The Huntress: A Dark Modern Folk Tale | Dead by Daylight Lore Deep Dive



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Welcome friends and foes, Survivors and Killers. Today we’ll be looking into the Huntress, Dead by Daylight’s most popular Killer who really has stood the test of time. We’ll be looking at the Huntress’s combination of gameplay, visual design and character biography to determine just how this dynamite success was achieved and what makes the character tick.

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46 thoughts on “The Huntress: A Dark Modern Folk Tale | Dead by Daylight Lore Deep Dive”

  1. Great video as always! Although I do have one complaint. 4:45 this entire rant felt very entitled and extremely unnecessary, especially when later in the video you address the exact reason people view Huntress as "child like". I don't understand why you had to come off as so hostile when addressing this, as if people were in the wrong or something for thinking this when it is heavily implied in her base lore. anyways, good vid, that part just really bothered me

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  2. I just love how the little details of Huntress really tie her character together. How does she carry so many hatchets? She steals belts from the soldiers who invade her forest. Why does she hum? It was the last sound she heard from her mother (also unnerves her human prey).
    While I understand wanting Anna to narrate her tome lore to understand her thought process (and to refute the claim that she's mentally a child), I do think less is more works better for her. I personally think it would've been more interesting to have it be narrated by one of her daughters (though that would've been super sad, listening to a kid slowly dying, so maybe not). I also notice that the quotes that accompany her perks are not from her but from her victims, which while not being a lot, do show how Anna plays mind games with her prey.
    Also an underrated bit of lore is that the portrait of Anna's family shows that she had a baby sibling that died at some point (whether before or after her mother's death we have no idea but probably safe to assume before). I personally like to imagine she steals the little girls not just so she can be a mother, but also because she feels she failed as a sister (she's the OG Charlotte Dehayes, except Charlotte was technically born first so does that make Anna a later version of Charlotte? 😉 JK, though I do judge people who simp for Huntress and not Charlotte; Buff Russian Lady and Buff French Lady are making a home together in the Fog and no, I don't care about canon).

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  3. The moment you opened up with the fairytale of Vasilisa, I slammed that like button. Vasilisa and Baba Yaga is one of my favorite fairytales of all time, and I can’t believe I never realized how thematically/atmospherically similar Huntress’s story is to it!

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  4. I always felt that Huntress was one of the most tragic killers. Born during war, having to live a cautious existence, with only a lullaby for comfort after her mother's death which she had no comprehension of. Does she ever wonder what her mother would've thought of the Entity? The survivors? Could she be redeemed or has she been in a feral state for too long? A mindless hunter.

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  5. I would agree that Anna is a survivalist, though in her lore she kidnaps young girls and they eventually perish. It is not necessarily a flaw in her design. Mothers who produce children have a chemical (instinctual like) reason to care and provide. Since Anna does not have children, it makes sense that she is protraying a mother without being one. She knows the basics of being of mother, but she lacks the instincts to actualy being one biologically. So she follows what she does not know

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  6. Hey pixle bush, I love your videos man. Your like the lore keeper or codex or something for dbd it makes the killers/survivors more interesting more in depth more alive. It's awesome keep it up man:)

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  7. You nailed it on the head with what doesn't make sense about her lore and the reason people slap the "mind of a child" label on her, it's the fate of the little girls she kidnapped

    Personally I think that she really perished alongside her mother and is some form of undead who eventually forgot about the concept of eating or keeping yourself safe from the cold but kept hunting for sport and wearing heavy furs and leathers as trophies, a volkolak like many theorize her to be (though this headcanon ties her closer to Jason voorhes, it diminishes her prowess as a survivalist, but the little girls perishing already did, so)

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  8. moodyjo wrote an excellent script for her part. you can tell she's a super solid writer/good at giving speeches. I'm happy to see you bringing on board other content creators.

    I love a lot about the huntress aside from the logical pitfalls in her story. they're snags on a killer that is otherwise so iconic in DBD I'd argue she should be the mascot for it, not the trapper.

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  9. One thing I've always likes about huntress from a game play standpoint is the "all or nothing" take from her. Either u hit, or you don't. Unlike our favorite kpop boy where you just spam knives like ur in a battlefield game. Huntress makes it rewarding for both killers and survivors.

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  10. While trapper is the very first killer in the game, but I feel like huntress should at the least have a lot more spotlight given to her as the box art killer. She’s just so iconic despite being so simple.

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  11. You have no idea how refreshing it is to hear that Jason isn't THAT similar to Trapper. The man sets one bear trap in the entire franchise. It frustrates me to no end when people say he's just a man with a machete. Fantastic video!

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  12. I would just like to say just cause she is Russian and takes little girls doesn't mean she was dbd's take on baba yaga. That's like saying because Mikaela is a ginger witch she was dbd's take on the girl from Hocus pocus

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