Pure Love, NTR, and Simps

The ending Song Ren had imagined should have been Melina and the Tarnished living happily ever after.

Well, that wish seemed a little too extravagant in Souls-like games.

At worst, it should have been like the Age of Dark ending in Dark Souls, Return to the Dragon's Home in Sekiro, or the rebirth of a Great One in Bloodborne.

But what about Elden Ring now?

Fire burned across the Tarnished's body as the Frenzied Flame reduced the entire Golden Tree to ashes, then swept across the whole Lands Between.

Amid the dim ruins, a disheveled woman slowly approached the center. A Ring glowing with fire lay on the ground—the Tarnished's Spectral Steed Whistle.

The woman crouched down and picked up the still-burning Ring, murmuring, "Lord of Frenzied Flame..."

That was Melina's voice.

"I will find my way to your side..."

The hand clutching the Ring slowly tightened, and her tightly shut eyes opened for the first time.

One eye was purple-blue like a starry sky, while the other was a lifeless white pupil.

"To deliver unto you... Destined Death!"

Song Ren stared at the final ending and the credits that had already begun rolling, unable to recover his senses for a long while.

This was not the ending he wanted!

Melina even wanted to kill him in the end!?

I bled so much for you and suffered so much for you, and this is what I got!?

For a moment, Song Ren was completely dumbfounded.

Then he exited the game and opened Elden Ring's official community on Nebula Games.

He wanted to see Melina's other endings in the game.

Yet instead of finding any endings, he found players who were just as bewildered and heartbroken as he was.

"Melina... my Melina, why did it end like this? Was I really