Torcher

Torcher

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Not to be confused with the Torch, Blowtorch, or the Torches.

Torcher
Descriptive Information
Species	Varies (presumably)
Gender	Varies
Pupil Color(s)	Varies (presumably)
Sclera Color(s)	Varies (presumably)
Weapon(s)	Flamethrower
Occupation(s)	Military member
Shop Information
Cost	550
Shop Section	Skins | Book 1 (Currently) Skins (Originally)
Shop Icon Color	Yellow
Development
Release Date	May 2nd, 2020
Designer(s)	MiniToon
Appearance(s)	Outpost - Chapter 11

"Torcher was a member of the military, until he lost control due to the infection."
― Torcher's description, Piggy: Hunt

Torcher is a skin in Piggy. They are the main bot and antagonist of Outpost - Chapter 11. They were added alongside Soldier when Outpost was released.

Appearance

• Piggy
• Piggy: Hunt

Torcher wears a yellow helmet that matches their uniform, gray pants with black boots, gloves, and belt with suspenders. They also wear a black gas mask with a ventilator, along with dark red-colored eye lenses with gray outlines, and wield a large flamethrower with both hands. In addition, they wear a grey gas tank on their back which consists of dark red lines. It has a black zipper to connect it to the flamethrower. Torcher's species is currently unknown.

Torcher looks similar to her base game counterpart, however they have black pants that the suspenders connect to, and the ventilator of their gas mask is shorter, while the gray part of it vaguely resembles an actual gas mask's voice transmitter.

Animations

Idle

Stands still leaning down and holding flamethrower with both hands, facing it to the side. Bobs up and down in a breathing motion.

Walking

Similar to their idle animation, but their legs go forward and backward in a walking motion.

Jumpscare

Points flamethrower toward you and unleashes a burst of fire, killing you. Starts swaying flamethrower to the sides while burning you before bringing it back down.

Stunned

Looks down and puts arms down, with occasional head twitching (overlays the current animation).

Trivia

• In response to a tweet asking MiniToon to confirm several characters including Torcher as not male, MiniToon stated that Torcher is "definitely female" and that it's a "well-thought out fact and certainly not something he just made up that he will forget about in 15 minutes". Despite the sarcastic tone of the reply, many people took this as actual confirmation for Torcher's gender.
  • He later clarified that the reply was a joke, and that Torcher can be whatever gender you want them to be since there are several Torchers in the Piggy universe and that we've only seen one of them so far.
  • Despite this, they are referred to as a he in both their description in Piggy: Hunt and in the The 100% Official Piggy Survival Manual.
• Torcher shares several noticeable similarities with Delta:
  • Both appear in chapter 11 of the book they appear in.
  • Both wear a mask that covers most of their face.
  • Both are unknown species.
  • Both are believed to be leaders of the outpost they operate in.
  • Both of them use a ranged weapon.
  • Both have jumpscares that involve particles.
• Their name might be a pun on the words "torch" and "torture", torch meaning to set something on fire and torture meaning to inflict severe pain or suffering.
• Torcher and Soldier are the first and second military-based skins, with the third being Delta and the fourth being Fergus.
• They are one of the two skins in Piggy to have an unknown pupil color, the other skin being Crove (Alternate).
• This skin and Soldier are tied for the first skins to have footwear.
• When Torcher knocks down Pony in Docks, the fire from their flamethrower is not shown during the jumpscare.
  • Delta, Kona, Mr. P, Willow, Fergus and Tobi also experience this issue, where the effects from their weapons don't appear.
    • Silzous experiences a similar issue where the black patterning under his eyes and spots on his tail don't glow orange when attacking Pony in Docks.
• They are the first skin to wear a mask, with the others being Felix, Katie, Bess, Badgy (Alternate), Crove (Alternate), Delta, and Carver.
• Since MiniToon is a big fan of Valve's creations, he used one of the Pyro's death sounds for Torcher's jumpscare sound.
  • Additionally, this is the character Torcher is based on.
• They are the most expensive Book 1 Skin and fifth overall in Piggy. Their price ties with Kamosi's price. They are also the most expensive skin in the game solely made by MiniToon.
• This skin had a bug in the Infection gamemode in which, if you got infected by someone using this skin, you would be stuck on the map unless you rejoined the game or died in the void when the next map loads.
• If you zoom into first person while using Torcher, you can see that they have a pink body. This is likely because they are a palette swap of Soldier.
• MiniToon confirmed in his Doggy's Funeral stream that Torcher and Clowny are, in fact, both animals.
• Similar to Willow, Grandmother, and some other bots, Torcher’s Outpost bot previously couldn't be distracted by a decoy.
• Their greatest enemy is jokingly stated to be Tobi by MiniToon during Tobi's pre-release.
• Torcher is the only main bot in Book 1 that isn't affected by the bug where the bot can't kill the traitor.
• Torcher and Delta are the only the only bots that don't show their entire face.
• In Outpost, there is a note saying: "A state-wide evacuation has begun. I've been assigned to stay here and defend this place for as long as I can, along with a few others. Hopefully the promised backup comes soon." Said backup is speculated to be Torcher.
  • Additionally, there is an encrypted message on a board in Outpost which, when decoded, says: "I was attacked by one of them, and now I am here, wandering, just like them." It is believed that Torcher wrote this message, though it is also possible that some other soldier wrote it instead.
• The Torcher bot in Build Mode and Swarm uses a new material for their head model instead of the old glass material. However, the skin and the bot in Outpost use the old material.
  • This also applies to Zompiggy, Clowny, Robby, Memory, and Badgy in their respective maps.
• Torcher, Twins, and Poley are the only main bots that use their idle animation when they aren't moving.
• There is a bug where if the Torcher bot gets stunned during their kill animation, they will still be able to move and chase players but unable to kill them.
  • This happens because both the stun and kill code tells the bot to stay in one place for a certain amount of time (about 3 seconds for killing and 20 seconds for stunning), known as "anchoring" the bot in Roblox Studio.. If the stun script is triggered before the kill animation is finished, it will "unanchor" the bot during the stun animation. This applies to most bots in game.

Audio

	Soundtrack
	Jumpscare

Sound origins

• Their soundtrack is an APM Music track from the Roblox Audio Library called Creeping Dread but slowed down by 0.7 and lower pitched.
• Their jumpscare sound comes from Team Fortress 2, and is one of Pyro's death sound effects. It can be listened to here in the Roblox Audio Library.
• Their burning sound is an audio called flamethrower.

References

The discussions tag for Torcher can be found here.