History TearJerker / Bloodborne

* In the final third of the game [[spoiler: most of the survivors you brought to the Oedon Chapel earlier clearly lose their minds. The Old Woman gets high on sedatives and believes you are her child. Adella the Nun can only laugh insanely at what her world has become. The Chapel Keeper, whose only concern was helping others as best he could, just repeats that Yharnam is done for over and over again. The paranoid old man, however, [[OnlySaneMan is the only one to keep his shit together]]. Arianna, well... see below. And you, who can take on beasts the size of small buildings and look in the eye nightmares that would turn most men into gibbering wrecks, can do nothing to help...]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential except putting them out of their misery.]]

* In the final third of the game [[spoiler: most of the survivors you brought to the Oedon Chapel earlier clearly lose their minds. The Old Woman gets high on sedatives and believes you are her child. Adella the Nun can only laugh insanely at what her world has become. The Chapel Keeper, whose only concern was helping others as best he could, just repeats that Yharnam is done for over and over again. The paranoid old man, however, [[OnlySaneMan is the only one to keep his shit together]]. Arianna, well... see below. And you, who can take on beasts the size of small buildings and look in the eye nightmares that would turn most men into gibbering wrecks, can do nothing to help...]] [[PlayerCrueltyPotential except putting them out of their misery.]]

* In the final third of the game [[spoiler: most of the survivors you brought to the Oedon Chapel earlier clearly lose their minds. The Old Woman believes you are her child. Adella the Nun can only laugh inanely at what her world has become. The Chapel Keeper, whose only concern was helping others as best he could, just repeats that Yharnam is done for over and over again. The paranoid old man, however, [[OnlySaneMan is the only one to keep his shit together]]. Arianna, well... see below. And you, who can take on beasts the size of small buildings and look in the eye nightmares that would turn most men into gibbering wrecks, can do nothing to help... except putting them out of their misery.]]

*** It is also implied that [[spoiler: Kos]] perished in an attempt to grant her child life, as she was dead prior to washing up onto the shore. She willingly surrendered her immortality out of love for her child... [[YouMonster and you butcher it less than a minuet after it's born]].

** Withholding the brooch and sending her to Iosefka's Clinic will grant you a consumable item. [[spoiler: However, the girl's life is forfeit, as she will be experimented on soon after you send her to the clinic.]]

* Near the middle of the game, [[spoiler: after defeating Rom the Vacuous Spider]], if one returns to the Cathedral Ward, and brought [[spoiler: [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Arianna the Woman of Pleasure]]]] there earlier in the game, she will be missing. And if you listen carefully you can hear something, [[spoiler: a baby's cries.]] Go into the basement of the Cathedral and find [[spoiler: Arianna sitting next to a [[EldritchAbomination newborn monster, which is implied to be the newly made Great One of this hunting cycle.]] It's heartbreaking to see this friendly woman who freely offered her blood to you with no expectation of reward reduced to [[DespairEventHorizon sobbing and laughing insanely as her mind breaks under the strain of having been an incubator for an unholy abomination]].]] And there's nothing you can do for her except leave her to her madness, or give her a clean dignified end.

* Near the end of the game, [[spoiler: after defeating Micolash the Host of the Nightmare (at least)]], if one returns to the Cathedral Ward, and brought [[spoiler: [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Arianna the Woman of Pleasure]]]] there earlier in the game, she will be missing. And if you listen carefully you can hear something, [[spoiler: a baby's cries.]] Go into the basement of the Cathedral and find [[spoiler: Arianna sitting next to a [[EldritchAbomination newborn monster, which is implied to be the newly made Great One of this hunting cycle.]] It's heartbreaking to see this friendly woman who freely offered her blood to you with no expectation of reward reduced to [[DespairEventHorizon sobbing and laughing insanely as her mind breaks under the strain of having been an incubator for an unholy abomination]].]] And there's nothing you can do for her except leave her to her madness, or give her a clean dignified end.

** There's also [[spoiler: Kos herself. In a way the fact that she died is sad, due to the fact that this means that all the prayers and sacrifices the people of Yharnam have done in her name were all for naught]].

* The final boss of the DLC establishes its essential nature very well by [[spoiler: climbing out of its mother's corpse]], standing on its legs for the first time in its life, and immediately sobbing at [[LastofHisKind the sheer loneliness]] that it has been subjected to.

*** It goes even worse when you realize [[spoiler: the Doll's true identity is in fact, none other than [[TheLostLenore Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower]]. She was admired by Gehrman, and was unaware of [[DirtyOldMan his curious mania]], talking about obsession.]]

* There is also the origin and nature of the [[spoiler: Plain Doll]] herself. You eventually discover that The Hunter’s Dream is [[spoiler: the ideal fantasy of Gehrman, who was the first hunter in Yharnam’s history]]. If you look hard enough, you can even find the [[spoiler: original workshop]] within Yharnam proper, including [[spoiler: an identical duplicate of the doll, sitting in a corner. Evidently, she’s a recreation of someone so incredibly dear to Gehrman that, being unable to cope with her loss, he made an exact replica of her in exquisite detail]].
** While this obsession and it’s implications are already tragic, Gehrman’s present treatment and attitude toward the Doll make her situation all the more heartbreaking; after being trapped in The Hunter’s Dream for generations, he’s so weary and jaded of everything within the dream that he’s become utterly indifferent to both the doll [[spoiler: and the memory of the woman she represents]]. All the more telling; the Doll needs a person’s love to act and speak on her own… and she’s utterly inanimate when you first meet her. A random stranger passing by was able to give her the affection she needed to live, and Gehrman, the one who created her, couldn’t or wouldn’t summon even that small shred of empathy. It is little wonder that she refers to you as “good hunter”, no matter how you act.

** This at least get somewhat relieved when you talk to [[spoiler:the Plain Doll]] afterwards, who mentions she feels as if she's been freed from heavy shackles she didn't even know she was wearing.

*** Gehrman is so callus and scornful of the Plain Doll that he even invites you to "use the doll" with the heavy implication of ''rape'' if such is your pleasure. It’s made even worse with the implication that the Doll is so eager for another’s love that she would suffer through it without complaint. Who knows what Gehrman did to her all those years, while she was inanimate and helpless to say or do anything about it…

*** The [[spoiler: Tear Stone]]'s description [[spoiler:"A doll sheds neither blood nor tears and thus its nature remains unknown. Whoever thinks this is precious must be troubled by severe naivete."]] even implied that Gehrman had been "using" the doll for years for his pleasure.

* Ludwig's ultimate fate. [[spoiler:He turns into a horrific beast and barely seems sane before getting into a fight with the player and getting his head cut off. There's a final moment of clarity and then the head goes barking mad, forcing you to kill it. It's mentioned that the only mercy was that he died with his ideals intact and that was as good as any hero got in this world.]]

* Some of the beasts in the hunter's nightmare are the same variety as those in old Yharnam, who shy away from fire. Those in the nightmare may cower in abject terror from the hunter him/her self however; they've been brutalized so often by the insane hunters that roam the nightmare that they have lost all will to fight, and just want to be left alone. Of course, this will never happen for as long as the nightmare persists. It's enough to pity the poor creatures, cause one can't help but wonder if old Djura had a point...

** Rom, the "Byrgenwerth Spider", was using her powers to [[spoiler: hold the other great ones in check, apparently in an effort to protect the humanity from the great ones. She doesn't even attack you directly until you have damn near killed her, and once she is dead, everything goes straight to hell.]]

* Although the boss in question has never seen you before, and has no qualms about slaughtering you without a second thought, [[spoiler: Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower]] is a difficult fight for anyone who's invested themselves in the story. It feels like [[spoiler: you're betraying a friend, and murdering the final shred of innocence in this bleak, desolate world]].
--> [[spoiler:'''Lady Maria'']]: ([[spoiler: With the Plain Doll's voice]]) [[WhamLine A corpse... should be left well alone...]]

* Although the boss in question has never seen you before, and has no qualms about slaughtering you without a second thought, [[spoiler: Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower]] is a difficult fight for anyone who's invested themselves in the story. It feels like [[spoiler: you're murdering the final shred of innocence in this bleak, desolate world]].

* Although the boss in question has never seen you before, and has no qualms about slaughtering you without a second thought, [[spoiler: Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower]] is a difficult fight for anyone who's invested themselves in the story. It feels like [[spoiler you're murdering the final shred of innocence in this bleak, desolate world]].

* Although the boss in question has never seen you before, and has no qualms about slaughtering you without a second thought, [[spoiler: Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower]] is a difficult fight for anyone who's invested themselves in the story. Even though it is a straight up boss fight, [[it still feels like you're murdering your only friend in this bleak, desolate world]].

* Ludwig's ultimate fate. [[spoiler:He turns into a horrific beast and barely seems sane before getting into a fight with the player and getting his head cut off. There's a final moment of clarity and then the head goes barking mad, forcing you to kill it. It's mentioned that the only mercy was that he died with his ideals intact and that was as good as any hero got in this world.]]

*** After unshackling it, you can travel down into the abyss and see it...badly injured, still alive. If you perform the "Make Contact" gesture for a while towards it, it will give you a very powerful rune. That's right, even though you've done your best to ''murder'' it, it still tries to ''help'' you.
* [[spoiler: The last words of Micolash can be pretty sad, although they can also be seen as mildly humorous. See "Bloodborne/Funny".]]
-->[[spoiler: Micolash: Now I'm waking up! I'll forget everything!]]

*** In fact, if it hadn't been for the [[spoiler: Moon Presence, The Hunt would never have existed, and you would have become just another victim among hundreds slain by the beasts and madmen. No wonder it's so clearly enraged during the final boss fight; It saved your life, and in return you killed it's most trusted servant, (after he offered to set you free no less) and are now trying to slaughter it in order to gain it's power.]] The whole situation is reminiscent of that tale about the farmer and the serpent...

* Even Gehrman himself has a sad past, being the First Hunter and the Keeper of Hunter's Dream. [[spoiler: He's forced to serve the [[EldritchAbomination Moon Presence]] for eternity, only to hear his sad words about his former allies, from Laurence to Willem, and his wishes to awake from the nightmare. The only way to free him is to refuse his offer [[MercyKill and kill]] him, but that will result in either you replacing Gehrman as the new keeper of the dream, or becoming a Great One yourself if you use three of the four umbilical cords you can find, which will let you fight the Moon Presence. Despite he wants to be freed from the Dream, he chose to [[SelfSacrificeScheme sacrifice himself]] and frees the Hunters instead, he would rather carry all thes tears and burdens onto his own. The night, and the dream, were long.]]

** And if you go into the final boss battle without the being adequately prepared, [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding it will probably be YOU who are sitting in that same chair years from now; a legendary hunter, capable of overcoming unspeakable horrors, reduced to tears as an eternity of the dream weighs down upon your mind...]] ]]
* One of the first friendly characters you meet is Gilbert, a man who came to Yharnam for the exact same reason as you, but also found far more than he bargained for. Considering the game's lack of explanation or direction and the immense difficulty, many players will probably feel out of their depths at this point, making it easy to relate to him. Although severally sick and barely able to speak without coughing, he helps you any way he can without expecting anything in return; he is content with the dignity of dying with his humanity intact. [[spoiler: In the end, he is denied even that small comfort. As the game progresses, he begins to nearly sob with despair, wondering what horrible crime he must have committed to warrant such torment. The next time you visit his area, you find the window to his house busted open from within... and realize that the beast you slaughtered just a few moments prior was the only friend you had in this godforsaken city.]]

*** It's not just Gehrman. Many hunters, like Eileen if her PreMortemOneLiner is anything to go by, are implied to have been to the Hunter's Dream at some point. If they ever had any regard for the Doll, they sure don't right now. The PlayerCharacter may very well be her OnlyFriend.

* The last words of Micolash can be pretty sad, although they can also be seen as mildly humorous. See "Bloodborne/Funny.