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Vylad I drew for @vyladromeave! Local quiet shadow knight shows up for once.

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mcd s2 doodles!!

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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if you could only see me now / i know i'd disappoint somehow

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something else.

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Hehehehe

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Story time for little Travis

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A Fun Day With Aphmau & Levin

- Garroth

A cute little drawing of Aphmau, Garroth, and Levin from my rewrite <33

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I was wrong

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.

Fuck this episode.

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MCD Rewrite - Gene

BRUUUHHHHHHH his palette FOUGHT me dude. I wanted it to include red with some blue undertones to reflect his brother, while at the same time he needed to be wearing mostly black and stuff since he’s more cloak and dagger + his magick type. So hopefullyyyy it comes across

Text on the image is under the cut!

+ Older brother of Dante, after their mother left them, he took care of him

+ He was very protective and supportive of Dante (aka can, has, and will beat tf out of transphobes)

+ Was born with magicks, specifically the ability to overshadow (basically possession + meat puppets) and would use this to steal/ get opportunities for him and his brother, much to Dante’s chagrin

+ Conflicted, one day Dante vents to an adult he thought he could trust about the moral delima but uh oh! The bitch was lying and cannot be trusted. He rallies the town and they go on a witch hunt, burning Gene at the stake (part of this can be seen on Dante’s sheet)

+ Thanks to working with the guards, he comes back as a shadow knight. This new magicks melded well with his innate abilities, allowing him to not only quickly climb the ranks, but to also become shadow itself.

+ I like to think that his power motifs differ from the straight up flame abilities most of the knights wield, because (A) not only does it blend well with his powers, but his personality too and (B) the dood is a bit scared of fire

+ Most of his body is made up of burn scar tissue, and thanks to revival magicks he’s able to still move around p easily and stuff, but he still has to wear compression clothes, treat the burn sights with care, and has horrible tremors. Not to mention his fine motor skills are basically gone

+ He’s got a quiet but authoritative Deep raspy voice thanks to being a burnt chicken nugget

Extra Notes

+ He becomes desaturated when uses smoke abilities (specifically when he turns into smoke

+ Compression wraps and shirt to help w burn scars pain and he has more underneath his baggy pants and such

+ There is a scar chart revealing burn scars covering most of his body, all the way up to his neck

+ He/Him

+ Age: 21

+ Height: 6’ 1”

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I wanna put laurance in a snow globe

May I present!!

Your promised boi

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golden slumbers fill your eyes / smiles awake you when you rise

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MCD Rewrite - Vylad

I’m not late y’all were early, dw about it XD

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a few Shadow Knight things <3

(all the sk are my babies i love them)

Their finger tips, toes, tips of their ears and tongues are black. Many Shadow Knights cover themselves with gloves and hoods and face coverings to hide them

They have long black claws that are very sharp, and curl if they grow more than half an inch

If a Shadow Knight died in a violent way (eg stabbed) they’ll have a scar where the injury was, but they do not scar if injured after becoming a Shadow Knight

Their eye colours can change from what they were when they were alive (eg: red if immortal or green to blue like Laurence)

They teeth are pointed extremely sharp

Their eyes are foggy and often the pupil is either too big or too small, they also never blink. Its not noticeable at first but the longer you look at them the more unsettling it becomes.

Since they aren’t alive their body doesn’t make blood so they don’t bleed. If they do cut themselves a dark black grainy ooze comes out instead

They are extremely sensitive to the cold and prefer staying in warm places. Since they cannot burn they can bathe in lava and some even swallow matches to warm themselves if they’re forced to travel threw a cold climate

You don’t need to be evil to be turned into a Shadow Knight, however its widely believed by Irene followers that if you die and come back a Shadow Knight, its a punishment for something horrible you did in life.

Their armour is a shell. It’s hard and dense and feels like crab shells. It can be prickly or smooth. It can form over clothes and drops off when they transform to their usual selves.

When a mortal knight transforms their irises turn red and bloodshot, but when an immortal knight transforms their pupils become red and the rest of the eye turns a dark grey.

Their hair doesn’t grow. It stays the length it was at when they died unless they cut then it stays at whatever length they cut it to

Shadow Knights are territorial and prefer to be alone than with other people (especially in the Nether)

Shadow Knights are at their strongest in the Nether, due to it being entirely made of dark magic just like them

Their skin can feel unbearably warm to other beings

They don’t like apples. They just don’t

They forge their own weapons with a special ore that only forms at the bottom of lava pools in the Nether

They can go for 2 weeks without eating and when they do eat they eat almost half their body weight

They are extremely emotional creatures that hate and love deeply. There used to be (an untrue) rumour that you could kill a Shadow Knight by making them fall in love with you then breaking their heart

Despite the fact that Shadow Knights do live among other beings in the overworld, many people believe they’re extinct or a myth. They’re good at blending in when they need

Most of them are colour blind

If they stay away from the Nether for long enough they start experiencing audio hallucinations telling them to come back. In the beginning its tolerable since they’re always experiencing some kind of hallucination at any given time but the more they ignore them the louder and more demanding and violent the hallucinations get until they’re visual and sensory hallucinations too. They just get overwhelmed and when they return to Nether they get a rush of adrenaline and dopamine that becomes very addictive quickly

yeah thats all for now im working of things mkayyyy

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more of my kc !!

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i physically cannot stop myself from making more

the laury and katelyn one isn’t a ship btw

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It’s all fun and games to homebrew a DnD campaign in the Diaries universe until you gotta get schedules and peoples sheets and backstories done

Borderline tho I’m so proud of myself. I cooked with some of the divine warrior subclasses and the races of Shadow Knight and Werewolf

#aphblr #aphmau #minecraft diaries #mcd #yes I have made a dnd campaign for my friends #I finished the homebrew like a few weeks ago it’s in the infant stages