scholar of the third or fourth sin

FromSoft enjoyer, Heide knight, Nightreign enthusiast, freelance writer & Elden Ring lore overthinker. she/her. call me Coffin! woc, lesbian, married, not a minor. main account is @tentacleteapot.

[darksouls2-gendercoffin]

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hi! you may know me from my main account @tentacleteapot. I originally made this blog because I needed a dedicated space to talk about Dark Souls 2 and Elden Ring, but since then this tumblr’s expanded into a general-purpose ‘dark fantasy and lady knight appreciation’ space. its core focus will always be FromSoft stuff, though.

I'm pretty flexible with names: I answer to either Daphne or Ten on my main blog, and I'm trying to get 'Coffin' going as the name I go by in ER/Souls spaces and on the lore-focused YouTube channel I keep threatening to start.

I love answering asks and there isn't a single aspect of Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring, or Shadow of the Erdtree that I don't like to talk about, so please feel free to say hi! you can find my more in-depth posts under the tag #ER narrative, and my text posts are tagged #soapstone messages! I also post clips of my gameplay, especially if something funny happens, which are tagged with #my footage. if you've got Elden Ring/Souls thoughts or want to hear mine I would love to talk!

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Mohg, in his Mimic Veil's disguise, as he appears in my fanfic The Omen Knight: Bloodbound. Based on my friend's design she drew a few years back. (I'd link her Twitter but we don't use Twitter anymore, and she hasn't reposted this elsewhere - she's OhThatNK, go follow her on Bluesky!!) I know it's very different from how most people draw Mohg's human form, because usually people want him to have pale skin and light hair like his mother and father, but in my artfelt heartfelt opinion, this design maintains the more important aspects of his Omen design. The dark hair mimics his black horns, the mustache mimics the shape of his catlike mouth, and the beard represents the horns on his chin. Mohg already looks nothing like his parents as an Omen, thematically it would be appropriate for him to look almost nothing like them as a human, apart from sharing Godfrey's facial structure. Anyways, go read my fanfic where Mohg gets into a duel with a young and arrogant Prince Rykard!

[haveyoueverusedthissoulsweapons2]

Finished said fourth consecutive playthrough of Dark Souls 2 and I'm saying without any hesitation that this game has way better writing than Dark Souls 1.

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double peace signs effect of gaining humanity surrounded by heide knights "i love dark souls 2"

[haveyoueverusedthissoulsweapons2]

Finished said fourth consecutive playthrough of Dark Souls 2 and I'm saying without any hesitation that this game has way better writing than Dark Souls 1.

[snapjaw-scavenger]

be honest am i going to scale well late game?

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imo one of the more interesting things Elden Ring does is introduce the Dung-Eater in the opening cutscene with no context whatsoever, and then proceed to reveal what a fucking creep he is—and then proceed to reveal that he's even worse than you already thought he was.

in the opening cinematic he almost seems like he's being set up as some kind of martyr, the kind of character who's vilified by the Lands Between but actually found out something really important or had some really 'heretical' belief about accepting one of the Lands Between's various outgroups. people are throwing rocks at his body after he's been executed, which on top of the narrator flat-out calling him loathsome and saying he eats shit really conveys this idea of the worst pariah imaginable. I was fully expecting to find out he was the fall guy used to cover up some secret conspiracy or religious scandal, not... y'know, one of the worst people you'll meet in the whole game.

to clarify the reason I think he just flat-out fucking sucks, I need to talk about the reason reddit/twitter ER dudebros tend to treat him like a Did Nothing Wrong, Joker-style antihero: their tendency to misunderstand what he's doing with the Omen as subversive or misguidedly noble. I see a lot of people compare him to the villain Syndrome from The Incredibles, using some variation on Syndrome's "when everyone's super, no one will be" line to convey that the Dung-Eater's plan to curse everyone in the world to becoming Omen is going to end Omen-centric bigotry and hatred. they spin this fantasy where everyone will slowly give birth to and be reincarnated as Omen until their people are the only ones left, and then everybody will realize there's nobody to be prejudiced toward because they've all become what their culture and religion vilify.

look at the language the Dung-Eater uses, though. people's bodies are 'defiled' with Omen-ness, this status is a 'curse', one that he passes on to others. he doesn't see the Omen as an underprivileged social group who deserve equity or restorative justice, he sees this people group as a blight he can spread, and that's really fucking gross. he isn't even 'appropriating Omen culture' or anything because not once does he indicate that he sees the Omen as people, as anybody with any kind of worth. by all indications, he sees their existence as a curse in and of itself, someone being born an Omen the ultimate degradation and insult. knowing what we know now about the Hornsent, how they weren't a race of cursed monsters but instead a culture stuck in the same cycle of violence as the people of the Lands Between, I feel like the Dung-Eater's motives and ideals come off even more misguided and weird than ever before. he's not somebody who thinks that forcing the same lived experience onto everyone would cultivate universal empathy (which it wouldn't), he's like if a super edgy racist decided "I wanna magically curse everyone else in the world to be black, they'd HATE that because it's the worst thing anybody can possibly be".

[utopians]

duuuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah it's fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber

[darksouls2-gendercoffin]

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[decadent-trans-girl]

'why is so much politically-focused genre fiction centred on monarchies' many reasons, but one which I think deserves attention: monarchy is an obvious way of tying together the dysfunctions of the domestic to those of the state

[darksouls2-gendercoffin]

just saw somebody on BlueSky saying “the worst kind of storytelling is when the narrator is unreliable” and while I don’t know for sure that that wasn’t a facetious statement, I do think I need to lie down for a while

[haveyoueverusedthissoulsweapons2]

Been on a Dark Souls 2 roll as of late, having a great time and I've realized that while Dark Souls 1 is fairly linear at first but then opens up, Dark Souls 2 let's you loose pretty much from the get-go and the recommended direction of Forest of Fallen Giants is that, a recommendation, and only after the mandatory "collect 4 McGuffins" steps, the game becomes linear, but you can still do the DLC's in any order you'd like.

I honestly prefer this, since it enhances build variety, and let's you gear up or strategize better however you prefer.

Hell, you don't even need the Four Souls, since Drangleic Castle is locked behind the Soul Memory mechanic, I literally didn't need to fight Freja last playthrough and could just proceed with the game

How cool is that?

Not to speak of the huge amounts of weapons and bosses this game has. I think this is the only case of a Dark Souls game having 'secret bosses' in the traditional sense

Anyway I am a DS2 defender and prefer it over the first game. Fight me.

[darksouls2-gendercoffin]

there are dozens of us!! dozens!!!

[miquellah]

“what if death was gentle and loving” Gravelord Nito and im not fucking joking

[miquellah]

highly implied family man. made the milfs and taught them to sing for the dead. made the fenito also, in order to protect the dead and ensure they can rest peacefully as possible. when u find him in that bigass coffin he just chillin. he’s literally nice… death is about COMMUNITY

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