Bloodborne Story ► Father Gascoigne

From Software Lore in in two sentences: Even when you try to do good, you ruin peoples lives. Have fun, you monster.

How to play a from software game Step 1. Help someone in need Step 2. Do something good and pure hearted Step 3. Listen to how you've ruined everybodies life

"We're looking for a man garbed in black" Oh yeah, that narrows it down alright

I don't think Gascoigne killed Viola. Look at her, she's not exactly been mauled, if anything it looks like someone shot her, or stabbed her. Gascoigne uses a shotgun and swings an axe in wide arcs. Her corpse would show evidence of multiple bullets, or wide cuts if Gascoigne had killed her. No, Gascoigne didn't kill her. The Yharnamites did. Gascoigne finds her body, and those responsible. This pushes him over the edge. He goes berserk, slaughtering the Yharnamites, hacking them to pieces, giving in to his inner beast. We arrive, to find Gascoigne too far gone. The music box reminds him of who he was, and who he lost. However, it cannot break the grip of the beast because at the same time as it calls to the "real" Gascoigne, it reminds him of the woman he loved, and her senseless murder driving him back into a frenzied rage.

"It's almost like his last words are 'Forgive me...'" "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!"

"And when daddy forgets us, we play it for him so he remembers" fuck i'm crying

Dev Team: "So how much suffering do you want in the story?" Miyazaki: "YES"

"We don't have the heart to give a child her dead mother's brooch." Speak for yourself. I was expecting a fat reward.

"Oh my gods, what have I done?!" -Everyone of us

As much as I hate escort missions, I'd have happily protected the girl on her way to the chapel. Hell, I'd bring her sister along. Though honestly they are safer in their home, so yeah, just not interfering is really the best choice

I always thought they were sisters until I got this dialogue I had missed so many times. The older girl pretends to cry until you walk away and hear “what a perfect ribbon. And now it’s mine. I can’t wait to try it on.” Now you could write it off as she’s just insane like most yharnamites are becoming but the fact she says “what a perfect ribbon” implies that she’s never been so close to the ribbon or held it herself. It makes sense. The first little girl NEVER mentions a sister and even lists off a bunch of people she loves. The second girl only arrives after you’ve sent the first to cathedral ward or the clinic. I think that the second girl lives in one of the 2 houses at the bottom of the ladder. The first little girl had to have went thru there. So the second girl sees her leave and makes her way to gascoignes house looking for the ribbon and when you get there she lies about being her sister so she won’t get in trouble. After giving her the ribbon she cleans the blood from it and tries to sneak back to her home but can’t avoid the troll coming down the ladder. This also makes sense because If you run past the troll you can go up the ladder before he can hit you but if you’re coming down the ladder he’s liable to hit you right as you come off. I think this theory falls in line with the whole theme of deception in this game from the NPCs like Iosefkas imposter and The suspicious beggar. Anyway we’ll NEVER know for sure. All according to Miyazaki’s plan.

I used Gascoigne's questline in my D&D campaign and my players bawled their eyes out. Such a good questline.

"I love you as much as mum and dad" Feels x 1000

I'd like to think that the wife ran into Gascoigne fighting the Yharnamites, she somehow got into the fight and was murdered by one of them, making Gascoigne go mad. Explains why he kept slicing up the corpses in madness and anger, and maybe that event was enough to tip him over to beasthood and insanity.

"No one can foretell the consequences of your good intentions" -Patches the Unbreakable

Wow, you’re practically a born narrator, your voice is so calm, yet serious. It’s just so narrative.

Man what a depressing story my god.

Vaati, here's the real kicker with the whole Bloodborne lore: EVERYTHING, goes back to Master Willem at Byrgenworth. Everything. The discovery of the blood, Ebrietas, the Old Ones, the founding of the Church, Choir and Mensis, all of it. So now here's the question How did a guy who's school is soley devoted to smoking weed and talking about the stars fuck up so hard that he got everyone killed in just a few years without ever leaving his chair?

The oldest sister actually laughs and starts saying how pretty the ribbon is if you take a few steps away from the window

6:55 "we don't have the heart to give a child her dead mothers brooch" ~flashback begins~ Well, well, well maybe not all of us but certainly some of us. ~Crying intensifies~