#justice for mal miq and gòdwyn

[miquella-everywhere]

this dlc did women and femmes so wrong omfg. no cutscene or dialogue for rellana or romina (their designs look cool but rellana doesn't even have a face lmao they gave her a chainmail textured ball under the helm 😭.) literally all the ladies and femmes are like, all about men except romina whose lore is totally lacking. why aren't there paintings of rellana in raya lucaria thooo! rennala was cool with her sister going to simp for messmer it's not like she was mad at her? freyja felt like a plot device more than anything, leda's kind of iconic but her whole thing is being obsessed with a man, miquella throws out his female half (who is a representation of his love??? cause he had none without her???) i dunno it just feels like such a far cry from the base game. even with women whose relationships with men were a big focus in their quest like nepheli, they stood on their own and had things going on outside of them? but like sellen? ranni? rya and tanith? latenna? so much more interesting than their relationships with men. but then freyja and leda are mostly characterized by the lords they serve? even miquella literally clings to the archetypal man 🙄 and hornsent grandam calls marika a strumpet which is like? idk maybe call her a genocidal fascist? not a slut?

idk this dlc felt weirdly anti-woman to me any thoughts??

Yeah it definitely feels like several steps back compared to the base game.

But the things that I hate the most is what they did with Malenia. Like God. There was already so much annoying discourse surrounding the Battle of Aeonia, but now with the DLC garbage Malenia is turned into an absolute joke where as r*d*hn is hailed and praised as kind and the most important beloved person ever, when he is a warmonger godfrey simp and it makes me so fucking mad.

Like ngl Malenia is my third favorite character, with second being Rykard and first being ✨Miquella✨ but still her whole dynamic with her twin was so amazing to me, both being cursed at birth and suffering due to their afflictions but having eachothers back through think and thin with Miquella doing everything to cure her and Malenia dedicating herself as his blade and protecting him. Their relationship was love at its purest and add Godwyn into the mix and you have one of the most heartbreaking sibling dynamics I had even gotten invested in 😭

BUT NOPE MIQUELLA LOVED RADAHN MORE AND MALENIA WAS JUST THERE TO BE HIS WINGMAN TRIVIALIZING HER OWN MOTIVES AND WITH MIQS BEWITCHING STUFF ITS NOW BROUGHT INTO QUESTION IF SHE WAS EVER EVEN HER OWN PERSON TO BEGIN WITH HAHAHAHAHA

Just...

How do you fuck up this badly?

This treatment of Malenia is even more fucking mind boggling when you consider that she is quite literally the goddamn poster woman of Elden Ring. She was on all the marketing material, she got a statue of herself, her helmet is iconic at this point and also got a replica, and she even has a live sized model of her prosthetic arm.

She was literally one of the coolest female characters made by Fromsoft and they turned her into a goddamn joke.

I will die mad.