#rubiacanons

[rubia-peregrinart]

Norbert | One of several high-ranking clerics in the Healing Church who served as surrogates during the Vicar's absences. Of those who lived to this day, none remain human. Albina | Blood Saint who fell out of function after contracting Ashen Blood yet refused to abandon the locals. Pthumerian ascent gives her the instinct to remain by a Chalice even through beasthood. Paarl | Loran elder who lead a group of refugees into Yharnam, despite being already doomed herself - unaware the plague they meant to leave behind would catch up soon enough.

man bloodborbe has so many characters to work with (makes more characters)

brain hit me with a "hey what if we did a faceless for the beasts too" and because i'm still Struggling, i decided to simply line and color this lunchbreak sketch which may be in the middle of my work notes but had the merit to be spontaneous

Norbert's name comes from the game's original drafts, while the idea of the BSB having been a Blood Saint comes once again from Oodles' Must we burn it all. <3

also... what if..............

(punches my desk) WHAT IF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rubia-peregrinart]

Hey I just saw your shitposting with Laurence and Amelia as Lion King refs, this is hilarious XD That made me think of a question though! The both descriptions of Gold Pendant and official BB guide state that there were generations of Vicars between Laurence and Amelia 🤔 How many of them do you think were here? You have some OCs for these spots? And if yes, and Amelia was already a baby within the Church walls, what was her relationship with other vicars predating her while she is growing up?

i haven't even seen that movie but the jokes write themselves :pensive clown:

To be honest yeah this is something I overlooked until recently ! And to be honest² uuuuhhhh... my take on that is probably gonna go somewhat against canon, I mean if it really speaks in generations then canon probably didn't mean for Laurence and Amelia to have been alive at the same time at all. But the idea was Important to me,,,

Unless they meant generations as in... one vicar after the other, each with short "reigns", rather than age ? Because BB as we know it likely spans over less than a century, if Gehrman aging within the Dream is any indication, so there couldn't have been that many,, but also i'm notoriously bad with ages and time so it's wholly possible that i'm just screwing myself over sgdhfjghkj

NOW with this said, first for a bit of context - I hc that Amelia was spotted early on in the Orphanage as one of those kids with naturally high insight AND decent frenzy resistance (i have that hc for Viola and her younger daughter as well). Perhaps she had quality blood as well, but either way, Laurence chose her early on as her successor. It doesn't reflect in my drawings here, but he was already starting to slip at the time, so it was HUGELY convenient too lmao

And what I have for now, which is fresh and still under construction, is what I've introduced with my take on the Cleric Beast we fight in-game here ! Instead of one (line of) Vicar(s) between the two, there was a council of sorts that served as Laurence's surrogates during his absences in Cathedral Ward. Of course, "absences" include "brutal and premature death to beasthood" and Amelia was like five back then.

Again I'm still thinking about it, but if I had to pick at least one to be Vicar I guess it'd be Norbert here, as I prefer to re-use existing characters as much as possible. I haven't thought about the kind of man he was yet and by extension his relationship to Amelia, but among the council you could have differing scenarios towards her. Some would be kind, if they knew her as a child and grew fond, but there would definitely be at least one planning to take the power for themself and try to get her killed before she was of age ! In fact, I just had the idea that this one would get killed by Henriett (then a church huntress and Amelia's... really good friend), and that's why she had to leave afterwards. X)