*Shrug* We're an Elderitch Flower born of an Ascended Good Hunter and a Human that's... honestly more Blood than Human. There's really not anything more to it than that.
Now, see, that sentence alone is three different things that none of which are straightforward unless you deep-dive into the Lore. Here is my understanding of them, after beating Bloodborne and watching lore videos on it more than a year ago:
Then just go read up on/watch a video on Annalise and/or Cainhurst? Sounds like the only thing you're missing really.
Omake idea for anyone feeling up to it, I might even have a go if I need to take a burnout prevention break:
How does that coincide with her having a Human avatar in Reality though? A Human Avatar in a Dream is one thing. A Human Avatar in Reality implies that the being is or at least gets humanity on some level.
I already love the fact ruby thinks Homu reduced herself to "survive" and is trying to take care of a being she thinks should normally be above her, and if you're looking forward to the next batch of misunderstandings then this is going to be fun.
Honestly, they actually could be, for all we really know about them. They're ultimately the only things that would ever know if they could actually lie or not.
It's mostly the fact that the Great Ones and their Dreams are basically made of congealed emotion and magic. Something that lacks emotions is setting off her THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE alarm, and from her point of view, the fact that reality isn't full of emotions and magic as a fact of existance is just too out of the left field for her to believe when there's a perfectly reasonable infestation of emotionless horrors to blame it on.
Kyuuby is the Eldritch Horror for Eldritch Horrors. I was fairly sure it was something like that anyway, everything the Great Ones do seems to be driven by emotion. Something that lacks them would be anathema to them.
Ruby doesn't think she's in reality. For her, reality would be woodland/post-industrial gothic cities, since that's what she was told reality was like. Think of it like the simluated reality argument, if making your own world is basically a rite of adulthood for Great Ones, that means that there are a lot of Dreams floating around, where as there is only one Reality. If you find yourself in a strange new world, it is far, far more likely (from Ruby's perspective at least) that she's just in a wierd Dream.
There must be some fundamental differences between Dreams and Reality (or Realities) that can be tested otherwise there would be no need to have a distinction between the two categories in the first place. Wouldn't those either be apparent or testable in some way?
Presumably, but Ruby has never existed within reality, and so wouldn't know what things to look for. The cold, dark and sharp feelings are the same as she would be feeling if she was in reality, but she doesn't know that the absence of the snuggly warm magic that makes Dreams so muc h more pleasant for Great Ones to live in is because it was never there in the first place, rather than it was eaten by Incubators.
... Well that will probably happen soon anyway. Homura is very much a creature of habit at this point as well, and she collects and stockpiles Grief Seeds. Having us tag along is going to throw her off, but I don't think she'll just up and leave us as it is either.
If only you picked the Gold gem, or even Embrace...
