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The legend of Artorias art none but a fabrication!
Have thine own respect. Go not yonder knocking for nothing, I say.
if you think about it it’s kinda crazy that names are often treated as something inherited and arbitrary when so many traditions teach that names bestow power & meaning. which is probably why people who choose their own names are badass
Western anglo gamers will be like “it’s so silly how Hideo Kojima names his characters things like Sorrow and Fragile that describe their origins / backstories” unaware that there are entire languages where this is common bc peoples’ names actually mean things
"people doing their jobs without pay while armed government thugs get paid to stand behind them doing literally nothing" is some real praetorian guard, end-of-empire speedrun shit.