#Laurmau

[laurmaus]

a tribute to my favorite ship from age 8 to 18 You will never escape me AND A WELCOME BACK TO THEEE LAURANCE ZVAHL!!!!!

[that-one-i-think]

While Garmau was my main MCD ship during my time, I do enjoy writing Laurmau when I am shipping Garroth with other characters (cause he is my multiship dude) because it is truly tragic.

To me, and in my characterization of Laurance, I find him to be a character who is completely unable to move on from his love for Aphmau, for good and bad. He was absolutely infatuated with this kind woman who is always trying her best for the others around her despite her and their flaws, then had the emotion increased tenfold by a truly traumatizing experience. Now he is attached to her, a genuine love corrupted by trauma. Thus, a trauma bond (not good nor bad)

Now, the difficult part comes when I want to write Laurmau, because fundamentally to me Laurance will never change (both out of inability due to his nature and because he does not want to, he loves Aphmau, that is who he is). Aphmau will though, she can change, she IS CHANGE! Everything she touches as a character changes for better and worse, so the tragedy comes on whether or not I want Laurmau to be reciprocated. If it is, wonderful, Laurance will put in effort to heal and work on himself because he views himself as an extension of Aphmau, and she needs to be perfect. If Aphmau doesn't reciprocate, he will forever pine because that is who he is, a lover boy.

I will never say that either character led each other on or deserved better or was predatory or whatever because they don't/aren't in the context of the story. Aphmau and Laurance don't know their relationship is toxic, they don't know how weird their behavior is because they only know what they know from their perspective, we have the full picture. (Also they follow incredibly common anime tropes that are not considered weird in those contexts/the animes of the time)

Neither of them are ever intentionally hurtful, with both following their own needs, with those actions having consequences that we may be able to see but they can't. They are a tragedy of their unknowing hands with us fueling it by observing. Making it exist from our observation.

[lewiswis]

"Polyamory really would've saved them all a lot of heartbreak-" i completely agree, here's a 2 month old garrancemau sketch i have in my ibis🫶🙏

[daintq]

i’m literally BEGGING people to make more laurmau fanfics i am so deprived

[somesmartsmarties]

Aphblr what do we think about MCD laurmau as Rapunzel and Flinn from tangled

[a-riotdog]

I drew this for a DTIYS on instagram!! a

Time taken; 6hrs and 45min

Program; Krita

[lyraofthestarsss]

Thinking about how Garroth and Laurance’s personalities switch in early season 2

Garroth, who’s trapped in the Irene dimension, possibly forever. He knows that he’ll either die at the hands of his own brother at any moment. Or maybe he survives, a fate worse than death as he wanders the massive Irene chapel alone for eternity. He knows that these dream sequences he shares with Aphmau are the few fleeting moments he has with her, and he’s not even completely sure if their meetings will suddenly stop one day. So, he takes every opportunity he can to get closer to her

The first thing he did in this dream world was kiss her, fully believing that he might never get the chance to otherwise. He’s… different from the Garroth she knew before. The Garroth from before would always keep to himself. He would create a respectable distance between the two of them. And he opens up to her about regretting his actions. Garroth wants to be closer with her. He wants to be something more than just friends, something much more than just a simple Lord and her Guard. And so he flirts. He asks Aphmau if he’s more handsome than Aaron. He revels in the rosy tint on her cheeks because it’s he who was the one to make her flustered like that. He tells her that she looks cute when she blushes, and he laughs at the playful banter that follows. This is what he’s always wanted. Now is a better time than any to just go for it

Laurance, on the other hand, has all the time in the world to get closer with Aphmau. But he doesn’t take it. Why? Because he already knows how she feels about him. He confessed once in his most vulnerable moment when he was blinded and badly injured from his time in the nether. He confessed again on their way home from Metelli, after he nearly lost Cadenza to a shadow knight trying to sacrifice her. Both times, her answer remained the same. Aphmau didn’t like him back, and he’s trying desperately to suppress these feelings back within himself. Laurance is her guard. It’s his job to protect her. He’s happy just being by her side. That’s what he tells Cadenza when she confronts him about these feelings

But his body fails him when he finds himself getting flustered around Aphmau. He can’t hide behind his confident and flirty persona around her anymore. She’s already seen him in his most darkest moments, so that vulnerability slips out when she’s around. “Don’t you dare run to where I can’t protect you” those words come from deep within himself. That love he feels for her is not going away, no matter how hard he tries to ignore it. His face flushes when he realizes the weight of his own words. Those words were far too romantic and emotional for a pair of “just friends”. He apologizes and excuses himself, hoping that he didn’t cross any of her boundaries. Despite all this, despite this distance between them he desperately tries to maintain, he can’t help the heat that rises to his cheeks. He loves her. He really does

[sparklefaceaphblog]

Someone get these drunk fools

[dilly-dahlia]

and what if i made laurmau a (semi) toxic codependent relationship in my rewrite. what then.

[kmmurpg]

Tavern Hopping!!!

[silmetal]

I spent way too long on this idk how to render I’m genuinely tweaking

Laurmau art based on Accolade by Edmund Leighton

[passionfruitswirl]

This post would have done numbers back when it was actually a trend

[baskilisk]

A little Garrencemau for (totally not the day after) Valentine's Day ♡

[awbublie]

ough my dear

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

aph and her love interests

NOW THEORIZE

[giloxx]

its laurmau time baby (also posted on my instagram giloxx)

[beau-bunny]

Portraits of the polycule + graphing out the relationship dynamics for the rewrite