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YEEEEESSS i still like to headcanon that mohg can't read, or at least not very well (perhaps godfrey tried to teach him but he didn't like it), and that it's miquella who finally teaches him. same with civilized eating manners and such, but with miquella never insisting that mohg learn - only if he actually wishes to learn

and oh god lmao beast eating out one of his servants really got me 😂 for a moment i thought of a completely different kind of "eating out" fdhjfsgk

man that really made me realize that mohg (and morgott too, why not) should have a headbutting attack or two. they've got all those pretty horns, put them to good use 😌

"i'm the blood monarch around here!!"

yessss, they have such a perfect beauty/beast aesthetic and vibe going on with their extremely contrasting designs, it's just *chef's kiss*

mohg looking at prince/king charles' new portrait like "VARRE GET ME THE ARTIST ON THE PHONE IMMEDIATELY"

haha i wonder how mohg would feel about that, about having a similarity with his father 😂 meanwhile morgott falls flat on his back and lies there like he wants the tarnished to paint him like one of their french girls xP

have some ✨bones✨, specifically bones for an unused morgott cutscene! featuring morgott front and center, a commoner (a la gostoc) in the background, and the tarnished somewhere behind where my camera is. this is five different cuts stitched together in a video editor, the actual in-game camera would switch views between each cut so you wouldn't notice the jumps in position, pose and such.

view from another angle, with the commoner on the left, morgott (or probably margit at this point) in the middle, and the tarnished on the right. the commoner doesn't move in any of the shots, so he might be a corpse.

according to the filename of these cuts, this would take place in stormveil, and they are numbered after margit's intro (margit's intro is cuts 0010 through 0070, these are 0080 - 0120). it's possible that these were for an alternative version of his intro (considering the length of some of the cuts, it's likely there was to be some dialogue), or something else entirely.

(full disclosure: i'm not the first person to find these - sekirodubi bumped into them and pointed them out in the modding/datamining discord not long ago, but didn't do anything with them afterwards so i hope it's okay for me to show them off a bit now that i stumbled upon them myself. he might actually know how to make the character models perform the cutscene animations in-game, something that i have zero clue how to do, and get some better footage of them, and i hope he does!)

i don't know! i do like to believe that once miquella's evolving was done (if that's a thing that would ever actually happen), the "finished" version of him would be beautiful and captivating, perhaps in some unsettling way but still. as such, i do think they'd have at least some beautiful, angelic features, perhaps mixed with some more monstrous one (not to mention mohg's genes)

but what if omen pregnancies are quite inconspicuous, like maybe he only has a single Very Small baby so his belly barely grows, and miquella just figures that he's gaining some weight because he's finally eating well and regularly. and if mohg was someone whose period (or heats) were irregular, neither he nor miquella might realize that anything's out of the ordinary until one morning mohg wakes up with some worse-than-usual stomach cramps, and by the time miquella comes back with a hot water bottle the baby's already out 😂

you can't use DSAnimStudio to view the cutscene animations, but you can use havok preview tool 2018 for that, though only the character's bones, not the actual models themselves. it's not super exciting but whatever

ANYWAY i watched through the mohg cutscenes with it and noticed that in the shot where miquella's arm drops, the cocoon has two bones that drop with it, falling to the ground: right_outsideWall_fragment and left_shell_fragment.

(miquella's arm bones should be pretty obvious, and the cocoon fragments are the two additional things moving downwards, called AEG090_009_0000_[part name], AEG090_009 being the name of the cocoon asset)

and sure enough, the model of the cocoon used for the cutscene does have those bones, as well as some other ones:

so it seems like the idea was at some point for the cocoon to have animations. but in the cutscene in the final game it doesn't move at all, even though the animations for the bones left_shell_fragment and right_outsideWall_fragment are still present and active. but how can that be, i wondered.

well, it looks like when they decided that the cocoon shouldn't move after all, instead of actually editing the animation itself, they simply edited the weights of the model so that nothing actually corresponds to the bones. basically, they removed the connection between the bones and the parts that would move with them.

just thought that was interesting