[Because the male lead in this story differs so absurdly from the DLC, leaving a massive gap that I can't explain away, I've decided to stop updating it. I never meant to disappoint everyone, and I'm truly sorry. Thank you all for your support.]
Question: What's it like to get transmigrated into the high-risk game Elden Ring?
Answer: Thanks for asking. I just transmigrated and am lying in a coffin. I'm a skeleton.
If a kind Tarnished hadn't come by and lifted the lid for me, I might have become history's first skeleton to suffocate to death.
As for the experience, my bones are drafty and this coffin is uncomfortable... Wait, what?
Why does it feel like I'm growing flesh...?
*
I opened my eyes and realized I'd transmigrated into Elden Ring.
I refused to accept it.
If only I'd known this would happen,
I should have worked hard to master every kind of combat technique when I played the game,
instead of choosing an invincible mage from the start
and cheesing my way to the throne of Elden Lord by playing dirty and skipping fights.
...Never mind that for now.
I can't even see the guidance of grace.
If I can't see grace, that means I'm not the protagonist.
Then what's the point of playing this game?!
One day, while I was lying around doing nothing,
a beautiful silver-haired girl suddenly found me.
She said her name was Trina, and she was my Finger Maiden.
Trina: "Become Elden Lord, marry the goddess Marika, and rule the Lands Between... If you want, I can help you do all of that."
My face lit up with joy.
Even someone as hopeless as me had a kind maiden willing to guide me!
Me: "Thank you! I never thought even little noob-me would get chosen by a maiden... This loser is crying! But becoming king means marrying Marika, and this straight-as-an-arrow woman really has no interest in marrying a goddess. Besides, there's another god I like!"
Trina paused. "Hmm... Which god do you like?"
"Miquella!"
"...Who?"
"Miquella!" I looked at the silver-haired girl, whose expression had turned strange. "The Empyrean Miquella, son of the goddess Marika, and the god with the greatest potential to become the next deity. Don't tell me you don't even know who Miquella is?"
The silver-haired girl fell silent.
After a long pause, she tugged at the corner of her mouth. "Is that so? You like him."
Me: "That's right, Miss Maiden! So I'm not becoming Elden Lord. You should find someone else!"
After turning the nice maiden down, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
Why did the name Trina sound so familiar?
W-wait...
Isn't that the name Miquella used when he took a female form?!
"Content warnings"
1. First-person narration.
2. The story assumes readers have at least completed one playthrough of Elden Ring and are familiar with its background and NPC relationships.
3. The game itself tells its story in fragments, making the plot complicated, and most details have not been explicitly confirmed by the developers. This story includes many original interpretations. Please refrain from suggesting changes unless something seriously contradicts confirmed official information. Thank you for understanding.
4. The male lead is Miquella. Since the game provides no direct description of his appearance or personality, the author is making it all up. No responsibility is accepted for any future DLC revelations (doge face + jpg).
5. The female lead pursues the male lead. No chasing-the-wife-to-the-crematorium plot. Apart from the happy ending, whether it's sweet or angsty depends on how the story develops. If you're looking for a mindless sweet romance or a chasing-the-wife-to-the-crematorium plot, you can still run away now.
The cover was made by my wife, @Blackit. Thanks to my wife for the lettering!
Theme: Even if your skills are poor, you still need to be bold
Support. . In the main game, Mikaela is such a mysterious, great and gentle person of God, but in the DLC, she turns into a happy bear. It's really hard to accept.
It feels like the biggest unacceptable point in Dada's heart is gay men, and why he throws Torina away like trash because he thinks he is pansexual. I personally feel that pansexuality can be reconciled. Because I saw these words in the game text as you explore: Abandon the body I gave up for the first time here; Abandon part of my body here; Abandon part of my body here; Abandon my heart here; Abandon my right arm here; Abandon the body I finally gave up here; Abandon my love here. From the last sentence, he didn't throw away Torina like garbage. Judging from the part of his experience that he kept giving up, he was exhausted, he was in pain, weak, and even helpless. Torina is Mikala's half body and his love. I think there is a lot of information here, that is, he struggled to complete his law and finally even gave up his ability to love for the law. This is doomed to him not being able to go to the end. He can't even save himself, so how can he save the world. According to this psychological journey, a friend above analyzed that he may have the admiration of the weak for the strong towards Latarn. I think this guess is very reasonable. So as a half-body, Mikala has a noble status and the ability to charm. Why does he think that he is a weak person. Here, I personally tend to think that he is not as strong as shown in the main game. In an environment like the handover (which I would call the jungle of the jungle), despite the unification war, in my opinion, it is closer to a clan society than a national society and country. (My personal experience). Of course, the protagonist is in a time of war after all, so he must feel this way. However, it is true that the Golden Law has flaws. What motivates Mikala to tolerate all living beings and create his own law? It is his love for all living beings, but feelings alone are not enough (I am not trying to say things like the original sin of the weak), but in the borderland you have no strength and you cannot move forward. Is Michaela strong enough? Obviously not. If it were enough, then he wouldn't be so embarrassed to enter the dark land. Some people may question this. Isn't Malenia and the believers who are loyal to her a kind of strength? Yes, but it is not his power. I think he has a sense of arrogance and inferiority. Out of love for all living beings, he chooses to create the law himself, but because he is superior to his own lofty ideals and wisdom, he should actually be stingy about sharing it with others. Later, his fascination with Latan was more like a tool, a tool to realize his dream, and he was the same with Marlenia, but Marlenia knew (alas) that he was enough to abandon everything for this ideal. He regarded himself as a tool, and in the end he became a tool. He abandoned his sister, his own body, and his love finally lost everything, and everything was empty. His thinking happens to be very similar to utilitarianism. Utilitarianism's suggestions are used when moral principles cannot work. For example, I am hungry and penniless now, and the idea of stealing comes to my mind. At this time, I should ask myself: Is the pleasure of stealing greater than the pain or the opposite? The idea of the law that Mikayla implemented should be the same. Implementing his own law will make happiness greater than pain. He has always been firm in this belief, so much so that after finally abandoning himself and losing his ability to empathize, he still remembered this abstract idea. But unfortunately, I still believe that morality is related to the ability to empathize and experience pleasure. He has turned his back on this and will eventually fail. In addition, as for why he thinks he is weak, I think it is more important that Charm is not a panacea now, and his abilities have their own flaws. He needs external force to ensure the implementation of his laws. An absolutely powerful force, obviously he chose Latarn. There is no need to use the word "like". Personally, I don't think it counts. Hasn't he experienced the unconditional love of his sister? Will your love make you charm another person into a soulless tool? From the moment you do this, you no longer regard the other person as an independent and equal person like you. Some people may say that love is possessive, but please note that love does have possessiveness, but the charm of love is that you cannot completely possess a person. This is the difference, because the other person is a person, not a kitten or puppy. 🧋🧋 This is purely a personal opinion, but the writing is so good that I still want to save it. But it's okay for Dada to make his own decision. Anyway, I've tried my best and I won't regret it. I have no intention of kidnapping Dada. 😳😳
In fact, the perfect image of Mikaela in the player's mind should be Torina. It was she who awakened A'mai, and the calla lily next to Lianlian also indirectly shows that Torina has been watching her.
Hidetaka Miyazaki is like this. All he needs is to release the DLC, and players have more to consider.
Madam, what do you think of Mersemer? (Hint hint) Save this Arctic Circle, woo woo
I just found out that Xianpin has stopped updating because of the garbage plot of the DLC... Old thief, what do you owe me in return?
No food... Sigh... Michaela just... Looked at it and felt that he was crazy, he might as well be with the goddess Malika...
I really can't see the Mikaela created in the DLC and the Mikaela created through various materials in the main body as the same person. They are too separate. During the main body, everyone was guessing that Mikaela would have the most compassionate big rune. I had already prepared the ending of the DLC plot with Mikaela happily reuniting with each other, but this is the result! What did the original body do to try every possible means to make golden needles for my sister's rotten disease, and what did the holy tree that was born to give all things a place to go become? What a plot that old Mr. Elpas gave us the Talisman! Now the DLC has overturned all this, and I really broke through the defense.
You can consider Mersemer, he has a good character
Mikaela in the DLC is really low-key. The main story and the abandoned case portray the deep love between the two brothers and sisters of the Holy Tree. Mikaela has a heart for all living beings. Everyone speculates that there will be an ending of Mikaela's law. It turned out to be a dark love-minded gay who took advantage of and backstabbed his own sister, cut half of his own body, and planned to have a plus-moon eye. If Broken Star had known what Michaela was thinking, he would have climbed up Kongtong Mountain overnight.