Elden Ring's sexy wolf man Blaidd reads horny tweets from thirsty fans
Elden Ring(opens in new tab) is not what I could call a sexy videogame, but it does contain one very sexy NPC: Blaidd, the stylish half-man, half-wolf warrior with the big, big sword. He's the guardian of Ranni the Witch and, with some small bit of effort, quite friendly with players as well. He's also made a major impression on an awful lot of very thirsty gamers.
One of Blaidd's most appealing characteristics is his voice, a soft, smoky aural caress delivered by voice actor Scott Arthur. To mark the character's impact on the gaming world, Arthur recently sat down with Buzzfeed to read and react to thirst tweets, and it goes about as you'd expect.
(First things first: If you are not aware of what a «thirst tweet» is, as I was not until fairly recently, it's quite simply a tweet expressing sexual attraction—sometimes subtle, sometimes very much not—toward a celebrity. I'm unaware of the etymology of the term and frankly I'm okay with that.)
The video starts off with an informative tidbit about Blaidd's name, which is actually pronounced Blithe. «Not Blide, not Blythe,» Arthur says with the rehearsed ease of someone who's explained this more than twice before. «Blithe.»
«He's upright like a man, and he has the head of a wolf,» Arthur says. «I know that he's caused quite a stir in the furry world, which I didn't know anything about until I looked on the internet.»
From there, it's straight on into the hot talk, and there are some bangers, so to speak.
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