#Gascoigne x Henryk

[ligawolfcosplayandarts]

CW: Major character death, slight blood, sad but Canon

Saddest Artwork of mine. Death of Gascoigne.

Update:

I'll return to Twitter w/ 2 new accounts on middle of September (if i feel like) with one dedicated for cosplay and SFW art. Other one dedicated for gore, NSFW art n maybe lewds.

[wxnheart]

Could you please make a list like this one with Bloodborne characters? ♡

https://www.tumblr.com/whatdoyoumeanitsnotcanon/686091554519121920/hmmwhat-about-a-list-of-what-kind-of-kisser?source=share

Gentle pecks, light brushes, soft kisses:

Maria - It is soft but tastes like... regret.

The Doll - Would "taste" like purity and... yearning?

Arianna - It is sweet, like a delicate pastry.

Annalise - (if she could) it would be metallic. And regal. Like an abomination.

Adella - It tastes like envy. And fear.

Gilbert - Like... mortality.

Firm, thorough, and leaves you breathless:

Gascoigne - It... it tastes feral.

Henryk - Like a lifetime of scars and loneliness.

Eileen - Simply, purely HER.

Laurence (When he was human) - Like... conviction.

Ludwig (When he, too, was also human) - He tastes like righteousness.

You call that a kiss? Let them show you how it's done:

Alfred - Tastes like obsession.

Micolash - Is in a league all his own.

Also, Eileen - You thought you had the best of her?

Gehrman - Like... a desire for freedom.

Djura - Enough said.

[katyahina]

The most common Bloodborne fanart mistakes

We all approach fanart differently! Most people draw characters simple and get the point across, with any alteration being down to art-style. Some people willingly take artistic liberties based on their preferences. And some people try to be very accurate to the canon, to the point where they feel sad upon finding out that they've been unaware of something (like me and all three of my fans fsjfhjds). The latter is often caused by both lacking spread of good references and artists using fanart of other people for the reference rather than the source material. If you also belong to this category of fanartists with me, here are some of the most common fanart pitfalls to avoid!

Lady Maria's eye colour: It is a somewhat frequent mistake to draw her eyes blue! In reality, her eyes are very pale green, even a little desaturated, so, greyish-green:

Henryk's skin colour: In the game, it is hard to know unless you deliberately zoom in his face, and even then it might be accidentally blamed on the lighting! I especially see this mistake in Eastern fanart. Thanks to a dataminer Zullie the Witch though, we can know for sure that he is brown:

(Here ( x ) is the page with all sliders)

Little girl's ribbon: Most drawings depict this one as simply... well, white ribbon. It can be tied around a braid, a ponytail, or simply rest on whatever other hairstyle. But in the game both the icon and the way it is worn by Messengers features a layer of frills:

Only one daughter: Gascoigne and Viola have two daughters: one, younger, is the little girl that used to wear the white ribbon which we never see, and another, older, is the one we can talk with later and see dead.

She is not an obvious encounter, and it certainly doesn't help that her little sister doesn't mention her! There are many fanarts that only depict just the little girl whereas the intention is to depict the whole family, and some even use this older sister's design for her, though, as a result! Two of them existing is also confirmed by the voice credits:

Micolash's hair: This is probably the most obvious case of people using existing fanart as a reference. His hair is purely black and somewhat messy, even curling somewhat!

But it is a common fanart thing to give him brown, 'pointy' hairstyle. I think it is sorta 50/50 though because black hair is hard to work with in art, and sometimes 'brown' is just a way to have better colors in general! Lighter color is needed, and simply lessening it to 'dark grey' can just feel not so satisfying. It is an error usually if he is like.. idk, next to a character whose hair IS drawn as black, so there is an obvious comparison.

Adella's hair colour: She has a reverse problem! Commonly drawn with completely, no-shade, pure raven black hair, exactly what Micolash's hair is, when hers is simply dark brown:

Edgar's hair colour: A frequient one is depicting him as that 'yellow' type of blond, when in reality he is strawberry blonde (if not somewhat a redhead):

Yurie's hair and eyes colour: I've fallen for this one myself, and it took me some time to withdraw from, so it is better to just not do to begin with. However, it is simultaneously 'the most widespread mistake' and 'not a real mistake' since this character is bald; although her data states she is a blonde, only her (rather fluffy!) blonde eyebrows are observable. Her eyes are grey, like with plenty of the characters in Bloodborne!

Fanart of her almost exclusively depicts her with black hair and blue eyes, though. Again: technically she is bald, and colour of eyebrows might not match head colour, so the real error is only when artstyles that color eyebrows and eyelashes darken them!

+ Possibly this happens because her name is mistaken for Japanese name Yuri. This is not true: the existing name Yuri is written as ゆり or ユリ, whereas this character is named ユリエ. This little fucker エ at the end is not silent, and this is the key: she is yu-ri-YEE, not yu-REE! Also, ユリエ would be a Japanese spelling of the name Julie - Czech, French and Danish variant of the name Julia. I personally think this is most likely, since Yharnam is heavily inspired by Czechia!

Brador's beast hyde: It is hard to call a frequient, because fanart of these characters together is not frequient... xD But I've seen a few instances of Brador wearing his beast hyde while next to a Laurence who is still alive and a human. This is not possible, since Laurence was the first Cleric Beast, and the hyde Brador is wearing IS that of a Cleric Beast:

We can not know whether Brador killed Laurence or someone of the following clerics since Soulsborne hates clarity and Miyazaki drinks my tears and my tears alone jfhdfhsdhfdhs But we can conclude for sure that he only has this hyde after Laurence was killed. (Naturally, in some types of fanart, this doesn't count! For example, the 'everyone is here' types of fanarts or simple shitpost doodles do not have to be strict to the timeline! In fact, they should not be, lol)

"No-Beardor": Again, this is sensitive to the time context and intention: it counts when the intention is to depict his 'invader' state as it is during the game! Naturally, bro probably shaved more than once in his life fhhhdjss I think it is the fault of a particular "screenshot" of him going viral as a reference for him, when in reality his invader and jail state features a rather noticeable beard:

Gratia's clothes: Again, not a popular character to draw, but at some point a fanmade Wiki claimed that she is wearing Yharnam Hunter's set! This found the way in fanarts of her, when in reality, she is wearing an altered Old Hunter set, wearing a cap instead of a wide hat and missing the large flowing cape and her left glove:

Arianna's hair and eye colour: Her eyes are often drawn as either blue or brown, when it reality, it is, strangely..... purple? Meanwhile, there is a frequient fanart trend depicting Arianna with her alien baby in which her hair is still yellow, whereas in reality her hair loses colour after the event:

I've actually made the exact same error the one time I drew her with her kid :') This situation ties Arianna with another important character, Annalise, who used to be a redhead and has lost her hair colour in connection with her pregnancy, presumed aborted. I elaborated more here ( x ), but the point stands: this change is impossible to spot in the game with its dramatic fucking lighting dfdsfsgdfs It is something only really spotted through data analysis!

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I think that's the most frequient ones! There is really no problem in taking artistic liberties, but there is a category of artists that do not really want to and there are details that just can't be spotted in the game by normal means! And some errors can be painful to look at, like white blue-eyed blond Henryk fanart :pensive:.

In recent couple of years, we are being spoiled with awesome references thanks to dataminers and bloggers that spread the information! As for ER fans, they are actually having it easy since dataminers started to expose all the models right away whereas BB fans had a long 'dark era' xd But in general, Soulsborne games are built around the idea that no one will be able to beat the game alone; we all gotta communicate online through the notes other players have left! This mentality further travelled into understanding the story of these games by exchanging the information we've found.. And like, what I am trying to tell is that I am very happy that the same mentality of cooperating spreads on creativity as well! All the references here are the result of awesome dataminers hacking the game and being kind enough to share with the community! There are many more things such as model rips, internal filenames and super handy screenshots galleries that sometimes help to not only create a more accurate fanart, but also to even understand some extra lore! Yeah, like Arianna's hair hinting at a very important plot twist about Cainhurst. x) My point is!! communicating about what we have noticed with other fans is how these games existed and formed the coolest community, and fanart might be not different. What I shared here is just a really small portion of what can be used, and someone found this post useful, I am happy!

[feartheoldblog]

FROMSOFT GILF TOURNAMENT

Do you want to fuck that old man? Fed up with people talking about a certain old man, checking him out and he’s a 34 year old guy with bags under his eyes? Disagreed with Blaidd the Half-Wolf being included in the dilf poll? Peepaw kisser? Old man aficionado?

Then this tournament is for you!

May the hottest Fromsoft grandpa win.

RESULTS

Notes:

• These are old ass men. Dilfs are not included in this. Father Gascoigne is a 40yo man, he is not a gilf.

• Feel free to send in propaganda, I’ll keep my anons on for this purpose.

• For people who want to filter out the Tournament posts: The tags used for this will be ‘fromsoft gilf tournament’ and the round of polls, for example ‘tournament round 1 part a’. That way people who aren’t interested can keep it off their dash etc.

ROUND 1

Part A

Pontiff Sulyvahn

Gehrman, the First Hunter

X

Big Hat Logan

Darkstalker Kaathe

X

Slave Knight Gael

Dragonlord Placidusax

X

Greirat

Isshin Ashina

X

Master Hewg

Gwyn, Lord of Cinder

X

Father Ariandel

Old Iron King

X

Part B

Godfrey, the First Elden Lord

King Vendrick

X

Andre the Blacksmith

Old Hunter Henryk

X

King Allant

Consumed King Oceiros

X

Ludleth the Exiled

Commander Niall

X

Master Logarius

Great Shinobi Owl

X

Gravelord Nito

Old Demon King

X

ROUND 2

Andre the Blacksmith

King Allant

X

Gehrman, the First Hunter

Commander Niall

X

Great Shinobi Owl

Gravelord Nito

X

Isshin Ashina

Master Hewg

X

Old Iron King

Slave Knight Gael

X

Godfrey, the First Elden Lord

Big Hat Logan

X

ROUND 3

Gehrman, the First Hunter

Isshin Ashina

X

Great Shinobi Owl

Slave Knight Gael

X

Andre the Blacksmith

Godfrey, the First Elden Lord

X

[lumenflowered]

Hello. My name is Maria. She/her. I am a Faller from a place called Yharnam, and I currently share this blog with another Faller.

Hello! That would be me. Though I do not have a name, necessarily, Dee will suffice until I find one that I like, and I use she/her pronouns as well. I am... technically, I suppose, not from Yharnam but not not from Yharnam...?

I am the current Champion of the Indigo League, among other things. Dee is a researcher working for Professor Oak of Kanto, among other things.

It is not a coincidence that we look as similar as we do, I'm afraid. I was... artificially created to be a copy of her, though fortunately for the both of us this did not work as well as my creator thought it would.

No. It did not.

Here are our trainer cards!

My own team is as follows:

Rakuyo (Meganium, X) Hunter (Furret, F) Molotov (Arcanine, M) Adeline (Gengar, F) Evelyn (Kingdra, F) Eileen (Honchkrow, F)

While I am much less of a battler than Maria, it proved rather necessary to acquire at least eight badges in order to access certain places for research purposes, so here are my Pokémon companions:

Flora (Venusaur, F) Djura (Crobat, M) Gascoigne (Persian, M) Gilbert (Ninetales, M) Patches (Octillery, M) Henryk (Mismagius, M)

My Gengar, Ade, is considerably more technologically literate than I and rather frequently borrows my Pokégear to editorialize upon what I have written, record my current activities, or make posts of her own. When she does so, she favors the color purple.

Silver remains my rival, as far as she is concerned. While she has her own blog at @cosmic-crobat now, she does not use it particularly frequently. In previous posts on this blog, she used the color blue.

In spite of my... history... with deities, Ho-oh deemed me worthy of protecting the Johto region. This has had side effects, some benign and some less so. They do not speak here often, but when they do they use bolded orange for whatever reason, and more recently they have decided to begin using another name interchangeably with their first: Solaire.

The first person to show me kindness in this world was an eleven-year-old boy named Ethan. He introduced me to the second: his mother, a woman named Reina, who I hold much affection for. I have lent both this device before, and they have chosen to use yellow and pink respectively.

Well, I suppose I likely should do the next introduction. As I mentioned previously, I am not necessarily a Faller from Yharnam but not necessarily not one, either. I was brought here intentionally by a friend of mine, a Faller from this world into Yharnam. She is... no longer quite human, but I have never been human myself, and I personally do not think she has changed as much as she believes.

I... wouldn't know. Though I do know that her name is Mallory, she favors bolded red, and she was both the Hunter that freed me from the Nightmare as well as the force responsible for my being here at all, albeit not on purpose.

It all turned out for the best, though, didn't it?

...Yes. I suppose it did, despite everything.

(OOC info post can be found here, because I gave up on wrangling the hellsite's spaghetti code. Please read it!)

[katyspersonal]

Bloodborne WLW ships stuff

Me and @brainhyperfixed touched the topic of how there aren't enough wlw ships around (there are like, 2-3) and then I mentioned I see many of them (because my two braincells somehow contain every single loreless gremlin at once).. They wanted to hear out my ideas but since it is A List I wanted to put them in a separate post 🤔

Just some ships besides the "obvious" ones; Mariadeline (self-explanatory), female hunter x female character (it can be very individual!), Ariadella (heavily controvercial classic, same as Aflred x Crow) and Yurimposter (that's what I call... well, Yurie x Imposter Iosefka, since we don't know imposter's real name...)

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Eileen x Doll (Dolleen??): Eileen is the only character in 'outside' world that mentions the Doll, seems like she left an impact on her! Hard to tell whether Doll felt anything back since she seems to care about all dreaming hunters equally and it is implied Doll feels her first (1st) genuine emotion after holding Small Hair Ornament, but it is all speculation that is not THAT restricting... Like I love to say:

Adeline x Doll (Adolline): I guess it is more AU/speculation stuff, imagine them meeting however you like! I am particular on Adeline being able to reach Doll and dream after ascending, personally xd They could just vibe on higher plane of thinking. But it also feels like both Maria and Adeline having sort of a chance on happier fate in afterlife? It is broad in interpretation, really!

Eileen x Viola (I am NOT calling it Violeen xd ..okay maybe I do haha): That's just good old idea about Gacoigne and Viola having open relationship or a polycule! Usually little daughter referring to "grandfather" is interpreted as Henryk, but it is not binding, and in many cultures words like 'grandfather', 'auntie' or 'uncle' can be used towards like, just a close friend of family lol. So yeah, Gascoigne x Henryk whereas Viola x Eileen. Or you can make it a cheating if you want dsjfdhs

Adella x Imposter: Not sure about a creative name for this one, but IT CAME TO ME IN A VISION fsjdjdfs Not a joke, actually! I saw it in a dream! Adella is another person that can be sent into the clinic, so I guess it is an alternative turn of events lol. Adella is acknowledged as someone of 'lower' rank in Church:

Me and @val-of-the-north love joking that Adella simps for strong/smart fellow Church members regardless of gender fdjhfds In my dream, Adella basically kept distracting Fauxsefka from her work by switching between coy and clingy, until they were really affectionate. Adella also really liked her hair 🤔 The mental image seriously got stuck in my mind fdhfdhs But what I am saying is, it feels not as random as what I first thought!

Adella x Iosefka (Iosella): See previous ship, but this time there is no need to twist events to have Adella be safe xd They could just be sitting on operation table and K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Adella x Henriett (Henriella?): Henriett is implied to have been a Church hunter previously, since she has Church weapons yet a drip of a common hunter and is a summon against Church-related bosses! These two could be bitter EXes but were a thing before, or they might be in the love/hate strain after Henriett's "betrayal"!

Henriett x Iosefka (Henriosefka??): See previous ship, but I'd imagine Iosefka being far less bitter, if at all. She is a white Doctor, she sure knows that Healing Church's is very shady and full of dirty secrets! Not to mention her research to free the healing blood from... well, blood:

I like to think they're both redpilled, but Iosefka sees herself more useful staying in Healing Church and doing what she can "against" it in secrecy.

Henriett x Amelia: I am not sure what this ship is called, because actually I've seen it enough times? But I don't know the name! I assume Ameliett? Usual context is the two being close even if Henriett walks her own Hunter way from now on, and Henriett having agreement with Emilia to slay her if/when she becomes a beast! A promice, even.

Yurie x Rom (Yurom, or Vacurie xd): Since Julie is known as 'the last scholar', she could've been one of the original ones! Why she hasn't aged a single day is up to interpretation. But her purpose as a hostile NPC boils down to not letting us reach Willem... and/or Rom. Willem encourages us to hunt Rom, so seems like Julie does NOT want us to hurt her, ritual or not. She really could simply care about her and protect her even after ascension!

Rom x Ebrietas (Spiderietas): The petrified spider Ebrietas is weeping could be Rom's mortal body, especially considered it's 12 large legs and Rom having 12 large holes above her smaller legs... And Ebrietas' lyrics mention Mensis Ritual:

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(If you never angered anyone to the point of them mentioning you in a song, what WERE you even doing with your life? xd)

Their bond is speculative, and considering running theme of Great One yearning for a surrogate child Rom could've been exactly that! But we also don't know! Besides, Ebby is a 'special' Great One who is a half human (is adult version of celestial larvae)... It could be love!

Maria x Rom (Romaria): I wrote Adeline and Rom being very similar, so in my headcanons Rom is Maria's type of a girl! But also, Maria and Rom have many parallels (elaborated in this ( x ) post)! They protect fucked up secrets even after death and their teacher is now some guy in a chair fsdhfhsd It can be a ship similar to Mariadeline, but without the same touch of guilt from Maria's side.

Black Church hunter x White Church hunter (nightmaresearch): Did you guys know that.... both of the ladies that kick your ass when you enter cathedral that leads you in Research Hall do not have names ;-; I feel like this seriously robbed the fandom off more ships involving them since they can't even be referred to properly! But they are a perfect dynamic of a smart, arcane-attuned woman and her bodyguard. Take Forgotten Madman and his escort but make it lesbian instead, you see?

Maria x White Church hunter (Knightmare? lol): They could've been close since Maria used to be a caretaker in the Research Hall! The white church lady is not as simple as just another 'nun', since she is praying at the secret Surgery altair and not at the facade 'normal' altair, as well as shoots Blacksky Eye projectiles! And, well:

She was one of the doctors! If not THE doctor (maybe Laurence was REALLY busy with blood instead of eyes!). Depending on how aligned you make Maria with the Healing Church, maybe she was close with this "coworker". We know that Maria dreaded the hunt, but maybe she had faith in the research, rather than feeling like a trapped person there. She did give Adeline a key to go play with other arcane-attuned patients at Lumenweed garden after all!

Maria x Annalise (Mariannalise): Another controvercial classic! It is not very popular for obvious reasons and I am not fond of the ship myself, but some people enjoy it for the potential of exploring really fucked up dynamics. (Some people also think being just collateral relatives is not a big deal in this historical context..)

Maria x Gratia (idk... Maratia? how do you mix these...?): Gratia is wearing Old Hunters set, but with a cap instead of their wide cap and without a glove on her left arm! They were old hunters together! This ship is doomed, of course, since Gratia is found dead in underground jail of the Healing Church. But maybe they were close for some time. And maybe Gratia lost her sanity rather than was caught as "heretic" of the Church. There is a room for this ship, even if not a huge one! I like how they are both very tall and strong women, but Gratia is a brute and Maria is soooo elegant x) They're similar but also not!

Eileen x Henriett (Henrileen): I largely base it on the headcanon that 1) Eileen survives after the night, just retires from the hunt and 2) Henriett was familiar with Gascoigne's family same as Eileen, since both and Gascoine detracted from the Church! They could get together afterwards. Maybe even adopt the little girls (they survive in the scenario where Hunter doesn't try to "help" them because I said so </3).

Viola x Henriett (Henriola): Similar explanation for Eileen x Viola, just different character!

Fauxsefka x Iosefka: I don't know what it is called, but I see it sometimes? It is very vague because based on their identical face data, they could be twins... so, that'd be incest :т But they can also be interpreted as just similarly looking people and "devs were lazy", and I've seen a few artists drawing them somewhat different! It is controvercial in either case since Iosefka tries to help the patients and Fauxsefka just """solves""" the beasthood problem by making them Kin (included Iosefka herself), I'd say it is AT LEAST straining.

Yurie x Amelia or Fauxsefka x Amelia: Since School of Mensis yeeted itself into Nightmare and Choir kinda fell apart, these two are the last people from high rank Church echelons left. I've never actually thought much about them, but as (presumably) next most important people in the Healing Church after the vicar themselves, they could be close!

Fauxsefka x Arianna, Maria x Arianna or Fauxsefka x Maria: Again, I didn't give much thought to these (at least not yet lol), but Fauxsefka is strongly implied to descend from Cainhurst herself! (I only mention justification for that headcanon in every second post, I think you all remember the 'moonlight scent', the Cainhurst summon and the trademark Cainhurst potions prepared by Fauxsefka! I headcanon that Arianna was already born in Yharnam, but we can't know ages of these characters or timeline for sure. These characters are not necessarily related, either! I personally think that Maria x Fauxsefka has the most fundament because they both seem to abandon blood antics of their castle and side with the Church's research instead!

Yurie x Arianna (Yurianna): I will just leave this here:

I doodled it so fast that I forgot to de-colorize Arianna's hair, but that ship happened after a doodle request ask for them both! (featuring my former variant of Julie before I finally accepted her canon hair color data :pensive: ) Julie would be actually helpful to Arianna with caring for her eldrich baby, and maybe help to be less terrified of it, haha. They could get close as a result!

Yurie x White church doctor: Haven't come up with a creative or funny name for this ship, but I enjoy it a lot! My headcanons go so far down as that one White Doctor being one of the original Byrgenwerth people!

In my headcanons, her and Julie are sole most 'responcible' and serious scholars in the whole institution! They'd spend a lot of time together as a result. In Research Hall, too.

Fauxsefka x White church doctor: See above, but with different vibe! In my headcanons, Julie is way more interested in experimenting on creatures and chemicals than actual people... But these two absolutely were super passionate doctors :')

Yurie x Adeline (Yurine?): Came to me in a random idea that Micolash kept getting a little too weird towards Adeline (who was too eager and not at all afraid of Deep Sea horrors unlike others), so Julie felt protective and elbowed him, becoming her doctor instead. I mean, not much things can stop Adeline from her eagerness, but they could've formed a similar bond to Mariadeline!

Yurie x Maria: I don't know how to name this ship in such a way that it doesn't simply form a third real name dshfdh But they both are close with very smart but slightly unhinged girls all too fixated on transcending their humanity. Who also don't understand their worth. Who are also fixated on a guy who is a bad influence (Laurence and Micolash). They have so much to talk about! Though Maria ships are all very sad, since no matter who she had proximity with, apparently it never was enough to prevent her from self-isolation and death...

Honorable mentions:

1) Izzy and Caryll have masculine names according to Japanese original script (イジー/Jiří and カレル/Karel), but some people say 'fuck it, regional variant 🙏', and also he/him or they/them lesbians, or GNC women easily could pick masculine names! So, Karel could have good ship with Rom, especially under assumption that they both were way more in touch with Willem's ideas and were nerds together. Or maybe Karel x Yurie! At the same time, consider Jiří x Maria or Jiří x Gratia!

2) I've listed pairings, but these characters can always make poly ships, remember that!

3) I haven't found a sapphic ship personally for Dores, but Dores is a feminine name, and in original script Dores is not a 'he'! There is no gender, actually:

Error appeared from translators referring to Dores and not their mask! But yes, this can be female character, who can also be shipped with any woman from Byrgenwerth, or from Old Hunters!

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Okay that's all..... for now fsdhdfs I tried to focus on the context and explanation, and not dive into my vision of characters' personalities or else I'd be here all day. That was interesting to revisit! Again, obviously I do not ship all of these, and some even really contradict my headcanons; this is the post of IDEAS!

[fantomette22]

Hello!

Do you have any tips to help other story writers for making Bloodborne stories?

Oh hello there ! ^^

Well I'm not sure I'm the best person placed for this O_O' it's only been a few months since I began to write stories (& bloodborne stories) so I still have a lot to learn...

But I know a lot of things about Bloodborne so I can try to help x) what's sure is that's there's no good or wrong way to write bloodborne stories I believe.

First I think it depends the types of stories you want to write really. Is it a little one shot ? (About a character ? A particular events ? a pairing ?) or is it a bigger multi chapter fic/story that describe a long period of events ?

I mean personally I try to respect the lore and everything we can learn in the source materials and put as much little references as possible (but it's a lot it depends, if you focus on a specific character at one certain point in time, it's important to consider a bit what happened before and perhaps after? (foreshadowing) and all but a lot of things can be ignore/not focused on too much. (If it's like a small story about Gascoigne's backstory for exemple I don't think it's pertinent referencing the fishing hamlet for ex)

If you wrote about the old hunters/ the healing church foundation and all it's good to be on point with the lore, if it's later in the timeline with only Gascoigne, Eileen, Henryk, Djura and all it's still good to know about it/reference it but not useful to talk about what happened to much. Likewise if it's a story happening with the hunter/main character in the "present". (Also make a timeline if it's retracing the entire storyline of bloodborne lore. I had a hard time making one but it's super useful)

A lot of points are still up to interpretations in Bloodborne (the exact timeline, the characterizations of some characters, the types of relationships some had between them...) I think the best advice I can give here is to do like you feel/imagined/interpret the world. I love reading unique takes ! You can inspired yourself with ideas from others of course but I think just looking at your first thoughts about the game

As for writing inspiration I guess doing researches about the XIX/19th century/victorian era (1800s) is really useful too + Lovecraft/fantastic stories but it depend the type of stories and tone you you want to write too. For interiors description, how people used to live, talk maybe? medical procedures... it can be pretty useful but also you need to be careful that Bloodborne universe is not totally equal to our 19th century. For ex I don't think people have 10 siblings/children, women have more prominent/important & mixed role in society and I don't think 10years old worked in manufactures...(but hey a really realistic Bloodborne based stories / a really super fantastic-lovecratian story could be quite interesting too).

You don't have to explain everything too/it's ok if there's some missing points. (Because 1 : the game never explain everything. 2: it's super hard coming up with an explanation for everything as well.)

And to conclude I would say the best source materials for ideas/inspiration is the game itself. The ambience it have, what you feel & what comes to your mind when playing the game.

Hope it helps !👍 thank you for asking too I dunno what i did. Do I really wrote that well ?? ^^'

[blood-darkened-moon]

Bloodborne

Characters The Hunter | Plain Doll | The Choir | Alfred Hunter of Vilebloods | Annalise Queen of the Vilebloods | Eileen the Crow | Bloody Crow of Cainhurst | Imposter Iosefka | Iosefka | Mergo | Valtr Master of the League | Yurie the Last Scholar | Old Hunter Henryk | Retired Hunter Djura | Mensis Scholar Damian | Arianna Woman of Pleasure | Adella the Nun | Brador Church Assassin | Simon Seeker of Secrets | Edgar Choir Intelligencer | Patches the Spider | Viola | Young Yharnam Girl | Older Sister | Saint Adeline | Master Willem | Gilbert | Oedon Chapel Dweller | Yamamura the Wanderer | Fishing Hamlet Priest | Runesmith Caryll | Lumenwood Kin | Suspicious Beggar

Bosses Cleric Beast | Father Gascoigne | Vicar Amelia | Witch of Hemwick | Blood-Starved Beast | Shadows of Yharnam | Darkbeast Paarl | Rom the Vacuous Spider | The One Reborn | Amygdala | Micolash Host of the Nightmare | Mergo's Wet Nurse | Martyr Logarius | Celestial Emissary | Ebrietas Daughter of the Cosmos | Gehrman the First Hunter | Moon Presence | Watchdog of the Old Lords | Keeper of the Old Lords | Yharnam Pthumerian Queen | Ludwig the Accursed/Ludwig the Holy Blade | Living Failures | Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower | Orphan of Kos | Laurence the First Vicar

Enemies and Others Brain of Mensis | Kos | Snail Woman | Augur of Ebrietas | Infant Great One | Great One | Messengers | Celestial Minion | Celestial Child | Shark-Giant | Rabid Dog/Crow-Headed Dog | Carrion Crow/Dog-Headed Crow | Bestial Hunter | Winter Lantern | Church Servant | Chapel Giants | Mad One | Enlarged Head Patient | Enlarged Head Giant | Silver Lady | Bloodsucking Beast | Gargoyle | Snatcher | Scourge Beast | Beast Patient | Brainsucker | Wheelchair Huntsman | Maneater Boar | Hamlet Fishmen | Younger Madaras Twin | Older Madaras Twin | Labyrinth Rat

Ships/Groups Ludwig x Laurence | Gascoigne x Viola | The Doll and Maria

Others Bloodborne Kart | BB Trivia | BB Meta | BB Weapon

[bloodied-hunters]

I can’t believe i never did this in the four years I’ve had Marcelina. But under the cut will her relationships with the older hunters.

Gascoigne and Viola- Marcelina thinks of these two as parental figures in her life. And their kids like little sisters.

Henryk- They care and love each other. They also have a friendly rivalry going on. Also they occasionally fight each other whenever they notice the other.

Djura- Djura was the first to be kind and accept Marcelina into the city when the others were stand off-ish. Out of all them, Djura’s and Marcelina’s relationship is one of the strongest.

Eileen- Somewhat mentor/student. They care about each other and Eileen is the one Marcelina listens to other then Henryk when needing advice.

Valtr- Chill with each other. They talk about their experiences and honestly just vibe.

The Madaras twins- Marcelina finds them confusing. She doesn’t hang around them often. They mostly just off put her.

Yamamura- Her husband (yes, I made oc x canon). This is the other strongest relationship she has out of all the hunters. They relate on many things, especially being outsiders (Marcelina being from France and Yamamura being from Japan).

Alfred- Absolutely hate each other. It was mostly from a bad off comment that Alfred said about Marcelina’s weird god baby, Roosevelt. She hasn’t forgiven him and things just got worse from there.

[ligawolfcosplayandarts]

Did a thing of Gascoigne and Old Hunter Henryk.

[yharnam-everchase]

If you ship Gascoigne with Henryk but don't know where this leaves Viola in the story, consider the following:

- He's gay and she's a lesbian so they got married to keep appearances

- He's gay and she's a single mother so they got married to keep appearances

- They're a polycule

- Maybe they had kids because it's what society expected of them. Maybe they genuinely wanted them. Maybe they're adopted.

- Role-swap AU where Viola is Gascoigne's hunting partner and Henryk is his stay at home husband.

[katyahina]

Points of interest about Old Hunter Henryk (some evident, some possible)

• There was a superstition amongst Old Hunters to wear double-wrapped belt around their right leg (no wonder since it is the leg Gehrman lost + all these wheelchair Old Hunters), but Henryk wears belts around both legs! Perhaps he just was extra careful back then.

• His life was "tragically long" not because of being partnered with Gascoigne, but because of his own power! Excerpt from original Japanese script (here, by Last Protagonist ( x )) goes like this:

Basically he is a very skilled Hunter who expected to die in one of those hunts but that never happened. Wonder what that makes of the Paleblood Hunter being able to kill him? Simplest explanation is something-something immortal-for-night Moon boost, but game play aside I think it works better if 'the only thing that was able to weaken him was a broken heart'.

• Younger one of Gascoigne's daughters mentions a 'granddad' next to Viola and Gascoigne, which very likely refers to Henryk as he is the closest male character connected to this family. He could've been Viola's dad, or at least this is just how he's perceived in this family.

• Funny since Henryk is a slavic name that means something like 'the most important person in the house'. I dunno if that was intentional, but would be interesting if he actually turned out to direct all errands and chores in the family xD

• Henryk has a mole on the right side of his nose.

• His set has high bolt resistance which makes one think of Loran, but it is actually even more obvious devs implied that relation, seeing how in beta his set JUST was Loran Hunter set ( x ) :

• Henryk is brown and is connected to Loran, just like Afflicted Beggar (who turns into Abhorrent Beast that are exclusive for Loran dungeons). Makes sense they are similar since Loran was desert-coded place, however they also share exact same, pixel-to-pixel mole on their nose in data (datamined sliders are here ( x )). This detail being kept might be interesting, like an idea that they're blood related or something! (I struggle to blame this on laziness of creators in altering the model seeing many things are different between the two)

• Yamamura has Throwing Knives in equipment that he never actually uses ( x ) , seeing how he was part of the League the knives likely are connected to Henryk. He trained him to throw them :(

• Both of Henryk's summons are shared with Younger Madaras Twin. I guess he is an expert in working with feral men xD

• It is possible that both notes mentioning Rom as 'Byrgenwerth Spider' are his! One note like this is in Byrgenwerth, and it is weird there she is not mentioned by the name there, as students would know who she is! Both of his summons are Byrgenwerth-related, and summon places always have to do with the summoned character's context. Another note like this is in the nook after Tomb of Oedon which Gascoigne guards, which is also location you kill him at, which also leads to Oedon Chapel guarded by a Pthumerian man. Again, lost in translation but in original note says 'hides our invisible lord', not 'our lost master' so odds are it refers to Oedon. Or at the very least this one was written by someone there upon learning from Henryk. Basically Henryk might have been a very good spy for the League after all (better than Yamamura that did get caught :( )

• Even more likely since him being 'quiet' and him being 'so strong he can't die in a battle already' are mentioned back-to-back as if they're connected. Throwing Knives are also sneaky. Basically not only he is strong, but he is sneaky and careful af. Maybe him and Gascoigne were such an effective duo because Gascoigne as the one bigger and more aggressive would draw all attention to himself - so Henryk could backstab anyone meanwhile.

• Music box treasured by Gascoigne and Viola plays Lullaby for Mergo. Seeing Henryk's implied roots to the pthumerians, maybe this box was his gift for them (for the wedding?), or at the very least he's likely the one knowing this melody from somewhere (and Gascoigne maybe just loved it).

• The sets of Executioners and Henryk's share the detail of this long row of buttons on the lower part:

Might or might not be coinsidental, but seeing how Logarius is 99% a Pthumerian and not 'just very tall' it could be a shared drip from cultural background?

• Henryk drops the weakest form of Heir rune:

(HUGE thanks to my bestie @val-of-the-north for compiling the runes and their location, you dumbass post the WHOLE reference on Tumblr before I evict you from this plane of reality it is so useful AAAAAAAAA)

Other placements are curious too; for one, 5 out of 7 Yahar'gul Hunters have brown skin too, which opens even more Loran questions imo. Pthumeru Ihyll is also the place associated with Queen Yharnam (and she shares boss theme with Logarius fsr).

Also this rune is the one that lets you gain Blood Echoes (that are dying wills, in more literal translation) from visceral attacks. Remember what I said about Oedon Chapel and stuff? Well, both of Oedon runes are associated with drawing Hunter's power from the blood, and although this Great One has no form, their true nature is said to be 'spilled blood'.

Tangent but I just want to say Henryk dropping this rune is an interesting detail, and even deeper dig into his 'background'. The context of the rune also implies inheriting wills of someone upon as much as just spilling their blood, not even necessarily killing them. Makes me think Henryk's mind is very full of sentiments and unfulfilled hopes of many others despite him being silent, he might as well have the ability to understand struggles of a person/beast once he seriously wounds them.

• It is possible that Djura lost an eye because of Henryk. Sliders don't reflect a missing eye, but Djura's set has his right eye covered and his slider has a scar across his face going through that eye, that looks like a cut wound. Henryk is known for his knives, besides they are both Old Hunters, besides Valtr's weapon is made by Powder Kegs so maybe they had an armed conflict (maybe Valtr's 'fault' was in it, too).

• Old Hunters favored two types of hats, his is 'cap' one like what Maria and Djura have. Djura's hat got tattered terribly (nonetheless became a style nowadays Hunters copy lol), but Maria had decorative feathers, just like him. Basically Henryk is the last one with this style of hat.

[majitek]

dfsxjjfdhssd sorry for the asks spam but that was actually a very interesting read!! I love talking about ships, I just never have a chance to xD And you are the first person I've met in the fandom who ships Brador and Simon (which is very unexpected looking at how all other fandoms treat 'enemies' duos of this kind) and? I love?? the tragic implication? We've seen stories about people abandoning their fractions/ideals for love, but seeing a character abandone love for their ideals instead is just so much more painful...... Also here is a bit that might interest you - whereas we only personally meet 2 Djura's friends, description of the Gatling Gun mentions that Djura had THREE companions! It is speculated that mysterious third companion is Beastclaw Josef (a co optor in dungeons) and I honestly believe this x) Overall? This is a free spot for a fan-character, or some WILD connection between pre-existing ones. Ok ok ok now for THE ask - how do you see Henryk x Gascoigne, considering Gascoigne is not.... quite a free man? Maybe as a thing in the past, or maybe even cheating, or something I cannot even suppose yet? I am curious o:

IT RLY IS SO TRAGIC💔 THEY MAKE ME SO SAD😭😭

Hrngg I'm definitely n o t  a fan of how a lot of ppl portray the ship (it makes me really uncomfortable. I dont recommend trying to look for ship content💀💀) which is why I don't rly talk about it ydjdhdh, but I am absolutely enthralled with the version in my head😫!!! So I'm glad you found it interesting too!! :"D

I could ramble for so long about them but ANYWays, I did know about the 3rd!! Im ngl I couldnt remember if it was 2 or 3 bc I keep seeing both descriptions n I got confused💀💀😭 so ty for confirming that!!😳😳 oh man when I first heard about Josef, it was when I thought I saturated all the lore for the powder kegs💔💔 so i got SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS WILD MF LMAO. I imagine that spending so much time with the beasts, they just decided to embrace it like Izzy, I love this guy so much.

AND for the actual answer to the ask... im ngl I have no idea OOF. Uhhh when I first started liking it I DIDNT KNOW HENRYK WAS APPARENTLY IMPLIED TO BE THE GRANDAD??? But tbh I always just thought of it like how some children call other non-relative adults "uncle/aunty" or "big sis/big bro" (I know we do this a lot in asian cultures at least). Mm It couldve been a thing in the past?? Perhaps Henyrk still harbors some feelings even after💔💔😭... theres also poly relationships if theyre cool with that🤔!! Its complicated, I dont look at it too often and I kinda just bounce around whatever idea feels right if I'm browsing gascoryk content😭

[katyspersonal]

Bloodborne starter pack (in case if I’ll need one)

Canon:

+ - Rom is a she/her, as confirmed by Miyazaki in interview!

+ Doctor Iosefka is replaced with Impostor Iosefka after you *enter the Cathedral Ward, so there are two characters in her clinic. Impostor’s name is not revealed. According to data and art book portraits they look identical, however! (upd: in first post version I made a mistake, saying Impostor replaces after Amelia dies)

+ Gascoigne has TWO daughters, not one! His older daughter is only met if you follow questline with little girl accurately, though.

+ Besides Gascoigne's older daughter, characters more or less easy to miss by players are Old Hunter Henryk, Crow of Cainhurst, Afflicted Beggar, Djura's Apprentice, Queen of Vilebloods and Martyr Logarius. Also never getting to see Lonely Old Dear, Suspicious Man and Arianna in person might happen. Basically the cast is wider than it appears!

+ Very obscure characters you might never learn about unless you get a specific item include: Graveguard Dores, Irreverent Izzy, King of Cainhurst, older Madaras Twin, Archibald the eccentric of the Healing Church, Caryll, Gratia... They are not just "popular OCs", nope!

+ According to the figma creators, Lady Maria is 6′7 (204 cm) and the Hunter is 5′11 (180 cm) ( x ) - they explain it from 6:40 to 7:05! Very useful information, especially considering Gascoigne’s model is taller than Maria’s, and Gehrman’s is EVEN taller than Gascoigne’s.

+ Most NPCs have face data mined by Zullie the Witch and available here: ( x )

+ Characters without canon design:

fully obscure: Izzy, Archibald, Caryll, King of Cainhurst

only their clothes are known: Gatekeeper, Eileen, Crow of Cainhurst, Dores, several NPC hunters using ‘default’ model (Yharnam one in Nightmare Frontier, Bone Ash and Cainhurst hunters in dungeons, a Yahar’gul hunter fighting next to the one with a shield and a Tonitrus, Izzy’s Admirer, Gremia, a hostile tomb prospector hunter in Isz

not seen as human / alive: Laurence, Ludwig, Adeline, Logarius

Fanon:

+ Eileen is drawn as black in most cases inspired by her English voice actor, devs alas just put default face data on her though

+ The cute girl wearing the same outfit as Micolash you see in fanarts is in 95% of the cases an interpretation of Rom before she became a spider, since Micolash saying 'as you did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes' implies right away she is ascended Great One, not born.

+ THE most popular ships are Mariadeline (Lady Maria x Saint Adeline), Valtmura (Valtr Master of the League x Yamamura the Wanderer), Holyvicar (Laurence the first Vicar x Ludwig the Holy Blade) and Alfhunter (Alfred x the hunter)

+ Micolash might be drawn with brown or blue eyes, Yurie might be drawn as blonde or brunette, Edgar might be drawn as blonde or redhead... The reason for Micolash is difference between his cutscene model and hunter one; meanwhile Edgar and Yurie are redhead and blonde according to face data but do not have obvious colors from found screenshots, that's why variety of colors in fanart!

+ Annalise is depicted as a redhead in concept art and on one of the Cainhurst portraits, however, hence why she might be not ‘blonde’ in fanart.

+ Stuff like 'Church spread Ashen Blood to motivate citizens to use blood ministration', 'Ludwig merged with his horse', 'Mergo is son of Oedon and Queen Yharnam is his wife' and 'Edgar infiltrated Yahar'gul and got stuck' are just the most accepted theories - they work, but canon also provides enough base for alternative takes.

+ Many people dunking on Gehrman snowballed from localisation errors such as 'Even the Doll should it please you' and 'his curious mania' + the fact he made a Victorian grieving doll of his dead student.

[angry-goat]

Feel like it so here's all my main ships in the fandoms I pay most attention to????:

Ornstein ❤️ Artorias

Gascoigne ❤️ Henryk

Jed Olsen ❤️ Michael Myers

Venom ❤️ Eddie Brock

Link ❤️ Ganon

Junkrat ❤️ Roadhog

Twilight ❤️ Sombra

Pearl ❤️ PD

KD ❤️ Devil

Popular ships I don't care for (Not suprised if I get bullied lmao):

NK x Ornstein (I just see Orn being assigned to be the first born's personal guard and he did just that. Maybe sometimes they acted like friends but they were mainly professional)

Venom x Eddie x Anne x Dan (All too different and have their own lives idk)

Zelda x Link (More like siblings or friends to me)

Mei x Reaper (Don't see it)

Fluttershy x Sombra (Nah)

KD x Cuphead 😐

[dreaming-of-hunters]

for the heart ask - gascola and, like, all of them pls i need

❤️: Viola loves to embarrass Gascoigne with affections in public, especially in front of other hunters. Gascoigne is only really affectionate in the comfort of their own home.Viola usually has to set up the romantic mood, in both public and private settings, and Gascoigne has to catch on. Honestly, with Viola taking care of the kids full-time, and Gascoigne keeping up with his hunting career, their kids are more likely to plan for them for Valentine's Day. And Henryk may have a part in the planning as well. X3Viola is more likely to initiate hand holding in public. Sometimes she just feels like it, and other times she enjoys making him feel embarrassed in front of his fellow hunters. 💕:Gascoigne doesn’t make direct statements of love in public, but when he does, it’s to make another man back off of his woman. 💘:Gascoigne developed a crush on Viola before she got to liking him. I feel like he had to soften himself up a bit to get the attention of a classy lady like Viola. 💝:Viola has a bit of trouble thinking about what presents to get her husband. He’s so weapon-oriented, she’s thought about just getting him a nice cleaning rag for his guns before. Or maybe going with Henryk’s suggestion of assorted soaps. 💓:Gascoigne gets extremely clingy sometimes, so he’s the one who initiates the most physical contact. Viola will leave cutesy little notes to Gascoigne, like when she knows she’s not going to be home when he gets back, she might leave him a note saying something about food, or the kids, and say ‘I love you’ at the end. 💟:Viola’s mother really made her think about her compatibility with a hunter like Gascoigne before their marriage, so she’s looked into it more. 💙:Gascoigne is full-on “look at my woman the wrong way and you’d best be preparing your epitaph, pal”. 💚:Gascoigne gets sick more often, and Viola is the best at taking care of both sick kids and a sick husband all at the same time.💜:Viola is more likely to say ‘I love you’ first.💛:Neither really believe in soulmates.(Sorry this took so long, and I didn’t have all of the heart emojis this thing called for X( )