I technically finished playing three of them(one of them already finished the museum stuff but that’s not out yet so🤫🤫) Im like gonna play keiko later🥹🥹 gonna draw the merlins, adrian and percy later and probably some doodles of the mcs with them🤤
also like the stats(and keiko.) are just the stuff I want to focus on for them i mean not 100% cuz I don’t want to choose something that contradicts their personalities but def 90% of the time i WILL be picking something that will plus plus those stats
Alright I’m changing magnolia talent to memory cuz shi why not. I maybe regret putting their info on the pic cuz I changed lots of stuff in the past few days…
Hi! I've been going through the current demo, and I've always picked the changeling option simply because all the other backstories tended to squick me out. I saw people talking about the knife scene though, which looked funny, so decided to do a short playthrough of the serial killer backstory. I was a little confused when I actually read through it, as our murders are specifically defined as being for revenge and don't necessarily fall under the typical idea of what's considered a serial killer (which usually involves more ambiguous motives such as sexual predation or thrill seeking). I ended up looking this up, but the internet could not give me a proper answer lmao. The best definition I could find for this would be multiple accounts of revenge homicide. The definition you use in the IF is correct based on the US Law and legal definition I could find. But all the additional info I could find only discussed typical serial killer cases with the murdered victims not being known to the killer. I wanted to ask if this is why you ended up defining the background this way and what you might have come up with during your own research regarding this! (This entire thing has actually started to drive me crazy, I didn't realize the black hole of definitions of murder would come back to haunt me. Why don't we have a word for multiple counts of revenge murder?!? I would consider this to fall under a kind of vigilantism but I couldn't find the word that corresponded to this type of murder.)
Yeah, the Changeling MC is definitely the most "did no wrong" (at least as far as the secret is concerned) version of the MC's background.
So... the game is using the term serial killer (instead of the more technically correct "serial murderer") since that is probably by far the most well known term by the reader that applies to that particular MC. It also nicely telegraphs the tone of the murders - stalking over an extended amount of time in varying locations.
What you mentioned about sexual predation and such is called "classic" serial murder by criminologists, but that isn't the only type nor are there any actual intent/motive mentioned in its working definition. The "thrill-seeking" type also tends to converge with "spree killings" and there are other motives as well such as profit (capital murder) and revenge (revenge homicide).
If there's some more esoteric legal jargon (or some convoluted criminology-based model) that refers to a crime that is both serial murder and revenge homicide, I didn't find.
I didn't dig too much deeper because that's not a term that the MC would probably even be using since none of them are lawyers. The closest would be the detective MC (who is neither a criminologist nor assigned to homicide division) and they'd be using the National Institute of Justice's definition which is what is referenced in the game. (You'll get a bit more on that from the detective MC once the serial killer subplot goes into high gear later on).
I mostly go by the official documentation of the FBI (since serial killer MC's crimes are interstate, they're the ones who'd be coming after them) which is also readily available.
And the FBI's quote here is...
"Over the past twenty years, law enforcement and experts from a number of varying disciplines have attempted to identify specific motivations for serial murderers and to apply those motivations to different typologies developed for classifying serial murderers.
"Most typologies are too cumbersome to be utilized by law enforcement during an active serial murder investigation, and they may not be helpful in identifying an offender."
