#AC6!Radagon

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Adrianne's and Radagon's emblems (work in progress)

[radagon-in-eldentale]

ARMORED CORE VI the Movie

~ The Witch From Rubicon ~

Story of New Game+++

"In order to make things right, we commit another crime"

2022 Best Picture ELDEN RING cast

2024. 02. 31 COMING SOON

-MAIN CAST-

Tarnished as C4-621/Raven

Radagon as Handler Walter

Melina as Ayre

Blaidd as V.IV Rusty

"Marika" as ???

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Your genuinely one of my favorite elden ring artists, what would you say is your favorite aspect of elden ring just in general

this might be a big revelation but i think my favourite part about Elden Ring is i... actually don't really like it until the DLC.

the way the base game presented a kinda basic and fragmented story, one i'd even say i were underwhelmed about. because i went in expecting Sekiro-level of character driven writing (they did promise that in an interview) and what i got... ehhhh. that's why my fanarts for the base game is literally just fluff pieces and shipping Malenia with another character altogether that isn't even in the game. meanwhile my AC6, Sekiro and Bloodborne art... i think you can tell i have a very deep emotional connection to those games from the kind of work im putting out for them. (hell, before the DLC i actually was thinking "well i'll probably only draw some general fanarts after the DLC then go back to draw more JJK stuffs lol" famous last words)

but holy mother of God the way the DLC completely blew everything tf up.

sorry Fromsoftware, i were not aware the Sekiro character-driven part is actually about the DLC. im sorry im still not familiar with your game yet 😭

(this turns into a mini rant so imma put it under cut OTL)

before, i were pretty "...." about Elden Ring female cast. i think Melina appears too little, i think NPCs like Fia and Roderika... i can't figure out the significance of them within the narrative at all. and it kinda upset me because it feels like they regress back to the helpless / fanservice maiden trope that was usually seen in DS franchise for no reason. i don't like how Rennala ends up as and i don't like not knowing why Radagon did that to her (which turns to me not liking the way it became a popular fanon that he actually loved her he was just bound by duty etc etc...i mean what?), i actually don't even really like how Malenia's barely-there story turns out (but that's a rant for another day).

as standalone characters, sure, i'd say they all have their own merits, but if they don't play any role within the narrative... what's the point then?

but all of that is because back then, we literally did not know what's Marika's deal either.

and so she became this cardboard that everyone pins all the crimes and bad things in the world on, which is... fine? makes sense. but the following line of reasoning that she did all that because she's just...like that drives me up the wall. if i want another "woman bad" story i'd just replay DS2 😭

and that line of thought also distance her from other characters in the game. those stories are not lining up, so we literally see no point in anything.

but by giving us Marika's story in the DLC they:

shine light on the possible division between two Numen factions (Anna & Jolan story + Sword of Light & Darkness // no one is left in Marika's home (those embraces Light/Gold/ Greater Will and its Stars children) vs the Numens in Eternal City (those embraces Dark/ Black Moon/ opposing GW and its children)

the discontent with the Moon and how there are those who will never accept it as being equal to the Stars

the other half situation

the Marika's eye colour possible reveal (link her to Roderika - Roderika as a reflection of the maiden Marika once was and probably still is deep down)

give Godwyn more agency in his ending (his personal knights are on a quest for Age of Duskborn) -> link Marika to Fia (Fia as a reflection of the mother Marika is)

draw direct parallel between Messmer - the child carrying Marika's vengeance for the past, to Melina - the child carrying Marika's hope for the future

Marika as a God full of human flaws >< Miquella as a God devoid of all human emotions. both are bad in different ways. but share a same gentle origin of a simple wish for a kinder world.

the DLC singlehandedly swipes clean every problem i have with the base game. like im actually in awe they managed to do that so efficiently 😭

all that is to say. my favourite aspect of all is truly how one's perspective of this one character could alter the entire story.

i still dislike the interpretation that Marika is cold and heartless or that's she's cruel for no reason, but at the same time, i can see how ppl viewing her that way affect how they see other events in the game. just like how my view of her changes my entire view of the story itself too. and i just love how the writers pull that off really skillfully. man. and i think that's sth so unique to videogame storytelling. it's amazing!

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how are you feeling about the dlc lore as a whole?

Hm, I don't actually know just yet. I may need time to mull it over, but as it stands, I can't help feeling like it's a bit... disjointed from the existing narrative. Kind of like Filianore in DS3, but even harder to gauge chronologically.

[Spoilers ahead]

I actually find all the reveals about Miquella, Malenia, Mohg, and Radahn pretty neat. It feels clear this was the drama that was at the core of the story from the beginning, and there are so many fucked up layers to it all that make my brain buzz, hehe. St. Trina was a neat reveal too, and I feel helps to make some sense of the cosmology of Empyreans and "twin souls," like Marika and Radagon. Or rather, it seems to reiterate what I suspected, that they don't inherit one body (normally). The Carian lore was surprisingly satisfying to me, even if fairly scant. I loved the Finger Lore and the implications for how it ties into the Nox and to Ranni (and even Blaidd!!). That was perhaps my favorite aspect of the DLC's lore, oddly.

As for what I didn't like so much... Everything about Marika and Messmer felt extremely disjointed. It feels like he wasn't as big of a secret to the Lands Between as he was to players for the past couple years, which makes his reveal read less like uncovering the dark history of the world and more like they simply cut him from the main story very abruptly. As for Marika, the ambiguity feels like all it will do is inspire really boring theories everyone will accept as gospel truth, which is always kind of annoying. The Shaman Village thing is beautiful and all, but doesn't really strike me as... a meaningful addition? Is this the land of Numen? Was Marika just a bumpkin all along? There are so many lingering questions that go altogether ignored, and the lack of effect on base game characters and dialogue just further conveys how utterly inconsequential our little trip to the realm of shadow is. (For real, if it's supposed to be where all manner of death winds up and is secreted away, WHY WAS THE RUNE OF DEATH NOT SEALED THERE?)

Obv I still find it a tremendously good expansion, but it feels like they tried a little too hard to be cryptic and to subvert the expectations they'd built up that it winds up falling short of other Souls DLCs imo. I don't demand concrete answers or anything, but I wish it felt more consistent with the chronology and clash of cultures and theologies we'd been introduced to initially. It's hard to believe we have barely anything about the Godskins besides a vague allusion to Dominula... Ah well.

Maybe AC6's characters and story set my expectations too high, lol.

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The liberators of Rubicon everyone

fueled by my delusions :tm:

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quick doodle of 621 and the dog boyfriends she pulled by being a menace to the corporations (ft my first ever Rusty!!! His hair is...rusted because, y'kno. I'm unoriginal)

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AC6 themed playlists because I had to teehee

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Hi there! I wanted to say your art is absolutely incredible and always brings me back to Elden Ring when I forget just how amazing the game is. I live for your depictions of Marika.🥹

I was partly just curious after you posted the recent family tree, is there a reaspn Ranni and Radahn don't make as much of an appearance in your drawings? What is your thoughts on their questline/storyline in general?

Thanks for all the cool art, you're getting better with every piece!!

tbh... i think draw Ranni a lot, she's literally the cover of my first fromsoft fanbook 🥲🥲

though most of my art of her is from 2 years ago, i wouldn't say i don't draw her often at all 😭 i've drawn Radahn 4-5 times too. i understand because i draw too much, it's easy to have an impression that i draw some specific characters less, but compared to, say, the Omen Twins or Rykard or Melina (who i keep meaning to draw but haven't got around to do so yet), Radahn and Ranni are two Carian characters i draw the most of that side of the family (well, Rellana is looking to dethrone them soon but you get what i mean aksfkjdfkj)

Radahn dudebro fans keep pointing fingers saying i hate him but i actually like him. as a guyfailure that is so obsessed with these symbols of a Lord in his father and Godfrey, yet failed to live up to any of them (*stare at that scene of Morgott whooping his ass*). his involvement in the DLC is an interesting spin on things to me, and make a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things (when i saw that we found like... 11 Miquella's Lily in places most personal to Radahn like Carian Manor and Sellia. hoo boy).

lately, i lowkey think Radagon specifically picked him for Miquella and encouraged his obsession with being a Lord. to me at least Radagon is really bitter that Godfrey is the First Lord and not him (her actual other's half! sentenced to live away from her while another man got to be her first in everything! the injustice!), so him not only discrediting Godfrey's descendants (whole thing with Hunters of TWLiD) but also preparing a whole new pair of Lord and God that should have been how he and Marika could have been from the start sounds like the kind of overcompensation he'd be doing (look honey that could be us but you tripping).

so in a way i do feel for Radahan and Miquella falling victims to Radagon's list of issues (though it's only one reason in many other reasons for them to turn out that way ofc. Radagon merely nudges the pieces into certain direction, they go barreling head first down on their own). and i actually like that i could come up with all that thanks to the DLC. imo it actually adds a lot more to Radahn and Miquella's character (depends on how you view the story though whoops).

you can say i like him (and Miq) the way one likes AC6 Iguazu... or Genichiro. the kind of hater characters that are doomed to fail from the start, but they are stubborn and will run head first into the wall again and again. and it's fun to put them in a jar and shake them.

Ranni... after the DLC my feeling for her is a bit more complicated. before i get why she did all those things and i like her story enough, but after the DLC as you see i come to really like Godwyn and links him closely to Marika. so now it's kinda awkward for me to insert Ranni in all the scenarios im drawing lately?

it's not that i stop liking her, it's simply that the scenario doesn't line up for me to add her in that's all. and it goes to other characters i haven't drawn tbh. not because i don't like them, i simply don't have anything in my brain about them to draw out. i don't think there's any characters in Elden Ring i hate tbh (yes i do like even the Hornsents. i find the stories in the scorpion stew and dried flower talisman really somber and give them a lot of humanity too, fucked up rituals aside).

and thank you for your kind words! my editor has been on my ass for a whole year about my art and it does help me improve a lot, im glad to know it shows in the quality of my fanarts as well!

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In honour of my latest AC6 Radagon commission

AC6 AU doodle dump

Raven and Red V

AC6!Fireheart (oc of a member of my server) and Rusty!Malenia

Golden Order on Rubicon 3 concept art [Radagon,Marika,Maliketh]

Xanth IV

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Just commissioned AC6 Radagon and yeah.......we're back in the AU brainrot