#Ring 0

[roserosette]

Ring 0: Birthday, 2000, Norio Tsuruta

[uspiria]

Ring 0 (2000) dir. Norio Tsuruta

[dykemagik]

sadakos hunched-over girlthing vibes in ring 0

[jeeaark]

I discovered some fun facts while stuck in Patch 0 Hell. Saw some hope even before any oncoming epilogues and patches

So have a Greygold taking it upon themself to set up their own uh-surprise reunion!

Because. Like Hells was Greygold gonna wait. Much less think it through.

[skywerse]

gilly turnaround sheet

[7soulstars]

My Incorrect Universe #96

*before courting Thranduil*

Me: *trips on the ground*

Thranduil, scoffing and in a mocking tone : haha, how clumsy, could you be any more foolish?

*later when no one is around*

Thranduil : *stomping the ground* who do you think you are?? WHO IN EVER LOVING VALAR DO YOU-

--Few years later--

Thorin: I can’t believe you talked to Thranduil without getting so much as a glare! Most people can’t even look in his general direction without some kind of threat.

Me: I mean, it would be a little weird if he did. We are engaged after all......

Thorin, who thought he had a chance: “....YOU’RE WHAT?!”

Legolas,a rogue Gimli tucked under his arm pit: YOU'RE WHAT ?!

Haldir and Lindir, from behind the trees: YOU ARE WHAT ??!

Elrond: YOU'RE WHAT ?!

Me: why are YOU shocked?? You watched him propose to me??

Elrond, recalling himself screaming as he witnessed Thranduil get on one knee that day: I'm still recovering from the trauma-

*Legolas still trying to process what I just announced*:

[fy-wonwoo]

240427 (w3n.0) follow again to seoul d-1 – preview

[sysig]

Puts the “plates” in “Fellplates” (Patreon)

[simphic]

Yas attends the 2024 GQ MOTY Awards, honoring her stylist (and best-friend), Rodney Karter, Via pettyimages

[influencerpippin]

get you a man who can do both

[tlgtw]

Bits and pieces of the still incredibly written backstory of Elden Ring continue to poke out from the dogwater, as it were.

St. Trina, as we learn, was a specific aspect of Miquella that was made separate: In Miquella's words, St Trina was the embodiment of his 'love.' And when he abandoned St Trina, he abandoned that aspect of himself that made her.

This newly introduced example reveals to us what the nature of Radagon's exactly was, in turn.

Radagon, the 'other half' of Marika in the exact same way that St Trina had been for Miquella, we learn here, had *himself* been a specific singular aspect of Marika's emotions or feelings.

With St Trina having been made out of Miquella's 'love.'

You wonder, too, what Radagon should have been made from.

What aspect of herself did Marika separate into her second person, as called by her the "Loyal Dog of the Golden Order"? We know Radagon was created prior to the creation of the Golden Order itself, since he was involved in the invasion of Liurnia.

So at the same time as Marika was married to Godfrey, begetting Godwyn and Mogh and Morgott. Radagon was married to Renalla, begetting Rykard and Radahn and raising the potential successor of Marika--the Empyrean Ranni. He was given a massive amount of responsibility, the seeming crux of the Liurnian-Leyndell alliance that ended the Liurnian Wars that Marika's empire was losing, and he by every account was completely dedicated and successful; even weakening the strength of the Carian royal family by reducing their practicing of astrology.

All yet, when push came to shove: After Godwyn was assassinated and Marika sought to destroy the Elden Ring. It was Radagon who dropped everything he had and stepped in to stop her.

"Proudly" as his Golden Order Greatsword says,

Radagon divorced his first wife, married his 'original self,' begettedthe Twin Prodigies Miquella and Malenia as two more potential successors to Queen Marika, set up the brutal inquisition and censorship of the Age of Radagon headed by his own son Rykard, and was even involved with the very the development of Golden Order fundamentalism!

Radagon did so much fucking stuff! He was so damn proactive! So what exactly must he have been!?

That Marika initially separated from herself? And who went on to try and stop her very own plans when they turned against the wishes of the Greater Will??

This conflicting 'half' of her original person! That nonetheless was all this strongly willed on his own!?

What part of Marika COULD Radagon have originally been!?!?!?

And it's awesome. It's really really well-designed writing.

Frankly, even, it's genius. It's not anything revolutionary in terms of narrative devices or anything like that, but it's really elegant. It's really meaningful and concise, and it's really cool!!!

A lot of Elden Ring's base game is, or now maybe--was. (It having been the basis of my entire show on YouTube.)

But the actual story, instead of solely the backstory, of the DLC, unfortunately, is not!

You ever seen a boss item whose entire description was literally entirely the game just fucking QUOTING ITSELF?

Hyetta at Frenzied Flame Proscription: "Become their lord. Take their torment, despair. Their affliction. Every sin, every curse. And melt it all away. As the Lord of Chaos."

Ghost outside Church of Inhibition in Liurnia: "Ahh, Lord Vyke, it seems that you were no lord, after all."

Midras's Flame of Frenzy, from killing Midras, Lord of Frenzied Flame:

Or! Better yet, ANOTHER boss spell, whose entire description is dedicated to literally just acknowledging its fucking colour!!

Land of Shadows, from killing the Scadutree Avatar:

I definitely sure wish I still hadn't!!

In fact, I don't think the level of vacuousness from Shadow of the Erdtree's descriptions has ever been seen before!

Not even in Dark Souls 3!!

AUGH

[roserosette]

Ring 0: Birthday, 2000, Norio Tsuruta

[uspiria]

Ring 0 (2000) dir. Norio Tsuruta

[fareehaandspaniards]

I know Miquella chose a bad way to set a new age... But I still feel so sorry for him ;_; He loved Radahn...

[reinabeestudio]

Shares some quick studies of my wife when no one's looking

[dollypopup]

imma be so real right now: Colin is a better person than me. In fact, I'd venture to say that Colin is a better person than most of us. He's certainly the best in the cast.

Because he's going to find out that Penelope has lied to him for years, that she trash talked him, Daphne, Eloise and more in her anonymous publication and then smiled in his face, that she heard him talking about how much he disliked it and hummed and went 'sooooo anyway', that she accepted his proposal and then purposefully kept the truth from him, that she's in danger and he would be as well in being married to her, that she was being pursued by the actual Queen of England and he's now tied into her consequences, and that she kept him in the dark the way he so despises (because he just wants to be trusted and taken seriously) because she didn't want to tell him, and that on top of it all, she tells him, basically, 'I don't need you!'?

And he still marries her? Because he loves her THAT truly and deeply!!!

I've ended relationships for so much less, and I reckon you have, too. My man is the sweetest, most gentle, most loving, most forgiving character in this entire show.