u/Turbulent_Form3888

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That's Oscar, and the story of his last dance

- Oscar, heir of House Latour and lord to be 

- kind hearted and gifted with a talent for dance, fencing and violoncello 

- raised by servants and professors in Latour Manor , between an abusive father and a protective (yet sadistic) older sister, Justine, whom he'll eventually fall in love with by the age of 16. 

- their mutual passion and its immoral nature enraged their father when he surprised them in the abandoned greenhouse. "Your late mother's sinfull blood certainly courses through the veins of her offspring!". Should words of their depravity be spread, the reputation of house Latour would be tarnished. 

- so, to keep the siblings separated, it was decided that Justine would be sent to the remote city of Yharnam, where she would, under the responsibility of a distant relative, become a blood saint, though none of them knew exactly what that implied. 

- devastated by his sister's absence, Oscar pillaged her stach of fine wine (the location of which she revealed to him in one of the many letters they secretly wrote each other, with the help of an old servant who raised them both), to drink the days away into the evenings, so that he could meet her in dreams, nights after nights. 

- the very night before he would reluctantly marry the vacous daughter of some rich merchant, he received one final letter from Justine. One single word, hastily traced with a shaking hand : "Paleblood..."

- he escaped Latour Manor with but a small purse, a bottle of fine wine and a horse. He set himself to Yharnam, renoucing lordship and wedding alike, in search of his beloved sister. 

- as fate would have it, the horse, the purse and the bottle of wine never made it to Yharnam, and rather ended up in the hands of group of bandits. He barely escaped this encounter with his life, and eventually arrived at Yharnam, severely injured. 

- taken to a clinic run by a certain Iosefka, he was saved by means of a mysterious blood ministration Yharnam was famous for...  And so, the long night began.

- he grew quite attached to the doll, and even taught her to dance ("a curious hunter thou certainly art for showing compassion for a doll such as I")

- on the other hand, he immediately despised Gehrman, who reminded him of a certain abusive father. His allusions about the doll further filled him with disgust.

- Djura revealed to him that the beasts were once people, and he realized that Justine could be among them, so he vowed never to draw blood unnecessarily. 

- Eileen judged him too frail for the hunt, and decided to keep an eye on him, which led her to save him on some occasions, most notably when he was attacked by Henrik at Odeon's grave.

- his kind heart and somewhat naive nature pushed him to try and help every Yharnamites he met on his way, with invariably catastrophic consequences... 

- he eventually lost his sanity in the Research Hall of the hunter's nightmare, realising what Justine had most likely been through at the hands of the healing church. Yet, he still pushed forward recklessly, with little value left for his own life, driven by the hope to find her somewhere, to dance with his sister one last time and grant her mercy...

u/Turbulent_Form3888 — 1 day ago