i mentioned some time ago a killer's stages post with headcanons about how i think they could work so uhhh yeah this is the post. i dont have the braincells for a cool cover soooo . this is the cover. yes this text post. anyway the actual ideas are below vvvvvvvvvvvv. headcanons galore ok HEADCANONS exclamation mark emoji
anyway. obviously this is not a framework that is set in stone, more like a dump of some of my thoughts over the past few weeks while trying to understand killer's stages (what really happened is i kept making stage 1 killer very pissed off until i eventually was like "ok how CAN i apply this into the stages...?"). because of that this might not necessarily be consistent in ALL my comics and sketches (especially some of the first ones) because ..... im still making my mind up about it LOL. you can percieve this as more of a brainstorm session with a lot of drawings of killer because i wanted an excuse to draw him without needing to apply some sort of narrative to it
i briefly mentioned this at one point but these scales would more accurately be portrayed as a spectrum. i tried to reflect that though ultimately it is still a scale... but in reality lines might blur and stages can mix with one another
EDIT: also forgor to mention but if u like aome elements of this framework you can use them and do whatever you like no credit needed etcetera etcetera be free be happy be whimsical