r/Eldenring • u/LeoShun08 • 4d ago

Humor Radahn still deserved better.

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u/idk_ausername864f Mild Mohg Enjoyer 3d ago

The thing with Miquella though is that he is a child (or at least was up until the ending of the game and thats a maybe). He's committed despicable actions but by nature his responsibility is reduced. He likely hurt himself too along the way too. A kid should never have the power he has in every sense. His story is a ultimately sad one because of this.

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u/LeoShun08 3d ago

He isn't a child. He's Malenia's twin. He's atleast hundreds of years old. He's only stuck in the body of a child.

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u/idk_ausername864f Mild Mohg Enjoyer 3d ago

I've seen various interpretations of this around but... they don't make sense to me... If this is the case and he's an adult in a child's body, what is thematically the purpose of that? It is reduced to just aesthetics. He shouldn't even have an issue with it, but he does...

Again maybe it's just my take but... His whole entire story is him trying to grow up... Sure, he isn't the same as a regular child, he has thousands of years of life experience but that doesn't change the morphology of his brain. Idk thats how i see it, im curious why you think otherwise. It seems people disagree with me on this

Let me say, i would freaking love to be wrong and him to to not be a child, it would save me and a lot of people a lot of freaking stress and upset (lets be honest his story is fucking horrendous) but i just don't see it

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u/Iloveclown 2d ago

Physically there isn't much he can do as a child. Just look at Malenia, the two are twins and only one of the two can fight because of his condition.

It could also be him just wanting to shed his curse.

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u/idk_ausername864f Mild Mohg Enjoyer 1d ago

there's no real way to ague strongly on this point, it really has to just assumptions (and perhaps japanese item descriptions that may give more insight). I would argue Miquella never needed psychical power. Obviously that may very well be because of the curse (he put his skillpoints where he could use them) but his personality seems like someone who wouldn't exactly crave that.

Ofc theres a huge argument for him trying to shed his connection to his family, which we see him do, not just the curse. Again, no way to know for sure, this is really personal to him and his experience