Conatus/The Trapitalist

The Trapitalist is a character in Conatus and the second character created by PabloDePablo. She's the fourteenth character created for the game, and the fourth paid character available.
==Background==
Not much is known of The Trapitalist's past, primarily because she's always changing the details. All that's known for certain is that she's an outsider to Grimnore, having been sent by a corporation to lay out the groundwork to "tame" the wilderness for land development. She's often found in contact with her superiors, but even then, the details of her work are vague at best.
==Appearance==
The Trapitalist is a fairly average woman with a light tan, and dark brown hair that's always kept oddly clean, coming down to her shoulders. Her eyes are always kept hidden by a pair of large sunglasses with circular lenses and a silver frame. She wears a simple gray business suit with prominent shoulder padding and a silver tie; despite its rather plain appearance, the suit has several hidden pockets. The Trapitalist also wears white gloves that seem to never get dirtied, even in tough conditions.
==Personality==
The Trapitalist is mostly antisocial, preferring to work alone or communicate with her superiors when she has the opportunity. If pushed to interact with others, she'll try her best to smooth talk them into helping her or leaving her alone, but it's not something she's particularly good at.
==Gameplay==
The Trapitalist's playstyle revolves around patience and keeping a close eye on enemies. Her stats are middling, aside from having high Vigor, and her default equipment is fairly weak, but her skills and traits allow her to set dangerous traps of all sorts, ranging from decoy merchants to deadly poisons.
With her traits encouraging stealthy movement and resource gathering, The Trapitalist has to move carefully and predict where enemies will be travelling to. In a one-on-one fight, she's like to lose, so the key to success when playing as her is to keep your distance and study the "chokepoints" of the map.
===Stats===
Base Health	Base Vigor	Attack	Defense	Movement
175 	250 	15 	15 	29.5 mph
===Equipment===
Name 	Description
Melee WeaponBriefcase 	A simple metal briefcase full of money and mysterious documents. If The Trapitalist is staggered while this is equipped, some money might fall out.12 Power
Ranged WeaponRadio Beam	A small handheld gun, resembling a clunky old flip phone. It fires out weak beams of energy at a quick pace. 3 PowerPassive Perk: Increased Aim Range
ShieldBillboard 	A short but wide shield advertising apartments based on which area of Grimnore The Trapitalist is currently in.5 Defense
===Traits===
Name 	Description
Invisible Hand 	The Trapitalist makes less noise when attacking or using Skills.
Maximum Productivity 	The Trapitalist has a 33% chance of gaining extra Vigor from Advanced Foods.
Market Analysis 	Various points of interest are automatically marked on The Trapitalist's map, such as landmarks with plentiful resources or areas with rewarding enemies. If the resources are all gone, the mark disappears, giving The Trapitalist a way to predict enemy locations and goals.
Increased Consumption	The Trapitalist succumbs to hunger faster than most characters.
Low Signal 	The Trapitalist's weapons deal half of their normal damage in areas no player has visited yet, and her Radio Beam is disabled entirely.
Liquidized Assets 	The Trapitalist can only take non-unique items or items she already owns at least one of from any enemy players she defeats.
===Skills===
Name 	Description
Merchant BombSkill 1	Pressing the Skill 1 Button gives The Trapitalist a circular reticule on the ground, and pressing it again will create a Merchant Bomb where she aims. Merchant Bombs resemble regular NPC merchants, but everything spent on their goods will be sent to The Trapitalist, and they explode when you finish buying from them. They can be avoided by keeping an eye out for their red business ties and the NutriSlurp they sell.
Toxic MoneySkill 2 	Pressing the Skill 2 button will cause The Trapitalist to toss a bag of money ahead of her. When interacted with, this bag releases a variety of toxic fumes based on the color of the "$" symbol on it - purple bags release poison, green bags release fumes that drain Vigor, and red bags will lower your attack, defense, and speed. The bags can be cycled through by hitting the shoulder buttons.
==Trivia==
*The Trapitalist was originally conceived as a more traditional "trapper" character before being given the theme of a corporate executive.
*If the camera is somehow angled so the player can see beneath the Trapitalist's sunglasses, it becomes noticable that she has black sclera and triangular green pupils, implying she's not as ordinary as she comes off as.
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