#Jury of Nine

[mangotelevision]

working on my new katelyn design

[star-boi0720]

jeff

i was inspired to draw the golden boy by @duin-i-guess

cause ive never drawn him before surprisingly

love em

[opel164]

He’s so prettyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 💙

[laurancezvahlslefteyebrow]

Let’s talk about Dante’s outfit

So basically, I had an idea that I just wanted to put out there

dante’s outfit is the guard academy training uniform

the fact that he’s still wearing it shows just how young he is. (19) he’s actually been using it as his ‘armor’ since he left the academy at 16, but has been hopping from village to village for the past 3 years.

It’s not very functional as actual armor. It’s not meant to be. It’s intended so that once a guard finds their village, it will be replaced by the villages armor.

The shirt represents his rank in the academy.

Each rank has a color;

Purple: Top rank. Jury worthy. This guy is insanely good. On the waiting list.

Blue: Top, non jury related, rank. These guys will generally become your village head guard.

Green: Second top rank. Second in command.

Orange: Middle rank. Majority trainees fall under this category and stay here.

Red: Bottom rank. This guy is dog shit, needs a lot of work.

White: Fresh meat. Haven’t been here long enough to move up a color. Give ‘em hell, see if they stick around.

Think of the colors like belts in karate, when you move up a skill level, you gain a new tunic color.

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Dante actually finished with a purple tunic, but switched it to blue before leaving. He didn’t want the extra attention. He also tried to scratch his name off of the jury waiting list but it has binding magicks placed upon it, so he was unsuccessful.

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Now for some… Who finished training with what color!!!

Laurance and Garroth both finished with purple.

Zenix never actually went to guard academy, said he finished with red. (he didn’t know what he was saying)

Katelyn also obviously finished with purple.

Gene finished with blue, as did Sasha.

Dale finished with blue, but it was almost green. He gained blue last second.

Brian finished with orange, much to Dale’s disappointment.

Azura finished with blue.

Alexis finished with green.

Kyle finished with orange.

And Dmitri and Ninette probably both would’ve finished with blue or purple.

[lucindasthighs]

OOUHGU IM THINKING ABOUT THE RO'MEAVE SIBLINGS AGAIN AND MAKING IT YOUR PROBLEM

Garroth had the most of Garte's "good side" growing up, and as he was their only child at the time, Garte and Zianna favored him. He learned kindness and empathy from his mother as she stroked his hair at bedtime; He learned responsibility and loyalty from his father as the king told him of the future in store for him. He learned love from them. But then his father changed. Garroth learned to protect from his mother, standing in front of her when Garte yelled, just in case. He learned to sacrifice from Garte, complying with the king's many demands and rules "for the good of his people."

Vylad was born into a cold world. Garte treated him well at first, letting the child ride on his shoulders throughout the castle. But that candle of love was snuffed without remorse soon enough. In the end, from his father, he learned hatred and disgust. He had to hide from it. Yes, to hide away and be invisible, that's what he must do to survive. Survive. Survive. Survive. That's all that matters. But.. this cold world was not without comfort. In his mother's arms, he learned pity. Pity for the woman cursed with compassion and pity to all the bleeding hearts before and after her. He learned fairness from his older brother Garroth, who never saw him as lesser or wrong. Finally, Vylad learned that the cruel machinations of the world favored the strong over the good, as he plummeted into the depths of hell.

Zane, perhaps, was doomed from the start, being the young and malleable last son of Garte. Once his brothers died, there was no light that could combat the darkness weaving its way into his soul. Oh, Zianna tried to hold on to him; but Zane had already learned so much from his mother. She could not keep her own children alive. She could not protect them, protect him, as much as she liked to pretend her arms were a shield. She could not love him the same way she did his brothers because she was weak. Zane did not care when his brothers died. He didn't cry when he realized their shared bedroom would be silent forever. He never stared at the empty, faded spot on the wall where the family portrait used to be. Those emotions were useless, as his Father taught him. Zane learned how to get power; to invoke fear; to be a leader; to manipulate; to crush all those in his way without a drop of blood on his hands from Garte. The infallible High Priest, the benevolent leader of the Jury - that is Prince Zane Ro'meave.

[stellisketches]

i think the fact that Garroth never bothered to change his name lowkey indicates that it’s at least a somewhat common name throughout Ru’aun. I mean sure it could’ve just been a himbo-brained thing to do but the idea of it being a popular name really could’ve been used for peak comedy. 

Like imagine a juror getting sent to a random village thinking they’ve found the right Garroth and it’s just some dude.

Even funnier to imagine none of the jurors have met Garroth personally or really knows what he looks like so they have to drag whatever guy they found all the way back to O’Khasis show him to Zane and be like “is this the right one”

[vyladromeave]

I PROMISED AN IVY AND I AIM TO DELIVER!!!!!

[vylanka]

here's a quick concept i made of Teony as a jury of nine member

[kurithedweeb]

Remembering that time I gave Lillian the Silver Scythe kids and how it made her and Jeffory the Golden Heart foils.

Jeffory is a single dad after his wife died in childbirth with one daughter, Abby. Lillian is a single mom after her lover disappeared in the night with two sons a year apart in age, Adrian and Cassius.

They both love their kids, they'd do anything for them, but in different ways. Jeffory will do whatever's right to set an example for Abby, to show her how to be a good person, which results in his death. Lillian will do whatever she can to make it home, and that means never disobeying so she makes herself into a masterful weapon of magick and manipulation and dons a mask to separate Lillian the Mother from Lillian the Juror, one that she leaves at the door when she gets home. Neither of them ever let their kids see the bad parts of being a member of the Jury.

Jeffory dies trying to do the right thing for Abby, only for Abby to not be able to follow in his footsteps because of his death. Lillian raises her kids by the rule of do what I say not what I do, wanting to avoid them following in her footsteps and dooming themselves to a life like hers, only for them to do exactly that.

Cassius ends up in the Jury, which Abby fights against while still trying to be good like Jeffory. She reminds him of the mother he knew at home, and he reminds her of the kind soul in a wicked situation her father was. And their children go on to repeat this cycle that they've started, their families going from old friends to old enemies as the generations pass and no one can be sure how it started anymore.

No one can tell which has good intentions until eventually, one day way down the line in the MyStreet era, Jeffory and Lillian are reborn and the cycle restarts. Jeffory, golden-hearted as he is, opens his arms to the enemy and Lillian, sensing that there is something in him that something in her understands, accepts. Only for them to realize some fourty years down the line that the cycle will continue despite their and their children's best efforts.

[gumbootillustrations]

dame katelyn de feu my beloved 😭😭😭

more bits under the cut!!

katelyn first shows up to phoenix drop towards the end of season one under similar circumstances to canon mcd - jeffory's about to be executed for treason, and she's desperately trying to get his name cleared before he dies. however, when it becomes clearer and clearer to her that zane's using him as a scapegoat, she decides to turn on him and side with aphmau and the phoenix alliance ahead of the battle for phoenix drop.

in ashes, ashes, jurors were originally ordained through the bestowal of relics - however, after they went missing a couple of centuries after the first war of the magi, they pretty much became just. super politically powerful guards until about twenty years before the start of ashes, ashes, when the high priest of o'khasis at the time (zane's predecessor) figured out a way to bestow the powers of the juror relics to the jurors without using the relics themselves. anyway, its blood magick and it essentially brands the jurors with a seven-pointed star on their foreheads as a mark of the ritual being completed. katelyn hates what the ritual has turned her into - even though long hair is lowkey pretty impractical in a fight, she keeps hers long so that her mark is hidden (jeffory did the same, and garroth will also grow his hair out a little to cover his mark). when she transforms, a lot of the saturation in her skin in hair is drained out due to the magick not being suuuper holy (in fact, the first casting of the ritual upset the balance of the universe so much that it woke up the primordial gods n they sicked a plague on o'khasis that garte would later blame on tu'lan biological warfare). additionally, because the magick of the ritual sort of like. blends in? with any magicks or witchcraft already present in the juror their juror form will reflect this - katelyn has fire magicks, so when she transforms, her hair turns into this sort of sickly pale blue fire. her fire is hot enough that it burns blue anyway, but yeah.

katelyn burns her juror armour the minute she can once everyone gets out of the irene dimension. for a while, she just wears whatever she can scrounge up from around phoenix drop, but when cadenza finds out about this she gives katelyn this outfit! it's definitely done out of the kindness of her heart, there definitely aren't any ulterior motives don't worry. it's a lot more of a mercenary-ish look compared to her juror armour, but katelyn likes it just fine - especially since a certain flame-haired seamstress with a winning smile made it especially for her.

a little headcanon i have about katelyn - i feel like even though she isn't great at sewing, having grown up in a minor noble house in o'khasis, i feel like she would have some skills with textiles. specifically, i feel like she'd knit and/or crochet in her down time! before everyone heads out to gal'ruk, she knits everyone some mittens/scarves/socks/etc. not sweaters, though - she's loathe to admit it, but she's a firm believer in the sweater curse. otherwise, nothing much changes except that she throws on a coat and calls it a day - i like to think that, similar to laurance, she runs a little hotter than most people due to her fire magicks sort of acting as a bit of an internal furnace, so she doesn't need to bundle up quite as much as the others.

her day-to-day outfit is pretty much her standard guard outfit without the armour. she does wear an underbust corset/belt/thing with a small pouch attached, though - its very useful for carrying around knickknacks n stuff. otherwise, there's not much else to really comment on? idk. i probably shouldve added in some scars on her arms but its 11:30 pm at the time im writing this n ive spent way too long on this dang ref sheet already so yeah.

i decided to change up her conqueror form quite a bit - the form i drew in my original lineup of the second war's divine warriors wasn't really katelyn n looking back on it i shouldve spent more time trying to get it right. anyway, katelyn's mother was from southern tu'la, and was from a merchant family with some distant blood ties to the royal family - katelyn is technically related to the king of tu'la, but the relation is so distant that she doesn't really consider him (or any of the tu'lan nobles, really) to be blood relations. it's through this lineage, though, that she's able to resonate with menphia's relic, although it definitely helps that she's the second war's incarnation of the conqueror. mostly, the design notes from her first conqueror design remain the same - all i've really done is change the colour palette.

aaaand some headshots. i haven't exactly worked out how she got her facial scars - the big one was probably gotten on her first major assignment as a juror. however, it's nasty enough that when it healed it sort of fucked up her facial muscles - the scar tissue has permanently warped the right side of her mouth into a grimace, so anytime she makes a facial expression it's pretty lopsided (it's especially noticeable when she smiles). also, i changed the titling system for the jury to be more similar to the commonwealth knighthood system? like as much as i think "lady katelyn" is sick as fuck, the fact that it's the same title used for the female spouses of lords just sorta,,, didn't sit right? i guess? so yeah. dame katelyn.

anyway, feel free to ask questions if u want! :D

[jurysbane]

the jury of nine is nine queers holding hands while committing war crimes. leave them be!

[mangotelevision]

jo9 headshots

[relicuser]

Ok so considering Ivy and Lily are cousins in my street. Does that mean they are also cousins in MCD?

Anyways, new headcanon that back when Lily was alive, Ivy would come and visit her in falconclaw and babysit Jacob.

[snekverse]

MCD height chart and style guide V3!

Not 100% sold on these designs, but with this finished I at least have a jumping off point for when I inevitably revamp them :)

As always please ask away if you have any question or comments about their designs/the design choices I made, I'm always happy to chat!

[that-one-i-think]

I regretfully do have to say this:

If one was going to make an MCD! Accurate Personality Zane into Phoenix Drop High, we all have to accept that he would be that one try hard, almost incel kid with an incredibly toxic friend group but is still somehow weirdly popular. Nepo popular

Jury of Nine? All people he met at Bible camp and they hung out together cause they were the black sheep and not like the other mindless followers. The only reason Katelyn and Jeffory joined them because the other Jury of Nine were the only people their age who weren't VERY OBSESSED with religion. Katelyn was just there for dodgeball, man.

The Jury of Nine is also one of the most toxic discord servers. Zane ends up banning Jeffory and Katelyn for being traitors, aka befriending Aphmau and Garroth.

[lucindaspartnerrealandtrue]

'Unleash the Magic' from MLP: Equestria Girls but it's Zane convincing Brian to betray Phoenix Drops. The students are a few members from the jury of nine. Does anyone else see my vision?