#(i just got bloodborne aaaaah)

[eldritchtouched]

Bloodborne understands something integral to most of the plot structure in the Lovecraft Mythos that most modern Mythos writers sleep on if they want to reinterpret the perspectives of the original setting. It gets complicated with Lovecraft because a lot of characters in-story go with a different interpretation but most of the stories are written in a way that offers an 'unreliable narrator' interpretation with ease.

Which is, most beings in the universe are already aware of the weird eldritch shit and cosmic deities. As a whole, most of the various aliens do not want to conquer people, or murder them, nor have they gone insane from this knowledge. The problem is when someone goes from not knowing to knowing but is deeply arrogant and believes themselves superior to others, they use that knowledge in horrible ways. This includes Joseph Curwin in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the Yith as a society in The Shadow Out of Time, Clarendon in The Last Test, and Ephraim Waite in The Thing on the Doorstep.

They are those who use their newfound knowledge and power to do whatever they like. It inevitably causes harm for whoever gets caught up in what they're doing, because they are the sort of edgy nihilist who learns that morality is entirely made up by a given society and is not a guiding thread throughout the fabric of the cosmos, but does not understand that does not give them the right to do whatever they like. Their actions come to bite them in the ass eventually in various ways.

While Clarendon's statement is most clear about his interpretation (that he just got involved in unwholesome things best left not meddled with by humans, with the obvious xenophobia and anti-intellectualism associated with such thinking), the actual issue was clearly his fervor to just do whatever the fuck he liked, no matter what. Surama, his teacher, told him not to do such things, too, and that he was being a fool, but Clarendon didn't wish to listen.

The same can be said of other aspects of the Mythos, like The Whisperer in Darkness. The Mi-Go were content to let Akeley listen in on their stuff for over a decade and only retaliated after a series of escalations on Akeley's part. He recorded them in 1915 doing rituals, he often was in the woods where they were, and he often spoke with one of their agents prior to everything happening, for example. Only after 1927, when he picked up one of their stones and refused to give it back did they start sending people to him. And only after he killed someone did they do the brain in a jar stuff and try to lure Wilmarth to the farmhouse to get the material Akeley had sent Wilmarth.

You could easily argue, based on some of Akeley's verbiage that he had such a severe hierarchical view as the antagonists in those other stories, too. He often spoke of certain classes of people as being lesser (going on about 'simple backwoods folk'), and his reactions to handling the Mi-Go's body as innately disgusting and revolting for its alienness, and his refusal to abide a simple request (give us our thing back) in favor of escalating the conflict over the course of several months, including shooting people over his right to have stolen something of theirs.

[mrslittletall]

What's your favourite armor set or combination from Dark Souls and Bloodborne?

I like the cosplay armour sets as well as the iconic armour sets like the elite knight armour or the faraam set.  I like to cosplay Ornstein in 1 and 3. In 2 I fell in love with the alonne knights and was wearing their heavy ass armour for a good chunk of the game until I got Alonne’s armour set.  And in Bloodborne? First I was like “Standard Hunter Set” babyyy, but now I am really into “church set, but without the hat!”  The church set just looks so good? On a male hunter though, the female hunter gets skirt and I don’t know why? Why is the church set gendered? Laurence has some explaining to do!  Oh and for completition... in DeS I never could get the flute set because my items were full and it vanished! Aaaaah!