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Mohg Supporters Just Keep Winning
Jul. 23rd, 2024 07:13 amJust to be clear, Mohg Lord of Blood is not a good person. He's not a well-developed character by any stretch of the imagination, and the conceit behind his design is "What if we took the concept of 'random PvP murder' and made it into an optional endgame boss." It's more complicated than that, but not by much.
Still, I find discourse around the relationship between Mohg and Miquella to be tedious. Whether it's "problematic" or "child abuse" for someone who is 1,000 years old to be in a relationship with someone who is only 750 years old is not a real question. "But Miquella has the body of a child," you might say. To which I would respond that Miquella is a withered, nine-foot-tall corpse inside a giant magical cocoon.
To me, the demigods of Elden Ring don't read as human characters, and I think it's frustrating to interpret them as such. Although some of the demigods cling to remnants of their former humanity, any attempt to tease out their personalities and motivations is always going to be in the realm of fanfiction.
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Still, I find discourse around the relationship between Mohg and Miquella to be tedious. Whether it's "problematic" or "child abuse" for someone who is 1,000 years old to be in a relationship with someone who is only 750 years old is not a real question. "But Miquella has the body of a child," you might say. To which I would respond that Miquella is a withered, nine-foot-tall corpse inside a giant magical cocoon.
To me, the demigods of Elden Ring don't read as human characters, and I think it's frustrating to interpret them as such. Although some of the demigods cling to remnants of their former humanity, any attempt to tease out their personalities and motivations is always going to be in the realm of fanfiction.
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