Identity V | Night Watch Background Story

Dear Detectives,
Trudge through the forest with hush tones as you feel something lurking… Prepare as the Night Watch beckons! Check out the newest hunter!🕯️

#IdentityV #NightWatch #Hunter

[skyflower]

The way he does this for his Mother shows that he has still some humanity in him after all that happen to him

[lynxylore]

The woman found the child left to death in the forest and grew up in love and care.
When the guy grew up, she was caught as the witch and local people "got a false idea themselves gods [has the right to judge others] but [on behavior] actually as demons" tortured her before loss of mind.
The local witches hunter at whom eyes are as like as two peas on the boy (his twin tormented her?) headed that tortures.
Probably, one child was left by parents, the second was thrown out to the forest as superfluous.

Then the guy, to whom returned the foster mother who lost mind from pain, put on a nightmare suit from legends to punish those who got a false idea themselves are gods (the locals who tortured the woman).

"The ashes of the Klaas knock on my heart" (c) Til Ulenshpigel

[crashcollide]

THIS HUNTER WAS RELEASED REAL FAST NGL

[len]

DUDE THIS HUNTER IS LIKE GENUINELY CREEPY I LOVE IT

[eunac]

This is what I could gather from the clip,
As a baby, he was cast out into a blizzard to be left to die.
He was taken in by a kind woman, who would have known his identity growing up, who could have told him of where he was truly from or who could have killed him for her own safety instead. But instead, she had raised him in love and care.
That was until his twin brother broke into the woman's house (this was done with the help of the villagers who were probably after some money reward or something). He ended up torturing her terribly so for raising Night Watch.
It's also possible that the twin is of high standing. He had the help of several villagers, had access to a dungeon and full-covering clothes. And demons in the skins of gods would refer to his darkness in torturing Night Watch's mother but still feeling entitled or justified because he (likely) is of high standing.
Night Watch eventually had enough and killed his brother, but the mom had been so badly tortured that she sees his twin instead of him. She cannot bear to be around her son, who she can't recognize thanks to the twin's actions.
To cope, Night Watch had been killing (I'm not sure as to who the targets are) at night.

[snkxhxxd]

Im just realising his mother was tortured/captured by the man with the same face as him and maybe that's why she wasnt able to recover even after he brought her home. He just wanted to save her but she was scared of him 😭😭

[deilostu]

He will be my new main no matter what, please forgive me Michiko

[Seoneoji]

wooo he's so cute as a human and so stylish as a hunter 😭😭😭 (and his backstory 🗿🪦🫂) I love him already

[shasynarrayai.a]

fun fact
at around the 1:04 mark, you can that Night Watch's silhouette actually resembles that of a "Wendigo"
this is prob because of his inspiration "Ithaqua" from HP Lovecraft's source material. One of his nicknames and depictions is that of the Wendigo

[DazaiFill]

He is my favorite hunter and I think he deserved to be more recognized by the game creators, putting more visuals for him, items and emotes

[choco_eepy]

Ok listen. THE AMOUNT OF LOVECRAFTIAN HINT ON THIS MAKES ME FERAL WITH HOW MUCH I LOVE IT- I MEAN, "PLATEAU OF LENG" AND HOW THE HUNTER REFER HIMSELF AS "CORPSE" AND THE CULT- LIKES- It reminds me in HPL: The Hound (If I remember it correctly) The Necronomicon places it in Central Asia and Plateau of Leng was habitated by the Corpse-Eating Cult. REMEMBER WHAT THIS HUNTER REFER HIMSELF AS???? AND THE TWIN-! OOOHHH, In HPL: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, its mentioned the High Priest of some monastery lived in Plateau of Leng. AND THE TWIN WAS SOME KIND OF PRIEST. AND THE BLIZZARD! Maybe it's happened in Himalaya or smth??? Since Himalaya IS IN CENTRAL ASIA. Ok let me cut my rambling here because I need to FANGIRLING

[pokemasterzelda]

God, I love so many of the hunters' backstories in IDV- from Bane to Wu Chang to Axe Boy, and some of the more recent, animated ones like Breaking Wheel, Naiad and Clerk are some of my top favorites.

This, though? This shot Night Watcher straight to the top of my favorite hunter backstories, I absolutely adore him, Your Honor

Edit! I realize, also, that this is now the fifth animated backstory where we actually see the hunter pre-manor (i am not including Luchino's survivor backstory nor Orpheus in this, obviously)! I'm liking that trend so far, of seeing the human side to the many hunters of the manor

[belavera]

"His ugly face that is so alike my own", meanwhile this hunter literally looks like a perfect 10🙄 he's *clearly* fishing for compliments and I fell for it, oh well, but he's pretty cool in general imo.

[thatdumbbeech]

wow he honestly looks amazing and that voice acting suits him so well i love it!! 😆😆

[thisisayaaka]

0:08 his mother holding wood staff with lantern. So i think he turns it into a weapon after his mother died

[pandora_hysteria]

Is just me or the hunter and survivor getting more beautiful than ever?

[CyberQueen]

I think it’s about a young boy who was abandoned in the woodlands when he was a newborn. A woman found him and raised him as her own son. But one day, the malicious prince of a nearby village along with his men, entered their home and detained the woman under the accusation (or to be more precise, suspicion) of her being a witch. It was then, when the boy saw that a prince’s face resembles his own, that he realizes the truth: he was actually one of the king’s twin sons and he was banished because his elder brother was chosen to be the heir. He snuck into the royal dungeons and murdered his brother in order to rescue the woman who raised him, but alas he was too late, the woman was tortured to the point of losing her humanity. Fueled by pain of his lost and anger against those who believe themselves to be gods because of their heritage, the boy became the vigilante known as the Night Watch in order to gain revenge on those who had took away his once peaceful life and ensure no one suffers the same pain he and his mother had endured.

“The reign of those selfish ‘gods’ shall end on the night the blizzard laid waste to the Plateau of Lang”

[sobersaber]

The first time from an idv background video where the VA gave me the chills. Superb

[FayinKay]

Yoooo his voice actor is so good, I actually got chills listening to it.

[zo_chan]

Now now, If he were to actually hunt everyone that looks like him, THIS IS DEFINITELY COMPOSER GAME