#*looks at malroth*

[sapphire-rb]

So for the past few days I've been losing my mind slowly, looking at the game files.

I found this icon sheet different than the one documented here.

But then I look closely at this weird mirror image, closely, very closely, and...

WHAT.

This is a dream.

I am halucinating.

[octo-l95]

ᴹᵃˡʳᵒᵗʰ ᶦˢ ᶦⁿ ᵃᵍᵒⁿʸ

[snailroyal]

Dragon Quest Builders 2 besties trio :3 (drawn over the original meme) Original by @/riversblues on tiktok

Alternate version under cut

the original version i made but then lulu the yapper and malroth the judger made more sense, especially with how malroth was already planning lulu's murder the first minutes of talking to her

[sapphire-draw]

When life gives you fire, make marshmallows

Oh.

Originally these were some tiny low-quality doodles mixed in with other nonsense but I redrew them digitally for clarity.

Here's the comparison.

(Can't even erase a line without vaporizing the whole drawing.)

[wingedlightsss]

He's looking for building inspiration

[theladyjssem]

I'm going to apologise right now, I'm on a Dragon Quest Builders 2 kick atm. You will be seeing a lot of Malroth/Builder stuff simply because Builder (no matter their gender) and Malroth are perfect together.

[flamezyfelinez]

[Insert cool and awsome caption]

[cuuzca]

This was the inspo for Malroth’s outfit! (with some adjustments of course ^-^

And I was cracking up because I had just opened this up and Malroth just up and showing me his business!!! LOLLLLL😳😂 Like??? Dude please, have mercy ( ´Д`)

He just wanted to thank Crea for making such a comfortable outfit. Look at all the neat tricks he can do! lol 😂

Then later, I opened it up again. These are automatic poses from the menu btw!!

He’s just showing off at this point!! 😂 I thought “Wow, what a cool pose!!” and then he blinks halfway just as the picture is taken 😂😂😂

✨The Smolder✨

[theoryfan205]

Edit and warning I guess: I don't like this fic, I don't think I wrote this that good and I'm only keeping it up for records sake, so read at your own risk

"so, this festival is called Halloween?"

The thick air of autumn blew across the island of awakening, acorns island now technically but the old name always stuck with him. The trees all turning orange and red, the cold breeze that reminded him of being on the boat, he had to admit it was a favourite ever since he first saw the change

"Yeah! Everyone dresses up as monsters and decorates all spooky like. During the night people go out dressed up and get free sweets! It started ages ago, when people didn't like monsters that much. They showed up a lot on this day so everyone started dressing like them to blend in. Eventually it stopped happening as edrick and his friends did their thing but the tradition stayed!"

Malroth smirked as his builder explained away, talking quietly but fast as she hung more of those dracky drawings on their shared house. Frequently switching her attention between hanging the decorations and looking at Malroth.

"Well then, we'll have this in the bag! You can dress up as some of these sweets you cooked up and I can do this!"

Within a moment it all changed, with a triumphant smile hairs turned into horns, hands into claws, alot of claws, his size grew Just enough to tower over everyone on the island, and just in the nick of time too as his builder slipped and fell off the pumpkin she decided to use as a stool. Honestly she can build one whenever she wants, she doesn't need to risk falling over this

"M-malroth?"

"Haha! You're sure clumsy today! Here-since I'm taller let me do the decorating, I can reach without falling!"

With two hands and his snake tail he held acorn safely as he used his four other arms to continue hanging the dracky decorations, smiling with a wicked grin as he went along

"There we go! All finished! You should have asked for help in the first place you know, with your height you'd need two pumpkins to actually reach up there!"

Laughing again he set acorn down safely on the ground near their house as he shrank and six arms became two, horns became hair, claws became two hands. He opened his eyes to smile at his builder, only to see her looking at him with half relief

"C'mon Malroth-"

"Hey wait-"

"Let's go see what everyone is dressing up as!"

Before he can do anything acorn has grabbed his hand and started pulling him down the stairs, rushing over to the green gardens, every house was decorated with similar decorations, webs and drackys, some black sabrecubs and stray spiders.

Every person wore some kind of costume, Rosie was dressed up as a magus, perry had a simple costume, just some black sabrecat ears and drawn on whiskers. Though he couldn't fault him for not being able to put the effort in, he already looked terrified of Rosie's costume! Let alone all the decorations!

Before he could laugh at the situation he was quickly pulled to a stop, returning his attention to acorn he saw that she had found someone to talk to, specifically Hellen and Jules, the two monsters wearing human masks instead of costumes like everyone else.

"Hi guys! What are you dressed up as?"

"You guys aren't even dressed up! Though I guess we don't need to, we're already monsters!"

Acorn always spoke a little quietly, so Malroth always tried to relay what she said, though even with her quiet voice he could hear something wrong in how she spoke, he didn't do something did he?

"Honorable acorn! Almighty Malroth! I have gathered the monsters of this fair island and we have decided to join in, since we can not dress as monsters we have decided to dress up as humans instead! I have gone with my apprentice Rosie, her potential is enough to be feared by all!"

"AnD iM gOINg aS BAbs! hEr zHOoSy VAdA IS uNA I hAD tO tROll FOr! iM SuRE tO gEt aLL tHe gOOdIEs thIS yEAr!"

"I'm sure you are! Both your costumes look great! I haven't got mine ready yet but I'm working on it"

"Yeah, sure you are, the costumes look decent enough for masks that's for sure! Acorn still hasn't got her costume ready but I've got mine! Check this out!"

With a toothy smile he extended his arm as it quickly morphed into three arms, green scales and Sharp claws revealed themselves as he showed off his arms, ever since he learnt that his god powers were back he figured out how to change forms and he's been loving it! Showing off whenever he can

"Almighty malroth! It is truly a blessing to be able to see your powers in action, this is a momentous event to witness!"

"THaTs iMPreSsiVE! YOU'rE CaTChiNG oN qUiCKly wItH hOW tO USe thAT MALRotH!"

He flexed his arms at the praise, smirking as he turned to his side

"What do you think a-"

The words died in his throat as he turned over and noticed his builder wasn't there, looking around he quickly spotted her near the cliffside of the green gardens, turning briefly back to the two before quickly running off after her, Hellen nodding after him as he ran, quickly skidding to a stop next to the ledge and in turn, acorn.

"Acorn? What's wrong? Is the holiday not going well? If someone's been mean to you just say the word and i-"

"It's nothing Malroth. Its.. it's me, I'm the one Making this dumb, it's nobody else's fault"

She sat on the cliff, curling her legs up onto herself, he slowly sat himself down next to her, grabbing her hand and holding it, rubbing circles into the back of it with his thumb

"You're not stupid, you're my builder and no one is allowed to insult you but me!... can you tell me what's wrong? You're not at fault, the only thing you've done is help, acorn. You've brought this holiday here, you helped make this place real and you're my best friend. I want to help, please let me."

She looked over at him, fear in her eyes as she let out a breath, tightly holding his hand

"I'm scared, Malroth. I'm scared that I'm going to lose you like on malhalla. I tried so hard to get back to you and... I was too late, I promised to help you, to beat the sense back into you but... I did it too hard, Malroth. You were... You..."

Their positions quickly changed as she started crying, he went from rubbing her hand to pulling her closer to him and hugging her as best he could, rubbing circles on her back as she sobbed into his shoulder. He heard loud and clear in his ear what she said next

"I killed you. You died because I couldn't save you"

"I was so scared, I'm still scared, Malroth. I can't do that again... What if... What if it happens again and i kill you? What if you don't come back... And it's all because of me?"

She hiccuped and sobbed as she spoke, his hug got tighter as she went on, he didn't know she was suffering like this... When did this start?

"Acorn, look at me, I'm alive. I'm in control, hargon is gone. I'm not going to ever be like that again, and I'm never going to blame you for hurting me if I ever get like that, you promised me remember? You'd stop me if I ever stopped being myself, I'm never going to blame you for that. I wanted you to do it, I'd rather die then hurt you and the world you love, and I'm never going to hurt you again, you're never going to have to hurt me again. I swear. We're safe, acorn, it's over..."

The two held each other as the fireworks flew and exploded in the sky above, knowing they'd never be apart again.

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Ignore the typos and potential character errors I did not have the time to check the game for how Hellen and Jules spoke, it's like 11 pm and I'm exhausted. this was for the weeks dqb2ber theme of sweets and goodies, I think I did terrible so I'm doing something else on the end of the week day, the theme was exactly the reason I included Jules, as a goodybag it felt obvious. I always thought the builder would probably have their own trauma from having to fight and thinking they killed their best friend, I know I was destroyed during those few moments before the high five happened, so we've got some acorn trauma! Also including the idea that eventually Malroth gets to switch between human and monster form, it's dope I rest my case. I hope you enjoyed the read!

[sapphire-rb]

Malroth clothing compilation!

Dragon Armor:

This one I saw in some fanart and it looks really good on him. Accidentally loaded the black one instead of the purple one oops

I like this armor.

Builder workwear in honour of @to-many-obbsetions92's drawing

The evil armor set

Oh no! D:

DQII set.

Extra, this one was a mistake on my part

Also while this is going on the background is like:

How an average day in my game looks like.

[octo-l95]

[beefgnawpolis]

Fuck the Hades Condor

Rubiss: ok so remember, you're a builder, not a hero

Me: not a hero. got it.

Rubiss: I cannot stress enough that you don't level up from fighting monsters, because that's not what you're for.

Me: ok cool.

Rubiss: great! glad we understand each other. Anyway, your town's under attack from a giant boss monster and you're on your own, good luck!

Me: yeah I got th--wait what

anyway, I've ragequat DQ Builders and moved right on to Builders 2, which gives you a friend whose sole purpose is to wreck shit, and I'm already liking it a lot more than the first

[sapphire-draw]

Now that I've got a new phone I guess I'll have to pick a new background image...? Haven't touched it in 2 years...

*sigh*

Sorry Shadow, you've been dethroned.

[wingedlightsss]

Me stumbling upon these guys from DQB1 and proceeding to have an existential crisis as I attempt to figure out exactly how they are linked to Bonanzo, Esther and Gillian

[dqb2-secrets-and-trivia]

DQB2 Malroth Trivia - Dominant hand:

Malroth is shown to hold his weapon with his right hand in-game, but holds his weapon with his left hand in the opening movie.

In other media he is also shown to be right handed:

Toriyama's original art, and DQ rivals art, directly referencing Toriyama's.

This can mean 2 things:

Malroth is Ambidextrous.

Malroth is Left-handed: - Toriyama's design is right-handed by default. - The animators could make him left-handed, but the game coded all characters share the right hand as their weapon hand (with no exceptions). - DQ Rival's art was directly referencing Toriyama's art, so right-handed.

Below is some analysis of the opening movie's "Left-handed Malroth".

Looking at the opening movie more closely- if you think Malroth holding his weapon with his left may be a "mistake"

Malroth is always shown to be left-handed in the animation. Here's some comparisons to Builder:

Even little details: Whenever he puts his weapon down it's to his left.

Even this scene, where both Builder and Malroth hold their tools in their left hands, but then when going on the attack builder rests the hammer in their right hand while Malroth goes full left-handed.

[dreamerkitty]

I have to share this amazing glitch I stumbled across this morning where Malroth somehow was wearing Ilda’s things in the menu. Doesn’t he look amazing?