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@strxwberry-swtichblxde suggested i draw Laur and Malachi so i did :3

undead father + unalive son.

[text: Laurence - "Hey, it'll be okay, even if it isn't right now."]

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any MCD artist feel free to take this idea but a Challengers piece/maybe recreate the poster with McD Aph and Garroth and Laurance as those two guys.

i need to see them astounded at her suprising skill in tennis for like no reason

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Aphmau has officially hit me like a truck again so enjoy some shadow knight drawings! Also thank you so much for the support on the last post, it means the world ❤️

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laurances birthday in 4 days everyone clap and cheer for him okay

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my son has lost an eye, good faith cannot make him whole.

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so you’re telling me, Laurance who is described as an absurdly powerful shadow knight, a shadow knight who bested someone as fearful as Zenix - a shadow knight who had absorbed other knights and had over a decade of more experience than him, and this mans is not the descendant of shad ??

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Vylad I drew for @vyladromeave! Local quiet shadow knight shows up for once.

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Zane went into the Irene dimension to steal the relic….

…Ian was already there waiting

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Currently thinking about Aphmau and Laurance and certain lore info...

So we know that Aphmau is either Irene herself that woke up again from that staff or a reincarnation (I'm betting on her actually being Irene who just lost her relic and memories).

And we know Laurance is a shadow knight. And shadow knights gain immortality when they kill their lord.

SO!

Let's say Aphmau is Irene, and gains all of her old powers back when she absorbs the relic. We know Irene lived for a long time, outlived her friends, etc. Now that could be because she spent a lot of time in her dimension where time passes quickly. BUT! Let's just say for my own selfish purposes that not aging is just one of her powers from her relic.

And let's also say that shadow knight immortality works like this: Shadow knights aren't human anymore. We don't exactly know what they are, but it's something otherworldly and the process begins with the shadow knight's human death. So really... would it make sense for them to age?

Now they can definitely die. They only gain true immortality when they kill their lord. But aging? I don't think something otherworldly and inhuman can age. The nether is a strange place where nearly all of the beings there are senseless monsters.

I'm sure y'all have picked up on my line of thinking already.

But what if Laurance never left. What if he stayed loyal to Aphmau for all of those years? After another decade people would start noticing that neither of them are aging. For Laurance it's obvious why, but for Aphmau, it's a new aspect of Irene's power that she's coming to understand.

It drives her to panic. Because as the years pass, her friends start getting older and older. Garroth and Dante soon retire from being guards. Her kids are having children of their own. But she's still the same.

She doesn't want to outlive her friends. But it's out of her hands. The only way to remove a relic from someone is through their death.

But Laurance is still there, still as devoted to her as ever. And she leans on him now more than ever because he still looks the same as the day he came back from the nether. He understands in the way no once else can.

As even more time passes, Aphmau has to give up any leadership position she has because whispers of her not aging are floating around. More people are flocking to see her, calling her Irene, calling her a goddess, wanting her blessings.

But all the attention just shoves the fact that she can't age right in her face. So she leaves.

Most of her and Laurance's friends are elderly now, at least, the ones that didn't go to the Irene dimension all those years ago. And her children are all grown, wrapped up in their own lives. None of them have been spared of the goddess Irene's revival. People bother them daily, trying to figure out where she is, trying to get into contact with her. So really, leaving is the only way to give them peace.

Laurance accompanies her, and they travel to different regions, hoping to gleam some hidden knowledge about the relics. They had tried learning about them before... but then Shad came back in Aaron's body and the whole ordeal had driven her away from finding knowledge about the relics.

More time passes, and it's just the two of them, looking the same as they did when they met a century ago. A forgotten lord and her guard. Only known now as a goddess and her monster.

Aphmau was never the type to indulge in things like love, especially when there were more important matters going on. But with everyone she cared about being long gone aside from Laurance, she finds that she's truly grown to care about him. And truly, he's her only option. He won't age and die like the others. He won't leave.

And hasn't he been here all this time?

She remembers long ago, being ready to accept his affection after the werewolf wedding. But he stopped her, wanting Garroth to have a chance.

Garroth isn't even alive now. They attended his funeral a decade ago.

Perhaps she just wanted things to stay the same? And in her and Laurance's relationship, it had. He's still as flirty as ever, vying for her affection. Perhaps she had fooled herself into thinking it was just an old habit. Perhaps he had begun to believe this was all that he could have with her and was fine with it.

But if there was anyone to love, wouldn't it be him? Wouldn't it be the guard that's been there for her for a century and will be there for more to come?

So one day, when they've traveled back to Phoenix Drop, which is more of a city than a village these days, and are looking back at all of the old structures that Levin's daughter insists of keeping for historic purposes... Aphmau tells him.

She tells Laurance that she loves him. Because she does. He's been there for her for ages now, will always be there for her. And she'll be there for him as well.

Sorry if that got gooey and weird and hard to follow. I'm currently very sleep-deprived, lol.

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i’ll uncanny YOUR valley bitch

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You think the remenants of Malachi's mother was there, watching over him? Do you think she stayed in that castle, desprate to look after her little boy that she had to condem to a prison of their own making because he was different, from beyond the grave? Do you think her soul stood there and watched as a woman she never knew, an eon younger than even her son, stayed with him, listened to him, and helped him in ways she never could?

Did Malachi's mother stand there, shedding happy tears when Aphmau gave her baby a new life, free of the curse he was born with, that she could never give him?

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doodle for my fellas

idea below

this was based on an idea discussed in the discord about the reunion between malachi and laurance after the whole 15 year irene dimension debacle, but for those unaware, myself and some others have a hc that being in the irene dimension was physically painful for laurance, as a shadow knight. like very.

i drew him in his sk form, which was kinda just a whim, but maybe it could be explained by saying that he involuntarily turned due to the stress that the dimension inflicted on his body, although him being in his form gave me ANOTHER idea, so you can pick whichever you want to believe.

the other idea: rather than this being the reunion from the return from the irene dimension, maybe it’s from laurance’s return from his silly little 3 year nether side quest (AUGH😞), which would imply that he just hadn’t transformed back yet if he’d just then returned.

also, if that were the case, of course malachi would be glad to see him, but i think he’d also be fucking pissed. and confused. but also understanding because he’s malachi. but yes lots of father/mentor-son feelings. anyways.

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thinking abt the meifwa and werewolf marriage plot in season two and it makes me actually violently ill its a very VERY random plot point but i cannot stop thinking abt it

like you get drugged by a purple haired meifwa . Wake up NAKED in a cold ass cell. Where’s your other guard?? Oh he’s with the purple haired meifwa who’s trying to COME ON to him as if she didn’t drug him (I FEEL LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING NO ONE TALKS ABT LIKE THATS SO SCARY? Waking up and it’s just you with some random chick????) but he keeps rejecting her advances so she sets him up to DIE?? THE FLIPPP!?!!!

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i have so much of these to make

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Y'all, y'all, y'all

Shadow Knights but they are like the ghouls from fallout. Walking corpses that are holding off from turning into full zombies by rage and hope alone.

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ok this is making me imagine lucinda trying to find ways to help laurance. even sneakily. most of the time he knows and is actively being studied by her, maybe other times she tries to slip him things or cast spells from a distance

Y'all, y'all, y'all

Shadow Knights but they are like the ghouls from fallout. Walking corpses that are holding off from turning into full zombies by rage and hope alone.

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i don’t know what possessed me to make this but the second part is already finished