#Flower Queen

[shadowedpetals]

Emma Watson is so Elain Archeron coded 🥹🌸

[berrywantsakiss]

Queen Mae Redraw

★ a redraw of the first ever bust / headshot of her ★

- realmsau

she's so pretty I love her sm

original and exact pallette redraw ↓

[sleepyselkiesketches]

I'm starting to realise I never draw my characters properly

[gion-division]

𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝟒 — 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆/𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

“Well, since I’ve danced in this competition already, it’s only natural that I sing too. Please enjoy this performance as well, just as you did my last one, fufu.”

As she bowed, the stage darkens once again for the performance of the Empress. If ‘he’ is watching this too, then she hopes that her emotions will reach him.

‘In Between The Scenes.’

Performed by:

Koyumi “EMPRESS”.

“I mean, I think we’ve all heard each other rap by now, so it’ll be kinda weird to do that right? That’s why I’m deciding to sing instead. This song was actually highly requested by my fans even before this contest began, so I hope everyone enjoys this live performance! Music please, let’s go let’s go!!”

‘Queen Fox.’

Performed by:

Moriko “Canopus” Himawari.

[cirqueduroyale]

[syppys-den]

I love her face here ^^ it's like she saw Fink looking at her and was like "see somethin' ya like?"

Flowers 🌹

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[floristusa]

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[toobadthatsob]

[starhazel]

Take my hand, child...

[shadowedpetals]

Elain Archeron, the flower bride of Prythian

🥰🌸🌸🌸

I was too late for Valentine's day but I hope this still counts 🌸🦇.

Elain called Azriel's hands "beautiful" and we probably will get more monents with her showing love and appreciation to his scarred hands. I wanted to draw a headcanon I had in mind about it ♡ (I noticed tumblr got the quality messed up, but opening the picture shows the original)

Hope you like it ❤️

Below you have a version with and without a veil.

[heavenpureheart]

[shadowedpetals]

"To look at the hardness of the world and choose, over and over, to love, to be kind. She had been always so full of light." 🌸🦋

[drenched-in-sunlight]

one thing that i find interesting is that even though we never get to interact with Marika directly, only knowing her via obscure cutscenes and other characters' dialogue... she actually displays a wide range of emotions as much as any other NPCs.

her statues depict her as having a warm, gentle smile:

the Mimic veil description points to her playful, mischievous side:

(it's a popular theory in the JP/Asian side of the fandom that it's sth from her childhood - hence the "Marika's Mischief", not "Queen Marika's", and she used it to escape the grisly fate befalling her family.

additionally, its equivalence in Dark Souls is also something described as "the mischief of a young girl who sought relief from the solitude of the woods at dusk", aka Princess Dusk who hails from "Oolacile, land of ancient golden sorceries", but i digress)

her portrait, the story trailer's "Queen Marika was driven to the brink" and Gideon's dialogue after the player defeated Malenia pointed out her sorrow:

(back when i first played the base game, this is the portrait that drove my eyes most in Roundtable Hold. i kept gazing at her - the Queen with permanently lowered eyes, and thought "there is a girl in there")

The bat lady's song, Messmer's entire Crusade, all those conflicts to establish the Erdtree, shows her anger, and the cruelty she's capable of:

Then there's Shaman's village, the clinic underneath Shadow Keep, the golden braid, the Minor Erdtree, the sealing of Death - that points to grief, trauma, survivor guilt, kindness, and the ruinous drive for revenge that results in the above path down hell:

(there's also a theory for the Crusade's headless statue being a reminder for the Hornsent of what they put Marika's mother through, but it's not concrete canon so here is the link if you want to check it out)

The fact that all of Erdtree's incantations are heal and protection spells (with only one exception of Wrath of Gold spell which was found after the Elden Ring was shattered), the Capitol's Perfumers originally being blessed healers, and that all Erdtree blessings come in the shape of tears give the picture of Marika's gentle wish at the beginning: to heal everything and everyone.

(and to me personally, there's a kind of vulnerability and honesty in showing your tears to the world and let it be your power to heal at the same time.)

the eye she blessed Messmer with (i do think the Eng translation at some part lost the sentiment of the JP text - that the eye is always referred to as a blessing)

the blessing flask that - unlike its Dark Souls equivalent (which ranges from 6-13 flasks), only have 4 available to us player, heal all ailments and status effect, and specified as sth made for Messmer.

the Marika's soreseal in the Haligtree + the waterfall near Godwyn's final resting place

the Regal Omen Bairn (that was fashioned after the Jizo statue - sth made by grieving parents wishing for protection for their deceased child in the afterlife)

the blessing, gifts, equipment that Messmer and Godwyn's personal knights all get

the fact that Marika's bedchamber and the Impaler's Catacomb (which is the only catacomb in the base game to have the spike trap mechanic used in catacombs in the DLC) remain the proof of Messmer's existence in the base game

how Godwyn's ending is the only ending where the mending rune is placed on the position of Marika's womb (the lower arc or the Elden Ring - also referred to as the basin in which its blessings pool)

that's a whole barrage of motherhood. the love, the fear, the postpartum depression, the guilt and anxiety, (the occasional scheming for revenge with her son). and despite how flawed and tragic that love ends up being for all of them, it is there.

(there's a whole subplot about how Messmer is the only demigod to be called ugly in-game (Hornsent npc dialogue) while Boc's questline is about how his mother being the only one to always assure him he's beautiful, despite everyone else calling him ugly. and how each NPCs questline does reflect a wider theme seen in Marika and her children. but again, i digress)

every time i think of her, Marika is a constantly shifting kaleidoscope, holding everything from within (the beauty and the malign, light and dark, birth and death, she's warm and gentle, she's cruel and unjust, she's strong and kind, she's weak and resentful, she's sweet and she's bitterness made flesh)... and i could only stand there and admire it all.

[geopsych]

Flowers by the lake, 31st of July 2019.

Queen Anne’s lace.

[gion-division]

𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝟓 — 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖

Nightmare mode !

“Both Honoka and Moriko were very excited for this round, fufu. Honoka especially was planning to make yokai-like outfits from the very beginning, so to see her finally bring these designs to life must be very satisfying.”

“According to her, I’m supposed to be a Hannya, a human woman that turned into a demon out of jealousy. …Hm? The giant skeletal head? Oh! Honoka said it’s a reference to Gashadokuro. It’s astonishing.”

“Ah ah, what do we have here…Humans? What a surprise. I didn’t think humans would be so ‘brave’ as to appear before us on a night such as this. What do you say we show them just how powerful us yokais are, since they are so curious~”

“…Ehe, tada! Honoka made me look like a Tengu! Gosh, you don’t know how excited I was when I heard that there was a horror round for this contest! Hmhm~ Don’t I look cool? Tengus are said to be swordsmen too, pretty fitting if I do say so myself.”

[skairart]

Snorkmaiden and Little My with Peonies

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