Oddly compelled by my goofy ass Elden Ring player character(?) / OC(???) today after finishing a full NG+ playthrough of that game and just thinking about how headcanons for that kind of thing are just...fun?
My first playthrough on this character for stream was a big "do everything as much as possible only to burn it all down with the 'bad' ending", and the NG+ was "speed through everything and do a standard end" which is like. The equivalent of upholding a status quo, right? And its neat thinking about my character's like, thought process to, in-fiction, lead her to that point.
Souls stuff is good for this since all the story info is generally like...auxiliary and never very showcased outside of vague notions, which leaves a Lot of player interpretation to play with ahaha