Dear Reader:

You are viewing a story from GN Version 5.0. Time may not have been kind to formatting, integrity of links, images, information, etc.

Igarashi on the design, backstory and relationships of Bloodstained's Miriam

by rawmeatcowboy
10 June 2015
GN Version 5.0

A portion of a Siliconera interview with Koji Igarashi...

S: Miriam sounds like an interesting character. Her mission is fuelled by tragedy like so many other heroes, but you point out that she does have loved ones and friends that she cares about. Who are these people, exactly? Give us an idea of Miriam’s relationships and what her life is like.

Koji Igarashi, Project Lead: The Alchemists’ process of grafting magi-crystals into her flesh has turned her into a beacon that calls demons down to earth—an experimental puppet. And there are dozens more like her, abandoned children and orphans whose disappearance no one would ever notice. When the Alchemists took the children in, they formed friendships with each other—the only others dealing with the same situation. Gebel was one of Miriam’s closest friends.

Johannes. Johannes was an apprentice Alchemist whose disgust with his guild masters’ experiments got him thrown out of the guild.

These new humans were a step forward in human development, in that they possessed powers and abilities that others do not, but the Alchemists’ plot to call demons down—to demonstrate that only Alchemists could protect humankind—turned this step forward into a colossal step backward when the Alchemists could not stop what they had begun.

The magi-crystal process was never perfected, and the summoning ceremony that Miriam was forced into left her in a trance—a kind of hibernation that suspended time while the crystals took root. None of the other children survived their trance—none except for Miriam and Gebel, who survived to vow revenge on the Alchemists who had created him. A year after the demons appeared, he did—only Johannes survived.

A decade after the demons, a dark castle appeared at the site of the old Alchemist’s Guild, and Miriam awoke with the certainty that Gebel was behind it—and that he must be stopped. Fortunately, Johannes never stopped developing his own skills during her slumber, and the glyphs he etches onto her skin keep the curse at bay… for now.

Full interview here