#WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS

[quick-catton]

OH HEY HI HEY GOOD MORNING HI WHAT. [WMAG LINK]

[cometblaster2070]

so i'm going to go fucking insane because for a while this aspect of malenia's character design has been bothering me and making me think I'm seeing things and going fucking crazy.

the aspect in question is malenia's left arm:

when i first saw malenia's arm my first thought was oh okay they're probably just bandages or some sort of wraps.

but then you look a bit closer and like

idk about you (because i might be losing it) but it seems like the mesh of whatever the fuck that is very clearly melded with her skin in a way/it looks like it's going into and then emerging out of her skin (which is HORRIFYING to think of I won't lie).

and once again i thought i was going crazy and seeing things because surely these were just meant to be wraps or bandages like the ones we see in the scene of her fighting radahn right?

and then the thought of the needle came to my mind. along with something malenia says in her cutscene before we fight her.

"my flesh was dull gold"

huh. now isn't that interesting.

this would imply that in order to stall the rot from consuming his sister, miquella made a plan to sew unalloyed gold into malenia's skin using his needle in a last-ditch attempt to save her arm.

(granted it's funnier to imagine he just sticks it in her arm and goes okay great all done! and that's probably the canon way it went but)

the thought of the sheer pain malenia must've gone through during this process, to be honest, and the thought of the guilt miquella must've felt at having to force his sister to endure even more agony just to help her is just sad.

and all of it is done just in an attempt to salvage what they can of her and hope that more can't be taken.

edit: btw when looking at malenia pre-bloom and pre-losing her needle it looks like there's a proper layer/cover/whatever it is around her arm up till her knuckles making it seem like an actual covering or layer on top of her skin and what not, but when we fight her post-bloom and post-losing needle it appears like some of the layers have either flaked or fallen away and that reveals that it's actually meshed with/into her skin.

[rvspecter]

FOR A THREE EPISODE ARC WTF WTF

[johnslittlespoon]

i've spent my morning going insane over all the new pics hbu

[chacerider]

good morning an ultra (& her overworked ultra-navigator) came to me in a dream and i had to set her free

[pissfaggit]

jesus christ

[lex-icon]

oh, okay !! this is fine !!!

[rulesforthedance]

my sibling (a baby) (I held them on the first day of their life, when I was NOT a baby) is THIRTY today

[sargewood]

no because WHAT IS THIS?!?!

[biblicallyaccuratepigeons]

i

i think

i think that may

be

i have found an aspirational ship

i think

sonadow is

goals

this has never happened to me before

fellow aspirational shippers how do you deal with this

[breadandblankets]

i cant believe you all are making me tumblr famous for being a moron

[playingmyselfafiddle]

zlatan hanging out with Raye what timeline is this

[tibialtybalt]

finished season 2.

[good-beans]

Why would you translate onomatopoeia in lyrics :( There's no need to change them :( We're smart, we can figure out basic sounds in another language without needing it spelled out for us :(

[captain-habit]

This is... Definitely one of the WEIRDEST ads that I've gotten on the app...

???????

[god-of-knk]

im an ivlis introject, you kind of scare me and not in a good way hfhdhd

I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do about that. That seems like a you problem.