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To my followers — I kinda forgot I promised a review of the last two RK reactions. Truthfully I only log into this tumblr on my phone so posting is tricky, but do you guys still want those reviews?
RK beginning/final review?
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I’m so angry this isn’t what we got
"My dear twin"
I love thinking about when they were the same height.
The Colors Within (2024) dir. Naoko Yamada
Elena Wuest - An afternoon Tea, 2026 - Oil on canvas
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here i abandon my own self
I was just talking to a friend of mine who still playing the DLC and I fucking was struck by a fucking galaxy brain theory
Remember good 'ol tragic Millicent? Remember her whole thing was that she was one of 5 "offshoots" that were born when Malenia did the big no fuck u to Radahn and fucked up Caelid?
Remember how at some point Milli says the following?
"There is something I must return to Malenia. The will that was once her own. The dignity, the sense of self, that allowed her to resist the call of the scarlet rot. The pride she abandoned, to meet Radahn's measure."
What if she meant that literally? That she literally is Malenia's dignity?
Shadow of the Erdtree is all about Miquella going around and shedding aspects of himself, fear love doubt and so on. Most people agree that St. Trina is the human manifestation of Miquella's love, so what if Millicent was the same?
Millicent is the human manifestation of Malenia's pride, and she was shed, just like Trina, when Mal decided to play dirty because she wanted to win at any cost
That includes Milli's sisters, I bet you they too are also aspects of Malenia's self, and when you fight her at the Haligtree, what you are actually fighting is a husk, a hallow imitation of what she used to be
Thats why she seems so out of it, she just wants to fight and win, thats all thats left of her :(
Milli wanted to return to Mal and merge back together, even if she didn't truly understand thats what she wanted, but alas she couldn't make it and Malenia was doomed to remain a husk of herself untill the very end
I don’t mean this to shame you, but you’re correct! You’re picking up on the strong subtext of Millicent’s questline even before the DLC. The DLC just made that implication louder and more explicit!
It is exactly for this that Millicent is “the most splendid bud” because she is the most “alike” to Malenia. This also serves as a window into who Malenia is as a person.
I was just talking to a friend of mine who still playing the DLC and I fucking was struck by a fucking galaxy brain theory
Remember good 'ol tragic Millicent? Remember her whole thing was that she was one of 5 "offshoots" that were born when Malenia did the big no fuck u to Radahn and fucked up Caelid?
Remember how at some point Milli says the following?
"There is something I must return to Malenia. The will that was once her own. The dignity, the sense of self, that allowed her to resist the call of the scarlet rot. The pride she abandoned, to meet Radahn's measure."
What if she meant that literally? That she literally is Malenia's dignity?
Shadow of the Erdtree is all about Miquella going around and shedding aspects of himself, fear love doubt and so on. Most people agree that St. Trina is the human manifestation of Miquella's love, so what if Millicent was the same?
Millicent is the human manifestation of Malenia's pride, and she was shed, just like Trina, when Mal decided to play dirty because she wanted to win at any cost
That includes Milli's sisters, I bet you they too are also aspects of Malenia's self, and when you fight her at the Haligtree, what you are actually fighting is a husk, a hallow imitation of what she used to be
Thats why she seems so out of it, she just wants to fight and win, thats all thats left of her :(
Milli wanted to return to Mal and merge back together, even if she didn't truly understand thats what she wanted, but alas she couldn't make it and Malenia was doomed to remain a husk of herself untill the very end
Wish her questline could've ended up differently 💔
It could’ve, but it was beautiful for the same reason Rengoku from Demon Slayer’s death was beautiful. She would live well, and die human on her own terms, not as the puppet of an outer god. She represents how Malenia wanted to live her life before Caelid forced her hand and for that, her story is so splendid. “I must return to her her pride.” Just fuck me up dude, oh my god it’s so good.
so Malenia took the needle out to bloom and Millicent took it out to NOT bloom?
how the fuck does this thing work then
The needle forestalls the rot, but it doesn’t cure it. It just alleviates symptoms like how morphine can ameliorate pain without curing the cause.
As for the blooms themselves, both women are defined by their sheer will and sense of self. It’s heavily implied the Scarlet Rot needs a non-resistant vessel and the reason it basically dissolves their minds and bodies is to chip away at that sense of self so when the vessel “dies” it can flower as a Valkyrie or in Malenia’s case, a full blown Goddess of the Rot.
The needle helps forestall its affects but what allows them to resist this is their unrelenting, overwhelming will, so powerful that it could even empower Malenia’s rotten Great Rune which is described to be unusable, but infused with her spirit to allow you to have her lifestyle. This is probably why she has it.
To bloom, Malenia sacrificed her sense of self, casting it off Miquella style in order to try to kill Radahn. The draw not only left Radahn a raging, rabid dog basically, but it also left Malenia without her sense of self, her dignity, or her pride. Her repeating her name to the player is actually a feeble attempt to hold on to her sense of self.
Millicent embodies that sense of self. She IS the manifestation of Malenia’s true self. Basically, Millicent is who Malenia actually is beneath all of that strength and bravado as “The Blade of Miquella”, a sweet, humble, and kind girl who cherishes any acts of kindness given to her, who loves fiercely, and is absolutely devoted to people she loves.
Gowry knew this, so he manipulates you to getting close to her and then encourages you to betray her so you *break* her, allowing her to bloom. But choosing her instead affirms who she is, allowing her to choose death with dignity as herself, rejecting the rot, and thus, dying an agonizing but dignified death as herself.
When we beat Malenia, she dies in despair, apologizing to Miquella (whom she doesn’t realize is never coming back) that she couldn’t defeat you. She dies and the rot flower blooms. By defeating her, the trumpets herald the coming of a new god, but by returning to her the needle that was embedded in Millicent, you return the piece of Millicent that belonged to Malenia, allowing them to continue to resist the scarlet rot once they’re reborn.
Miyazaki: Here is Freyja, she is an awesome warrior, and a buff lady wearing Roman themed armor and a black bear pelt for a cape.
10 seconds later, in the Fromsoftware writing room:
Death washes up in the Shadowlands. This is an explicit piece of information that is provided. Radahn and Mohg can't get here unless they are dead by the standards of the Lands Between. So why would any normal NPC be different? Even Leda turns on the player Tarnished and one of her reasons is realizing "oh, you can still see the Guidance of Grace?" This is significant because the Tarnished who can see guidance can leave the Shadowlands whenever they want by travelling through sites of grace - and how can they ever claim to be loyal to Miquella when they have a way to just leave like that?
Long ago, I was stricken by scarlet rot in the Swamp of Aeonia. Immobile, feverish, and in great pain, I was entirely resigned to death.
I was left behind, and only Kindly Miquella was enough to seek me out. My wound was swollen and festering — exuding a most pungent odour — and yet he drained the poison from it.
If something sounds too unbelievable to be true it probably is. If the narrator admits to being feverish - even less reliable. Freyja says she was left behind. It might be callous, but in the midst of warfare it is inconvenient to collect the bodies of those who are dead.
There is confirmed evidence that characters in Elden Ring can astral project a copy when their body is elsewhere. Morgott does this. Sellen does this. St. Trina does this by appearing in dreams sometimes as a young girl and sometimes as a young boy. And having been directly confirmed that St. Trina is Miquella's other half it follows that Miquella can also appear in dreams when his body is elsewhere.
Miquella healing Freyja doesn't break the established lore of the Lands Between because it never happened on that plane of existence. Freyja being healed is in alignment with the logic of the Shadowlands. A very old tradition of combining death and dream.
A painting of Leyndell from Elden Ring.
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Working on a Malenia. I want to make the demigods feel more flesh-like while still feeling like it’s them:
Reference below. I made some adjustments to the pose to try to get her to feel less “digital game model”. Credit to the ever patient Zlofsky for the screencaps as always :3
I’m trying to push myself to compress detail into value relationships, but gosh it’s hard for my overthinking brain. The pattern on the helm destroys me so I gave up for now. XD
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