A Hunter's New Home is a Fanfic by AgeOfDrag0ns. It is a crossover between Bloodborne and Monster Girl Encyclopedia. In it, The Good Hunter has managed to escape Yharnam and must now deal with the world of the MGE Series of Books. The story's Summary is as follows:
The Hunt is Over. The Moon Presence lies dead, and The Good Hunter has become the new master of the Dream. However, wanting to get away from the horrible place that is Yharnam, she has willed the Hunter's Workshop to a new realm. One filled with lustful Monster Girls and the humans who oppose them.
Inspired by The Good Hunter by StaffSergeant, A Hunter's New Home is another Crossover Fanfic. Some of the major differences between the two, besides the Female Main Character, is that the Huntress is much less bloodthirsty and nihilistic than Cyril. In addition, the story takes place after Lescatie has already fallen rather than just before it did.
The fanfic can be found on Archive of Our Own (here
), SpaceBattles.com (here), Royal Road (here), Wattpad, and FanFiction.Net (here).
A Hunter's New Home provides examples of:
- Acceptable Breaks from Canon: Considering this is an AU fanfic, this is expected. Though how acceptable they are is up to debate.
- Action Girl: The Good Hunter is female, and the story is set after the Childhood's Beginning ending of Bloodborne. Meaning she managed to beat every single Beast, Hunter, and Boss that tried to kill her back in Yharnam. In the MGE World, she's even more of a force to be reckoned with considering her experience and skills.
- Alternate Universe Fic: The Author has admitted that, after being made aware of numerous Soft Reboots done by the
Original Creator of the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, the story can now be considered an Alternate Universe Fic due to the fact that he wrote it before being made aware of the Reboots. - Anti-Hero: Make no mistake, the Good Hunter is a hero. But her willingness to Shoot the Dog leaves her allies questioning this at times.
- Anti-Magic: The Mamono in MGE turn people into monsters by corrupting the Mana that acts as every living thing's Life Energy. In Chapter 1, The Good Hunter seems to be completely immune to this. It is revealed in Chapter 6, that this is likely due to how any Mana that enters her body gets destroyed. Then in Chapter 17, the Good Hunter uses this power to (possibly) heal one of her friends, and then accidentally kill a Mamono that broke into her house by absorbing the Mana in their bodies.
- Armor-Piercing Question: The Good Hunter, when called out on her ruthlessness toward Mamono, promptly asks if the Order or any Hero has managed to reclaim land taken by the Mamono. The character who asks this is not able to answer, showing just how naïve they are in assuming they can defeat the DL.
- Big Brother Instinct: Nick has this in spades. Most of what he does revolves around defending his sister, Maggie, from their Landlord, Brigid Montgomery. When the Mercenaries manage to corner Montgomery, they ask Nick what he wants to do with him. Nick does not hesitate to tell them to lock him in a shack (with what might be a Sex Stockade in it) and set the shack on fire. Don't fuck with this kid's family.
- Brutal Honesty: The Good Hunter to a literal fault at times. She has repeatedly admitted to committing what others in the Setting consider crimes, isn't afraid to let others know what she thinks of their fighting styles/ideologies/methods of dress, and hasn't shied away from saying she is a blood soaked killer. This, unfortunately, has led to making situations worse more often than not. The few things she will not be truthful about are her past, the Plague from Yharnam, and the Great Ones.
- Bullying a Dragon: One of the major themes of the fanfic. Most of the major events in the story could be averted if the aggressors simply left The Good Hunter alone. Yet, they don't. Mamono keep trying to corrupt her, the Order tries to kill her, the Fallen God and Poseidon want her corrupted or imprisoned, and Druella wants her because she's interesting.
- Corrupt Church: Considering its a Strawman representation of the Church in setting primarily focused around adult content, this is expected. There's plenty of unsavory things that the Order does in the shadows that are described in the books. Including Sex Slavery, bribery, extortion, and more. In fact, many Heroes end up going to the Mamono specifically because of the Order's corruption.
- Church Militant: The Order takes up this mantle. While not the primary military force in the world, they are the main ones trying to fight against the Mamono while being led by the Intern Chief God. Emphasis on "trying".
- Crack Fic: Well...duh. There's honestly no way a Hunter from **Bloodborne** would be able to come to another world like MGE. Even if they did, there's no guarantee their powers would work like how The Good Hunter's do here.
- Crapsack World: The Monster Girl Encyclopedia world is inhabited by an army of monster girls who will gladly rape mankind into extinction and the Order who fights them, but at times strays into Knight Templar territory in opposing their foes. The Good Hunter isn't really interested in taking sides here.
- Crossover: As stated in the Summary above, this story is a Crossover between Bloodborne and Monster Girl Encyclopedia.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The very first fight in the crossover. The Good Hunter is surrounded by fifty plus Mamono, who have just finished sacking Lescatie. She not only defeats all of them, but manages to ensure that not a single one escapes to chase after the wagon she was saving.
- Dark Fic: While not the case when talking about Bloodborne considering the source material, it certainly looks at MGE in a darker light than the source material.
- Defector from Decadence: After Selina's conversation with the Goddesses, Ares and Eros defect from the Monster Lord's side, and are now either allied with Selina or Neutral at worst towards her. They will also no longer aid the Monster Lord's campaign. This causes a rift to form between the two goddesses and their friends, Poseidon and the Fallen Goddess.
- Dented Iron: An interesting aversion. The Hunter examines herself in a mirror and is surprised to find she has no visible scars or imperfections, not even eye bags despite the extreme effort of traversing Yharnam and then barely sleeping in the MGE world.
- Elsewhere Fic: The story so far has focused entirely on OC characters. The only Canon Characters shown have been Druella, Kuroferuru, and the Goddesses. And they haven't really had much focus on them.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Played straight, then subverted. Throughout the first twenty-four Chapters, the main character goes by numerous titles or a false name. The Huntress, Hunt, Catherine, The Good Hunter, etc. However, in Chapter 25 her name is finally revealed; Selina.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: How Selina manages to get Ares and Eros on her side. During her talk with the Goddesses, Selina asks some very pointed questions about the invasion of Lescatie, which causes Ares to start asking questions. Questions that Poseidon and the Fallen Goddess didn't have answers for.
- Hidden Buxom: As it turned out, the Good Hunter has quite sizable assets which - according to Ares - are bigger than even a Demon's, one of Mamono species with the largest busts. As part of how the Hunter does not realize the changes to her own body, when she prepares to don Lady Maria's clothes, at the moment of binding her breasts, they flatten considerably.
- Horrifying the Horror: Ares, the god(dess) of war, briefly tries to call out the Good Hunter for killing so many of her subjects. The latter's Death Glare sends her packing with her tail between her legs.
- Humanoid Abomination: The Good Hunter's human self is actually a puppet made from her memories of being a human. She's actually an intelligent Great One infant who just neutralizes any mana in her system.
- Iaijutsu Practitioner: Koga seems to fight like this, though we have yet to see him in action.
- I Do Not Own: While not on the fanfic at first, the author placed a "I own nothing" disclaimer at the top of the fanfic after a few chapters.
- Ignore the Fanservice: See Not Distracted By The Sexy below.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: Bloodborne and MGE don't share a universe.
- Jerkass Has a Point: The Good Hunter could have worded it better, but she isn't wrong when she notes that, if humanity wants to stand a chance against the Mamono, offering mercy is not an option.
- Knight Templar: The Good Hunter will not allow the Beast Plague from Yharnam to spread to the MGE world. Everything else is secondary to this goal.
- Mama Bear: The Good Hunter in certain cases. The moment the Dhampir reveals that she is a Mamono, she lunges into battle with no hesitation to protect her children.
- Motive Misidentification: When the scrying Gods witness the Good Hunter's Hidden Buxom as she briefly interacts with a Mamono Living Doll, Eros claims she has finally gotten tired of killing and has shapeshifted into a desirable form to initiate a family. Cue the furious Hunter clobbering the Doll.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: Technically applies to both the Setting and The Good Hunter. For the Setting, it's a NSFW World. Women wearing revealing outfits is considered the norm. So most people don't bring attention to it. For The Good Hunter, she seems completely immune to all forms of seduction.
- No Saving Throw: The Mamono. The Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki describes many Monster Girls as having powers that are Instant-Win Conditions. A notable one is the Dragon Zombie Girl whose has "rotten breath" which "in the case of women, their resistance to monsterization will be corroded along with their rational faculties."
- No-Sell: Much of the Mamono weaponry and fighting methods are non-lethal, instead relying on corrupting the Mana of their opponents to transform and seduce them. Since any Mana that enters the Good Hunter's body gets destroyed, this trope tends to happen whenever she "fights" a Mamono.
- Our Vampires Are Different: When interrogating a Dhampir the two get into a short spat over what a vampire is. The Dhampyr means the Mamono type of vampires, while the Good Hunter means the Vilebloods from Cainhurst.
- Outside-Context Problem: The Good Hunter, obviously. At base she's already a human who's stronger, faster, and more ruthless than any Hero or Mamono in existence. However, it's her ability to absorb and destroy Mana that makes her a completely foreign entity to everyone in the setting. As it makes her immune to Mamono Corruption and Seduction, allows her to no sell multiple magical attacks, and essentially lets her undo monsterization.
- By the same token, the Plain Doll can do impossible things through Insight. Matilda, a doll-based Mamono, is left speechless by her ability to feel love rather than lust, and the Doll intervenes as she lays dying and regretting she could never feel the same. Whatever the Doll did, Matilda died, and something much closer to the Doll was left behind.
- Poor Communication Kills: Averted. When four of the Goddesses appear in the Huntress home to negotiate Selina actually manages to communicate with them. To the point where she's able to convince Eros and Ares to join her side, or at least not see her as a threat. As well as help them start questioning whether the Demon Lord's plan/motives are actually right. Unfortunately, due to the Fallen Goddess and Poseidon's Selective Obliviousness, the two of them still end up opposed to Selina.
- Purposely Overpowered: The Author of the story has repeatedly stated that he made The Good Hunter overpowered on purpose, so that she could actually stand a chance against the Mamono. See No Saving Throw above for details.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Koga's response to Hel explaining his backstory and how what happened to his father was a "good thing". He doesn't take it very well.
- Resurrective Immortality: As expected of a Player Character from a FromSoftware game, The Good Hunter has a form of this trope. She's only died once so far, but she almost immediately came back afterwards.
- Selective Obliviousness: When Selina points out the problems with the Demon Lord's plan for humanity, the Fallen Goddess and Poseidon blow off her concerns or just say she's being paranoid, and that none of the things she says can happen will happen.
- It might also not entirely be their fault. The end of the conversation between Selina and the Goddesses imply that in some way, both Poseidon and the Fallen Goddess have been entirely monsterized, and now are near blindly devoted to the cause of the Monster Lord.
- Story-Breaker Power: Selina and how. The Mamono's main method of attack is completely useless against her, due to all Mana that enters her body getting destroyed. Since Mana flows through the bodies of every living thing in the MGE Setting, and corrupting that Mana is the main way Mamono defeat their opponents...well her power breaking the established story is a bit of an understatement.
- Suicide by Cop: In Chapter 36, Francisca reveals that her power to see people's Mana is far more advanced than others...causing her to glimpse the truth behind Selina's existence and what it means. In response, she removed her own eyes and revealed this to Selina, knowing the Huntress would kill her to keep the secrets of Yharnam away from the world.
- The Church: The Order is a thinly veiled Strawman stand in for Christianity.
- The Power of Love: Somewhat subverted. A Mamono called a Cupid is sent by Eros, the god(dess)of love, to fire a Cupid's Arrow into The Good Hunter's heart to make her change her ways. The arrow hits the Good Hunter..and does nothing.
- Warrior Undead: Koga, formerly, Kogero. Considering he's an Ochimusha, which is basically an undead samurai, this is to be expected.
- What the Hell Are You?: The God(desses) and Mamono's general reaction to The Good Hunter. Considering she can come back from the dead, destroy Mana through absorption, and looks like she has no Mana which is the equivalent of her being a walking corpse (not to be confused with the other walking corpses in MGE) this is understandable.
- Willfully Weak: Selina, as can be expected of an infantile Great One. She's intentionally suppressing her strength because the potential damage that the Beast Plague of Yharnam could do to the MGE World is possibly far greater than what they're prepared for.
- Would Hurt a Child: The Good Hunter has no qualms with killing baby Mamono. Considering what she's faced up to this point, it's understandable.
