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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

You asked for it... and in 2025, which marks Bloodborne's 10th anniversary, the infamous Gehrmaria fanfiction is finally here >:D or at least, the first few chapters are. I hope I'll be able to update this regularly but I don't want to make any promises.

More info below the cut <3

Some things to know about this:

Winter Solstice was originally a collection of one shots lacking real connecting tissue. Sure, they were written in the same universe and certain chapters referenced things that had happened in others but it was, overall, a bit of a mess.

The bulk of the story was originally written entirely in Italian (200+ pages).

All the new chapters I'm adding to make the story easier to consume are being written directly in English. You may therefore notice a difference in style between the old and new chapters because the latter don't need to go through the process of translation. My writing style has also changed a bit during the years.

I have absolutely no idea how long this thing end up being. We'll see, lol.

Some of the original chapters were written by/cowritten with @nightmaredaisy

Winter Solstice is primarily a GehrmanXMaria story, but features practically the entire cast of Bloodborne in one way or another. It even gives space to minor characters nobody else aside from me gives a damn about, such as Graveguard Dores, the Password Gatekeeper and even some cut characters hidden in the files of the game.

Characters NOT featured include: Simon, Brador, Valtr, Gascoigne, Viola, Iosefka, Adella and Alfred. Others, like Eileen, Arianna and the Hunter play very minor roles.

The story covers a span of 6 years. It starts with Maria's arrival in Byrgenwerth and ends with the creation of the Hunter's Dream as we know it.

The Worldbuild is STRONK and probably my favorite thing about this fic and why I am so attached to it :D

The tone of the story flipflops between serious, comedic and the closest thing to actual existential horror I am capable of writing.

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Me, cup of coffee in one hand and Wacom pen in the other: happy Monday y’all, here’s some Boys to kick off your week <3

What? Me? Having a type? Nonsense!

Here’s 3 of my favorite characters of all time, my ‘perfect little angels who did nothing wrong uwu’, my role models, my husbandos, if you will. Two Phantoms and one Hunter, two of them speak French (well, actually all 3 of them if you select it from the PS4 menu, lol) and the one owned by Disney is objectively the most despicable of the trio.

From top to bottom we have:

Gehrman the First Hunter (Bloodborne, PS4, 2015) - So many great friendships were forged thanks to this fine gentleman.

Erik (Phantom of the Opera, Novel/Musical 1910/1986) - My personal English teacher, been taking lessons from him through a mirror for ages now.

Henry Ravenswood (Phantom Manor, Disneyland Paris, 1992) - The beginning of my obsession with anything dark, twisted and gothic. Also, probably the reason why I’ll never marry.

Wanna see more? Click here for my Bloodborne Blog and here for my Phantom Manor one! For more Erik, stay tuned here ;)

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Happy birthday Malakia! It’s @bellringermal‘s birthday, and this Gehrman is all for her <3

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Wow, I didn’t expect to get so invested in your fanfic! Maria is such a pain in the ass (affectionate) and Gehrman’s out here living up to his “it always comes down to me to clean up after these sorts of messes” while being absolutely DONE with everyone’s bullshit. Didn’t think I’d end up rooting for them this hard, but here we are XD

Aww, thank you! Glad you're enjoying it, I'm having tons of fun reworking and expanding on the fic! I love those two cretins soo much and it has been quite fun writing 'bitchy' Maria for multiple chapters. Back when this story was comprised of one-shots that lacked connecting tissue, her first appearance already presented her as someone her on the way of becoming more personable with the Byrgenwerth gang.

Now that I'm writing down things chronologically, I have the time to show how much her experience at the college affects her (and how everyone else changes their opinion of her too! She's not the only one with prejudice, obviously) and give more space to the secondary characters. I'm really enjoying writing Rom, Annalise and Laurence for example >:D

Thank you for reading <3 <3 I hope the next chapters won't disappoint you.

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Other stuff I've been working on while trying different coloring and line styles.

I much prefer the cartoonish look, ngl! Anything can be a Disney movie if you believe in it hard enough :P

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Tumblr and I agreed only once (…ler) on who was to be crowned sexyman.

As if this blog couldn't get more cursed than it already is, now you know that not only I ship the forbidden Bloodborne ship but... I was also in the infamous Once-ler fandom :P. I never had an ask blog nor I was going around shipping 'oncest' (lmao, that surely was a time. Great art tho!) but there were so many cool AUs such as Truffula Flu, Camp Entre, Camp Weehawken et simili that I still think are pretty cool.

As for the others characters some are more obscure than others but you can definitely tell I always had a type. Well, maybe two types >:D.

I had a long day so it was nice to relax and doodle my creepy old guys <3

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The big bad Spooky Season Gehrmaria art dump >:D