#Oedon Chapel Dweller

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The Hunter and friends, playing Bloodborne.

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Hello happy gay month. This is my contribution to the downfall of the western civilization, enjoy.

Explanation for the character designs, the guy with leash is Gilbert and the leash freakazoid is Hunter post Squid baby ending.

Bonus info for those curious, made this in day and half while sleep deprived and thiving purely off neurodivergency. Audio credit is burial goods. Next in line is a Laurence one thumbs up

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frens

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Day 20 - Oedon Chapel Dweller as The Sun tarot card

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Pen doodles……may revisit these eventually idk

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In case you were curious about the dialogue Oedon Chapel Dweller has to say if you send all the survivors to the clinic instead.

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Draw ur fav bloodborne character with 2B :3c

"You let that awful man come here and he... He... He killed them all...! This was supposed to be a safe place...! And you... You ruined it all! Don't ever show yourself around here again!"

In which case, our dearest Oedon Chapel Dweller has snapped because of certain events we would not have known about c'x

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A drawing of our lil fren before the year ends

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*As wholesome as they can be in a Fromsoft game.

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Do you have any thoughts about Agatha, Oedon chapel dweller? Why does he look like that? Why is he SO good and pure?

Very underrated character! He looks much like Masters of Rutals and Yahar'gul Kidnapper, something between, but he is also blind...

If you have time for this, I would be glad to know your opinion!

Well... I am pretty sure that he looks like this because bro is literally a Pthumerian...

sdhfhgdfds okay okay serious answer xd We've already figured by now that Agatha is not a legit name that appeared anywhere in official resources, but it used to be a placeholder name before official title of the character was revealed! As for the appearance:

These screenshots and other ones like these are from model viewing video from Sinclair Lore ( x ), and they're showing that he has really long legs underneath xd Extra tall height in Bloodborne is usually a Pthumerian thing. I can't speak for Gehrman or Gascoigne very much; Gehrman could have some Pthumerian blood mixed in, especially if he is a local to Yharnam, and Gascoigne simply could have had gigantism (real affliction!). 🤔 You brought up Labyrinth Ritekeepers and I am glad, because I also think he is the same type:

Very long arms, too! As for the blindness: his dialogue has a slight implication that he could not notice us coming since insense masked our scent! Let's also see which Pthumerians have white eyes:

Whereas Church Giant and Chapel Dweller do have completely white eyes, Loran Cleric has more obviously 'blinded' look... and Bell-Ringing woman seems to have it in "reverse", where her pupils are brighter than the whites o_o"

Ancient Bastard (Lost Child of Antiquity) is found in Pthumeru Ihyll dungeons and in Cainhurst (that descends from Pthumeru Ihyll as you remember), so I think their white eyes can count as Pthumerian moment too! Then we can see that hunters who often rely on blood can blind eyes while also exhausting them of any color, making them "white" (Ludwig and huntsmen have their right eye 'white', Djura has white eyes (with right one actually missing), Church Hunter of Despair and Church Doctor in Research Hall also have pure white eyes). I dunno what happened with Rotted Corpses, but since they have legs problems (not unlike beast Laurence) and fear fire, maybe they also were falling for beasthood but killed prematurely? 🤔

What I am thinking is, Loran Clerics might have had the blindness for the similar case of blood and beasthood, given the context! Some Pthumerians have 'normal' eyes, with white... whites (lol) and colored pupils:

While others have pitch black eyes, and Church Servants have unique dark blue eyes! And it looks like Ritekeepers have dark grey eyes, but not quote me on this one, maybe it is a lighting...

Thank you very much @val-of-the-north for having all these screenshots somehow @_@" I could never compile THIS many without your help

Basically, pure white eyes of some Pthumerians might be simply a variant of what could happen with their eyes, rather than blindness! If Loran Clerics, Church Servant, Bell-Ringing Woman, Nightmare Apostles and Snatchers are of any indication, Pthumerians do have pupils!Their eyes becoming pitch black, like stereotypical alien ones 👽 seem to be a quirk of the explicitly 'undead' Pthumerians, all of which are in Labyrinths! Nightmare Apostles seem to be not restricted by a single location (Patches can move between Nightmare and 'reality' and they also inhabit Micolash's Nightmare), and Snatches are most definitely still 'alive' and also wander in search for victims!

I'll say though that a gigantic Pthumerian and Ancient Bastard are both unusual for their kind! One is halfway-bat, another is... well, gigantic. (not counting Undead Giant, obviously). But a bat-like creature is likely to have poor eyesight, and giants seem to not notice the player much unless attacked! ...but also Ancient Bastards typically don't have a trouble noticing and ambushing us, and maybe Church Giants are simply slow because they're so massive. xd The only true clue towards Chapel Dweller being blind is just his dialogue about not having smelled how we appeared, yet with darn Pthumerians indicating visually whether they're blind or not is near impossible :') This can be just his eye color!

As for his nails, it seems like it is also a Pthumerian thing to have them very black. It could even be natural and not just their fashion! But in either case, notice that his are trimmed, and not long and sharp like others!

As for his red clothing? I think it parallels the thing where Bell-Ringing Women wear red instead of dark grey as they announce birth of The One Reborn, which travels into Cainhurst trend where there is burgundy variant of their trademark grey noble dress for pregnant women (that's why Arianna's stretches so well when she gets pregnant). I think he had something to do with birth! Maybe he used to be a maternity nurse? 🤔 At the same time, red fabric is a thing in Chalice Dungeons that is put in reverence under a skull of some presumably important people:

Maybe Chapel Dweller was a saint of their own order, or is a descendant of one! Maybe the skulls Pthumerian Ritekeepers are using belonged to these guys, so our Chapel Dweller could've been just one of these and they're a food chain. We just don't know! But notice that these altars have small replicas of statues we find all over Cainhurst. It makes me think about Ancient Bastards again... Maybe Chapel Dweller is just another unfortunate guy that was supposed to be very important if not straight up noble, but lost his roots.

^ I am not sure why he is so nice and sweet other than 'some people haven't lost their dignity and compassion even in all this chaos', but it is interesting how Arianna is the only one who actually talked to him! It is a bit lost in translation, though; according to the original script, it is more obvious that others look down on him:

( x ) (Aruki Mania has their own retranslation project, straight up doing translators work all alone FOR them, on Youtube.. Unfortunately, it is far not entire script, hence why I am using LP's more often, but Aruki Mania is also a professional and can be trusted with nuances!)

Regardless of Pthumerian ancestry playing role or Arianna simply being nicer than average Yharnamite, something sure is wrong! I doubt that Pthumerians are not very respected in Yharnam despite doing the same jobs as humans (Snatchers are doing the same thing as Yahar'gul Hunters and Church Servants patrol the streets same as the Church hunters). Not to mention fuckin' Logarius who 99.99% was a Pthumerian being Church's revered figure! I think it is the rumours:

Already discussed it here ( x ), to put it simply, Healing Church tried their best to ward off any positive attention from Oedon Chapel to cover up the formerly prospering Hunters business, as well as the entrance to Upper Cathedral! It is not his species, it is his occupation. So, sure average Yharnos think that Chapel Dweller is some crazy dude xd Except for Arianna, who is a Vileblood and doesn't get along with the Church anyhow. ....or she is JUST nice! But, Chapel Dweller's dialogue contains a LOT of self-deprecation, and he even blames himself if he gets attacked. Nothing about him is suspicious or unsettling, so whatever rumours are being spread, he clearly let them get to him..

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Okay, thank you for the ask! I hope I gave you enough ideas! Sometimes I myself don't know which headcanon to settle with and all I can really do is offer what I've noticed so YOU pick the interpretation :')

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give chappie a little arcane power, as a treat

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14. Oedon chapel dweller

My bud, my beloved friend 🥺❤️

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Opinions on the weird little dude in Oedon Chapel?

Awww Chapel dweller! I didn't expect him 🖤

For someone playing the game for the first time, Chappie looks suspicious, even like an enemy, but it turns out to be the complete opposite! He is the sweetest and most valuable person in all of Yharnam! His dialogues when he says bad things about himself (like everything is his fault even if clearly it isn't!) hurt my heart so much...

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