How Tome IX Saved the Trickster | Dead by Daylight Lore Deep Dive

The trickster sounds like a very good hitman 3 target, if you know anything about IOI’s hitman games.

Good evening 47, your target is Ji-Woon Hak, Korean pop icon, and suspected serial killer.
Ji-Woon is quite the airhead killer, suspected for the killing of several people, tortured for the purpose of using their screams, in his creepy, unnatural music. His producer, who prefers to go unnamed, has been finding many pieces of evidence on Ji-Woon, believing that he may attempt to use her in his music next. Ji-Woons last known location is somewhere in the costal town of Sapienza, Italy, preparing for an upcoming concert, hopefully, his last. The clock is ticking, 47, I’ll leave you to prepare.

Remember be careful with anything electric as they could be harmful and or lethal to you and or other people and or start a fire along with other things.

What perks is he using? They look interesting

Stunning video, Trickster might not be strong in game, but in lore my god he’s scary

I used to like him more in concept than execution, but this tome did huge favors for him certainly

this the same man that said skull merchants design lore and gameplay is good 💀

one thing id like to say is that i do think the violent fanbase Mightee One is worried about is real, and it's based off one thing; The Diamond Cufflinks add-on. It specifically calls out that those cufflinks - once again a clue he intentionally left behind for fun - were left in the eyes of a sasaeng fan. A sasaeng fan isn't just a fan who's a stalker, they're a fan who is willing to do ANYTHING to get their idol's attention. there have been cases of sasaengs poisoning and harming their idols for attention. although sasaengs can appear in any fandom - and DO - the fact that Jiwoon, who we've been told wasn't overly popular, has one i think speaks to the violence and obsession he cultivated around his fans.

The hecking Dance Gavin Dance song in the middle. Alright man, I am all in haha

I would really love if Felix and oni got a tomb

im surprised people have been getting more and more attention, cause atleast from the "player perspective" he's still a weak and unlikeable killer - even with the buffs, he is more played than a twins, but he's still on that air of "Dont like playing it, dont like going against it"

here is a reference that only a brazilian will get:

tio orochi no mundo de DBD apos criticar k-poop:chuckles i'm danger

Yun Jin is the definition of Gatekeep Gaslight Girlboss and nobody can prove me otherwise.

This-- is going to get long.

You know I'm a big Jiwoon/Trickster lore diver- and I have to say there's some interesting points here. About the "Show don't Tell" writing. Ironically, his lore was very much that- and I think is what made it seem... 'shallow' to those that didn't look deeper- or simply those that don't fully understand how the Kpop industry functions intimately like stans or South-Koreans. It's why they didn't feel the need to tell us just how gruelling and competitive the industry is. How companies will strip an individual down to market them however they please {Trickster's {and Yunjin's initial} boredom/hatered to NoSpin being just that}, and why he held onto the one thing that made him an individual {his knife tricks [Which helped pay the family bills, if you know about the IMF crisis in Asia that was likely going on at the time] is possibly what differed him from Yunjin's poverty as a child. And what makes using them for NoSpin [No-Spin is a knife throwing technique he uses btw] to boost popularity so... critical. His talent and knife skills literally hard-carried everyone through his life, and in turn they supported him because of it. } (I do believe the writing stemmed heavily from K-culture and it holds up entirely because of it. It's not the usual Western story-telling we're used to. {Making an obvious hero/villain}. It's a bit more 'thrillery'.) I still believe it was actually intentionally done this way, to get people to see him the way others would. "He's not all that scary." "He's dumb and too cocky." etc. (I call it the ARG effect, because why people initially think he's too lame/extra to be a killer, is what makes him really good at it.)
I double down on it being intentional because it's no surprise how well Crescendo melded together with the initial release, and how fast it came out. It literally picks up right after All-Kill, the Crescendo tome trailer showing just how it leads up to the killing of MighteeOne mentioned in initial Lore. Both the chapter and tome release I think are some of the most well-written in game.

As for the making him seem... dumb in his lore, for Jiwoon to even be getting away with the murders is impressive when you realize how uncommon violent crime is in South Korea {Along with how hard it is to even become a police officer. We're talking about a country that has Mandatory Military Service drafting with regiments as grueling as the US' given to most males, unless they're exempt. Which means lots of mental training comes with being an officer, requiring exams and years at university.} Often some of the worst crimes aren't done by individuals, but companies- or those with power/money. (Squid Games and Parasite kind of attest to that social enviornment.) The fact that he was taunting to the police but never getting caught was proof that he was actually quite insidious- hiding away, not in the shadows, but in the spotlight. He knows how to manipulate people- (his perks all focusing on that) and torture them (his knives not being instant downs but instead playing at the survivors one by one, making them suffer to let HIM have more fun. Cultivate a better performance.). This man is scary, manipulative, and an idol (proper god-complex) because of it. It's just a bit understated most times, because he masks it as an idol. {Ghostface, but... extroverted}.

There's an interesting sub-story in the lore, which doesn't get made overly apparent- and that's just how much this 'god' is being used. Yunjin sure, profited off him, but MighteeOne, NoSpin, even his parents all did as well. The one thing that Trickster's always had be his own was his knives. Not his music- no, that he tried reclaiming back from NoSpin and adding his own twist like Yunjin did when she produced {with Magnum Opus}. Which of course was perverse and horrible- which was exactly what made it so morbidly unique. MighteeOne and YunJin were still trying to force him back to playing the puppet, which makes his story is one of rebellion- from the inside of the machine. He had a tragedy happen and they still used that as a selling point! His own emotions were being marketed, so it's no wonder he decided to use other's. No surprise he ended up going insane! He's as much tragic as he is an arrogant jerk and villain.

Sidenote: There's something cheeky about No5pin (a five member group) turning to just Trickster under MighteeOne/M1, with Yunjin also having worked for them-- and their clash of ruthlessness to come out as the "one" on top.

Please stop emphasizing "Show dont tell" so much. Yes its important but such perception that its necessary is ignorant and blatantly false.

His lore is always scary, just his character design is a bit silly

Personally still hate this guy, just the absolutely wrong feel for me when it comes to dbd killers and what I expect. Also stupid knife throwing.

god forbid a killer isnt scary or explore " the dark world of kpop"

Still not scary ti be honest, he just doesnt fit

In a way, the Trickster reminds me heavily of Patrick Bateman. Both are wealthy, healthy, and often time hedonistic. They both could murder a guy and no one would bat an eye. This is what I like about the Trickster despite being a Pyramid Head/Dredge main.

Trickster is creepy to me bc I like kpop. That would be so ass if Jimin from BTS was a murderer. 💀

When i started playing this game there were only a couple of killers and i think there was one licensed i think it was freddy or maybe it was that meyers fellow cant rightly remember....but i ended up stopping for a long time (right when the clown or right before saw came out. And havent played until just last night....IT FEELS AND SEEMS DIFFERENT ....then i see this fake ass kpop Jared letto joker rip off....he sometimes looks "cool"....but this game doesnt feel the same...and another thing i was lvl 18 or 19 with jake( i only play survivor and only jake) .....i am wrong..about the game feeling different ..

Not only is he a kpopper...but hes also a weak ass rip off of the wack ass Jared leeto joker

It funny because to me, I kind of suspected he was like this just from his base lore. His on screen character suggest a lot more than just a murder artist. Kind of reminds me of the Clown overall, down to the joyful laugh as he kills.

Trickster gives me strong Fulgrim vibes...

Its funny to know that Twins has tome that I hope you’re gonna cover. I feel like All-Kill was needed as a refresher from DBDs dreary 2020 but it was heavily flawed and the tome was enough to fix it however. Or make it tolerable for most. Im very much hoping Ghostface receives a tome of his own as he has so much of his lore to go through but theres also so much to truly understand about his character, more that we know.

Holy shit, mad props for the dance gavin dance song.

The tome lore made Yun Jin dumber imo. There is no way she can see everything in Ji Woon's hotel room and also know that Ji Woon used the scream soundbites in his music and not think he is guilty. I think it would have been much more interesting if Yun Jin was actually covering up Ji Woon's crimes and in the end Ji Woon betrayed Yun Jin anyway and at the climax that's when the entity took them both. She has the worst 3rd prestige in the game and is easily my least favorite survivor.

Who coulda thunk that a tome would expand upon a character :/

So glad you now realize the true brilliance of The Trickster.

THE TRICKSTER IS THE BEST DBD CHARACTER EVER! HIS POWERS, LOOKS, STYLE, COSMETICS, & PERSONALITY!

Here to shame the basement camping gameplay.

....he is not the least bit scary.....

The story goes like this, trickster is real, he is the dance of death

He's the only killer that loves to dance like me , he is fun and has entertaining value, he is to good for this world

He's amazing

Imagine an alternate universe where Yun-Jin was the evil murderer and Ji-Woon had to let it slide so that his career wouldn’t be halted.

Lmao hearing betrayed by the game is something I did not expect

was the bathroom tweet real?

I wonder if Behavior starts out with a bad story for new characters only for them to save it with a Tome XD

I was ok with his lore at the start. Bumping him up like this just adds more icing to this k-pop cake

"You can't girlboss, gaslight, gatekeep your way out of federal prison"

Not with that attitude!

@Pixel Bush I kind of like K-Pop mostly because it is a guilty pleasure for me. It influenced multiple genres like pop, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, and classical on top of its traditional Korean roots -- which, in my opinion, makes it a lot more interesting. But the one thing I dislike about it is that it's unoriginal, like, it supposedly copies (steals) music from other American artists. I was kind of hoping that I would do K-Pop in the form of gangster rap, mostly inspired by 50 Cent and Eminem, but after what you said about K-Pop torturing its many artists and having them suffer the heavy weight of plastic surgery and time-consuming practicing... it honestly made me think twice about joining that regime.

EDIT: As a Trickster main, I want to thank BHVR for helping my favorite killer redeem himself.

It didn't need to be "saved" but alright.

Yo what the hell are those perks you're using in the gameplay?