Crowd Design: Radcliffe's Demons

Hmm well after some old images I looked at of his office I think there needs to be plenty of oriental themes in it, though I’m wary of such given that it might overlap thematically with Caterpillar. However, I like a previous idea someone suggested of monsters being words. I take this a step further, and more in line with his profession, by suggesting paper be more a theme. It can pull in the theme of the orient nicely and also is flimsy and wordy like himself. I imagine his word being many precarious stacks of paper supporting tarnished and crumbling courthouses and other buildings. I also imaging that nothing has a face. For more humanoid monsters I suggest tarnished gold and silver with no faces. This is to symbolize his view of others being a mere cash flow and show his lack of empathy. Everything should carry an aura of luxury but be fragile and precarious in its foundation. Gold sand can also be incorporated as an obstacle as it shows the slippery sliding nature of his mind. As they say, you should never build a castle on sand. Let’s see. For a solid monster idea…..I would almost suggest crows or ravens actually. It pulls thematically from the Alice books because of that one famous riddle (of which my answer is both gossip and are stained black). My other reason is because of the group names for these creatures being law adjacent. Um let’s see, perhaps a dragon as a big boss? To symbolize his greed. Lots of gold and money and paper themes though. Hope this helped!

The monsters could be like dark, twisted, shadow-esque creatures with numbers carved into their torsos. After one takes a certain amount of damage, it changes from a hollow silhouette of a creature into a child with a number plaque (his victims). The children could then turn their attacks towards Radcliffe, having been freed from the gross anonymity of Radcliffe’s ledgers and papers. Radcliffe is thusly confronted with the true reality of what he’s been complicit in. The children help Alice fight Radcliffe, somewhat solidifying her status as one of them- a victim/survivor of the regime. To me it sort of represents how Radcliffe is haunted by his victims and can’t bear to conceptualise them as anything more than a number in a book without being eaten alive by it. I hope that makes sense!

Megan Thomas

Oh thats a fantastic idea!

Piggy backing off of this even, I would say it’s possible Radcliffe would view these children more as numbers than just names. Like auction lots. He’s distanced himself from them so much he’s stopped humanising them…

Megan Thomas

Which is 2022

I hope we get a big surprise stream next year

I like how u said that I was thinking that in my mind that’s good

In one of Alice's visions, Radcliffe is described as his "hands are soaked in blood, as he greedily pockets large wads of filthy, greasy and oily money with a multitude of gangly limbs." Ok, I'm thinking his inner monster is a big, fat(ter) version of himself. He is filthy, greasy, and oily, just like the money, and he's got a lot of limbs growing out of his fat, and their hands are all bloody. Adding to it, he's also got mouths full of dirty teeth sprouting from various places all over his body, gaping and snapping. His arms feed them with anything they can grab, which include fragments of Radcliffe's mind and his memories. Radcliffe's Vice is Greed, while Alice's was Wrath and Bumby's was Pride (or maybe Lust?). Having his Shadow devour his mind, showing his unbalance, would be a good way of showing that, I think.

Greyson Kehm

Ooh imagine if Alices weapon is an ink pen and to kill the monsters yoi have to blot them! The pen is mightier than the sword some say!

Can we send pictures? if so, how?

Juan Romero

For some reason, i could imagine a twisted Radcliffe who has become such a huge discusting, fat pile who is almost drowning in his own words and greed. Maybe like Karma mentioned scales, and the scales could tip sides and feed Radcliffe words or some form of currency (Teeth?) And if struck he would vomit out a discusting black pile of clotted blood, with pieces stuck inside? Possibly letters that Alice can rearrange to be spoken back to him? Like blending his own words back at him. Possibly for visual effect, we could see him drooling from the mouth, or bleeding from the sides of his eyes? I could imagine him as a huge head, surrounded by layers of chocking neck-fat, that could be used as steps to get closer too him. The more revolting he is, reflects more on his own demons, and the sort of person he has been. And lastly, whether this is silly or not, but could he have the rabbit ears of Alice's toy rabbit? It could suggest possesion/ownership over her in a manner of speaking.

AniFae Kusanagi

He could spit ink and the body is spicked with quil pens? But so that the feathers are in his flesh and the quil is on the top and dangerous as knives 🤔 so if alice will get to close to the quil she could get hurt

I have a few ideas that can be one monster, or split up and used for different creatures. I could make a quick sketch too, once i find some time. I see a very large, monstrous version of Radcliffe, looming over a much smaller Alice. He's sitting on or amongst a pile of human hearts, and occasionally eats from the pile (a bit on the nose, but he eats the hearts of those he encounters, and ships off their bodies for other purposes after). His hands are covered in blood from his snacking. This monster is leafing through documents, plucking words from the sky and rearranging them in his files, smearing the blood over stark white pages as he does so. Other smaller monsters could interact, bringing and taking away files, words and bodies. He is the one who gets the ball rolling in this awful endeavor, and he makes the conscious decision to separate heart, body and mind and slap a price sticker on what's left. It would be nice to see it in action. His head and face are smaller than usual and obscured, we only see the telltale glint of his glasses. The top of his head is neatly sawed off, and on it he is wearing a metal construction vaguely resembling a crown. The crown is a suspension mechanism for holding up his brain, now too large for his head. This way, his mind is quite literally elevated above all others'.

Clockwork spider! Indicative of his manipulative nature and obsessive need for order.

Angel Wings

So I'm gonna piggy back off of what Karma said! What if we have a creature that are the words themselves? Like a monster alphabet! But they work and behave like the crawley idea! The words can disconnect and becomes independent but theu can also coalesce into something bigger and more monstrous! But imagine if they aren't just words. They are the names of the children that have been sold. Bumby has dolls because that's how he views the children. As dolls to be cleaned and sold. But in Radcliffes ledger they are words. To him a name is merely a title given to property. So the names become his demons. And eventually it becomes unavoidable. The names grow and grow until your fighting a giant monster word of combined letters. That would be AMAZING to see in game and I think it does a good job of reusing an old concept!

I'm so excited about what the future holds!

Wendy Jaa

Love the new monster!! And I like the design for the crowd!

Sarah McKeegan

Something regarding scales perhaps? Like weighing scales. Balancing his actions vs. The people he hurts. Or lots of gnashing teeth for insatiable greed? Perhaps a word itself is the monster, each letter a limb of sorts. Or words carves into the creature... Tough one for sure. Excited to see people's ideas!

Karma Chameleon

Can I just say that monster design is so scary and traumatic for me after seeing a trailer for human centipede and now anything like that is a big nope for me.