#vendrick

[izunias-meme-hole]

Soulsborne Villains

[newlondohollow]

What’s a Fromsoft level that, from a story and symbolism perspective, completely devastates you and eats away at your soul? For me, it’s Drangleic Castle from DS2. The existence of this place fills me with unfathomable sorrow and I will care to elaborate with text below this pretty image:

The fact that it sits atop an isolated hill, the emptiness of the rooms, the petrified soldiers, the ghosts and the rain all highlight the sense of dehumanization, isolation, loneliness, loss of self and overall confusion present all throughout this game (especially in, but not only, Nashandra and Vendrick’s relationship). This is a place where more than one person lived, descending towards insanity, for decades and decades rotting in either borderline psychological abuse or the awareness that the world is falling under a curse they do not fully understand, and that everyone is desperately trying to find a cure for, but with no avail. 

[catofivoryking]

You fucked your Queen without knowing she was a monster born from Abyss. I fucked mine knowing full well. We are not the same.

Disclaimer I am aware that their situations are different, most notably Alsanna was less a threat than Nashandra because she only wanted to survive. Still, when you put the two kings stories together the contrast is funny

[navlaanchair]

so um, i found this:

(source: fromsoftware hoarder on twitter)

i can't tell if it's an official art or fanart, either way it's DS2!!

there are portrayed Vendrick sitted on his throne and another figure in his arms, i can't tell if it's Aldia or Nashandra, but i'll go with Aldia because of the clothings and the braids, matching with his brother!

your thoughts?

[eldenrat]

I think there are a lot of thematic parallels between Miquella and the characters of King Vendrick & Queen Nashandra in DS2 but I currently lack the confidence to expound on this hypothesis.

[alberichfanpage]

The way I would kill to have a moment like this to talk with Marika in a memory or something. Killing Hollow Vendrick and then meeting him as a human in this memory is so moving

[altamaycry]

I was watching a YouTube video just now which showed Velstadt and Raime vs Vendrick, and it got me thinking.

I noticed how Raime and Vendrick had quite similar moves- those being that overhead attack and the sweeping sideways attack.

It's confirmed in lore that before his exile/being branded a traitor, Raime saw Vendrick as a father figure. Could it be that Vendrick is the one who trained Raime? Maybe he even took Raime under his wing and saw him as a son, much like how Raime admired him as a Father. Again, those moves do look very similar, and it wouldn't surprise me if this was the case, but I could just be looking too deeply into things.

This just makes the whole situation much more tragic to me, imagine the one who trained you and took you in not believing you when you just wanted to help, man poor Raime 🥲

[thewisecheerio]

Dark Souls 2 is peak humor, and I'm convinced the devs just wanted to troll the player as hard as possible for as long as possible in much crummier and therefore more hilarious ways than any other Soulsborne title.

And then there are some cool design choices, too. My personal favorite is that you spend the entire game trying to figure out why the previous king is not on the throne. And in doing so, you learn that he largely set up most of the events of the story. So you spend the entire game thematically following in his footsteps.

Then when you meet that actual king still actually somewhere in the world, the only way to defeat him is... ...you guessed it... ...to LITERALLY follow in his footsteps. He can easily 1HKO most players, so staying behind him and moving when his feet move is the only surefire way to beat him. The devs really asked if you were paying attention to their extended metaphor.

There's a trend on twitter exposing some of DS2's hilarious quirks. Here are some favorites:

[katyspersonal]

Wizard Guy 🔥 Currently in scholarship hell! @ilovedragongirls: "Kill them kindness!" wrong. Soul Geyser ☄️💥☄️💥💫☄️☄️☄️💥☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️

Vendrick 👑 @sad_and_tired_king76 ✔: Aldia is this another fucking alter

Wizard Guy 🔥 Currently in scholarship hell! @ilovedragongirls: @sad_and_tired_king76 (1/23) Are you truly suspicious of someone you know, to the point you are looking for them in every stranger online? But what would you accomplish, even should you resolve your confusion, when life as we know it is rapidly shrinking? Do you wish to waste-

Vendrick 👑 @sad_and_tired_king76 ✔: @ilovedragongirls I am not reading all this shit lmao maybe you should spend equal amount of detail explaining where are the Undeads that I specifically told you to stay away from. Anyway @vendrickandvelstadtbffs look at this

💛 Simp And Proud 💜 @vendrickandvelstadtbffs: LMAOOOOOO THE WAY HE DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO BE SUBTLE?????? 😭

meanwhile a QRT:

Raime! 🪶 block if you think finding a mother figure = mommy issues. @mommyslittlehater: "LMAO" that you are still doing this shit 7 months later. like. aren't you tired. don't you want to have your own opinion for once. if i am a raven you are a whole ass parrot. but of course engaging with the brothers braindead banter beats common sense 🤡🤡🤡

💛 Simp And Proud 💜 @vendrickandvelstadtbffs: LMAOOOOOO THE WAY HE DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO BE SUBTLE?????? 😭

[missfiorear]

I love the story of Dark Souls 2

because it’s basically the story of a man who said, “I can fix her,” only to end up like this:

[curlytsunamiart]

got to vendrick in ds2. had a minor breakdown. immediately made this animatic in response. i hope you enjoy it

[izunias-meme-hole]

[newlondohollow]

And after a truly shameful amount of time since the Year of the Snake started, here is that post about Mytha I promised! @hollowwaterfairy and @dwdim5 (it wont let me tag you ive no idea why im so sorry..)Yap stands below the cool fanart.

(By Carsondrewit)

Despite what that misinformation-spreading scoundrel that is Gilligan says, Earthen Peak and Harvest Valley aren't part of Drangleic, but of Alken, the domain of Old Iron King, which makes Mytha the Queen of Alken (i've already mentioned this in the post about mistranslation but istg gilligan saying theyre in drangleic is so stupid like DOES THAT HALF SNAKE HEADLESS LADY LOOK LIKE NASHANDRA TO YOU MY DUDE?)

Either way, Mytha's husband is therefore the guy who's described in every item description as a hedonist, insane ass tyrant, so things aren't exactly looking good for her. In fact, the sorry state this section of Alken is in may very well have been caused by him.

If i recall correctly the game says somewhere that the mines have released toxic waste all over. For it to have spread that much the workers must have continued digging through the initial discharge of toxic matter, and guess who orderded them to do that? Yeah. The dude so obsessed with the metal they were presumably extracting that he has it as his epithet.

Speaking of Iron King, Gilligan actually says something right about him (ignoring that he calls him "prince" that's just mistranslation): that he did NOT love Mytha, and loved someone else instead.

The someone else in question was the Queen of Venn (current Lost Sinner), the post about mistranslation that I mentioned earlier also talks about that whole tragedy so I won't go into it here. Nevertheless, after the Lost Bastille Incident™ it is evident that OIK had completely gone insane, and perhaps this is when Mytha decided to, sadly for her only physically, distance herself from him and settle in Earthen Peak. Wether or not the place was already rotting is entirely up to personal preference of interpretation.

Now, unlike her shit ass husband, Mytha DID love him, and she likely kept loving him through and after his incredibly bad-ended affair. Gilligan is surprisingly useful to us again, and informs us that Mytha was using the poison to make herself more beautiful, in hopes that she'd eventually become good enough for that fucking basta- i mean for her king, to love.

Here in Earthen Peak, Mytha proceeded to also fall into insanity, and do things such as: behead whoever looked at her (mannequin mask desc), possibly force the workers to keep extracting poison for her to use, and apparently send some dudes to attempt to murder goddamn Vendrick or someone else in Drangleic Castle... and ok that last one needs explaining there we go on a tangent.!

Two of her mannequins are there, I'm supposing that she, in her madness, thought that doing that would get her husband's appretiation, seeing he likely despided Vendrick due to the second Lost Bastille Incident ™ (that would be Vendrick conquering the Bastille, i have a tiktok video on that but perhaps i should make a post of it here too).

So, what exactly caused her to go mad? To answer that, we have to take into consideration the effects emotional neglect from a loved one has on one's mental health, a delusional obsession (in Mytha's case that of becoming more beautiful) that shuts away your perception of reality, the Undead Curse overall making everyone paranoid as fuck and the toxic matter itself likely being damaging to the brain. Those are the reasons why Mytha went insane.

At some point however Mytha saw the real effects the poison was having on her and cut her head off, to save it from also being snakeified. As to why the poison had that effect on her alone, there could be many reasons: perhaps she mixed it with something or slightly changed its properties with magic.

Either way, her having turned half snake surely has a symbolic meaning: snakes (in DS and real life) are associated with excessive greed or vanity, which are the abjectives everyone around her, witouth looking into it, would use to describe Mytha.

This character is the DS2 classic of someone destroying and dehumanizing themselves in the name of love. Ironically enough Mytha is a parallel to Vendrick himself, and I will now proceed to go cry in my ds2 hyperfixated corner.

[catofivoryking]

What to do when encountering suspicious pretty women

[navlaanchair]

Mouthwashing x Dark Souls 2⁉️⁉️

(note: first time writing an au so i'm sorry if it looks bad)

Curly = Vendrick

-captain

-cares for his crew

-tried to take action against Farran (OIK) but got stopped by the crash of the ship

Anya = Rea (Lost Sinner)

-nurse

-close with Vendrick and had the role to take care of him after the crash

Swansea = Aldia

-mechanic

-Vendrick's older brother

-cares for the crew, but dislikes Farran

-"close your eyes, Navlaan."

Daisuke = Navlaan

(i'm talking about Good!Navlaan)

-Aldia's intern, and is close with him

-less optimistic

-got threathened into going in the vent

Jimmy = Farran (Old Iron King)

-co-pilot

-jealous of Vendrick for being the captain

-did horrible things to Rea and found out Vendrick wanted to take action against him and so he caused the crash

[fantomette22]

BRO I FREAKING NO HIT VENDRICK!!!!! Holy souls

(He beat me like 10+ times before so it’s so worth it xD)