#god of rot

[thatboreddrake]

Erdtree Guardians:

One more thing, while I think about it:

Guardian Mask: In accordance with an ancient pact with the Erdtree, it is said that  their deaths lead not to destruction, but instead to renewed, eternal life as guardians.

Fairly standard Golden Order stuff: subvert the natural cycle of life and death so long as you're useful.

Guardian Garb (Full Bloom): It is said that the blood-red flowers blooming on their backs mark the senescence of their ancient pact. Perhaps the guardians are part tree already.

Astute viewers (or the criminally insane) may notice that these crimson flowers look awfully similar to the blooms seen in Caelid.

Anyway, here's where things get *really* interesting. Neither @catcas22 nor I recognized the word "senescence," so I looked up the definition and

Note that word: *deterioration*. As though that which ought to have been preserved has fallen into ruin.

Note that the Erdtree Guardians make use of poison (often impaling themselves to release it) which is the weapon of, you guessed it, Servants of Rot!

The proposal: on their deathbeds, these guardians swore to guard the Erdtrees in exchange for eternal life. Notably absent in this vow is a promise of eternal *youth*. And so the guardians maintain their post, always watching, until rot takes hold and blooms from the dried-out husks of beings who ought to have died long ago. Even in this state their service does not end, as the trees which grow from their backs puppet their corpses, maintaining their age-old pact.

Thus we see yet another instance of the Erdtree/Golden Order subverting the ordinary cycle of life, death, and rebirth, with unsuspecting humans left to pay the price.

Side note, but its notable that other than the burned tree at Mt. Gelmir, the only instance we have of non-golden Minor Erdtrees are those which have been corrupted by the rot. Food for thought.

#elden ring #lore theory #erdtree #god of rot #you thought i was kidding #this theme is freakin' everywhere! #either its an intentional underlying theme of this game or im losing my ever-loving mind! #anyway enjoy

[arx-aru]

also i think it's interesting that the expression of the Scarlet Rot as seen in the Kindred of Rot is more specific to Malenia, not the "scorpion"-like thing that we infer of the "god of rot"

they lack eyes, have a great emphasis on arms that "do not belong," and have a distinctly human skin-tone and texture as opposed to other arthropods seen in the Lands Between. They also have "hair" and weapons with distinctly weird curved blades, fashioned of their own carapace(not unlike Malenia's sword is part of her prosthesis kinda)

They are conventionally grotesque in a body horror kinda way however.

Also, their glave description states they "emerged from the Swamp of Aeonia," not unlike Millicent and her sisters

So I think they are quite likely to be an expression of how Malenia may have seen herself in her darker moments. God made men in his own image, after all, so perhaps the Goddess of Rot made the kindred in her perceived self-image at the time of her Second Bloom. Perhaps she regarded herself as uniquely monstrous in the act of cursing Radahn and all Caelid with her affliction. her second phase in her boss battle, then, may be reflective of her perceiving herself as more an angelic paragon than a monster in that moment.

food for thought(yummy yummy tomato soup)

#rotbrained posting #scarlet rot #kindred of rot #elden ring theory #god of rot #malenia blade of miquella #malenia goddess of rot

[god-of-decay]

⏳"You and I the same, Pops. You and I the same."

"..."

"...I know I ask you that each time I meet you, but I can't help wondering if you're genuinely not feeling any pain. ...It's true that... you do look..."

"..."

"...Anyway... I..."⌛

"Oh Time.... my dear..."

He pulls the other god into a gentle, but weak hug. "...I am alright... no need to worry that little head of yours... you may have existed since the first dawn... but you're still young.... worrying about me like that will make you look like me sooner...! Don't want your face to be all wrinkly, before you live the best of your eternity do you...?"

He gives the other god a gentle kiss on the head. "I may be on the verge of death... but I do Death's dirty work, and clean up all their messes...! You think they're going to let me off any time soon, ha ha...?"

He sighs. "In all seriousness, pain had faded a long time ago.... during the first few cycles... I'm not a spring chicken, but at least I don't feel mortal, mm..? Is something bothering, other than my state because of my domain...?"

#god of decay #god of rot #dark deception #dark deception au #dark deception oc

[glitterdragonthegreatprotector]

any ask?

Hmmm🤔

Maybe how would the gods of your dd aus react to ala and ali (aware!aladeux)?

for context, nobody knew that they existed cause their mom, either death or discord I can't choose which one created them in secret

Well-

I don't really focus on the gods of my aus in the DD verse ^^;

So I am unable to answer this-

With the rot AU, however, the god of rot would be surprised, but he's everyone's grandpa basically. Sweet old god, that loves watching kids grow up, only to inevitably come by to his domain to say "hello"

Most gods die in the end after all.

If their mom is death, he'd joke about her ironically making life. If chaos, then he'd playfully warn her that children might be to much for her to handle, even with her domain.

#not fnaftale #dark deception au #dark deception oc #god of decay #god of rot #fungus au #rot au

[babydarkstar]

honestly no wonder harrow forced ianthe to lobotomize her so she could save gideon. listen…LISTEN…if i was a secret-war-crime cult nunlet princess worshipped by my entire planet and the only person that (barely) kept me in check was my childhood nemesis—a butch a year older than me, towering over me in stature and physical prowess, and so hot it made my teeth hurt from how hard my jaw clenched in her presence, who wielded a two-handed seven-foot sword and had irritatingly huge biceps and told very lewd stupid jokes and also learned how to wield an entirely new weapon and be my bodyguard with startling accuracy in three months—only to have us finally learn to trust each other because we got invited to a magic murder mystery and then before the bubble burst i spilled the worst secret about myself that i was born because my parents murdered an entire generation and tried to Kill Her along with them and she just wouldnt die, and i told her this expecting a swift death i believed i deserved, only for her to fucking cradle me in her big butch arms and kiss me on my forehead with her soft butch mouth and just. forgive me for a shameful weight ive carried my entire life and then MAKE AN ACTUAL NECRO/CAV VOW with me despite every evil thing i have done to her……to have her tell me, in the end, bleeding and broken after putting up the most beautiful and glorious fight of her life, that she understands purpose and she understands duty and she knows loyalty more fiercely than ever now, that she knows who she is to me, that there is no her without me….to have her backed into a corner and make the ultimate sacrifice…..for me…..to recite scriptural wedding vows of eternity to me in her last wisps of soul-consciousness…..if i thought there was even a snowflake’s chance in the pyre that i could save her by turning myself into her very own locked tomb, i’d be begging ianthe tridentweirdius to crack my skull open and turn me to mush too, goddamn. i understand you harrowhark girl you don’t have to explain a thing to me. god said you couldn’t undo the lyctor’s bond bc it’d kill you. you told god and his angels that not even a lyctor’s bond could outshine the power of female spite and lesbianism and they didn’t listen. they didn’t believe you. but i heard you loud and clear and i was 17 and hormonal and hopelessly romantic not too long ago unlike those fucking dinosaurs and i’m saying it’s valid it’s what i would have done and really everyone should be thanking you for not being worse and more wretched about it, all things considered

#i think about gideon nav every day #she makes me want to eat drywall #shes so jesus shes so her own thing shes so god and savior It Is Finished divinity of love and sacrifice #honestly so much of harrow is so so relatable to me shes so real for everything she does #her little griddlehark meetcute au her little divine highness au #ive already waxed poetic about the harrow nova au #sorry to keep waxing poetic about this but i really am rotted about them #like im going insane. tamsyn muir when i get you tamsyn when i catch you #griddlehark #tlt spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #i am you as you are me we are one and two and two and one #i cannot conceive of a universe without you. #should i forget you let my right hand also be forgotten; add more also. if aught but death part me and thee. #I FELL INTO THE WATER AND NOW IM FREE

[intermundia]

kinda fucks me up to know that the first among anakin's immediate friends and family to realize he'd become a danger to them was threepio. like what about anakin triggered his threat sensors? was it the way he moved? the expression on his face? what about the youngling slaughter clung to him? how could a droid sense the dark side when those who love him couldn't see it?

#how did he know? #rots novelization my beloved #god #sw #his first child in a way #anakin skywalker #darth vader #sw books

[hoezier-than-thou]

YOU GUYS

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy Jackson and the Chalice of Gods

THEM.

#something's never changee💃✨💗🤍 #Experiencing high level Percabeth brain rot #I'm not okay y'all #Percabeth #Annabeth Chase #Percy Jackson #I LOVE THEM #pjo tv #Pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy and annabeth #rick riordan #the chalice of the gods

[lotus-pear]

every time i think abt their canon height difference i want to eat drywall

#ISTG I COULD NOT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET THE ANATOMY RIGHT FOR THIS ONE IDK WHY😭😭 #anyway they make me sick in the head i try to go one day without thinking abt them and my rotting brain starts shutting down #they're like the iv drip that's keeping my sickly malnourished deteriorating body alive #live laugh love soukoku #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[saewokhrisz]

back with the left handed drawing cuz my dominant one is dead as hell, as per usual

somft thanzag...

#god the rot #soft tiddy holding #thanzag #thanatos #zagreus #hades game #hades #my art #fanart

[mcrowan]

I wrote out how to watch Good Omens in chronological order if for some reason you wanted to do that.

I miss-typed for hell in the 1970s. It’s supposed to be Episode 5 21:27 - 22:26

Edit: I’ve made a Youtube Playlist with this all recorded and put into order, it took me a week of solid work but I got there. The link is in the pinned post on my profile

#good omens #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #good omens 2 #chronological #please for the love of god find me some more friends #ineffable lovers #anthony j crowley #crowly x aziraphale #good omens in chronological order #crowley #michael sheen #aziraphale #good omens brainrot #aziracrow #chronological order #good omens 1941 #good omens fandom #good omens brain rot

[cuephrase]

no, i am not thinking about dick and tim's relationship and how many awful, tragic moments of dick's tim has had a front row seat to. that night at the circus when dick's parents die. when his wedding with kory was ruined. when he kills the joker. when dick asks who adopted him if there is no bruce wayne and is met with silence. when donna dies. when dick breaks down in a burning building because blockbuster is dead and it's his fault. when dick is so full of self-loathing that he tells tim to forget he ever knew him. when bruce dies. when damian dies. when the worst happens.

i'm not thinking about how tim met bruce in a deep low and it colors how he views him. but dick? he has seen dick fall apart and hit rock bottom and it has never changed who dick is to him- his hero, his role model, his brother.

i'm not thinking about how unconditionally tim loves dick. how undeserving dick feels of tim's love. how bruce's death pushed them apart when they needed each other more than ever.

i'm totally not thinking about them

#god i can't stop thinking about them #they've been through so damn much together #dick grayson #tim drake #nightwing #robin #red robin #dick and tim my beloveds #cue brain rot exhibit

[spellbooking]

it's not funny anymore!!!!! i saw the astarion version and ran with it

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 meme #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #god help me #my brain is ROTTED #i can't escape

[3whitebutterfliez]

me, tumblr, and spotify <3

#girlblog #girlblogging #girlcore #this is a girlblog #rotting #girl hysteria #hell is a teenage girl #lana is god #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #lana del slay #lana del rey #calico critters #calico kitten #vintage #just girly things #pinterest girl #this is what makes us girls #girly tumblr #spotify

[god-of-decay]

( - idk what to ask but I want to ask something- )

sooo… uh God of decay.. what aus do you know of?

"....AUs...? That is an odd question child.... I do not know what you mean... no one has asked this... in any tongue before.... how curious..... the language must have drastically changed in this life..... assuming they're in my domain.... I love them just the same.... and have been watching them grow... waiting for death to embrace them...."

#god of rot #god of decay #dark deception #dark deception au #dark deception oc

[inbredlamb]

#brendon burton #appalachian gothic #southern goth aesthetic #regional gothic #rot #rural america #abandoned by god #photo dump #southern gothic #southern style #american gothic #appalachain mountains #you tasted love and it tasted sweet #religious trauma #trashy 2000s

[ghostbl00]

prohibited wish doodles bc they are in my brain

#art #fanart #my art #procreate #digital art #original art #prohibitedwish #prismo #prismo the wishmaster #the scarab #scarab the god auditor #fionna and cake #my adventure time brain rot is coming back in full force guys oh no #the sillies