#laurance mcd

[thefishywizard]

Season 1 Garrancemau you're so special to me

[awbublie]

ough my dear

EXAMS WILL NOT STOP ME FROM CREATING!!!!!

aph and her love interests

NOW THEORIZE

[oopbackinmymcdphase]

Day 11 - Control

What I think the vision should have been! Laurance and aphmau betraying everyone would hit Garroth so hard after everything. Kissing fine but how DARE they be evil WITHOUT HIM ;(

Speedpaint :3 ⬇️

[mcfanaticx3]

Meme I Drew

(It’s messy cause I did it on a phone)

[thelaundryghost]

did some character design figuring!! may yet change my laurance so i did a bunch of studies of existing hairstyles i've seen for him. artists creds are below!! absolutely obsessed with the way dante came out though he's so cute

artists for hairstyle designs left to right, top to bottom:

@pickled-jester @ffantasy-707 @kiwiiibee @here1snyan @thefishywizard

[jinkiesmariz]

:3c

He's so cute too bad this will never be real </3 (old chibi charm thing i dont like anymore, especially the palette) ill probably rip the pose from this tho cuz i cfan lmfao

also sneak peak at one of the laur charms cuz urthghg i have to work on him in order to start katelyn and michi and then vylad maybe idfk

also small katelyn charm design ig cuz im feeling sillyyy :3333

[scribsisnotdead]

close enough, welcome back laurance zvahl!

[emoboybrony]

Ill admit ive never been that into laurence (any his variations really) but something has been really bothering me since rewatching parts of MCD.

What really caught my attention about MCD Laurence is that he starts out as this well adjusted, loyal knightly and charming guy- and then after he becomes a shadow knight you just see this slow decay of him. Like hes slowly losing parts of himself and its causing him to become more and more unstable to the point where by the end of season 2 hes honestly kind of terrfying.

And ALOT of that is reflected with how his relationship with aphmau starts to shift. He goes from this sweet, suave and honestly pretty silly personality, to being so obsessive and vindictive towards her.

Theres this one scene, at the end of ep 95 S2, where aphmau has just essentially seen a ghostly image of aaron and is really shaken up by it. Laurence comes to sit with her and ask her about it. And at first, it genuinely seems like hes just trying to get her to open up so he can support her. But then it quickly spirals into him demanding to know why she cares about aaron so much and why shes greiving so hard for him, like its a problem. He becomes so aggressive and condensending to the point where Garroth has to intervene and he walks off.

In this moment you see how far hes really fallen, he goes from semingly reasuring and gentle, and by the end of it hes disrepecting a dead man, who gave his life to save both his brother and supposed love of his life, who he travelled and fought along side with for months, who close to the end of his life was taking care of an orphan (something he comlimented in aphmau), and hes thowing all of that out the window because hes taken Aphmau's attention, due to the fact he fucking died.

After that happens, aphmau has a conversation woth vlyad where he basically tells her that laurence has to accept what he is and go to the nether or else hes gonna go insane, and that the only reason he came back is because hes "chasing a fantasy". Aphmau responds by suggesting they get cadenza over so that he can be with family, and vlyad says she can do what she wants but implies its pretty much inevitable that laurence is going to hit a breaking point. And hes completely right.

Before laurence even gets to speak to cadenza, he eavesdrops on the conversation where aphamu reveals shes pregnant, and just immediately peaces out, out of fear that hes going to MURDER HER.

Not to mention that in that conversation, cadenza herself tells aphmau not to tell laurence because shes scared of how he would react. He has gotten so unstable that his own sister, who loves him more than anything, can recognise that he is a danger to some degree and shes RIGHT.

All this paints a stark contrast, the laurence we first met vs the man he has now become. Its tragic because its this inevitable downfall brought on by an act that was completely selfless, him sacrificing himself that got him turned into a shadow knight in the first place.

Even this is eventually tainted, his selfless act becomes a selfish one as he seems to cling to aphmau's love and affection as an emotional crutch. Aphmau obviously loves and cares for him deeply, but not in an explicitly romantic/sexual way. And if she doesnt love him the way he wants, then why is he suffering through this? Why did he bother to sacrafice himself at all if theres no reward? Its honestly horrifying how pretty much everyone who loved and respected him, makes what should be incredibly out of place predictions on him, but they always end up being right except for aphmau. She cant accept that hes changing and theres nothing she or anyone else can do change that. Its gut wrenching.

This all lead me to beileve that i didnt give enough credit to his character. I love this. This is the type off tragic story telling im here for. Theres so much more to this character than i ever expected.

Heres the thing.

Why the fuck do laurence's biggest fans seem to just completely disregard this? If you believed a good portion of the fandom, laurence is just this sauve uwu sad boy who was unfairly rejected and ignored by a woman who demamded the world from him.

Im dead serious, i saw people saying that laurence "deserved better than aphmau", that he deserved someone who recognised the sacrafice he made. Which like- there is so much to unpack there.

First of all, aphmau did recognise his sacrafice, she did love him and try to support him in the best way she could, even when literally everyone around her was saying it was a lost cause. She did everything she could for that man and forgave so much of what he did while struggling with the calling and she got nothing but shit for it.

Second of all, no the fuck he doesnt?? As illustrated in the examples above he did not respect Aphmau's boundaries. He did not respect her feelings. And by the end, he didnt even respect her bodily autonomy. Lets be honest here, he basically abandoned everyone he apprantly "loved", because bro tapped it before he could. She loved him so much, but because he wanted something she wasnt willing or able to provide, that being explicitly romantic and sexual attention, he just didnt see it. To try and argue that hes the real victim here, is in the same vain of "nice guys finish last". Him being kind, compassionate and selfless- shouldnt be reliant on whether or not this woman will fuck him or not. That is an insanely misogynistic way of thinking.

But most important to me in the context of this analysis- what is there to like about laurence with this interpretation? What possibly sets him apart from the gazillion other brunette pretty anime bois? Am i to gay for this? Is there something im not seeing?

I understand fanon can wildly divert from canon, and i understand that alot of this is probably down to the fact that i find dissecting and critiquing canon more intresting than reinventing it through fanon. Im locked into the Baldurs gate 3 fandom and i had the same experience there (laurence fangirls got NOTHING on Astarion girlies). But both experiences have left me with the same question- what draws you to a character, when all you do is boil them down to their most generic aspects?

I find Laurence intresting cause we are seeing this man crash out and become a monster in real time. And i dont see how he is worth even an honourable mention, when you take that away.

What is there left to be compelled to?

[lyraofthestarsss]

What’s this?

AND HERE COMES AARON LYCAN WITH A METAL CHAIR!

[gumbootillustrations]

long time no see tumblr i have returned to wish mcd a (very belated) happy 10 yrs

[dilly-dahlia]

hair holds memories what about Aphmau cutting her hair short so she didn’t resemble Irene as strongly and carry that burden

hair holds memories what about Laurance cutting his hair after he returned from the nether and being turned into a shadow knight and then growing it out as he builds a new family and life for himself after

[awbublie]

chat i love leyendecker and aphmau so i mushed them together (full below) laurmau jumpscare

i went to an exhibit of j.c leyendecker earlier this year. I was already a fan of some of his works, like his works for the sunday evening post/ but when i saw his painting romeo and juliet, I KNEW IN MY SOUL

that i had peaked.

see and i dont even ship laurmau like that but honestly i felt he was more fitting for the romeo.

ref.

[euphorune]

omg heeey... disappeared for a minute bc im in a happy relationship but heres The Boy !! pose reference below the cut,, this one i did traditional which im more confident with :)

[laurmaus]

how does she do it

[roxxie-spirt]

They make me happy

IM SORRY FOR NOT POSTING HERE I NEED TO REMEMBER TO I’ll be uploading doodles soon

[starhvney]

when i was younger the scene of both garroth and laurance turning into their alternate forms genuinely changed me as a person i think, so here's a wip i never ended up finishing of them!