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be nice to him it’s his birthday ..

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miquella is LITERALLY a walking tragedy and i love him so much

the fact that he sees horrible things happening all around him (like OP said) and is unable to do anything. he is cursed with eternal nascency. he had a pure heart and a vision of kindness yet he was unable to save anyone. not his twin, not the suffering folk of the lands between that were previously under marika’s rule, not ANYBODY. nothing he saw for the future would ever come to fruition.

and he literally sacrificed parts of himself until he was a shell of a man just to achieve this goal and be better and break the cycle but ended up just like his mother; a god driven by sorrow to make the world into an ideal place. which did NOT go well

he genuinely wished to relieve all of their suffering with a vision of kindness but couldn’t. he was doomed to fail. it would never happen for him, no matter how much he changed himself.

even at the VERY end of his ‘bossfight’ where miquella and his promised consort must accept their fate , miquella embraces radahn in their death animation; and it almost looks like he’s covering radahn’s eyes. putting him out of his misery. relieving his pain so he’d suffer no longer, even though radahn is a twice revived corpse at that point. miquella WANTS to usher in an age of unbridled kindness, but he knows he can’t , and he must accept his fate.

i’m normal about this game

i love miquella so much. i’m so glad and still in awe that fromsoft went the route they did with him, arguably as the most poignant and INTERESTING direction possible. pre-DLC he was so widely expected to be all-good— and he is!— but again, that “goodness” and intention still isn’t enough to solve anything alone. a miquella that DID become the ultimate savior would’ve been boring. a miquella that was true evil would’ve been so boring. neither of these routes would’ve SAID ANYTHING about what the story was trying to tell. miquella was a tragedy but that didn’t mean he was all for nothing. i love youuuuuu miquella

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mohg in a suit

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I will always be an ‘Age of Stars’ glazer it’s the best ending no competition.

Ranni gives The Lands Between freedom to choose their own lives uninfluenced by divine intervention. There’s a chance at a better future for everyone. It’s absolutely stunning visually. You get married to a beautiful woman and become gods together. You have a 1000 year honeymoon in the stars. You even give Marika and Radagon peace, finally letting them rest. It’s the most hopeful ending in my mind

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good ol morgly worgly

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her babies grow up so fast 🥺💚🌱

ok but i’ll never get over the fact that Gideon said “Perhaps the Queen's sorrow was justified” after Malenia was defeated & we inform him of the state of the Haligtree. the implication that everyone knows Marika was heartbroken over the twins. the way Miquella’s favourite lilies are still found in the inner part of Leyndell (in planters instead of growing wild), the way the twins plant jasmine (which is called “Marika” in Japanese) at Haligtree roots, the way they still keep Marika’s Soreseal, the way Miq had to get rid of his Love in order to go through with his ascension, how Trina also rest among a sea of jasmine… how there’re still Erdtree avatars guarding the Haligtree (“the avatars, emerging in the wake of the Elden Ring's shattering, were determined to protect the withering Erdtree's offspring”)

they make me ILL

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what was her prayer ?

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needle knight leda🪡

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imo if they have marika in the movie it’d be really strange if they had her voiced completely out of the blue. the way you understand her as a character in the game is through the words spoken of her by those residing in and outside her rule, those who have faced debilitating oppression under the golden order, those who have been affected indirectly by her decisions, and especially her children. we never talk to her, we only see the remnants of her legacy

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*points at page in artbook* this is marika destroying the elden ring by hitting it with a hammer

*points at next page in artbook* this is radagon attempting to repair the elden ring by hitting it with a hammer again (hes a little stupid)

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places this here gently

Elden Ring uses Christian iconography not unlike how Bloodborne uses the iconography of Lovecraft's work - it takes the baseline, broad understanding of what these works invoke, and uses it to ask a similar, but not identical question.

Lovecraft's work was about the fear of encountering something beyond human understanding, and fruitlessly trying to control it. Bloodborne doubled down on that not just by questioning why the strange and unknowable needs to be controlled, but also tying it directly to the way Victorian men perceived childbirth and menstruation.

Elden Ring's Christian iconography/exploration of sin sidesteps the question of "is sin good/bad" by leaning heavily on the idea that to sin is to declare your own free will. To be able to make your own decisions, there have to be Wrong choices, choices that will irrevocably change things for everyone and can't be taken back. If nothing you did was of any consequence, the world would be free from harm, but it would be a stagnant place. Nothing grows without the risk of sin.

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what if ranni ate her rebis half and that's why there's a ghost on her face