Last week was Bloodborne's 10th Anniversary, and I did a quick drawing with markers for the celebration that I'd uploaded to my other social media accounts. However, I said I wanted to do a more elaborate fan art and paint them in watercolors, as I promised in that fanart.
What I like most about this game is its artwork. So much so that I have the art book for it. What impacted me the most was the scene where they change the shape of the moon after defeating Rom and then seeing the consequences that the Blood Moon has on the environment, revealing the true horrors of Yharnam (especially when you get to the second part of Yahar'gul).
It's my favorite Fromsoftware game, and thanks to it, I discovered the Souls saga, and that was 10 years ago.
I hope you like it, and best regards, everyone.
Eme
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Tools: Painted with watercolors Winsor & Newton and Daniel Smith, white inkĀ onĀ HahnemĆ¼hle watercolor paper.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Letās say itās 6.15pm and youāre going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. Youāre really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you donāt know if youāll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!
NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONEā¦
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911.
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Iāve had to learn a couple different techniques to combat this due to my heart condition. Being revived is NOT fun guys, would not recommend, and everyone should know how to help themselves.
Oh boy. Uhm. This feels like a massively loaded question considering that I know that Pale King-related discourse is very common in this fandom but I'm feeling brave today so let's go. Prepare for a long reply, anon, hope you're ready for Ashe to actually write their headcanons on main.
Well first off, I think the fandom does the character a grievous injustice the majority of the time, which is exceedingly frustrating considering that heās one of the few characters in the game to have any nuance at all. The majority of the fandom either goes out of their way to demonize him (by far the most common sentiment, which is infuriating), or they make him way too sympathetic and/or try to excuse/write off/defend/redeem him for the horrible things that heās done in the events of the game. Both of these stances ignore that the character is layered like an onion and deserves to be treated as such.
Iām gonna address the demonizing thing first, because itās more common in fanfiction which is where the majority of my followers found me, and is also where the mass of my experience can be found. Demonizing PK as āruthless, evil baby killerā ignores the fact that he was put into a no-win situation as king of a kingdom that was entirely reliant upon him (whether by his choice or not is unclear, canon makes it obvious people are inclined to follow wyrms but we do not know for sure if this is something he wanted or just incidental). His own dialogue and actions show us that everything he did, he did with a heavy heart. He did not do these things to be cruel, he did not do these things thoughtlessly, and he certainly did not do these things and forget about them.
PK in essence was presented with next to no options to defeat an enemy that was willing to stop at nothing to get what she wanted; she was willing to kill countless people, with no thought for what all she harmed and damaged along the way. He was king and responsible for those peopleās lives. He had to do something.
We donāt know what he knew going into the vessel plan. Based on Monomonās studies, and the Pale Kingās own, we can assume that he probably tried other options. We have wingmoulds and kingsmoulds to show us that he absolutely was experimenting with void before he reached the conclusion of sacrificing his own children. He had to have come to the conclusion that this was the only option that he had. Based on the seal on the Abyss, itās one that he regretted, found disgusting, and if you take his death in White Palace to be from guilt (which I do), itās one that he never forgave himself for. āNo cost too great.ā
Vessels by design are supposed to be empty. I do not think this design choice was to be cruel. I think he tried to design them not to feel not only to protect them from Radi but also to protect them from experiencing what he was asking of them. And I truly, 100% believe that by the end, he realized heād failed. That Hollow was not empty. He just had no other option, his grand be-all end-all plan was relying on their success.
(Note: My headcanon is that World Sense is PKās apology to Hollow, in his own way. I also headcanon that PK foresaw Hallownest being saved in one of / all of the endings, and all of them involved Hollow having to be sacrificed. I believe that he died of guilt for doing what he thought he had to.)
So with all of this in mind, though: How can you demonize him for a choice that he made, that was a no-win situation? Is it a wrong choice? Probably. Were there better options? Weāll never know. What we do know is it is not one he made lightly. He knew his acts were monstrous. He did not go into these decisions thinking himself a hero. He locked himself away afterwards and it ate away at him slowly. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. He lost everything in an attempt to save his kingdom from dying to the Radiance. Whether you like him or not, you have to acknowledge the fact that he did think that his plan would save his people. That his end goal was a good one.
(And I will not get into arguments about colonizing / conquering / etc. I do not think this is usually a source of discourse, but when it does come up, itās usually in defense of the Radiance, who is as guilty as he is of the same damn shit. @ruthlesslistener wrote a post on that subject that Iām sure Iāve reblogged. Thereās no point in me repeating it.)
So with that in mind, you might be asking yourself, āSo are you not a PK apologist?ā And the answer is no. Heās done fucking horrible shit and I am not sorry at all for him. I do not pity him. I do not think he deserves forgiveness. I do not think he deserves to be redeemed. Thereās a big difference between understanding the reason a character does something and agreeing with it. Most of the time, when people try to redeem him, it is either erasing the whole baby pit thing (either by time travel or just simply saying it Never Happened), or altering Hollowās perception of that act (as if they are the only one who was hurt by that act). In the case of the former, you are no longer writing the Pale King. You are writing a wyrm shaped guy. The choices he made exist for a reason. Wiping them out, without good cause, drastically alters his character. I understand people think he has a cool design/character motif, he does. But thatās not even the tip of the iceberg of what makes him an interesting character.
He isnāt a villain.
He isnāt a hero.
And he would not want you to redeem him. He sure as fuck didnāt try to redeem himself.
Let him be morally gray. Thatās what makes him a fun character to write and an excellent plot device to include. Let him be complicated. He deserves at least that much.
