#again no shade to mutuals who ascribe to the blood cult charm take

[miquellah]

i personally hate “mohg was actually always completely innocent, and the blood cult stuff was only ever because of miquella’s charm” because. well. it defangs mohg entirely. and again, i always thought he was sympathetic even before we knew he was charmed at all

BUT ALSO. i think it also really kind of breaks the real interesting parts of his character, usually more or less for the sake of painting miquella as someone evil through and through. like, the impetus of mohg’s whole involvement IS “was it justified for miquella to use him to achieve his own goals, even if this guy had done fucked up and evil stuff himself?”

and the answer is of course. no. or at least thats what’s posited by the game’s narrative. but without mohg having done fucked-up shit of his own volition, where’s the bite? at all? there’s like, no moral dilemma here, miquella would just be an asshole through and through. and THAT would be a retcon from base game

also i think its fine to enjoy a character like mohg even if he was a blood cultist and doing so willingly. like we all agree thats dope as hell. idk case in point its not only a disservice to miquella but mohg himself in my mind…. give the guy agency SOMEWHERE

(also in a game that emphasizes the moral dichotomies of almost every single major demigod character— to insist that mohg was only ever Fully Good falls short here too)