#quelaag

[grimae]

Quelaag

#Dark Souls #Chaos Witch Quelaag #Quelaag #fanart #sketch from some months ago. dug it out to finish just for fun

[drangknight]

sunlight and demonfire 👑

#dark souls #gwynevere #quelaag #quelaag/gwynevere #art #just felt like drawing some gals!!

[stevetwisp]

art from 2021 that i never postedd!!!

Quelaag and The Fair Lady (Dark Souls)

#quelaag #the fair lady #dark souls #my art #fanart #chibi

[brightlydust]

Fashion Souls

#i had drafts of solaire and lautrec but coulde quite get them down? #if people like this i will revisit!! #dark souls #ds1 #dark sun gwyndolin #gwynevere princess of sunlight #crossbreed priscilla #chaos witch quelaag #quelaag #gwyndolin #gwynevere #priscilla

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Johan and Peewit meeting more Dark Souls Characters like Quelaan and Quelaag...

(I know this looks Bad because this is my First Time drawing the Crab Spider Ladies...)

#sir johan #johan and peewit #johan et pirlouit #peewit #johan #pirlouit #smurfs #the smurfs #cartoon #crossover #dark souls #quelaan of izalith #quelaag of izalith #chaos witch quelaag #quelaan #quelaag #soulsborne #from software #dark souls remastered #smurf

[thygeep]

Dark Souls 1 tricks you into seeing Quelaag as an evil seductress, she is not.

Allow me to spill out some thoughts that have been stewing in my mind for a while.

When you first get the Quelaag cutscene, it is incredibly male-gazey. It frames her monster body first as horrifying and disgusting, then quickly cuts to glamour shots of her naked female form.

This may be normal for a lot of games, but that’s not Dark Souls. They don’t do that. They never do fan service! So why now?

That’s because Quelaag is a reference to the black widow trope.

The Black Widow Trope is one you see everywhere; and though it’s usually associated with spiders it does not have to be. The trope is the sexy women, who secretly is some monster luring straight men in and feeding on them.

The way the camera frames Quelaag, and the way she is designed, wants you to dismiss her completely as another black widow. Another women using her sex appeal to lure you to your death.

Except, she’s not.

She didn’t lure you.

You went through barrier after barrier, you broke into her house with weapons drawn, and you killed her.

But you may not think about that first playthrough. The first time you kill her you probably didn’t feel bad.

Not until you move forward, and find the sick sister she was protecting from the man that broke into her home. A sister that loved her. Then you realize. Then you feel bad. Then you question what you’re even doing, and if you are the hero.

#dark souls #dark souls 1 #quelaag #chaos witch

[skleech]

six fanarts but character requests from my friends :]

#elden ring #bloodborne #tf2 #dark souls #fia the deathbed companion #choir member #quelaag #laurentius of the great swamp #keeper of the old lords #my art #i swear to god if this post gets flagged because of quelaag- #six fanarts

[estuschan]

Soulstober Day 12: Chaos

#soulstober #chaos witch quelaag #quelaag #dark souls #dark souls 1 #fanart #digital art #my art #digital painting #estuschan #fantasy art #elden ring #spider #spider girl #chaos #bloodborne #inktober

[asakemayuta]

Chaos Witch Quelaag and Quelaag's sister

#fanart #dark souls #dark souls remastered #quelaag #asakemayuta #Eingyi

[alieninside]

my wife chaos witch quelaag sketch from the other day <3

#i need to draw more women #shes soooo #chaos witch quelaag #quelaag

[drangknight]

famous dark souls women, kay and vera 🧡💛

#i lov e.. them #a small bony ass and a soft godsized ass!!! #quelaag is flame god flann #so says i #quelaag #gwynevere #dark souls #art

[wouldtheyfuck]

#requested! #I'm sensing a theme hmm #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #minthara baenre #bg3 minthara #minthara bg3 #mytha dark souls #dark souls #dark souls 2 #mytha #quelaag #dark souls quelaag

[brightlydust]

Daughters of Chaos: modern au

#quelaag <333333 im gay #ill get back to carian posting soon dw #dark souls #ds1 #quelaag #fair lady #daughter of chaos #quelana #eingyi #he is a purse dog to me. he is. #quelana of izalith

[ohnoitstbskyen]

The Fair Lady is a sympathetic monster, whom you must hurt

Quelaag's Sister, the Fair Lady, is a chaos witch who, even after her demonic transformation, was tremendously kind and compassionate. She consumed a deadly wasting disease to cure a community of undead, and is now being consumed by the disease in turn, its progress held off only by a steady supply of humanity to ease her pain and strengthen her.

This is why Quelaag took up residence by the Bell of Awakening: to prey on the powerful undead who come there in search of the prophecy, and feed their humanity to her ailing sister.

The Fair Lady is pale, mangled, and sickly, and mistakes the player for her sister, which does sting a bit, right after you've killed her. It's a killing you can atone for by entering the Chaos covenant and feeding the Lady humanity in Quelaag's place, which is a pretty unique way to let the player experience empathy and understanding for one of the bosses they've had to kill.

It's hard to look at the Lady and not feel pity, transformed into a demon by chaos, and nearly killed by her own compassion, she is one of the few uncomplicatedly sympathetic characters in the lore, so Dark Souls, of course, forces you to hurt her in order to beat the game.

#tbskyen #dark souls #dark souls lore #from software #fromsoft #soulsborne #quelaag #chaos witch quelaag #the fair lady dark souls #Youtube

[pechurkka]

working on a lil' quelaag portrait, hehe

#wip #digital #quelaag

[arx-aru]

im sure it has all been pointed out but what i mean with the Malenia and Quelaag's Sister archetype in terms of presentation comes from a few thingies:

- Both are blind, disabled, and in pain

- Both are entirely dependent on their sibling to survive; Miquella provided Malenia the unalloyed gold that bought her a little time and Quelaag gave her sister the humanity that gave the tiniest relief

- that dependency is so absolute that both are described as SPECIFICALLY belonging to their sibling: Quelaag's Sister and Blade of Miquella

- and they are immobile left in wait of their dead/doomed family until the player arrived come to pillage their way to lordship, using the girls as either an ally or another body to loot (but whats the difference there or with anything when their dependency is defunct thats why theyre so tragic)

- both are connected in presentation to their kids. millicent and malenia and her other plant daughters is obvious but also Quelaag's sister specifically mentions her eggs as the subject of great concern and importance even though they're parasitic. she wants her kids in spite of it all ):

also in terms of the siblings, their names themselves

Quelaag

Miquella

this is true and I have to think deliberate in the case of the localizations. but i myself haven't got the fluency to judge if it is the case in the game's original language

also the association with uh, eggs. that probably carries over i bet

the significance of this i think is that it's Miyazaki's active revision of his own messages in order to better reflect what he was meaning or his own personal growth. I think the change to the four characters' comparative sexualization or removal thereof is also worth noting and appreciating. not a lot of creators are so eager and aggressive about "taking back" so to speak their mistakes

we can also maybe glean from these connections a little more about Miquella and Malenia in terms of theming and background narrative roles given how little elaboration the final game gives on that

#malenia blade of miquella #quelaags sister #miquella the unalloyed #quelaag #elden ring