#starscourge

[simbasomba]

Holy shit my art just randomly upgraded

AU where Scourge just appears in the middle of the night and he’s like: “Hey SquirrelFlight with a dark pelt wanna train in the dark forest to kill BrambleStar?” And she’s like “Yes yes and yes”

[writermich18]

You know what would have been deliciously Ironic?

If Somnus Lucis Caelum had been immune to the Starscourge like Ellie from The Last of Us was immune to Codyceps.

No matter how many exposures or times the Daemons bite him, the Starscourge won't grow. Complete Immunity, all because his mother got bit before she could cut the umbilical cord and she lied to her husband about cutting it before she got bit.

Nobody realizes it until he gets bit once.

The shear. Fucking. Irony. The boy the Astrals ignore has the cure within him as an immune person, and they chose his brother to have the Healing Power and to be the Scourge Container.

[ronkeyroo]

Okay I know it’s 3am for you right know and we’ve been talking a bunch but now I really want to see starscourge Ardyn in your style. Definitely get some sleep first but then LET US FEAST ON OUR MAN 🤤

✖ "― 𝓞𝓱 but im no mortal...I'm a ᴍᴏɴꜱᴛᴇʀ."

[cainballad]

[ffxvreversebang2022]

Today’s team: @happy-orc & @ertrunkenerwassergeist

The Light of Divinity is like a Will-O'-the-Wisp was written for the FFXV Reverse Bang 2022 and can be found on AO3 here.

Rating: Mature

No Archive Warnings Apply

Description: Ardyn's best friend is a cat named Izunia. With the emergence of a mysterious scourge their happy days are suddenly over and the world begins to spiral into chaos.

[lmryll]

My Radahn cosplay 👀

[arinqiart]

Live recording of Miquella yanking Radahn out of Boss heaven for the DLC Final battle

[drenched-in-sunlight]

finally... i can draw more elden ring family shenanigans 🤭

[creatureesque]

redraw of this now with messmer.... demigods in silly outfits

[ganondoodle]

(Radahn, Elden Ring)

[geddoart]

The mightiest demigod

Picked up Elden Ring this summer... getting my ass beat in completely new ways I couldn't even imagine a few months ago, but god is that game good

[chunlo]

1 week left for Shadow of the Erdtree!

[slavonicrhapsody]

Children of the Erdtree and the Moon

[skrankku]

Poor guy

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Miquella vs Ranni: Loyalty and Love

SPOILERS FOR SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE UNDER THE CUT, BUT COME FOR MY THOUGHTS!

There are so many essays I could write, comparing Ranni and Miquella, but I'm going to contain myself and focus on the most important aspect of comparisons: how they treat the concepts of love and loyalty and the people who give that to them. Especially in light of Miquella's instant kill "Heart Steal" attack.

The thing about Miquella is, even though he's kind, even though he's compassionate, he DOES NOT VALUE love and loyalty. And why should he? It's always been given freely to him. He can just force someone to love him anyway, stealing their heart. So, the people who love him are disposable, treated like pawns. Malenia? Literally left to rot in the home they built together. Mohg? Turned into a glorified guard dog. Even Radahn, turned into his perfect consort.

And Miquella probably does love them, but his perception of love is completely skewed by the nature of the fact that EVERYONE loves him. It's something he just gets. Something he uses.

Compassion and love are Miquella's weapons. They're what he uses to protect himself. It's cheap, something he can get easily.

Now, compare that to Ranni.

For Ranni, love and loyalty are dangerous. She's seen how ruinous and terrible they can be. She's seen her mother's mind wither away, a consequence of Radagon breaking her heart. She's seen Radagon break Rennala's heart for his love of the Golden Order.

The only people who loved her unconditionally are Blaidd and Iji, and even Iji's more around out of loyalty to the House of Caria than love for Ranni.

That is to say, Ranni respects and understands the power of love more than Miquella ever could.

Think of how she tells you to leave her to her lonely path. Her engagement ring, engraved with a warning to stay away, that her destiny is cold and lonely. Ranni pushes people away for their own safety, and that makes her love all the more valuable.

Love, for Ranni, is something at once dangerous and precious. The despondent way she tells you, once you've defeated the Baleful Shadow, to tell Blaidd and Iji that she loves them. Ranni knows what their love has cost them. Knows what it has bought her. She respects love and is naturally wary of it.

And that's what makes it so valuable.

Miquella doesn't appreciate love, because he's always had it.

Ranni treasures it because she's always struggled with it.

God, I love this game.

[callibrin]

He is a TRUE FAN of this guy, you know.