[Elden Ring] A Heart Tempered by Suffering

The male lead is Messmer, and the protagonist is a female Tarnished.

A gloomy demigod, the flower on the peak x an unlucky, stubborn slave who keeps losing

Size difference + status difference, with an old-school melodramatic vibe.

The Tarnished is female and has a name. Read as a self-insert, an original character, or however you like. Don't overthink it.

The main text is in third person.

Blurb:

Claire is a Tarnished who isn't allowed into the Roundtable Hold, because her fear of death outweighs everything else.

Tarnished come and go, while Claire wanders everywhere, wanting only to stay alive.

Then one day, while scavenging for trash, she accidentally wandered into the sealed Land of Shadow. Then she accidentally got captured by the hornsent to be sacrificed, accidentally witnessed the Fire Knights burning down the mountain, and finally was taken to Shadow Keep to serve as a slave.

Claire: By Marika above and Radagon below, fortune hasn't treated me too badly...

Theme: Independence and self-reliance