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This week is Alicen McCombs by u/Aggressive_resort872

Alicen McCombs was an early-20-something C-B+ humanities student from a foreign academy who traveled to Yharnam to learn about the healing church while her classes were out of season and acquire Victorian-era ADHD medication. In a stroke of misfortune she was unwittingly drafted into the Hunt because she did not in fact read the contract presented to her by the minister during her blood transfusion, she never ended up getting prescribed any drugs, and now everything in the city wants to kill her assumedly because it happens to be That Time Of The Month for her and the beasts can sense the blood. Ms Mccombs quickly gets attatched to the few people not trying to see her dead and additonally unfortunately starts crushing on Alfred because she's in a near-constant state of distress and he's the first decent looking guy who's been nice to her the entire time she's been here, and her brother Gene (AKA Grumpy, because he thinks Gene is a stupid name. He was supposed to join her earlier but work held him up) eventually arrives and they go through the horrors of the hunt mostly together from then on.

Of course, having emotional support doesn't stop her from being devastated when most of her new compatriots aside from Valtr (he and the siblings start to have kind of a silly goofy very violent found family thing going on) die or otherwise suffer, and after choosing the "Honoring Wishes" ending once she realizes how bad of a hand Gehrman's been dealt she wakes up back in the clinic because she's going through a time loop via some measure of Great One influence, so she decides to do things better with the powers of hindsight- saving her friends (with the powers of compassion and also by breaking their questlines), ending the Hunter's Nightmare using jolly cooperation with the League, and trying to make sure the last people left in Yharnam stay standing by going for the Childhood's Beginning ending (and steadily repurposing the doll in the old Hunter's Workshop to serve as a person-shaped "cradle" for her eldritch squid self to inhabit and pilot like a gundam once she does.) Because if she knows needless suffering can be prevented by gods she will try her best to fix it herself.

Tl;Dr: American college student with severe ADHD goes to London for meds, does not get meds and instead learns self defense and gets too attached to the locals, becomes squid and tries to retain/recover her humanity, eventually goes off to Wales (The Lands Between) to continue her studies of culture even though she's technically already dropped out of college.

I forgot to put it in here but a funny minor sidenote is that Alicen initially doesn't know what the fuck Alfred is on about when the topic of Vilebloods first comes up, as while she's come to accept the idea that there may be horrors beyond man's comprehension in this city she draws the line at vampires. Fully just doesn't believe they exist until she meets Annalise in person.

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More to come next week. As usual comment or DM if you want your character featured.

I drive by these things all the time. Such complexity for something that seems so simple from the outside.

I dont have much to say other than, "I'm disappointed."

This week's feature is Eric by u/squarefickle9179

Eric was originally a hunter under the teachings of his father who was a hunter. His mother was a foreigner, which is why people called him a foreigner in the game.l, but his mother dies, which motivates him to becoming a hunter. He was also mentored by Gehrman, meaning he was taught along side Maria. While she was dexterous with Rakuyo, Eric was strong with his strikes with the Kirkhammer, his father's weapon.

He and Maria were close friends, sparring together, studying together. While Maria was highly disciplined, Eric was more relaxed but witty, making them foils to one another, and they grew close to the point Maria trusted him enough to reveal to him she's a Vile Blood, which he's okay with.

Eventually though, after a hunt, Eric's father is killed, and Maria comforts her grieving friend, but this lights a spark into him having feelings for Maria. And after being a hunter for a few years, he was drafted into a war outside of Yharnam, so as he was packing, Maria acted as if she was fine with him leaving, all until Eric decides to confess to her since he didn't want to leave without saying anything. She then leaves him without a word, didn't even wish him goodbye. Over the years, he attempts to send letters, never hearing back from her. 3 years later, he's discharged from the army as he comes home to Yharnam, only at the worst time possible, a Hunt. Being hunted by both beasts, and humans, since people believe him to be a foreigner in his mother's side. So, he's quickly forced out of retirement, witnessing the worst hunt yet, in hopes to find a friend that was lost long ago.

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Still working through earlier submissions, but feel free to DM or add a comment with your character's screen shot and lore to be in future volumes.