#and still give them silly parallels as compromises. doesn't help that they're both my muses. the past and the future etc etc

[pyro-madder]

it's no news but i wanna articulate how i really love the good hunter as a protagonist

I love that they're a clueless rando thrown into Yharnam's chessboard. While part of the narrative is MP and to a lesser extent Amygdala playing doll with them, they're not a chosen one or anything. They're the latest in a long line of people with enough mental fortitude to - at least initially - resist the call of the beast, a quality from within which THEN brings them to the Dream and its plot armor. They're not the first dreamer and, depending on the ending, not the last. And in the ending in which they ARE supposedly the last, where they succeed when none of their predecessors did, by collecting the clues left by those before them, balancing blood echoes and insight without succumbing to bloodlust nor frenzy - again, their own doing, their own skills, their own way of being.

Of course there are many ways to play as them. Personally, I tried bb on a whim, only aiming to reach 2-3 early game characters at first. But then I kept going, figuring that if I had managed to beat the first 2-3 bosses (after 26734859 attempts, but managed nonetheless) I could do the rest - but also because I got my curiosity piqued. I wanted to understand what was going on, how did we get here, what were this world's inner machineries. And when I was told the Byrgenwerth spirit lived on within [me], I thought, "oh, i'm in-character, alright." Their own curiosity pushes them on, and - in a blind playthrough - their own choices will connect them to the world and its characters in a way or another.

It's as the Chapel Dweller says : "not because you're a hunter, but because you're you !"