James: Darling, open your mouth wide.
Regulus: aaaaa
James, smiling: Good Boy.
Regulus, mouthful: *Beaming under James' gaze*
Barty, perplexed: What the fuck did i just witness.
James: What?
Evan: Is-this- how you guys normally are?
James: Uh yeah?
Dorcas: Holy fuck. Reg let's you touch him?!
James: ...yes?
Pandora: And he lets you call him pet names? REG!
James: Baby, what are they talking about-
Barty: I called him baby once and he fuckin-
Regulus: SHUT UP BARTY!
James, amused and smiling like crazy: Reggie, I-
Regulus, covering his face with his hands: NO.
Somthing so funny about Billy getting the memory's of the past champions randomly or randomly hearing other champions gushing about stuff they did, I like to imagine billy looking at a random heros family photo and getting flash banged by "My darling wife!!" Or "my love! My muse!!" And going oh.. oh no...
And he can't control his visual emotions well so other heros go "why are you looking at my grandma like that man??" And Billy going "haha, she looks familiar.." while the champions are screaming like their favorite actor showed up in a film
Flash: this is my great-great-great-grandpa! (Picture of some old guy)
The Ghosts Of Champions Past: AHHHHHHH REGIE GET OVER HERE YOUR BOYFRIEND IS HERE!!!!
Captain Marvel (blank faced): ...
Flash: You good man? You're kinda looking at my grandpa like he killed your wife and kids
Captain Marvel: Oh, um my bad.. just real quick is his name-
The dead champions: CHARLES!!!
Captain Marvel: C-charles..?
Flash: Yeah! Wait- how did you know?!
Marvel visibly red faced and avoiding eye contact, being forced to listen to the other champions cry Charles name: Haha lucky guess?..
So you know how billys champion form always looks like his dad?
We all say its because he idolizes and sees his dad as a hero?
What if its actually his dads body and he doesn't know it.
Like the gods could make a body out of magic for him, but his subconscious already had THE perfect template and so they just nab his dads body from shortly after he died, add a shit ton of magic, make him buff as hell, and then make him a bit taller.
But he has some of the wounds from when the cave was coming down, his hand looks broken from where he was holding Marilyn's right before they died, there is a scar under his eye where his glasses cut into his face, and if the suit ever was damaged or came off they would be able to see shrapnel and gun shots and blood pooling under the skin from where his ribs would have broken.
And all of it is gold, like his very blood has been changed to be divine, the parts of him that were damaged now looks like golden scars. But they bleed when cap gets upset.
And the JL are so very worried when the back of caps suit gets damaged and it looks like he should be dead from internal bleeding alone based on what would have been deep purple to black bruising all along his back and side.
Of course billy cant see it and dosent really suspect that his body is his dads. Just that it looks and smells like his old cologne, secretly a perfume that marilyn loved, full of burnt marshmello, toasting wood and vanilla. and brings him comfort.
May as well include this as the first of my Elden Ring artworks, as it's chronologically the first in my new style I’m trying.
(keep reading for lore speculation)
I’ve always wondered how conscious Miquella was while being kidnapped by Mogh, or while sealed in his cocoon. To whatever extent he was, I cannot fathom that the experience would have been anything but dark, slimy, fearful, claustrophobic, and isolating. He had never, waking or sleeping, really been that alone before, so far away from his sister, or so unsure of the future.
And yet I don’t think he could have been completely oblivious in his “slumber”, as he had the occasion to charm at least Mogh and Ansbach at the Ancient Dynasty mausoleum. (very likely in self defense, considering their respective intentions towards him) Though perhaps the charm works altogether autonomously, working on someone only once he touches or is touched by them. It does say in Mogh’s remembrance that he never once received a response from the young empyrean, and its not like Ansbach described having a conversation with him when he set out to end his influence over his master—from presumably still within his cocoon. It seems then that he’s almost in some sort of dissociative catatonic state, hiding whether knowingly or unconsciously from the intrusive fever dream of the outside world.
But if he was cognizant enough to discover the full extent of his circumstances, one can only imagine how crushing the realization would be. The only conclusion being that his bodyguard sibling had been overpowered or killed, that the Haligtree was dead or dying, and that his lifelong dreams of a sanctuary kingdom for the outcast and afflicted had withered on the vine. It would be enough to drive anyone to hopelessness.
We find and free him from the suffocation of Mogh, (don’t forget he was in there with him, literally inside his blood) but only eventually; the events of the Shattering were not too recent.
Idk I find the apparent utterly despairing end to his story in the base game so tragically compelling. (All of the other interpretations of Miquella’s character that find him apparently wanting to be kidnapped and allegorically deflowered by a horned demon I find to be insensitive, very reductive and not nearly as poignant)
Ryan honestly makes me really sad because he’s not to blame for anything but he ended up with the two worst father figures in the universe. Deep down he’s a sweetheart and on one side he has the creepy, psychopathic, manchild rapist of a biological father, and on the other an emotionally stunted, opportunistic, self-serving adoptive father. And honestly, not only are they both violent and terrible, but the only thing they care about is their own damn agenda, and to hell with the kid. God, someone protect him :(
