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“Can dreams not be more than hope and naivete? Could they be a declaration of intent?”

Side Blog of @squaretablehold

"Of course. One does not spend so long with another person without finding at least a morsel of pleasantness, and my father and I shared more than that. If there is one thing I can say about my father, perhaps his greatest strength and weakness both was his dedication. So bound to his principles was he that he became as ridgid and inflexible as stone. Even when the life of his own daughter lay upon the line." Miquella adds the last sentence with a deep and abiding bitterness.

"But perhaps thou art looking more for a story than an assessment of character. I do still fondly recall long hours spent in the archives of the Fundamentalists, studying and debating incantations, philosophy, and golden geometry with my father. He was perhaps one of the few that truly respected my scholarship at the time, so long as it strayed not from that accepted by The Golden Order. 'Twas one particular night when I was particularly absorbed in a text and spiteful over the terminology used to encourage my rest, that we engaged in a war of attrition in the library. He thought to outlast me and carry me to bed as he would when I was but a child, but he neglected to observe that the leaves I'd taken to chewing where camellia and did wonders for helping me keep long hours into the night." Miquella gives a cheeky smile at this.

"I believe the position of Elden Lord, like much of Marika’s reign, is flawed in its base concept. 'Twould necessitate the reinstitution of my Mother as Queen Eternal, whether that means providing her once again with power over the Lands Between, or continuing to allow her to languish as no more than a crumbling vessel for a dying way life, either option would only prolong the stagnant suffering of the world."

They both went mad when Miquella and Malenia renounced the Greater Will and killed their own Two Fingers, most likely using Unalloyed Gold instead of The Fingerslayer Blade.