dilucsfavorite

[dilucsfavorite]

I GOT TO MEET ALEJANDRO SAAB TODAY !!!!!! <3 so here’s the gene print I got from him because he’s my favorite out of the shadow knights <3

[dilucsfavorite]

My designs of the Divine Warriors.

Past version + a ver. with evil Shad. Man Shad has changed lol.

I got lazy with Kul’zak’s design. Was sick of drawing armour.

I tried to think up of headcanon lore for them but I don’t have much.

Irene the Matron

Goddess of light, health/healing, life, fertility, abundance, peace and motherhood

Region: Ru’aun, Phoenix Drop

Symbols: The purple spring leaf and unicorns

Song inspiration: “Thought I would be satisfied seeing you content at the other side. But somehow I thought these crazy thoughts that I deserve to be loved, I deserve to know love, we deserve to live in love. I wish there's no end to our time together.”

- Bulbel, Mili

“I’ll take your hand and guide you through all the steps one takes to move on to a place, a world unseen to us all. But it’s okay, we’ll be together, my friend.”

- What Will You Leave Behind (End Titles), Maude Plante-Husaruk & Max LL

“Though I’m about to wreck, you still have your life ahead. All things that lose their way can find it again. There is no inertia in the ocean.”

- Adrift, Stray Gods

Shad the destroyer

God of the Nether, shadows, destruction, death and vengeance

Region: Nether, Falcon Claw

Symbols: Red spears and the wolf

Song inspiration: “There was a boy who shared your bones, your eager blood, your affinity for love. He had it all in his hands and he watched it all turn to sand.”

-Holy the Sea, Forgive Durden

”Could this be the day I have waited for when all my hard work doesn't go ignored? Maybe she was right, they will realize I can change the world, open up their eyes. They know I am more than some eager blood. Not some average bones, I believe in love. I just want to prove I deserve this gift. I will change this world, maybe this is it.”

-Life Is Looking Up, Forgive Durden

“The mind plays tricks, you are confused. The man you seek is long gone, dead and cold, a story told by those he trusted, those he loved, and those who then moved on.”

- I Know Those Eyes / This Man Is Dead, Brandi Burkhardt & Thomas Borchert

“Watch out for the wicked ones who call themselves beloved ones.”

-Holy the Sea, Forgive Durden

”You're a fool to think this princess could ever really love a couple of poor boys like us.”

-The End and the Beginning, Forgive Durden

He and Irene were created as opposites, representing the two sides of the moon. Where there is light, there is darkness. They both need each other to exist but they can never truly love each other.

They basically have Celestia and Luna’s story. Shad hated how Irene was so much more loved. He hated how she bloomed with her divine powers while he thought they were a curse. Because of them, the villagers saw him as a monster. He was tied to the darkness against his will. But just like a moth to the light, he could not look away from her.

“The moon will sing a song for me. I loved you like the sun.”

He thought that by joining the Divine Warriors he’d finally be seen as a hero, that he’d be recognized for his actions. But Irene was always number one. With that resentment already growing, the Divine Warriors betraying him was the thing that unleashed all his rage. He became the Shadow Lord and created the Shadow Knights to kill Irene.

Falconclaw was probably the only village that didn’t see him as an evil divinity (aka worshiping Shad the destroyer and not the Shadow Lord).

On that note, Shad probably hated to be called “the Destroyer”, reinforcing his image as “the bad one”. But he accepted the relic for Irene. “I will make this curse my blessing.”

Esmund the Protector

The only one who doesn’t have an FFXIV equivalent.

God of mountains, ice, guards, law, order and miners

Region: O’khasis

Symbols: The Violet sword and the bear

Song inspiration: “I’m sure that she would care to hear your argument as to how your presence is the reason she is sick. But I suppose it’s in vain, since her life is ending when I thrust this blade into her heart a-thumping.”

-The End and the Beginning, Forgive Durden

(Except Esmund would stab Shad, not Irene)

“Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you.”

-Fix You, Cody Fry

He fucking hates Shad. He copes by saying it’s because he’s evil but he just wants Irene to love him.

Enki the Keeper

God of time, nature, wisdom, knowledge, moon and arcana (magic)

Region: Gal’ruk

Symbols: The blue hourglass and the owl

Song inspiration: “The mountains seceded, the light and dark depleted. We lost Adakias, but regained our science. Our world was finally reunited. So this is my cue, of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender ‘cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore you from any scope.”

-The End and the Beginning, Forgive Durden

“The rest is up to you to do with what you’ll do, to learn and love and laugh ‘til the cycle circles back. I’ll just separate, weigh anchor, disengage, divide and disappear, and see you in the mirror.”

- Genesis, Forgive Durden & Casey Crescenzo

“You really are the chosen one, the calculated sacrifice. Please listen to my last words before I fade away. This is my gift to you: Live for your love every day. Please don't let your tired heart stop beating.”

- The End and the Beginning, Forgive Durden

Enki was also jealous of Irene’s love for Shad but he didn’t feel good betraying Shad. His death was his repayment for what he did.

Kul’zak the Wanderer

God of the stars, wind, wanderers -wandering merchants, bards, rogues, travellers, drifters, …-, freedom and prosperity/money

Symbols: the green walking stick and the elk

Region: Tech’ens

I’m basing off his whole personality of the one and only thing he’s ever said in the whole series: “Imortality? Hm, that doesn’t seem so bad.” So I made him a greedy bastard. Where Irene is the healer and leader, Shad the lancer and dps, Esmund the tank and Enki the support mage, Kul’zak is the rogue. He’s not completely selfish but he’s definitely the most selfish of the Divine Warriors. He helped Enki and Esmund cuz he thought it’d be fun.

[dilucsfavorite]

So I saw a tweet just a few moments ago about unpopular aphmau rp opinions and it just got me thinking (I will link the original tweet in this post too).

Zane in the early days of MCD was incredibly well written, far different from the other antags we had at the time (Zenix for example), but then after his death and after Mystreet was released, his character started to feel closer akin to his mys persona than the already established mcd personality.

season 3 Zane did not feel like the Zane we had come to know within the first two seasons. Zane, in the beginning, was purely evil for the sake of being evil, for the love of the game and for the thrill of it. He wanted to become a god. He was feared, the very presence of his being even being mentioned was enough to send chills down the spines of people, even his own family.

Then S3 Zane came out, where he had became a shadow knight, and something about him felt.. off?? for a lack of a better word. He started feeling closer akin to his mys street personality just more so taking place within mcd. However, I will admit that since MCD s3 was never finished, and we did not get to see Zane very much, I will only be addressing what we saw within s3 and no speculation about his development beyond that.

Zane was a man who thrived on making and sowing chaos, fueling flames where they needed and poking at sleeping bears. When he went back to Phoenix drop in s3, it almost didn't feel right when he simply secretly took Emmalynn without anyone even realizing, because with Phoenix Drop and with aphmau herself, he always made a point to show off, that he was the cause of the problems within. A clear case of this being when he tricked and changed Garroth, he showed clear signs of power, that he was the root of the problem.

The argument could be made that it was because he now lacked that same sort of power he once had, given 15 years had flown by and he was no longer in a high standing position within his city, but the man became a shadow knight, an already feared being, plus with the added bonus that he was Zane Ro'meave and many people still knew the name and still knew who he was. Now, it could be because there were two shadow knights within PD at the time. Gene and Zane, and Zane simply taking the quiet road and taking what was needed while Gene caused the bigger problems. But again, it almost seemed backwards in a way? As I stated previously, Zane was a guy who showed off who he was, a man who never lacked confidence. To me, it just didn't make sense for him to not even make it known it was him.

Honestly, give me your opinions about this. I mean, I could be misremembering some things within the argument, and so i'd like to hear what others have to say :3

The tweet that inspired me to come back and type this:

https://x.com/roxxie_Spirt/status/1919520363941081329

[dilucsfavorite]

I don’t post much anymore but someone posted this on my colleges YikYak and I felt like I had to share

This is so clearly Aphmau builds I love it so much actually 😭😭

[dilucsfavorite]

It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[dilucsfavorite]

Can’t believe I’m freaking out about Minecraft again

[dilucsfavorite]

[dilucsfavorite]

MYSTREET

[dilucsfavorite]

I love shadow knight I am eating this up actually

I’ve been obsessing over shadow knights recently so I prepose a thought.

We know Shadow Knights are glorified zombies who are practically decaying, right?

Well what if Shadow Knights could go into a sort of hibernation like state? Being reclaimed by nature?

Like a shadow knight enters the over world and is tired of the village life but also the knight life. So they opt to lie on the forest floor and enter a deep slumber as nature tries to reclaim them. Unfortunately due to them being a shadow knight nature can only reclaim so much. Everything around the knight decays while a tree covers their body, protecting them. These trees look different due to the dark magic the shadow knight is giving off. So instead of normal overworld tree, a tree from the nether sprouts in place.

Immortal knights do this because they feel it’s the closest thing to death.

Not fully fledged knights do this because they fear they might harm their loved ones.

It’s a death like sleep but the knight can be awakened if the area around them is disturbed a good bit.

Examples are: Floods, Earthquakes, Tornados, construction work/drilling in the ground, constant destruction to the tree, etc.

So imagine the mcd world slowly turning into the my street world and Laurence entered this type of slumber back during mcd. Later he is awoken by reincarnations of his friends in the modern my street world.

Just a silly thought touching on Shadow Knighrs decaying 🤗✨

[dilucsfavorite]

REBLOG IF IT'S OKAY FOR ME TO BOTHER YOU IF YOU'RE MY MUTUAL

[dilucsfavorite]

I was watching old Aphmau mini game videos and I just found out Laurance has a photo inside of the fnaf location.

[dilucsfavorite]

Reading through people's mcd rewrites there's been one a few that have combined into an idea in my head. (Or someone else had this idea, it cemented itself in my head but I've read so many that I can't remember it anymore, that's also possible.) I've tagged some people down below who's ideas I've kind of combined here! (Please tell me if you'd like me to not tag you, I'll fix it!)

So bare with me while I explain this tragic little idea.

Imagine if every single roleplay was simply a different version of them. Like we step back from Jesson simply using the characters people are already familiar with and instead say that they genuinely are the exact same people, reborn into a new reality.

What if, it all started with the Divine Warriors. What if they were their first, original forms, and they fucked up so badly during their lifetime that the universe or some power higher than the warriors themselves, decided to punish them. It's already canon that the warriors are reborn over and over again and are connected, but what if different realities existed and in every single one, these people existed, and in every single one they were doomed to suffer.

I've seen some people make connections from the different versions of the characters, something to do with their personas, stories, etc. I thoroughly enjoy the idea that though fundamentally different when set into a completely new environment and reality, there's something that always stays the same. Something connecting every version to the first and to each other. Something that still makes the person them.

Back to the point, it would be devastating if every single version, no matter how different or no matter what reality, was always doomed to the same downfall. Cursed with the predestined outcome with no way of ever changing it, chosen for them because of the mistakes of a version of them that is oh so distant, lost to time and space, and they will never be the wiser.

Or will they?

Will they, after countless reincarnations, start noticing? Would so many versions of the same people over and over and over and over and over again start slowly tearing the walls down? Would they slowly grow wiser, faintly starting to remember the other realities, how all of them seemed to end. Would the deja vu slowly take over their lives?

Would they take notice of others being ever changing while some seemed to never change? Garroth, Katelyn, Aphmau, they seemed to always be them, yet Levin, Lucinda, Cadenza never were quite the same...

I haven't finished rewatching MCD and I never finished When Angels Fall so this might not work but fuck it, I like the idea

This heavily relies on @aphblr-headcanons posted hc in which anon talked about each reincarnation having a curse caused by the Divine Warriors.

Along with @goat-guy-tm who talked about Irene incarnations always having the name Aphmau, like a curse.

Honourable mention of @garbagepile who had talked about Garroth's similarities between each universes

And (maybe) finally @dilucsfavorite who's post about reincarnation I had reblogged some time back and which probably sparked this whole thing

[dilucsfavorite]

can we as a fandom not bother sebastian or shame him for what he chooses to do with his life cuz it's not really any of our business

[dilucsfavorite]

Did Aphmau ever explain what happened to Brian. Where did he go? Who was he working for????

[dilucsfavorite]

I have nothing else to write about so i'm gonna talk about my old Shadow knight headcanon post and expand on it..

---

The nether is a lot more organized than most (if not all) think. There are rules and regulations to make sure everything is working for the cause. No people so dedicated to a cause will have loose regulations. That is not feasible.

There are different ranks of shadow knights. We see only two types of positions: Head of the army, and army soldier (technically, also commanders but it was only said Zenix was one? So idk how accurate that is). However, I believe there should be more roles within the army. Those layers include: Leader > Sergeant > Commander > soldier/knight.

However, within those ranks there are different types of groups. There are Witches/Wizards, people who were gifted with strong powers are in a group, archers, and even a few select assassins. However, the main parts of the army were hand-to-hand fighters. There are a bunch of different weapon types. There are swords, great-swords, battle axes, spears, axes, and the more talented ones have daggers.

Here are some of the ranks i think the current known Shadow Knights would have(except Zane and Laurence)

Gene: Sergeant

Sasha: Commander

Zenix: Commander (before he went rogue)

Vylad: He was going to be a commander but rejected before he went off and went rogue as well.

Now, I am going to get into the culture of the nether and how others work around each other.

Sometimes, a person when a person dies in the nether or in the real world, they do not become shadow knight. People in the nether do not know how this happens. Sometimes it's not innocent people while the other half are innocent people. If they are weak (cannot become a good soldier) they are killed off. Stronger people become a shadow knight soldier. If they were sacrificed in the name of Shad, then those people are treated just a little better. The strongest ones have a more likely chance to lead a group of soldiers.

Now, onto the castle itself. There is a main throne room, dungeons, training grounds, and ana altar room with an alter to worship Shad/Shadow Lord. The insignia is everywhere and guards are everywhere on the premises. You cannot get away with something under the watchful eye of the nether.

[dilucsfavorite]

im in love with both of them........ yes

Please anyone listen to me yap about laur and gene

[dilucsfavorite]

I know this is such a regurgitated take, but MCD had so much wasted potential.

The idea that one group of friends will die, meet each other in a different life time, die again, and they cycle repeats is such a beautiful trope.

I love reincarnation tropes, I think they can be beautiful and a can symbolize loyalty and closeness to one another, while also simultaneously having angst and one sided love tropes.

I believe Jess and others could have made it a beautiful piece of media, but they squandered it because of poor writing. The amount of plot holes, storylines, and characters arcs she was trying to write, that a lot of it just fell flat.

They did try fixing it with my street and whatnot, but without MCD being complete, it feels like something is lacking within the characters. The fact that MCD never finished means we didn’t get to see the full storyline and how these characters developed around each other that could have possibly shown itself into the future.

Though, tbf she also messed up the future by making them so wildly out of character. I understand you have to update their way of speaking because they are in modern times and not medieval, but some of them were completely changed.

Anyways rant over IG. I was just thinking about what MCD and future could have been if it had been properly planned and written out and actually finished. Toodles