Bloodborne Story ► Father Gascoigne 

How to play a from software game Step 1. Help someone in need Step 2. Do something good and pure hearted Step 3. Listen to how you've ruined everybodies life

From Software Lore in in two sentences: Even when you try to do good, you ruin peoples lives. Have fun, you monster.

"We're looking for a man garbed in black" Oh yeah, that narrows it down alright

"We don't have the heart to give a child her dead mother's brooch." Speak for yourself. I was expecting a fat reward.

"It's almost like his last words are 'Forgive me...'" "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!"

"And when daddy forgets us, we play it for him so he remembers" fuck i'm crying

Dev Team: "So how much suffering do you want in the story?" Miyazaki: "YES"

I don't think Gascoigne killed Viola. Look at her, she's not exactly been mauled, if anything it looks like someone shot her, or stabbed her. Gascoigne uses a shotgun and swings an axe in wide arcs. Her corpse would show evidence of multiple bullets, or wide cuts if Gascoigne had killed her. No, Gascoigne didn't kill her. The Yharnamites did. Gascoigne finds her body, and those responsible. *This* pushes him over the edge. He goes berserk, slaughtering the Yharnamites, hacking them to pieces, giving in to his inner beast. We arrive, to find Gascoigne too far gone. The music box reminds him of who he was, and who he lost. However, it cannot break the grip of the beast because at the same time as it calls to the "real" Gascoigne, it reminds him of the woman he loved, and her senseless murder driving him back into a frenzied rage.

As much as I hate escort missions, I'd have happily protected the girl on her way to the chapel. Hell, I'd bring her sister along. Though honestly they are safer in their home, so yeah, just not interfering is really the best choice

I always thought they were sisters until I got this dialogue I had missed so many times. The older girl pretends to cry until you walk away and hear “what a perfect ribbon. And now it’s mine. I can’t wait to try it on.” Now you could write it off as she’s just insane like most yharnamites are becoming but the fact she says “what a perfect ribbon” implies that she’s never been so close to the ribbon or held it herself. It makes sense. The first little girl NEVER mentions a sister and even lists off a bunch of people she loves. The second girl only arrives after you’ve sent the first to cathedral ward or the clinic. I think that the second girl lives in one of the 2 houses at the bottom of the ladder. The first little girl had to have went thru there. So the second girl sees her leave and makes her way to gascoignes house looking for the ribbon and when you get there she lies about being her sister so she won’t get in trouble. After giving her the ribbon she cleans the blood from it and tries to sneak back to her home but can’t avoid the troll coming down the ladder. This also makes sense because If you run past the troll you can go up the ladder before he can hit you but if you’re coming down the ladder he’s liable to hit you right as you come off. I think this theory falls in line with the whole theme of deception in this game from the NPCs like Iosefkas imposter and The suspicious beggar. Anyway we’ll NEVER know for sure. All according to Miyazaki’s plan.

I used Gascoigne's questline in my D&D campaign and my players bawled their eyes out. Such a good questline.

"No one can foretell the consequences of your good intentions" -Patches the Unbreakable

"Oh my gods, what have I done?!" -Everyone of us

I'd like to think that the wife ran into Gascoigne fighting the Yharnamites, she somehow got into the fight and was murdered by one of them, making Gascoigne go mad. Explains why he kept slicing up the corpses in madness and anger, and maybe that event was enough to tip him over to beasthood and insanity.

The oldest sister actually laughs and starts saying how pretty the ribbon is if you take a few steps away from the window

Wow, you’re practically a born narrator, your voice is so calm, yet serious. It’s just so narrative.

"I love you as much as mum and dad" Feels x 1000

Vaati, here's the real kicker with the whole Bloodborne lore: EVERYTHING, goes back to Master Willem at Byrgenworth. Everything. The discovery of the blood, Ebrietas, the Old Ones, the founding of the Church, Choir and Mensis, all of it. So now here's the question How did a guy who's school is soley devoted to smoking weed and talking about the stars fuck up so hard that he got everyone killed in just a few years without ever leaving his chair?

6:55 "we don't have the heart to give a child her dead mothers brooch" ~flashback begins~ Well, well, well maybe not all of us but certainly some of us. ~Crying intensifies~

If Gascoignes daughter had made it to The Cathedral Ward she would have had to pass through Oden Chapel and see the dead bodies of her Mother and Father :(

so you try and help a little girl find her parents. it takes you about 3 seconds to realize that you murdered one of them and also her "granddad". You then tell the girl to go to the cathedral ( or isofika's clinic. depends if you found the clinic.) and she dies either way. ( isofika dissects her on one of the tables. You walk in and see bloody surgical equipment if you sent her there). You then go back and give the big sister the ribbon and as you walk away she says " oh what a beautiful ribbon. and now it's mine" so moral of this video is that every single thing you touch dies. Also, was out Hunter really stupid enough to send an 8 year old girl out to the cathedral ALONE when we have died several times on that path and we are genetically augmented killers meant to purge a disease that turns people into ravenous monsters. but we send a little girl out on her own without a weapon. WTF. I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED AN ANNOYING NPC ESCORT MISSION WHERE THEY RUN STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE MONSTERS. Why couldn't we just take the girl there?

The moral of the story is stop socializing, you casual.

As is often the case with character questlines in Soulsborne games - "The only winning move is not to play."

"Oh hey, it's the middle of the night, monsters are all over the place and there's this little girl who probably ought to go somewhere else. I should probably escort her to a safer place. Nah let her go on her own. Git gud kid." -idiot hunter

Man what a depressing story my god.

Trying to do something pure ends in the misery of others, sounds like a souls game

I can relate to this story. I went hollow, and attacked my daughter.

The older girl is not the older sister of the family: - The little girl mentioned why she is alone and gave explanation for where all her family members are and why they went out during the hunt. She NEVER mentioned an older sister - It does not make sense that the second girl commits suicide when she is so cold blooded as to care more about the ribbon than her "sister" - Looking at the body of the second girl. If a person jump from great height or falls from great height, the only place they bleed out the most is the head. The blood splatter under the body indicates the wound is at the stomach level, there is barely any blood under the head. This shows that the girl most likely got stab in the stomach by something Conclusion: This second girl is a neighbor girl who always envied the bowtie from the little girl. Knowing that both the little girl's parents are away during the hunt, this older girl went over to the house to steal the bowtie. Whether you gave her the bowtie or not, she had to sneak back home afterward. Since the Father Gascoigne house is on a high ledge without any house relatively nearby, the older girl had to walk a little to reach her own house afterward and likely got killed by a beast or a villager. Since her body is intact for the most part, I assume its a villager that stabbed her. Why does the older girl wanted to steal something so small and insignificant during the dangerous hunt night? Because it probably a super expensive and beautiful piece of accessory that only rich people can afford and the older girl is likely came from a poor family. Notice how the houses are situated in the town. There are basement windows with people speaking from them. Likely poor people. There are houses on the main streets. Likely middle class people with shops. Then there are rich people who can afford a house in higher elevation that looks out at the city. This is where Father Gascoigne house is located at. At a high location. We can guess from this location, and the fact that they can afford a nice music box, and the fact that the mother wears high end looking clothing AND can wear an expensive necklace casually outside while looking for her husband. All this points to the idea that Father Gascoigne is rich. The ribbon is most likely extremely expensive and beautiful and the best thing a little rich girl can have.

"leave the honting of honters to me" lol

Maybe it wasn't Gascoigne who killed his wife, maybe it was the Yarnamites who were hunting beasts and she caught in the middle of it and died. When Gascoigne found out that they had killed his wife, he lost all of his reason and brutally killed the Yarnamies losing sense of humanity, and thus becoming a beast.

''He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man'' -Samuel Johnson

Interesting how Eileen literally pronounces "Gascoigne" like "Gas-con" with a bit of French, and everyone still says "Gascoyng"

I never talked to the children after I beat Gascoigne in my first playthrough. Yay I saved them!

"We don't have the heart to give a little girl her dead mothers brooch" I must be the minority cause I totally did lmao

For once I'm glad I missed something in one of the soulsbourne games

"Why is it that whenever i try to have fun, its wrong?!" -Squidward

I may be a little late to this discovery, excuse me if I am, but I wanted to pitch it anyway. Im an English teacher and I teach Renaissance poetry and discovered a poet by the name of George Gascoigne who was a mid level poet in that time (that's being generous). He wrote a poem called "Gascoigne's Lullaby", which references the deception of eyes and dreams multiple times...any chance this was a point of inspiration for the character?

"... had the pig not consumed her in the sewers." ... That is hilariously tragic.

Ok, i know people have been saying theorys that gascoigne didnt kill viola- I completly agree. First off, when you enter the area, he seems more- sad or angry compared to usual- If you listen to his summoned lines, he seems thrilled to know that everythings a beast that he can kill- But when he looks at the good hunter, he looks at you and says his good ole line "Beasts all over the shop, soon 'nough you'll be one of em too" But there isnt an ounce of joy from the idea of killing a 'beast' or even a future beast And he was killing beasts by the stairs, At the speed gascoigne charges at you- No beast would manage to get that far to him witnout being mowed down by the skilled hunter- Id say he's mad with greivence and blood drunk, it was losing his wife that broke him The music box doesnt remind him of him killing her, it reminds him of what he lost- and all the moments he wont be able to experience again-

The girls voice actress is just incredible!!!

What's that smell? The sweet blood... Oh, it sings to me!

Beasts all over the shop... you'll be one of them, sooner or later.

I love that the little girl knows both her parents are missing, but only asks you to find the mom. Begs the question whether she just trusts her dad will make it home, or whether she doesn't want him to come back.

This quest line always puts me to tears, but I didn't even realize that Henryk was also part of the family... geez we really just f*cked this entire family up. I've never hated myself so much for playing one of my favorite games.

Vaati- "it almost sounds like his last words say 'forgive me.'" Gascoign - "blaggghhgh-gh"

I have a theory on Gascoigne. If you pay attention to the cutscene that plays when you start the boss fight you notice Gascoigne has no eyes. He has a bandage over where they used to be and if you notice the bandage is still very bloody and looks new. My guess is that during his hunt he began to gain insight of some sort much like we do and he began to see things that began to drive him to madness. His descent into madness was sped even further by the blood lust and the insight he gained so maybe in order to stall the tide of madness Gascoigne gouged out his own eyes. All be it in vain. Just a thought I had

I remember when I started playing this game I wast really into its story or characters. Then I talked to the girl and got the music box and read its description, and then I encounter Gascoigne, and I realized how deep the game’s story really was.

I remember in my first play through when I was asked if I could find the little girls mother I put it off for later because I wanted to progress through Yharnam first. By the time I was at the cathedral I couldn’t find the Gasogine house, makes me happy that I didn’t inadvertently end an entire bloodline

'I love you as much as I love mum and dad' that broke my heart.

But since Gascoigne was actively pursued by everyone in Yharnam ("Death to the ministers!"), woudln't be possible that the Yharnamites killed Gascoigne's wife ? She was looking for him, and they were looking for him as well... Surely, there has to be an encounter of some kind... This would explain why Gascoigne has gone mad, and why he's butchering Yharnamites when we first encounter him. Does this sound probable to you guys ? (sorry for the bad english, I'm french)

I was relieved in the end that you can save the little girl by taking different path

FuNfAcT!: Bloodborne was the First "Souls" Game with German Voiceacting!

What about the demented response from the older sister where she laughs maniacally and says something about how now the pretty ribbon is now hers, and it's red! Something like that

I've heard that if you don't talk to the little girl throughout the entirety of your adventure, that you can hear her sister going "Shh" to her if you walk past their house. I've heard this happens after you kill Rom..but I didn't have time to run through a third character and test it out. Can someone post here if they find out this is true? Because it would certainly help prove that the two girls live together, and that she's actually her sister (and not just lying about it to steal the ribbon).

i have listened to these multiple times as a podcast on long drives, but now i have sat and watched, your editing and choice of costume to sell the scene is phenomenal.

“A corpse should be left well alone,” -Lady Maria

I'd like to believe that Henrik is the father of Viola, so the actual grandfather of the girls. He is standing quite close to building where Viola lies on top off, maybe he found his dead daughter in addition to learn that his partner and son-in-law was also taken care of. That might also explain how Gascoigne met Viola, as the daughter of his work partner. Not sure if this is true, but it sounds like a nice concept in my mind.

Oh shit, THAT'S who attacked me when I returned to Tomb of Oedon? I thought some dude had invaded me.

“Leave the hoonting of hoonters to me

More of these prepare to cry videos would be great!! I appreciate the time and effort you put into these. since PSN just had Bloodborne for free I've been playing it non stop. Currently on the DLC

i dont think he killed his wife. i mean, when you find gascoigne he's slicing up someone. not only that, but he talks and acts normal, some thing no one who's become a beast displays the ability to do. i think its more likely she was killed in front of him, and this caused him to lose himself

This could have all been solved if FROM actually allowed us to escort the girl, but nooooo.

One is the best videos I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. Only stated the game this week. Fantastic information. Great job

Amazing commentating, calm voice, and great story telling bro.. I have recently started this epic game and I'm fighting the urge to watch your great videos so I stay spoilers free until I finish the game.. Thank you for your epic dedication and passion and keep up the good work XD

Man, the garbled "forgive me" line is truly heartbreaking (and I hope you also make a video about Gehrman in the future...)

the little girls sister laughs when you give her the ribbon and slowly walk away. saying something along the lines of, its mine I finally have it. or something like that

"My, my.. your a fellow hunter aren't you? Good to see another hunter around.. Do you still have the dreams about you? I see.. I stopped dreaming long ago.. Oh before we part, say hello to that doll for me.. been ages since ive seen that las.. Thank you, and have a good hunt my friend."

Father Gascoigne's story is one of the saddest I've heard, and since it takes place so near the start of the game, I think it's a fantastic tone-setter for the rest of the story: dark, gloomy, and with very few happy moments.

Gascoine is my favorite boss in the game. In my opinion he is the ultimate form of incorporating story and gameplay together.

I never noticed the Yharnamites call you the minister when you're wearing Gascoigne's clothes, really changes my perspective to know that he was actively pursued by everyone in Yharnam.

your videos honestly make the games sooooo much better keep up the good work

Man, can’t get enough of this game, I think about it while playing other games and have the urge to close them and get back to Bloodborne. Your videos are extraordinary and make that experience more wonderful, thank you!

Wow, apparently I glossed over a lot of shit in Bloodborne (guess that's what happens when you're just trying to survive). It's crazy how many subtle details are buried in these games that imply surprisingly powerful stories. I had no idea that the daughter of Gascoigne was eaten by the giant pig in the sewer. Most games go out of their way to shove story elements in your face; like great literature and art, the creators behind these games prefer ambiguity and the intriguing art of inference.

When I gave the older daughter the red ribbon, I walked slowly away, then I heard another dialog from her. Super creepy about how she always wanted that ribbon and giggling. Not sure if anyone else heard it.

I’ve played BB for yeeeeeeears, but never knew the story. I recently got my PS4 fixed just to play this again. I’m now getting into the story and binge watching your videos. Material is wonderful. Thank you!!!!

I just finished the game, and I really enjoy your videos. For a simple game you have edited the lore very very well. Keep up the great work!

Well, after watching this I'll never speak to Gascoine's daughters again. ;-;

Listen for the whispers, the whispers of an old man leading a girl. Grandpa was home protecting her, until he learned about his Daughter's demise. A Woman so important, that her death caused two to go insane.

After all these years and I thought they named him Father Gascogne because he’s a dad 🤦🏻‍♂️

Its amazing how you pick a story which ia already beautiful and give It your sensible touch of new possibilities. Love your channel dude, thx for the vids.

what a sad story :(

Is it weird his story almost made me cry?

Thanks for the lore vids man. Really inspired and help me make a D&D style Bloodborne Campaign

incredible work, so much effort was put into this video. thank you. ⚔

Funny thing about From Software games, is that when you learn about certain bosses stories, you feel sympathy, or pity for them. Then you might hesitate to kill him.

The ending revelation fucked me up. The fact that if you don't talk to the girl maybe the bloodline survives through them. As much as I hated fighting Gascoigne, I feel for him.

Man this was epic...thank you so much for this video it explains a lot for me,this is very sad story and your videos are the best!

Im still playing Bloodborne this 2021 since release.

when I gave the older sister the ribbon, as I walked away she said something along the lines of "oh it's so wonderful" and "now I have such a wonderful ribbon" and she sounded almost demented. almost like she was pleased that her sister was dead...

That was beautiful. Not what happened to them, but how you made the video >.>

I never really encountered Gasgoine’s daughters in their houses so it’s safe to say that they survived. Hell even Eileen died to Henryk in my play through.

Amazing video to help bring the story to light, I made all this happen in my second playthrough and immediately pondered my mistakes with deep regret.

Thought game had no story-----suddenly it has some of the best stories ever

jesus i didnt realize how deep Gascoigne's story was, it seemed normal the whole time til the girl died in the tunnel. man that shit hit me hard. had the daughters survived through the night, the whole story could've changed. henryk wouldnt gone insane and he could've been of help or a useful npc. such a shame.

okay, I've watched two of your other ones like this about Eileen and Alfred. But this is the only one that actually made me cry. Out of all the times that I've screamed hooted and hollered at beating Gascoigne, I never once noticed that he does say forgive me at the end. Dude 😭😭😭😭

Jesus I've never been more glad to miss a quest line

'Whuzzatsmellllll?!?!'

Vaati linked this for me. He linked this for me! I AM AWAITED AT THE GATES OF VALHALLA!

The first Vaati vid to make me truly cry

You have got some serious story telling skills nice job