Making relatively slow progress on my Fellowship of the Ring reread because
1) I am easily distracted (I might need to transfer the ebook to my tablet and read it on aeroplane mode)
2) Tom Bombadil is the most annoying person in Middle-Earth, I find him insufferable
3) Slight compensation for this is that since I saw a post saying the only actor who could properly play Tom Bombadil is Matt Berry, I default to imagining Goldberry as Blonde Nadja and being exactly as awkward and weird around the hobbits as the vampires trying to act normal around humans.
Love the idea of Danny being a horror movie child.
Like he somehow ends up with a non-supernatural DC family, be it the Kent's or the Batfam, and kind of just....is vaguely unsettling at first.
He stares into dark corners laughs at jokes only he hears. Tells random people things no one else should know.
And, used to weird, his new family let's it slide. Then they start seeing things. His shadow is bigger than it should be. Multiple eyes appear in the dark, watching them. Whispers fill the halls at night.
It's driving some crazy as they can SWEAR that when Danny gets mad they hear the screams of the damned.
Meanwhile Danny is chilling with his bodygaurd Fright Knight and is happy to have visits from his former rogues who make sure to check in on him as he's going through a rough patch in his life and, as a young ghost, is very susceptible to drastic changes.
So, this spell we see in the Shadow of the Erdtree trailer:
It appears to be a mass version of the same effect as the Bewitching Branch item, it even has the same particle effects.
The Bewitching Branch, of course, is an item associated with Miquella that turns enemies into allies. It appears that the spell in the trailer is doing the same thing. This spell is likely a version of a power that Miquella has.
Now let's compare this dialog from the beginning of the trailer:
"He wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying."
To the description for the Bewitching Branch:
The Empyrean Miquella is loved by many people. Indeed, he has learned very well how to compel such affection.
We already know that Miquella was good at "compelling" love from others, but now we're being told that this power is terrifying and dangerous. We hear of many people who love Miquella in the base game, the most important examples being Malenia and Mohg. We must wonder, then, was this love genuine or compelled?
What if Miquella is the one who compelled Mohg to capture him? What if Miquella being torn from the Haligtree and bled dry by Mohg was actually part of his plan to reach the Land of Shadow? The YouTube description for the trailer says:
It was to this land (the Land of Shadow) that Miquella departed. Divesting himself of his flesh, his strength, his lineage. Of all things Golden
What if Mohg's fucked up ritual was a necessary step in Miquella's "divestment"?
What if instead of the tragic victim we all thought he was, Miquella was actually pulling the strings all along?
As anyone whos unfortunate enough to have known me as a child can vouch for, Paper Mario TTYD is my favorite game of all time. and its not even close. This game means more to me than i can even put into words, Every major life struggle ive been through, this is the game I can always rely on to bring me that sense of inner childlike joy that can be so hard to find these days.
Anyway. Ive always wanted to do a painting for this game, yet always struggled on subject and finding the right "time' i guess.
This is the biggest painting ive ever done, with 6 months of work, and around 60 characters, it was a massive endevor and im glad i managed to finish it.
Please play the remake when it come out, if you can. do yourself the favor of experiencing this magical game.