Arianna's fate is Bloodborne's thematic horror, distilled || Bloodborne Analysis — Transcript

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1. 0:00Ariana is a by her own description
2. 0:02a sex worker in yarnam who you can send
3. 0:04to the Chapel to protect her from the
4. 0:05night of the hunt in gratitude she will
5. 0:07share her tainted blood with you which
6. 0:09you can use as a healing item as the
7. 0:10night progresses she grows visibly sick
8. 0:12slumping in her chair with pain in her
9. 0:13abdomen until eventually she vanishes
10. 0:15from the chapel leaving a trail of blood
11. 0:17behind her you find her in the nearby
12. 0:19sewer chamber crying in abject horror
13. 0:21because she has given birth to a
14. 0:22mischief and horrible infant great one
15. 0:24in Bergen wrath you'll find a prophecy
16. 0:25that reads when the red moon descends a
17. 0:27wound will be blessed with child the
18. 0:29great ones desire children desperately
19. 0:31and will bless a womb to obtain them
20. 0:33whether the person who owns the womb
21. 0:34wants it or not violence against women's
22. 0:36bodies and the horror of pregnancy is a
23. 0:38major theme in bloodborne the fetus is
24. 0:40Parasite birth as a traumatic violation
25. 0:42of both the child and the mother
26. 0:43apparent figures as inscrutable and
27. 0:44Noble Elder Gods it's everywhere in the
28. 0:47game's subtext we are born of the blood
29. 0:48made men by the blood undone by the
30. 0:50blood Ariana's fate is a tragic and
31. 0:52horrifying reminder of what that adage
32. 0:54really means subscribe here for sure to
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