#ahhh young laurence

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Alright, let’s talk about your blorbos—Gehrman and Ranni!!

Alright let’s talk about Gehrman and Ranni ! 

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Gehrman

You know I will have a ton of stuff to say on the first hunter!

First impression

Weird old man who’s really pessimistic and kinda gave up on everything. 😕 (Why don’t you explain stuff?! Why aren’t you useful pls. What's up with the doll too ??)

Impression now

Well… do I really need to explain ? Ah yes I need. I should for people who don’t know. Ok. I really like him! My interpretations made me like him, a lot. It’s like that, that’s how I feel I can’t changed that. I am touched by his tragic and nuanced story. I might have a severe brain rot on him to help

I love him ok, he’s one of my favs after all. I joke he’s the little blorbo meow meow of my heart but in all seriousness.. I really like the character he’s really interesting and intriguing. Yes he screw up and found out the hard way but I think he’s such a tragic and misunderstood figure too. LOOK AT HIS BOSS FIGHT AND THEME too ! Omg and everything really. 

Also I used to found funny, people who have the most depressive guy as their comfort character ahah Well guess what 😅 I mean I’m probably still in denial but bro literally appear 5s in one of my nightmare to comfort smn so hm… I guess my brain is trying to made me understand smt.

Hm sorry I got a bit absorbed hm I will finish by saying that it took me quite some times to end to this impression. It din’t happen overnight for sure. I really I asked myself lot of questions. I spend lot of time doing research and having long reflexion on everything and particularly on him. 

Favorite moment

His freaking boss fight ! Ahhh (yeah after finishing the game I listened to his theme for like 1 hour at 2am. Yep normal bloodborne experience 👍) I really love it I feel like I can imagined all his life with his theme (same with Laurence’s theme too)

Idea for a story

I have too much. Most of my stories are focused on more than 1 characters so with only him or really focused on him ? Oh well…

-His childhood/teenage years/ young adult years + how he ended up at Byrgenwerth (Kinda angsty in the middle but hey it’s « soft » compared to the rest 😭😂) I won’t tell too much on that but I already share some hehe

His life after Maria passed away and before the hunter dreams…. (Divided in 2)

Really angsty dark and depressive part not long after that … :/ want to make me cry really…

When he’s older and  calmed down a bit, still hunts a bit, help new hunters, (rip og group of old hunters there’s not much anymore) have a dog and all 🥺 try to you know, live a normal life again  until well you know… Cainhurst & the church… the dream…

-(Bonus Gehrman lil adventures in the nightmares/dream but it would feature other characters a bit too much perhaps)

Unpopular opinion

Well… I don’t think he’s that creepy, fucked up and sexist old man many people depicted him to be. I won’t dive into that too much now. It would be long and I don’t have the time. Another day perhaps + I already try to talk about it I think. And there’s really good stuff on the subject around. I think he’s a really nuanced and maybe really loose it after some point but not that badly. With all the clues I got in the game : the mistranslations (+ I didn’t played in English originally too!) + the differents interpretations on so many things + his presentation & ending it just don’t feel right for me to categories him that way. (+If he was really the biggest asshole don’t you think he would have end like Seluvis or Gideon in elden ring? Like shit? I feel many bloodborne characters are way way worse and no one fight over it too XD)

So yeah that's It I don't thins he's that bad 😐 that's it

Favorite relationship

Hm I’m not sure… I don’t remember, what was the character that have my favorite relationship with him again ?

I think it was a hunter too ? An old hunter hm… oh a lady hunter perhaps ? Hm… oh yes the person the doll is based on maybe ? Oh who was it again… ? 🤔

Ok I’m so sorry that was a really poor taste joke… Of course it’s Lady Maria.

I’m not sure how to describe it. Might feel insane perhaps but I have just so many thoughts and feels on those 2.

Even if I have interpretations I prefer and I’m a bit biased because of some of my taste & main hcs cough I love so many interpretations of their relationships as well.

What was their relationship exactly, where they just close friends, master/apprentice, coworkers,  platonic? romantic feelings? Oneside/both sides? Did smt happen between them ? Never happened ? Was it smt really weird on fence or in the contrary nothing weird at all ?? Or were they maybe related from the same family ? Father/daughter (figure). Since when do they know each others ? How did they meet ?! 

Even if I tend to share more of one specific headcanons of mine (the more developed one and version of bloodborne lore that I have) I have so many ideas clashing in my heads and I love seeing unique and interesting takes on it. We can’t denied this 2 are strongly link together and have such a unique bond that transcend death and dreams themself.

Of course my fav one being the one where/when they were (just) close friends that relate to one another a lot and believed they understand each other really well (for some times at least) idk but I cannot, not imagined them being all silly and doing really silly things back at Byrgenwerth. 

So anyway I wish we had more and my brain is crazy trying to fill the gasps.

Also I wish we knew more on his relationship with Laurence & Willem but also Ludwig & the doll and  other characters as well.

Favorite headcanon

Oh wow I would have too much so I will just stick to a few ones

He was byrgenwerth groundskeeper 

He made the mercy blades + it was his originally (so he had a grand and smaller weapon too)

The weird half hidden note in the hunter dreams about ending the nightmare/dream is from him

He can sew really well and fixed the old hunters clothes who were damaged (people skins too 💀)

He used too/could make really great wood figures + toys

He made all the old hunters badge himself and they’re made out of siderite too (but I think it’s a bit oblivious) 

He did some study at Byrgenwerth and do know quite a lot of things (all the books at the workshop, blood gems etc)

Oh wait it’s just A favorite one ?! (I’m bad a choosing ahhh hm idk he would make a great house husban- I mean the mercy blade hc ! Maybe)

Ranni

(rest undercut because it's a long post)

First impression

Really intrigued but I also knew many people love her quite a lot XD

Impression now

Well I love her of course (my tarnished is her consort so a bit biased sorry). But I’m quite critic of her too. What I mean by that is that I perhaps expect more things about her too you know ? 

Favorite moment

Do i need to say anything…

And 

And also when she talk to is in the form of the mini Ranni (that might be one of my fav moments yep)

Idea for a story

Euh… hm idk either her time with the witch Renna or what lead to the night of the black knife (that remember I have pics to read !)

Unpopular opinion

I don’t think it’s really unpopular but she’s quite a really gray characters too. I wish we knew more about her motivation and what she really wanted. Like did you really wanted to kill Godwyn and do a giant mess or was it circumstance hm? I found some other characters way easier to like than her too. Sorry 😢

Favorite relationship

With Blaidd of course (but also Iji and Rykard, her mother etc). (And the tarnished XD) and I wish we had info about her relationship with other characters (like all her siblings and half siblings)

Favorite headcanon

Hm… idk XD she really liked her mentor drip ? When I grow up I wanna be like her ! A old and ice heretic witch ? Ok sure Ranni x)

She wanted to escape her fate and all and she said she don’t want smn (a consort) to share her burden but she still deep inside i think she really wish to have someone 

[raindragonwing]

Can you recommend me some books? Thank you!!

Ahhh!!! Books!! Here we go! (If I mention something that I should have known that you’ve read, I’m sorry :) )

Literally anything by Brandon Sanderson? My most recent book obsession is with his Cosmere, but the other books I’ve read from him are fantastic too. He works with amazing worldbuilding and really cool magic systems. The link goes to his website and his recommended reading order for Cosmere, which I would alter slightly since characters from Warbreaker show up in the Stormlight Archive and you should build some trust in his worldbuilding before you commit to the Bible-sized Stormlight books. The original Mistborn Trilogy, Warbreaker, or Elantris are all good starting places, depending on what you want to read! This post gives some more explanation of the Cosmere and reading order! If you don’t want to dedicate yourself to the entire cosmere, each book/series can be read independently from the others!

Cosmere starting points:

Mistborn: the Final Empire: This is where I started (this is book one of a trilogy), and it’s pretty great! From his website: “Heist story about a young woman recruited into a gang of thieves, trained to use magic and to imitate a noblewoman, then used in a plot to try and rob (and hopefully overthrow) the immortal emperor of the world. One part Ocean’s Eleven, one part Lord of the Rings, one part Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, one part My Fair Lady.” (x)(x)

Elantris: Sanderson’s first published work. I read it after I’d gone through most of the other books and it’s awesome to see how far he’s come as a writer. Elantris follows a prince who got turned into a zombie (essentially), his fiancee who is stuck with the title of his princess and the mess of politics that he left behind, and a priest who is questioning his own religion. (x)

Warbreaker: If you can’t get any of the other books at the moment, Warbreaker is available for free on his website! Siri, the youngest princess, unexpectedly gets sent to try and stop a war in a distant city of color and Returned gods. Vivenna, her older sister, follows her to attempt a rescue. Both find a web of politics that go back centuries and plots to gain power.

The Emperor’s Soul: This is a novella set on the same planet as Elantris. If you want a gateway drug to Sanderson’s writing, this is it. After an accident has left the emperor in a coma, supporters offer a thief with magic they despise her life in a desperate attempt to revive him.

Skyward: His most recent novel, not cosmere. It’s the boy and his dragon story, except with a girl who hears the stars and a spaceship.

Other books!

His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik: first in a series of nine. Napoleonic War but with dragons, featuring William “Neckcloths!” Laurence and his book hoarding social justice dragon. You can read the first book and leave the series there if you wish, or you can go on and read the rest of them and join the small but perfect fandom

Uprooted, also by Naomi Novik: This book is one of my absolute favorites. It’s a reimagination of Polish fairy tales Novik grew up hearing. It follows Agneishka of Dvernik as she is chosen to serve the resident wizard called the Dragon, who protects Agneishka’s valley from the evil Wood.

Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik, again: A reimagination like Uprooted, Spinning Silver is inspired by Rumpelstiltskin and Novik’s father’s family’s experiences as Jewish people in Lithuania. The plot is driven by three amazing and diverse women and I love them all.

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula Le Guin: the first of six books that only get better as you go. A Wizard of Earthsea is the story of Ged, a young wizard whose arrogance releases a very big problem that almost kills him, but that he has to fix anyway. The next five books focus on different characters over the next several decades, expanding the world, the magic, the history, and the tensions between humans and dragons. Another of my favorite series! All six are amazing, you just have to look for them. For years I thought that the series was only a trilogy (and they all have separate plots, so they can survive on their own), then I found the others and read them in one sitting. And cried.

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo: There’s a trilogy in this same world that isn’t a requirement to read the duology. The trilogy is about the chosen one and has a love triangle and everything like that. It’s good. But I like the duology better, which is about the people who aren’t the chosen ones. They’re just pulling off a heist of a high-security military base and then defending each other. And there’s a bit of we gotta save the world, too.

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien: I found out that reading this isn’t a rite of passage for every family, so. I love Tolkien, and if you haven’t read his work, you really should.

Happy reading! And let me know what you think of them once you’ve read them! Thanks for the ask!