, finding a balance between being calm and frenzied.

Escape

Now with a newfound purpose, Briar wanted to finally see the outside world and devised a plan to escape her prison. Though the guards were used to her calling for attention, one particular guard was lured closer to Briar’s cell, allowing her to attack him and feast on his blood, giving her enough strength to break out.

Eager and excited to escape, Briar quickly befriended a young janitor who she mistakenly assumed was escaping with her. When she saw the prison guards roughly shove the janitor away to safety, Briar got angry and managed to break her pillory, going into a hemomanic frenzy and brutally defeating many of the guards while trying to follow her new janitor ‘friend.’ Once outside of the prison gates, Briar reconstructed her pillory and gazed at the outside world, free to explore the world beyond and feast on all the blood she wants. Now, she wanders the streets of Noxus, learning more about the world beyond her cell and wishing to make new friends. The Black Rose, curious about Briar’s unexpected development, have been secretly monitoring their living weapon for currently unknown purposes.

Abilities

Blood Golem Physiology: Briar is an artificial, organic construct created through hemomancy, crafted purely out of blood magic. Though she is made of flesh and blood, she does not require food or water to live.
- Hemomanic Instincts: Briar was created with the sole purpose of being a living weapon and has the innate ability to enter a state of hemomania. In this state, Briar becomes frenzied and hungers for blood, being granted increased strength and stamina in order to pursue her prey. However, Briar is completely mindless in this state and works off of pure instinct. In order to keep herself focused and control her insatiable hunger, Briar willingly keeps herself in her hemolith pillory, which negates her hemomanic instincts completely. Briar is bound to this pillory and can both remove and rebuild it at will.
- Enhanced Agility: Briar is incredibly agile and flexible, allowing her to run at high speeds, leap far distances and even contort her own body.
Hemomancy: Due to her creation, Briar has innate hemomancy which allows her to manipulate blood and flesh to a small degree and consume it. When Briar consumes blood, she regenerates her body and sates her endless hunger.
- Blood Blade Creation: When Briar breaks out of her pillory, she can generate a pair of dagger-like blades on her cuffs out of blood, allowing her to viciously slash at enemies. Briar can empower and grow these blades at will.
- Sonic Scream: Briar can channel blood magic into her mouth and release it, producing a sonic scream and releasing a blast of magic that pushes enemies back.
- Propulsion: Using the small structures on her back, Briar can emit magical energy to propel herself through the air towards her target when she’s unrestrained from her pillory.