#darkest dungeon ancestor

[yourfavaschips]

The Ancestor from Darkest Dungeon?

The Ancestor from Darkest Dungeon would be Cape Cod Dark Russet Kettle Cooked Potato Chips!

[neanmoins-que]

They look better together

[quantum-temporal-anomaly]

We are chained here forever, you and I, at the end of the world

XV the Devil

[satsuijin]

ah, the bewitching predators...

[ph-cutie]

IM ON A MOONLIGHT DANCE WHAT DO I SAY HE'S SO CUTE AND MY INHUMAN DESIRES ARE ABOUT TO BE REVEALED IN ALL THEIR STULTIFYING HIDEOUSNESS

[tomatossan]

text translation: "say 3 characters for me to draw and you'll be shocked"

[thenoeyebunnynobunsusmaingallery]

Noah (My sona/ heirsona) and Ancestor

[damnedestdungeon]

cursing you all now with this modern au that's pinging around in my head like one of those screensavers, long rambly post ahead!

the heir gets called back to the hamlet to reclaim the estate same business as usual, but the hamlet is like an Actual Town with a Government and the estate is literally just the broke ass manor and the dungeons in the game are just poorly maintained public parks leased to the town by the family

the letter the heir received still talks about it like the opening monologue in the game though

and the ancestor didn't off himself, the town's still mad at him but instead of jumping him they just shoved him in the local nursing home on the grounds that he's too incompetent to handle the estate's finances

the Darkest family aren't top dog in this au but they do still own a good chunk of the hamlet's land and businesses

so the heir, who is a nepo baby who got cut off from her immediate family's finances lol, gets called over by the ancestor to clean up his mess (and maintain the family's power in the town)

oh my god this is merge gardens okay whatever

ANYWAYS as the heir arrives the town tells her to help them clean up the public parks (dungeons) and all the property the family owns in the town because if she doesn't they'll like confiscate the land or something because they've just kind of been sitting there being all nasty after peepaw pulled some shit

all the bull the ancestor pulled is still canon to a lesser degree in this one btw its just that the eldritch aspects are less overt and everyone in the town just kind of takes it as myth

so the heir hires some contractors to help her with that and here's where some of the heroes come in, some of them are just regular citizens though

reynauld is a recently divorced church-going veteran who's going through a mid-life crisis right now. compensating for it by being really into proselytizing while doing public service

dismas is an ex-felon who came to the hamlet looking to get away from the past, working under the heir for some good pay and work to keep his hands and mind busy

can you see the reymas i'm setting up??

junia is just the local nun, organizes bible studies and all that. honestly the same but she now has internet access and HOO BOY

paracelsus is an out-of-town college student who came to study the Worst Place in France(?) and all the nasty shit inside it for her thesis. keeps getting sidetracked by the increasingly disturbing (read: fascinating) phenomena that keeps happening here of all places

alhazred is the history professor at the local college who isn't paid enough. holds book clubs and poetry clubs that only like three people go to (one of them's dismas)

and speaking of a couple of other characters are working or studying in that same college too

the necromancers are professors there

the academic is also another history professor there too, nicer than al but gets up to freaky shit with protege

the protege is a senior at the college who is too ambitious for this town but can't be assed to leave. keeps roping the academic (they're still besties in this one) into increasingly concerning papers. keeps getting his driver's license revoked because he SUCKS

oh and the caretaker's the mayor because i think he deserves it

sarmenti is a local musician who is really really trying to make it big but you can only really do so much in the Worst Place in France(?). has a SoundCloud he keeps promoting. has also been the subject of multiple noise complaints. probably makes punk and metal music. he's bumming on baldwin's couch

speaking of, baldwin's the town's favorite guy ever. came here to retire after he caught leprosy while volunteering somewhere abroad which didn't get treated in time. pretty active participant in community, either as a volunteer or simply just going to local events. supports sarmenti's career wholeheartedly

the miller is a local farmer peepaw fucked over. he's not a horrifically mutated crystalline thing trapped in a time loop at least. him and mildred are doing okay

the basement of the manor is still fucked up though. everyone assumes it's just flooded and the ancestor is just being dramatic though

i'm too tired to think about the other heroes right now, maybe i'll do a follow up

[voidycatboi]

Me: stubs my toe

Darkest Dungeon Narrator who lives rent free in my head: MORTALITY CLARIFIED IN A SINGLE STRIKE

Me: stands up too fast

Narrator: Ringing ears, Blurred vision... The end approaches.

[hazardouslibrarian]

darkest dungeon ancestor: our house, in the middle of our street

[videojamiemostlikely]

the darkest dungeon narrator judges the way you make a sandwich

“The salami is abhorrent, but the cut was done cleanly. As for what you did to the mustard - horrible, spread across the bun like a malaise…”

[i-am-mystic]

Blessed be the daughter who walks in Light everlasting.

Blessed be the son who carries the Flame in his heart.

Blessed be the Vessel that bleeds for sin and salvation.

The trinity is reborn. It sets the path and lights the way.

[quantum-temporal-anomaly]

Darkest dungeon protege[1] and heir [2] and idk ancestor[3] too, just not to leave him out

tshirts that say shit like "I ❤️ PICKING AT OLD WOUNDS" "I ❤️ REPEATING THE CYCLE" "I ❤️ CHANGING FOR THE WORSE" but instead of a heart there's a snake devouring its own tail

[quantum-temporal-anomaly]

1am darkest dungeon rambling (DD1 and DD2 spoilers)

headcanon that the heart of darkness is actually either the ancestor's, the heir's or humanities confession boss

aside from the fact that the other confession bosses in DD2 are body parts (brain, lungs, hands, eyes, stomach, and the whole(body of work))

---- note that technically confession one isnt the brain and actually the chains... functionally its the brain.

the confessions are also tied to some kind of revelation or lesson

what if the heart of darkness is tied to the revelation of seeing the work for what it """truly""" is the same way the confession bosses are tied to their revelations

in this theory this is why the ancestor offs himself before the game starts. he was the final sacrifice for the iron crown ritual. i think he would still have an unperfected version of the ritual even by the time of his death. i feel like the ancestor is less of a scholar than the protege, and way far less mad as him.

so what did the ancestor's ritual accomplish? (im assuming his goal was also to be chosen by the iron crown) maybe it just gave the result of him being a funny ghost man, maybe it did nothing

or maybe

it bonded him with the heart of darkness in a more significant way than all the other people bonded with the heart

heck this could have been his end game. instead of bonding with the iron crown, he wanted to join the thing he saw in his youth in the court yard. which could be why his ritual looks different from the protege's.

maybe it was to trigger a timeloop like the similar time loop of the protege's bosses.

i say the ancestor bonded with the heart of darkness in a more unique way than everyone else because he seems to have kept some kind of hold on his self

even after being one with the heart he still can talk and recollect on his life and the lore of the land, but it seems people like the cultists are in some kind of imperfect bonding with the heart by the way they dont really retain any kind of human appearance (at least compared to the ancestor)

the ancestor DOES become fleshy, so for all we know this isnt even the true ancestor(bc he died long ago) and the heart is just using his image and memories as some kind of flesh puppet (heck the ancestor lore could all be a lie by the heart to strike an emotion connection with the heir so the heir can see the whole quest through

killing the heart of darkness means you have completed your confession

you see things for how it is

the whole futility of humanity, leading you to end it all

only for another person(yea yea technically it is the same heir but its functionally a fresh person) to begin their own journey to discover the same revelation you did

[mushychord]

[apathmakerstale]

I spent too long on this