MCD but Dante quite literally waited for Aphmau for fifteen years
When they return Aphmau goes to the spot she told Dante to wait and she is met with a grave
On his tombstone it had the usual stuff and then something like “he is still waiting for his sister to come home” and Aphmau breaks down
His cape is tied to the tombstone and she immediately takes it and holds it
She wears the cape for the remainder of the series
She blames herself for leaving her brother waiting
Dante stood in the same spot and waited for his sister to come home and like a loyal guard he didn’t let himself get distracted by anything not offers of food, blankets, or sanctuary he didn’t move and he died there
Alina is a middle name her first name is Dante named after her loyal uncle
Okay so now we have the perfect enemies to lovers-
But have my Kawaii~Chan…don’t mind that I threw up in my mouth a bit when writing that. But I like her whole maid aesthetic but didn’t want to push it, so instead I gave her a more Lolita fashion vibe. I wanted her to still look a bit like a maid since idk it’s cute.
LUCINDA!!! LETS FUCKEN GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! LETS GO LESBIANS LETS GOOOOO!!!!! Ahem- I wanted Lucinda to be hot that’s it, that’s all, but I wanted to give the sexy witch vibe since she deserves it and she was an awakening for me. I also really wanted her to be more mysterious and spooky. She has secrets and doesn’t want to share them. She also likes woman because I say so 🥴🥴🥴🥴
I feel like the fact that Donna acted as a mother figure to Aphmau isn't talked about enough. This random girl showed up to the village she lived in, and this woman, who at the time considered herself to be all alone with no family sje claimed, took in this girl and treated her as her own daughter.
There is something about that to me that is so soft it hurts my soul, the idea that Aphmau, the reincarnation of Irene the MATRON, found a mother figure in some 'random' famer woman from a run down little town.
And Donna is not perfect by any means, and she doesn't need to be, hell she probably doesn't want to be. Aphmau could have chosen any of the older women in Phoenix Drop, but out of all of them was Donna, a rough woman who wanted nothing but a husband who looked good and would take care of her. She chose to look after Aphmau, to be a mother figure for this lost girl.
Maybe, in a way Donna saw a bit of herself in Aphmau. A girl lost with no mom, just trying to find her way in the world, and Donna wanted to be to Aphmau what she never had; a loving and caring mother.
Donna has always been one of my favorite characters, and she always will be. In her 'vainess' lies a deep love for her fellow citizens of Phoenix Drop, and I feel she gets over looked so often. I still like to believe that no matter what, even after those 15 years she still saw Aphmau as her first born. Even if she was never truly Aphmau's mom, and never could be in the most base sense, she still saw her, the next Lady Irene, as her little girl to protect. Maybe the fact that Aphmau never aged those 15 years nailed it in for her, that Aphmau was still her little girl, even if she never saw those young child years.
Maybe I'm being too sappy, but Donna's relationship with Aphmau makes me emotional. I adore seeing caring, loving mothers in fiction, and Donna feels like Aphmau was her world for so long, and she adore that girl like she was her own.
I love Sylvana, but it was a missed oppertunity to make Donna and Logan Aphmau's adoptive parents or something.
I wanted to draw her being dramatic w/ her dogs, but the problem is that i dont actually have designs for her dogs so i just half assed some wolf-ish puppers-
Also pictured here is my hc that aph is pretty religious, idk how to put my justification into words i just hc in :/
Heres some other bits :D (including the dress ref)
Heya! First post on this blog. I'm a huge Aphmau fan and I'm currently rewatching every single lore-relevant RP, though I'm almost done with them!
I also like the implied meta plot of original Diaries and had fun somewhat including the concept in this piece. That's just my Deltarune fan self spilling into other fandoms though...
Garroth really likes giving Aph flower crowns in Canon MCD, probably because he just likes seeing her wear them, but entertain the thought of him making them for her. Garroth sitting alone in a patch of flowers in the forest weaving them together and imagining her wearing it. Making her new ones whenever times are hard because they always make her smile, and things are always just a little easier for everyone when she can smile like that.
It takes a lot to admit that, even more for me to admit that about MCD, but I was wrong about something in regards to this series. In a previous post I said that the worst episode of MCD was Season 2 Episode 95, because it was the culmination of the absolute failure that was Laurance's character arc. And I wasn't wrong about that, S2E95 is an objectively bad episode and I stand by it being one of the worst. But it's only one of the worst episodes of this series. Probably second or third worst.
The actual worst episode of Minecraft Diaries happens far earlier in it's run time than I anticipated. The actual episode that begins the degrading of every single main character happens within it's first season. The worst episode of Minecraft Diaries is Season 1 Episode 65, Our Fears.
For those of you who haven't watched MCD in a minute, or aren't insane like I am and recognize what happens in an episode from just a number and a thumbnail, this is the episode where Aphmau and Dante get chased into Malachi's abandoned castle and fall victim to his uncontrollable magic. A magic that shows people their greatest fears.
Now the concept of a ghost that forces the audience and the characters to come face to face with the leading characters greatest fears is a fantastic idea. I'm serious this is one of the best concepts for character work in the entire Aphverse. This is great, this can go so many good ways.
Aphmau's fear is pretty weak mostly because it shows her house on fire, nobody hurt, and Malachi comments that she's "Scared of losing the ones you love." My honest reaction to this was "She lost her house in episode 36 and didn't seem to care because her loved ones are safe. You wanna communicate that she's scared of people dying just show Zoey lying on the ground or something smh." It gets the job done, but not very well.
Dante's fear is the only one that's well done because it's an image of Gene about to rip apart the realm barrier in the Nether. This works surprisingly well despite only being one shot because it gets across Dante's connection to Gene and the Nether pretty well, setting up for the reveal later on. Dante's existence is this episode's single redeeming quality. And as much as I like the guy, he's not enough to hold up the episode after what happens next.
Now, dear viewer who presumably knows the plot of MCD because you've read this far into a post about this single episode, you know that at this point in the series Garroth has been found out by his brother and has the looming threat of the entire O'Khasis military on his mind all the damn time. Zane has already hurt members of his village in direct ways, and only didn't do more damage because he was called away for an emergency. Garroth has already failed to protect one lord, and he's nearly failed to protect another.
Laurance is a shadow knight. And even though the lore of shadow knights is still flimsy at this point, we know that they are very prone to killing lords, it's why Laurance renounced his position as head guard of Meteli and refuses to return. But that doesn't mean his desire for blood is gone. It just means it has a new target. Like say, the lord he comes to the castle in search of? That he has explicit romantic feelings for?
Again, this idea of forcing the audience and the characters to face their greatest fears is such a good idea, especially with these three, because they can all be interlinked. Aphmau fears losing her loved ones, Garroth fears failing to protect his people, and Laurance fears that he'll give into bloodlust. Are you picking up what I'm putting down? I don't know if I can make it anymore obvious where the show should have gone from here.
But, no, unfortunately Jesson wrote this series. So what could have been one of the best moments of character work in the entire series, instead became the beginning of the end for our would be love interests. I'm of course referring to how it's revealed that their actual "worst fear" is Aphmau getting with... Another guy. Not even her picking one over the other, just her holding hands with and kissing some guy that Garroth and Laurance DON'T EVEN KNOW!
And despite Laurance saying he's happy as long as he has Aphmau in his life, he starts getting enraged that another guy would have the audacity to kiss her. Even though the scene he's shown seems to be entirely consensual. And in response to this, BOTH OF THEM DECIDE TO TRY AND KILL THIS ILLUSION OF DANTE JUST FOR KISSING THE GIRL THEY LIKE!
AND THIS IS SEEN AS A GOOD THING BY THE SHOW!! Attacking this illusion breaks the barrier around the real Aphmau and Dante, and Garroth and Laurance are never punished for their actions here. Aphmau is barely concerned that her guards, the men she's willing to trust with her life, were willing to kill someone for the crime of kissing her. Hot fucking take, Aphmau maybe shouldn't trust these people after seeing that they're willing to kill a man over the crime of loving her when they want to.
And even hotter take, GARROTH AND LAURANCE WOULDN'T DO THIS! Both men have been shown to be highly protective over Aphmau, which makes sense it's literally their job to keep her safe, but that protective nature shouldn't cross over into actively interfering with her romantic life. They're fucking lucky it was just an illusion, what would have happened if Malachi used mind control? What if he was using Aphmau and Dante's bodies as puppets? What if Garroth and Laurance just killed an amateur guard whose only crime was being forced to kiss the girl they liked?
This is one of those writing decisions that truly baffles me. It was RIGHT THERE, HOW DID YOU MISS, IT (the perfect piece of character work) WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU! The answer is that Jesson don't really care about the interesting character work, they care about tropes. They care about the main character being in a love triangle with two guys who equally suck but in different ways. They care about fans getting excited and debating over which ship is better. They care about pushing this love triangle onto viewers regardless of what makes sense for the characters involved because the writers fail to see the nuance of the characters that they fucking wrote the nuance of.
I fucking hate Episode 65. Easily the worst episode of MCD. Any episode after this when Garroth and Laurance act horrendously out of character in service of this love triangle (I'm looking at you episode 77, and episode 90, and season 2 episode 95, and season 2 episode 98), know that it started here. It started with episode 65.
aphmau's attachment to aaron is so random. she had so much build up with laurance and garroth and didn't fall for them, but then this guy shows up, she knows nothing of him and is all "oMg wHEre iS PooKiE??? 😰😰" FYM "POOKIE"???
forever upset with jason and what he did to the story.
Honestly the greatest tragedy for me from season 3 of mcd being canceled was not getting to see the rest of the shadow knight rebellion storyline.
Laurance, after seemingly resigning himself to his nature at the end of s2, is back swinging and with a whole group behind him. It only makes sense; he was Head Guard of Meteli after all.
Zenix has shakily settled himself into a role of right-hand man and has reigned himself in compared to when we last heard of him.
How did Zenix meet Laurance? Does he know who is? What he meant to the man who basically raised him? Does Laurance know what Zenix meant to his brother in arms?
Did Laurance ever wonder about Aphmau's unborn child? Did he ridicule himself for "pretending" to care after lashing out at her? Does he see the blazing fire and think of his beloved sister's hair?
What kind of Shadow Knights chose to stand behind them? What's their game plan in all this- To kill Shad? What happens after, if they can even do it? Have they even thought about it?
So many damn questions and we'll never know. Man 🐴
Shout out to Aphmau mf really making me get a headache from the color purple.
But this is my interpretation of most of the outfits Aphmau is dressed up in season 1 of MCD. Imma explain them in a kinda simple way and some ideas I got when doodling them!
Adventure outfit/ the starting fit- The outfit Aph wears most of the time, it is her base skin and a simple purple top with grey pants and grey boots, it don’t have much going for I but it’s comfortable and easy to fight and move in.
Bridesmaids outfit- This is what she wears during Donna’s wedding (I forgot the flower crown) but it’s not to easy to fight in and very much is just a simple and comfortable dress.
Amethyst dress- The dress that was given to Aph when she made it to Pikoro Village. It isn’t to good to fight in but damn Aph looks good
4. Nude- I just needed to make a base, but this is what her markings look like teehee
5. Winter clothes- the clothing Aph is given when she is traveling through the snowy lands. It is padded and all and all a very warm outfit, though it is kinda heavy.
6. Lord Outfit- The outfit Aph wears when her village is attacked, it is breathable and able to work with her fighting style(a lot more speed and agility based) She slay