#save me Gremia

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Fellow girlies ask me "How did you lose so much weight?? Are you on a diet? Recommend something to lose weight"

And I will answer: girl, the secret of my thin body is working for 13 hours (physical activity + communicating with people + flower art), constant stress and 300g of food per day, DO NOT join me, take care of yourself, stay safe, hydrated and wish me survive till end of the august when I will be unemployed again😎🔥💅💅💅💅

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You talk about underrated bloodborne cooperators? How about some headcanons on olek or gremia if you have them?

Ahhhhh, shoot; Sorry for the delay ;-;

🦠 Honestly, for him, the things are sort of,, writing themselves? He is a unique cooperator: he doesn't step back during the boss fight, but will always jump into the battle aggressively, as well as being a unique cooperator that can sprint just like the player! This is especially interesting, since he is a cooperator for Isz Dungeons. Another Isz cooperator is Damian, who has like three long distance Hunter tools, a healing bell, and a shield that was distributed specifically for the Tomb Prospectors that delved into Isz. You also cannot summon both Damian and Gremia... This gave me very strong feeling of them having worked together and fallen apart, as well as them having directly opposite hunting styles - Damian being overly cautious, and Gremia being.... opposite of that.

🦠 His affiliation with the Choir is further hinted by him wielding Rosmarinus! Again, he appears to be not a full member, but the lower class that would simply bring them cool stuff from the dungeons... Isz dungeons, specifically. I think it is weird that he doesn't have Loch Shield even as an unused item, though? I can't help but feel as though it is a deliberate choice - he believed it was completely pointless to guard himself from basically "magic", seeing how it was the VERY thing his institution pursued... Basically, not only he is the type to jump head first into a battle, but also he had that concept of 'if that Arcane stuff is truly a good thing, it is not supposed to harm us'. It was both very smart and very dumb idea. Like... He had the right logic, but not the right picture.

🦠 He is one of the characters using the generic face data. You might know it from gems such as:

sgfgdgfd okay sorry for cursing you xd But yeah, I've basically spent it on him, since other characters with this face data had their faces COMPLETELY obscured. He though, shown enough face to earn it. I simply chose the hairstyle and added the 'aged person' spots on his skin.

🦠 Like I said, he used to explore with Damian, whereas Damian would always have his sorry reckless ass saved. But I write down Damian as one of the 'still alive' cooperators; so, Gremia's hatred would be because Damian is in School of Mensis now (hence no way to summon both of them). Gremia is not very capable and educated on the Choir's shenanigans, but with whatever naivety and honesty he has, he believes them way more and is devoted to them no matter how many Ls they take :( Though, in the way, he adopted the mentality that was around in earlier Healing Church somewhere - that you should strive to do good, even if it is not always a smart choice... Or something like that. He swears he can't remember where it came from.

🦠 He visits the base at Choir occasionally, only to cover up rare celestial larvae that would grow into teen or adult state and then petrify. None of those babies is able to grow up to be like Ebrietas, they all lean stronger to half-human and just... go still at some point. I simply drew it from the fact that the "statues" in Upper Cathedral seem to be weird Eldrich figures covered by fabric, as well as themes of petrifying upon facing too much arcane being enough in Bloodborne:

🦠 He is actually on good terms with Wallar! That dude also might originate from Choir's prospectors, moreover, he is wielding an arm of a smaller Amygdala as a weapon... And Amygdalae are trademark Great Ones of School of Mensis. They are both more on the "just block and report" side regarding opposing institutions; but whereas Wallar is more malleable and puts curiosity before principles, Gremia is... well, not that.

🦠 I am not entirely sure where he came from, but hmmm. Loch Shield was initially used in Research Hall by bodyguards of the Healing Church staff that were performing "rituals". I'd say Damian was there for the practice, but Gremia was not. He was simply more of the Healing Church hunters trained by Ludwig. He is also one of like, four people that ever saw Ludwig's Moonlight Sword shining in action - in his case, this was an accident. He told Forgotten Madman, though, and whoever else would listen, because he is absolute garbage at keeping secrets, but only very few actually cared.

🦠 In fact, his penchant for picking up fights and blurting out whatever he thinks was the real reason why Choir collectively agreed to never promote him, at all cost. Gremia is not a fool just because he can be naive and blunt to a fault, but he could not be predicted and controlled in the way they wanted... Hell, they had to lie to the guy that the orphans were terminally ill and experiments were their only alternative from dying early, because if he knew the true nature of those "experiments" - he'd tear them all apart! Like I said, he has a good faith, but is also naive enough to be diverted where "smarter" people want him to be. If you have morally questionable plans - you simply should never let him in, that's it. He won't understand, and jump straight into conclusions.

🦠 He likes working out at the times when he is not exploring the dungeons, nor tending to what remained from the Choir's base. Physical activity just gives him peace! However, if only he lived at the time when photography was developed enough, he would be obsessed with it. He likes pointing out interesting bits about his environment! Without a good camera, though? Yeah, he is bringing along TOO many "discoveries", including the pointless ones, like arcane plantlife everyone saw 7 times this week already, or a literal brick from the wall. At the very least, this passion ensured that he'd bring a LOT of Pearl Slug eggs...

🦠 At the same time, he is forgiving to a fault. If Damian came to him saying that maybe School of Mensis was a failed institution, after all, Gremia would just go 'oh, good, glad you are done being a dumbass'. He is only hostile for as long as it is relevant. Patches woud've approved 🤔

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⛏️ Everything around him suggests being a very basic Tomb Prospector of the Healing Church! His weapons are Kirkhammer and Repeating Pistol, his summon locations are Pthumeru dungeons... Interestingly, in the layers 4 and 5 of Pthumeru Dungeons, you can only either summon him OR Queen Killer. Yeah, I know, gameplay mechanics and all, but!! I try to use what I can + I headcanon that the surviving veteran Queen Killer was helping School of Mensis to capture Mergo's cord from the undead Queen Yharnam (only to be left to die as he expired his use...). So I feel as though the "normie" Healing Church and School of Mensis had a competition for Mergo's cord. Do I even need to mention that Yharnam's battle in the dungeons features her as still pregnant, but with still a slice on her belly area...?

⛏️ You probably don't need a reminder in who won that competition, but yeah... Olek is a rare cooperator that is technically dead as you summon him. I think he fought Queen Killer and lost. He is one of the people that honoured Ludwig, though. If you got to fight him as a hostile NPC - he'd recite Ludwig's inspirational speech (same as what Yamamura recites in his madness).

⛏️ He was not rude to Simon for his weird ass choice of weapon (well... weird in Healing Church's concept of such). Only a few people were understanding of Simon, actually!

⛏️ Otherwise, he was a very devout hunter. It is funny that you asked for both Gremia and Olek, as they are both devout to their institutions! I separate the "normie" Healing Church focusing on the blood ministration and the "nerds" Healing Church focusing on Arcane and Eyes; and so, Gremia would be more interested in eyes, whereas Olek would be more devout to blood. But they both would struggle to listen and consider alternative ideas.

⛏️ I also found his design interesting! The curly hair is my liberty, actually, since his original face data is bald. But he looks rather 'not white', which I wrote in my headcanons about how Healing Church opted out to blaming the "foreigners" for the beast plague, and Olek looked.... very foreign. So, much like with many other hunters and Tomb Prospectors that looked not like typical Yharnamites (think Czech + Polish + Hungarian people), he ended up being tasked with too many requests, just as long as no one had to see him.... Only, he survived for a long while, one of the few.

⛏️ His genuine faith in Healing Church and passion for hunting could bring him back from the death, after all. (More about it in this ( x ) post)

⛏️ He would've been rather social aside of his duties before the Healing Church. He would know every neighbour he has. He would know every friend's birthday and special day to prepare the gifts for. He would always be ready for any celebration months ahead! Basically, he is a 'backbone' person of the community, doing his best and lost to a pointless quest he has lost in anyway.

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Thank you for the ask!

[fareehaandspaniards]

I want to put all the guys here in good resolution and also resave them hehe

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Hi Faree! 3 (and 11?) For Mico, Damian & Gremia!

3. What first drew you to this character?

11. How did you “fall in love” with this character?

Micolash

The FIRST of the FIRSTEST things that drew me to Micolash is that art by @junwei_vivi on twitter!!!!!!

I didn't even know this is Micolash, pinterest just showed me this image and I fell in love!!! I thought it's a book character!!!! Madman or sort of magician??? Anyway I saved this image and looked at it often until saw Micolash in game and fell in love MUCH harder!!

Damian

I answered 3rd question about my sweetest guy <here! But I might add for 11th question that I remember how I felt very sad and just searched everything connected with Mensis trio on Tumblr. Found some Damian fanart, opened wiki about him, looked at his game model VERY CLOSELY and heart made badump-badump! xd

Also my previous most favorite character was much like Damian. In terms of age, appearance, kind personality, tired look, devotion to one person, love for children, being a mother figure for many people... Ehhh... Malcador the Sigillite. I dropped Warhammer LONG time ago, but my hyperfixation was hard... Dropped because of the fandom and because of things that started to happen in the books. I wrote huge fanfic about Malcador, setting my own ending of the warhammer universe. I am still proud of that work + I wrote together with my mom! And it was... One of the best writing experiences. Malcador was very close to my heart, and I didn't expect to find a new heart-curing character in School of Mensis :^)

Gremia

The first-first-first thing of course was the fact that he is connected with Damian. Then I started analysing every detail of him and immediately had interpretation of his personality in my mind! I was interested in Tomb Prospectors, I like Chalice dungeones and would live there lol and their beautiful garbs, but Olek (tho I like him really much and have an interpretation of him and his fate) didn't intrigue me THIS much.

I fell in love deeply when finally developed his character. He reminds of the "protagonist" archetype, maybe because he is kind of protagonist in my current fic?? no way Also he is one the most funny summonable NPCs! xD Example:

Also I realised a few weeks ago that he has BLUE eyes, not brown, as I drew ;_; I will correct this mistake... (tho I don't want I like brown eyes T_T But canon is canon, it's my fault I didn't pay enough attention to him to notice that)

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TY for tagging me @heraldofcrow! :D

Five songs I am obsessed with:

This is so Gremia song for me. I can replay this for 100 times a day... Plus I listen this every morning when I go at work, gives me a lot of energy and goosebumps every time... So inspiring

Thanks to my husband I got to know this song... Oxxxymiron's music is amazing. Hidden sense of words, catching phrases and... This one took place of my favourite. Asscoiating this with Healing Church in general LOL

This song made me cry when I watched the clip.... God... We were crying together with my mom. It made me think of a story about little kid that turned out to be a huge fic in Warhammer 40k setting...

RN gives me Damian and Jiri vibes...........

Ylvis are best! I love almost all their songs, it happens rare with me xD I encountered this song by accident and was kinda blehhh :P And later fell in love!

Christmas makes me cry every year! :'D And this song beats everything out of me. Too bright, too kind, too nice and too connected with my mistakes in life. But helps to overcome them and feel better

@gilveciy ;^)