#old hunter yamamura

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Yamamura’s hat and gloves goated.

[lost-in-yahargul]

For research purposes:

[rubia-peregrinart]

good hunter's emergency contacts summons fieldguide

[nishihii]

what it's like being a member of the league (once again, idea by @skleech)

original below

[blandandtasteless]

Fromsoftware and their habit of adding their ever present “eastern lands” is good excuse to add Japanese inspired characters like Yamamura, and this land is often described with words like bloody and violent (I don’t think so in Bloodborne, but yes in Elden Ring and Dark Souls). I think they do this because specifically alluding to the warring states period in Japan cause it’s constant bloodshed, civil war, and its interesting.

I think the “forbidden/tainted blood” brought back to Cainhurst is supposed to be the source and reason people associated with Cainhurst or using the Chikage can do battle with blood. The blood they imbibe, the Cainhurst blood is volatile or special in some way that it damages the owner and the enemies inflicted with it. It can also be set aflame like how Lady Maria does.

Yamamura has no ties to Cainhurst or fancy blood stuff

”I love sushi” is great though, and probably old deep lore

So bloodborne, in true fromsoft fashion, mentions a distant eastern land and adds no further elaboration. And I have a theory that Cainhurst had ties to them, hence why they have katanas. Maybe they just commissioned some weapons from an eastern forger?

[asylumpixie]

“假如我有那一天，希望您能为我介错”

按照日本老照片的风格调了滤镜，折痕刚好把两人隔开

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[darkjakkus]

more league sillies

[katyahina]

Bloodborne beach episode!.... the NORMAL beach episode, and not how it went... the last time -_- *glares at monster hunters from Byrgenwerth*

In case if Tumblr ruins the quality, I shared full res on Devi: ( x ).

I've started this WIP back in summer 2021, but I've abandoned it since then, and only this summer decided to actually finish it.. Some errors since that time carried on as a result, and arguably I draw a bit better humans now... But the only true way to learn to draw large 'crowd' pieces like this is to simply draw more of them, hahah; Sizing of characters within perspective is yet to be improved, of course, not to mention that some characters are not drawn quite accurately to my heights headcanons for them but I will be real, it was fun to draw! And I just... really wanted to draw something happy and colorful for a long while, since BB's grim atmosphere striped me out of this fix. At least now there is ER for my bright colors needs lol

(Important: there are no OCs on this piece! The girl under Willem's chair is Rom, guy chased by the seaqulls is Bloody Crow, there is Byrgenwerth gatekeeper being buried in sand by Dores the Byrgenwerth graveguard (canon characters only mentiond in the item most of the players never found), Choirling is Yurie, girl next to Maria is of course Adeline, and the guy with the kite is Caryll!)

[jesteraunt]

hunting partners & their rest

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Flu seasons (the only time of the year they’re grateful a doctor joined the League)

[katyspersonal]

Hello Katya, do you have any ideas about Simple Gratia?

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Yes, my girl!! I have some observations AND ideas! I remember that back when I checked, a fan Wiki incorrectly said that she is wearing Yharnam Hunter set. I do not know whether they've fixed that since then or not, but I know it confused a few artists. Gratia, in reality, is wearing an Old Hunter set but slightly altered:

(Close images of her model are from this ( x ) page, datamined by AstralLace!) This is what an Old Hunter set looks like, for a reminder:

Gratia is an Old Hunter: the type that started under Gehrman like Maria, Vitus, Henryk, Djura, Bestial Hunter, all that. I think that she knew all these characters and more, and with Maria she was a lot like an older sister that Maria never had! But I think she would be genuinely annoyed by Djura's complex inventions and at times not be able to hide her disdain, right in the middle of Djura ranting about them! That'd spark stupid, petty arguments about what kind of weapon is "better" which their friends laugh at in the corner like hyenas until Gehrman or Maria separate them XD

In comparison with the generic set, she is missing the long flowing cape, as well as the glove on her left hand. Her weapon, a chunk of metal, also goes in the left hand. I think she is missing the glove to have a stronger grip on the metal, so it would not slip away! I wondered what her right hand weapon would be before, but I think she doesn't need one in the end! I imagine her staggering the beast with her Iron Fist and then TEARING THEIR HEAD OFF WITH HER FREE HAND DFJHFSHSD .....but, you know, a hammer or a mace would also be nice yeah sure

In Bloodborne setting, red hair is also highlighted as a trait of Cainhurst nobles, that isn't really seen in any other NPC. Edgar may be also a ginger but much brighter kind, certainly not a REDhead!

This makes me think: what if Gratia's red hair is not just a random design choice, but a hint? And even if it isn't, it can still be used for a headcanon! Cainhurst nobles descend from Pthumeru Ihyll and have some Pthumerian heritage (just in case here ( x ) is the post with evidences of it) 🤔 At the same time, Pthumerians have gigantic variants, that seem to be more slow and dim than 'regular' ones. And interestingly, Gratia is abnormally big AND stated to have some intellectual drawbacks:

So, she has 1) otherwise Cainhurst-exclusive hair color 2) a size abnormally large for a human and 3) correlation between inability to use guns and being 'dim'! This gave me a headcanon that she was born in the Cainhurst walls, but shown Pthumerian genes that were "undesired" in the eyes of snobbish nobles and thus, abandoned at birth. She never knew of her origins, but was adopted by a kind man! Yeah, in this context, Maria and Gratia feeling family-like bond almost from the start in kind of fateful!

^ I often draw her with the same body pattern that shows on the skin of Snatchers, and that is exactly what kind of descendant she is!

I also always liked the idea that Gratia, Simon and Yamamura were the 'detective friends' up to uncover the Healing Church's secrets! Later, I decided the Yahar'gul Hunter we find in the prison under Grand Cathedral should also be a part of the squad! I did not know that Simon interestingly had Fist of Gratia as a part of his equipment back then and only judged from their location, but that made me feel validated with that headcanon! xD

Gratia is, of course, more of a 'power' of the team! She might be not very smart, but she has her heart in a good place and can understand the concept of shady bad business that should be stopped. She is easy to deceive in terms of pranks and other remotely innocent things, but when someone lying to her or trying to use her is malicious she will sense it. Pair that with her being very brave and blunt, and you really don't want to mess with her! The girl could grab Laurence and slam him against the wall accusing him of being "full of shit" if he attempted to deceive her, ffs! And not even his friends would defend him because it IS his fault for playing with this tigress x)

Needless to mention that she is protective over her friends! Not a kind of a protective friend that will mindlessly jump into fighting the other guy, but someone that will walk in and give them a fair warning to get lost first. She has threatening aura and usually just that is enough to scare away a person that means no good to someone she cares about. But, when she is powerless to do anything against some prick in power or likewise, she will express her frustration by breaking a property on her way out xd

Also she gives me this vibe:

Thank you for an ask! :D She has a very vivid and fleshed out image in my mind! Funny enough, this makes describing her harder because she feels so self-explanatory for me!

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Bloodborne - Old Hunter Yamamura Concept Art

[fantomette22]

EXCUSE ME

ASTROBOT WTF

FROMSOFTWARE WE NEED ANSWERS

PLEASE

Cant believe astrobot casually threw at us deep bloodborne lore

[pyro-madder]

companion post to fantomette22's of bloodborne but Beamsts (real), with the goal of Not making them all wolves though i still ended up with a majority of canids because it IS bb (and also a taxon i'm familiar enough with) !

pictures are from wikipedia unless linked otherwise like this (x)

Hunter : wolfdog (Canis lupus x familiaris) (x)

not much to say here but symbolism. :D obligatory reminder that a lot of people erronously call their dogs wolfdogs, and that getting an actual one as a pet is a bad idea. The IWC has a good page on the topic

Gehrman : grey wolf (Canis lupus)

if it's gonna be anyone, it might as well be him. imagine this old gray wolf with shaggy hair and ribs poking through the fur...

Maria : gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (x)

largest falcon species, one that hunts far north and which i already headcanoned her to do falconry with. so after some deliberation i went with that instead of the small arctic fox, though it would have been fun to keep the canine motif of her apprenticeship under Gehrman. other candidates included the snowy owl and the ermine.

Alfred : pyrenean mountain dog (or patou for the intimate - Canis lupus familiaris)

look at this large, fluffy beast ! they're livestock guardians ; protecting sheep from wolves and stuff is symbolic enough for a religious man like Alfred, but these guys are the bane of unprepared hikers - there are short guides and stuff published by mountain offices on how to behave so that you don't shit yourself when they come growling at you. something something potentially turning on the Hunter for their mixed, IMPURE blood... :^)

Gascoigne : brown bear (Ursus arctos)

if not a wolf, this HAS to be the second choice, right ? Besides i'm pretty sure that in some old european folklore, bears are seen as the animals closest to man, so it fits The Narrative(tm). to human standards, they make terrible fathers though

Eileen : cape crow (Corvus capensis) (x)

I don't have hard-on headcanons for her ethnicity and followed the fandom trend, thus giving her an african species of crow. Cape crows aren't as omnivorous as carrion crows but I like the detail of their thinner bill for that extra Blade of Mercy flair.

Bloody Crow : hooded crow (Corvus cornix) (x)

believed a subspecies of the carrion crow until recently, their range of eastern AND northern europe felt fitting, plus the lighter feathers atop their black ones like BCC's white hair (helmet or not) atop his cloak.

Djura : black kite (Milvus migrans)

he HAD to be a raptor - a sentinel overlooking his territory and bringing sudden death from above, y'know ? Black kites are found in a wide portion of the old world, but are known specifically in Australia, alongside 2-3 other raptor species, to intentionally spread wildfires to bring out prey. Sounds familiar, right ?

also...

^ this is the Djura Stare. to me. it's that exact energy

Djura's ally & disciple : spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) & african painted dog (Lycaon pictus)

both carnivores with high social behavior, deemed equal to wolves' or even superior in the case of hyenas. the latter are also matriarchal, and my Blood Starved-Beast is female !

now ignore for one min that i headcanon djura's disciple and simon as twins despite having differing animals. if not that, jozef can be the painted dog. idk. vibes.

Simon : stone marten (Martes foina) (x)

on vibes alones i felt a mustelid would fit him (sleek and nimble, but still predators), and went for the stone marten because of the double meaning of their french name :

Yamamura : raccoon dog/tanuki (Nyctereutes viverrinus)

canids with strong presence in japanese culture, and i really like them. that's all. :p

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BONUS ROUNDS

Micolash : giant squid. tentacles. big cephalopod brain. big eyes. deep sea cryptid. enough said

Rom : if she wasn't already a spider, i'd make her a nudibranch. What kind of spider, though ? A salticid with their big eyes ? A wolf spider carrying her spiderlings around ?

Ludwig : i'm not familiar with domestic horse breeds, but i'd like to mention one i've known, thanks to having had at some point a coachman among my coworkers : the Boulonnais.

lorge.

draft horse, nicknamed "the white marble colossus" in french, originally worked to... transport fish from the coast to the city.............. now in my narrative Lud wasn't in Byrgenwerth and therefore blissfully uninvolved with the Hamlet, but imagine..............................................

[mushroomwithsomeink]

Pokemon for Bloodborne characters, go!

The Good Hunter: Lucario

Plain Doll: Gothitelle

Gehrman: Ursaluna, Torterra and Absol

Eileen: Corviknight and Inteleon

Djura: Stoutland and like a 100+ dogs in Old Yharnam

Iosefka: Clefable

Imposter Iosefka: Gengar

Alfred: Hisuian Typhlosion

Gascoigne: Mightyena and Midnight Lycanroc

Henryk: Manectric, Luxray and Galvantula

Valtr: Golisopod, Bisharp and Whirlipede (yes its on purpose)

Younger Madaras Twin: Sandaconda and Seviper

Yamamura: Skarmory

Ludwig: Galarian Rapidash and Aegislash

Lady Maria: Gallade and Ceruledge

Laurence: Malamar, Chandelure and Wyrdeer

Micolash: Hypno

Adeline: Duosion

Yurie: Meowstic (Female), Sylveon

Edgar: Persian

Simon: Decidueye

Brador: Houndoom and Hisuian Zoroark

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@jarognieva

So, this blog is now 1 years old and I still have not come up with a better name. Maybe next year. For now, enjoy some doodles of League lads.