The Moonlight Butterfly is hauntingly beautiful
Ah, the Moonlight Butterfly. The first boss you might feel kinda bad for killing.
You encounter it without much context, hanging out in Darkroot Garden - eventually youβll learn itβs one of Seath the Scalelessβ chimeric creations, but absent that it seems less like a monster and more like just a creature that... lives there.
The butterfly can be spotted first sitting quietly on a tower, and even when it attacks you, it doesn't exhibit any of the wild aggression of the Taurus Demon or the Bell Gargoyles. It just flaps around quietly, occasionally spraying magic at you - and it almost seems like it's less intent on killing you than it is on driving you away from the flower-beds on the side of the bridge, on which the creature lands to feed.
The Butterfly is a beautiful design - the four wings and rotating golden disc recalls imagery of angels, the long twisted horn brings to mind unicorns, and the trailing tail behind it looks almost like a robe - or a dress. With the haunting melody in the music as the backdrop to the fight, you don't feel a demon hunter as you fight it, you feel like a trespasser or a blasphemer, raising your weapon against some sort of goddess. And actually, when you look at the concept art... why, doesn't that look suspiciously like the shape of a woman? How did you make this creature, Seath?
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