#janus the silver death

[reterols]

Devotion, but violent.

Trails of blood that turn into puddles at alters. Silky cloth with stains of crimson. Some poor soul getting sacrificed, but no, it's just an unknown name, a blank face, Janus doesn't care for them. Stained and bruised, wounded and damaged, yet always sticking to the routine. Get up, pray, get dressed, hope, leave, meet, listen and kill, come back, pray.

It's violent, it's bloody, it's fucking messed up.

Oh, oh it is, so so messed up, but the feeling? The rush of excitement and thrill whenever Zane walks in on a praying Janus, It makes Zane's mouth water

The alter is fine, with miniscule details, a silky cloth, pictures, everywhere, a beautiful ceramic bowl, everyday it is filled to the brim with offerings, for Zane to take as he walks by.

Zane is no deity, but for fucks sake, Janus makes him feel like one with every damn word the warrior says.

It's an addiction, it's so so unhealthy.

Yet it's rapture, it's undeniable, with each sacrifice, with each prayer, with each offering, whisper, worship.

Janus is his most devoted follower, in more ways than just one, and it's fucking thrilling.

[jpdrawsalot]

I'd like to spread my Janus agenda with the supplement of "JanZanNan", bc Zane has two hands and they are held by these two dorks

[lggy]

attention janus fans:

they put janus in the background of aph's newest video

[silverjurors]

Incredibly random and obscure Hot Take:

Ghost shouldn't have been Emmalyn

Ghost should have been Janus

[xielianslver]

Janus had seen what lied under Zane's hair a handful of times.

The first was when he was fifteen or so, back when he was a mere street rat and the fact that Zane even spared him a glance was jarring. It was a quick moment, before Zane had even started wearing the veil that covered half his face.

The second time, Janus was walking down the corridors of the Ro'Meave "Manor" (more like a palace) like he always did. There was a painting up on the wall; he'd seen time and time again. The painting was of the Ro'Meave family, although half of it was covered by the curtains. The only people to be seen were Garte and the eldest son, Garroth.

This time, Janus stopped, he stood in front of the painting. Lightly lifting the curtains to glance at what lay beneath; a small child no older than 6 with a mess of black hair, two bright blue eyes and freckles that lined his nose and cheeks.

The third time, Zane was losing it and Janus had no idea what to do. Zane was pulling at his hair, cursing loudly, throwing books to the ground. When things settled, Zane looked in the mirror and lifted his bangs from his face. There were strange scars all across Zane's face, though Janus couldn't make out much, he was only seeing Zane reflection. Zane picked up a needle from his desk and stabbed his eye.

There were other hazzy, blurry moments where Janus saw Zane's face. These moments are likely better left unsaid let alone anyone find out. For these moments; are laced with the taste and smell of rich wine, the feel of fine cloth bunched up in Janus' fists, and hot breathes.

[marshiiicake]

Sketches that I drew in my notebook p3

[roman-cup]

WIP tag game!

If you’re tagged, make a new post and share one to two sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context. Let your followers guess!

Tagged by @twilight-skies

Okay so trigger warning for mentions of death and killing, this is also based on a conversation I had with @astarsvoid about minecraft diaries Zane and Janus:

It was quiet.

They had a plan. Janus would die tonight in this room, with Zane as his killer.

It was supposed to be quick, and for what its worth, it would be honorable. Zane would make the final wound. He'd make sure it was fast; he'd never ask Janus to suffer for him.

tags: @astarsvoid @more-than-tender-curiosity @sleepyjay7(idk how often all of you write feel free to ignore this if you need to)

[mangotelevision]

The jury of nine is the very essence of forced family, they all hate each other but they have to get along because they're all they have left

[attourney-at-lycan]

i am begging to see aaron, janus or garroth in this

[warlocks-and-phoenixes]

My thoughts on Zane’s ships basically boil down to

Kiki: I could fix him

Lillian: I could make him worse

Janus: we could make each other worse

[xerith-42]

Redesign the Nine Part 2

That's right babey, we're doing a part 2! Because I went outside and sat in the sun but the brain rot still consumed as it does and I had premonitions about more of the Jury members. Before we discussed ones who were completely new, reworking characters from MyStreet into MCD. This time I want to take a closer look at three Jury members who we know were part of the Jury, but lacked on screen appearances, or depth portrayed in the appearances they got.

These are members who's stories are far more shrouded in mystery. Even the elements of it I know feel... incomplete. Because characters like lying to me and refusing to let me tell their damn story.

Let's get into it.

Lilian The Silver Tongue

That's right, she isn't going to be another scythe user, that's boring as hell. Let Ivy slay with that. Instead Lilian is a rather enigmatic member of the Jury because... She didn't go through the same process. Janus, Zachary, and Ivan were all members when Zane inherited the Jury, and everyone else went through the process via the Guard Academy. But Lilian...

Lilian was found by Zane. It was a routine trip to Nahkra, just checking in on the village so close to O'Khasis' borders. A simple trip, so he only took Janus with him. While the two were in the market place, Lilian called out to Zane from her barely functional stall. What mattered was that she had a deck of tarot cards on the table, and a peculiar look about her. [proceeds to pull out my tarot cards and do a divination or two]

She didn't know anything about Zane. Lilian wasn't from Ru'aun, she was a runaway from Gal'ruk. She didn't know about Zane, or O'Khasis, just that she saw a nobleman and his guard and had a distinct feeling about them. The reading she got of him was even more fascinating that her gut feeling. She didn't even know his name and he didn't know hers but she knew there was a great mystery in front of her.

The Seven of Cups, the Five of Cups, and the Reverse Nine of Swords. Over ambition, sorrow of a loss, and the potential for time to heal.

Zane was never superstitious, but he believed in the Divine. In other realms. In the supernatural. Who's to say a deck of cards couldn't be used to predict the future, or read the inner parts of a person? These cards were accurate enough to give him pause at the explanation. Enough to make him stop and listen to the odd hooded woman who was suddenly speaking words the public had yet to hear of. They didn't know Zane's brother was dead yet, or that he had inherited O'Khasis. But her cards knew his loss.

It made Zane pay to get a better reading from her. A deeper look into him, this time with six cards that he pulled himself at her instruction. She didn't know the question Zane asked the cards, but when she read out the result, it was chilling. The question was simple; "Will my father's health get better?" The answer?

Past: The Chariot, Reversed Queen of Cups. A successful, balanced, triumphant man comfortable in his life, and a beautiful but perverse woman, not to be trusted.

Future: Reversed Fool, Knight of Wands. A hasty and impetuous man will offer a key choice, and The Seeker, be that Zane or the subject of his question, will make a foolish and disastrous choice in response to this offer. Tread with caution.

Present Attitudes: Justice, Two of Swords. A well balanced mind, body, and heart will be key to future successes. If one can keep their mind open, emotions calm, and thinking balanced, then great fortune awaits.

Lilian never gave Zane her own analysis of it, just the meanings of the cards. She left it all up to his imagination. And this was before Zane wore a mask. Even if she didn't know what he was thinking, she could see the gears turning in his head. She could see his reactions. She was piecing together who he was through these cards. He left after her reading, in an unsure position.

It was days later, when Lilian was preparing to leave and travel to another city that Zane found her again. He asked her for another reading. A simple yes or no question he wanted answered. And due to her fascination, she didn't even ask for payment. She gladly did it for him. This is a reading he didn't even let Janus witness, asking that his back be turned, and that Lilian not give him any explanation. Let the cards speak for themselves.

The answer Zane got was unsure. But he acted upon it anyway. He asked, and the cards answered. Lilian was to be the newest member of the Jury of Nine.

"What in the name of the Divine makes you think I want that?"

Lilian's retort was the final nail in the coffin. She came from nothing, she was nothing, and came to Ru'aun for nothing. Zane could offer her a proper life, an identity, a purpose. She used those cards to learn about others so she could imitate being human, and her lack of knowledge was an advantage she was keenly aware of. One Zane wanted to understand how to utilize himself. He and Lilian went back and forth for a while, but in the end he convinced her. In the end, Lilian was the first member of the Jury Zane ever assigned, and he didn't even recruit her properly.

And she instantly joined the rank of his most trusted ally at the time.

Janus the Silver Death

Janus was a member of the Jury when Garte held control, yet before that he was always assigned to help Zane. When Janus joined the Jury, he was the youngest member, the first to be freshly out of the guard academy and into the Jury. Garte preferred to bring in already hardened veterans, but he saw a ferocity in the way Janus fought, and a willingness to kill when told to do it. He was loyal and fierce. But he was young, spunky, and in need of discipline.

As was Garte's at the time youngest son, a teenage Zane. So despite attaining the best position a guard in Ru'aun can attain, Janus was given the job of babysitting body guarding the youngest Ro'meave. Awesome. He was so happy about this and it did not piss him off at all. But in spite of a... let's say less than great first impression, Janus still took the job with stride, and put his all into ensuring that Zane would be trained properly in combat.

It uhhh, didn't go that way. Instead Zane was a nerd who learned about magic and relics n shit, and Janus couldn't really stop him, but he still wanted to do his job. He still wanted to help Garte in that goal of making Zane into a potential successor for him. Janus never verbalized any confusion as to why Garroth wouldn't be more fitting of this training. In achieving this goal, Janus just encouraged Zane's interest in well, whatever nerd shit Zane was interested in. He doesn't understand any of it but Zane's clearly passionate and makes a solid case for why this is useful knowledge to have.

And when Zane becomes High Priest while Garroth is off at the Guard Academy, he selects Janus to be his top advisor. Zane hasn't even inherited the Jury yet, but he and Janus have just been doing shit together for long enough now that it just makes sense. When Zane does inherit the Jury, when Garroth fakes his death and Zane is officially named successor, Janus becomes his most trusted ally. But why does Zane trust Janus so much?

Because he doesn't ask questions. Janus was taught to be devoted to a fault, to not question his superior, and to take what he is given. When Zane asks him to go pick up the order from the butcher, he does it. When Zane asks him to help him run scenarios of taking over villages through subterfuge, he does it. When Zane asks him to slaughter an entire village while holding a probably cursed amulet so it can absorb their remaining life force or power, he does it. Unlike Zachary or Ivan, Janus wasn't loyal to Garte for very long. He is loyal to Zane.

That's why he and Lilian share the title Silver. It's a sign of loyalty to Zane, as it's his favorite color. The two members of the Jury that Zane trusts to know him on any personal level are given this title in common, even before he fully trusts either of them. He makes it mean that. I firmly believe that Zane saw almost every other member of the Jury as a pawn, or outright disposable. But Janus and Lilian? Those aren't just Jury members. Those are Zane's friends. Zane's fucked up and evil friends. Zane's friends who would help him commit war crimes.

Truly the ride or die friends of all time.

And uhh, then there's this fucking guy

Ivan the... bitch

I don't actually have a funny clever name for Ivan, I just think he's a little bitch. A little warlock bitch. I think Ivan's sick warlock powers let him get into the Jury easier, but his bitchy cocky attitude did not exactly work well with others. He was a respected fighter, but didn't often play nice with other members of the Jury, particularly Zachary who he got into a lot of fights with, and later Ivy when she joined. He was infuriating to be around, partially because he's just a massive jackass, and partially because he's so good at what he does that he gets away with being a massive jackass.

I don't have a lot to say about Ivan, I will admit. I don't have some dramatic backstory, no deeper connection with anyone, no family that's being blackmailed. Just an entitled bitch of a man. However, I did have a really interesting take about his relationship with Lucinda.

Hear me out on this; Zane finds out that he's potentially going to have to marry the heir to Pikoro. Wanting to avoid the disaster that happened when they tried to ask Garroth to marry someone he'd never met, he sends Ivan undercover into Pikoro to learn more about Lucinda and report back to Zane about his findings. His job was to just observe Lucinda, maybe talk to her once or twice, figure out what kind of person she is and whether she's actually compatible with Zane, or if this marriage is really going to be a sham.

Ivan ends up seducing her and telling Zane that she's a disloyal harlot of a witch. Because Ivan sucks. But y'know, Lucinda doesn't know about any of this, and when Ivan disappears, he lies to her. He leaves Pikoro saying that he's going back to the Academy to be a teacher there, and promises to see her again. In reality he just goes back to Zane, back to normal life, only occasionally sparing a thought for the beautiful witch he met.

And when Zane disappears with Lilian, and the Jury starts to slowly disband itself, Ivan thinks of where to go. What does he want to do with his life? Lucinda.

Good choice honestly. Prick.

That's all for today. See you losers next time when the brainrot really takes over and we tackle my favorite Jury members, who don't necessarily need redesign, but do need some fleshing out. Especially Ivy. See you then ;)

[reterols]

Mys!

Janus in museums, mouth watering over the multiple sets of armour and weapons.

Zane right next to him, about to buy everything.

[jpdrawsalot]

Jury of Nine sketches and a touch of implied Zanus. I felt like drawing armor and Janus actually somewhat properly groomed compared to how I usually draw them lol

Stickers I used to accent are from minisundaystudio on etsy (please check out their pixel art they're fantastic) and my local daiso store.

[slumber-spirals]

mmm. .. .. .. . .. … … . janus.. . . …. .. zane. .. . . . zanus…. i’m love them. .. … … .. .

[silverjurors]

Mcd Zane has enough commitment issues to fill a fucking ocean

Got Kiki knocked up via magical pendant, immediately ran away from any and all responsibilities (to the point where we don't even know if he's the actual father of Leona or not)

Decided to make Aphmau his fiancee without her knowledge/consent and then just?? Literally never did anything with that plot??? (How tf did he explain that to the people he told, like "oh it was a joke I was just trying to piss off my DEAD BROTHER haha"???? Wtf Zane???)

Janus is either blissfully unaware of the whole thing or is aware of it and I'm not sure which is worse at this point

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

JANUS IS THE NAME OF THE ROMAN GOD OF BEGINNING AND ENDS

I feel like I could do something with this but do I know what