#i do think the latter is like a jab cause radagon hated his hair and rykard did something similar with his knights

[eldintower]

Miquella for the character ask 🤓

OH BOY!!!!!

favorite thing about them - a whole lot LOL before the dlc came out i was way into the interpretation that miquella and malenia are basically marika and radagon 2 (so melina was maliketh by default) and i was jumping for joy when i saw they were leaning into that... he could not escape his bloodline & he bound himself to it at the same time and all that. i didn't really care about him before that's my bad but i really do like him now. he tore that damn heart out of himself!! my honest to god favorite thing about him aside from all that is his weird un-connection with the frenzied flame, like how his needle can quell it (which recalls the hornsent inquisition, which is frankly super interesting) but there's really nothing in his haligtree or similar realms of miquella-related interest which suggests frenzy or the study of it, an intent against it, whatever. i'm not all that eager to say that miquella was entirely & totally ignorant of frenzy, but i think it befits his character that he might grieve without truly grasping the depths of despair. it's super interesting to me idk i love frenzy lol. and like what with the themes of nascency and all, miquella's needle does hold the crowning of the lord of frenzy at bay. ultimately following the path of divinity and not seeking further into the force which takes root in utter suffering works for me as a reflection of his tragedy

ooh i also like how there's a cross left in the specimen storehouse, one of the most vile locations, but not the hinterlands. that is sort of the path marika took lol leaving her past behind and whatnot.

least favorite thing about them - Okay the reason I really didn't care for miquella was cause everyone was like OMG He's literally the better ranni she's just a spoiled brat but he's doing the real work. But obviously and due to obvious reasons that's all in the past now.

favorite line - i've got two from the same cutscene. first is "lord brother, i'm going to be a god." miquella's voice acting is so good i love the waver in his voice here like he sounds... frightened doesn't feel like the right word for it but it's the best i've got right now lol. to me miquella and malenia were born within an entirely claustrophobic awful incestuous situation and radahn was just. nice to them. and miquella clung onto that. i believe radahn to be the oldest of the carian sibs so that sort of adds to how he treated them i think. it's just incredibly sad like it's just so distressing and then of course "i'll make the world a gentler place." again with the voice acting. i love that this is the last thing you hear. ooh miquella in this shadow of the erdtree you have become my friend.

fave relationships (just smushing this together) - alright hang on a minute

miquella and malenia OBVIOUSLYYYYYY love the twins! the way i see them, they're on entirely equal ground, entirely mirrored paths. miquella whittled down is malenia whittled down. there's something i think to how if miquella shed his love he would love malenia no longer but he would still be part of her, as she is of him. to me that's the crux of the relationship. malenia would take miquella loveless over his love discarded. one of my favorite bits about the base game was how in the end it was malenia who would be god and she still is, and also in the fire -> rot causality emphasized with messmer's crusade and romina's sainthood... the erdtree was doomed to burn, so the haligtree was doomed to rot... not a problem of course for me, rotguy123... ooh also i just love how in the remembrance of a god & a lord it's THEIR childhood THEIR afflicted selves like yes yes one person... also i sincerely believe miquella was always going to return to malenia. i'd say it even drove him further and further down the path. he must return to her a god. they're staying at each others side love be damned cause as long as miquella has malenia and malenia has miquella that's enough. UGH. there's something to how the last thing miquella abandons is all his fears. i wonder if he was thinking of malenia in that moment and all her steadfastness. i think he was thinking of her the entire time. just because a guy tosses his love into davy jones locker 🙄 his doubts and vacillations.. Oh i love the twins so much. (it's also sort of something i just realized like something fun to contemplate is how soon after the twins are split and irrevocably at that although they may not know it they just start to shed parts of themselves, as if they were holding each other together, whatttt. also and i keep saying also but i don't think millicent is necessarily 1:1 to st. trina and this is very much due in part to how i see the swamp of aeonia in part as a massive receptacle. LOVE THE ROT)

miquella and trina ahh... there's two initial perceptions i had of them that i like haven't retained but i still think of often. the first is that st. trina sort of represents that all-encompassing love you have as a child, thus cast away in miquella's efforts. to me it fits with the fairytale vibe she has going on, what with the slumbering animals and all. the second was that miquella's love was so strong it literally formed a consciousness. but ugh. i like how she is the maliketh to his marika, shadow and gold, all that. miquella-malenia-trina forms marika-radagon-maliketh except that miquella and malenia are already also marika maliketh except they're also marika radagon. this is a nightmare

miquella and melina i just like how they contrast lol. again with the frenzy but like miquella's needle in miquella's absence and then melina deep in the frenzied flame proscription pleading on behalf of life, not of compassion or love. if miquella grieves without despair, what can we infer from that about melina? regardless though melina and malenia are one of my favorite pairs to pick at LOL

miquella and radahn... I don't know. Not quite. i'm much more fascinated with miquella's perception of radahn and the kindness of their youth "which stood in such contrast" (maybe he treated them as children, not as divine prodigies? idk) cause I like how we get such varying views of radahn all around that we can't get a clear picture of the man and the people who have known him the longest - ranni rykard rennala and maybe iji if he opened up- don't say a single world (aside from the notable volcano manor portrait). jerren is trying to put his old friend down, freyja speaks for a radahn of the distant past, miquella is tragic doom guy number one. almost all of what we know about him is what he represents and means to entirely different people and he's forever warped through their recollections along with the legend he made of himself and the radahn who once was is long lost and i really like that, and also that he dual wields swords like his aunt. i think he trained with her but his first weapon was a bow which rennala taught him how to use. back to miquella

hc - the minor erdtree sapling yet to burgeon never to burgeon the endless summer of shaman village the kindness of gold without order all resonates sooooooooooooo well with miquella 2 me... like that's him... that's miquella.... this isn't really a hc lol just something i like.

unpopular opinion - the radahn reveal did not catch me off guard cause i am one of perhaps 3 people who wondered more than once about the miquella's lilies you can find at redmane castle and also it recontextualizes the battle of aeonia to be ultimately for naught like yes exactly all that and for what and the red rot spreads beyond the burning walls into limgrave..... hmmmmmmmm..... you know i think the fact that i ended up liking miquella a whole lot more after the dlc is probably unpopular lol... he's literally the kindness of gold what can i say

oh right yeah. that is not torrent he's riding that is a DIFFERENT HORSE!! there are hundreds but there were thousands once and more!!!!! imagine the wonderful herds of spectral steeds that once raced across the sky!!!! imagine all that has been lost!!!!!!!!!

song i associate with them - shiny happy people by rem & find the river also by rem lol

favorite picture of them -

also not sure if you knew this but messmer's one cut line is him saying like "oh tarnished miquella spoke of thee" or some shit