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edns · 1 year

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"Alive..." Short drabble under the cut if you would like to read the story behind this!

“Alive! You are alive!” A silver-haired man ran towards confused Dimitri, tears in his eyes, his face distorted with grief too familiar. Was that another ghost that would haunt him? Even though Dimitri could not remember the man, something about him was so very familiar. Familiar enough for him to not attack immediately. “Halt. What do you think you’re doing?”

The other man stopped, looking confused for a brief moment. He inspected Dimitri, fixing his round glasses. “Ah… You must not have met me like this yet… Not yet.” Dimitri growled. He had no time for all this talking. This could be another imperial spy that was after his head… And yet, somehow, he felt that was not the case. Still, he picked his lance up to be ready to defend himself. “My name is- is Cyrus,” he stuttered as he raised his both hands, showing that he was defenseless. “I am not here to take your life; put down your weapon… p-please.” That stutter… It sounded warm… “It matters not if you are after my head or not. I might as well be a corpse,” Dimitri frowned, his eye locked on this Cyrus. “It only matters to me if you serve… that woman…” His gaze drifted away from Cyrus as he spoke, into nothingness, his thoughts drowned out by a haze of rage, until…

“… Dima.” Cyrus’ voice managed to cut through that haze, like a sharp sword. He looked back up only to see that Cyrus had already approached him closer with a smile, silent tears streaming down his cheeks. “No…” Dimitri’s voice cracked as he stepped away; he moved his lance towards Cyrus, threatening to attack. “I cannot let you get out of here alive…” “No need. I am- I am not leaving.”

Cyrus closed the distance between them, pulling Dimitri into a hug… So fearlessly, as if the threat of a weapon meant nothing to him. Dimitri could not help but drop his lance out of sheer shock… A loud clanking noise echoed across the cathedral as the lance hit the destroyed tile floor. Sobbing into the fur of Dimitri’s cloak, Cyrus squeezed him desperately, leaving him utterly befuddled.

“… This is indeed a first…” He muttered to himself. “For a man unknown to haunt me… and be this kind. How lonely must I be…” Cyrus said nothing to that, sniffling quietly as sunlight of the dawn washed over the cathedral.

#fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe3h oc #fe3h au #fe3h fanfic #fe3h fanart #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #dimitri fe3h #cymitri #Emerges from the fog like hellauuuurrr #I writed for the first time in ages I hope its not too bad lol #This is very largely out of context there is so much missing here but hehe Cyrus lore #I wanna ramble about the context here but uhhhh I kinda wanna reveal it over time #Excuse the doodle being not the best quality btw I am so tired and I wanted to just doodle the drabble just kind of happened spontaneously #I am not very confident abt my writing rn sorry if this is not the best I am a little rusty ahh

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waywardsalt · 1 year

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the phantom hourglass manga is the one i care about the most out of all of the loz manga and therefore the one i am most willing to rip apart because of its relation to the game, its own problems, and the potential that was lost or thrown away for any reason at all

making this separate than the list of things i liked about the phantom hourglass manga

im not going to be too organized about this; ill go by topic and in each topic go in chronological order through the manga and everything else will probably be all over the place

im not even going to touch the story yet and just go after the art off the bat because i really believe that this manga has the weakest art of all of them. i dont know if its due to some kind of time crunch or a lack of care but its really… im not expecting any of these books to have killer art, but in ph it just feels like there was less effort with inconsistencies in some designs and either very low detail or just absent backgrounds. this feels like a mean-spirited critique since i understand that manga is difficult to create and requires a lot of effort but its just visually… worse than the loz manga that came before or after it.

some specific grievances i have with the art are things like inconsistent designs of some characters (linebeck is hard to draw and i get that but hes just… never totally consistent) and some items like weapons (the shape of bellumbeck’s sword changes during the fight for some reason) and stuff is… left out. the fire temple has basically no layout since link’s just in some flavor of void for the entire blaaz fight. one of the panels with linebeck’s ship shows it from the behind at an angle where you should see the deck but its just not there

his ship is also missing its chimney on the cover art

this is also more of an opinion thing but the way astrid looks almost nothing like her game counterpart is just… it’s a nickpick based on opinion but that is Not The Same Character.

you can absolutely tell a fantastic story with lacking art, but the reason why im criticizing this manga’s art is because its the tenth in a series of manga who, up until this point, has had consistently good art, and then it drops off with weak backgrounds and character inconsistencies.

plus, i really care about how this story is visually portrayed.

the pacing, even with half of the story cut, is also a bit of a problem. as far as i'm aware, this is the only loz manga to have significant chunks of the story cut out, and while it admittedly works well with only half of the story, it fucks with the pacing a bit. specifically, it screws over linebeck's arc, which i'll talk about more in a different section, but it also kind of glosses over the phantom sword and (obviously) loses some possible time for further character exploration and whatever. the cut from the ghost ship right to jolene right to the final boss is, while handled well, kind of abrupt.

obviously, cutting half of the damn story will make what's kept feel a little too fast, but even some of the stuff more original to the manga is paced weirdly or is just... eh.

there's a bit after neri is found where linebeck decides to stop working with link and basically ditches him and this whole thing lasts one to two goddamn pages before everything is patched up and good and... why even include it if you turn the page and oh problem fucking solved. it's even a little out of character for linebeck at that point since a few pages before he's seen getting the sands of time for link and it's... it make sense but it's a really extreme character choice and while it serves its purpose (introducing the idea of linebeck not valuing other people very much and realizing that) it's still extremely brief.

the added stuff with linebeck being a past member of the ghost ship, while fine and interesting at first glance is also a strange choice that doesn't work all that well? it works for characterization and all of that but it makes for a weird situation with linebeck's character motivation where he's a coward and after the ghost ship for the treasure on it, but if he was present on the ghost ship literally as it was fucking gutted then he would know exactly what the danger of the ship is and want to avoid it no matter what. in the game his motivation for going after the ghost ship works because he doesn't know for certain whats on that ship and has never been on it. plus, aside from character backstory and whatever, it doesnt serve much of a purpose. linebeck even makes some comments about the ship's interior and the like but it all amounts to nothing because link never actually goes into the ship anyways. it's just a weird backstory to give linebeck.

the shuffling around (and cutting of one of) the three final bosses is also weird. it makes sense for the story order the manga goes with, but it actually lowers the stakes for the bellumbeck fight (in the game literally everything is on the line but in the manga its just linebeck and they absolutely use that to their advantage but still) and mixing the ghost ship fight and bellum fights make the final encounter really brief and kind of anticlimactic in some way. it's difficult to express, but the order of the final bosses in the game makes bellum a more interesting villain and melds with linebeck's arc in a much more interesting way. it feels like there was a specific reason for that given order and for the manga to just toss that aside means it loses something.

also reserving pretty much an entire chapter for jolene is A Choice to make. there's nothing wrong with using an adaptation to flesh out a character but here you don't learn anything new about jolene she just kind of makes very little sense in her motivations when you give her more screen time but dont change her from wanting to kill linebeck for fucking off but also still liking him maybe. good for you if you like jolene since she got more time here but they did pretty much nothing interesting with her

this is something i figured out while writing this, but the manga actually does Fuck All with the actual hourglass. you could've cut the fucking thing out and it wouldn't have effected the story too much. link never goes into the temple every again and the phantom sword is just. made on request with link having no interaction with it before using it to kill bellum. the only time the phantom hourglass is actually plot relevant aside from link first getting it and then using it to gather sand is when bellum tells link to bring it to the temple and then it's used exactly once to stop time and then it's used as proof that everything happened. oshus says link needs to use it and the sand to break the curse over the temple of the ocean king and then that never actually happens the sand and the hourglass is just used once to stop time once and otherwise it might as well not be in the story it's so weird. it's also implied that oshus needs the sand to restore tetra after he returns to his own true form but they dont say anything about that after he initially mentions it so who cares. oshus also tells link that zuaz will teach him how to defeat bellum. link never meets zuaz and still beats bellum anyways.

it feels like they cut the latter half of the story but forgot that the fucking majority of linebeck's entire goddamn character arc happens in that part of the story. sure, most of the cutscenes and whatever happens in the first part and linebeck does develop a bit in the first part but he doesn't really start to change until after the ghost ship, when you get his letter and his dialogue starts to change slightly to suggest that he's starting to like link more and care about something other than the possibility of treasure. the manga cutting out the latter half of the story but still making linebeck's arc end in similar places makes his arc feel really fast and even abrupt in the manga. he goes from being fully motivated to get treasure and still kind of selfish to caring a lot for link and deciding not to wish for treasure and the time was just NOT put in to make that a smooth transition.

honestly linebeck overall got fucked in the manga more than any other character. his arc was shafted, his characterization is strange and even kind of changed from the game, he's never drawn consistently and doesn't even look great since he seems to be stuck between two styles when he's drawn, he's more shallow and generally a less interesting character, and while most of that is probably a product of having one book to cover ph, it's still a problem.

like with all of the loz manga, the extremely limited amount of space and time the story is given absolutely fucks it over so you really are stuck with telling nothing more than an abridged and seriously inferior version of the story. i dont care how good the original stuff is if it barely qualifies as a good adaptation. the story wasn't told all of the way and none of the game's strengths are kept or expanded upon. you lose the majority of the best character's arc and depth. half of the story was cut. the title item is barely used. it feels like they didn't really care about adapting phantom hourglass and just hashed out a trimmed-down version of the story to fit into 188 pages and while there was some effort put in with a bit of a unique take on linebeck but it just falls flat when everything around it feels like it wasn't given a second thought.

i'm not suggesting that the author's didn't fucking care, i don't know what the process was with this, but it just... it doesnt feel like they actually wanted to earnestly create a good adaptation of this game. i have an altered perspective on all of this because this game is my special interest and something i deeply care about and inspect the little details of and it kinda just sucks that phantom hourglass never got a good adaptation because... this game has some serious potential for a really good extended adaptation.

Unlike the other Zelda games that the other manga cover, the structure of the journey in Phantom Hourglass has an insane amount of space for fleshing out of character, exploration of new concepts or character relationships, or just.. whatever you want. Providing you cover the original story, of course. Off the bat, there's a nebulous amount of travel time between islands, which can be used by authors for character moments and interactions and just little moments that can be used to further themes or concepts. You can use the implied time overseas between islands to have some interactions between Link and Linebeck. Show the three fairies hanging out with each other. Show the whole crew becoming closer to each other as time drags on.

Linebeck's existence and function within Phantom Hourglass alone is so fucking unique and amazingly good for an extended adaptation. In most other Zelda games, the companions are pretty much glued to Link's side and follows him through dungeons, or they're characters locked in a specific place, more or less divorced from Link's quest, but Linebeck is an integral part of the plot, present for every part of it as it advances, and yet he's out doing fuck-all while Link is in dungeons. He's a great excuse for authors to add detail to islands, write new characterization for background characters, or even just give Linebeck his own b-plot running concurrently with the game's normal plot. He's important to the plot and yet doesn't touch the gameplay; he's free to do whatever you want while Link does dungeon stuff. One possible idea I've mentioned before is the idea of, while Link is in the temple of the Ocean King, is to create and explore a possible relationship between Oshus and Linebeck. Scenes of them talking can be used to flesh out Oshus as a character and to add some extra depth to Linebeck and make his arc more interesting to follow.

There is... SO MUCH you can do with Phantom Hourglass if you care enough to do it, and I'm just so frustrated that we got this solid 4/10 of a manga.

#salty talks #bitching about the loz manga #hi if you think i'm wrong or made a mistake in this i implore you to fucking yell at me for it #i care about this game so fucking much that i would love to know if i fucked this up in any way #anyways uhhhh yeah. oof. it sucks.#i dont like jolene at all and have tags blacklisted to reflect that and will not touch stuff w/ her so thats why i dont read this much #jolene wanting to kill linebeck but still being implied to be attached to him makes me slightly uncomfortable ngl #probably one of the biggest reasons why i dislike her so much she gives me really bad vibes and is annoying #anyways. yall out here talking about how this manga has good dadbeck moments are fucking lying #maybe i cant see it because i have a good relationship with my dad but at best he's just. idk he gives a shit abt link at the most #i hate manga astrid i hate her so muhc. like. look at astrid in the game. what the fuck were the manga artists smoking #game astrid looks nothing like manga astrid and i like game astrid better.#this is incoherent bc im tired and i dont know how to write things like this and im so fucking tired #if you want clarification about any of this like you want me to talk about something specific?#send an ask or bring it up in a reblog or smth ill gladly discuss this book and why i kinda want to feed it to my dog #i just. game linebeck has queer vibes. game linebeck can be read as autistic #manga linebeck is neither. milquetoast ass fuckin wet cardboard take on a character #i dont even hate him he just fucking sucks compared to game linebeck #like. i hold game bellumbeck in such high regard bc everything about is is wonderful its a beautiful climax #every little thing about it is great i love the stakes i love the implications you can make about linebeck about bellum #the music the atmosphere the events leading up to it its place compared to other final bosses #manga bellumbeck is cool but its not what it could be #i didnt add any more photo evidence for art grievances bc theres a lot. bellumbeck's design changes between chapters #can you tell when making this post is no longer fueled by tired hate. can you #i thought about painting a target on my back and tagging this as phantom hourglass but thats a bad idea lol

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that-was-anticlimactic · 2 years

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sometimes i think about my mutuals. and then. i want to hug them.

#idk nothing happened i'm just in a friendship mood right now #like one of those moods when i want to cry because y'all are RIGHT THERE but also SO FAR AWAY #and i talk about y'all ALL THE TIME #today someone mentioned that they couldn't find any good s.t fanfics so i sent them nellie and kaylynn's fics and i was emotional #it's so wild how we've never met each other but we know so much about each other #the fact that so many of y'all have genuinely let me send you letters is just... so wild to me (affectionate) bc i was honestly expecting no #one to want that??? but y'all did and i get to write you letters and y'ALL RESPOND??? and i have a shelf in my closet dedicated to y'all's #letters and just. frick. 'motional.#it's times like these when i'm like wow m.lp really made me get so emotional about friendship but that isn't really a bad thing - i actually #really love how much i care about friendship even though i'm so bad at making friends and it just sucks that y'all are so far away #internet friendships are my favorite thing but also one of the most excruciating things because. you're here but you Aren't #tho nothing beats the feeling of meeting an internet friend irl... i know i am going to absolutely SOB when i meet shannon...#we've been friends since 2013 and have never met... we're planning it some day. we are Determined.#i have a picture of shannon hung up in my apt lol #ahem uhhhh anyways sorry for this. idk. just emotional about friendship right now ig #mutuals my beloved tag

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artofapeach · 2 years

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“I didn’t get to any harem parts, so can’t comment on those. Hopefully there’s nothing underage, but there’s always that person skbdjwjske” here a line from full moon conjuring”On the ground was a thirteen year old female girl, with a slim, but very attractive” also most of the girls he sexualize are 16.

Wow! That’s not okay! :D

Although, to put things in perspective, do we know the writer’s age? If he’s a minor himself, then he could just be that edgy teen trying to do as many things viewed as wrong as possible. Kids are stupid. They’re bound to explore things they shouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean we should put them on a spike for it. The drama back then with Viv should be lesson enough for that.

Also there’s the question on if the other party is also a teen? Like, the line provided? “On the ground was a thirteen year old female girl, with a slim, but very attractive” Uh awkward grammar and redundancy aside, if this is written from the perspective of another 14 year old, it doesn’t seem that bad?

I dunno, I see so many people bash on others for being “problematic” without considering the full context of everything. I’ve got an English degree, so I’ve read some fucked up shit that’s considered classics today, so the iffy fanfic community kinda doesn’t hit me as hard? Hell, sometimes it’s nicer because it’s clear that they’re exploring it as pure fiction and not considered one of their real life ideals kensjsjdj

I mean, like I said, I didn’t view all this guy’s stuff and I very much don’t *want* to. He could very well be an awful creep, but like, I kinda…don’t know why you wanted me to look at this? Especially since I’ve stated multiple times before that underage ships make me uncomfortable. It’s not like I can do anything about him ww

I will never, ever be for censorship. I think people should write whatever the fuck they want, because you never know what may help people cope with what’s going on with their life or process their own thoughts. But at the same time, I personally would prefer not to see it and even filter out certain tags were they come up often.

You wanna know the problematic shit I’m into? Murder! Body horror! Monster fucking! That Guillermo del Toro shit!

Not underage/pedophilia/incest/etc. None of those iffy ships. I don’t mind discussing the concept of them, but I would much rather not see any examples ^^;

#I dunno some people may hate me for sharing this #I know there are a lot of people who are like ‘pr*shippers should not exist!’#and hey maybe this ask was deliberately to try to make me look bad I dunno #but again I have a lot of experience with stories #and I know better that just because you write it in fiction doesn’t mean you wanna do it in real life #I write a lot about murder; have no plans to murder anyone #so I dunno I just think people should just block what they don’t want to see and go about their day #maybe I’m wrong I dunno feel free to argue I’m super open minded #but I think people fail to view things in a perspective that’s different from their’s #I’m kinda rambling now ksndjsjjs #hey an ask #not art #uhhhh should I tag this with triggers?#tw proship #really wanted to avoid that word but I’d rather people be safe with their mental health #ask to tag #long post

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paranormal-potatoes · 2 years

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Here is a sad prompt with the old man, Gherman:

"....You were... My sunshine, My only.. S-sun... Shine, You made me happy... When skies... We-were gray... You'll ne-never.... Know, Dear, How much I loved you...."

*His voice becomes shakier, Tears begin to fall*

"....So please... Oh please don't take.... M-my sunshine away...."

"....Gehrman, Are you....crying?"

okay i swear i meant for this to be angstier but uhh idk, not as much crying, could be more but i need to just post what i have before i overthink and then never do it bc ~anxiety~ also this hasn't been betaed or edited that much so. also ended up longer than i thought so under readmore. also ended up only having like 1 line of the song being said/sang bc i feel weird about including songs in stories unless its like. karaoke or a song playing on the radio

takes place in my time travel au. anyways have this before i chicken out

given im posting this from my phone, i hope the formatting doesnt fuck up.

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“...my sunshine, my only sunshine...”

“... are you singing?”

Taylor startles, spinning around and knocking their Saw Cleaver to the ground, fortunately missing the bottles by the work table.

Hm, I should probably move those, it’ll be quite a mess if they break.

“Fuck! How are you so quiet? You’re in a wheelchair!”

They’ve been here some time, their mask hanging around their neck instead of pulled up to their nose. A new scar marks their neck, likely a fatal one from its placing.

They retrieve their weapon, placing it back on the table.

He should probably ask how they’re handling the constant dying.

“Were you singing?” he repeats instead.

To his amusement, their cheeks immediately redden.

Good gods, they need more sunlight, they’re paler than Maria was.

They rub the back of their neck, embarrassed.

“No? I’m not that good at singing.”

And some self-confidence. Are they this nervous in combat?

“I was just humming, I’m sorry if–”

He interrupts, “Why are you apologizing?”

They shrink a bit and he can hear Ludwig lamenting his people skills, already poor before his confinement. He prefers teaching over reassurance.

Gehrman tries a different approach.

“What can you hear?”

They blink, tilting their head to listen, the burnt feather edges of their cap making them even more birdlike.

Hm, I wonder if Eileen is still the Hunter of Hunters.

“Wind. The fire. Messengers chittering,” they frown, focusing.

“And what does Yharnam sound like?”

Their expression blanks for a moment.

“Before nightfall,” he clarifies.

“Um. Dogs, people moving inside their homes. Quiet talking, birds. Water in the canal. Wind, fire crackling. Huntsmen walking around,” they list.

He lifts an eyebrow.

“Oh,” they realize what he’s getting at. “It’s a lot quieter here. There’s less, uh, life.”

“I might prefer quiet over dozens of talking people, but that’s a preference, not–” he gestures around them.

“That’s a choice.”

Well, this was a choice, too, but not one he knew the extent of.

Their expression suggests they’re familiar with choices being taken from them.

“Your humming, or singing, isn’t a problem. You’re welcome to continue.”

They nod hesitantly.

He leaves.

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After that, he hears Taylor humming in the Dream, sometimes singing softly enough he can only catch some of the words.

(“...my sunshine, my only sunshine...”)

They always turn to humming or simply stop when they notice him.

They’ll come looking for him at times, if only to say hello, sometimes asking questions or showing him something they’ve found.

He almost starts laughing when they show him a Reiterpallasch and Chikage they recovered from Cainhurst. He’s less amused when they explain they found an unopened summons addressed to them, even less so when they admit they accepted a covenant with the Vileblood Queen.

They grudgingly tell him what happened in Cainhurst, about Logarius and the Vileblood slaughter, how the grounds are overrun with bloodlickers and dead women roam the halls.

He doesn’t know how to feel about that.

Maria’s mother came to the funeral to see her daughter again, refusing to look at any of the hunters. Her cousin, Cole, spent ten minutes glaring at Gehrman, blaming him for his cousin’s death.

He doesn’t disagree.

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Taylor brings more weapons to show him, ones they found in Yharnam or the dungeons.

They’re extremely delighted to show him ones recovered from the dungeons, enamored with the Beast Cutter and Boom Hammer.

He shows them a picture of the Whirligig Saw, telling them it was designed by the Powder Kegs, who also made their Rifle Spear and the Boom Hammer.

Their eyes glitter in excitement.

Perhaps telling them about it was a mistake.

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They find some of Teague’s old writing from before he shortened his name. He would be delighted someone else who rejected gender would take his name.

Teagan looks far livelier than when they first arrived.

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He finds himself humming as he puts them back together, stitching their chest closed.

A beast didn’t do this. This was done by a knife, someone was careful and deliberate. Someone with experience carved them open.

(“H–help...”)

He shouldn’t have let himself become this attached. Once the hunt ends, they’ll be gone, forgetting all of this. He and Plain Doll will be alone once more.

He keeps humming and putting them back together.

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He finds himself humming the tune again while working on a Saw Cleaver.

He’s accepted this isn’t a dream, which leaves him with time travel. Somehow he’s in the past, before the first Blood Moon, before his contract.

Before Maria’s suicide and Teague’s death.

Before Teagan.

He’s sure they had something to do with this. If it were a dream, he’d say Flora was responsible but it isn’t.

Are they somewhere in the past? Or did they take his place?

No. Why would he have been pushed into the past if they had? So where are they? What happened to them?

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Teague, unsurprisingly, comes to find him, leans against the doorframe in silence.

“Still having too realistic dreams?”

He doesn’t answer.

“Or, uh, are you just not sleeping to avoid them?”

“Like you’re one to talk.”

Teague and Maria carried the most guilt over the hamlet. Maria threw herself into caring for her patients and Teague tried to run from it for a long time.

They all did. Sooner or later, it caught up to them. He hopes they at least found peace in death, but he doubts it.

Sometimes he thinks he got lucky, undying as he was. Other times he envies them for finding release from the guilt.

He wonders how Teague would react if he told him everything. Probably think he went mad. Perhaps he has. He has no proof anything he remembers happened at all.

Even his right leg is back, which keeps taking him by surprise. He keeps expecting pain when he walks for too long but it never comes. His memory isn’t failing him constantly and the world is no longer foggy.

It feels like a gift. It feels like a curse.

He shouldn’t have gotten so attached to Teagan, he shouldn’t have let them get so attached.

He has nothing of the dream but memories, a song he doesn’t even know the words to and the knowledge Teagan likely sacrificed something to give him a sunrise.

“... Gehrman, are you crying?” Teague asked.

He reaches up and finds tears.

“It would seem so.”

“Want to talk about it?”

“No.”

Teague snorts.

“Yeah, figured. It’s like pulling teeth with you. Between you and Maria, I’m about ready to get Ludwig involved. Let you two get motherhenned.”

“I’ll tell him you’re the one who broke his bedroom door.”

Teague holds his hands up in surrender, alarmed.

“Geez, alright, alright! No need to go that far, damn!”

He wipes the tears away.

“But, uh, seriously. I’m willing to listen.”

“I know. Go to sleep, if I have to wake you up in the morning, I’m using a bucket of water.”

“Only if you stop for the night and get some sleep yourself. Don’t think I haven’t noticed your shitty sleeping habits.”

He sighs but lays his tools down.

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“So!” Ludwig claps his hands, grinning brightly. “Someone from the south brought word of a village that had a three day long storm.”

Maria’s expression tightens. If he didn’t know what to look for now, Gehrman would have missed it. He kicks himself for missing it last time.

“And? Storms can be fucked up,” Teague said, picking at his nails.

“They aren’t normally preceded by a light burning through the woods and the waters rising several feet before the storm. It happened a month ago. They’ve requested assistance, the wildlife has turned aggressive and avoids the deep woods.”

“What is the village’s name?” Maria looks as she always had, but Gehrman can see the guilt and shame weighing on her now.

“Aramore. I thought us five could go investigate.”

“No, originally you wanted to take some new Hunters and I vetoed it because they wouldn’t be able to convince you not to adopt twenty children,” Laurence said, amused.

Ludwig waves him off.

“Bet we’re still coming home with a kid,” Teague jokes.

“Don’t jinx us, Amelia’s enough,” Gehrman said.

“Yes, my daughter is wonderful,” said Laurence, deliberately ignoring the two’s meaning. “She’d probably like a sibling. Or maybe one of you two will bring home a child.”

“Hell no, I’m not having kids ever.”

“I can barely tolerate adults, what makes you think I want a child?”

Teagan comes to mind. He doesn’t know when they were born or even their birth name but he thinks they would be the only child he’d choose to care for. Although, with his luck, he’d traumatize them more than they already were.

He turns his attention back to Ludwig, pushing the thoughts aside. The chances of him being able to find them again are low, especially without a birth year and family name. And even if he could find them again, he wouldn’t be able to do anything. They mentioned a mother once, clearly living and he’s not kidnapping a child.

It's pointless to consider.

He has nothing from the dream but memories and a song he doesn’t know the words to.

#potato answers #wyrms-bitch #potato writes fic #my writing #its been uhhhh ages since ive posted anything not wip so literally just take this before i chicken out and delete everything ever #oh fuck do i want this in the main bb tag #hhhhhhnnnnnggggg #do it do it do it just do it #bloodborne #literally cant express how rusty i am in writing #yes i know its mostly dialogue and introspection #im bad at description #wait no its deliberate. totally #totally deliberate #okay im just stalling at this poitn so fuck ig #ANYWAYS TAKE THIS #the actual au fic this is part of (not that this will be in it‚ this is just a one shot) is primarily a comedy so just #be aware #potato rambles in tags #<- BIG TIME RAMBLING #IM GONNA GO PLAY AND PRETEND IM NOT HORRIBLY ANXIOUS NOW HAHAHA #im deeply attached to this old man alright #WAIT HANG ON IF YOU'RE STILL READING THESE TAGS‚ EVERY RELATIONSHIP MENTIONED IS PLATONIC #INCLUDING MARIA AND GEHRMAN #I EXTREMELY READ HER AS GAY AND HIM AS AROACE #i also can read him as gay but mostly aroace #okay bye now #potatoes finished fics #fic: old man hunter & his eldritch child

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