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In the mythos of Bloodborne, a classic gothic horror video game from Fromsoft released in 2015, few things are ever outlined explicitly in the text. Playing this game while trying to piece together the story felt rather like an exercise in literary analysis - which should come as no surprise, given how heavily the game draws from Lovecraftian horror and other classic touchstones. This is why I believe it is so crucial to understand the literary, historical, and cultural context Bloodborne exists in to get a full appreciation for and understanding of the story. However, these theorycrafting discussions at times seem to neglect that key aspect. The purpose of this essay is to recontextualize Bloodborne’s story as it relates to the mysterious character of the Doll. I will be drawing on classical literature, the historical context the game references, as well as the modern context that Bloodborne was released into.
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26 Jan 2025
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AU. A chance encounter forces the Shadowlord to question everything he knows.
Or: an epic journey to defeat the greatest villain of all – miscommunication.
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17 Nov 2024
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"It is unknown why Sakuya works in the house where devils dwell, and why the vampires trust her. She seems to possess a certain degree of influence in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, enough to even sometimes give orders to the vampires. According to one theory, she may have been a vampire hunter from the Outside World..."
- Hieda no Akyuu, Gensokyo Chronicle
The Order had sent three of its best hunters on what was supposed to be a simple mission. Complications arose.
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27 Oct 2024
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Usami Renko has passed into fantasy, mostly by her own hand. To live together with the world of dreams, she has to find out the meaning behind why she did so— and stop running from her own hopes. A sequel (and conclusion) to minutes/millennia.
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- Part 2 of minutes/millennia
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26 May 2024
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Pieced back together, the two of them become something beautiful.
(Fem!Tom Riddle/Harry Potter, with a twist.)
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23 Mar 2023
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Eater of Joy, Weaver of Webs by Gothiiknight
Fandoms: The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher, Parahumans Series - Wildbow
20 Nov 2022
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After Contessa kills Taylor, the [Queen Administrator] flees with her host's soul tucked in amongst crystalline data banks, seeking some way to repair the creature she'd betrayed her Progenitor for. Past a strange expanse and through gates that weren't comprehensible even to her own advanced sensory suite, the shard finds a metaphysical nest of creatures that are silver, strange and Hungry. The nest has an offer for her and her host...and the White Court is about to gain a vampire that neither they nor the rest of the world is precisely ready for.
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- Part 1 of The Camthi Files
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17 Feb 2023
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The Chronicles of Tanya the Fuehrer by WileyC
Fandoms: 幼女戦記 | Youjo Senki | Saga of Tanya the Evil (Manga), 幼女戦記 | Youjo Senki | Saga of Tanya the Evil (Anime), 幼女戦記 | Youjo Senki | Saga of Tanya the Evil - Carlo Zen (Light Novels)
13 Jun 2026
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A power vacuum opens up after the Great War and Tanya is sucked into it.
Note: Oh, that teen and up rating? I mean that. Tanya is NOT Hitler. No gas chambers, no Dr. Mengele, no death camps. We all good? Great!
Semi-spoiler description: The Empire has lost the war and suffers under oppression by their enemies from the humiliating terms of surrender. Beset on all sides, they turn toward the one that had never failed them, never faltered, and has overcome all obstacles: White Silver.
Barred from active military service by treaty, Tanya turns her attention toward an arena where she is much more comfortable... politics!
NOTE: It has been said, rightly, that it takes a few chapters before she gets into politics. This is true.
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13 Feb 2023
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After an inspiring night at Ucchan's, Nabiki decides to begin a hostile takeover of Ukyou's star waitress and kunoichi. While she goes into it thinking of the profit motive, things change as she actually gets to know the outwardly shy girl.
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13 Dec 2022
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Fria, the Winter Maiden, catches a deathly case of pneumonia just as Ruby Rose is making her perilous journey to Mistral. With Winter missing and Penny still to be repaired, Ironwood is out of prepared candidates to inherit her power. Facing the possibility of losing the power amongst the general population, Ironwood enacts a desperate gamble.
He needs someone who can stand up to Salem's Fall Maiden - and who better than the silver-eyed girl who already has?
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29 Dec 2021
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Sunshine's continuing adventures as she explores Gensokyo, meets new people, and generally enjoys being a kid.
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- Part 2 of The Dollmaker's Daughter
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26 Oct 2021
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It’s a fact that super-unified physics student Usami Renko can no longer ignore: she’s in love with her best friend, Maribel Hearn. When their two vastly different worlds, the worlds of reality and fantasy, of subjectivity and objectivity, come crashing together, will their friendship become something more, or will everything prove to be just an empty dream?
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20 Oct 2021
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Four completely normal days in Yoshika's life: Bellowing poetry, attempting to eat wildlife, defacing monuments, and chasing intruders.
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17 Oct 2021
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Killing each other is easy.
The aftermath is when things usually get uncomfortable.
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16 Oct 2021
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Dreamers by Bobika
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types
07 Jul 2022
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Travelling across worlds proved not quite as smooth as Luna had made it sound. Still, Harry wasn't one to abort a plan just because it didn't survive the first moments of execution.
An adventure of a resourceful fem!Harry; spanning from the reclamation of Erebor to the end of the Third Age.
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01 Sep 2021
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The Devil's Story by Castella
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
17 Jun 2014
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Then I suppose someday, you will become my enemy as well.
Madoka and Homura were bound to become enemies at some point.
For a god and her devil, that conflict was their inevitable and fated end.Post-Rebellion Homura/Madoka. (Eventual) good end.
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24 Aug 2021
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Caster was everything. Maybe it wasn’t healthy. Maybe it wasn’t right. But without Caster, she would simply be Kishinami Hakuno and nothing else. She would not grow, develop, learn, shape, decide. She would be a useless lump amidst corpses. Even if she was no longer Kishinami Hakuno, she should’ve had Caster.
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19 Aug 2021
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The Extraction of a Soul and the Archaeology Involved by Chyme
Fandoms: Fate/EXTRA, Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms
26 Dec 2017
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Tamamo was dead. And also everywhere Hakuno looked.
But sometimes, to re-find what has been lost, we must learn to look in different places.
[A 'what-if?' scenario following the ending of the first Fate/Extra game]
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19 Aug 2021
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Not all wars are black and white, as Harry learns when the second war with Voldemort seems to be painted in nothing but shades of grey. In which Harry is confused, Tonks is overwhelmed, Barty is a genius, Snape hates everyone, Dumbledore is trying his best, and Voldemort is having the time of her life. fem!Voldemort
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08 Aug 2021
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Touched by the Arcane by lisbeth00
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Bloodborne (Video Game)
17 May 2022
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Catherine Potter dreams of things that should not be - a Paleblood sky and the distant screams of a being not quite dead, wrested from its mother's bloodied grasp.
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Portrait of a Sociopath as a Loving Mother by myrskytuuli
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Apr 2018
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Lily Evans got described by many adjectives: vivacious, charming, bright, natural, talented, brave, funny, witty, kind, popular...Truly, she was an exceptional witch who for some reason left behind her a trail of deeply troubled individuals.
Answer to the question: What would change in the story if Lily Evans had been born a sociopath is: not necessarily anything.- Language:
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29 May 2021