St Trina - Blog Posts
Here's my love, abandoned.
WHy does he look like he gonna hit trina like an abusive husband or smth ???
Finally, he will be free.
Oh my God— IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!
(Slight St. Trina Spoilers Below)
This might also mean (if the nymph comparisons were intentional) that in either a second dlc or second game, she might come back!
I'm pretty sure in different versions of the myths, Daphne at least comes back from being turned into a tree after supposedly dying, though I'm not too sure about Minthe. Which means that St. Trina might be able to come back to life from dying/becoming a flower!
She coming back you guys, she's coming back!
My (Probably Wrong) St. Trina Nymph Analyzation.ᐟ🪻
So, this is going to be my first post on Tumblr... Me talking about the possible anthousai, or flower nymph, symbolism (???) with St. Trina. I'm probably just sleep deprived and my brain is all shriveled from too much caffeine and blue light, but just hear me out...
I've always been really big into Greek mythology and video games, so it was no wonder that my brain immediately went to, "St. Trina is a FLOWER NYMPH???" the very moment she popped onto my screen. She fits the description perfectly.
Flower nymphs are described to be immortal being with hyacinth-like hair and, in typical Greek fashion, very beautiful. Now, we can check the hyacinth-like hair off as a 'yes' since Trina clearly has bright purple hair. And now, I also believe we can check the beautiful part off as 'yes' too since Trina is very beautiful, but also because beauty is often also compared to the youth of a woman as well. And we all know St. Trina is youthful.
Something that also made me think about flower nymph symbolism is, of course, the 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴. St. Trina has a lot to do with flowers, such as the St. Trina's Lily that you can find in-game. Once you defeat Miquella and Radahan, you can go back to a now dead Trina and retrieve a "helm" from her that is also a flower. You find St. Trina in a flowery area as well. So, clearly, flowers are a big part of her character.
But, what I also want to mention is the state you find her in. When you find her, she is seems as though she is sprouting out of a giant plant. Now, this, in my own head, also seems to be related to the whole nymph thing. Take, for instance, Minthe. Minthe is a water nymph that was trampled to death by either Persephone or Demeter, depending on the myth, and then turns into the mint plant upon dying. Daphne, another nymph, turned into a laurel tree while running away from Apollo, dying in the process depending on who you ask as well.
What we can take from this is whenever a nymph dies they turn into their respective plant, that having been stated multiple times as well in Greek mythology. This all further solidifies my analysis on St. Trina having nymph symbolism, specifically that of an anthousai/flower nymph.
Damn, I rambled for way too long for my first post... Anyway– Goodbye and All Hail Her Majesty of Sleep!🪻
Just hit the St. Trina lore, let the hyperfixation begin.
In the middle of watching a few playthroughs of the Elden Ring DLC to find out what the story is and all that. Literally all I know is that Mohg beat the allegations somehow (good for him!), Miquella becomes a god??? and that St. Trina is here at last. Finally. Can't wait to find out what happens!
Okay hear me out, there's something about twins who are trans in opposite directions, because I 1000% feel this way about Malenia and Miquella from Elden Ring
Like. Their curses could be read a lot of different ways, symbolically, but here's my personal reading:
Malenia was born with a god of rot inside her, something that gives her physical strength and power but also distorts and corrupts her body in ways she can't control- she dedicates her life to learning how to move through the world in ways that minimize its influence, but it keeps coming back to haunt her bc she doesn't have the tools available to be rid of it, and the tool she does have (the gold needle) she is forced to abandon when war breaks out and the rot is required from her to survive her fight against Radahn
Miquella is cursed to appear eternally youthful and feminine, often being confused with / identified as St Trina, a distinctly female saint of sleep (this identity is abandoned alongside his "doubts" in the DLC, wherein he also abandons his physical body on the journey towards godhood). He goes to great lengths to escape this curse, nursing the Haligtree with his own blood so he could be reborn within its womb, not to mention all the other stuff that happens in the DLC
My favourite part of this is how DEVOTED they are to helping each other become who they want to be.
Miquella abandoned the Golden Order when it became clear they couldn't help his sister. He learned the secrets of unalloyed gold and built a golden needle she could stab into her flesh to stave off the worst of the rot, and it WORKED- she only abandoned it when forced to in order to survive (re: Radahn fight), an action that had lasting consequences to her body and her health
Malenia devoted her life to being Miquella's blade, to protecting her brother, defending his Haligtree and his best hope at escaping his curse and not being eternally youthful and feminine anymore. In becoming the Blade of Miquella, she learned how to move like flowing water so the rot would not stagnate within her. Her devotion to her brother helped her learn who she could want to be.
It's also implied that Miquella helped create Malenia's armour / sword / prostheses, allowing his sister to reshape her own body when it changed too much for her to handle; and when she needed to reshape it to be the swordswoman she was devoted to being
so YEAH. it's a messy complicated nuanced metaphor (which makes me love it even more) but if the Rot is Malenia's T and dysphoria, the unalloyed gold is T-blockers, and Miquella's curse being his body which he goes to great lengths to change (and eventually abandons), then. ✨Trans Twin Prodigies✨
But more importantly, Malenia has TITS; this implies the Golden Order is capable of producing estrogen, but NOT t-blockers or testosterone, and they aren't that big, so probably not progesterone- NO, CMON, LET ME COOK, JUST ONE MORE PARAGRAPH, JUST ONE, I SWEAR-*gunshot*
Head-canon. Artemis and Apollo are both trans, just in the opposite direction.
St. Trina's chosen
Thinking about how St. Trina only talks to the player tarnished despite Thiollier's undying loyalty to her.
Thinking about how before traveling with Melina, Torrent belonged to Miquella (and by extension, also Trina)
Thinking about how at some point Torrent was sent out in search of a new master
Thinking about how Ranni's doll body requires her to sleep
Thinking about how St. Trina can visit people in their dreams
Thinking about how “torrent’s former master” asked Ranni to deliver the spirit tuning bell to whoever he chose to serve next
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Did St. Trina put everything in motion? Was she the one who set Torrent out on his search for a new master? Was she the one who asked Ranni to give us the spirit tuning bell? Could it have been one final, desperate plea to find anyone capable of stopping her other half before it was too late for him? Does St. Trina only commune with us because she knows that we're the one who Torrent chose as his new master? Is that why this character, that we never meet before now seemingly has full faith in requesting our aid? because her trusted steed was the one to bring us to her? From the very moment Torrent found us washed up in the lands between, were we destined to find our way to Miquella's/St. Trina's path?
I can't stop thinking about St. Trina in the fissure.
How Miquella likely threw her in from the top. How he sealed her behind a magic gate so nobody could ever find her. How he bewitched and clouded the memories of someone who was a devout follower of her. How the purple liquid seeping from her face almost looks like blood leaking from a wound, possibly the one she obtained from the fall. How she embodies Miquella's love. How she'll likely never get to be with the people she loves ever again.
How even after all of that, after being abandoned and left to rot in the deepest possible pit she could be thrown into, after being completely and utterly betrayed by her other half, her one and only concern is for Miquella's safety and happiness. For him to be freed from the gilded cage of godhood.
This quote makes me think a lot of things...
If Miquella has removed all things golden from his very being, then I wonder if St trina and/or Messmer could be what remains of his respective halves.
If he removed everything "golden" (I assume erdtree/Marika/Golden order related) then how much of Miquella would actually remain? Would it be so little that it may as well be a different person entirely? I mean, Miquella is very golden. From his design, his lore, his lineage, his power and the very blood that runs through his veins, it all just screams "Golden." If Godwyn the golden hadn't already been born I'm half convinced Miquella would have been called "The golden".
After removing "everything golden" from himself would he even be "Miquella" anymore? Would he even want to be?
And what of the other half? Would that contain so much discarded contents that it itself could also be a new person? How would they feel or act knowing that they're merely the discarded, unwanted scraps of a larger, fiercely more powerful whole? Would they feel bitter? Wronged? Would they come to terms with it? Would they even care? They themselves were once part of the being that discarded them, so they may very well agree with what was done. Or they could despise the act and long for the day when the two could be reunited.
Malenia was able to (while likely accidentally) remove large portions of herself via her first aeonia bloom, which took the form of Millicent and her sisters, so what would happen if an Empyrean did the same with prior knowledge and full intent in what they were going to do?
I'd wager they'd be able to split themselves cleanly, and possibly become something entirely new in the process.
Messmer, Miquella's strength and flesh and lineage
And St. Trina, Miquella's other half and what remains of his ambitions and goals, but likely no means of carrying them out due to discarding their power.
also ummm.... Maybe St. Trina? The area has the general color scheme of the sleep effect in Elden Ring, they're surrounded by Trina's Lilly's and the character in shot seems like they could be sleeping. They're also about the right size to be an alter ego of Miquella with the right hair along side it.
Make Miquella stop. Don't turn the poor thing into a god.
Godhood would be Miquella's prison.
A caged divinity... is beyond saving. You must kill Miquella...
Grant him forgiveness.
-St. Trina
"I abandon here my love!"
Im so happy we got to know more about Miquella and St Trina
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Hope you enjoy my work!!