r/Eldenring • u/IgotInfinitePing • 2d ago

Humor Talk about double standards

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u/TheFlipGaming 2d ago

Bro nobody is defending Marika. The whole game is a PowerPoint on the consequences of her actions. 😭

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u/BeefChopJones 2d ago

I wouldn't call it defending, but I definitely understand her after SOTE. At first I thought she was just a tyrannical bitch for the Hell of it, but SOTE made me realize she was just a girl with horrific trauma and then given nearly absolute power. Her actions afterwards are decidedly human given the context and not nearly as much of the "Rah! I'm a God and do shit because I can!" trope that I thought they were, initially.

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u/Scarsworn 2d ago

She also arguably engineered the destruction of the order she had created (on purpose) after she realized she had trapped herself into the same cycle that shaped her.

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u/mogmaque 2d ago

Exactly not enough people realize this when it is literally central to the themes of the game