#i miss maleniaposting i miss exploring and not knowing anything. i wasn't even sure she'd be in the game/let alone a boss

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god im thinking again abt. malenia turning caelid into a scarlet rot wasteland and it was absolutely not what she intended. fighting and being prepared to kill radahn is one thing but they were too evenly matched, leaving her either no other choice but to unleash scarlet aeonia/it happened beyond her control because the goddess of rot would not let her champion die, functional empyrean or not (i always always think about malenia whispering smth to radahn in that final moment. she knew what was about to happen..) but malenia is not about destruction!!! conquest, sure, for miquella's sake but the age of unalloyed gold is built on ideals of peace and equality, especially for the afflicted, the outcasts. unalloyed gold is beauty and flowers and dreams. not whatever the scarlet rot turned caelid into,,,, and sure sure demigod slumber/malenia having to be carried back all the way to the haligtree sanctum and the timeline is extremely unclear (it is implied she only wakes up when you enter her boss room) but i also like the idea of her. giving up on it all. defending the empty womb of miquella's tree, again, sure, but going out and securing territory? beating back her siblings? after what happened with radahn, what she did to radahn...... + the implication of the next time she goes into god slumber she will emerge as goddess of rot / fully an avatar of an outer god; not only was her twin taken from her, leaving her with no choice but to await his return tm, the battlefield is also taken from her because does she really want to chance that happening again? h.

#ELDEN RING BLOGGING #GUESS WHO BOOTED UP HER GAME AGAIN i spent one second in caelid and im not okay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #also haligtree IS laced with scarlet rot already though malenia's presence alone. i am simply not okay about it #whatever holy empire her brother wanted/is going to build (FOR HER!!! NEVER FORGET!! the ultimate goal is curing her) but she is #a corrupting influence. her very presence is corrupting what miq is trying to build. the tragedy of these two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #hhhhhhhh i cant believe it's been a year. i cannot believe what bright of a spot this game was in the middle of the worst era of my life #i miss maleniaposting i miss exploring and not knowing anything. i wasn't even sure she'd be in the game/let alone a boss #VIVIDLY remember finding one of the remembrance towers and being like hm maybe that's where morgott's (?) rune goes #looking it up on the wiki and getting hit by THIS IS WHERE U ACTIVATE MALENIAS REMEMBRANCE like SORRY WHAT #this game is simply so much to me my brain lives there. the last bastion of who i used to be................