"Good Child"

**"Good Child"** is a Reoccurring Time-Limited A-Tier Costume for Jack The Ripper that is part of the "Once" series. The costume was originally introduced and sold in the Illusion Hall from July 1st to July 29th of 2021.

## Availability

As it is not a true Limited Costume (which are denoted by the "limited" tag found in the top right of certain card icons), it can return to the Illusion Hall shop multiple times.

* It was originally available for purchase from July 1st to July 29th 2021.
* It was made available for purchase during the Global 4th Anniversary from July 14th to August 4th 2022.
* It was made available for purchase during the Chinese 5th Anniversary from March 23rd to April 12th 2023. This return was caused by a glitch but it was allowed to stay.

## Appearance

### **Physical**

When equipped, Jack has more of his physical features revealed, with the exception of his eyes. He has pale skin, a long squared nose, and thick curly gray-black hair that covers his eyes. He has a smirk on his lips.

### **Outfit**

This costume is in Victorian-era styles, and has Jack wearing tight pale grey suit pants with three silver and green-blue buttons under each knee, and held up by a thin black belt at his waist. He also wears black leather riding boots that are tall enough go past his calves, and a white collared shirt with a silver vest with a shiny vine pattern over it. A black silk cravat is tied around his neck and collar, with a emerald brooch with a silver fastener pinned to it. On his head is a black silk top hat with a dark silver ribbon and bow tied around the base of the brim. It is proportioned more realistically to his head as opposed to the cartoonishly thin and tall top hat Jack usually wears such as in his default appearance. On his right hand is a brown leather glove, with a large silver ring embedded with a large emerald on his thumb.

The most elaborate piece of this costume is the dark green velvet suit coat with lighter green floral embroidery patterned across the entire piece. It has a high collar and six military-style silver buttons in the front clasping the jacket closed. Two large paintbrushes are fastened to his lapel with black clasps, and the bristles are soaked and dripping with bright red paint. A clean white kerchief is poking out of his chest pocket.

### **Weapon**

On his left hand is a large glove made of dark metal which is fastened to his wrists with metal bands. At the end of each fingertip is attached different types of long blades and saws, which each have metal jointed rods fastened to green pad above each blade and then connecting to the wrist band.

### **Special Effects**

Bright pink paint drips from him in this costume. The brooch at his collar glows a bright green.

## Concept / Design Notes

### **Design Idea Plans**

"Backdrift and return to the original point." If time goes back before accepting the mysterious invitation if they all make different choices, where will destiny lead us?

In the Once series, we hope to show another possibility for all the characters. For "The Ripper", an elegant and brutal hunter, his story starts with his backstory. He was originally a young artist, but he was struggling from the erosion of the "Bad Child", and his life was cut in half by his uncontrollable behavior. "I started to be afraid of sleeping. But now... I wake up from the smell of rust every morning, is there any way to get rid of "him"?"

According to the settings of "The Ripper", "Good Child" is designed as the time that he is still struggling with his another chaotic personality. His decent uniform and a young and handsome face undoubtedly reflect his identity as an elegant young artist. And those knives tied to the fingers, the paint flowing on the body. . . They also embodied the hidden madness and danger of "The Ripper".

- Under that seemingly gentle and handsome smile, who knows which "Jack" is awake?

### **Design Idea Sketch**

We designed an image of a young Victorian artist around the theme of "Jack" in the past. At this time, "Jack" is still a "Good Child", so the overall image is still an ordinary person. We designed him with long, messy hair that covered his face, and he was stained with paint. Through these details, it is shown that the "Bad Child" hidden in his heart is gradually seizing the dominance of the body.

Although the first version of the sketch roughly meets the theme's needs, the character's temperament is not close to that of young talents, and the costume design is not capable enough.

The second version of the sketch has improved than the first version, but the temperament is still far from the ideal effect. We chose the third option and adjusted it on its basis.

In the end, we optimized the character's temperament to make it closer to the young "Jack" to enhance the exquisiteness of the costume, and we made the color of the paint more conspicuous to reflect his hidden madness. After refinement, the original design of "Good Child" is complete.

### **Showroom Interface Design**

Following the actions of the "Good Child", pink paint occupies the entire screen, and the face of the "Good Child" is visible behind the slowly dropping paint, and he seem to have a smile at the corners of his mouth.

The lights flickered, and there was a sharp pain in the head of the "Good Child" and the confused thoughts occupied his mind, making him struggle with pain. Who will win in the end?

The "Good Child" stroked his blades, trying to erase the stained paint, but the annoying traces grew more and more. . . He fell into depression and trouble again.

The weird portrait appeared behind the "Good Child". He was frightened and angry, and threw it out, after which the familiar headache hit again.

### **Model Details Description**

1. The pink paint dripped down along the uniform of the "Good Child". Behind the young and gentleman's mask, his crazy side is slowly awakening.
2. Messy hair, white face, and perennial fascination with art make "Good Child" brings a mystery temperament of a mysterious artist.
3. Decent clothes and elegant gems symbolize the social status of this young artist. Who would have thought that this decent gentleman lives a dangerous and crazy "Bad Child" in his heart?
4. The finger blades composed of sharp knives glowed with dangerous cold light, and the side belonging to the "Bad Child" was occupying more and more dominance of the body. . .

### **Costume Effects Design**

The pink paint flows slowly down the uniform of the "Good Child" and drips following his movements. At the same time, the blue gemstone symbolizing reason exudes a gleam on his neckline, which symbolized the game of the two personalities in his heart.

## Trivia

* This costume most likely references Jack's Deduction #3 "Bad Child"
* Upon purchasing this costume, the player would also receive the following blue Achievement Label for their profile: "Backdrift - Ripper"
* This is the first costume of the "Once" series.

## Gallery

* In-Game
* Official Art

Good Child In-game Model Front View.Good Child In-game Model Back View.Good Child In-game Model Left-Side View.Good Child In-game Model Right-Side View.Good Child Showroom Entrance Animation.Good Child Showroom Idle Animation.Good Child Showroom Press Animation.Costume showing as "Backdrift" in Illusion HallLetter and label given to player after purchase

### Concept Art & Icons

Chinese Concept Art (Weibo)English Concept Art (Twitter)"Good Child" Sprite
### Promotional Art

Promotional art from twitter "Just sitting there, plotting his next move... It's the ONCE Series Jack the Ripper!! Be wary as he'll tear you apart!"In-game sale poster"Good Child" Release Artwork (Weibo)August 2021 Birthdays/Character Days (Twitter)2021 Summer Artwork (Weibo)It's The Ripper's Character Day! Let's all wish him a wonderful day! - 2021 The Ripper Global Character Day Art (Twitter)"Art is compassion without an objective." - 2022 Chinese Character Day Art (Weibo)4th Anniversary ONCE Costume Re-Releases Announcement (Twitter)Bask in the glory that is the Ripper's Character Day! Let's wish Jack a wonderful Character Day! - 2022 The Ripper Global Character Day Art (Twitter)Christmas Butler’s Cafe (Twitter)Official IDV Weibo emoji (Weibo)2023 Lìxià (立夏) Artwork (Weibo)"Today marks the birthday of our artist Jack.
Let's join together to celebrate this special day and wish him to get more inspiration from misty nights in the year ahead!" (Twitter)
### Videos

Identity V - Jack The Ripper ONCE Series Trailer"What does the old Ripper look like ...?" - Once Series Trailer (Youtube)
### Lore

Teaser for the costume featuring Jack's 2020 Character Day Letter (Weibo)Jack's 2020 Character Day Letter, posted as a promo for the costume
## References

1. ↑ Announcement on Official Twitter.
2. ↑ https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4657096995373671