The Saint of the Bud - Closer Look

>highlights the centipede half >"scorpion" >highlights the scorpion half >"centipede" >refuses to elaborate >leaves

Miyazaki didn't put much effort into her lore because she has no feet.

The lack of a cutscene for her is really a shame, she is the second Boss to be actively empowered by Scarlet rot and the first to have accepted her power from the beginning but was so little explored

It looks like each of her legs were transformed into insect bodies and twisted around eachother. The way the insect parts meld into her human torso is pretty morbid, looks like something from the early days of skin grafting.

-Teased in the Cinematic -Has no dialogue -Has no cinematic

After all this time, beating the DLC twice, I see this video and finally realize that she was the burnt woman cradling the spiral object in the story trailer

One thing I find perhaps the most interesting about Romina is that despite being 2/3 arthropod and having an additional centipede head with extra eyes, she never did fight like one would expect an insect to fight. The centipede head never looks anywhere she isn't facing, and the way she commands it to act is more akin to a limb than an entity of its own, Always in deliberate movements and rarely if ever in tandem with her upper half. It really gives the impression that she has to consciously move and control its positioning which takes great focus, but betrays an innate unfamiliarity with her body. Similarly, the scorpion tail don't often hit on her "left" side despite seemingly having the movement range to do so, if possible she always prefers to turn around to "face" you before delivering a stick. This further suggests that despite being seemingly made out of three creatures merged into one, Romina aren't actually granted any instinctual mastery over it. It's a strange hint of humanity shining through despite her inhuman exterior.

Remember, her stinger is bigger than Messmer’s 18 inches, and that’s it not even in attack mode

The fact that Romina and Rellana don't have intro cutscenes is CRIMINAL.

Man, I really wish we got her floral cape & crown as armor even more now. I love how her Centipede/Scorpion body is two fused insects just like the adult Pests, but with that wicked stinger emerging from the bottom. Her physical body is brutally scarred in ways I'd never noticed before, so thanks again for these close-up looks!!

You can giggle all you want but im in love with her design

Who doesn't love a centipede scorpion flower butterfly lady, am I right?

Scorpion: I have eight feet! Centipede: I have a hundred! Miyazaki: climaxes in the background

1:14 I think you got the centipede and scorpion halves confused there 😅

She was the maiden embracing a spear in the history trailer it seems As it was in a burning church, right after messmer released his flame

One of my favourite attacks of hers is the one where she twirls around trying to hit you with both the centipede and scorpion parts of her body, because it reminds me of the motion a ball gown makes when being danced in, so elegant in such an unconventional way🦋🌺

Wish we had the flower head as a helmet

Weird that FromSoft didn't give her a bigger role. No cutscene, no dialogue, not really mentioned in item descriptions prior to the fight. I genuinely thought I was fighting an optional boss.

This is probably as close an approximation we'll have to what the outer god of rot looks like: considering Romina fully embraced the rot, it's safe to say she'd take on the god's appearance more and more. Becoming a hybrid of centipede, scorpion, butterfly, and flower are all emblems of the god of rot. Malenia meanwhile only had the butterfly and flower aspects imbedded to her because of how much she fought back

I got a theory Malenia's rot is orange/red - She rejects it, thinking it to be negative Rumina's rot is pink. She accepts it, thinking it to be positive Red/orange rot - The negative side of rot, representing destruction and withering Pink rot - The positive side, representing rebirth/reincarnation