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... .... ... NOTHING the dlc can say or do will deter my headcanons regarding the
childbirth/menstruation/womb symbolism involved in Mohg's dynasty. Blood is not some throwaway aesthetic. Blood is and always has been Mohg's physical and mental fixation.
The Formless Mother (who we now know had relatively benign intentions) taught Mohg to love the stain he was born with (ie. his menstrual cycle, his womb) Mohg built his dynasty on the shoulders of the accursed blood from the start. He's always been enamored by the beauty of blood and pain. Blood and pain are his suffering and his salvation. Mohg has suffered multiple miscarriages. Mohg desperately wants to have children. His blood pots are the memory of his youth, and I still believe they house the blood and rancorous spirits of those he's lost. He still keeps 28 day calendars all over his dynastic grounds. He wants to sustain a pregnancy, but his Numen heritage makes this dream so incredibly hard for him to reach, and blood is his obsession because of it.
If anything, the dlc has strengthened this headcanon for me. Now we know Omen horns grow alongside suffering. Every one of his twisting horns could be for one of his unborn who never made it. The Horned Bairn even reveals that Hornsent babies have a higher risk of infant mortality due to their heavy horns. And it's implied that horns sprout wildly from the ghosts of suffering - and to live in lamentation for a crown of twisting horns is greatly sacred, like blood.
(We also meet the Formless Mother's tribe, the Bloodfiends, and all of them have lean bodies with distended bellies, as if carrying young.)
Again, I think these are the obsessions that Miquella took advantage of. You know, in my personal interpretation of Mohg's blood-obsession ...
So now we have to recontextualize Mohg's key image in the introduction;
We know he's bewitched here. These actions are not his own, and yet Miquella lets Mohg hold him like a baby in the crook of his arm. He lets Mohg be gentle, despite that he must make Mohg look like a kidnapper and monster. Miquella is not slung over his shoulder. Miquella is not dragged. Miquella is not not carried away by disciples. He's letting Mohg feel what could be. He's manipulating. He's giving Mohg a taste of something he may have never had.
I could get even deeper and darker into headcanon territory and start formulating that the reason Miquella needed Mohg's body specifically was because Mohg is the only demigod left potentially able to bear children.
Malenia is made barren by the rot.
Morgott castrated himself. (headcanon)
Rykard is conjoined with Eiglay and lays her eggs.
Ranni is a doll.
Godwyn is corrupted.
Godrick is too feeble.
Radahn is his consort.
Fair enough that being God and consort doesn't require sex or children or such things - but it could. Radahn could be in for a rude awakening with that new body of his.
mohgwyn dynasty themes
going back to my mohg posting era, to say i've thought about the whole symbolism behind it
First of all, as you already know Mohg was shunned from birth. Mohg used his own acursed blood as both a weapon and he also embraced it. The formless mother came to him. Mohg never had a mother. Not a present one anyway. There's this theme of neglect behind it. The formless mother is absent, Mohg seems to be absent to his own followers, and even Miquella seemed to be absent.
Varre says that the two fingers hold no "love" for the tarnished, despite them bringing the tarnished into existence. I think theres a vague undertone of Mohg wanting a family of his own and living that through the dynasty. He didn't create the tarnished, but he takes them in and gives them blood powers, and holds more "love" for them than the two fingers according to Varre.
Now that we know Mohg was bewitched, and how bewitchment works, we know that it only makes the victim love [Miquella]. Mohg's love seems to be very present-- but very obsessive. He's obsessed with this idea, the concept he can have his own family and be loved despite his past, so he embraces his hornsent nature. He grows free wings in his second phase.
He gives Okina who nearly kills him a blood katana, because she is worthy to survive. Like Mohg once did.
There is this poetic undertone to all the suffering in Mohgwyn dynasty and it's followers, that no matter how much you bleed, you can be loved. By Mohg, lord of blood.
okay my brain hurts dies
mohg kneels down when he has to hug someone. thats it thats the post ok bye
“If he's lying
Don't come crying
Mother knows best!”
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