this is a boy

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does what?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      trannies

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        But he's not a troony, he's just cursed to look eternally like a kid

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          o-oh no.. what a terrible curse..! Please tell me where he got cursed like that so we may avoid it at all costs! Would be a terrible curse to have!

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Please tell me where he got cursed like that
            His mother fricked herself to give birth to him, his sister and now brother

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              what the frick

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              I swear, I spent a 100 hours in this game when it came out, beat every boss and yet I have no clue who this character even is. Are all of you getting this stuff from some Youtuber or wiki?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You didn't pay attention/didn't read items description. Malenia's rememberance thing states that Malenia was born with the curse of rot, and Miquella was born as an eternal child. Malenia's blade says that she became the sword of Miquella while Miquella searched for a cure for the rot and Godwyn's undead state. One of the spells you get from a random book says that Miquella abandoned the Golden Order and created the unalloyed gold needles as a way to stop the rot and cut off communication with all the Outer Gods (Including the Great Will). The gear from one of Haligtree knights says that Miquella planted a seed and used his own blood to bloom it, which became the heligtree and a heaven for all that were abandoned by the Great Will and so on.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                No one reads those items.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I did

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Illiterate idiot.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not everyone suffers from autopedophilia

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              does this image trigger you?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                UUUUOOOOOOHHHH
                SMALL CAR EROTIC

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Tardku RAT
                Why can't you fricking browns stay in your containment board?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          St. TRINA

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Biological woman, just like Radagon is a biological male

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              They literary tell you they can't tell.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                They cant what?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Tell St. Trina's gender.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Female

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >St. Trina is an enigmatic figure. Some say she is a comely young girl, others are sure he is a boy. The only certainty is that their appearance was as sudden as their disappearance.

                Read the thing on written on your weapons from time to time. This is your cue.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                yeah hes the same as marika/radagon

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Okay, now prove that as you can prove that Marika is Radagon.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                the DLC is here for that

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                The revelation is that Miquella is St. Trina therefore St. Trina is a boy as you know Miquella is a boy.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Miquella is

                wait a minute I'm confused, isn't miquella the guy in the cocoon? isn't he dead? how is

                St Trina is the girl voice sending you to the Shadow Realm on the trailer to fix himself up

                A lot of western trannies were too stupid to understand this and were baited in transhit by anime though

                That's their problem, a self solving problem really

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Would you think Radagon is Marika by looking at him?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Miquella is probably going to be a total Godfrey like chad
                Who crossdresses as St. Trina to replace Marika.

                Literally getting you into a parasocial relationship with a fake streamer who you donate souls too so she can buy herself some snacks and lie or whatever women do

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why is the iconic armor in this game so garbo?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            ST TROONA

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          wait a minute I'm confused, isn't miquella the guy in the cocoon? isn't he dead? how is

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            he's just resting

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              well he doesn't look young for one cursed with "eternal youth"

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            well he doesn't look young for one cursed with "eternal youth"

            Mohg tried to brute force him into growing up, thats why he looks fricked like that

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Mohg
              frick that piece of shit
              ruining goldilocks shota

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Some existing stuff and pre-release bits imply that he seperated his soul from his body in some way

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            nah, he's the radagodina the goldenorder, brother of rhannila the ungolden who was banished to lands below with radagan the silver and rhenalas the radagolden. Damn i love this lore!

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Damn i love this lore!
              This but unironically

              >americaposting this hard.
              i bet that you think that if you were to close your eyes you would magically vanish.

              >america out of nowhere
              kekaroo

              Why is the iconic armor in this game so garbo?

              Vyke armor isnt

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Vyke armor isnt
                wasn't in the trailers.
                But I suppose Vyke armor is protagonist tier.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Wasn't on the trailers but it's on the cover and almost all promo material
                It's way better than the furry armor

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Elden ring lore be like

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Didn't the two of them get in a motorcycle accident?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                no

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                YES

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              I remember searching for Yu Yu Hakusho videos on youtube and found those 2 degenerates

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            People keep saying this but when you first walk in doesn't he literally move in the cutscene? maybe in like a corpse flopping over kind of way but still

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            the cocoon is basically just a zanzibar forgive me tier bait laid by the elden ring "writers" to lure people into buying the DLC for closure which they won't get.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            He is a painting now

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Dream land.

            The item discriptions about miquella and Godwyn imply that both of them are dreamers. In case of miquella it seems he have an alter ego called St. Trina that wonders in the dream land.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            He's not dead, mogh kidnapped him and railing his ass day night until you came in

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              He's dead. He just lives inside dreams.

              What's interesting is the line that Marika discovered the dream world first.
              And its her bed that it exists within.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >he is not troony he just looks like someone who has never been exposed to a drop of testosterone
          hmm where have I heard this tale before.....
          >she is not 12 she just looks like 12
          ah

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >a kid is troony
            You should unironically have a nice day, xitter tourist

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              a man cursed to look like little girl yep

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Most kids look pretty androgynous until puberty.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                you would know

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You'd frick him too dumbass, get off ur highhorse

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Miquella is a boy, moron

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Miquella ending?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Miquella explaining to combat autist what it means for him to take him as lord.
            >Ranni when she realizes she's been cucked because combat autist is too them to read the room.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's it, time to ditch the doll and become the trap's consort

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Do you even know what a troony is? He's not a troony, just an extremely androgynous dude.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yea he is just a dude who looks like a girl just that instead of estrogen and puberty blockers it's le magic.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            He's a dude stuck as a kid, moron

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yes magic blockers.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                trannies want to become women
                Miquella is stuck as a kid
                i really dont understand what you discord trannies are trying to do here, screams of desperation

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Black wahmen are okay when Japan does it

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Japan
      >black women are allowed to have long hair
      >be feminine
      >be waifus
      West
      >not allowed to have long hair
      >have to act tough and masculine
      >girlboss

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Eastern:
      >draw a cute girl
      >make her skin dark
      Western:
      >draw an ugly black girl

      It's that simple. Good looking black women exist IRL, but somehow they're never in western vidya, it's always just Debra Wilson.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        can't promote unrealistic beauty standards in a fake video game

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, they just look white but are dark skinned so they are hot
      it works the same way in real life, the only pretty black women have white features

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        she looks like she fricks human men

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Agreed

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        This

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's a tanned med

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            shes brazillian and 22% african

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              so basically a med

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The whole game plot revolves around killing women if you didn't notice, it's a homosexual game through and through

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      What about that poor guy boss doing the funny yell tho?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        A simp

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If only western games went hard on femboy aesthetic.

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Japan motive: Bussy

    USA motive: You vill accept the troony agenda you evil white man.

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    You do realize that in older time periods, that is how boys were dressed?

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Japanese traps aren't equivalent to alphabet homosexuals because Japanese traps are unnaturally feminine.
    This is why trannies seethe about them so much and always go
    >draw a girl
    >call it a boy

    Trannies seethe about them because they see them as "unrealistic standards" they can never measure up to which is literally the fricking point of them because traps were always meant to be a thing of fiction.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >4 fingers on that hand

      AI still useless

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        el morono supremo

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not AI. Take your meds. 4 fingers+thumb is called human anatomy

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        One quick search shows that isn't drawn by ai..

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        fricking moron

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >zero sense of perspective
        brain still malfunctioning

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >americaposting this hard.
        i bet that you think that if you were to close your eyes you would magically vanish.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        really homie?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Explain all the trannies that express themselves through cute anime pictures as a profile picture then.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        They want to corrupt anything that has beauty

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      A lot of western trannies were too stupid to understand this and were baited in transhit by anime though

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Japanese do it because they wanna frick a cute twink. Americans do it for political reasons

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    So now we're supposed to believe that pic-related is a man? I don't understand.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >So now we're supposed to believe that pic-related is a man?
      No

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      If I was Marika, I would frick myself also.

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want to see them frick
    Please re-add the quest where you heal Malenia, Miyazaki

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >but it's okay when japan does it
    Where are the feminine boys in western games?

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    japs do it because they just want to
    burgers do it to pander
    big difference
    also, cute traps/femboys>>>>>>>>ugly trannies/dykes

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Miquella a cute!

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Eastern
    >draw a boy
    >is a boy and not trans
    >just has long hair
    >doesn't really act effeminate in their portrayal
    Western
    >draw a boy
    >if they don't look or act overtly masculine it means they are a troony

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >doesn't really act effeminate in their portrayal
      homie he literally has an entire girl alter ego with its own religion

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Eastern:
      >draw a cute girl
      >call it a boy
      Western:
      >draw a man with long hair
      >call it a girl

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, it is. They're not pushing an agenda and worshipping mental illness.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Exactly, this is the difference between art and propaganda.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Who is this narcissistic abomination and why is she pretending to do sign language

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >sign language
          It's a TikTok/zoomer meme. I don't remember her name.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >TikTok
            vile and abhorrent place

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          it's a code for masturbation

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >is a man
        >hates men

        >is a israelite
        >hates israelites

        >is german
        >hates germans

        that would be the antichrist right there. luckily most of them only check off the first two boxes

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      T. Blair White supporters.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I neither know nor care who that is.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          You guys are something else, you and some redneck inside a trailer in the middle of nowhere Missouri are soul brothers.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >redneck inside a trailer
            Yeah frick poor people very based

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              You're either poor and coping or have never been around poor people to know how deeply, deeply unpleasant it is to interact with them.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >imagine not living free in a trailer in the middle of nowhere with a gaming pc, running water and a convenience store 50m away from your trailer
            I pity you Black person. You'll never know the beauty of a chill life.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              You are anything but chill. Seething is your job.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            I don't irrationally hate rednecks like you have been conditioned to, but I don't see how me not caring about some random internet person has anything to do with them

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Are you from Poland or something? I made a point on isolation so don't play the "irrational hate" bullshit with me. You sure care a lot about irrational hate.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You just hate people who don't think like you. Be honest about it.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Broad as frick generalization, as if I'd hate someone who likes a different pizza topping. Not even the point.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Food analogy

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You are at "that" point already so why do you even bother with it.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Replying to my bait

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes that's why I told you, you were already "there".

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes I'm sure you weren't trying to be insulting with the redneck comparison

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I can compare to you to something else to not hurt your sensitivities like a clam.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't irrationally hate clams either

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, you missed the point even harder or maybe we are at "that" stage.

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    american put little boys in leotard and make them fight criminal(robin)

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    You stopped showing pics of the western counterpart because it will always be some la creatura el horible

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    He is actually a 3000 year old dragon princess

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous
  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    go to a metal fest & every powergay look and dress like that, and trust me you don't wanna frick with them

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's ok when anyone does it, boys are made to be fricked by bwc

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it's okay when japan does it
    Unironically, yes. If a Jap studio does it (barring the westernized ones like Capcom), they're doing it for some narrative reason. If a western studio does it, it's because some blue haired art director insisted upon it, and serves no other purpose than for its own sake.
    In this case, there's a meaningful reason Miquella looks like that.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >If a western studio does it, it's because some blue haired art director insisted upon it, and serves no other purpose than for its own sake.
      >muh narrative reason
      what kind of troony logic is this?
      this is the biggest cope i've seen
      you gays praise jap devs for including shit for the sake of it

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        He's right, cuckold. Miquella is not a troony, he's a shota

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          lusting after kids again, troon?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >no u
            lmao

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >troony can't read
              typical

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Have you ever seen the body shape of Asian men? Why do you think Thailand ladyboys are so fricking popular? They run with a genetic advantage in the homosexual arms race.

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm so glad this insane trooncord is suicidal so we don't have to deal with this for very long.
    They tried saying Luigi is trans yesterday, they are mentally unwell.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wh-wh-why are you being so hurtful? Don't you know we have very sensitive people here? Why can't you be nicer?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm not being hurtful. I'm talking about how glad I am right now

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          You are glad about someone's pain, that is cruel and hurts feelings.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's fine with me since I'm in a good mood right now.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Fine, but know you are making this anon uncomfortable

              I don't irrationally hate clams either

              Yes I'm sure you weren't trying to be insulting with the redneck comparison

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Probably not. Thanks for conceding though.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Probably yes, you admitted to not caring.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm still thanking you for the concession. I'll think about if I accept it or not over the next few days.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'll think about if I accept it or not over the next few days.

                This makes no sense, you contradicted yourself.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Please stop trying to start an argument. I'm still not decided on accepting your concession or not.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You are reading something while thinking of a different thing. You already agreed to it yet now are backpedalling on your own statements. You left me out of the discussion. You are not in agreement with yourself.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                No I thanked the anon for conceding, now I'm musing on whether to accept or not.
                I really don't like conversing with ESLs.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You are being like this
                >Yes I am like this thank you
                So you are like this
                >No I am not sure if I am like this

                You are confused. Sort yourself out.

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    qt

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Me on the right.

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do we have confirmation if this happens prior to or after the burning of the Erdtree?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      No. Might happen in some sort of dreamworld-but-not-really or something if the cocoon is how we access the DLC

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      One of the interviews states there is no time travel, the shadow land is just an isolated location you warp to.

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Weebs worship troons and gaslight themselves into thinking it isn't troonyshit
    I wonder why this is so common?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's funny how you just said what you're trying to do
      >I'll get these weeb eggs to hatch by telling them they are gaslighting themselves

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Won't play if Miyazaki won't allow me to marry Miquella.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I really think they are going to offer to the player Miquella's hand in Marriage. Everyone is going to lose their fricking mind. Would be unprecedented. Personally I would marry Melina but the global backlash of Miquella would be way too funny. Imagine the headlines.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        He might be one of those Femshep players

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone is a troony using the introonynet to post on 4troony coordinated with botroony-netrannies with discordtroony servers to shill troony postrannies to other trannies to become even trannier.

  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    woman here
    we love cute little boys too
    only trannies hate them

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      This

      Are /misc/tards unfamiliar with the concept of traps? Or femboys as moronic zoomers call them.

      Most are newbies

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's okay, reliable sources say that he can still get pregnant, so it isn't gay!

  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd make him a girl

  33. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    You think in spirit world/shadow land Miquella will act as the grace visitor giving info or what? Is he pulling a mastermind or trully good

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, i think St Trina will be the maiden of the shadow realm since the DLC can be played after burning Melina

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        st Trina is miquella

  34. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are /misc/tards unfamiliar with the concept of traps? Or femboys as moronic zoomers call them.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'll never forgive reddit demons for tricking normies into complaining that trap is a slur.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Where have you been for the past 3 years?

  35. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Sharty got bored of SMTV shitposting
    >Finally found out about miquella

  36. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Otokonoko is a fine londstanding Japanese tradition.

  37. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    yes unironically

  38. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    what the frick is bussy
    boys don't have a pussy

  39. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does he sit like that to protect his boy hymen?

  40. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >its a cute boy but dressed as a girl
    That's it. And that's the fricking point. No epic philosophical backstory about fighting the gender war or moronic narcissistic story about bravely "coming out". Miquella won't tell you on every step on the way about his sexuality or why he dresses the way he does. He's a boy dressed as a girl. Why? Because Miyazaki loves boys dressed as girls. That's fricking it, nothing else matters. That's why it's unironically okay.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      True post

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Miyazaki loves boys dressed as girls
      and their barefeet.

      Kuro? bare
      Gwyndolin? bare

      The man loves feet and doesn't discriminate.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bingo

  41. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I guess it's finally time to play elden ring.

  42. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Japan: this is a cute innocent little boy *Greek/Roman shota aesthetic* but he is not for sexual, do not sex

    >West: Look at this ugly troony pedo mutt creature thing, frick white people BLM troon pedo flag

  43. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Japan understands that everything is ok when it's done for cooming purposes.

    Westerns make the most ugly,vile and disgenic characters and expect us to pay 70 dollars for it.

  44. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    i can save him

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's probably a c**t.
      Not because he "manipulates" people, but because he abandons the waking world to flee into dreams.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Isn't that what you do with video games

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          reddit-tier gotcha senpai

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's not a gotcha you homosexual it's literally what you do, you're literally wasting your life

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Wow? Like posting on an underwater basket-weaving forum?

              See how easy it is you fricking midwit?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        His body is a fricked up mess thanks to Mohg, so retreating into dreams more than makes sense.

  45. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wdym i know many ladies who love Griffith

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Full femboymode is fun because you make some girls feral and others completely turned off.

  46. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Daily reminder this game was written by a Westerner.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      No it wasn't. GRRM handed Miazaki a single page of notes and then went back to not writing game of thrones

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      grrm only wrote the lore prior to the story
      >uuuh ermmmm some guys killed each other and there was a goddess
      >but she was secretly hermaphroditic
      >thanks for the check

  47. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    japan does bussy justice

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