Character Design: Darryn King! (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomber)

Verity stepped up to the hatch with the newest concoction. One part charcoal, two parts sulphur, and two parts whatever it was that she'd managed to synthesize. Theoretically, it should be highly volatile, but given how successful the last few attempts had been, she wasn't holding her breath about it. 
She opened the hatch, passing stoppered vial through to her brother. "You ready?", she called through, closing it again.
"As I'll ever be," came Darryn's voice, muffled by the reinforced door.
"On three!"
Here goes nothing.
"One!"
Verity stepped back from the hatch, sparing a glance across to the empty powder pouches on the table where she'd been working.
"Two!"
...Wait a second. She thought she'd only put in half an ounce of sulfur. Why was the pouch empty?
"Three!"
There was silence for a second, then suddenly, with a mighty roar, the door was blown open by a lateral pillar of flame, obliterating the steel barring across it. Yelping, Verity jumped back from the blast, barely avoiding being burned to a crisp by the inferno. Then, just as quickly as it had come, it died away, leaving a smouldering door hanging off its hinges, and a charred path through the laboratory where the flames had erupted through the room. Coughing from the smoke, Verity slowly rose to her feet.
"D-Darryn?"
"Whatever that was," said the badly burned figure standing in the smoking remains of the testing bay, "It was awesome! Got any more?"

Darryn King, the Wily Bomber, is a Nova with focus on self-damaging explosive attacks. His kit is built around dealing massive damage to himself and those around him as a high risk, high reward combination.


Passive: Safety Second. When Darryn inflicts damage to himself, all of his abilities used in the next two seconds deal double damage.
Darryn's passive is what holds his kit together. His damage output is fairly mediocre to begin with, but when he's getting right up close and personal to his opponents, he will consistently be doing double damage, in return for the increased damage he's doing to himself.


Q: Cross Slash. Darryn swings his sword, dealing significant damage to a foe in melee range
Darryn should use this ability for his primary damage when in melee range. While it doesn't do much damage, it's the only one of his abilities that won't damage himself, meaning that he won't hurt himself more than he hurts the opponent when using this at close ranges, unlike his other abilities.


W: Heavy Grenade. Darryn throws a heavy grenade which explodes when it lands or hits an enemy. The explosion deals moderate damage to enemies caught in the blast.
This ability is Darryn's main source of damage. It has the longest range of any of his abilities, allowing him to use it from a distance, it deals area of effect damage, meaning multiple enemies at once can be struck with it, and with the double damage from Safety Second, it deals a lot of amount of damage, too.


E: Reckless Barrage. Darryn throws four small bombs in random directions around him. Each explode on hitting an enemy or hitting the ground, dealing light damage in a tiny radius.
Darryn's main use for this ability is not to deal damage to enemies, but instead to deal damage to himself. The small bombs deal little enough damage that they're able to be used to proc Safety Second relatively safely, without too much risk of killing himself with the self-damage.


R: Ground Zero. Darryn throws The Big One straight upwards. When it lands, it explodes, dealing heavy damage to everyone in a wide radius.
This one is all or nothing. Ground Zero can be used in one of three ways. One, to deal massive damage to a wide radius, but most likely kill Darryn in the process, two, to force enemies to run away from an area, or three, to clean up the aftermath of a big fight and finish off anyone who might be trying to escape. The delay between throwing and the explosion makes this hard to land, but when it does land, it hits HARD.

I am not an artist. This may be obvious.

Gameplay Footage/Screenshots coming as soon as I can generate them.

So! That's the first character, any thoughts? Any questions?