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“ A vampire who can manipulate blood.
She bathes thrice a day without fail. 		„
~ Description from Ritual of the Night

Bloodless is a boss in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. She is a vampire who can manipulate blood at her will.

She was voiced by Rena Strober in the English version of Ritual of the Night[1] and by Saori Gotō in the Japanese version.

Description[]

Bloodless resembles a young woman with pale skin and long black hair. Her hair is irregularly colored red and she bears a pair of red horns that appear to have drops of congealed blood hanging from them. The heroes generally find her naked, taking a bath in blood to maintain her youthful form. When approached, she assembles a red dress made of blood in preparation for a fight. Her dress becomes increasingly tattered as she is wounded and spends blood for attacks, but she can refashion it over time. Across her neck is a slash that bleeds down into her dress and fuses her own blood with the blood she forms her dress from.

Abilities[]

Bloodless can remotely absorb blood and manipulate it for various purposes, from creating dresses and umbrellas to generating swirling vortexes and localized rain. She can render blood solid enough to serve as a striking weapon and block strong physical strikes, or make it highly damaging to the touch as a liquid.

Appearances[]

Ritual of the Night[]

Bloodless is one of the two bosses in the Dian Cécht Cathedral (the other being Craftwork). She is first found soaking blood in her bathtub behind some curtains. The player is required to press Up (↑) on the directional pad to open these curtains and start the boss fight. Bloodless will usually try to step back from Miriam to dodge her attacks, then proceed to launch bloody streams from a distance. This makes using short-ranged weapons impractical, thus using weapons with longer reach or ranged attacks are recommended.

Bloodless has several variations of attacks in her arsenal, each of them can be dodged in certain ways:

  • Umbrella Swing: Bloodless will swing her umbrella to damage a very short area in front of her. Just dodge it by jumping or using the backdash.
  • Umbrella Toss: Bloodless spawns two umbrellas that are similar to her weapon. These will first try to stab Miriam, then float in the air around her.
  • Scarlet Thrust: Bloodless will send splashes of blood that swirl in front of her toward Miriam. Use the backdash (if within escape range) or jump away to dodge the wave.
  • Scarlet Cyclone: Bloodless will shoot high-pressure blood that spirals toward Miriam. This attack is marked by Bloodless pulling her umbrella and push it forward in a jousting manner. It can go either straight forward (marked by a longer pull), or upward to the ceiling (marked by a shorter pull). Dodge the straight one by crouching or jumping twice, and the upward one by staying on the ground or crouching if needed.
  • Blood Rain: Activated if Bloodless has already marked the ceiling with enough blood streams. Rain of blood will fall from any bloodied ceiling area for a few seconds each, inflicting damage over time during contact. Crouch under the floating umbrellas (if available) or stay away from the raining areas to avoid getting damaged by it.

Additionally, Bloodless's blood dress will rip little by little each time Miriam damages her, and she will be forced to restore it by absorbing the splattered blood in her room once enough damage is done. Use this opportunity to land extra hits to her, since she is very vulnerable in this state.

Like most of the other bosses, if Bloodless is defeated without taking any damage, an extra, purely honorary Boss Medal (the Bloodless Medal) will be rewarded.

Curse of the Moon[]

Bloodless reigns over the torture room in the castle's dungeon.
In order to obtain eternal youthful beauty, Bloodless bathes in the blood she obtains through daily torture.
Bloodless attacks as if she's toying with you, all the while clad in a dress made of blood.
She is capable of a final attack, "Bloody Storm", in which she uses her remaining blood to create an immense tornado.
Steel yourself, and give this torture-loving demon something to smile about!!

—Official description[2]

Bloodless is fought as the boss of Tragedy of Slaughter, presiding over the dungeon there in which blood is extracted for her through torture.[2] She hovers along the top of the screen, but she can be reached by jumping on top of the three umbrellas that also hover back and forth in the room.

After a while, she will perform the following steps in the order below:

  1. Laughs, just like in her introduction.
  2. Drops a spiked ball straight down below her, which creates a wave of spikes along the floor. To dodge it, avoid being under her and instead stand atop an umbrella.
  3. Laughs (again).
  4. Causes a shower of blood in the entire room. Dodge this by being under an umbrella. After this, she destroys and recreates the umbrellas to start the cycle over again.

Also during the battle, character-sized balls of blood fly in the player's general direction. They mainly serve as distractions that can be dodged or broken by weapon attacks.

Her desperation attack is to cause a sort of tornado of blood to travel along the floor toward the player, before retreating to the other side. An image of Bloodless's true, bat-like face appears in the tornado just short of the ceiling. Either stand on top of the highest umbrella or use Gebel's Immortal Metamorphosis to get high enough, and time your attack just right to destroy that section and create an opening to dodge the final attack and earn an extra life for not taking damage from the desperation attack.

As a playable character[]

Bloodless Mode[]

On later revisions of Ritual of the Night, Bloodless became available as a secret playable character regardless of the player's progress in the game. To play as her, enter as a Cheat Code her name in an empty slot on the File Select menu in all caps: "BLOODLESS". Her voice will be heard and an option to pick her will appear. After selecting a difficulty, players are free to play through the game as the vampire.

Bloodless starts in her boss room in the Dian Cécht Cathedral and can travel in either direction from there. From the start, she can attack with the Umbrella Swing, glide with her umbrella and backdash. Her basic jump is far higher than Miriam's. The player must gather "Blood Shards" to unlock her abilities and powers and raise her stats. Her resistance stats are the same as her boss form, except that the Slash, Strike and Thrust resistances are all set to zero. At the start of the game, Bloodless is unable to enter water without taking massive damage per "tick". As her MP goes down or for each time she takes damage, her blood dress will become less and less sustainable, until she is left with a body suit. It regenerates as she passively or actively recovers MP and HP.

In order to complete her adventure, Bloodless will need to grow strong enough to explore the Galleon Minerva, where she'll find the Wind Demon's Blood‏‎, a Blood Shard needed to extend the Umbrella Float's floating time, in order to reach and defeat Valac, who'll give her the Blood Steal ability; alternatively she can also reach the Towers of Twin Dragons by passing through the treacherous Livre Ex Machina. Using Blood Steal to drain the blood fountain at the Entrance and explore the western part of the Forbidden Underground Waterway, Bloodless will eventually find there the Water Demon's Blood‏, which allows her to safely sink underwater and reach the Hidden Desert where, after defeating Alfred, she'll find the Blood of Flight. Upon using her now complete movement abilities to find and defeat every major boss available in the Hellhold, the portal in the Garden of Silence will open for Bloodless, allowing her access to the Den of Behemoths and thusly the endgame.

Move list[]

  • Jump and hold Jump = Umbrella Float
  • Jump and hold Jump = Guillotine Umbrella (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)
  • PS4: Circle | NS: A | Xbox: B = Scarlet Thrust (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)
  • PS4: R3 | NS and Xbox: Right Thumbstick = Blood Steal (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)
  • PS4: Triangle | NS: X | Xbox: Y = Blood Pillar (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)
  • Console: Right stick and R2 (PS4) | ZR (NS) | RT (Xbox) = Scarlet Cyclone (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)
  • Console: Up and Square (PS4) | Y (NS) | X (Xbox) = Umbrella Toss (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)
  • PS3: R1 | NS: R | Xbox: RB = Blood Rain (once unlocked via "Blood Shard" smashable object)

Plot[]

Having run out of blood for her daily baths, Bloodless leaves her bathtub to acquire more by force. She explores the Hellhold and its outskirts to find containers of blood that sustain her appearance while increasing her physical power. During her quest, she learns that there are no human survivors in the area except for the demon hunter Zangetsu and the alchemist Alfred. She defeats them and many other self-made enemies, including Gebel, the supposed ruler of the demon castle.

After defeating all major demons, she finds a portal that leads her down to an icy cavern. There she confronts the powerful demon Gremory, followed by Dominique Baldwin, an exorcist who has embraced demonic powers. In the middle of the battle, Dominique summons Bael, the ruler of demonkind. Bloodless defeats all three, and with no opposition left, she takes Bael's place as a new supreme ruler, sitting on the Hellhold's throne.

Boss Revenge Mode[]

She is also playable in Boss Revenge Mode along with Andrealphus, Gremory, and Bathin. There, they confront Zangetsu, Dominique Baldwin, and Miriam to exact vengeance on their defeat in the main game.

Compared to her regular playable version, however, Bloodless has a few differences to her moveset in Boss Revenge Mode: her Charged Umbrella is unable to block attacks, Bloodless cannot perform a Guillotine Umbrella, her Umbrella Float lasts much less, and her Blood Steal lacks the ability to heal HP.

Quotes[]

Ritual of the Night[]

  • "I need more blood..." – Before the boss battle (also when idle in Bloodless Mode).
  • "Scarlet Thrust!" – Performing a Scarlet Thrust.
  • "Die!" – Performing a charged Scarlet Thrust (in Bloodless Mode).
  • "Scarlet Cyclone!" – Performing a Scarlet Cyclone.
  • "Blood Rain!" – Summoning Blood Rain.
  • "Blood Steal!" – Performing a Blood Steal.
  • "At last! Sustenance!" – Acquiring a Blood Shard.
  • "Blood everywhere!" – When there is a lot of blood in the arena (as a boss).
  • "Where are the humans?" – Inside the empty shop in Arvantville (in Bloodless Mode).
  • "Stop it!" – Taking damage.
  • "Damn you!" – Taking damage.
  • "Bloodstained!" – In the ending of Bloodless Mode.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Bloodless is based on Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who was rumored to take baths in the blood of virgins to maintain her youthful appearance.
  • In an interview, Koji Igarashi stated that Bloodless is a good example of his approach into the Gothic horror concept, which he defines as "a grotesque mixed up with a little bit of erotica."[3]
  • At the time of her reveal, Igarashi stated that her appearance could be changed in the future.[4]
    • In a Reddit AMA, series director CurryTheKid (Shūtarō Īda) stated that Bloodless was his favorite boss on a design standpoint, stating that she was a boss he had been thinking of from a while back.[5]
  • If the blood color is changed in the Options menu, Bloodless's dress and umbrellas will change to match, even in the middle of battle. The same will apply to her Red Umbrella found afterward.
  • If the player holds Up while idle in Bloodless Mode, the camera will zoom in on Bloodless as she turns around and then faces the camera to blow an air kiss. She either giggles or says "I need more blood" during this animation. She performs it after defeating a hunter in Boss Revenge Mode as well.
  • Unlike Miriam and Aurora, Bloodless keeps all her abilities in New Game Plus, including those that are tied to progression.
  • Unlike Zangetsu, Bloodless does not have to paradoxically fight another version of herself during her adventure.

References[]

  1. ↑ Bloodstained: Voicing The Game - Part 2
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boss at the official Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon website.
  3. ↑ Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night brings a bloody new boss to E3.
  4. ↑ Special Update - Bloodstained E3 Trailer Released!
  5. ↑ I Am Shutaro, aka Curry The Kid, Director / Game Designer of Video Game Developer ArtPlay Inc. My past work includes Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Castlevania and more. Ask me anything about my video game career! at Reddit (September 2, 2021).

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