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| “ | It's okay, scream my name. Let me hear everything the pain awakens... | „ |
| ~ The Trickster |
| “ | Enjoy this moment, few get so close. | „ |
| ~ The Trickster |
Ji-Woon Hak (Korean: 학지운), better known as The Trickster, is one of the playable killers in Dead by Daylight. He was a famous K-pop musician who became a deranged serial killer when his fame began to fade. He is the canonical arch-nemesis of his former manager, Yun-Jin Lee.
He is voiced by Titus Kim.
Biography[]
Ji-Woon Hak started at humble beginnings as a child, where he would perform using knives at his father's restaurant, earning extra revenue for his father who in turn used the money to send his son to classes to help him become a star. Soon becoming the leader of a failing K-Pop band and rocketing them into success, Hak enjoyed the admiration of the crowd until a fire broke out at the studio, killing the members of the band. He had an opportunity to help them, but decided not to so that he could take their fame and fortune for himself.
After this, Hak became a solo artist but his fame began plummeting, and looking for a way to save his fame, Hak then remembered his dead bandmates' last moments and them screaming his name to help them. He later made a goodbye video for each of the band mates, but this was likely done for publicity.
A darkness awoke within him as he soon cornered and murdered a man in his apartment, but having gagged him, he didn't hear his screams and left small clues for the police. He then dragged more victims to an abandoned warehouse, recorded their screams and edited them into music, then left small clues for the police to find. While his fans enjoyed the new music, his employers weren't fond of it and began threatening to fire him, with the only one sticking up for him being his manager, Yun-Jin Lee.
Due to this, Hak plotted his revenge. He kidnapped Lee and his employers and murdered all of them except for Lee, but not before torturing them. As he bowed and went to kill Lee, a dark fog enveloped them and transported them into its realm (with Yun-Jin becoming a survivor). Now, The Trickster serves as one of the Entity's Killers to make his victims scream.
Dissonance for the Dead[]
Trickster's lore is further explained in the tome Crescendo. At age 7, during class, Ji-Woon killed a student's pet hamster out of spite for turning the class's attention away from his flute playing.
During his time in Rio de Janero, Hak plots the kidnapping, torture, and eventual murder of a Brazilian vocalist known as Lucas. He knows that Lucas' voice is a diamond, and although it is nowhere near his level, Lucas will produce beautiful screams.
As Hak comes back to his hotel room, he hears somebody inside. He has prepared for this, assume that the invader is an insane fan who wants to take something of his. He plans to attack the person in self defense, stabbing at them with a hidden blade to see if they voice is worth recording. However, he finds his manager Yun-Jin Lee inside instead. She has found a sampler of his which contains the screams of several victims, but she thankfully doesn't realize that they are actual screams. She berates Hak for having such disturbing sounds lying around his hotel room, and mentions the death threats they had received from a fan. These threats were faked by Hak, in order to throw more people off his trail. In order to save face, Hak puts on a performance. He wipes away fake tears and tells Jin a fake sob story about how he has been traumatized by the deaths of his bandmates, and that making dark, edgy music is the only way to cope with the loss. He is completely lying to her, and in his head he is replaying the sounds of his bandmates screaming his name in agony as they burned.
Hak has disguised himself under a hoodie and glasses, and moves through the streets. Putting in his earbuds, he listens to the song "How I Became", which he wrote six months ago in Seoul. While doing so, he recalls how he murdered a pet hamster in class for taking attention away from his flute playing. It begins to rain, and he checks the streets around him as he prepares to break into a car. He works quickly using a wire coat hanger and with just a few swift movements he has broken into Lucas' car. Removing his disguise and taking out a bag of important tools which include rope, blades, a rag, and chloroform. He begins to listen to another song, and recalls the time his father took him to see the band perform it live. This is one of the events which ignited the spark of fame in Hak, and made him promise to himself that he would be the most famous star to ever live, and that nobody would ever upstage him. Taking out his earbuds, he smiles and thinks about how the boy he was became the god he is now.
The rain is incredibly heavy now, and Hak is beginning to panic. Lucas should be at the car by now, unless something has thrown off his routine. Feeling his control slip away, he starts to breath heavily, his nails digging into the car seat. He forces his mouth shut to stop himself from screaming as he feels his plans slipping away and his need to create music growing more intense. He fumbles for his earbuds, attempting to calm himself down when suddenly Lucas walks into view. Hak quickly composes himself.
As Lucas enters the car, Hak begins to shove the rag soaked in chloroform into his face. After an intense struggle in which Lucas manages to bite Haks arm, Hak managed to knock him out and move him into the passenger seat. Looking into the rear-view mirror, he sees Yun-Jin Lee's car and begins to floor it. As Ji-Woon flees from Yun-Jin, he begins to lose track of his plan. He doesn't recognize the street he is on and he is practically ripping the steering wheel off in a rage. He turns on the radio, flipping through meaningless noise until he finds a channel playing beautiful Brazilian dance music. He begins to drive in tune to the beat, nearly running over several pedestrians and children but eventually loses Yun-Jin's car and slows down.
As he pulls into the abandoned warehouse, The Trickster begins to pull his greatest trick of all. First, he injures himself more by cutting into his hand, and then sends Yun-Jin a text message reading "HELP". Knowing that Yun is tracking his phone, the Trickster tosses it in the car along with the rag and chloroform. As he stands over Lucas, who is tied to the chair, he realizes that Yun is close to figuring everything out and exposing him. He still can't find his earbuds and starts to lose focus more. Remembering the music his father brought him to hear, he feels a wave of calm wash over him and he executes his plan...
He cuts Lucas across the face with a glass blade before moving behind him and cutting his restraints free. Lucas reacts quickly and begins to attack the Trickster. He beats him across the face and throws him around the room, and the Trickster is bleeding from the mouth and nose. As Lucas grabs him by the neck and holds the blade in his hands, Yun-Jin busts down the warehouse door with a metal pipe, accompanied by a police officer. The officer sees Lucas holding a knife, along with a beaten and bloody Hak, he fires. Lucas is dead almost instantly, and the Trickster manages to escape with his secret hidden.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Musicianship: Hak is a very talented musician.
- Charisma: Popular amongst his fans, Ji-Woon demonstrated a high level of charm.
- Deception: He is a skilled manipulator.
- Knife Throwing Expertise: Superb wielder of throwing knives, able to send a flurry of them at a remarkable speed.
- Torture Expertise: He is an expert on torture through surgical equipment to help him find the "right melody" for his music.
Quotes[]
| “ | That sound when you bleed, let me hear it again. | „ |
| ~ The Trickster |
| “ | You have no control. People like you never did. | „ |
| ~ The Trickster |
| “ | Shhh... You don't have to see your blood anymore. | „ |
| ~ The Trickster to one of his victims before gouging her eyes out with diamond cufflinks. |
| “ | 간다! (Here we go!) | „ |
| ~ The Trickster preparing to kill a survivor. |
| “ | 감사합니다! (Thank you!) | „ |
| ~ The Trickster after killing a survivor. |
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Trivia[]
- The Trickster is the first Killer to speak a contemporary language, with some of his in-game voice lines being in Korean.
- The Trickster's chase music features noises which sound like screams, which reflects how he recorded actual screams from his victims for his music.
- The Trickster is, alongside The Huntress, one of the most human looking killers, possessing no deformities or abnormalities.
- The Trickster's yellow eyes come from contact lenses of different colors depending on the chosen cosmetic.
- The Trickster is the seventh Killer to be given a nickname/primary alias prior to coming to the Entity's Realm beside the menu showing it as an official name, the first being The Doctor, second being The Huntress, The Legion being the third, The Ghost Face being the fourth, The Oni being the fifth, and The Deathslinger being the sixth.
- Besides his nemesis, Yun-Jin Lee, one other survivor had interacted with the Trickster before he became a killer. Adam Francis went to see one of his concerts in Seoul. He got himself and his students tickets at the "Gocheok Sky Dome".
- He was the 22nd killer that was added to Dead By Daylight.
External Links[]
- The Trickster on the Pure Evil Wiki
- The Trickster on the Dead by Daylight Wiki
