#like i can’t help but feel fromsoft WANTED miquella remain complex and didn’t intend for all the mischaracterising that’s going on

[glittershvck]

having now finished the dlc and having processed it a bit, i can get on board with miquella in his desperation, resorting to ascend to godhood. even if he was disillusioned with it, anything to help heal the world, something he’s struggled and failed to do so often. and then he loses himself in the process, as a result of both his desperation and nascency to truly think of the long term consequences. i get more of a daenerys vibe (“if i look back, i am lost”) than i do griffith, though you can certainly contrast him with griffith.

the only thing that doesn’t fit for the me, the more i think about it….just what is the point of radahn as the consort? why need a consort at all? to have even his death animation be to embrace radahn, and have his final voice lines relate to radahn kinda..strips him of his complexity? maybe? i can’t totally blame people reducing him to just being “literally griffith who was obsessed with radahn and wanted to mind control the world”, because with those moments, the most crucial moments where you actually meet miquella, that’s his most defining, that’s what your initial thought is.

i don’t know, i loved the dlc overall, i just think when it came to miquella, they undercooked it a bit for such a fascinating character, and he deserved more than having his only actual appearances be made all about radahn. he at least deserved the slave knight gael treatment, his arc’s conclusion was much more satisfying than miq’s.

it’s wistful thinking, but i hope he returns for any future content to do with elden ring. again, it’s wistful thinking, but hey, stranger things have happened in the world of fromsoftware games.