#So sorry for ending it that way sfhsjs i dont have anything else to say

[ruthlesslistener]

I’ve been theorizing that the reason why Miquella currently looks so strange (aside from the blood ritual thing) is because he’s not finished reforming. In the opening, we can see that his proportions look really off and he’s covered in some sort of slime. I always found that strange but it made me think: what if he had underwent the same sort of metamorphosis caterpillars/larvae do in their cocoons, with how they basically just melt? I could be wrong, but its interesting to think about tbh

Yeah same, I think that's whats going on! I'm not sure how specific Fromsoft went for their inspirations with Melania and Miquella, as Malenia is based off a specific apple fungus that I'm too afraid to google myself, but I personally think that Miquella is based off of the eublemma albifascia moth, which would explain why he remained in a child's body up until he made himself a cocoon, and why he looked all gross and fucked up in the opening when Mohg was taking him away- he's literally dissolving and reforming himself into his godlike form. It might not be like, a 100% gooping process, but that would explain why he looked all weird and surrounded by cobwebs when the carvings around the Haligtree show someone who just looks like a normally-proportioned kid. Mohg interrupted the metamorphasis when he kidnapped him, and then seems to have restarted it in his territory, perhaps under the guidance of the Formless Mother (bc I don't expect some dude from the sewers to know what to do with an Empyreon's transformation into a god, while one of the outer deities certainly would). And, like I said before, him following a moth's lifecycle would explain why he didn't appear to age, as moths remain in their baby form for most of their lives before undergoing a dramatic transformation into a sexually mature adult. The 'curses' afflicted all appear to simply be parts of their nature that they considered a curse bc of the Erdtree's influence, like the Omens, so it would make sense if that was the case with Miquella and Melania.

I also feel like Mohg dissolving himself into blood and pouring into the cocoon might be a part of why Miquella's so huge- his cocoon is big to begin with, but whatever Mohg's been doing with those blood rituals have certainly made an impact on Miquella's form. Which would make sense if he was mostly liquid during his transformation, as Mohg's blood would have been able to make a direct impact on his development when interacting with his...goo.

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