History Fanfic / AndersonQuestKillingVampiresAndWerewolvesAndLeprechuans

** While it doesn't end in her death, Eileen takes the revelation that the Church blood transfusion is the source of the plague with remarkable stoicism. It helps she had already known and accepted she hadn't a lot of time left.

* BookEnds: Anderson has a brief conversation with Alucard as he dies. A very long night later, they meet again.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Simon, wdue to the nature of the Hunter's Nightmare. He takes this fairly well.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Against all odds, Anderson succeeds in ending the Scourge, destroying the Moon Presence and saving Yharnam.]]

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Simon, due to the nature of the Hunter's Nightmare. He takes this fairly well.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Part of the reason Micolash manages to avoid getting killed by Anderson is that he points out he can't die - he's ''tried'', but he's no longer the controlling mind of the School of Mensis and just comes back. Between that and his failing RealityWarper powers, he's very happy to share everything he knows and point Anderson in the direction he needs to go.]]

* TheUnfought: Since Anderson doesn't pick Laurence's skull, he doesn't fight the Vicar's beast form in the Nightmare.

** Anderson avoids the following boss fights: [[spoiler: Father Gascoigne (killed by Eileen instead) Ebrietas (was able to communicate with her and realize she was NotEvilJustMisunderstood), Retired Hunter Djura (talked into helping storm the Healing Church), Vicar Amelia (held in a ward once her transformation kicked in), Maria (talked down), Yurie (was more interested in learning why Ebrietas had ferried Anderson to Byrgenwerth), The One Reborn (never summoned), and Micolash (turns out he was BoredWithInsanity)]]. Averted with Rom; because she's completely mindless, there is no way to avoid having to kill her. Anderson, Ebrietas, and Yurie all tried.

* MindRape: Due to Ebrietas' inexperience with the human mind, her efforts at communication are rendered as this until she meets Anderson, whose inhuman resilience allows her to stay in contact for long enough to fine tune the technique into mere {{telepathy}}.

* Having [[spoiler: Ebrietas]] on his side allows Anderson to skip the Forbidden Woods entirely [[spoiler: as she flies over to Byrgenwerth with him]].

* MundaneUtility: Anderson uses [[{{BFS}} Ludwig's Holy Blade]] as a shovel to dig [[spoiler:the graves of the children in the Orphanage]].

* NamedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The false Iosefka had no name in ''Bloodborne''. Here, her real name is Lumnia

* BadassPreacher: Anderson, naturally. [[spoiler: He gets ''[[EldritchAbomination Ebrietas]]'' interested in the Holy Word!]]

* AGodAmI: The second major boss of the quest, a [[EldritchAbomination Lesser Amygdala]], believed gods don't die. Anderson proves it wrong.

** [[spoiler:It's so bad that, of all people, Lady Maria ''flinches'' at the mere mention of his name.]]

* CrossOver:

* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Amygdala refuses to give Anderson the satisfaction of a futile rant as it faces its end, and Lumnia merely requests to see the moon one last time before Anderson executes her, and keeps some dignity to the end. [[spoiler: Lady Maria refuses Anderson's offer to leave the Nightmare before he destroys the Orphan of Kos and perishes with it, and Micolash understands he's going to die when the School of Mensis ceases to exist, and only requests Anderson to take a copy of his research to share with Yurie and ensure some of his legacy survives.]]

* FriendToAllChildren: Anderson runs an orphanage back in his world, so he quickly endears himself to Gascoigne's daughters.

* GentleGiant: Anderson has his moments, especially around children.
* GoodShepherd: Anderson tries his best to be this, which is part of the reason he's so pissed at Yharnam's CorruptChurch.

** FastballSpecial: With the help of [[spoiler:Ebrietas]], Anderson gets [[IncrediblyLamePun the drop on]] some School of Mensis goons.

** Shortly after arriving at Yharnam and confronting victims of the Plague for the first time, a door opens in Anderson's path and a kindly old woman invites him inside... only to slam the door in his face as he's preparing to cross the threshold; everyone inside cackles and insults Anderson. Seriously ticked, he grabs a (dead) infectee and tosses him inside the house via a window.
** Patches the Spider led the Amygdala assault against Anderson and Oedon Chapel and then tried to squirm out of trouble by offering Anderson a discount on his wares. Anderson, just as annoyed, pretends to bargain with him for a bit, then kills his hopes (and him).

* TimeCrash: [[spoiler:Yurie [[FridgeLogic points out]] neither Yharnam's timeline nor the flow of time within make any sense - Old Yharnam was burned enough time ago for an entirely new city to be built, yet there are still surviving Powder Kegs and the beasts are still alive despite having no other food than each other. Enough time has passed since Anderson's arrival that it should be morning already - Ebrietas can keep perfect time and she should know. Nobody knows when or how the original epidemic spread and details are contradictory at best. This is what helps her realize all of the city is trapped in a massive dream.]]

* TranquilFury: [[FriendToAllChildren Anderson]] after he learns about the Orphanage. Needless to say, the [[CorruptChurch Healing Church]] didn't exactly have the [[UnwittingTestSubject children's]] [[WouldHurtAChild best interests]] [[HumanoidAbomination in mind]]. Anderson also doesn't take it well when he finds out the ringleaders had committed suicide before he could exact judgement.

* MentalWorld: [[spoiler:Yurie theorizes, and Micolash confirms, that the different dimensions overlapping Yharnam are actually dreams made manifest by the will of a single key mind, like the Orphan of Kos or the role Micolash himself had until being supplanted by Mergo. The time flow over Yharnam is so distorted because it's part of the Moon Presence's own colossal dream. Upon destroying the mind, the dream collapses into nothingness.]]

* MentalWorld: [[spoiler:Yurie theorizes, and Micolash confirms, that the different dimensions overlapping Yharnam are actually dreams made manifest by the will of a single key mind, like the Orphan of Kos or the role Micolash himself had until being supplanted by Mergo's Wet Nurse. The time flow over Yharnam is so distorted because it's part of the Moon Presence's own colossal dream. Upon destroying the mind, the dream collapses into nothingness.]]

* TimeCrash: [[spoiler:Yurie [[FridgeLogic points out]] neither Yharnam's timeline nor the flow of time within make any sense - Old Yharnam was burned enough time ago for an entirely new city to be built, yet there are still surviving Powder Kegs and the beasts are still alive. Enough time has passed since Anderson's arrival that it should be morning already - Ebrietas can keep perfect time and she should know. Nobody knows when or how the original epidemic spread and details are contradictory at best. This is what helps her realize all of the city is trapped in a massive dream.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Amygdala refuses to give Anderson the satisfaction of a futile rant as it faces its end, and Lumnia merely requests to see the moon one last time before Anderson executes her, and keeps some dignity to the end. [[spoiler:Likewise, Lady Maria refuses Anderson's offer to leave the Nightmare before he destroys the Orphan of Kos and perishes with it. Likewise, Micolash understands he's going to die when the School of Mensis ceases to exist, and only requests Anderson to take a copy of his research to share with Yurie and ensure some of his legacy survives.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Amygdala refuses to give Anderson the satisfaction of a futile rant as it faces its end, and Lumnia merely requests to see the moon one last time before Anderson executes her, and keeps some dignity to the end. [[spoiler:Likewise, Lady Maria refuses Anderson's offer to leave the Nightmare before he destroys the Orphan of Kos and perishes with it.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Because Anderson doesn't suffer from Silent Protagonist Syndrome, he is capable of talking down people who would otherwise be enemies in canon and allows him to save ''many'' people and guide them to the safety of Oedon Chapel. This includes [[spoiler:Yurie of Byrgenwerth, Iosefka, Gilbert, Gascoigne's daughters, Simon the Harrowed, the surviving Powder Kegs, most of the remaining sane Yharnamites, a couple of repentant Church Hunters, and, surprisingly enough, Ebrietas. Even more astonishingly, Amelia's also implied to have survived, if still remaining in her beast form.]]