By all means! I'm hoping we can implement Birthright effects in the future.

Originally posted by Crashpunk:

By all means! I'm hoping we can implement Birthright effects in the future.

Ok

ive been playing with some of the tainted dokis and i have a few of ideas for birthright

T yuri could have it so her knife no longer increases the amount of damage she takes from using it as you progress. i.e. since you would start off on B1 taking 2dmg from it, birthright would 'freeze' its dmg increase and you will only continue to take 2dmg from you regardless of floor

T monika could make it so her current ammo types are now infinite on pickup of birthright rather than running out, but she cant gain new ones

T sayori could have it so her bottle when used has a extended or doubled duration than normal for her stats

T natsuki maybe you could have platter give a small stat boost when you convert an item to hp, similar to void, or enabling you to convert hp pickups even when carrying an item..im still uncertain a good one for her tbh.

I was thinking that while the transformations for all the regular dokis are a neat touch, they tend to be hard to come by due to relying on one specific item. An idea I have in regards to this would to give all the doki's birthrights a shared trait: a copy of the item required for the transformation will be added into all item pools. In regards to specific ideas:

Sayori: Normal form: All familiars that she owns and collects afterwards will circle her like the familiars summoned by her Bottles active item. All familiars will be able to block enemy shots in addition to their usual effects. Any variant of the 'Sayo-nara' form: Sayori cannot have any familiars, and any current familiars she had before transforming will be absorbed into her. If Sayori would gain a familiar, she gains a small damage boost as well as an effect based on that familiar; this will also apply to absorbed familiars. A full list of effects can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSbUIHt3x6eywBsSvLBJodwm8sx4YLFpoIB6FWXpFLE/edit

Natsuki: Collecting any heart pickup will provide Natsuki with a fading damage up that scales with the rarity of the pickup. Different hearts will also provide different tear effects for the duration of the damage up: soul hearts give spectral and piercing tears, black hearts give fear tears, rotten hearts give poison tears, bone hearts give splitting bone projectiles, gold hearts will give tears a chance to apply the Midas Touch effect, and eternal hearts give holy shot tears. (Bonus effects for the Fiend Folio mod: immoral hearts give tears a chance to spawn a minion familiar that lasts for the duration of the room and won't leave behind a heart after despawing, and morbid hearts makes enemies killed by the tears spawn an orbital that floats close to Natsuki, dealing contact damage and blocking shots until it takes a certain number of hits.)

Yuri: Gives Yuri a permanent Book of Markov effect. Spawns a unique familiar named The Eye of Markov that bounces around the room and deals a small amount of tick damage to enemies it passes over. Shooting through The Eye of Markov gives tears an Eye of Belial effect, gaining piecing and double damage. If a knife projectile passes through, it will gain a chance to instantly kill normal enemies and deal quadruple damages to bosses. BBFs will give The Eye of Markov a larger radius that will make it easier to shoot through, but will not increase the damage dealt by passing over enemies.

Monika: Gives a unique twelve charge pocket active item called CLI. On use, an aura will appear around Monika. Whenever a non-boss enemy enters this aura, Monkia will start typing a command into an on screen command line to delete the enemy (example command: > os.remove("enemy/spider.chr")). Upon successfully completing the command, the CLI icon will start flashing, at which point the player must use the item again to execute the command, deleting the enemy and all it's copies in the room. The deleted enemy will no longer spawn for the remainder of the run. The enemy must remain within the aura for Monika to type out the command; if it leaves the radius, she will stop typing until it enters the aura again. Monika will only type the command for the first enemy type that enters the aura; if a second enemy type enters, there will be no effect. Taking damage at any point while the item's effect is active will cause Monika to lose some progress on the command line (this does not apply to self inflected damage such as The Razor Blade or opening spiked chests). CLI can also be used on bosses when they are at 5% or lower health, with all the same rules and effects that apply to normal enemies. The effect lasts for the duration of the room or until an enemy gets successfully deleted.

I've came up with a new idea for Yuri's Birthright effect: Yuri will gain a passive version of Portrait of Markov akin to Judas' passive Book of Belial. An active item can go on top of this version of Portrait of Markov. On use of the active item, Yuri will gain homing and will fire additional shots equal to the number of charges for the active item for the duration of the room (i.e. a six charge active item will make Yuri fire seven tears per shot). Certain items will have a special interaction with the Birthright Portrait of Markov; a full list of these effects can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FHcJYkn_71ttjyRN8pFgrTlY0j-bA2IRDGUqN35_ukw/edit?usp=sharing

One idea I have for Tainted Natsuki is twofold:
Taking damage no longer decreases a stored item's quality, and using the Cupcake Platter prematurely will return the item in addition to dropping soul hearts.