#godrick fans are hella not a monolith i’ve seen so many takes i disagree with and that’s ok <3

[wanderingmausoleum]

Just wondering. How would you and the Tumblr community around Godrick react if the DLC revealed that he wasn't that pathetic back then? E.g. he's the way he is now because of some *subverting expectations* event.

I'm with the deep lore/archaeologist crew and the deeper we dig into this guy the weirder it gets and if those things turn out to be right, then 90% of what we tend to think of Godrick would be wrong.

But of course the tumblr people love him for being this disgusting maniac.

I can’t speak for the rest of the tumblr community or other godrick fans (i’m pretty new here!), but i’ve actually thought about that a bit and i don’t think it would change my interpretation of him that much—i think it’s very feasible that godrick could have been quite powerful before the grafting by human standards, but still got his inferiority complex by not being able to live up to the literal god standards of his family. i think there are a lot of ways things could have gone for him! i’ve done a bit of deep diving into his lore (i haven’t had time to make a full post of all my thoughts about him so i haven’t talked about most of my interpretation) and his past still seems pretty open-ended to me. i’d love to hear some deep lore thoughts, so please feel free to share if you wish!

on the other note, i enjoy him less because of being a disgusting maniac (although that is part of what he becomes), and more because of the Themes and Social Commentary and such within his character—i think godrick is a great representation of the cycles of abuse/trauma that make up a large part of the themes of the game. the world told him he wasn’t good enough and he decided to make himself good enough by any means necessary, even by murder and subjugation, perpetuating the same harm that caused him to turn out like this in the first place (especially seen in gostoc’s cut quest imo, where in my view it’s implied he was too weak even for grafting and was thus rejected by godrick altogether). but this is a tangent and probably not what you’re asking about so i’ll stop here lol. thanks for the message! :)

#godrick fans are hella not a monolith i’ve seen so many takes i disagree with and that’s ok <3 #others feel free to chime in on this ofc!! #elden ring lore #godrick #godrick the grafted #gostoc #speaketh