Feb 17
Moth boss form, which I affectionately refer to as ‘Lady of the Swarm.’
I actually drew this beginning of January and forgot to post it WHOOPS.
Big credit to @astrmastr for contributing Wurmbles, who sits on my shoulder.
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Moth boss form, which I affectionately refer to as ‘Lady of the Swarm.’
I actually drew this beginning of January and forgot to post it WHOOPS.
Big credit to @astrmastr for contributing Wurmbles, who sits on my shoulder.
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Female and likely-female characters of Soulsborne games (in order)
I've made these self-references as I am having (a bit TOO ambitious) plan to doodle all of these characters!
Demon's Souls:
I still can't believe they had John Soulsborne's look gendered in this game xd Pokemon games MC moment lol
UPDATE: @forbidlore confirmed the assumption that Monumental was a girl!
I was assuming that due to believing her and Maiden in Black were from some ancient tribe of all women (would be not the first for Soulsborne game) and I guess it was in the right direction!
Dark Souls 1:
I might eventually retract the idea of drawing the two specific Pisacas that weep in the corner and each drop Gwynevere's miracles because by this logic drawing the line is very hard, however I did doodle two concepts for their outfits for maybe something else! Hellkite got confirmed only retroactively by DS3 as they specified Drakes are gender dymorphic species distinct visually by horns shape!
I am considering including Gwyndolin as a bonus doodle that would not be a part of the main canvas since at this rate I am very sold on them being genderfluid rather than strictly trans man so there are times they'd be included (at least this is how I feel, as someone genderfluid myself). I would like to stick to this plan, honestly!
This is also the one most worked-through, I've designed everyone that needed it and sketched their art, it is only a matter of digitalising and coloring everything.... *laughs in unmedicated ADHD and depression*
Dark Souls 2:
Dark Souls 2 is THE game with the casting of glup shittos to end all glup shittos lol. I've designed almost everyone here!
This is about where I am completely failing to be consistent with my own rules. For example, I do believe Lost Sinner is just Queen of Venn and so I didn't separate the characters in the list. But at the same time, Hanleth and Nehma are probably just Drangleic names of Gwynevere and Fina but I am making them distinct characters for the sake of designing and fleshing out Gwynevere's "many children" lore more. I believe in Big Boss supremacy (if you know then you know XD)
As for Gutter Denizen, they use 'male' model but wear Zullie's dress so I took it as an invitation to interpret this as trans woman character! I remind you DS2 is the game with Lost Sinner, a female character with the beard and built like Gwyn, with 'trans coffin' and with MC being originally male but able to return as anyone else back from Hollowing. DS2 team liked making cast more diverse in general!
Bloodborne:
(yes I know I've accidentially messed the numbering up don't ping me fdsghfdsfsd) I titled some of these with my headcanons as it is SELF-reference, but to clarify: that old lady = Cainhurst portrait, Arianna's mother = pretty woman from Cainhurst portraits in the silver variant of the noble dress, twins' mother = another pretty woman from Cainhurst portraits in bellringing woman's outfit aka mother of Iosefka and Fauxsefka!
We also only fight two Witches of Hemwick but the statue in Hemwick Mansion suggests there were three of them! We find Caryll's tool here on a corpse of a random imprisoned hunter and statues behind Memory Altar has forehead scar same as those on foreheads of all Hemwick's women so this tracks for me. Dores' gender was never specified in Japanese original, but also Bloodborne by far is the only Soulsborne game missing 'big cleaver scary woman living in a swamp' archetype so the joke is that Dores should be that x)
Carla is unused Keeper of the Old Lords summon. In my mind I've combined her into one character with a female Cainhurst Knight! It is just that the name bothers me a lot. It doesn't sound like the name of an ancient Pthumerian at all to me, but it indeed sounds like a German name ie something Cainhurst would have. xd So maybe she just left Cainhurst and joined Pthumerians instead in defending the dungeons (that Cainhurst also graverobbed, it weren't JUST Gehrman's hunters or Healing Church!). However, unlike with Caryll = Third Witch and Lost Sinner = Queen of Venn, there is nothing to suggest the characters are the same at all so I feel like separating. But in my mind I'd be drawing the same character twice?
Dark Souls 3:
You guys are better off not knowing how much I've been stunlocked on whether Yuria and Liliane actually have white hair or it is decoration. xD But after analysing how Bloodborne treated the situation ( x ) and pairing it with how Darkness commonly makes your hair white in DS setting I am sure it is the case! Dark Souls is, too, an anime. Also Londor Sisters are, too, Hemwick Witches. xD
Ocelotte is keeping me questioning as their gender is not confirmed: unspecified in Japanese, male in English adaptation, female in Italian adaptation (and maybe some other languages)? I'd like to know how well communicated it was because considering so far all dragon crossbreeds except for Gwyndolin were women it could be some meta and they're like Gwyndolin? It hinges on whether non-English localisations also got instructions by From or took full liberties!
Unused female knight was going to be instead of Vilhelm, even having different armor and different weapons (dual swords specifically)! Here ( x ) is more information but I think with how different she is from Vilhelm she could be imagined as separate character that existed and died somewhere behind the scenes?
Elden Ring:
This is THE one that will kill everyone who tries. Almost 100 characters?! However do I appreciate that Elden Ring returned the tradition of random glup shittos fshfdsh
Hilde kept me questioning for some time because both English and Japanese original never specify gender, but I've asked around and in gendered languages localisations she is always a woman! Elden Ring's localisation was the most well revieved so far so I believe it is deliberate? Dolores though is a fringe case because for all we know "a woman fashioning herself as a man" could be a flowery way to say "we wanted to write a trans man in but our publishers don't want extra attention :/"? At the same time they've already had three cases of masculine-presenting female archers before so maybe Dolores is just that trope? I am only including them for the sake of completion but. we just don't know hahah
Nightreign:
This would be the easiest to draw due to such a small cast, though I dunno if I want to draw Painter in her original Reedlander armor (that I did design) or in her Maiden's disguise!
'Young girl' refers to that girl from Tree-Cloning Tribe who was entombed to hold Sacrificial Twigs as Erdtree's sapplings through the Night. According to the lore though, there were several, but I am just including since we lowkey only find one of them via Cord's End! As for Village Girl, her story is similar to Marika's, but it is just not her! Marika's fellow Shamans were taken by the Potentates who are executors of religious leads of Hornsent and then whipped alive in the shack, whereas girl's village was attacked by simple bandits and all her fellows were just killed! Separate characters!
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That's all for now! As you can see the consistency of where the line is drawn breaks from time to time! Like there are the cases of 'why you split this character but not that character?' or 'it is fair to headcanon this character as trans but this list is rounded up however I just made this conclusion based of ANOTHER headcanon' etc. I think the list would be different depending on a person and that's okay!
Introduction post!
Hello, I am Katy! I've been a fan of Soulsborne universes for several years and it will remain so! If you dig far enough into my blog you might find my former interests, and don't hesitate to ask me about them!
In my blog, you can find fanart done in very autistic detail and multiple posts with lore theories and references! I divide my focus amongst all the characters, I am not picky, so if you wonder anything about your obscure blorbo you can ask me x)
Other socials:
@katyspersonal blog for 'simpler' Soulsborne posts, memes, reblogs, jokes, brainstorming and... well, personal posts!
@hometownvibing blog for UTDR fandomry
katyahina_417 is my Twitter! officially two-fandoming Soulsborne and UTDR whereas my Tumblr blogs are separated! I also have a Reddit katyahina417 but I barely check the comments there due to anxiety (too much attention compared to other sites) and just crosspost refs and art there so sorry!
Some other posts worth saving up here:
good visual references for all Dark Souls 1 NPCs (masterpost)
links to good Dark Souls 2 characters references (masterpost..ish)
full visualised elaborate theory on Dark Souls' royal family tree (many useful visual references and observations!!) (+ Daughters of Chaos bonus)
all of my art tag (or try this if the first one didn't work)
bloodborne theories tag (or this)
elden ring theories tag (or this)
dark souls theories tag (or this)
specific Elden Ring visual references NPC data colors in one place (base, SOTE), Marika ( x ) ( x ) ( x ) ( x ) ( x ), Nightfarers' (lore-heavy) skins differences, Rykard being blond, Ranni's petrified body
Elden Ring's background: Outer Gods ( x ) ( x ), Fell God, Rauh @ Farum Azula ( x ) ( x ) ( x )
Bloodborne's background: Nightmare Realm's past, Meteorite blades, Cainhurst Vilebloods descend from Pthumeru Ihyll
specific Bloodborne visual references: NPC data, Maria specifically (extra important), Adeline (MOST important), Healing Church designs clues, Cainhurst appearances discourse, Brador
Bloodborne timeline (with solid evidences)
breakdown on Gehrman, Maria, Doll and how localisation errors done them dirty (+some more update on the topic ( x ). it is the only truly important thing I've done for the fandom)
all characters in Soulsborne who are not white. listed, visually referenced and thought about.
+ for fellow lorediggers: OG Japanese scripts references! Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, Elden Ring (base), Elden Ring (SOTE), Demon's Souls. Demon's Souls one was all done by @val-of-the-north, say thanks to Val!
+ for fellow lorediggers: full archives of all Soulsborne interviews and artworks you might have missed! Here!
Deep down I think we all knew the chickencows were the real threat to us all
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List of Soulsborne characters you need to design yourself (sorted by games)
This is a bit of a reference to self, for visualising progress, but also you are free to use and alter it however you see fit too if you want! It is to be updated whenever I play Sekiro @ when new Nightreign characters drop (not when Duskbloods drops tho because a Nintendo console costs more than I do myself lol)
The ✅ emoji is for characters I've already designed, the ❌emoji for the characters not yet designed and the 🩹 emoji is for "cheating" (for example using a vague portrait or an unused character data as a faceclaim)! Warning for too many Glup Shittos tho. (No, seriously, you guys won't BELIEVE how many of these fuckers DS2 has fhshdds)