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Ever wonder what the story was behind the various killers Behaviour Interactive created for the survival horror game Dead by Daylight? Don't worry, we read the lore for you. Even the... problematic ones.
Join lore-reader Gavin Gaddis, monster-lover Cole Burkhardt, and horror newbie Caroline Mincks as they go through each killer's backstory and ask the most important questions. Mainly "are they scary" and "are they hot."
(For some of the hosts, those two are the same question).
Join lore-reader Gavin Gaddis, monster-lover Cole Burkhardt, and horror newbie Caroline Mincks as they go through each killer's backstory and ask the most important questions. Mainly "are they scary" and "are they hot."
(For some of the hosts, those two are the same question).
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Remember: never walk in the woods at night...
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Let the game begin.
Welcome to a sort of Episode Zero situation in which Caro, Cole, and Gavin sit down to talk about the video game Dead by Daylight. Never played the game before? This might be a good first episode. Played a lot of it yourself or have watched a streamer play a few hours? You might be good to skip the bits where we talk about mechanics.
Welcome to the Trials.
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She'd like to axe you a question.
The Huntress. The first ranged killer in DBD, this probably-Russian badass runs around the map humming a lullaby about wolves stealing children in the night and throwing axes at people. She's a tough character to top, so much so she jumped in front of three other killers on a show covering killers in the order they were released.
Dead by Daylight has some great lore. Anna is an example of that and a great place to kick off our horror-filled journey. Hope you're not eating by the time we talk about her kid-raising tactics.
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Evan's Got Issues.
He's on the box art, he's the face of Dead by Daylight, which begs the question: why is Dollar Tree Jason Vorhees the character Behaviour sold the game with? Why does he have all that metal sticking out of him? Why is he burned? Why are bear traps such a huge part of his design?
Spoiler alert: the answers are either unsatisfactory or don't exist. Everything about Trapper that isn't gameplay-based is BAFFLING.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod (someone's sitting on the @ we would have used for a project that has been dead for quite some time :'( )
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He ALWAYS skips leg day.
Wraith. One of the original three killers to launch with Dead by Daylight. The game's answer to Michael Myers, only for them to actually license Michael Myers several months later. What's Philip's backstory? Is it at all problematic? Did the predominantly white Canadian developer do a good job of writing their first POC character back in 2016? Let's find out.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
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Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Which Rich Farmers Go Bad
The Hillbilly. None of his lore really establishes any sense of location or culture that would make him a hillbilly, yet we're calling him that anyway. This is a rough one, folks. Both from the ableism and the fact that the character's rocking some stolen southern valor. Everyone's accents get real thick by the end of this.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
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The Nurse
She could've been so cool, yet she ends up so frustrating. Join us on the adventure of picking through the wreckage that is Sally Smithson's lore, as well as attempting to convince Caro she gets kinda cool from a gameplay perspective.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
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Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Big daddy head tilt is here.
It's time to talk about the first copyrighted killer to enter the Entity's clutches. This one gets a little saucy, a little pro-Myers, and Gavin introduces a bit for every time they say the wrong person with the same name as Michael Myers.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
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Have you tried NOT tempting fate?
Lisa Sherwood, a woman named after a famous forest who gets turned into a tree-cannibal. A character so loosely-written they had to retroactively add more lore just to make it more clear as to why the Entity considered her a killer and took her in the first place. Stay through to the end for a full-throated smutty book series recommendation from Cole that has nothing to do with this week's topic in the slightest.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
He's gonna zap ya.
Prepare the Pepe Silvia gif reactions, it's time to talk about the killer with a potentially bonkers pseudo-coverup attached to his backstory. Is he fully fiction? Was he originally based on a real person before having his identity scrubbed at the last minute to protect the game from criticism in another country?
Regardless, Herman Carter is the second Black man in Dead by Daylight and they did NOT handle that side of him well.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Hope you saved some room for dessert.
That's right. It's time to talk Leatherface. The second instance of the developers patching in a character who they'd only just created an off-brand version of for the launch of the game. Where Michael Myers was the proto-Wraith, Hillbilly owes his existence of Bubba.
How fitting we talk about him just weeks after the changes to both BBQ and Chili and Monstrous Shrine completely kneecap the thing toxic players used Bubba for. RIP in pieces.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
So uhhhh. Back up your audio folks.
Gavin goofed it.
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The Pig
Listen, Behaviour phoned her in and nerfed her all to hell. I think I can phone in the description a little bit. We talk about Amanda Young, but really use that as an excuse to introduce Caroline to how bonkers the Saw canon really is.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
[Ominous fat guy laugh]
Ah, Kenny. Love Kenny. Well, Caro doesn't but that's to be expected. Join us as we talk about the killer that got Gavin to put on clown makeup and wear a fake nose for four hours. If you didn't like clowns before, you're not gonna like them more by the time you're done with ole Kenneth.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
The Entity did opposite-nepotism.
Remember that bit in Beetlejuice: The Musical when he says "Jumpscares! The jerky Japanese ghost walk!" Behavior just did that as a character.
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Frank's got a posse.
Time for the only they/them pronouns in Dead by Daylight and they're for the not-trans-inclusive reason. It's The Legion! A group of four kids run by frank who, if he had not been picked up by the Entity, likely would have become a YouTuber who would go onto make multiple apology videos for Allegations.
As Cole just said while I'm writing this description: "He seems like he would try the D.E.N.N.I.S system."
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Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
"I'm gonna vom..."
Ancient Babylonian priestess upchucking pea soup? Doin' something for somebody, probably. This week we talk about the latest in a long line of women brought into the fold as a killer without ever actually doing anything wrong. Not surprising anyone, The Entity is kind of a dick.
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Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Watch out, Jamie Kennedy
At long last, it's time to talk about the first licensed killer whose iconic look technically isn't from an existing film franchise. In a stunning bit of copyright funkery, we're talking about The Ghost Face, a character wearing a trademarked Halloween mask that happens to be also licensed for a film franchise that calls their villain the same thing.
The wonderful RK Wilde joins us this episode as we talk one of the hornier killers on the block.
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Find RK Wilde on Twitter @RussWildest
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Harkness would hard pass.
The Demogorgon, what Netflix will send after you if you dare share your password. Idk, Demo's a strange character (heh) because it purely exists due to the popularity of Stranger Things but it doesn't necessarily gel with Dead by Daylight AND it technically isn't in the game anymore. An awkward proposal for a show where one of the hosts makes a point of playing the character before discussing them.
Subscribe to the Read by Daylight Newsletter!
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Just a country cop in all the worst ways.
Oh Mr. Yamaoka. If only you'd learned to chill for five minutes. Perhaps some breathing exercises. We could've avoided this whole ordeal. That's right, we're talking about the angy samurai this week! Somebody call the demon slayer corps. Maybe don't send Zenitsu.
Subscribe to the Read by Daylight Newsletter!
Find Caroline on Twitter @SaucyMincks
Find Gavin at @GavGaddis or @GavinGWhiz
Do not find Cole.
Find the show at @ReadDaylightPod on Twitter
Find the show on Tumbler at ReadbyDaylight.tumblr.com
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
Find out more at https://read-by-daylight.pinecast.co
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