Solaire is Special | Dark Souls Lore

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  @Hawkshaw · 4 years ago · pinned

  Support us on Patreon! &nbsp; <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3372968">https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3372968</a><br><br>May grace guide us all.. ✨<br>Hawkshaw

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  @appleseed8282 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Ah man, I can&apos;t wait to find out about how Solaire was that real protagonist of dark souls and a demon and eventually becomes the sand worm and was Velka the entire time.

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  @AssailantLF · 4 years ago

  Hawkshaw does it again. This is such a great take on Solaire and it rings so true. <br><br>A couple fun facts from the Design Works interview: <br>- Solaire is Miyazaki&apos;s favorite character<br>- Solaire does actually become the sun when he links the flame, which indirectly confirms that Gwyn/the first flame is the source of the Sun in Souls.<br>- The praise the sun gesture was relatively hidden in Demon&apos;s Souls (you have to wear a certain ring and cast a miracle) because when Miyazaki showed it to some executives, someone thought it looked uncool. Apparently this made him very determined to make the gesture more prominent and popular in the following game, which is a big reason why Solaire and the Sunlight Covenant are as wholesome and appealing as they are.

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  @ferran273 · 4 years ago

  According to Miyazaki, if you save Solaire and defeat Gwyn with him not dying, he&apos;ll Link the Fire in his own world.<br>You prevented him of falling in his dellusion, his despair, and he found what he was looking for.<br><br>Thus further proving your point that Solaire, Miyazaki and us can achieve great triumph through jolly cooperation. We are people, not islands.<br><br>Your videos make me love more and more Dark Souls. But this one made me cry. Thank you.

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  @Sinkpisser · 1 year ago

  Miyazaki put himself in the game so he could call you gay for trying to talk to him.

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  @44theshadow49 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ve had this quote boiling in my head for a while: &quot;a great writer can be measured by how well they hide their own self insert characters.&quot;

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  @pyoheliobros5773 · 4 years ago (edited)

  It always seemed so weird that he looked for the sun underground, but now that sounds kind of reasonable

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  @h.s6352 · 4 years ago (edited)

  What makes this even more poignant is the fact that Miyazaki put these two different endings for his self-insert without knowing whether this very game, his second (and what could have been his last) shot at fulfilling his dream, would succeed or not. Dark Souls could have very well flopped, gotten misunderstood and forgotten, and Miyazaki CHOSE to insert this observation about the cost of pursing art. And I love it.

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  @mrshook145 · 4 years ago

  See, maybe Miyazaki didn&apos;t consciously make Solaire as a representation of himself, but ended up making a reflection of his own experiences (like Tolkien and WWII parallels in Lord of the Rings). Great video as always, looking forward to what comes next.

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  @UncrushableHope · 2 years ago

  Let&apos;s not forget that he, perhaps, did find his own sun. If you save him from the maggot, he ends up helping you fight Gwyn. If you light the flame, the whole place becomes a blinding sun in its own right.

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  @wikinut1 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ll keep this video bookmarked. Souls lore aside, it&apos;s very motivating and recognizes some important lessons for anyone pursuing creative work or personal vision. Well done Hawkshaw!

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  @michaelcullum7284 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Man, the line &quot;when it starts to get a bit harder to lose weight and the reality of time starts to show itself. He had done nothing up to this point...&quot; really hits home with me. I&apos;m almost 30, with a child on the way and it made me look over the decisions I&apos;ve made in my life and it made me realize I&apos;ve done nothing up to this point. I&apos;m extremely happy and excited to be a father, but I feel that by the time she is old enough to understand I&apos;ll have nothing to show for it. Leading up to this point I&apos;ve always lived by the tried and true method of do everything the safe and cautious way and it&apos;s led to a good, but not fulfilling life. It&apos;s why now I&apos;ve decided to send my work to literary magazines and publishing companies so at the very least, if nothing comes of it, I can say with full certainty that I tried and will continue to try to put myself in situations that would be out of the norm as we see it or the social world states that we should live. The monotonous 9-5, big house, wife and 3 kids, a pool and a dog. I want to create lasting memories and something that I can say at the end of my life that I enjoyed.

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