The Scorched One

the scorched one

decided to name him adastriel!

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spiritwalkerrrrrr

Self exposé to help show you aren't alone

I absolutely fawn over characters who are mentally broken and reclusive from regular society. People problems? All over it. Shitty childhood? Love that shit. Bullied to the point of distrusting everyone in general? Hot.

It's easier to love a character you can directly relate to, whatever the reason

It's why comfort characters exist, they are extensions of the self. Marmot is an extension of my fear of the world, Orifel is an extension of me growing up lonely without a father

Godrick is an extension of you, his experiences help you to realize and accept that what all happened to you wasn't your fault

Struggling characters are attractive because they make struggling people feel validated and even heal from their trauma

So I feel you

Yapping, mostly personal but fandom related still

Quite the synchronicity from life that both in my previous fandom and this one, I gravitated towards characters who not only went through a gross character assassination by how poorly canon introduces them, but are also treated unfairly by fandom in the worst faith possible to a point where people make a sport of it. They often treat their fans the same way and deem them subhuman because they like a pixel they don't.

Both of these characters require the player to dig a little deeper than the shallow puddle the canon presents at first glance, because it IS there, IN CANON, but not on the surface. And unfortunately most players will not do that with the exception of like 3 lore heads who also have minimal interest in characters like these.

I always thought how it was such an interesting thing to gravitate to traits like that, as in, their main trait being received unfairly by the public while I have childhood flashbacks exactly because of the same reason, and this is possibly the one thing I will not tolerate. When people are treated unfairly, it opens the knife in my pocket; be it real life people or fictional characters. I am even willing to go into whole-ass arguments over it, despite hating fights more than anyone, because both can induce a whole-ass psychological trigger in me that will result in days of dissociation due to some personal long-term events.

Now that I think about it, the very reason I gravitate towards characters like this, is because I can very well relate to being received unfairly for no reason while the public that does this is more hypocritical than anything, and turns out it's not just by accident I stumbled upon them.

mmmm, Icarus

A big damn birdman that can set himself on fire and become a phoenix

He smells like barbecue and has a wingspan of about twenty feet

Run.

headless chickens

Thems the same ones who cry at anyone using an intelligence or dexterity build cause it's "cheesing" the game

I agree wholeheartedly that there should be a tourist mode. Elden Ring is too pretty to not have one built in, and I'd love Morgott to be my tourist guide! That man's voice is so soothing to me, lol

People losing it at the ‘pause button’ suggestion for Elden Ring are not prepared for my ‘tourist mode’ suggestion.

There should be a mode where people like me can just run around and look at the pretty landscape and soak in the atmosphere with the soundtrack. All NPCs and Bosses are still there, but instead of fighting you they stand still and do a lil wave 👋 as you admire them. Maybe some start reciting the game lore like they’re tour guides lol