Killjoy

"Relax, I've already thought of everything."

- Character selection

Killjoy is an Agent in VALORANT.

Biography
Klara Böhringer is an inventor from Germany who was born to one parent with Germanic ancestry. A nominee for the Distinguished Inventor award, Böhringer became the lead for Kingdom's R&D department at the age of 18. Incredibly successful, she had many breakthroughs during her time at Kingdom with several of her creations and innovations.

Böhringer was the fourth agent to join the VALORANT Protocol as "Killjoy". She earned her call sign after her team initially used it to compliment her outstanding skills that reduced the amount of work the rest of them had to do, with Klara deciding to keep the nickname. Being the genius inventor that she is, Killjoy has developed and created the utilities that she uses in battle, including a sentry bot, an alarmbot, swarm grenades, a "Lockdown" device, and Brimstone's bracer, among others. Notably, she has a particularly close bond with Brimstone, who took her under his wing as his protégé and from whom she learns much about tactics.

Since the rise of Venice and the numerous battles the disaster triggered, Killjoy has participated in numerous missions. One mission to Rabat had her analyzing and defusing a spike, with the encounter leading to one of the first iterations of a spike defuser that she made on the spot, powered by a super-heated Radi-Core. Killjoy would go on to take the defused spike back to VALORANT for analysis.

Killjoy was also heavily involved in the Protocol's efforts to replicate the Alpha-Omega teleporters used by the Everett-Linde research facility that would allow them to travel between Earth-1 and Mirror Earth. Killjoy was placed in charge of developing a new cross-world teleportal after the previously-existing ones at the laboratory were found to be destroyed. Initially using Kingdom Co.'s short-range ports as a baseline, she was eventually able to complete its construction after receiving blueprints from Chamber but was still unable to make it functional due to lacking a viable energy source. Requesting help from Brimstone in the form of more lab funding at first, an energy source was eventually provided from Neon's radianite-powered bioelectricity when the young Filipino was recruited into VALORANT specifically to help Killjoy. Together, the two women began to reboot the portal and set about establishing a stable connection to allow the VP to finally reach Earth-2.

Personality
""Don't overthink it, that's my job""

- Killjoy (Barrier Down)

The epitome of German efficiency, Killjoy always shows excitement at the opportunity of being able to use the technology she builds to its fullest extent, as well as the chance to retrieve additional knowledge. Always ambitious in her work, Killjoy has shamelessly admitted that she has a history of exploiting tech-related missions in order to "weasel more money" out of the Protocol's quarterly budget.

While she describes herself as "cool as a cucumber," Killjoy grows frustration whenever she sees her teammates not participating alongside her requests such as testing new tech or reading the data reports she has written. Nevertheless, she is fully confident in her own genius, as seen when she tells her teammates (particularly the tech users) to entrust their gadgets for her to fix, and when she reminds the team to leave the overthinking to her.

A glimpse of her sympathetic nature was shown in a voicemail sent to Brimstone wherein she expressed sadness over the loss of non-military lives following the destruction of the Everett-Linde Laboratory.

She plays League of Legends, and has shown to be an avid fan of the video game.

Appearance
Killjoy is a young German woman with slick dark brown hair and brown eyes. She is often seen wearing a padded yellow jacket with a blue interior, purple "X" patches on either shoulder and a green beanie-like hat. Underneath the jacket she wears a gray shirt with a rising bars graphic. She has round glasses with black outlines, a pair of silver hoop earrings in either ear, and a pair of green shoes that resemble Converse Chuck Taylor's with silver toes and loose tongues. Covering her hands are a pair of black gloves with blue straps that exposes her ring and pinkie fingers. She wears black ripped skinny jeans with a green strap on her left thigh which is also connected to a fanny pack.

In "WARM-UP," Killjoy is seen wearing a white hoodie jacket with a logo of a frog mascot, and a yellow variation of her beanie.

Quotes

 * Main Article: Killjoy/Quotes‎

Spotify Playlist


Trivia

 * Killjoy plays League of Legends.
 * Her sentry bot is known to be powered by a Radi-Core. Whilst unable to do so in game for gameplay/balancing reasons, the turret is able to move and run on its two legs.
 * She and Raze developed a training robot known as "Max Bot," which is designed to imitate and replicate the powers and skills of its opponent. This was featured in "WARM UP."
 * If Killjoy successfully defuses a spike, her voiceline suggests that she may have something to do with its creation.
 * "Oh, no no, you don't deserve my inventions!"
 * This is likely referring to her mirror counterpart, as it is the mirror VALORANT Protocol who have been the primary aggressors in the conflict between Earth-1 and Earth-2.

Development

 * Killjoy originally had an ability called "Seeker".
 * Lockdown used to belong to the scrapped agent Joules.
 * Killjoy was originally a male during her first development phase.
 * She also was a robot in some part of development.

Relations

 * She is Brimstone's protégé, and has a close bond with him. He is a guardian figure to her.
 * Killjoy and Raze are known to have a friendly rivalry.

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