#a Mohard if you will

[nohaijiachi]

Man, I think another thing that buggers me is that, Mohg gets all this flak for his actions, which... Alright. I DO understand why people would be uncomfortable with his character due to implications which COULD lead that route.

And yet Seluvis doesn't nearly get quite as much hate, even though he's VERY blatant about what he's up to with his puppets.

Crap, Gehrman from Bloodborne seems to get more hate than Seluvis all for his doll comment...

To be entirely fair Mohg is very much a more 'important' and prominent character than Seluvis, being one of the shard-bearers and a boss we get to fight, so on the one hand yes, of course more people will have stronger negative feelings about him than Seluvis, a character than depending on the way one is to play the game they might only meet once, if at all--

On the other hand I have very little doubt the amount of vitriol directed at Mohg VS. Seluvis is very much also a gut reaction to the icky feelings caused by the idea of something sexual being done to a child-like character.

(Even though again, there is no canon basis to make the assumption anything sexual does happen, and not only me, but a lot of other people I've spoken with have also reported not even considering the sexual angle at all... Which tbh is kinda funny because kidnapping Miquella and subjecting him to blood rituals being carried very likely without Miquella's consent is still very much very fucked up? But I'm ready to bet that if this interpretation of the text was outright spelled by the canon we'd have a lot fewer people hating so fervently on Mohg lol)

So yes, I also perfectly understand people's discomfort with the character, but the blatant double standards still very much grind my gears, because as I wrote in the post, all the demigods have done/are doing fucked-up shit. That's just Fromsoft writing in a nutshell; you never get perfectly clear cut bad/good characters, but rather complex individuals with their own motivations and reasons of acting in a certain way. Moral grayness is very much the name of the game.

I'd be much less irritated if people were honest and simply admitted that their own interpretation of the lore makes them dislike Mohg and leave it at that, instead of consistently acting like Mohg being a rapist is a 100% canon and thus he deserves all of the bad things that have been done to him, which, sorry I'm repeating myself here--- BUT the entire concept is bullshit and very much erases what makes Mohg interesting: the way his actions are so very clearly shaped by his past and what has been done to him, just as much as the other Demigods' past shape their characters as we meet them in the game. Not a justification, but an explanation... And yet Mohg gets uniquely singled out, his character flattened down to a boring, no-shades-of-gray villain, when he is -at least for me- one of the most fascinating characters in the entire game.

I don't care if people consider him a 'villain', what he's doing ain't a nice thing by any stretch of the imagination, but to erase the complexity of his character is just so, so, so endlessly irritating to me >:V