#Micolash beloved

[loadingbones]

Days 6-10: Skeleton 💀✨

[fareehaandspaniards]

5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)

I was tagged by: @heraldofcrow (thank you for all those tags I am excited every time xD)

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite

It's hard since in every fandom I had 5 beloved characters and all of them are my beloveds blorbos little kitties

I won't tag anyone (5 people is not enough xd) , just let's do it

[katyspersonal]

broke: more female characters who excel at everything just for being women and are smart and strong and don't need anyone and stick it up to the man

woke: more female characters who are absolute losers that cringe and fail all the time and no one likes them

bespoke: more female characters who went insane upon gazing into knowledge that is not meant for humans

[bornetoblood]

head full of Bloodborne and Waiting for Godot, more specifically the whimpering idiot running round in a bath robe with a cage in his head and Didi + Gogo

thats so cool fr but as someone who is really unfamiliar with Godot i read the words Didi + Gogo and felt like i was melting

[ofsilentthings]

sharing this bit of Astarion here for you Bloodborne folks to understand something.

Imagine if the only person who was ever kind to you in *centuries* was...Micolash.

Yeah.

Me too.

welcome to my brainrot.

[skeeverats]

i meant to write something regarding on micolash, but i kinda spaced out 

[pencrows]

DARK SOULS ROLEPLAYERS (ANY GAME) (other than sekiro, I'm sorry and ds2) HIT ME UP!!!!

[mook-the-third]

Micolash my beloved

[coulsart]

I JUST FOUDN THIS AGAIN

AWOOOOOO

[fareehaandspaniards]

Miquella is nice

After finishing the DLC, Miquella made me think a lot. Before the DLC, he had a rather… one-sided image, I don't know what else to call it. He was incredibly kind, and we saw references for his connection to St. Trina initially (because we still remember Gwyndolin, who lived as girl. And we know Fromsoftware loves the archetype of the sad feminine young man). Miquella was a victim, was a martyr, and was an incredibly kind soul who prayed for Godwyn and invented a true miracle - the Golden Needle, which can help to hold the rot.

But the DLC absolutely turned his image upside down! And it makes me very sad to see a character's incredible transition and acquisition of a new layer of morality (gray) labeled as "bad writing" and "fuck GRRM he spoiled my baby boyy :(((((".

Today after talking with my spouse (He always helps me realize any fragments of lore. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding the simplest things that everyone has long understood and accepted. Also! Happy birthday to my beloved!), I could only finally understand why everyone is getting so worked up about Michella, even though we've had a scenario similar to his "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" a long time ago. That was Laurence, everyone's favorite in Bloodborne, and Gwyn (he really wanted good things and it didn't turn out well :/), etc. I'll also remind you that the fandom (in the general sense) of Fromsoftware games is very fond of villains, and that's fine. But for some reason, when Miquella turned out to be not the good guy everyone wanted him to be, no one appreciated it. And I tried to defend him to the last in a discussion with my husband - Miquella sacrificed everything for the "greater good" in his understanding of the word, Miquella went the way of renunciation, Miquella knew how to love and loved his sister, Miquella wanted to correct all the sins of the past.

However, unlike most Fromsoftware villains, Miquella HIDES his atrocities (even from himself). Nashandra, Shabriri, Micolash, anyone - their motives are clear. They have principles, egos, backstories, justifications for wanting to be a destructive factor, some have these reasons built in at birth, some are insane, etc. Miquella, on the other hand, finds followers by Dishonest means, condemns Radahn to suffering for which to end the festival is organized, leaves his sister to die, condemns Mohg to be a puppet in his scheming, and still thinks of himself as a VIRTUE. He believes that the era he is about to found - will be good and bright. And with words of goodness he kills us in battle with Radahn!

Miquella is a golden apple with a very rotten core. We don't know, really, at what point he started to "rot". What's funny is that of the two twins, Malenia was rotten on the outside and he was rotten on the inside.

Miquella's center is in love. He carries self-love everywhere, charming and falling in love with almost everyone. That is why Malenia says, "My brother will keep his promise. He possesses the wisdom, the allure, of a god - he is the most fearsome Empyrean of all." I think he is the type of child who got used to being loved. The problem with this type is that he can become a wonderful person, or he can turn into a monster who will take love and attention at any cost. (My spouse reminded me here of stories of crazed maniacs who kidnapped those they loved and dreamed of a nonexistent future, not realizing the damage they were doing.)

But there are many questions that, perhaps, everyone should answer for themselves?

What vow did Miquella make to Malenia?

In my opinion, Malenia was not charmed by him. I've always wondered WHY she waits for Miquella at the cocoon in the Tree, even though it clearly shows Miquella being stolen???? She knew, she probably knew his plan originally. She had been waiting for his return like a god. But what had he promised? That when he returned, he would cure her of the rot permanently?

When did Miquella begin his "fall"?

There is no denying that Miquella was a good guy. He tried, he tried to help his loved ones. He looked up to Radahn as a child with respect, as the description of Remembrance of a God and Lord says. Miquella was in harmony with his other self, Trina. But what changed him? Failures? The desire to save everyone at once? The desire to be the most loved? To be perfect - a god? I'm inclined to think it was all of those things that corrupted him at once. After all, as a favorite child, he may have been flawed deep inside from the beginning.

Miquella had resurrected Radahn as a young, beautiful warrior, just as he had been before. But Radahn does not utter a single phrase during the battle, and his movements are more automatic. Radahn feels nothing, and it makes me think more and more that he's more like Miquella's wish come true, his hope of having a worthy consort he loved by his side.

Is Radahn a puppet or a future lord?

Nothing has been confirmed. I've also read that Miquella's spell was broken when his rune was split, that's how many NPCs come to their senses and realize everything. But I think his power would be enough to, like a necromancer, control a resurrected one? And honestly, it's unlikely Radahn would have wanted such a fate. He was holding back fate itself, the stars, so that what did happen to him in the DLC wouldn't happen. Thanks to Miquella, Malenia had turned Caelid into a solid rotten mess and blossomed her divine flower, and left Radahn in an insane state waiting for a noble death at the hands of other warriors. Miquella mutilated him. I don't think Radahn would have appreciated his methods, considering how dedicated he is to warriorship and uprightness, and also honors Godfrey.

What would have happened if the Age of Compassion had happened?

I think it would have been VERY bad. And after a major flourish of life and honoring Miquella, there would have been a decline and another Shattering. Miquella shows himself to be a man who does not tolerate dissent. I think there would have been a flowering of the Inquisition, persecution, murder, and brutal tyranny. And Radahn, most likely, would have simply been "squeezed out" by Miquella and destroyed by his boundless love. Yes, Miquella rejects his love, as @jarognieva correctly pointed out. But he rejected, in my understanding (we need a clear translation from Japanese here), his destined love, i.e., his intended spouse, Trina? Just as Radagon was Marika's spouse. Our Marika is a deity, but she is capable of love - her love for her son, Godwyn, caused her heart to break.

Fandom cancelled Mohg, now he is cancelling Miquella. People don't accept and don't want to comprehend the things that make them change points of view. That's how the witch hunt begins! So stop being shitty and decide for yourself what you think of Miquella before claiming him a "bad written character"

Miquella, as a character, has become an incredible bastard, manipulative and truly evil with a mask of piety. He doesn't go into battle as an honest warrior, he uses others. He "sacrifices" himself by actually sacrificing everyone else. But doesn't that make him MORE interesting?

He's broken a lot of headcanons, but I sincerely hope that the wave of love for him as a VERY gray character will still come! After all, he's a worthy villain archetype! A true evil hidden in a pure soul. How many fanfics, how many musings can be spawned from that. No need to deny him, rather try to accept Miquella for who he is. And don't make it into "good" or "evil". There's a particular aesthetic to how awful Miquella is.

[fantomette22]

Some nice shots of Micolash I did for art reference. Maybe some of you can find this useful! His model isn't perfect so he has those shoulder holes but it's ok I love him the way he is

[ofsilentthings]

If you ever felt like sharing- I'd love to hear about your ocs!! :)

Thank you, I'll give a little bit :) I have many OCs. I tend to make one for each longform story I write. (I also play D&D so each campaign gets its own character, but that's out of the scope of this post!) They dictate what the story is about, as I enjoy taking characters and putting them against concepts or characters in fandom and see how they change.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Imogen Forsythe: (Bloodborne, from my A Doll's House.) Late 40s/early 50s housewife-mother-turned-Hunter. She's never done so much as fight back against her abusive husband but in the story she not only kills beasts but falls in love with Micolash. I love her because she's got that mom body and trained desire to serve/please others, and yet with Micolash she must focus on herself and what makes her feel good -- even though Micolash traps her in Mensis in the first place. Morgan Elliot: (Bloodborne, from A Contract of Flesh and Blood.) Mid 20s street urchin picked up by Gehrman and taught to be a hunter. Very focused on the visceral, immediate things in life - profanity, drinking, and especially sex. She sleeps with damn near everyone at Byrgenwerth but can't seem to commit. A business deal with Micolash forces her to remain with him when she wants to leave... and yet a dark, submissive part of her is itched when they're together. Rickard Musgrove: (Baldur's Gate 3, from The Vampire Ascendant's Wife.) He is a young human, 19 or 20, with short but not too short brown hair and eyes. His desire to please his dead father has him wind up in the service - and almost hyperfixating - on two very old vampires with troubled pasts. How is he going to balance the education of the poets and the past with feelings of love, lust, and betrayal? Is there life after Astarion Ancunin and his wife Taviana (Tav)? I have some pictures but mostly they are reference pictures or just silly doodles.

I'll try to sell my beloved original characters more. I love them because a part of me is in each one, and I hope other people love them too.

[synthwayve]

The scrunkle

Quick reference doodle thing I made for fun. I love drawing faces and figured it'd be interesting to play around with my favourite guy's features and how they evolved over time.

• 20: his "just a guy" stage. He hasn't seen the Horrors yet. He's quiet and a little off-putting but kind at heart, if a bit cold.

• 30: he joins the Healing Church, led by his friend/academic rival/insert homoerotic qualification here Laurence. Still clean-cut and at his highest Conrad Veidt level. He has seen the Horrors and wears the eyebags like a badge of honour.

• 43: time of the Mensis Ritual. He's lost his mentor Rom, intellectually divorced Laurence and been leading the School of Mensis for a good few years. Unhinged wet cat who sleeps two hours a day and forgets to eat; and yet somehow has enough qualities left to bewitch Edgar Choir Accountant.

[articskele]

Posting the F/O list on main because I have no shame >:D (Not everybody's listed here tho! And I'm all good with sharing ouo)

My Beloved <3

The Onceler (Lorax 2012)

Fictional Family Save Me.....

Aisha (Monster Hunter) - Older sister!

Springtrap (FNAF) - Dad

Emmet (Pokemon) - Dad? Uncle?

The Power of Friendship :D

Micolash (Bloodborne)

Rom (Bloodborne)

Sebastian (Pressure)

Everybody Else!

Latias (Pokemon) - Pet / companion

Gallade (Pokemon) - Pet / companion

Gabriel (Ultrakill) - Secret other thing

The Dealer (Buckshot Roulette) - Secret other thing

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Ship / Duo Names

Onceler: Buttermilk Daydreams / Biggering AU

Aisha: Moga Sisters

Mico + Rom: Blood Buddies

Sebastian: Ruthlessduo

Dealer: Dancing With The Devil

[bornetoblood]

Gehrman being the only (seemingly) normal Byrgenwerth Scholar my beloved. He has Micolash, Rom, and Laurence on one of those multi-dog leashes cus if he looks away for a second they start putting the tomb mold in their mouthes or running into the traps. Ludwig and Maria just enable them, I think.

[katyspersonal]

Tag game!!

Rules: 1) Pick a fandom 2) Write five things you absolutely LOVE to see in fanart, fanfics and whatever other forms or creativity. But stay positive! No passive aggression or insults or resentment towards "opposite" kind of content etc 3) Tag five people do to the same!

I will start! Choosing Bloodborne fandom!

1) I really love when people are playing a dress-up with Laurence, it can be notably altered Choir garb or a unique clothing entirely, and especially when he has some red color added in! He is always such a handsome model x)

2) When people draw Adeline with thing that can be attributed to her ascension, whether it is butteeflies/flowers or water and marine creatures. It is always so beautiful.

3) That one fanart thing where Choir people have those mad/blissful smiles

4) BB rare ships. I can't explain it, I just LIVE for that "omg wait is this a thing????" feeling. Djura x Valtr, Bradorence (my beloved), Laurence x Maria, Henryk x Simon (yes I saw it once, it was cute), Caryll x Micolash... I just enjoy the feeling of surprise and I can't explain why, but all three of you probably saw me getting bouncy like an excited dog in the tags every time I see a rareship xD

5) Willem. Just Willem, literally anything about Willem, fanart or writing. It never misses, I love any and all portrayals of him

I tag: @fantomette22 @heraldofcrow @catcas22 @tangerinethecat @ako-sirin (tried to touch mutus from other fandom, but really, everyone I welcome to do this! Fantomette and Crow I can trust you to pull other BB bitches in can I? XD)