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I got Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night fic for Yuletide :D

Show Him the Sky by silveradept
4.7k, post-canon (background hints of Gebel/Miriam)
Summary: Gebel returns to himself abruptly from the crystal corruption. While Miriam and Johannes offer him the possibility that they have won, he must be on his guard that this is another trick from the demon that has tormented him for so long. Can he even trust that he is who they say he is?
Canon knowledge required: Yes

A wonderful Gebel-centric fix-it fic that gave me even more feelings about Gebel than I already had, and the ending is perfect.


And I wrote three stories:

A New Area for marsdragon, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
2.5k, gen, post-canon
Summary: Eventually, all the demons are dead. Miriam never thought about what she would do next.
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Ritual of Cooperation for marsdragon, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
14.1k, missing scene/adventure
Summary: An alchemist and a demon hunter walk into a hell-raised castle together.
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Inside the Secret Lair for azurefishnets, Carto
100 words
Summary: Cartographers love finding hidden places. Not everyone is happy about that.
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This was the most fics I ever wrote for Yuletide so far, the most words, and also the earliest I finished my assignment. I had fun!
Recs still to come (probably. Hopefully.)

I've been so busy playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night that I didn't find time to write about it, and of course the more I played the more I wanted to write about. But today is the evening, because I have a band-aid on two fingers which would make playing frustrating. Typing is a little better.

I found the game because I signed up for Humble Choice for the first time in August, originally for Carto, but then I thought Bloodstained looked interesting and gave it a try. By now I've played ~47 hours, which is more than twice as much as my third-most played game (Ori and the Will of the Wisps, ~22 hours.)[Edit: actually, it is Ori and the Blind Forest, at 35.4 hours, I forgot I played it twice.] A comparison with Hades, at ~365 hours, would be unfair.

It's a lot of fun. I like the art and the design, and I enjoy the gameplay and combat, especially once I found some more weapons to play around with and more shards too. The difficulty on Normal was just right for me, decently challenging but not too hard, and I appreciated that I could always go back and grind for level/more weapons/etc. and try a boss fight again later when I was stronger. (I hardly used any online guides either, just for very few specific things.)
It also has just enough story early enough to get me invested, and I really liked the main character Miriam and all the tragedy with her and Gebel and Johannes. I nominated them for Yuletide, promo post here.

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I also made the great tactical decision to gift a copy of the game to LB on condition of him keeping me updated as he plays, I'm enjoying that too. It's his birthday soon and I thought of gifting him games I talked about that he expressed an interest in, but realistically I would have gifted them to him anyway because I look forward to him playing then and then talking about them, so that would feel like cheating.