#old iron king

[eghostsofdeadchildren]

What's Your Favourite Soulsborne DLC?

[smash-or-pass-fromsoft]

[hottest-fromsoft-monster]

[feartheoldblog]

HOTTEST FROMSOFT GILF???

[maranigai]

I've made this doodle late at night with some plot in mind, but forgot about it in the morning. Post it here anyway because this picture doesn't need a plot to describe the vibe (and also because there is criminally little content with these disastrous guys in fandom, lol).

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

The Old Iron King was the most successful ruler before Vendrick, having conquered what remained of Alken and Venn. Even the Mad Knight of Alken couldn't stop his advance.

[darksouls2yuri]

YAOI JUMPSCARE.

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Ja Yearl and Old Iron King's Crowns...

(I feel like Cale the Cartographer except I'm Very Interested in the Dark Souls Cut Content than the Actual Games...)

[hecho-a-mano]

Jesus christ sweet shalquiour you didn't have to roast him so hard

[seasonofthebxtch]

Iron Keep is a whole other level of misery

[vaguely-concerned]

It's really interesting that Wynne actually has quite a measured, bordering on downright sympathetic response to hearing what Jowan did in the prologue -- if the mage Warden says "I still can't believe Jowan was that stupid", her answer is something like a thoughtful "Stupid, or desperate, or merely curious?". She seems to think of Jowan as a kid who got in over his head, rather than any less charitable interpretation. I do believe she genuinely is as against blood magic as she publicly expresses and as the Circle party line demands, but as a private person she clearly has a more nuanced and potentially kinder understanding of the reasons why someone might resort to it, at the very least.

(related: when she says that part about Irving telling her what happened, there's no dialogue option in the first stage of the conversation (except choosing the 'leaving the conversation' one) that doesn't net you +2 approval! no matter how the warden feels about it, she is ready to recieve it. I think that says something sweet about how Wynne conceptualizes younger mages and the honest real affection she has for them. if you didn't snitch on jowan and say you stand by that decision, though? +3 approval, apparently! what Wynne says and what Wynne thinks is not always the same thing indeed, her idea of where personal loyalty and integrity stands vis-a-vis a mage's responsibility to the circle may be more flexible than she'd have people believe, you'll be surprised to learn lol)

I have always liked wynne and found her interesting, in all her hypocrisies and her earnest care, but with slightly older eyes she's extra fascinating to me in the same ways that Iron Bull is -- seeing someone whose mind has had hollows carved out in it by the need for double-think and compartmentalization imposed by the oppressive systems and ideologies they live under, and the quiet fight of the self to still preserve vital parts of itself that the system deems unacceptable in the hidden backstage areas of the soul, as it were. (and for both of them part of that self is love and protectiveness of specific other people, beyond what their 'role' dictates is acceptable for them.) I think Wynne has managed to sneak more of her internal self through the meatgrinder relatively intact than Bull overall, but it's the same logic underlying it, for me, and it makes me feel such intense affection and compassion for them both to see how hard they try

[marsreds]

and another thing!!!

frieren is a series where to love is to remember!! we see frieren and co. taking care of the statues because it's an act of love!!! constantly, continuously, affection is carrying someone's memory forward!! himmel wants a thousand statues so frieren isn't lonely!! so that they don't fade into fairy tales!!

and then!!! and then!! you give us macht??? the gold he makes is worthless!! because it cannot be changed, it cannot be broken, it cannot be melted!! because the point isn't that it's "gold" the point is that it freezes a moment, it makes a monument that will never fade nor tarnish!! what is that if not an act of love??

[feartheoldblog]

HOTTEST FROMSOFT GILF???

[maranigai]

I could draw something normal, but I drew a meme with Iron king. In 2023 /sigh/

P.s. He hates when someone calls his domain a "wasteland", it's not a wasteland, it's an industrial area, it's not his fault that he lives in pre-industrial fantasy world.

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Sir Alonne was the one to strike down the Old Iron King, and the catalyst for his transformation.

[darksouls2yuri]

dark souls 2 yaoi real?!