#i love melina~

[hyperionwitch]

Whilst we are on that topic, Melina updates! First three were things I did before the con (dyed + styled new wig, made a lil smoldering butterfly ring, and @tasty-patches made me a Blade of Calling with a model by TrinesTreasury)!

NOW, I'm sprucing her up for competition, so last two, I modeled my own Blade of Calling this time and I'm working on assembly, and I'm remaking her dress but this time with Knowledge(tm). There will be more updates too! Boots, weathering, facing, it should be fun~

[dragoncult-handmaiden]

I want to be every soulsborne woman at the same time. Why are they all so ethereal and divine and mysterious and powerful and feminine and graceful and elegant and dark and I love women

[novicedraws]

Random AU time, instead of being raised on earth realm and trained by the monks. Raiden is Li Mei's second in command and is naturally gifted with the powers of lighting/thunder.

[rainesjupiter]

Once, during their youth, Godwyn tried to steal a little of his Mother's wine from the cellars. Before he got to his room however, Messmer caught him red handed with a full bottle.

As any aspiring diplomat would, Godwyn offered him half a share in return for his brother to look the other way. Eventually, stolen wine tasting had become a small tradition between the two princes.

Bonus:

[maranull]

Marika's village, oh my god...

so beautiful and sad. it's this field of flowers, bright and colorful and shining with gold. peaceful and quiet and as you move the birds are leaving, not loud and scared, but gentle and at peace

entering it you find the healing tree spell Melina uses, and then the description kills you.

"Only the kindness of Gold, without the Order." "Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one to heal."

then the slow walk on the hill, ever covered in flowers, so many flowers. you reach the top, and inside the hollow trunk of a burned old tree, the Grandmother's statue lies, with a strand of Marika's hair left at its feet.

I'm gonna cry

[drenched-in-sunlight]

I know you mostly focus on the Marika/Messmer relationship in your works (which can i just say i fucking ADORE IT IT'S SO GOOD GAAAH) but i wanted to ask, what do you think of the other parent? Who do you think Messmer's (and by extension Melina's) father is and what his relationship is with him? Is it Radagon? Godfrey? A secret third option perhaps??

im glad you enjoy my work!! as for your question, i think Messmer and Melina are like... parthenogenetic offsprings?? they are born of Marika only, which is why the game groups them in as brother and sister and they are the ones inheriting everything closest and most personal to Marika.

but i don't necessarily think they know each other exist, or at least it's my personal headcanon that Melina was born after Marika shattered the Elden Ring (at which point Messmer was already stuck in LoS, so he didn't know).

i actually think Marika only split into Radagon on the eve of Liurnia war, when Messmer had already been a grown young man fighting alongside Godfrey for a while. so technically, Messmer existed before Radagon. but on paper i guess the guy could be counted as Messmer and Melina's dad? cuz he's Marika still? (ugh my head)

but imo to Messmer and Melina they don't consider him their dad (and he doesn't consider them his. i lowkey think Messmer and Radagon despise each other 😭). they only regard themselves as Marika's children. at the same time, Messmer respects and trusts Godfrey, which is the closest he'll ever regard anyone else as a father figure.

[scrollonso]

This the team you put all of your hope in?

thats mine 🥺💞

[dxkjf]

I love this guy lalala

and somee extra stuff cause i’ve been redesigning and working on stuff for sunnyside woohoo

[radagon-in-eldentale]

ARMORED CORE VI the Movie

~ The Witch From Rubicon ~

Story of New Game+++

"In order to make things right, we commit another crime"

2022 Best Picture ELDEN RING cast

2024. 02. 31 COMING SOON

-MAIN CAST-

Tarnished as C4-621/Raven

Radagon as Handler Walter

Melina as Ayre

Blaidd as V.IV Rusty

"Marika" as ???

[katyspersonal]

I really love the "only kindness of Gold, without Order" line, it goes so deep and says so much despite dealing with such simple things.

Radagon, literally Golden Order, is a byproduct of Marika's ascension into a God.. but, she was simply a human (well, Numen) once. And she got to be that simple woman again, to... relive that state, upon visiting Shaman Village again. Here, and only here.

Marika got to be just a person long ago, but Radagon did not. He could never know or remember such things, he's only known the life of sentient law of nature. No wonder he could not.. fathom her wish to shatter him. There is no humanity as we know it to revert to, no beginning to mourn beyond birth of the Erdtree.

At the same time, kindness of Gold can exist without Order, but Order can't exist without kindness of Gold. It is GOLDEN Order! It is literally in the name! For this reason, I doubt he is all evil and oppression. He is good the way he is, borne of a mind and heart of a God who is "no wiser than a human".

Although her intentions were sympathetic, it was... selfish, to take it away from the rest of the world, only because now something hurt her personally. Not she wished for Demigods or Tarnisheds to come and make a better Order than hers on the place of broken one, after all. Two Fingers and Melina did. She wished for primordial chaos ("to struggle for eternity", "to find a way to kill God"(herself)).

Even then, who has the mind so proper that their vision will make a perfect world, instead of just their version of corrupt one? Golden Order "failed" only because a human mind "fails". Imperfections, unfairness, limitations of mind, maledictions, pain, biases, all the corners... worth enduring for, worth suffering because of. Worth embracing. Because there are also kindness and love and warmth. HER kindness, love and warmth. Which HE physically can't exist without either. I'd say, yeah, dude, go for it and fight for your right to exist. Because it was selfish.

For all tears, for many being dealt a losing hand - better design... than cold, bland, soulless perfection of some rocks in space or grand cosmic energy, no matter what people like Ymir or Goldmask say about the Golden Order. And a better design than primordial chaos of absence of any Order.

[hyperionwitch]

Melina is (almost totally) DONE, WHEW, so I wanted to get some preview-y detail photos in celebration.

(Photoshoot will HOPEFULLY be soon...and there will probably be nicer detail photos to go with that, but whatever. :P)

[dragoncult-handmaiden]

If you are a woman who plays Elden Ring, PLEASE REBLOG THIS!!!!

I have not met a single woman irl who plays Elden Ring, and it saddens me. I don’t know many women in general who are gamers. Hell, I’ve only met one other serious female gamer in my life

I’m NOT saying this as a pick me sort of thing. The beauty of streamers is that since we can see them online, it gives us the illusion that female gamers are everywhere. But we are not. We are in the vast minority.

So please, if you are a woman and play Elden Ring, reblog this! Female gamers unite, we need more representation!!

And can we appreciate the badass women of Elden Ring while we’re at it??? We couldn’t have made it through the game without the guidance of multiple women. And also THANK YOU FROMSOFT for not sexualizing any women in the game. I LOVE WOMEN RAHHHHH

Tumblr wouldn’t let me add any more pics, I love all women in Elden ring (except Marika for obvious reasons)

[confusedlucifer]

im curious, elden ring players if youre preparing to go into the DLC are you thinking about leaving specific bosses alive or quests unprogressed? or are you going in with fully finished game?

[rainesjupiter]

Out of the three, I do not think Messmer was the talkative type

[i-28-29]

How do the Carian kids perceive big sister Melina

I like to think they see her as a homeless person who crashes at their home every so often.

Melina was there for every single one of their births, and was one of if not the first person to hold them all. Radagon always justified Melina being there by making the excuse that she was his child so it was okay for her to be there. I like to think the carian kids and empyreans didn't interact too much, but Melina tried to always give both equal time.

Melina would visit them a lot in their earlier years, being there when Rykard first walked, all the way to whoever was born last of the Carian children. (I personally like to think its radahn.)

She still spent a lot of time in the capital, mostly when Messmer was still around. But she always visited on their birthdays, and whenever she wanted to.

[slavicshadownr]

Melina: I’m still on the letter Natasha sent about life in America. with the Avengers. It’s like 25 pages. Alexei: I like Yelena’s better, it’s short and to the point. “Hi Dad, send money.”