hey guys, thanks for the feedback on my last post! i decided to rename her from Lunara to Noxia so she doesn't get confused with Inara or Io's wolf Luna lol.

here's her updated kit and concept. she's basically a hybrid flank/damage champ that uses mobility and gravity to lock down kills. lemme know what you think of the numbers!

Basic Info

• Role: Flank
• HP: 2100

Appearance & Lore Noxia has bright white hair, a gemstone tiara, gold armor, and some stylish heels. Her coolest features are her long brass nail extensions (Ong Lep) and two massive golden fans that glow with moonlight. She also has floating moon phases around her when she moves.

Lore-wise, she's literally the anti-Io. Io is all about the healing light, but Noxia commands gravity and dark shadows. She used to stay isolated outside the Realm but joined the fight to restore balance. She doesn't give a damn about the Magistrate or the Resistance, she's just here to make sure the laws of the night are respected.

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Abilities

[Weapon] Eclipse Fans You throw two golden fans one after another as fast, crescent projectiles. Zero damage falloff at mid-range (like a dmg champ), but they deal bonus damage if you hit enemies point-blank.

• Damage: 380 per hit (760 per burst)
• Fire Rate: 0.5s
• Ammo: 10 (5 bursts) -> buffed this from 6 so she doesn't spend half the match reloading

[Alt-Fire] Lunar Scratch Lunge forward a short distance and slash enemies with the Ong Lep nails.

• Damage: 400 burst
• Cooldown: 8s
• Combo: Applies a glowing moon mark. If you hit a marked enemy with your main fans, the mark pops for an extra 250 damage.

[Ability 1] Orbit Shift Turn into a starlight silhouette and dash quickly. It holds 2 charges. You can use it horizontally to chase down targets or vertically to leap onto high ledges for off-angles.

• Charges: 2
• Cooldown: 4s per charge -> buffed from 6s so she actually feels like a flank

[Ability 2] Moonlight Reflection Noxia poses with both fans in front of her face to block shots.

• Duration: 1.5s
• Cooldown: 12s
• Effect: Absorbs 50% of incoming frontal dmg. When it ends, she blasts that energy back out, blinding and slowing everyone in front of her by 30% for 2s.

[Ultimate] Witness the New Moon!

• Voice line (Enemy/Self): "Step into the shadow of the New Moon!"
• Voice line (Ally): "The night hides our path!"
• Effect: You leap high into the air and hover, partially blinding the entire enemy team (darkening their screens). Then you target an area and dive-bomb down like a meteor, dealing 1400 AOE damage + knockup.

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Talents

• [Level 0] Full Moon: Main weapon fans now pierce through enemies to hit multiple targets, but projectile speed is reduced by 10%
• [Level 2] Waxing Crescent: Lunar Scratch instantly resets its cooldown if you get a kill or elimination within 4s of using it
• [Level 8] Tidal Pull: Moonlight Reflection no longer slows. Instead, it violently pulls nearby enemies toward Noxia, setting them up for the nail scratch combo.

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Loadout Deck Ideas (Scaling from Level 1 to 5)

• Traditional Choreography: Lunar Scratch hits heal you for [60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300] HP
• Light Feet: Gain [10% / 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%] move speed for 2s after using Orbit Shift
• Cosmic Elegance: +[50 / 100 / 150 / 200 / 250] max health
• Night Shadows: Reduce Moonlight Reflection cooldown by [0.5s / 1s / 1.5s / 2s / 2.5s]
• Gravitational Pull: Increase Orbit Shift dash distance by [6% / 12% / 18% / 24% / 30%]

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Matchups & Counters

• Good matchups: Maeve & Evie (the wide fan projectiles and CC make mobile flanks easier to lock down). She also punishes direct-DPS like Viktor & Tyra because she can absorb their line-of-sight gunfire and dive them.
• Countered by: Sniper champs like Kinessa & Strix will easily pick her off in open areas. Torvald also completely shuts her down—if he silences her mid-dash, she just drops out of the air and becomes a sitting duck.

[Link to my Instagram Art]

Just to be transparent: I drew the line art from a photo reference and edited it onto a black background with ready-made dragon graphics. Hope you guys like how the contrast turned out!

[Legend Concept] MALICE – The Court Ruler

• Role: Controller (Defense)
• Theme: Cyber-Gothic / "Wonderland" Madness / Technological Queen

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🎨 Appearance

Malice features vibrant, fiery red hair styled into elegant high twintails, topped with a floating golden cyber-crown that marks her chaotic royal status. She wears a striking, skin-tight harlequin bodysuit covered in a bold red and black diamond-checkered pattern. Her legs are adorned with tall, thigh-high stockings detailed with glowing pink hearts and small, angelic white wings along the sides. She has a sharp, confident facial expression with intense eyes, embodying her ruthless yet eccentric majesty.

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📖 Lore

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Hearts grew up in a forgotten, isolated sector of the planet Gaea known as The Overgrowth. The region was infamous for classified botanical experiments that resulted in bizarre, glowing, hallucination-inducing flora—earning it the local nickname "Wonderland." Lizzy, however, was no innocent wanderer; she was a brilliant engineer who learned to harness the strange energy of her environment and transform it into deadly hard-light technology.

When corporate mercenaries and Syndicate forces attempted to seize her homeland, Lizzy designed a defense grid powered by mechanical, playing-card-shaped energy barriers and sensory-scrambling fields. She declared herself the absolute ruler of the sector and drove the invaders out with ruthless precision, earning her the reputation across Gaea as "The Court Ruler."

Lizzy didn't join the Apex Games for wealth or standard fame. She views the Arenas as her personal royal court, and the other Legends as mere pawns or subjects. She has arrived to establish her official reign and punish anyone who refuses to bow before her authority.

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⚔️ Abilities

👑 Passive Ability: Off With Their Heads!

• Description: Securing an enemy knockdown grants Malice and her squad a tactical advantage and a brief speed boost. Headshots reveal the target's health status.
• Mechanics:
  • Tactical Boost: When Malice or any squad member secures a knockdown, all surviving squad members receive a 50% faster cooldown rate for their Tactical (Q) ability for 6 seconds.
  • Speed Buff: Grants a +15% movement speed increase for 5 seconds to the entire squad upon a knockdown.
  • Intel Bonus: Landing a headshot on an enemy reveals their health bar to Malice for 3 seconds.
  • Class Perk: Can scan Ring Consoles to reveal the next safe zone location.

🃏 Tactical Ability: Card Soldiers

• Description: Deploys two hard-light card barriers that block enemy bullets while allowing friendly fire to pass through. Enemies passing through the barrier are slowed and suffer visual distortion.
• Mechanics:
  • Charges: 2 stock charges. Cooldown: 25 seconds per charge.
  • Deployment: Thrown like a thermal grenade up to 15 meters. Upon landing, expands into a vertical, 2-meter-wide hard-light playing card barrier.
  • Health/Duration: Each barrier has 150 HP or lasts for 20 seconds if undisturbed.
  • One-Way Interaction: Allies can shoot through the barrier with zero penalty. Enemy incoming bullets are entirely blocked until the barrier's HP reaches 0.
  • Status Effect: Enemies passing physically through the barrier suffer a brief electrical screen distortion and a 30% movement slow for 1.5 seconds.

🔮 Ultimate Ability: Wonderland Domain

• Description: Slams her scepter to create a large zone that silences enemy abilities and vaporizes incoming ordnance and air strikes.
• Mechanics:
  • Cooldown: 3 Minutes (180 seconds).
  • Radius & Duration: 20-meter circular zone centered on the deployment location. Lasts for 15 seconds.
  • Silence Effect: Enemies entering or standing within the domain are instantly silenced (cannot activate Tactical or Ultimate abilities, and active channeled abilities are cancelled).
  • Trophy Grid Function: Automatically intercepts and vaporizes any incoming enemy ordnance, including grenades, Bangalore Ult missiles, and Gibraltar Ult mortars that attempt to land inside the zone.
  • Counterplay: The scepter at the center of the zone can be destroyed by enemies (it has 200 HP). If destroyed, the zone and its effects vanish instantly. The boundary of the domain is clearly visible as a glowing red geometric grid line.

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🆙 Legend Upgrades (Evo Perks)

Level 2 Perks

• 🔵 House of Cards: Can carry and deploy one additional Card Soldier barrier (increases maximum count from 2 to 3).
• 🔴 Royal Guard: Card Soldier barriers last 5 seconds longer and their health pool increases from 150 HP to 200 HP.

Level 3 Perks

• 🔵 Mad Hatter's Reign: Increases the total radius of the Wonderland Domain (Ultimate) by 25%.
• 🔴 Off With Their Heads!: Landing a headshot on an enemy extends the duration of an active Wonderland Domain by 2 seconds (up to a maximum of +6 seconds per ultimate use).

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💎 Heirloom & Custom Cosmetics

• Heirloom: "La Cour des Miracles" (The Court of Miracles) A magnificent royal scepter featuring a sleek, matte-black carbon fiber shaft, wrapped in intricate silver filigree. At its peak rests a massive, geometrically cut ruby that glows with pure hard-light energy. Sharp, crystalline red fragments float magnetically alongside the scepter, crackling with power. When Malice initiates a melee strike or triggers an inspect animation, the scepter fragments into dozens of razor-sharp, floating hard-light cards that orbit her hand with an electrical hum, before snapping back into a solid, royal weapon. (Note: Scepter visual concept/image found on Pinterest, all naming, lore, and text descriptions are created by me.)

• Lobby Animation: "The Throne's Call" Malice walks up to the camera, snaps her fingers, and commands her hard-light cards to rapidly construct a glowing, floating throne behind her. She sits down cross-legged, spins her ruby scepter idly, and points it directly at the screen with a manic, confident smirk as her holographic crown flares up.

• Launch Skin: "Cybernetic Majesty" A premium debut suit tailored from synthetic black velvet and dark, burnished gold. The coat tails are styled into sharp, geometric cuts resembling sliced cards. Her floating cyber-crown transforms into an ornate, fractured golden crown with jagged neon-red data spikes.

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👥 Character Interactions & Voice Lines

👑 General Quips (Intro & Kill Quips)

• Character Select (Intro): "This arena is my court. You are all just pawns waiting to be moved."
• Kill Quip 1: "You refused to bow to your queen. Now, crumble beneath her feet."
• Kill Quip 2: "Oops... Off with your head."

👥 Special Character Voice Lines

🛍️ Loba – "The Ultimate Rival"

• Match Start (Loba in squad):
  • Malice: "Try to keep up, thief. Jewelry does not make you royalty."
  • Loba: "Darling, I’ll own this court before the game is even over. Watch and learn."
• Thanking Loba:
  • Malice: "Well done... for a servant."
  • Loba: "You're very welcome, 'your highness'. I'll send you the bill later."
• Killing an enemy Loba:
  • Malice: "An elegant thief? In my eyes, you are just a peasant with no class."

🧪 Caustic – "The Scientific Enemy"

• Match Start (Caustic in squad):
  • Caustic: "Your technology lacks scientific discipline, Ms. Hearts. It is mere... chaos."
  • Malice: "Oh, Doctor, your poisons are so last century. Science needs a touch of artistic madness!"
• Reviving Caustic:
  • Malice: "Get up, old man. Your laboratory isn't finished yet."
• Killing an enemy Caustic:
  • Malice: "Science just lost to absolute rule. Put that in your report."

🪓 Mad Maggie – "The Reluctant Ally"

• Match Start (Maggie in squad):
  • Maggie: "If you think you're ordering me around, 'queen', I'll shove that scepter right down your throat."
  • Malice: "Calm yourself, Margaret. Direct that rage at the enemy, and I might grant you a seat in my court."
• Thanking Malice (Maggie):
  • Maggie: "Not bad... for a crown-wearer."
  • Malice: "Of course. It was a royal decree."

⚡ Wattson – "The Tech Friend"

• Match Start (Wattson in squad):
  • Wattson: "Your hard-light cards are so fascinating, Malice! But... are you sure your crown's voltage is safe?"
  • Malice: "It is perfection, Natalie. After the match, let's design something new... something shockingly mad."
• Sharing Loot (Malice gives item):
  • Malice: "Here, take this. My court requires the best tools."
  • Wattson: "Merci! You are much sweeter than you look."

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Made with IbisPaint. Let me know what you think of her kit and lore!

Hey everyone! I designed a brand new Apex Legend based on some character art I made and wanted to share her balanced, Reddit-proof kit.

⚠️ Important Note on the Images: The first image is my original drawing of the character. The second image is NOT mine—it is a reference concept I found on Pinterest to show the vibe and idea of how her Heirloom would look!

Her name is Imperia (inspired by Imperial Jade). Her aesthetic fuses traditional Chinese clothing silhouettes, French haute-couture fashion drama, and high-tech Japanese botanicals (bamboo, water lilies, and spider lilies).

Lore-wise, she is the direct creative partner to Atelier (Julien Chao). While he focuses on bio-fabrics, Imperia is a master of structural form, using her high-density Jade Bracelet to weave solid, hard-light matrices into beautiful geometric zones.

To ensure she fits perfectly into the current meta without being overpowered, her tactical fences are highly destructible and her ultimate dome blocks bullets from both sides. Let me know what you think!

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🎮 MEET THE LEGENDS: IMPERIA

“Darling, the battlefield is my runway. Try not to ruin the fabric.”

======================================================================== [🤖 CLASS: CONTROLLER] [🪐 HOME: BOREAS]

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             /_/ /\ \_\       "True art doesn't copy nature. 
               _/\/\_          It redesigns it."
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             /________\ 

🎭 CHARACTER DIALOGUE (VOICE LINES)

Intro Quips (Character Select Screen)

• "Style is temporary. My structures are eternal."
• "You brought guns to a design showcase? How wonderfully primitive."

Squad Interactions

• When paired with Atelier (Her Partner):

  • Imperia: "Keep the biometric fabric clean this time, Julien. I just pressed it."
  • Atelier: "As long as your hard-light frames don't cramp my workspace, Chloé."

• When thanking Loba:

  • Imperia: "A beautiful choice, Loba. At least someone in this squad understands tailoring."
  • Loba: "Please, darling. Your lattice work is the only thing keeping my makeup from running out here."

• When reviving a teammate:

  • Imperia: "Up you get. A true masterpiece doesn't lay flat on the floor."

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⚡ ABILITIES

🪷 PASSIVE: Lily Pad Resiliency

When Imperia revives a downed teammate inside her Bamboo Trellis or Imperial Greenhouse, the revive timer drops from 6.0 seconds to 5.5 seconds.

• The Visual: A pulsing, geometric purple water lily graphic illuminates the floor beneath them during the animation.
• The Balance: Zero instant health or shield bonuses are granted upon standing up, keeping it completely fair.

🎋 TACTICAL: Bamboo Trellis (Charges: 2 | Cooldown: 25s)

Deploys a compact fabric disc that constructs a 3-meter-wide, translucent jade bamboo mesh wall.

• What it does: Completely blocks enemy line of sight (acting as a modern high-fashion visual screen) and blocks physical entry through standard doorways.
• The Balance: It is highly visible and hums softly. It has 150 HP (destroyed by 2 melee kicks or bullets) and applies a basic movement slow but 0 damage.

🛡️ ULTIMATE: Imperial Greenhouse (Charge Time: 3.5 mins)

Imperia activates her jade bracelet to throw an anchor core, projecting a massive hexagonal hard-light greenhouse dome held together by structural jade pillars.

• What it does: Completely blocks incoming bullets and grenades from the outside for 12 seconds.
• The Balance: Operates exactly like Gibraltar's dome—you cannot shoot out from the inside. The central anchor core is fully destructible and has 500 HP (can be countered by Crypto's EMP or Mad Maggie's Riot Drill).

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🧬 EVO LEGEND UPGRADES

🟦 LEVEL 2 UPGRADES

• Lotus Bloom: Teammates revived inside the Imperial Greenhouse immediately trigger passive shield regeneration (2 HP/s for 10 seconds).
• Heavy Stitching: Increases the throw and deployment range of the Bamboo Trellis tactical by 40%.

🟪 LEVEL 3 UPGRADES

• Reinforced Bamboo: Tactical barriers gain +100 HP (250 total HP) and require 3 melee kicks to shatter.
• Greenhouse Effect: Lowers Ultimate cooldown by 30 seconds and bumps the central emitter core health to 650 HP.

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🪭 MYTHIC COSMETIC: HEIRLOOM (Concept Reference in Slide 2)

"L'Éternité de Lycoris" (The Eternal Lycoris)

• The Look: An elegant, metallic combat staff with a mechanical and holographic Red Spider Lily (Higanbana) blooming at the top. The staff's body resembles intertwined, glowing jade-bamboo. Imperia is accompanied by a floating tech-lantern containing a pulsing purple energy core.
• Inspect Animation: Imperia spins the staff flawlessly. With a snap of her fingers, the floating lantern approaches the staff's tip, charging it with energy as the mechanical spider lily petals open and close.
• Melee Animation: Striking an enemy creates a flash of a purple light grid and leaves a beautiful swirling trail of digital red petals and bamboo leaves.

Just finished this digital piece in Ibis Paint. I spent a lot of time working on the cathedral background and trying to get the lighting right for the character.Let me know what you think of the final look!

Just sharing my latest character digital art. Finally getting around to posting this. What do you think of the shading and colors?