#poto bloodborne au

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Hello POTO fandom, I've cooked up a new AU: Bloodborne crossover. The Mannequin is inspired by the Doll + the musical's wedding dress mannequin. I haven't decided what to do with real Christine yet. Erik's design might change, still figuring it out.

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I have decided to make Christine a Great One in my POTO Bloodborne AU! I thought of some fun ways to parallel some bits of POTO to a Bloodborne setting! LORE BELOW :)

POTO: Erik haunts the basement of the Palais Garnier (there are strange creatures there) BB AU: Erik haunts the old Pthumerian catacombs (there are strange creatures there)

POTO: Erik keeps a wedding dress mannequin BB AU: Erik keeps the company of a “Christine” mannequin that’s alive (more on that below)

POTO: Erik gives Christine his ring BB AU: Erik gives Christine the Ring of Betrothal 

POTO: Erik thinks of Christine as his angel  BB AU: Christine is an actual out of this world eldritch god :)

POTO: Erik wants to keep Christine forever in the house by the lake  BB AU: Erik wants to prevent Christine from ascending by hoping to keep her in the catacombs (he does not succeed)

POTO: Erik thinks of Christine as his salvation  BB AU: Erik thinks of Christine as his salvation

As for the Mannequin, it is a gift from Christine to Erik (like the Moon Presence granting Gehrman the Doll). The Mannequin is in Christine’s image, or how she would appear if she were human. (Think of it as Christine’s human self-insert lmao 😭)

Christine, benevolent in the way Great Ones are - lacking any actual understandings of human wants - believes this will appease Erik if she gifted him with a “living bride” (<- as said in POTO). This however, only upsets him further. But he does keep the Mannequin in his company and treats her somewhat well, albeit very coldly, thinking her to be his responsibility now. She is his “wife” (since Erik would honour Christine’s ‘gift’) but they are purely platonic. <- there are some vague angst relating to their dynamic: 

Original BB: The Doll is made to love the Hunters in her care POTO BB AU: The Mannequin is made to love Erik

Inspired by the extremely heartbreaking dialogue with the Doll in BB: “Would you ever think to love me? Of course… I do love you. Isn’t that how you’ve made me?” (Though I do interpret this ‘love’ in BB as neither romantic or platonic but a secret third thing, anyways.)

All in all, I don’t really intend for this AU to be dark, but it IS a POTO X BB crossover so I’ve kept some elements of horror/creepiness/general melancholy from the source materials! :) Yippee! Thank you for reading through this long post!