#aphmau hcs

[snuffink]

I doubt I'll ever actually make a MCD rewrite, gods know my fixation will die down long before I'd get anything on paper or even finish rewatching the whole thing, but it's still fun to share what ideas I have come up with, so here we are!

In a hypothetical rewrite, I would change a bunch of dynamics. If I were to write mcd, a large portion of season 1 would be relationship focused. And I DON'T mean romantic necessarily, I mean building relationships, fleshing out the town, making the audience really get to know the characters and how they interact with each other.

My biggest focus is on Aph's closest friends, so here are my current ideas and hcs!

(Note here: I mention aroace dynamics, I am aware that it's a spectrum, I myself am on the spectrum, I just haven't decided how it would work with Aph herself so it's vague.)

Garroth:

Still in love with Aph

Laurance is his best friend, depends on him when he can't depend on Aph

Views Dante as a younger brother or son

Much less jealous and possessive over Aph, accepts that she may never feel the same, though is causes him heartache.

Has a habit of "adopting" people, most likely due to his past and feeling like a failure to his younger brothers. (Zenix, Dante, Levin, Brian etc)

His closest friends are Aph, Laurance and Dante. Unlikely friendship with Dale and Logan along with Cadenza

Laurance:

Likes Aph, though mostly mistakes his loyalty and fondness and genuine friendship for love. Aph is just as important to him as she is in the series, it's just not romantic love

So much less pushy. So so much less pushy.

They play flirt with Aph, as they do in the series. (Example, the table scene in s1)

Puts his feelings for her aside whenever needed. She needs a guard? He's there. She needs a friend? She's there. She needs to gossip? Girl, what'd they do this time?

Tries to gently push Garroth to do something, anything about his feelings. The pushing turns less gentle after the SK business though it's not his fault

Father/Big brother figure to Malachi.

He's closest with Aph and Garroth and Cadenza, very close with Dante as well, though they don't know each other as deeply as the others do.

Probably friends with Katelyn and Nicole as well, they spar together from time to time.

Gossips with Lucinda from time to time, they shit talk over tea

Yip probably really likes him

Dante:

Sibling like relationship with Aph

Ridiculously loyal to her

Definitely closest to her than anyone else

Had a super good relationship with Nicole, would have stayed together had their interest not clashed.

Dante would have wanted to stay in touch but Nicole needed time to herself

Started getting close to Nana after their split

Loves children, father/big brother to Malachi and Levin

An absolute goof, loses braincells with Laurance, Garroth and Aph. (All of them are super capable by themselves, absolute dumbasses together)

Aph:

Not romantically interested in any of them (I haven't decided if she's on the aroace spectrum or just not interested in men, but I just don't imagine her liking any of the guys)

Views Dante as a brother, Laurance as her best friend and Garroth as a close friend

Has always kind of felt like there was a wall between her and Garroth, couldn't explain it

Genuinely unaware of Garroth's infatuation until the ending events of s1 or then the dreams of s2

Confused over Laurance and others teasing Garroth

Made an effort to get to know Emmalyn after their bad blood died down, recognising her own issues with boundaries and respecting people's space

Unlikely friends with Emmalyn, though it gets tainted a lil after the Irene discovery

(In case not aroace: Zoey is her wife, though this could also be interpreted as platonic. In any case, they are wives and share a friendship that could only be seen as soulmates.)

Considers Laurance and Zoey her platonic soulmates, feels as though the two understand her better than anyone could or would.

Bonds with Aaron particularly well, though they have no romantic involvement.

Aaron:

Not in love with Aph

Sees his late wife in Aph along with his son in Levin and Malachi, and they end up helping him heal over time.

Forms a special type of bond with Aph, and finds himself able to rely on her much more than anyone else

Begins bonding with the others first over their shared hatred of Zane

Due to his time as a lone wolf, he struggles greatly with talking to people for a while

'Fast' friends with Dante, the two bond over the loss of their villages and family.

Surprising friends with Logan, along with Brendon and Emmalyn.

Becomes a father figure of sorts to Dante, Levin, Malachi and other youngins in the town.

Enjoys sparring with people, but begins first doing it out of necessity to be stronger, though it overtime becomes something he truly enjoys

Soft spot for kids

Ferociously protective of Aph due to their close relationship and her resemblance to his wife.

Ends up finding peace in Phoenix Drop, willing to do anything to protect it

Helps Levin figure out lord stuff with Aph.

[my-coven-is-claudia]

MCD age headcanons !!

aphmau - obviously a good hundred years old but appears to be in her late 20s

garroth - 27 (ran away at 25) although i’d like to set him older but i don’t want him to be like nearly 40 by season 3 lol

laurence - 27 as well,, feels weird for him and garroth not to be the same age

dante - i actually did some research and 21 was the age i found for medieval knights finishing their training but i like to think dante graduated from the guard academy a couple years early because he was THAT good (he’s canonically jury of nine level skilled) so i set him at 20

katelyn - 24 as i like her being one of the younger ones of the cast

aaron - definitely the oldest so 30,, he became lord and had a family pretty young but after their deaths he wandered for a good few years

lucinda- 29,, this means she would be 44 in mcd season 2 but considering hyria’s like immortal or at least has the power to live for centuries i assume this would’ve been passed down to lucinda so like,, she would still look very young even in her 40s

zane - 23,, this is so that i can have the mental image of a 4 year old garroth holding his newborn baby brother 😭

vylad - was killed at 20

nana - 20

nicole - 21,, love her being slightly older than dante,, i think she would rub in the one year age difference and joke about him being a “baby”

cadenza - 25

travis - i’m not touching him because ever since i realised that he must’ve been a child during season 1 and he’s romantically entangled with katelyn so i just. don’t want to think his age. it’s weird whether i put him in his 20s or 30s (jess why did you not think about the implications of introducing travis in season 2 ༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ)

gene - died at 25

sasha - died at 24

zenix - 17 because i think it would be really tragic if he died just before he could reach adulthood

[creeky-cricket]

Fuck this 'laurance is an average play boy' shit.

Give me, demi-romanic laurance zhval who falls hard and no matter hoe much he tried he cant tear himself away from them.

Give me, laurance zhval who has witnessed and been through so many types of rejection and abandoments that he clings to those he loves.

Give me, laurance zhval who just wants to see people smile so he cheers them up through flirts and shitty jokes

Give me, laurance zhval who feels like the scum of the earth for still liking aphmau despite her insistance that she doesnt like him back

Give me, laurance zhval who begins to catch feelings for his head guard but pushes them down and distances himself in order for garroth to not look at him the same way aphmau does.

Give me, laurance zhval who isnt your average playboy.

[garroth-is-done]

Thinking about shadow knights again:

I love the concept that sks aren’t even vaguely human looking in their true form. And I don’t mean this in a “they are animals/creatures” way or in a “they’re just Minecraft nether mobs” way, but in a “they look like analogue horror monsters and actually behave like them too” way.

Ya know, the stretched out limbs, smiles too wide to be natural, claw-like fingers, horrific death rattle breathing sounds; the absolute works of analogue horror. Even in human form the look kinda off too; their eyes are open a bit too wide, their teeth just a bit too sharp.

Behavior wise, if you piss them off bad enough they start to work like the alternates from the mandala catalog. They take the form of someone the person who made them angry loves and they hunt them down in their own home. They leave gory messes behind, not even bothering to try and cover up what they did. You know someone was killed by an sk by the fact that they’re nothing more than a blood splatter on the floor, crushed bones and a bit of gray matter all that is left of them.

Idk, just shadow knights being absolutely terrifying horror monsters instead of just a bunch of knights in red and black armor like some 12 year olds edge deviantart oc

[sock-tin]

OK SO context i have a hc that when shadow knights turn into their true form their hair also gets dramatically longer (i also like to think they look physically more monstrous BUT THATS FOR LATER CONTENT) so when laurance comes back from the nether his hair is super long and gets cadenza to trim it instead of cutting it super short and dyeing it :> so HERES MY GUY TRYING DIFF HAIRSTYLES WHILE RECOVERING!!!

[jinkiesmariz]

!!! I made a Rough Nicole design last Night for her s1 look and I like to think her hair is like fucked up when Katelyn arrives as well (they’re sparing and Katelyn nearing fucking murks her and she has like three stripes on the side of her head later on and rocks it

!! And she deserves scars and stuff too :3

Anywyas i really wanted to doodle her and Kc together, from first meeting to a couple years after the Dmitri reveal

Awkward as shit between them

Versus old women yaoi!!! After years of meeting up and like handing over the kids they got close and probably ended up like kissing and !!! The rest is history

[residentcrayonkid]

Another Vlayd Ro'maeve drawing (im so original). In serious, i worked on this for a couple of hours, and I thought it was good enough to post. Hope it's enjoyed. (Also, yes, i know his eyes are not always red, but i thought it'd be a cool pop of color)

[shadowqnights]

as a society we should talk about aph/cadenza more. caddie the firebringer, determined to be a caregiver even while her fingers burn, a dormant magick under her skin awakening when she first holds a stranger's hand and makes a dress for her. who tends to aphmau's fevers and gaps in memory and these powers she can't control. cadenza who brought about the destruction of her childhood and was found in its ashes. aphmau, the echo, the memory of a stranger. who brings about life. who somehow finds death in every universe. cadenza, thought to be the innocent sacrifice for the nether, shad's vessel. fire starter. aphmau regrows the flowers she burns so she can try, try again. cadenza will never stop making gowns for her goddess.

[jurygarroth]

nobody gets it… nobody gets it… to me mcd aphmau’s story is one of breaking free from the expectations forced upon her, becoming her own person, defying the narrative, which is why it’s essential to me that she doesn’t choose any of the provided love interests for her in the end— her ending isn’t the tragedy of the doomed hero, nor is it the fairytale happily ever after‼️ she gets to win and her happiness is not what the stories would predict but it’s hers‼️

[snekverse]

Returning to my roots. Zanemau my beloved.

The two have movies nights all the time, and will marathon as many movies/shows as possible snuggled up on the couch before they pass out

Recently Aphmau’s been making him watch old school barbie movies, and she's now trying to convince him to get the cute matching necklaces from barbie and the diamond castle

Zane really likes messing with Aph's hair and styling in all sorts of ways. He surprisingly good at it, arguably better than she is, but he won't admit where he learned it from (his mother used to teach him how to style hair when he was young)

Zane is very rarely persuaded to match outfits, but he almost always agrees to have matching costumes for cons/halloween/etc

Aphmau really enjoys writing in her free time, and sometimes likes to write fanfic about her and Zane (making sure to change the names, although they're never too far from the originals)

One of their favorite things is to go to a local playground late at night. Sometimes they just sit and talk, and sometimes they run around like kids

Aphmau made them both ponysonas (and draws them kissing)

They like to watching reality cooking shows and over critique the contestants

[etherealjellyfishgirl]

MY LIKE 10’00000000000000000000099900000 post of today buttttytt

okay so y’all remember the thing in the bloopers where vylad was in the prison in the emerald secret like yah yah it’s a joke

BUT! What if it wasn’t?????? Like what if vylad got caught by ein bc them and aph were friends and was willing to use them as leverage?

and no one thought to question ittt bccccccccccccc they thought vylad was on vacation in France???????????

not me trying to find a way to have vylad be relevant in my mind mys s7

[aphverse-confessions]

Nicole and Dante don’t have confirmed ages, however they do have implied ages that leave the impression of an age gap. Nicole and Garroth were fiancés multiple years ago (Zane gave a more specific number when he confronted Garroth aftwr Donna and Logan’s wedding, I just don’t remember what), and when he was met Dante was fresh out of the guard academy (which most assume to mean somewhere within the 18-22 age range) which means he is implied to be years younger than Garroth and Laurence since they have been guards for years.

So with all this information, it just leaves a handful of interpretations.

Nicole is Garroth’s age, being years older than Dante. This is what a lot of people assume, and lead some to having issues with MCD Dancole because of that gap

Garroth was engaged to Nicole when she was Much younger than him (which honestly given the fantasy medieval vibes MCD has, wouldn’t be a large leap in logic)

Or Dante was simply a lot older than most when he joined the guard academy (although this may contradict what he tells Aphmau about his home life and having to be raised by his aunt and uncle, but I don’t remember it enough to confidently say this Cant be true)

Most go with the first one, since it’s the most straight forward assumption abd Dante does give off big little brother vibes in the original season one guard trio. So yeah. There is no Confirmed ages, but y’all. Just think a little bit about what we know about the characters and where they are in life when we meet them and you can actually take a pretty decent guess at some sort of age range.

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[ace-avian]

I love discussing Irene and her morality because- what we got based from texts about her/priests and shit and then from actual canon in s3 is SO different-

Like-

If Irene in s3 was so willing to tell Aphmau to commit mass murder; what does that mean for when she was alive?

How many disasters is she responsible for that was stripped from history all for the ‘matron’ image? How many lives, however innocent or guilty has she ended? As said; “History is told in the eyes of the victors”

I’m curious; do y’all see Irene as a villain or a hero? Or maybe someone who had good intentions but lost herself along the way?

[raisunomii]

Also heres some headshot of laurance i did a while ago then forgot about

[yellowelectroslime]

[MID] Rhys general headcannons

[notes: i did this instead of finishing my coursework PEOPLE of the my inner demons community pls enjoy :D]

he’s pretty muscular but not like pierce muscular

his weapon is a staff so i imagine he isn’t used to hand-to-hand combat, even noi could beat him in this

he still works out quite a lot tho, he’s the advisor and knight for the PRINCE of daemos, of course he has to be in shape

slimwaistslimwaistslimwaistslim-

i think he has quite a bit of scars around his torso area

most of them are healed cuz of magic tho

most of them were from training he did when he was younger

he has a VERY BIG SWEET TOOTH

daemos food probably isnt that good cuz the main thing going on is uh- yeah so i imagine that their food is just rlly bland BUT nutritional 

so the moment rhys tried ice cream it was like a whole new world opened to him (literally)

he also really likes cakes

i don’t think he would like the sweetness of candies though

whenever he says something smart, he pushes his glasses up like in animes LOL

if he was ever introduced to anime, i think his favourite one would be death note

he doesnt like the violence and death part but i think he likes the anime cuz of how Light thinks and plans things out

[jinkiesmariz]

What’s up y’all lok. at my baby girl mystreet Gene I need him