For some reason i think the head should be a bucket

maybe it could have flies flying around him like orbitals that work as his hp, basically something like the bones from book of the dead but if he loses them all he dies

idk but maybe they could be headless

Ok so, tainted hollow, instead of flies it spawns spiders

Tainted Hollow ideas:

Instead of spawning with 5 Blue Flies and 1 Red fly, you start with 3 Pooters and something similiar to ???'s only friend
The Character itself is Immune to all forms of damage, in fact, the one taking damage is the controllable fly.

Some Synergies i was thinking of:
20/20: Transforms the Pooters into Super Pooters
Monstro's Lung: Transforms Pooters into Tainted Pooters
Loki's horns: Has a chance to spawn a sucker which well... works like a sucker
Ipecac: Has a chance to spawn a Spit
Ball of Tar: Has a chance to spawn an Ink
Brimstone: Has a chance to spawn a Soul Sucker

Originally posted by MonochromeDecayment:

Tainted Hollow ideas:

Instead of spawning with 5 Blue Flies and 1 Red fly, you start with 3 Pooters and something similiar to ???'s only friend
The Character itself is Immune to all forms of damage, in fact, the one taking damage is the controllable fly.

Some Synergies i was thinking of:
20/20: Transforms the Pooters into Super Pooters
Monstro's Lung: Transforms Pooters into Tainted Pooters
Loki's horns: Has a chance to spawn a sucker which well... works like a sucker
Ipecac: Has a chance to spawn a Spit
Ball of Tar: Has a chance to spawn an Ink
Brimstone: Has a chance to spawn a Soul Sucker

Tainted Pooters from Monstro's Lung would be OP as hell

Originally posted by Magor:

Originally posted by MonochromeDecayment:

Tainted Hollow ideas:

Instead of spawning with 5 Blue Flies and 1 Red fly, you start with 3 Pooters and something similiar to ???'s only friend
The Character itself is Immune to all forms of damage, in fact, the one taking damage is the controllable fly.

Some Synergies i was thinking of:
20/20: Transforms the Pooters into Super Pooters
Monstro's Lung: Transforms Pooters into Tainted Pooters
Loki's horns: Has a chance to spawn a sucker which well... works like a sucker
Ipecac: Has a chance to spawn a Spit
Ball of Tar: Has a chance to spawn an Ink
Brimstone: Has a chance to spawn a Soul Sucker

Tainted Pooters from Monstro's Lung would be OP as hell

you're not wrong but still, it would be cool tbh

Originally posted by MonochromeDecayment:

Originally posted by Magor:

Tainted Pooters from Monstro's Lung would be OP as hell

you're not wrong but still, it would be cool tbh

balls

just turn him into the duke

I thought of an idea that tainted hollow takes 5-8 shots (that do nothing like the pencil item) with the last shot firing a burst of dirty buddies, flies or spiders and his special item being "hollow's filling" which spawns a charmed tainted bomb fly that explodes like BBF, with it using hollow's hp and preventing shooting for 2 seconds, and tear items like soy milk will not affect the rate of firing the bursts (turning from 5-8 shots to 15-27)

Synergies ideias:
Soy milk: spawn rapidly tiny flies
Almond: same but chaotic
godhead: is missing for some reason and the synergy is kinda obvious
sacred heart: hollow got now bigger flies but low amount of them and they could hit more than one enemy
spirit sword: sword of flies, similar to ragged rag mod but they can pass trough enemies
continum: a spectral fly pass trough the enemy after hit and just continue the track depending on the range. It's not homing after this
note: I dont speak english please dont go heavy on me

maybe a character where you only see the inside of the hollow. he can only shoot blood tears or something. maybe he starts with Haemolacria

maybe instead of fly's its maggots that deal like 50% or 25% percent of your damage but when they die they drop half soul hearts that disappear after a short few seconds like tainted Maggie (i forget her name) and instead of spawning out of you, you shoot 3 maggots at a time that hunt the enemy and follow you if there isn't anything to fight. Also if a maggot lives long enough they turn into fly's, and on top of that you are slowly or rapidly depending on how op the maggots drop is, you are losing healthy and upon death you explode into maggots and fly's, but (this might be a little to op) if the maggots or fly's kills something within one second (or half a second) you're revived with half a soul heart and a half second immunity frame. one more, your health can be depleted to death if not actively killing something and maggots don't produce half a soul heart on fires spots or spikes

I was personally thinking about big flies, like bbf. every 3 items collected makes a big fly (of yours) appear and protect/attack. Or "the decayed" can shoot a big (polyphemus sized) tear of flies, like the one pestilence on the beast fight uses.

the infested: (tainted hollow)

2 soul hearts
0 damage
0 range
0 firerate
3 speed

INFESTED

starts with one fly, this fly orbits them, it will move forward when you shoot in a direction. you cannot gain items, but when you grab an item, it becomes a fly, this fly retains the traits of that item (more health = bigger hitbox, speed = return speed, any tear effects are put on the fly)

pocket item: reclaim (instant)
with this you destroy the most recent fly and apply that affect to all flies, however that effect is diminished


birthright:
all further flies will provide a very diminished buff to all flies