I mean Marika is known for her hair right? Make sense why he has alot of hair or why everyone in the family does sorta. Though I gotta say his hair is beautiful.
Damn this is my first time properly hearing that second phase music. Usually it’s overshadowed by the constant 1000 explosions and flash bangs giving me sensory overload.
Yup. It is absolutely phenomenally designed. Peak gaming. I love rolling 15 times in a row so I can press r1 once. I love anime bullshit. And I love telling people online that I beat the hard video game cause I’m fckin good ass gamer bro
@@johnathan1506Sellen has exposed feet, Fia too. It’s more a sign of purity than anything generally in Japanese culture, tho tbh ‘sellen’ isn’t pure at all.
@@eyesofthebeast could be, interestingly though it is not on his model when he is with radahn so my theory is that it is probably a ring from someone he was close to such as gowdyn, malenia, marika, or st Trina and he may have gotten rid of it on his quest to godhood so that that connection wouldn’t hold him back?
@@andrewdecker3752 I think it's a subtle hint that the corpse in the cocoon is indeed Miquellas original body and the ring was left behind on it. Miquella was going to abandon everything he had in the lands of shadow anyways.
@@Human-Man-Man Super Cripple Bros were just a slog. Dodge roll, stagger, beat on the kid, gg, 0 skill, almost no learning curve if you made it that far yourself. Radahn is a pain in the ass, but he's got mechanics. You're punished for being greedy and not understanding more mechanics than monkey masking a combo of dodge and AoW, lol.
@@satekeeper Yeah when he gripped on Radahn I went "Oh. So we're REALLY doing a best of Fromsoftware games past, huh?" (There are plenty of characters, concepts and ennemies in the DLC that are more than usual reminiscent of previous games, such as the whole Abyssal Woods and the general feel of the Specimen Storeroom giving Bloodborne)
@@NWolfsson Yeah tbh I sometimes give FromSoft crap for reusing certain ideas but "character holding onto other character as they fight" is one that is just damn cool so I didn't mind lol
@@JJMomoida Always thought the twin princes from DS3 were incredibly unique, facing two bosses in such a way is something i haven't seen anyone doing beside fromsoft so i'm glad they did it again.
@@ulrikahaggard9923 mate it's middle of the night right now. And it's not my fault that i was thinking about great game that is Red alert 2 where Yuri Prime says "There can be only one true Yuri!"
Neat that Miquella maintained that intricate braid along his back in both his younger and ascendant forms, even with the drastically-different hair lengths
@@UncreativeHandle48late but notice how Radahn's braids are similar to Godfrey's? That's his idol! that's such a neat detail. Miquella definitely braided his hair for him
@@mollymillions6586visual clarity, overall feel of the character and so on. We only notice this stuff when the models aren’t moving, which they never do in the game
@@mollymillions6586 its really just exaggerated for the final effect which happens with a lot of art. if you actually trace along the anatomy of lots of paintings and drawings with many effects or tricky perspective you'll often notice that some of the anatomy makes no sense. thats because skilled illustrators know how to make it look right without being 'correct'. Mohg is a pretty good example because the actual model underneath the robe looks pretty goofy, but you never see it so it doesn't matter that the proportions are stretched or too long or too short in places. What matters is the final effect of the character silhouette once the robe is on.
2:32 I have Miquella's ring in real life! Wayyy before the DLC was even announced, I noticed the ring on the withered arm, and asked my (modder) friend if he could extract the model, bake the textures into the geometry, and send it over. Then I 3D printed it. I plan on casting it in silver eventually, it's a really nice ring.
He did use to share that body with his female half. I guess we know why St Trina is just a torso attached to a plant, Miquella made sure to keep everything from the waist down for himself.
Ascended Miquella might be a better title, since he walks out of the Divine Gates shining with light, and the Remembrance name implies he has properly ascended now. The hair looks like a bitch to maintain, but when he's hanging off of radahn it makes it look like the Red Lion has the white mane that Godfrey/Serosh once had, helping his consort ape the man he looked up to so much. But from behind it could alo refer to the primordial form of the Elden Ring we see at Faram Azula, with manh, many rings to it. Also it looks like only one of his arms is actual flesh and blood, and the others are ghostly because he cast off the others on his way here (sinistral, dextral and St. Trina).
Def an adult. He was depicted as being waist-high to what we at least believed at the time was Godwin in statues. I never realized his arms around Radahn were of a spiritual nature until now. Neat.
Im glad they made his youth that way. Makes him look even more sinister when you realize he used his curse as a false mask of empathy. Hes not an eternal child, hes another god and worse.
@@angela.luntian i don't know if worse is the better word for little Mikey. Sure, brainwashing an entire civilization just to achieve his goal is bonkers, but the others is also quite insane (except Godwyn and Radahn, whose i think just a good bloke all around in the lore). Marika, literally pluck out the concept of death, abandon Messmer in the Shadow Realm, imprisoned her 2 child in the sewer, have a hand in the murder of Godwyn, betrayed her own shadow, etc etc. Radagon, literally abandoning his wife after impregnating her with 3 child. Ranni, killing Godwyn so she can achieve her goal. Rykard, get eaten by a snake and build a community around killing other tarnished. Malenia, nuking an entire region just because her brother having a tantrum of his "promised consort" refused their betrothal because said consort realized Mikey is a manipulative little bastard. every single one is just a bad demigod.
@@angela.luntian yall, nuance exists, he isnt evil, but he also is NOT good, no pure evil character exists in these games and this entire dlc is literally proof of that
@@DieByFlyGuy1984whats weird is you can kinda see his other arm hidden behind radahn’s body and caught in his hair if you look closely in the cutscene, so idk why it disappears
@@abovearth6740 I think he's talking about the sword of St. Trina, who's description says that the sword shows an adult version of St. Trina and that it is disturbing.
Everything about Miquella seems like a child’s interpretation of the world. He seems like one of those kids you meet who are highly intelligent, but then they say something that reminds you they are a kid. Even his desire for Radahn as consort seems like a childhood promise, like saying you’re gonna marry your mom/dad. My big brother is so cool and strong, I’m gonna become God and make him my Lord! Even worse it seems to me like the Haligtree is only failing now cuz Miquella got “bored” with it. Everything seems to have functioned well, but without Miquella there to balance out Malenia the Rot is just taking over. Had he stayed, I think the Haligtree would have succeeded in at least being a safe haven for those trying to escape the Shattering. He's cursed with eternal nascency
That's only if you believe he choose to be taken away. I personally argue that Mohg kidnapped him of his own volition to make him his Empyrean and the conduit of the Formless Mother, and Miquella bewitched him when being his prisoner.
" My big brother is so cool and strong, I’m gonna become God and make him my Lord!" I actually kind of groaned when I figured that bit out. its cool and works but guess I've read too many romcom manga/manhwa... I've seen the trope too much. "let's get married, main character!" "oh kid, you're so cute, haha okay." *X amount of time later* "I'm back and sexy now." "Wuh-wuh-what we're still getting married?!? >///
The fact that Melania made clear she was sent there to kill Radahn and send him to the shadow realm indicates that this was always his plan, he wasn't just giving up the Haligtree cuz he got bored.
@@guypowerstrength5837 Hey, he is a kidnapper by trade, just ask the war surgeons. Or rather Varre since he is the only survivor amon them. But just like with the surgeons, he kidnapped Miquella for purely practical purposes.
@@j-lohome-slice7425 Funny how people keep saying "Mohg beat the allegations" when the community can't even beat the allegations themselves. (Seriously, some of these commenters need to be investigated.)
But idk why they feminize him a lot, while we all know that if he's not masculine it's bcs his body hasn't grown. If he had grown, he would be more masculine
@@liamwright2510 Even Godrick is pretty formidable. People talk about him like he is a wimp but he is like Yamucha from DBZ. No he is not comparison to a Saiyan champion but he would literally murder 99.99% of fighters on Earth in 2 seconds.
Even his ring is gone. He truly abandoned everything to achieve his dream (and failed). It honestly makes me think about the fact that marika probably did the same and also gave up everything. This has crazy implications
@@rafsandomierz5313 i think the paths to godhood all involve sacrifice in someway, and given miquella’s entire ideology it makes sense he would sacrifice himself to “help” everybody else. Also i just remembered the story trailer where marika grabs runes/hair from a body and seems to ascend to godhood. In that scene the gate of divinity looks a lot more bloody and fresh, whereas when we see it it’s gray, almost mummified. I wonder if marika had to sacrifice all those people to ascend? It would definitely fit with marika’s character, she always seems to prioritize her ideals over people (think of poor godfrey)
Godfrey was conspiring with Mariska to get rid of the greater will. Her “banishing” Godfrey and his men to the badlands was all part of their masterplan to crease a band of warriors (tarnished) that would move in once she shatters the ring and destabilise the greater wills remaining control in the lands between. The “grace” guiding tarnished is literally marina guiding us to kill everything that would oppose her.
Bro...Excuse me...WHAT..."One of the good ones" What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean morally? If so I indulge you read his lore to show the absolute atrocities he's caused in his manipulative wake.
@@rewstersause6202no he wasn't, his actions all were leading to him fixing that world full of horrors, mohg whom every one crying over is one of the most vile evil characters in the game, miquella only sin, was throwing saint trina away
To quote another great game: "You have been doomed ever since you lost the ability to love" "Ah... Sarcasm, 'For what profit is it to [a] man if he gains the world, and loses his own soul'?. Matthew 16:26 I believe." Miquella was screwed since he decided to cast away Malenia, Trina and everything that meant squat to him at any point. It's not like his ideals were flawed, it's that Miq had the horrible judgement to never see things through, he could have just continue nurturing the Haligtree, it had the potential to replace the Erdtree. Alas we remain here, at the tragedy's birthplace.
I like the subtle storytelling in his design alone. He only has three arms instead of four because he cast Trina away. His eyes are devoid of the Grace of Gold because he rid himself of *any* Outer God influence to ascend to godhood. Hands down one of the best-written characters in the game.
@@alessandrodellalbani5641 Her lore implies she is budding a new version of herself from the nectarbloom where his blood fell, so maybe that's why she has two.
Right?! Though I still don’t get what happened with his body since it was used for the haligtree and then in Mohg’s palace and THEN spread out all over the shadow realm???
Oh just realized his hair and crown are a reference to the icon in Farum Azula with the expanded Elden ring. The circlet at the top, the braid representing the center column, the outer braids representing the rings, and the remaining strands of unbraided hair going outwards representing what we thought were roots.
People keep saying femboy, but bishonen suits Miquella more. He's like a pretty boy from a classic shoujo manga. Bjorn Andresen levels of pretty. Also it felt illegal to see his bare calves...
This, bishonen seems to be an outdated term these days, but it fits better to this version of Miquella. Poor Björn Andresen tho, he did not deserve t suffer like that 😢
For me its the wonderful incandescent power shown when an empyrean is born from a new age forging its order upon the world which has forsaken its true gods.
That seems like a huge stretch. What about the hair makes it look "faulty" specifically? It's long, which means it's strong to be able to hold such a length, and clearly there's no traces of greying or mold or rot in there. It grows wildly, but that could just as easily be a symbol of strength or vitality (like a classic barbarian archetype). If the artists were trying to make it look "faulty," it feels like they should've done a lot more. It's not like they're incapable of making bad hair (Morgott).
Radahn & Miquella's combat song is so epic no matter how many times I listen to it. My favorite Elden Ring OST, and for me, so far one of the best video game music in 2020s. Not just the music, but moveset, difficulty, cinematic events when using summons... In every way, they were truly the most badass DLC boss in FromSoftware games!
Ending of the video is really eerie with that triumphant heavenly music over the withered hand. Reminds me that after all Miquella has done, with this big intricate plan to ascend to godhood and change the world for the better, all that’s left to show of it is his mutated corpse sitting inside of a cocoon. It feels pretty haunting.
Not a femboy, idk why they feminize him a lot, while we all know that if he's not masculine it's bcs his body hasn't grown. If he had grown, he would be more masculine
Spent countless years enacting a plan to shed his curse and become a god only to step out of the gate and get killed by some dude wearing a jar on his head and constantly rolls around like a crazy person
I don't think I'll ever not feel robbed by the fact that we only get to interact with Miquella as a boss-no, an accessory to a boss. After all the build-up, and centering much of the DLC around him, it's intensely disappointing. I still really like him, but the potential has been wasted.
Miquella's god form has 3 arms, A four-toed fowl's foot. Material used for crafting items. In the Lands Between, having three digits is seen as a bad omen. As such, the four-toed fowl's foot is a gift of great luck indeed.
Trust me, having achieved this look with extensions, I can honestly tell you that the weight is so heavy you'd end up having a headache from how hard it's pulling on your scalp. 😂 Took them off the following day.
@@dormammu629 no joke, obviously only a little shorter would be plausible, but I’d love to have hair like him! Even if that meant spending an hour everyday trying to maintain them😂
One of the few things I like about Radahn and Miquella is the returning motif of Godfrey with Serosh on his back. Why they chose to use this motif again, I don't know, but it shows what Miquella looks to emulate with his ascension.
"I assure you, those close up on Miquella's feet are essential for the DLC's story and the video."
Just as Michael Zaki intended
Micheal Zaki 💀@@retey8982
Elden Ring but if Tarantino was involved
@@retey8982 Just as "Hide your tacos miyazaki" intended.
Sister friede cutscene, but smaller
That hair is nuts, like a culmination of all the blonde embedded into the golden order lol
Half your screen unreadable
The bigger the hair the bigger the soul, I guess
Miquella's super Saiyan form has the biggest hair if all Saiyans
imagine what godwin would have looked like kek
I mean Marika is known for her hair right? Make sense why he has alot of hair or why everyone in the family does sorta. Though I gotta say his hair is beautiful.
Damn this is my first time properly hearing that second phase music. Usually it’s overshadowed by the constant 1000 explosions and flash bangs giving me sensory overload.
Yup. It is absolutely phenomenally designed. Peak gaming. I love rolling 15 times in a row so I can press r1 once. I love anime bullshit. And I love telling people online that I beat the hard video game cause I’m fckin good ass gamer bro
@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 It got really personal for you, huh?
@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 You mad bro? 😂
@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 Try jumping a few times instead.
@@moonrabbit2334 They are so mad.
And of course the feet are exposed. Thank you Michael Zaki!
Mike wazowski?
Exposed feet are just a symbol of divinity and godhood. That's why all the gods and demigods have exposed feet.
Based Miyazaki.
@@johnathan1506Sellen has exposed feet, Fia too. It’s more a sign of purity than anything generally in Japanese culture, tho tbh ‘sellen’ isn’t pure at all.
@@johnathan1506whatever you say miyazaki
Bro must have ridiculous arm strength to be holding on while Radahn let’s all of his bullshit fly at us 😭
Exactly why it's "spirit" arms mickey here uses to hold onto rada-rada.
😂
He's not holding on with his arms, bro. 😏
@@inkajooinsane
Well he’s a god, don’t think he follows the same rules
The ring on both the withered arm and the young model is a great detail
I wonder if thats a ring radahn gave him in their childhood
@@eyesofthebeast could be, interestingly though it is not on his model when he is with radahn so my theory is that it is probably a ring from someone he was close to such as gowdyn, malenia, marika, or st Trina and he may have gotten rid of it on his quest to godhood so that that connection wouldn’t hold him back?
@@andrewdecker3752maybe. But my theory is that he gave it to consort Radahn, idk if we’ve checked his model yet?
@@andrewdecker3752 it looks like a snake eating itself, so im guessing its something related to messmer or the base sepernt
@@andrewdecker3752 I think it's a subtle hint that the corpse in the cocoon is indeed Miquellas original body and the ring was left behind on it. Miquella was going to abandon everything he had in the lands of shadow anyways.
Bro was experiencing a washing machine simulator while holding onto big bro
Yep. He was riding him really well.
Ayo? 🤨 @@Jurgir09
@@Jurgir09 ;-)
“A whole bunch of turbulance”
@@Jurgir09💀
This spot, marks our graves.
But you may rest here too, if you like
Ahh, Lothric, the previous Miquella. He had such an awesome fight alongside Lorian.
better fight than Consort of Radahn
@elyk4982 Yeah very good fight with the constant freaking teleporting. Very fun
The teleporting makes the fight fun dude just lock on
@@Human-Man-Man Super Cripple Bros were just a slog. Dodge roll, stagger, beat on the kid, gg, 0 skill, almost no learning curve if you made it that far yourself. Radahn is a pain in the ass, but he's got mechanics. You're punished for being greedy and not understanding more mechanics than monkey masking a combo of dodge and AoW, lol.
Not giving us his robe was a crime
YES WE NEED THE ROBE
WHY STOP AT THE ROBE GIVE US HIS HAIR!!!
And also that beautiful mane of hair!
Tarnished: "hand it over.. that thing... your golden mane"
It's called a dress and he fucking rocks it
0:45 definitely the son of Radagon
Double cheeked up on a thursday afternoon
Ι spat my coffee
😐
Isn’t Miquella a child?
@@timtim6373 Not anymore. That was kind of Miq's entire point
@@timtim6373nope. Was stuck in the body of one. For thousands of years
Oh dear. Another dogged contender
Rise, if you would
for that is our curse
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s getting Prince Lothric vibes from Miquella the Kind 😄
fromsoft like their endgame twink battles ig
@@winterthewisp I mean, using one’s imagination, Radagon and Moon Presence both have twink proportions, too😂
bro became a god so he didn't need to ever wash and dry that hair ever again.
honestly the only based thing Miquella has ever done, long hair is fun but a nightmare to keep clean
It is by no mistake that he and radahn appear like serosh and godfrey. Very neat.
And the Twin Princes from DS3.
@@satekeeper Yeah when he gripped on Radahn I went "Oh. So we're REALLY doing a best of Fromsoftware games past, huh?"
(There are plenty of characters, concepts and ennemies in the DLC that are more than usual reminiscent of previous games, such as the whole Abyssal Woods and the general feel of the Specimen Storeroom giving Bloodborne)
@@NWolfsson Yeah tbh I sometimes give FromSoft crap for reusing certain ideas but "character holding onto other character as they fight" is one that is just damn cool so I didn't mind lol
@@JJMomoida Especially when it's an iconic gay power couple.
@@JJMomoida Always thought the twin princes from DS3 were incredibly unique, facing two bosses in such a way is something i haven't seen anyone doing beside fromsoft so i'm glad they did it again.
Bro had to turn super saiyan 25 just to fight a filthy tarnished😭
For some reason reading this i tought that if you play female tarnished that married Ranni you summon power of "one true Yuri" to defeat Yaoi
@@diooverheaven6561 Go outside damn
@@ulrikahaggard9923 mate it's middle of the night right now. And it's not my fault that i was thinking about great game that is Red alert 2 where Yuri Prime says "There can be only one true Yuri!"
@@ulrikahaggard9923 maybe you should too
@@diooverheaven6561 What the hell is that?? Is your brain okay??
Neat that Miquella maintained that intricate braid along his back in both his younger and ascendant forms, even with the drastically-different hair lengths
He doesn’t have to braid it, it just grows like that (somehow)
@@GillfigGarstang But you can’t deny that he’s the one who added those braids to Radahan’s hair
@@UncreativeHandle48late but notice how Radahn's braids are similar to Godfrey's? That's his idol! that's such a neat detail. Miquella definitely braided his hair for him
0:44 "Lord of the old order. I promise you a thousand year bakery".
.... that cake is flat
Let me think about that offer
better than most male’s asses ive seen
@@namdrinkwaters2531Nah dude in real life this is a real cake
Of what? Flat bread?
even the dainty cherub character can't avoid the fromsoft curse of being wide as hell
I've never understood the weird proportions in Elden Ring. Like OK the Omens and Messmer are mutants, but what's everyone else's deal?
Thiccfaced
@@mollymillions6586visual clarity, overall feel of the character and so on. We only notice this stuff when the models aren’t moving, which they never do in the game
@@mollymillions6586 its really just exaggerated for the final effect which happens with a lot of art. if you actually trace along the anatomy of lots of paintings and drawings with many effects or tricky perspective you'll often notice that some of the anatomy makes no sense. thats because skilled illustrators know how to make it look right without being 'correct'. Mohg is a pretty good example because the actual model underneath the robe looks pretty goofy, but you never see it so it doesn't matter that the proportions are stretched or too long or too short in places. What matters is the final effect of the character silhouette once the robe is on.
@@Deidyeah, i've seen a pics of Mogh without the robe, oh boy its so hilarious 😂😂😂
It will never make sense to be why we have two almost identical Radahn sets, but not a single Miquella cosplay set.
Thanks Mike Wazowski.
Blonde tarnished with Patches' pyjamas
I need the most important piece to cosplay FIa
I like how his hair makes him look similar to the Farum Azula Elden Ring in Maliketh's arena
Yes! I noticed this instantly.
To the what?
@@Floaydithere’s a representation of the Elden Ring in the malekith arena who is older and the hairs got the same shape
@@carottefondeurenfer Damn that's cool if that's not a coincidence.
@@Floaydi Maybe it isn't. Miquella wanted to embrace everything after all.
chowda that manipulative bussy got me actin unwise
Why is everyone here a British cigarette 😂
@@denisn8336because it’s 2024 and it’s okay to be bisexual/gay💜
@@denisn8336 isnt miquella gay though? so its kinda...
@@rigormortis3138 Miquella is probably not straight, but its not confirmed if he ONLY likes men.
@@Tokmurok fair enough honestly. im goingwith that notion, too.
i'm telling you bro the genetics are crazy
2:32 I have Miquella's ring in real life!
Wayyy before the DLC was even announced, I noticed the ring on the withered arm, and asked my (modder) friend if he could extract the model, bake the textures into the geometry, and send it over. Then I 3D printed it. I plan on casting it in silver eventually, it's a really nice ring.
Thats beautiful
Ooh, jealous! I don't have a skills/resources for all that.
Anywhere someone could get the file for that? Would love to give this a friend of mine for his girlfriend :)
@@Dapeder*HEART STOLEN*
Wait, thats awesome! if you still have the files to print it I would be more than happy to print it too.
i love that fucking majestic, holy, divine and apotheosic soundtrack of this fight
It’s amazing
2:15 Goes hard
Of course the first minute of the video is just a compilation of feet shots
It got me acting unwise, but nothing a lil alone me time at the dynasty can't fix
@@Mohg-n5uEveryone here
What did Miyazaki mean by this???
@@BonnieNakagawa feet
@@BonnieNakagawafeet.
Well, he did it. He grew not only in body, but also in face. And he is so gorgeous...
THE ELDEN TWINK!!!!
They really gave Mickey a badankadonk. The Golden order’s bakery is still in business. Marika/Radagon and Malenia, a new contender is in town.😂
One of the requirements for Godhood is having child bearing hips
Messmer could never lol
@@BonnieNakagawaleave bro out of this 😭😭🫸🔥🫷
@@DomihockeyrockyYeah, bro's more ethical than Miquella.
He did use to share that body with his female half. I guess we know why St Trina is just a torso attached to a plant, Miquella made sure to keep everything from the waist down for himself.
0:19 ayo chill, we just met!!
Ascended Miquella might be a better title, since he walks out of the Divine Gates shining with light, and the Remembrance name implies he has properly ascended now. The hair looks like a bitch to maintain, but when he's hanging off of radahn it makes it look like the Red Lion has the white mane that Godfrey/Serosh once had, helping his consort ape the man he looked up to so much. But from behind it could alo refer to the primordial form of the Elden Ring we see at Faram Azula, with manh, many rings to it.
Also it looks like only one of his arms is actual flesh and blood, and the others are ghostly because he cast off the others on his way here (sinistral, dextral and St. Trina).
Or Apotheosis Miquella
He ascended and became God of Femboys
Was waiting for this 😂😂😂. Miyazaki loves femboys 😂😂
Still would
Yeah, I’ll just ignore the boy part. He looks female enough.🥵
such a femboy that even though he's a god, he still dies immediately when his boyfriend gets killed
@@Mohg-n5u cringe
Miquella got the beauty and callousness from Marika after all.
@@rexlumontad5644 …and from Radagon😅
The callousness came from shedding his other half and becoming half a being without love...
It's almost as horrifying as Godwyn's fate...
Really wish you gave us a full view when he wasn’t glowing.
Pretty sure the model just looks like what he showed us. All feet
Def an adult. He was depicted as being waist-high to what we at least believed at the time was Godwin in statues. I never realized his arms around Radahn were of a spiritual nature until now. Neat.
Im glad they made his youth that way. Makes him look even more sinister when you realize he used his curse as a false mask of empathy. Hes not an eternal child, hes another god and worse.
@@angela.luntian i don't know if worse is the better word for little Mikey. Sure, brainwashing an entire civilization just to achieve his goal is bonkers, but the others is also quite insane (except Godwyn and Radahn, whose i think just a good bloke all around in the lore). Marika, literally pluck out the concept of death, abandon Messmer in the Shadow Realm, imprisoned her 2 child in the sewer, have a hand in the murder of Godwyn, betrayed her own shadow, etc etc. Radagon, literally abandoning his wife after impregnating her with 3 child. Ranni, killing Godwyn so she can achieve her goal. Rykard, get eaten by a snake and build a community around killing other tarnished. Malenia, nuking an entire region just because her brother having a tantrum of his "promised consort" refused their betrothal because said consort realized Mikey is a manipulative little bastard. every single one is just a bad demigod.
@@angela.luntian yall, nuance exists, he isnt evil, but he also is NOT good, no pure evil character exists in these games and this entire dlc is literally proof of that
@@Lescheres His ideas are good but throwing away everything including his love definitely didn't help
The extra arms are like seatbelts for him so he doesn’t fall off Radahn 😭
I wondered why he used the ethereal arms and then I remembered the cross he abandoned his "sinestral (left) arm"
he abandoned both arms iirc
He also abandoned his dextral at Shadow Keep.
Nice insight dudes, yall are totally right. Kinda weird only one was missing in the character rig. Wonder if there’s more significance.
@@DieByFlyGuy1984whats weird is you can kinda see his other arm hidden behind radahn’s body and caught in his hair if you look closely in the cutscene, so idk why it disappears
@@godly_potatoe69xd19 nice catch man need to get my alt to this fight again and look more closely
Adult form is unnerving, that item description was right.
Which item ?
@@abovearth6740 I think he's talking about the sword of St. Trina, who's description says that the sword shows an adult version of St. Trina and that it is disturbing.
@@abovearth6740St Trina’s torch
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem New weapon or something in the base game?
@@chillax319base game. St. Trina Torch
Everything about Miquella seems like a child’s interpretation of the world. He seems like one of those kids you meet who are highly intelligent, but then they say something that reminds you they are a kid.
Even his desire for Radahn as consort seems like a childhood promise, like saying you’re gonna marry your mom/dad. My big brother is so cool and strong, I’m gonna become God and make him my Lord!
Even worse it seems to me like the Haligtree is only failing now cuz Miquella got “bored” with it. Everything seems to have functioned well, but without Miquella there to balance out Malenia the Rot is just taking over. Had he stayed, I think the Haligtree would have succeeded in at least being a safe haven for those trying to escape the Shattering.
He's cursed with eternal nascency
That's only if you believe he choose to be taken away. I personally argue that Mohg kidnapped him of his own volition to make him his Empyrean and the conduit of the Formless Mother, and Miquella bewitched him when being his prisoner.
@@gabrieldoyen692 nah bro mohg didn't do nuffin, free my man
" My big brother is so cool and strong, I’m gonna become God and make him my Lord!" I actually kind of groaned when I figured that bit out. its cool and works but guess I've read too many romcom manga/manhwa... I've seen the trope too much.
"let's get married, main character!"
"oh kid, you're so cute, haha okay."
*X amount of time later*
"I'm back and sexy now."
"Wuh-wuh-what we're still getting married?!? >///
The fact that Melania made clear she was sent there to kill Radahn and send him to the shadow realm indicates that this was always his plan, he wasn't just giving up the Haligtree cuz he got bored.
@@guypowerstrength5837 Hey, he is a kidnapper by trade, just ask the war surgeons. Or rather Varre since he is the only survivor amon them. But just like with the surgeons, he kidnapped Miquella for purely practical purposes.
The "most replayed" at 0:43 is hilarious. Y'all need help
a butt is a butt alright? respect the mounds
the cheeks
Bro started with the feet like a true Michael Zaki fan
The freeze frame when his feet are on screen Lol 😂
Tried as an adult Miquella.
It's been 15 years and Miyazaki is still introducing characters with a foot shot
The true moghlester
Moug beat the allegations but Miquela never will now
@@j-lohome-slice7425 Funny how people keep saying "Mohg beat the allegations" when the community can't even beat the allegations themselves. (Seriously, some of these commenters need to be investigated.)
😂
The Miquelester
You've been bamboozled by Tricky Miq!
He looks like a sleeping angel
I love St Trina’s voice. I really wish they did more with her
It's clearly a girl 😂
@@Darkoholicit’s actually not. Play the game.
@@Darkoholic hes a guy, wtf are you on lmfao
@@Darkoholic did you see the game or lore?
How the hell is he so gorgeous? Probably as beautiful as marika
Well, he's supposed to be the new Marika
But idk why they feminize him a lot, while we all know that if he's not masculine it's bcs his body hasn't grown. If he had grown, he would be more masculine
Glorious feet ahead
bussy so good people went to war over it
Just looked at your profile pic and it just confirmed my speculation on how someone who does pedo jokes might look.
digital footprint, but based on
Miquella : look at me, you're gay now
Thousand yard legs and t-rex arms damn
Taking care of that hair must be an absolute ass ache.
Yeah he probably has magic or something to clean it
He's a God. His hair probably clean itself or something
I wonder if Miquella wanted to look like Godwyn in his god form
Nah. Godwyn had a pretty manly, toned body. Something that Miquella could only dream of. Also no super Saiyan 3 hair on Godwyn.
@@Rexperto6454 this was as close as Miquella could get lol
@@Rexperto6454look at Godwyns father, of course he would be a well built guy.
Miquella took more after Marika and Malenia took After Radagon so Miquella is more feminine compared to Godwyn
@@liamwright2510 Even Godrick is pretty formidable. People talk about him like he is a wimp but he is like Yamucha from DBZ. No he is not comparison to a Saiyan champion but he would literally murder 99.99% of fighters on Earth in 2 seconds.
Even his ring is gone. He truly abandoned everything to achieve his dream (and failed). It honestly makes me think about the fact that marika probably did the same and also gave up everything. This has crazy implications
He only failed because we were there.
Not a chance Radagon or the Elden Beast could stand against him and Radamohg
Marika didn't seem to abandon things but rather use people.
After all paths to godhood are many.
@@rafsandomierz5313 i think the paths to godhood all involve sacrifice in someway, and given miquella’s entire ideology it makes sense he would sacrifice himself to “help” everybody else. Also i just remembered the story trailer where marika grabs runes/hair from a body and seems to ascend to godhood. In that scene the gate of divinity looks a lot more bloody and fresh, whereas when we see it it’s gray, almost mummified. I wonder if marika had to sacrifice all those people to ascend? It would definitely fit with marika’s character, she always seems to prioritize her ideals over people (think of poor godfrey)
@@shpenkyobo Not sure if divine gateway was made by something or someone.
To me it looks like another Crucible.
Godfrey was conspiring with Mariska to get rid of the greater will. Her “banishing” Godfrey and his men to the badlands was all part of their masterplan to crease a band of warriors (tarnished) that would move in once she shatters the ring and destabilise the greater wills remaining control in the lands between. The “grace” guiding tarnished is literally marina guiding us to kill everything that would oppose her.
his long hair kind of reminds me of the elden ring we see in Maliketh's arena
Still heartbroken we couldn't have saved him from becoming a caged divinity. Homie was one of the good ones.
Same
Bro...Excuse me...WHAT..."One of the good ones"
What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean morally? If so I indulge you read his lore to show the absolute atrocities he's caused in his manipulative wake.
@@Jmcelwain17 I have read the lore and followed the story, unlike the many who just squeal "Mind controller, Miquella was evil!!!!!"
@@rewstersause6202no he wasn't, his actions all were leading to him fixing that world full of horrors, mohg whom every one crying over is one of the most vile evil characters in the game, miquella only sin, was throwing saint trina away
To quote another great game:
"You have been doomed ever since you lost the ability to love"
"Ah... Sarcasm, 'For what profit is it to [a] man if he gains the world, and loses his own soul'?. Matthew 16:26 I believe."
Miquella was screwed since he decided to cast away Malenia, Trina and everything that meant squat to him at any point. It's not like his ideals were flawed, it's that Miq had the horrible judgement to never see things through, he could have just continue nurturing the Haligtree, it had the potential to replace the Erdtree. Alas we remain here, at the tragedy's birthplace.
king arthur couldnt pull me out
Feet, O Feet!
And by the way
Feet, O Feet!
FEEEEEEET!
@@OtherMomo FEEEEET!
Disgusting
@OtherMomo try finger but hole
I like the subtle storytelling in his design alone.
He only has three arms instead of four because he cast Trina away.
His eyes are devoid of the Grace of Gold because he rid himself of *any* Outer God influence to ascend to godhood.
Hands down one of the best-written characters in the game.
@@dinorex3464 saint Trina has 2 arms tho not 1
@@alessandrodellalbani5641 Her lore implies she is budding a new version of herself from the nectarbloom where his blood fell, so maybe that's why she has two.
Not really because of Saint Trina. One of the crosses it says he abandoned specifically his other arm.
@@dinorex3464 still,in the crosses he says that he abbandoned both arms,it still doesn't add up
@@felipecouto1102 he actually abbandoned both
Miquella's theme is probably my favourite ost from the souls series. Such an incredible piece
Still bummed we never got a mothy miquella form
imagine if the fight had a phase 3 after you killed radhan and miquella grew wings like the nascent butterfly, that’d be insane
@@vongolamistowl please, hes already as shiny as Radiance, we dont need to fight her lmao
Right?! Though I still don’t get what happened with his body since it was used for the haligtree and then in Mohg’s palace and THEN spread out all over the shadow realm???
I know right I saw the forearms and expected some butterfly wings
@@orionofvolgaI too have been wondering about this
Still bummed we don't get to be his consort
Same 😢
IT SHOULDVE BEEN ME, NOT HIM!
He is willing to use his charm on you at least and it does give gold text.. so that's something.
That confirms the withered arm is really his
And his left arm is missing which is what’s in the cocoon
an albeit deformed version.
No. Miquella is missing his left arm and the withered arm is a right arm
My headcanon ending is that I got caught by the grab move twice and it’s just over lol
I love the heart stolen death screen, peak Fromsoft comedy
Oh just realized his hair and crown are a reference to the icon in Farum Azula with the expanded Elden ring.
The circlet at the top, the braid representing the center column, the outer braids representing the rings, and the remaining strands of unbraided hair going outwards representing what we thought were roots.
People keep saying femboy, but bishonen suits Miquella more. He's like a pretty boy from a classic shoujo manga. Bjorn Andresen levels of pretty.
Also it felt illegal to see his bare calves...
Someone who knows who Björn Andresen is? Film lover or Thomas Mann fan?
This, bishonen seems to be an outdated term these days, but it fits better to this version of Miquella.
Poor Björn Andresen tho, he did not deserve t suffer like that 😢
I would agree if it wasn't for those hips obviously designed to create a new line of Demigod children.
i see a man of culture
Every time Japan pulls a femboy on us I'm reminded of the existence of wakashu
make monsters out of hands but no enemies made of feet wtf mike zaki
"the two toes guide the tarnished, but never convene with the three toes."
And
Fetyr, Mother of Toes
Godrick, grafter scion, revenant: Am I a joke to you?
Because you can get penetrated by someone's fingers or one eyed snake, see that was the subtext to the bosses' fights 😂
[Gurgle Laughs in The One Reborn]
That would be blasphemous to him.
Tricky Miq trying his best to turn me gay
I already was
hes going to steal your heart
@@cheftroyardee7982 Now you're double gay
@@evanbyrain No! I want to steal miquella's buss- I mean Beauty!
This fucking comment has haunted me for a week.
I cant stop giggling
r34 artists bout to make up 40% of the views on this
The hair seems emblematic of the faulty roots of a new order.
I think the hair is more like a symbol of the exuberance and vitality of the new born god, but you made an interesting connection.
For me its the wonderful incandescent power shown when an empyrean is born from a new age forging its order upon the world which has forsaken its true gods.
@@alfredoca687 i think it could be seen as both. A rise and fall.
That seems like a huge stretch. What about the hair makes it look "faulty" specifically? It's long, which means it's strong to be able to hold such a length, and clearly there's no traces of greying or mold or rot in there. It grows wildly, but that could just as easily be a symbol of strength or vitality (like a classic barbarian archetype).
If the artists were trying to make it look "faulty," it feels like they should've done a lot more. It's not like they're incapable of making bad hair (Morgott).
Or maybe it’s just because Miyazaki thought it looked cool
Bro has a huge back wtf
Like many humanoids in Elden Ring they share the same design
A real badonkadonk. Very handy for sitting on the elden throne all day
Yet his hips are still wider than his shoulders somehow.
😭😭😭💢💢💢
that is the divine back, which he inherits from radagon
Miquella's hair reminds me if the symbol of the original golden order we see in malekiths boss room
Yea a lot of ppl saw that comparison video
@@ericwalker6477 what video?
Radahn & Miquella's combat song is so epic no matter how many times I listen to it.
My favorite Elden Ring OST, and for me, so far one of the best video game music in 2020s.
Not just the music, but moveset, difficulty, cinematic events when using summons... In every way, they were truly the most badass DLC boss in FromSoftware games!
100% agree with you. Miquellas OST really communicates that you are fight a divine and angelic being. The switch from solo to the chorus, fantastic.
Now i can see why mohg was so obsessed with him.
Ending of the video is really eerie with that triumphant heavenly music over the withered hand. Reminds me that after all Miquella has done, with this big intricate plan to ascend to godhood and change the world for the better, all that’s left to show of it is his mutated corpse sitting inside of a cocoon. It feels pretty haunting.
I saw someone say Rahdan equipped Miquela as a Back Bling, and i can't unsee it now 😂🤣
this was my instant initial thought after I died to the second phase the first time.
Miyazaki let his femboy fantasies go wild with this one
Not a femboy, idk why they feminize him a lot, while we all know that if he's not masculine it's bcs his body hasn't grown. If he had grown, he would be more masculine
Bro, Miquella learned Super Sayan 5 with that hair, holy shit.
Spent countless years enacting a plan to shed his curse and become a god only to step out of the gate and get killed by some dude wearing a jar on his head and constantly rolls around like a crazy person
I like the theory that the reason he's missing an arm is because its the mentioned serious wound Ansbach gave him in their fight.
Dude has a nice lil bakery
Of course he's barefoot... OH miyazaki
But he wouldn't grant us the gloam-eyed Melina barefoot.
@@cyrusol 😭😭😭
immediately pausing on the feet, I see you Bonfire
I don't think I'll ever not feel robbed by the fact that we only get to interact with Miquella as a boss-no, an accessory to a boss.
After all the build-up, and centering much of the DLC around him, it's intensely disappointing.
I still really like him, but the potential has been wasted.
Ah a joyous day indeed! It’s always an excellent day when we are graced with a video of lord Miquella!
Enlarged God Miquella.
Miquella's god form has 3 arms,
A four-toed fowl's foot.
Material used for crafting items.
In the Lands Between, having three digits is seen as a bad omen. As such, the four-toed fowl's foot is a gift of great luck indeed.
People talk about his back being big, but they forget that the boy in his adult form is probably almost three meters tall 😭
the power of transitioning early
2:05 His eyes look like they have the "eclipse symbol"
Was looking for this, surprised there aren't more comments about it.
GRIFFITH
GRIFFIIIIIIIIIITH
He looks JUST like the Erdtree symbol up in Farum Azula! @1:21
When I'm in a "making the femboy antagonist" competition and my opponent is Fromsoftware
When Miquella takes a shower, he uses an entire bottle of shampoo
That has just occurred to me that in the boss fight he appears to actually be matured. Devinity defeated his curse?
So it's ok for me to give him backshots? Since he is an adult now...atleast in body heh heh heh heh heh heh heh
Yes, it was the goal. Godhood is the only way he could cure himself, cure his sister Malenia, and either fully revive Godwyn or put him to rest.
@@girlboss5172 Doesn't seem like it, he still speaks in his child like voice.
Until that's just how god's sound.
@@rafsandomierz5313 He sounds like a young teen, hardly like a child.
I honestly dream of having hair that long and beautiful.
Alas... its a dream.
That would be a nightmare to maintain lol
Trust me, having achieved this look with extensions, I can honestly tell you that the weight is so heavy you'd end up having a headache from how hard it's pulling on your scalp. 😂
Took them off the following day.
@@samf.s.7731 yeah, the weight aspect is the reality. Mad maintenance.
@@dormammu629 no joke, obviously only a little shorter would be plausible, but I’d love to have hair like him! Even if that meant spending an hour everyday trying to maintain them😂
"Tender 👀🫦" Miquella
Bro is 80% hair
Miquella may have a consort, but he sure does need consent.
In typical souls fashion the first shot of him was a close up of his feet.
he's a baddie
Move aside Gwyndolin, a new *BEST* femboy has arrived!
One of the few things I like about Radahn and Miquella is the returning motif of Godfrey with Serosh on his back. Why they chose to use this motif again, I don't know, but it shows what Miquella looks to emulate with his ascension.
Young Miquella: ilegal ❌
Adult Miquella: weird ❌
Potato miquella: perfect ✅
footless and fryable.