Starfish

*"The wind howled in my ears, the soft tune of waves crashing against the shoreline. The noise filled me with emotion. Safety, love, and passion-filled my heart as it was a familiar tune he sang to me. Without thinking I got close to him. The star I gifted him when we first met at Seabreeze Village pulsed on his face, eating at it. He placed his starfish arms on me, the little legs of his arms impaling my skin, filling me with toxins but it stopped. He had calmed down and the harsh winds calmed down. He simply held me close, my fellow Survivors escaping behind him while he held me. It has been a long time since I last was able to love him. I miss you..."*

-Excerpt from the Listener's diary describing the ***Starfish.***

***Hans Tannen**,* also known asthe ***Starfish,*** is one of the **nine** playable Hunters and minor protagonists of The Game.

## Appearance

Hans Tannen is a fairly tall, peach skin, relatively skinny older man. His face is split down right the middle, a crown-of-thorns blue and red starfish eating away at the middle of his face. His eyes, now located on the sides of his face, are very circular and hazy, encircled by teary black stains.

*WIP*

## Gameplay

### External Traits

* **Soft Winds:** *A soft tune filled the air, as if music danced throughout.* The Starfish has lost his sight due to the crown-of-thorns starfish on his face splitting his face in half. Due to this, he is able to sense the environment by using echolocation which he creates from soft tunes. The range he can see is limited but covers a fair amount of environment via the map. While stunned, he cannot see his environment or detect the environment via the map.
* **Curse of the King:** *The Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish is able to curse those around it, leaving them uncertain of their demise.* The Starfish places a curse marker on each Survivor he attacks, gaining a +5% attack recovery speed per Survivor marked.

### Abilities

* **Toxic Touch:** [1000 FEAR] [17-second Cooldown] *The touch of those spikes is enough to paralyze healthy male adults, but it simply nauseous the Survivors.* The Starfish will begin to fill it's arms up with toxins. Touching a Survivor while Toxic Touch is active will cause them to release vomit every couple of seconds, making them stationary. Upon finishing throwing up, the Survivor can return continue their interactions.
* **Enhanced Toxic Touch:** [3000 FEAR] [14-second Cooldown] *The poison gets stronger and stronger and so do the Survivors.* The Starfish will begin to fill it's arms up with toxins. Touching a Survivor while Enhanced Toxic Touch is active will cause them to release vomit every couple of seconds, making them stationary. Upon finishing throwing up, the Survivor can return continue their interactions. The Starfish can also now launch projectile toxic spikes from its arms.

## Diary Entries

* *Diary Entry 1: "The clocks ticked constantly around me, their hands going in full circles all day."*
* *Diary Entry 2: "The divorce wasn't too great on my mental health. Neither was loosing my son to mental issues..."*
* *Diary Entry 3: "Those two figures stood over me, doing things I would do to my wife, but there was no love involved. I was only 12 years old."*
* *Diary Entry 4: "I was sent to the hospital, evaluated, and followed my son's demise."*
* *Diary Entry 5: "I met the man who was referred to as the "Puppet Master." He said that beyond the doors, there was freedom, freedom to a world he called the Purity Realm."*
* *Diary Entry 6: "I also met another man, his personality was nice and lovable. I fell in love and made him mine. I had forgotten about everything my divorce and my declining mental health."*
* *Diary Entry 7: "The Puppet Master, my boyfriend, and myself all manage to be released. I continued to live my life with my new boyfriend."*
* *Diary Entry 8: "The Puppet Master invited my boyfriend and I to the Purity Realm, after witnessing our crimes..."*
* *Diary Entry 9: "I don't remember much from my human life, except of what I did to those little boys... The Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish on my face, eating my sins away."*
* *Diary Entry 10: "They all look the same to me... Except for him, he stands out. I can't hurt him but the Puppet Master says I have to, for the greater good. Forgive me..."*

## Trivia

* The Starfish, like many other Hunters, from The Game, is based around a real-life serial killer from his nationality.
	+ The diary entries reflect the life of Adolf Seefeldt, a German serial killer who abused and killed up to 12 young boys during his time alive, with possibly more unconfirmed cases.
* Even though theStarfishhas been around since almost the beginning of the concept of The Game, he was barely worked on, pushed to the side for nearly seven months.