#sote vent

Miquella/Radahn does not seem to face nearly as much scrutiny as Mohg/Miquella.

Like, for all the fuss that they gave about Mohg having kidnapped and abducted someone stated to be "cursed with eternal childhood." If you wrote about these two - god forbid you tried to present that possibility that MAYBE it's not what it looked like, you'd be stamped as a horrible person who condones that stuff.

Now the DLC comes out. Turns out that the kidnapping was infatuation was something that was forced upon Mohg in the first place by his supposed victim. And then there's Malenia's march upon Caelid, unleashing the Scarlet Rot upon Radahn and inflicting great environmental damage. All in Miquella's name.

Taking Mohg's body and forsaking his soul, to then use as a vessal to house Radahn's soul and make him king consort.

Like, people are way more forgiving toward Miquella than they were with Mohg.

And, no, I'm not advocating for ship wars. It's silly, and stupid. But I've seen a looooot of shit said about people who shipped MiqMohg -- and... Yeah, the other ships -- whether MiqMalenia, MiqGodwyn, and now MiqRadahn -- do not seem to come under that same scrutiny.

... Yeah. Compared to the likes of Manus of the Abyss, the Orphan of Kos, Sister Friede and Father Ariandel, and Slave Knight Gael. Even Sinh, Fume Knight and Burnt Ivory King. Promised Consort Radahn IS kinda boring.

But like... One of the complaints from peeps is there isn't enough Body Horror -- which yeah, Body Horror is something that IS kinda FromSoft's Bread and Butter. Look at Ludwig. And with all the fanart showing Miquella with, like, Godwyn. Boy howdy FromSoft really missed the mark.

Anyway though. You look at Consort Radahn and there's very little of Mohg there, with the exception of a few horns on his arms, and a few smaller ones on his ankles.

But...

Like...

Alright, so everyone knows by now that I adore Mohg. I love the omen twins. I'm quite sympathetic toward the Hornsent. Yes, what what happened to Marika was wrong, but it's still not enough justification for the genocide on the Hornsent.

The lengths to which Miquella altered Mohg's body -- it doesn't even resemble him anymore. Mohg was beautiful as he was! But now it's like... Everything that made him beautiful is GONE now, and THAT, to me, is a sort of Body Horror that is far more horrifying than the misshapen face and writhing limbs of Ludwig the Accursed.

... And ultimately you end up with either the Elric's Mother or a Nina/Alexander situation, but with Mohg and Radahn.

"If Marika the Eternal could not bring back Godwyn the Golden herself, then surely your own attempts will, too, be met with failure."

But no. The DLC explicitly is about Miquella having chosen Radahn as his consort.

I mean... Why would Miquella give Torrent to Melina? Why would Melina give Torrent to us?? Why would Miquella give Melina Torrent, who would give Torrent to us, to then...?

...??

Furthermore, to have Mohg as his king consort, it would serve as a testiment to his kindness and compassion. But what Miquella did do - from the bewitchment to the butchery of Mohg's body - is an extreme cruelty. Especially when you weigh in the fact that Mohg was already a victim of Marika’s cruelty.

No, he was not a good guy. But given his past, as a child born to a mother who could not get over her own hatred, condemning him(and his twin) to a lifetime of rotting in a sewer, you would think kindly Miquella would have looked at Mohg and said: "Yes. You are deserving of compassion."

Instead he used him. Enchanted him, and took his body to be used to house the soul of his chosen consort, who, according to Freyja, would want "endless war to invigorate the soul" -- it's already a mismatch...

For all the preaching of kindness and compassion, Miquella failed in following his own ideology. He clipped the wings of the divine bird; and now he would seek to declaw and defang the red-maned lion.

AND we also would have had the ability to jump - something we were deprived of in Dark Souls!