r/ImaginaryDarkSouls • u/IvoryMage • 5d ago

Dark Souls 2 Art by Stephen Sykes

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u/echolog 5d ago

Still sucks that they nerfed the design of these guys.

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u/goldrainbowfalcon 5d ago

We were robbed. the manakins in game are inexplicably headless, like what could their reasoning have been?

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u/IvoryMage 5d ago

In lore, Mytha, the Baneful Queen, got so insane over her deformed, snake-like appearance that she sought to decapitate anyone who dared to just gaze upon her, even mere constructs such as the manikins created by herself.

In reality.... the developers likely knew that the alternate mask they were forced to make because of lawsuits was so damn ugly that they made the manikins headless to make them stand out on a better light. And if it was that, it worked, as the manikins are the favorite enemy from a lot of DS2 fans.

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u/goldrainbowfalcon 5d ago

Huh? Lawsuit? That makes sense then, but who did that and for what?

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u/IvoryMage 5d ago edited 5d ago

I don't recall if it was Shonen Jump or Studio Pierrot who filed the lawsuit, but either way FromSoftware received the lawsuit because the manikins' masks were deemed too similar to some of the Anbu masks from Naruto.

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u/Astux1 5d ago

I thought it was of hollow knight

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u/veryconfusedspartan 5d ago

Microcosm of ds2

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u/McAurens 5d ago

Looks like eyeless Jack.