History NightmareFuel / Bloodborne

* The Living Failures boss is pretty unnerving. At least partly because of the clashing serenity of fighting is a garden of flowers against a group of faceless abominations. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiboHWwr12M music helps give the feeling]] of something wrong with the whole situation. Oh and unlike other boss fights against multiple enemies, don't think it will get easier as you kill them, as they will start spamming area covering homing spells while cloaking the arena in darkness.

** The end of this area contains possibly the most horrific thing to exist in ''Bloodborne'': A fully grown HalfHumanHybrid child of Kos, crawling out of her desiccated corpse. The site of this creature is deeply disturbing thanks to its hellish looks, but the existence of this entity also sheds light on two mysteries from the base game. The first is that Kos was a ''real, flesh and blood creature''; no one could interact with her because she is a sea creature, and more importantly, long dead. Two, against all odds, Kos actually ''[[TheBadGuyWins succeeded in creating an heir]]''.

** Think the game couldn't top itself after that? [[FromBadToWorse Wrong.]] If you come back to the house after the Blood Moon has appeared, you meet the sister of the girl, asking you if you've seen her sister. Now, you've got the choice of either lie and leave her in the dark, or give her the bloodstained ribbon and watch as she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Goes Mad from the Revelation]]. Think that's depressing enough? Come back later. Look at the bottom of the nearby ladder and watch the game throwing the [[NothingIsScarier nothing is scarier]] approach out of the window. '''[[DaylightHorror With the girl.]]''' It's almost like the game is telling you "Yeah, you really should stop expecting something like a [[FetchQuest fetch quest]] to end well in this town."

** The end of this area contains possibly the most horrific thing to exist in ''Bloodborne'': A fully grown HalfHumanHybrid child of Kos, crawling out of her dessicated corpse. The site of this creature is deeply disturbing thanks to its hellish looks, but the existence of this entity also sheds light on two mysteries from the base game. The first is that Kos was a ''real, flesh and blood creature''; no one could interact with her because she is a sea creature, and more importantly, long dead. Two, against all odds, Kos actually ''[[TheBadGuyWins succeeded in creating an heir]]''.

* The Living Failures boss is pretty unnerving. At least partly because of the clashing serenity of fighting is a garden of flowers against a group of faceless abominations. The [[https://youtu.be/4TmYqfQJxlU music helps give the feeling]] of something wrong with the whole situation. Oh and unlike other boss fights against multiple enemies, don't think it will get easier as you kill them, as they will start spamming area covering homing spells while cloaking the arena in darkness.

** That's because [[https://bloodborne.fandom.com/wiki/Cramped_Casket "something"]] ''can'' come out, at least in Yahar'Gul and certain Chalice Dungeons. Said something is [[BodyOfBodies a family's worth of Plague-infected corpses all mooshed together from being stuffed into the same coffin and rotting together in the dark.]]

** The Blue Elixir is an item that is stated to have been previously used by "The High Ministers of The Healing Church" when they conducted ''dubious'' experiments! With that knowledge under our caps, we then slowly begin to process the realization that the members of The Choir have not scatterd to the four winds, but on quite the contrary, they are all still here in Yharnam! ''THEY SUCCUMBED TO THE SCOURGE AND BECAME BEASTS THEMSELVES''! Like The Cleric Beast, who was a former member of The Church! In a wonderful example of LaserGuidedKarma, for all of their egregious actions, they became that which they sought so hard to avoid! Of course, then again, their selfish and immoral actions [[YouAreWhatYouHate already gave them a rather beastly demeanor]]!

** The Orphan of Kos is one of the most horrific things in the entire game. It is a huge humanoid creature, almost skeletal-like, that shrieks and hollers as it attempts to cut you down with its own placenta, molded into a sharp club and covered with pustles and eyes. Even more disturbingly, it becomes clear after seeing it in action that the The Orphan of Kos is a pale imitation of '''the Hunters''' -- an extending, transforming weapon, agile movements, ranged shotgun-like attacks, and brutal swings. Hell, the organ it uses to fight even ''looks'' like the sawcleaver, and the way the Orphan's skin flaps in the wind during the second phase looks awfully similar to the glowing cloaks and mantles of Hunter outfits. Kos's greatest creation, her goal all along, was to create a beast powerful enough to cut down those who hunted her own kind and killed her. It's not clear which is worse — that Kos hated humans so much that she molded her child into a weapon to destroy them, or that the Orphan is ''really'' good at his job. What does said creature do once it is revealed to the player? Crawl out of its mother's corpse, stand up in the rain, look into the sun… [[LastOfHisKind and begin to sob.]] Is it crying because it is the last of its kind, or because, as a hybrid, it doesn't truly belong anywhere?

*** Another lovely example from the nightmare is The Brain of Mensis. She can make your frenzy skyrocket from almost a mile away,[[note]][[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer that's not hyperbole,]] the "unlight" that causes your Frenzy levels to rise when you look at the Citadel is eventually revealed to be her[[/note]], though how and why are never made clear. Her design [[NauseaFuel is also sickening;]] a ''terribly rotten'', misshapen mountain of flesh absolutely riddled with eyes, that is somehow [[BodyHorror aware and autonomous without a body]]. Once you drop it into the pit within its tower, the Brain will land in an dark abyss where its heartbeat reverberates through the space — thankfully, if you meet it there, it doesn't attack you (and even gives you a rune if you use the Make Contact gesture for a minute). Yet the subtle implications are arguably the worst; various texts and dialogs throughout the game imply that gaining enough insight will “line the brain with eyes”. Given the amount of insight you have obtained thus far, you could be looking at a 1,000x scale model of something currently ''[[EyesDoNotBelongThere inside your own head.]]''

* Winter Lanterns, ''oh dear god''. These hulking monstrosities are formed from the remains of the Messengers you see regularly throughout the game, creepily adorned in The Doll’s attire, and their most prominent feature is their massive, bulbous head that’s more of an amalgamation of grotesque tentacles and eyes than an upper body, and let’s not forget they have MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily as shown during their nightmare-inducing grab attack. [[HellIsThatNoise Even more unsettling is the off-key, disjointed]] ''singing'' they emit seconds before you encounter them that sounds like what Azathoth’s mindless henchmen sing to him to get him to sleep. Eeeugh…

** Even the citizens you talk to behind locked doors aren't safe. During the initial Evening phase, most of them converse with you sanely and lucidly. By the time of the Night or even Blood Moon phase, they're either howling mad, laughing manically, or [[NothingIsScarier not even respondent whatsoever]].

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