Pennywise the Dancing Clown

**Pennywise the Dancing Clown**is a playable character in *Horror for Two.*It is an ancient cosmic evil which preys upon the children of Derry, Maine, roughly every 27 years.

## Moveset

### Basic Attacks

* **Funny Jab:**
* **Rising Appendage:**
	+ **Death Blow:**Triggered if Pennywise counters, shattering the opponent's jaw, doubling the damage and launching the opponent further into the air for a juggle.

### Combos

* **Floating Torture:**
	+ **Death Blow:**Triggered if Pennywise counters, Pennywise severs the opponent's spine with his spider appendage and doubles the damage.
* **Sewer Bait:**
	+ **Death Blow:**Triggered if the opponent blocks too late, Pennywise plunges his teeth deeper into the opponent's neck, causing blood to splatter and doubles the damage and deals damage-over-time.
* **Comedy to Horror:**

### Special Moves

* **Shapeshift:**Pennywise steals a small portion of his opponent's life force. He morphs into his opponent after using this move and gains a damage boost as well as gaining access to their Death Blows and Slash Moves. Additionally, if Pennywise uses his opponent's Slash Move, he can no longer use his own.
	+ **Soul Eater:**Doubles the amount of time Pennywise morphs into the opponent and he regains some of his health back.
* **Soul Eruption:**Pennywise shoots a sphere of spirit energy at his opponent.
	+ **Soul Power:**Pennywise sends a second projectile at his opponent in a lower direction, knocking them down.
	+ **Death Blow:**Triggered if only the second projectile hits, the stomach being damaged and deals over double the damage as well as knocks them back further.
* **Balloon Treat:**Pennywise summons a red balloon to fall from above the opponent, exploding into blood after hitting his opponent. It can be used at three different ranges.
	+ **Floating Devil:**Causes a fiery and bloody explosion that launches the opponent into the air for a juggle.
* **True Form:**Pennywise puts his hand into the ground and has a giant spider leg burst out of the ground, impaling the opponent, and a second spider leg catches them before slamming them onto the ground at the end of the screen away from Pennywise.
	+ **Arachneophobia Eruption:**A third spider leg is summoned which impales the opponent and flings them towards Pennywise, leaving them vulnerable while in the air for a free hit.
	+ **Death Blow:**Triggered if the Pennywise is in his Woman in the Painting form, destroying the stomach and tripling the damage.
* **Soul Well:**Pennywise summons his vial of victims' souls above the fightline. After every attack, Pennywise absorbs a portion of the opponent's soul. Inputting the attack again has Pennywise absorb what was collected, healing him of the damage collected. If no damage was dealt, Pennywise will only heal himself a small amount.
* **Deadlights:**Pennywise grabs his opponent and will unleash his deadlights onto his opponent, damaging and causing them to collapse shaking on the ground. After this attack, Pennywise will be transformed into a random monster for a number of different effects.
	+ **Werewolf:**Pennywise takes reduced damage.
	+ **Mummy:**Increases the duration and damage of the buff after Shapeshift.
	+ **Spider Humanoid:**​​​​​​Increases the damage of Pennywise's basic attacks.
	+ **Woman in the Painting:**Increases the damage of Pennywise's ranged attacks.
	+ **Zombie:**Pennywise has increased aerial mobility.

### Throws

* **Forward Throw:**Pennywise thrusts his hand into his opponent's heart before teleporting behind his opponent and pulls their spine from their back while absorbing their soul energy and blasting them away with it from behind.
* **Backward Throw:**Pennywise transforms into Henry Bowers and slits both of his opponent's legs with his switchblade, then slits their throat and kicks them away.
	+ **Death Blow:**Triggered if Pennywise successfully throws the opponent twice in a row, causing blood to splatter and doubles the damage.

### Slash Move

* **You'll Float Too:**Pennywise pulls out a balloon and counters his opponent's attack, stunning them with the balloon bursting and blood splattering onto their face. He then transforms into Jack Torrance and strikes an axe into their forehead to crack their skull and then transforms into Annie Wilkes before pulling out a kitchen knife and cuts their stomach, damaging their stomach. Pennywise finally transforms into Cujo and leaps onto the opponent and mauls their face, ripping a part of it off.

### Execution Moves

* **Eater of Children:**Pennywise grabs his opponent's arm and bites it, managing to rip it off with his teeth. As the opponent falls down and tries to desperately crawl away, Pennywise stretches out his arm to grab their leg and pull them towards him as he bites their stomach and rips out their intestines. Pennywise then mauls their face until their skull is exposed.
* **Feeding on Fear:**Pennywise uses the Deadlights on his opponent, melting their face away. He then transforms his arms into spider-like appendages and stabs them through the head and stomach, retrieving the brain and heart before transforming into his full true spider-like form and uses its appendages to stab the opponent in the stomach, then through their mouth, both eyes and then through their limbs.

### Overkill Moves

* **Beep Beep:**After executing Shapeshift, Pennywise steals his opponent's soul and leaves behind his shrunken and dry corpse.
* **Georgie's Cries:**After executing Deadlights, Pennywise's terrifying power skins the opponent alive before reducing them to a bloody skeleton.
* **Time to Float:**After executing True Form, Pennywise's spider appendage impales his opponent while two spider appendages rip them apart in two pieces.
* **Prince Albert in a Can:**After executing Backward Throw, Pennywise cuts both of his opponent's legs off and slits the knife into their neck before sticking it into their throat and blood splatters as the blade still remains.
* **Cravings and Dreams:**After executing Forward Throw, Pennywise pulls the spine out which causes the upper body to collapse and Pennywise then decapitates them with the spine.
* **Tasty, Beautiful Fear:**After executing You'll Float Too, Pennywise transfers the balloon into the opponent's head which inflates it and causes them to ascend into the air before their head pops into a bloody mess and their headless corpse falls down onto the ground.
* **Popcorn!:**After executing Comedy to Horror combo, this leaves only the opponent's legs remaining.

### Quit Suicides

* **First Suicide:**Pennywise explodes into a bloody mess.
* **Second Suicide:**Pennywise transforms into a vampire and the light shines on him, incinerating them alive.