#micolash: madman? WHERE? huehehe

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Thinking about my previous headcanon that at first Doll was simply a copied object in Hunter's Dream, like everything else in Abandoned Workshop. 🤔 And Gehrman only did a ritual to animate her after his sanity started to give cracks, so they could take turns with leveling the Dreaming Hunters up. It would be a similar ritual as what Pthumerians use to make the dead raise, though Gehrman felt very disgusted doing this because it was disturbing a memo of Maria

But I also considered a prequel-ish idea that back then, Gehrman and Laurence used to share the roles of level-up waifus! Gehrman would power-up Dreaming hunters in more generic sense, with Blood Echoes, but Laurence would teach them magic! Like pyronancy, or just arcane! Like, there would be a FP scale and as soon as a player could get into Grand Cathedral (the gate is closed during the night of the hunt!), they'd get that opportunity! And the way Laurence would do that? Ok forget what I said earlier about Laurence and the eyes; in exchange for Insight! He is doing the research on how to cease the beasthood and evolve humanity, while Gehrman sustains the hunt with the dream, and also it helps him to "level" himself and not delve into blood thirst too much. Maybe he could teach the bolt too, but not beastly blue one - the yellow more magical one, as what Fish People maged used to use! Like, could never happen because existence of guns makes FP/magic system too extra... but also imagine if there used to be more interesting monsters to hunt back then, with which guns would not work so well? So, staff of Loran Clerics for pyromancy, one of those harpoon things for (yellow) bolt, one of those cool Pthumerian daggers for cursed magic like Logarius'...

And like, that would be cool if the way Laurence absorbed Insight was by letting a big long parasite out of his mouth (you know, that one) and biting the hunter. :3