History Characters / DarkSoulsIIIDLCCharacters

* NestedMouths: Can be noticed by [[https://i.imgur.com/Wj2Iydg.jpg looking]] [[https://i.imgur.com/LJabcnY.jpg closely]].

* RapunzelHair: They have long, stringy hair that sits right around their waist, making for an overall unsettling sight.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair is several times the length of her body.

* {{Expy}}: For the little girl from ''Anime/AngelsEgg'', being a MysteriousWaif with RapunzelHair who guards a strange egg.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair has grown long in her sleep, and seems to be longer than her whole body.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Thou must returneth whence thou came. This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind, but..." Oh sorry, doing my best Priscilla impression.]]

* DamageSpongeBoss: He has a considerable [[spoiler:15,000 health!]]

* BeefGate: ''Ashes of Ariandel'' can be accesssed and many of its endgame-worthy treasures looted fairly early in the main story. However, getting access to ''The Ringed City'' so early in the story would require defeating Friede, an extreme challenge at the earliest point where the option becomes available. Thus, one of the hardest bosses in the game stands between you and the Dreg Heap, and whether or not you took the sign's advice to wait until you're ready to tackle Londor Castle before progressing into the painting, you'll probably have to take it by the end.

* AmbiguousSyntax: The sane Forlorn you meet in the village who begs you to bring an end to the rot and stagnation within the painting tells you he's terrified of going mad "like those fools outside." It at first seems he means the roving gangs of typically-murderous Forlorn who will indeed try to kill you on sight, or the Corvian Knights that've sided with Friede against their people's purpose, but upon defeating Friede and Ariandel and bringing Fire back to consume the Painting and allow the Painter to create a new one, going back to talk to him will have him thank you, and make it clear that the "fools on the outside" he was referring to were the people outside the painting, who struggle to keep their world dragging on long past its intended expiration date even as it warps and rots anything worth saving in it.

* BeefGate: ''Ashes of Ariandel'' can be accesssed and many of its endgame-worthy treasures looted fairly early in the main story. However, getting access to ''The Ringed City ''so early in the story would require defeating Friede, an extreme challenge at the earliest point where the option becomes available.

* LightningBruiser: Friede is one of the fastest and strongest bosses in the entire game, packing several near-one-hit-kill moves and the agility to dodge player attacks. More than that, despite appearances she's actually really tanky - while her individual health bars are quite small, she has ''three'' of them, giving her a combined total of over 18000 HP. Outside of Yhorm, that's the highest health total of any boss in the game.

* TragicVillain: One interpretation of Friede. Her precise motives are difficult to deduce given the few scraps of information the game offers on her. But the FlavorText of items associated with her suggests she really did call the Painted World her home and was sincere in her desire to protect it. It's anyone's guess whether that desire was eventually corrupted into something more sinister, or she simply went about it the completely wrong way.

* LightningBruiser: Friede is one of the fastest and strongest bosses in the entire game, packing several near-one-hit-kill moves and the agility to dodge player attacks. More than that, despite appearances she's actually really tanky - while her individual health bars are quite small, she has ''three'' of them, giving her a combined total of over 18000 HP, the highest of any boss in the game.

* FragileSpeedster: Her health goes down pretty quick if you can hit her. Key word: "if."

* GlassCannon: As far as bosses go, she can't take many hits, but she hits like a whole fleet of trucks. Many players will find a single attack from her knocking off a third to half their health, when she isn't outright using {{One Hit Kill}}s.

* LightningBruiser: In the tradition of Artorias, Gehrman and Lady Maria, Friede leaps around the room and rips through you at ridiculous speed in her third phase.

* TheRedBaron: Almost literally. [[spoiler: The living Pygmy Lord right before his fight]] fearfully calls him "The Red Hood".

* BigGood: She's a key positive character of both [=DLCs=], and each involves her in some way: in Ashes of Ariandel, the Ashen One frees her and then lets her 'see flame', while in The Ringed City, beating the FinalBoss allows her to [[spoiler:use the Dark Soul of Man as pigment to create a new world.]]

* TheMaker: Like Ariamis before her, she has the power to paint worlds into existance; though she requires the correct 'pigment' to do so. [[spoiler: It's implied, and outright stated in Japanese, that she wants to use the Dark Soul of Man as pigment to create an eternal painting that will never rot.]]

--->'''The Painter:''' [[spoiler:I wonder when [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging Uncle Gael intends his return]]. [[SenselessSacrifice I hope the new painting will be to him a gentle home.]]]]

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Absorbing the Dark Soul makes him one of the most powerful beings in the series, able to call down lightning, shoot magic blasts, leap dozens of feet vertically from a standing position and dozens of ''meters'' horizontally InASingleBound despite being ''huge'', shatter thick stone structures with a single lazy sword swing, and so on. If in-game performance is any indication, Gael at that point is powerful enough to ''curb-stomp'' both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXnOggVgxSs Nameless King]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75lppfLsm8 Soul of Cinder]].]][[labelnote:*]]Although in the latter case, it's almost entirely the fault of the Soul of Cinder's ArtificialStupidity forcing it to try using grab and kick moves that don't work on other boss characters.[[/labelnote]]

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Absorbing the Dark Soul makes him one of the most powerful beings in the series, able to call down lightning, shoot magic blasts, leap dozens of feet vertically from a standing position and dozens of ''meters'' horizontally InASingleBound despite being ''huge'', shatter thick stone structures with a single lazy sword swing, and so on. If in-game performance is any indication, Gael at that point is powerful enough to ''curb-stomp'' both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXnOggVgxSs Nameless King]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75lppfLsm8 Soul of Cinder]].]]

* TimeAbyss: The Ringed Knights you fight in the city are the exact same ones who fought alongside Gwyn in the war against the dragons. [[spoiler:One of them, the one wielding the Paired Greatswords, even managed to last to the end of time itself, and will be the onlybeing other than you left in the ashen wasteland after you've killed Gael and Shira]].

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: If you talk to him too many times in the Ringed City Streets without telling him where the Purging Monument will eventually cause him to go fully Hollow and lose his mind.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Zigzagged in an AntiVillain sense; Gael suffers dearly by the end of his journey, losing both his sanity and his life all in the name of his goals. However, he ultimately does succeed in that he intended to perish at the hands of The Ashen One, in order for his Dark Soul-tainted blood to be taken to the Painter as pigment for a whole new Painted World. However, this can be subverted in that taking the Blood of The Dark Soul to The Painter is purely optional and The Ashen One is not obligated to return to Ariendel before reaching The Kiln of The First Flame]].

* RestartTheWorld: Not so much restarting the world as much as it is [[spoiler:creating an entirely new one. Gael's primary objective is to get the Painter to create a new Painted World from the remains of Ariandel, intending to have the Dark Soul itself be the pigment. It's implied that Gael is fully aware of the state of his own dying world, and believes that a new Painted World is the only way to truly sustain life in any sort of fashion. Thanks to him and the Ashen One, this gambit succeeds, and the Painter gets what she needs to create "a cold, dark, and very gentle place, that will make someone a goodly home."]]

** [[spoiler: In The opening cutscene before the battle begins, Gael throws the dead body of an impaled Pygmy Lord at The Ashen One in the same manner as Artorias throwing a dead corrupted Oolacile Resident at The Chosen Undead in the first game]].

** His attacks in both his second and third phases, [[spoiler: both involving attacks accentuated by fire]], also call to mind Lady Maria of The Astral Clocktower as well as The Abyss Watchers.

** [[In The opening cutscene before the battle begins, Gael throws the dead body of an impaled Pygmy Lord at The Ashen One in the same manner as Artorias throwing a dead corrupted Oolacile Resident at The Chosen Undead in the first game]].

* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:He goes fully hollow and suffers an effective DeathOfPersonality midway through the fight. What causes this? You wound him enough that he bleeds, and he notices that his is "the blood of the dark soul", confirming that his [[IAmAHumanitarian ingestion]] of the Pygmies did indeed transfer it. With this, Gael fulfills his purpose, and finally lets go. While not stated explicitly, it's heavily implied that he expected the Ashen One to [[UriahGambit kill him and take the blood of the dark soul]] to the Painter, so he could create a new world.]]

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler:Basically what he's trying to accomplish. He knows he'll die never seeing the new Painted World, but he's content with the knowledge that the Painter will use his blood to make a world with the ink of the Dark Soul. Finally creating a safe place hidden away, free of the Fire and Dark cycles.]]

* BossInMooksClothing: Her better A.I., abundant and strategic use of estus, and insane damage output means that many players will likely die more times to her than they will many bosses - especially if the player encounters her without having taken out the angel hovering over the swamp on a previous run.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In an AntiVillain sense. Gael suffers dearly by the end of his journey, losing his sanity and his life all in the name of his goals. However, he ultimately succeeds in that he intended to perish at the hands of the Ashen One, in order for his Dark Soul-tainted blood to be taken to the Painter as pigment for a whole new Painted World.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: His form as the FinalBoss isn't pretty. He's grown into a huge hulk, his cape has fleshy bumps almost like it's part of his body, and worst of all, there's a huge gaping crater in his chest.]]