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[moonwatchingtruth]

John Carter dancing to We Like To Party! (The Vengabus) bu The Venga Boys. I've been holding onto this for a while.

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

I swear some people think Mohg’s blood cult is just some fun club with a creepy aesthetic the way they talk about it and its members…. The cult that has kidnapped people, that requires you to kill a maiden to join, that goes around killing people, that has some of its own members hanging dead outside the palace, and whose leader has not so subtle sexual abuse implications (towards someone sleeping that he ALSO kidnapped, and no the charm does not account for that sort of obsession, it’s absent in the other charmed people we see). Not the type to care about “consent” or “hurting people” lol… no, not even Ansbach, acting “nice” doesn’t mean he’s not part of a such a cult

[transshion]

dlc is looming in the future and i desperately need to return to my frenzied flame run cosplaying as sauron's drag queen persona

[theyputitback]

The fact that there are no Neela Rasgotra fans on tumblr is an awful, hideous crime.

[2keypad]

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

Really do think people got suckered by how Ansbach isn't as charmingly nutty as Varre. That cool old man is STILL part of a deranged blood cult and was so good at cult stuff he was head honcho of Mohg's special guys. Being a cool, calm old man doesn't preclude him from bathing in blood and wounds enough to make Varre look vanilla!

Yeah, if anything it seems like it would make him even more effective at recruiting people, and we’ve seen that the dynasty values elegance and refinement so it’s not even surprising he’s calm and polite (look at how nobles dress, their swordplay, the way Ansbach’s incantation is described as unusual for being so aggressive, how Mohg greets you as an “honored guest”, Eleonora being called a proud knight, and so on)

People are forgetting this is the cult that requires killing your maiden to join, and that their whole thing is invading and cutting down their fellow Tarnished, Yura talks about how he’s lost so many already. You do a whole bloody finger ritual so you can invade people whenever you please. The surgeons were explicitly described as kidnapped, and the merchant there is apparently “imprisoned” so sounds like he was too. And we’re not even deeply involved members so we don’t see all the details. Ansbach is described as having a “fearsome reputation” in a cult like that, he’s hardly just some kind old man

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

I miss the people that hated Mohg (I say as a Mohg fan), at least they had a better grasp of his character than most of his "fans"

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

SOTE SPOILERS

I just beat the dlc so I’ll sum up my thoughts. Best part was by far the world and sidequests, lots of gorgeous scenery and NPCs that work well with what the base game set up and had interesting quests. I especially liked Trina/Thiollier’s (all the stuff about being a god would be a cage for him even goes with Mohg’s intentions) and Ymir’s (finger lore and hand mpreg just goes extremely hard okay)

So I’m disappointed that the main story I think was just… bad and disconnected from base game as a whole. I was looking forward to more Miquella but the final boss felt more like an excuse to fight Radahn at his peak than what would make sense story-wise. If he’s so important to Miq’s plans, then you’d expect base game to bring that up like… at all? And why Radahn as his consort when Malenia exists, who he ACTUALLY has twin prince vibes with…? She’s dear to him, and just as strong? And it makes Aeonia a waste, cause if Radahn agreed, why fight and hurt even herself in the process? And if not, why couldn’t Miq just charm him especially after they make such a big deal about it with Mohg? I DO think the Mohg thing backfired on him but I doubt Radahn would have as twisted visions of love as him so why not?

Which coming to that, I also hate how they emphasize Mohg being some victim of bewitching, it felt boring and cowardly to do so, instead of lean into the implications they set up. I still think Mohg DID abuse him though for a number of reasons 1- Ansbach is a high ranking knight of Mohg’s of course he’s biased towards his lord 2- other NPCS who were human not even demigods still had awareness of the charm and were still able to distrust others 3- Mohg’s obsession and possessiveness of Miq is unique to him not even Leda acts so fixated 4- There’s literally nothing saying the kidnapping was planned (hell the haligtree isn’t even mentioned despite it being his life’s work lmaooo) so ripping him out of that seems like it would be against his will. All they say is a vague “needed him to get to the land of shadows”. Somehow. 5- Mohg being killed also couldn’t have been part of his plan you don’t even need to set foot in the dynasty to become Elden lord and he’s in a secluded spot and relatively unknown. So that’s very unreliable… 6- Miq’s plans had nothing to do with the Mother or the Dynasty so making Miq into a god under Her and forming the basis of the dynasty is 100% Mohg. Probably it backfired in the sense Mohg has a twisted sense of love that hurts the one he claims to love. Ansbach probably saw his plan for a dead end though (Miq certainly wasn’t waking up) so he tried to stop his obsession with him. <-very sick of people claiming he “beat the allegations”

As for what this means for my art I’m certainly less inspired by this game than before but I do intend to to draw an extra bloodied, violated mess of a Miq, and occasional (non-consensual) MohgMiq kinda out of spite for people claiming him innocent now also I need to see Miq broken