#MCD shadow knights

[kurithedweeb]

I really like the visual of prominent death scars on Shadow Knights and the idea that Gene’s is around his neck. There’s no canon for how he died as far as I know, but popular fanon is hanging and beheading. 

Personally, I like to go with beheading, but there’s no guillotine in my version of fantasy land! That means they have to do it by hand, old-school. Gene is made to kneel, hands bound, head down, and someone stands over him with a freshly sharpened sword. It’s probably a guard, one of his own men, maybe even one who regrets having to do this. If he’s lucky, the angle will be just right and the first strike will sever his spinal cord.

Oh, but Gene wouldn’t go quietly, would he? He’s been betrayed by his own brother, his own soldier is being made to kill him, he’s furious, he’s fighting against the guards forcefully escorting him through the streets. He’s acting like an angry animal, spitting and snarling and struggling. Swearing bloody vengeance on his twelve year old brother, blaming him for everything, looking into his horrified face in the front row of Gene’s execution and calling him a little fucking monster with all the venom he has to spare.

The image of having to be held down while you’re killed. Of fighting so hard that three grown men have to hold you down, pin you face-first against the dirt with all their weight pressing down on you. Your executioner is a kid you trained, one who looked up at you with admiration just a few days ago, and now his hands shake around the hilt of the sword that will kill you. He says he’s sorry; he says a prayer for your soul. You say a few vile curses in return.

You’re still struggling, bucking up against the men holding you down with all your strength, when the sword comes down the first time. The angle is bad, the man—the boy—holding the blade hesitated, and the strike was nowhere near heavy enough to kill you. The executioner lifts the blade to try again, and as it tears from your neck you scream like you never have before, gurgling and bloody and maybe terrified, if you had any energy not feeding the fire of your rage left to be terrified. 

The second strike doesn’t kill you either, but it makes your hands and feet go numb, and this is part is what scares you. Your strings have been cut. If they left you to bleed, you’d be dead in minutes, but the way the blood loss makes you so woozy and tired and weak doesn’t scare you half as much as not being able to feel your body, as going limp and pliant through no will of your own. They don’t need three men to hold you down anymore, just one hand tangled in your hair to keep you face pressed to the dirt, gasping into the pool of blood gathering around your mouth. All you can do is scream and curse and cry. 

The third strike comes down. You scream and scream and—

The man who greets you in the darkness of death, a shadow of the greatest traitor in your history books, opens his arms to you and promises your vengeance, if you’ll stand at his side. Vengeance on your Lord, on his daughter, and on your brother most of all, with a power you’ve never before felt running through your veins. He promises that none will ever kill you again, and the scar twisted around your neck, eating through your throat, will be the last.

You go. You behead the Lord of what was once your village in three strikes like he did you.

[that-one-i-think]

I don't think ghosts and the undead are used enough in MCD. I am not talking about Shadow Knights but the Zombies, Skeleton, and even Canon Ghosts. We need more necromancers and spirits here. I want to see Malachi be staring too long at Laurance only to say "Why is your ghost attached to your body?"

There is so much potential to be creepy.

[rexecutioner]

Shadow Knight Headcannons!!

i’m still working of fleshing out my art style so its really inconsistent at the moment lol

(edit: I deleted the art from this post because i hate it, my newer stuff is better and i drew this on in a car)

I also included a fun hc i have and that is that Shadow Knights when they turn into their SK form, the scar from what killed them pulsates and glows, and looks very angry and red and unnatural (Sasha is a fun case, her whole body sort of glows and her hands and arms are completely covered in burn scars, Laurance’s look like metal burns from chains scattered all across his body, but his don’t glow as much because he “died” in the nether, not naturally outside of it, ect)

Also, Shadow Knights have a naturally high body temperature, which Garroth, Dante and Aphmau definitely took advantage of on their “trip”.

Shadow Knights cannot digest food normally, as it just burns up in their body. They do not really have many working organs anyways,(they just kinda sit there) as they are undead. You can still kill premature Shadow Knights, as they do still have blood and wacky ass hearts, but Shadow Knights that have killed their target are un-killable to our knowledge.

A Shadow Knight’s armor is part of them, like a shell of sorts. It is removable, but it's really painful for both the Knight and the person removing it due to how hot it is. No two Shadow Knights have the same armor pattern, it’s alway different in some way, and the patterns can change over time and accomplishments.

More black on a Shadow Knight’s armor usually means they are more level headed, calm, or non violent, though this isn’t always the case. Premature Shadow Knights armor is also usually more black than red, signifying that they haven’t killed many people, if any at all. More red usually means they are more threatening, more experienced, and more dangerous. The armor always has to have at least a little of both. Zenix’s armor is mostly bright red with black undertones, while Laurance’s is mostly black with darker red streaks here and there. Gene and Sasha’s armor are similar, with about an even amount of both, with Gene’s having many jagged blood red strips everywhere, meanwhile Sasha’s fades into a gradient of slightly darker red. Vylad’s armor is also about the same, with a black base and red undertones, but the red on his armor is more desaturated and dull in patterns of light swirls. The red on a Shadow Knight’s armor shines more clearly in the Nether, almost glowing. (Zenix is an eyesore to everyone but Laurance, and only because his eyesight fucking sucks now)

You may be asking, “but Rex, why isn’t Gene’s armor fully red? He’s an actual monster!” To which I say Shadow Knights alway start out with a base color of armor, which is usually black. Zenix is an exception, his base color was red. It’s purely based on chance. The armor usually stays around the same color unless the individual ranks up (kills a lot of people). Gene gained many darker red shades over time, making them harder to see thanks to them blending into his black base, and almost his entire armor is actually a really dark red dappled with blood red streaks.

Will be continuing later!!! I have so many headcanons lol i might draw the armors

[abxolotl-rewrites]

Behold! Another Shadow Knight infodump! Cosmetic changes, magicks, how to kill them, a variety of things! Again, helped by the amazing @gumbootrambles

Any magicks a SK has gets amplified. Any witchcraft they are able to use gets a boost as well.

SKs also get a boon upon their transformation, usually blood, fire or shadow related, but it can also be an extension of their original magicks. Some examples being:

Gene can memory walk

Zenix's blood acts like napalm

Vylad can teleport using shadows

Laurance has acid blood

Sasha can turn invisible when in the shadows

Amethyst can control people's movements using their shadows

Shadow Knight blood is poisonous, so double hit if they have a blood related boon.

The transformation into the SK form in excruciating but only SKs with control over their transformations really notice. Though each SK will have a different reaction to the feeling.

Mature SKs don’t need to eat, sleep, breathe or blink and they have no heartbeat, as well as having an incredibly high body temperature.

Premature SKs still need to eat, sleep, breathe and blink but they do it much less than a human. They have slow heart beats and their body temperature is warmer than normal.

Mature SKs don’t age and are almost impossible to kill.

Premature SKs still age, but much slower and are difficult to kill.

Mature SKs can only be killed by; Being stabbed or cut by an enchanted weapon (though it does have to be an extremely strong enchantment, like the weapon of a relic wielder or one blessed by them) and powerful magicks, the holy kind.

Premature SKs can be killed by; Poison, Choking, Disease, Beheading, Drowning, Being stabbed or cut by an enchanted weapon.

Mature SKs are immune to fire, lava, etc (great for taking a dip in the lava lake). Premature SKs won't be harmed by fire but lava is a different story.

Shadow Knights are fully able to kill each other if they are stronger than their opponent. SKs often cull the weak, killing and consuming them.

Shadow Knights that weren't human to begin with will get an additional change in appearance. If they have other forms, like mer'ai, lu'pira (werewolves), meif'wa with their werecat forms, those forms will be corrupted and look much more monstrous.

Both premature and mature Shadow Knights have sharp teeth and claws. Their eyes are also reflective in both forms.

SKs also get black gradients on their limbs. The older they are, the further it goes.

A Shadow Knight’s motor skills are more effective, faster and more smooth. They also have an unnaturally perfect posture.

They get an intense sense upgrade. Their hearing, sight, and sense of smell increase greatly.

SKs are faster and stronger than a human but mature SKs much more so than premature SKs and have an intense aura.

Mature SKs won’t be attacked by the creatures of the Nether as they are recognised as belonging there. Piglins avoid them out of fear.

Premature SKs on the other hand will be. They aren’t fully dead. They won’t belong anywhere until they die or fulfil the calling.

Older SKs are normally very cut off from their emotions while younger SKs and premature SKs emotions are haywire. Though some are able control their emotions, eg. Sasha and Vylad.

[killerzshadow]

Shadow Knight Laurence AND Vylad Ramble? Of Course, Why Not? Because Nobody Talks About Their Trauma RESPONSES Enough.

Cw: Mentions Of Torture, Physical & Psychological, Self Blame, Violence & Yknow. Gene Being Gene (Because Gene Keeps Tormenting People. 😔)

Laurence Is Clearly Royally Fucked Up To The Point To Just Seeing The Bitch Who Utterly Ruined Him And Broke Every Fragment Of His Being Apart Sends Him Into A Panic. I Just Have This Idea Of Terms Like "Sir/Ma'am/Mx" Being A Trauma Response That He Often Reverts Back To It When He's Scared Of Upsetting Somebody, Because Gene Being Referred To As Such By Most People Isn't Surprising Considering His High Ranking Amongst Shadow Knights. Then The Whole "Lord" Thing With The Shadow Lord.

So It's Like These Terms Of Respect That Give Them Power And A Sense Of Superiority They Both So Desperately Crave Being Used Against The Person Being Harmed. And Ripping It Out Of Somebody So Defiant? As Absolutely Defiant As Laurence Would Be? If That's Not A Power Move, I Don't Know What Is.

Now, There's Also The Whole Idea Of Vylad And Laurence Being In Cells Next To Each Other. Vylad Is Somebody Who You Can't Exactly Tell If He's With Or Against The Shadow Knights. Of Course, This Isn't Taken Lightly, And He's Often Tortured Extremely For Every One Of His Little Disappearing Acts. That Time Wasn't Any Different. Yet, While Laurence Was Able To Escape, Vylad Was Left Alone. Again.

I Like To Think They Grew Rather Close, Or At Least Laurence Did; Vylad Definitely Has Attachment Issues Because He's So Cut Off From His Emotions. However, Vylad Did Help Laurence Cope A Bit Because Who Else To Know Better Than The Person Who's Basically A Test Dumby For Every Fucked Up Method Of Torture? Because Like, Vylad Wears A Mask Due To A Scar That Crosses From The Corner Of Either Side Of His Mouth, Up To Under His Ears In My Headcanons, And That Alone Speaks Volumes.

I "Like" To Think Vylad Is So Accustomed To Torture That He's Fairly Numb To It. He Knows Gene Like The Back Of His Hand, For Better Or Worse. Vylad Can Pick Up On Little Expressions, His Mood — He Knows Whether Or Not It'll Be A "Good" Or "Bad" Day. The Thing With Vylad Though, Is He Does Hate The Idea Of Others Being Harmed & Him Being Utterly Helpless. Even Worse If He's, Per Say, Forced To Harm A Captive.

Let's Take This Canon Quote From Him, “One good deed does not fix a thousand wrongs done. I'm not a good person, let's just leave it at that. Please.” No Matter What Good He Does, In His Own Eyes Nothing Will Fix Everything Wrong He's Done. Whether It's Self Blame Or Him Actually Doing Something Horrible, It's Always His Own Fault. He Couldn't Ever Be A Good Person And He Doesn't Deserve Forgiveness. He Knows He's Just A Pawn For A Great Evil, And He Signed His Fate Away When He Became A Shadow Knight. So, That Is His Own Fault.

Every Ounce Of Torture He Endures, He Believes It's Deserved. Both Because Of His Own Beliefs And The Severity Of The Manipulation. Maybe, Just Maybe, He Hopes One Day All The Torture Will Amount To Something, Anything, To Rid Of That Guilt That Haunts His Very Being.

[faun-the-hound]

I've decided today that I'm (eventually) gonna actually write a rewrite/AU of Minecraft Diaries, does not yet have a title. I have many thoughts about the Shadow Knights specifically, so here's the most basic form of the Lore I've made up for them so far:

Shadow Knights reside in the depths of The Nether in a highly fortified mountain-like structure known as the Empty Palace in the middle of a lava lake, made up of blackstone spires and basalt deltas, carved out into hallways, rooms and windows.

There are two variants: Soldiers, the most common, they form squadrons under the orders of a Commander, the other rank, of which there are few. There are a total of around two-three hundred Shadow Knights in the Nether still loyal to their King/Lord.

Soldiers have two forms- human, where they look human (obviously) and the Shadow Form, which is used when raiding villages, fighting, or just causing carnage in general.

Commanders have a third form, a Tyrant, which is far more monstrous and feral, hardly resembling a human at all.

Gene and Sasha are both Commanders. Gene's Tyrant is giant and resembles a kraken (it makes sense, trust me) and Sasha's is spider-like.

Four of the five season 1 Knights (Gene, Sasha, Zenix, Vylad and Laurance) died in the overworld, then were brought to the Nether. Vylad died and was reborn as a Knight in the overworld, and Laurance died and was reborn in the Nether, which affects the way they are as Knights.

Killing a Lord/Family member to gain immortality also kills the Shadow Knight's humanity/conscience. It's the breaking point that makes them truly mad, fully loyal to their master.

On that note, Shadow Knights can get their humanity back if it is given and desired. Vylad got hers back from the old woman who told him to give Irene's blessing to Phoenix Drop (who I'm saying is Hyria, don't know if that's canon), and Zenix got his from Aph herself after a whole thing, I'll get into it in a different post (maybe)

anyway, yeah, the Shadow Knights are funky creatures to me. I will continue to shake the jar.

[iridiss]

Laurance sings. Not masterfully by any means, he’d never be well-renowned for the beautifully trained technique of his voice, but he grew up in a bustling trading port town with a constant influx of seafarers, fishermen, even pirates—mariners from all over the planet, from every possible town and culture, and with them they brought their songs. Sea shanties of every breed and variety. And as the Head Guard of Meteli, he would be there to manage all the trades and imports, so he’d be right there on the docks, hearing every song that comes in and out of town and gleefully listening and learning to sing along. He’s a mariner boy, he grew up right by a channel into the sea, he has dozens of sea shanties memorized in-and-out and will sing them regularly, just to entertain himself and others around him. Aphmau, Garroth, and the others grow used to hearing Laurance bust out sea shanties all the time on their travels, like singing 99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall while you’re on a road trip, but like. The medieval equivalent of that

Vylad is in the same boat. After he faked his death, he ran off into the wild world of Ru’aun And Beyond to have a life full of constant adventure, and most of those ended up being overseas. Vylad became a swashbuckler of sorts, a petty thief with egregious debts to the local crime guilds that he never paid, the kind of person who would show up one day for a heist, and completely disappear off the face of the planet the next. Vylad was a pirate. Maybe not a grand or well-known one, maybe only for 7 months out of every year, but he’d stowaway on a number of ships just to get across channels and off to new places. At least a few times, he worked as part of a crew in order to get some coin, and one time, he was Captain—before his ship and the fake identity he took went up in flames only weeks later. Vylad knows a wide list of sea shanties, and he still sings them from time to time. It’s a comforting reminder of his humanity. It keeps him grounded, prevents him from forgetting the past and getting too lost in the chains of being a Shadow Knight.

Zane sings. Very differently from Laurance & Vylad. Zane was a High Priest, which means he held & organized church, regularly. Churches usually have music, and his religion is heavily based off of Catholicism, so it’s very likely that he was the one to arrange the O’khasis church’s liturgical choirs. It’s likely that singing in church was part of the regular routine that everyone present would partake in, including and especially their High Priest. There’s no way he doesn’t know how to sing, very much in that kind of Medieval-Classical-Latin-Catholic Choir vocal technique/style. It has a very different sound from Laurance and Vylad’s more…”free-balling seaman” style, but he was professionally trained on how to sing since he was young, and can sing quite well. (Also, Kestin is a good singer, which is an added bonus)

Zenix could not sing to save his life. His regular speaking voice is already very rough and sandpaper-like, and his singing voice is even worse. He’s tone deaf, if you heard his singing voice, which sounds more like a dying, extremely strained screeching wail, you may never want to hear anything ever again. It’s just a very naturally unpleasant sound. And that’s fine, he’s never really been much of a singer or that musically inclined. He’s more arson-inclined, frankly. However, I can picture him channeling his destructive energy into being a good percussionist, by way of “needing to hit stuff” + getting down a good sense of rhythm = producing a pretty decent beat. Maybe he also beatboxes? Zenix has enough “hyperactive boy” energy to be a beatboxer, that’d suit him well enough.

Gene has a luscious singing voice. Gene could sing lullabies that’d put a rhino to sleep. Gene’s voice is the kind of sexy, buttery-smooth voice you feel reverberating in your core. Gene sounds like he’d sing Frank Sinatra, or old classic Christmas songs for a record that’d make millions. He does it so infrequently though, especially ever since he became a Shadow Knight, and mostly uses it now to lull other people into a trance, or when he’s bored. You can’t exactly pursue a musical career when you’re serving as the General of Hell for the rest of eternity. Zenix and Sasha have both heard him sing, at least a few times. In the past, it relaxed Zenix like no other.

Sasha used to sing. She used to have a very pretty voice that Laurance and Cadenza would stop and listen to at any given opportunity. Cadenza would encourage her to push past her shyness enough to sing for her while she worked on sowing her next design (sapphic sasha x cadenza melodies,,,). But after her death by falling into lava, she sustained a certain level of damage both to her body and to her psyche that made her shut down her love for singing entirely. She has not sung once since she died.

Kiki sings to her animals and to Leona all the time.

If Garroth did sing, he would probably have a very similar vocal technique/style to Zane’s, simply by being raised under the same religious roof as him. I don’t think “learn how to sing in a choir” would be part of the Princely/military training Garte would put him through, though.

Zoe and Levin like to sing together for fun sometimes.

In my main rewrite au, the Shadow Knight Rebellion includes Laurance, Vylad, Zenix, and Zane begrudgingly working together as a team. They like to sing together. Laurance and Vylad connected easily and quickly over their shared love for sea shanties, and eventually the three of them managed to bully, bug, and peer pressure Zane into singing with them, and were surprised by just how well he could sing. Laurance and Vylad asked Zenix to join in. Zenix got through the first three notes before Laurance told him to please stop.

The four of them end up making an unexpectedly merry band together. Laurance and Vylad sing, Zane sings sometimes, and Zenix would provide the accompaniment, like a rag-tag improvised a capella group that formed from the cracks in the pavement. They make an anthem for the Rebellion and teach it to all the hundreds of soldiers that join over time. When the SKR eventually reunite with The Phoenix Alliance, the people of the Phoenix Alliance are very perplexed by the band and their musical connection.

[goat-guy-tm]

I feel like with the several things I've shared of my rewrite here it kinda muddies up the status of the divine during the time the rewrite would take back, so lemme try and explain each as best I can;

Irene- her mortal self is dead, her soul shattered into several parts and spread amongst different realms, yet a whole version of her soul, her divine soul still exists, but in the state Irene was before she decided to 'die', thus her being cold and 'empty'. She ellects to stay only in the recesses of her realm or in the minds of her reincarnations. Seems to take a liking to tormenting MCD!Aphmau the most.

》all her reincarnations; Sylvana(MCD [DEAD, RIP]), Aphmau(MCD), Ein(MCD), Claire(MCD), Aphmau(MYS), Aphmau(MMW/VP), and any other series inwhich the main character is outright named Aphmau (ie HeartPoint, Mermaid Tales, Dreams of Estora ect.)

Shad- while his mortal vessel is dead Shad's soul lives on in the Nether in a formless state. He is able to posses bodies of others for a small time.

》does not have any technical reincarnations but Aaron and Aaron's son Jacob are prime for possession of his relic.

Enki- Alive yet his 'mortal' body is in a comatose-like state held secretly in a stronghold of sorts under an Enki temple far from the Enki Warrior Tribe village and cared for by the whisps of past decedents of his.

》Similar to Shad he does not have direct reincarnations but each descendent of his has had possession of their relic at some point, Travis being the current one.

Esmund- One of the only Divine who passed on peacefully (mostly) and by their own true terms, and did not stick around in any kind of way. His soul and being completely reset as you could say.

》Reincarnation; Zenix

Menphina-Out of the fury and love for her fellow divine (Irene and Kul'Zak) her soul stayed behind after she let go of her mortal body. Before she did though, she marked Hyria's unborn daughter, Lucinda, as her new incarnation and descendent, even if the young witch would not have any direct relation to her. She did so because of Hyria's shared passion for protecting the Divine like Menphina did, hoping it would pass along to Lucinda and make her a divine as well.

》Reincarnation; technically Lucinda, it's weird.

Kul'Zak-Alive. only one amongst all the Divine to be alive still even after all theses years. Instead of letting go of his mortal body, something he believe he would not be able to do as he was not like the rest of the divine by dna, he took part of Irene's relic, by her request, and travled many realms, showing Irene around in his own way until he settled in one and made Tommy, his exact clone.

》Reincarnation; none, maybe Tommy?? How would a clone work in this situation??

[packcoventhing]

Today on: brain thoughts that we have a lot of

The way the mental change of becoming a shadow knight is described, it sounds very very similar to one type of trauma response

I can go more in depth, if anyone wants

[kurithedweeb]

Zenix totally would have set fire to the Lord's house if he thought the Lord crossed a line with Garroth. It wouldn't have unlocked his full Shadow Knight abilities because he didn't care about Lord Malik in the slightest, but it would have helped with the Calling. Fire takes the edge off the odd homesickness and inexplicable urges he feels when he looks at Garroth.

[that-one-i-think]

MCD OC TASHI BACKSTORY (Fun concept! Plz read)

He is from a small concept fic on tumblr I made called "Tiger Lilies and Dandelions". I never actually wrote much about him other than he goes by Tashi and is based on the Cursed Dream Tiger. I am in a lore mood right now so here we go

Takehiko "Tashi" Toraichi was a member of the original royal family of Tu'la and was in line for the throne after his two older sister with two younger sisters following. He gained the childhood nickname of Tashi because it means "want to" and he was an incredibly energetic and explorative child. Always wanting to do everything including fashion, magic studies, archery, sword fighting, embroidery, writing, music. Literally anything, a jack of all trades and master of none, except embroidery, he excels at that.

He was a wild child because he never had the pressure of ruling a kingdom placed on his head, for all of his sisters were much more favorable, it being said that Tu'la would have four rulers instead of one by the time all of the children came of age. By the time Tashi was thirteen it was already decided that he would only ascend to the throne should all of his sisters die, but the likelyhood of that happening was slim.

Unfortunately, fate plays with loaded dice. His Uncle Kozuka, brother of the current King of Tu'la staged a coup. The entire royal family was slaughtered, his parents were the first to go followed by all the the servants, Tsubaki the oldest, Ume the 2nd, Tashi, Sumire, and finally Himawari. Tashi while running with his younger sisters had dragged them to the temple, knowing that from there they could run to town but as careful as he was in the dead of night, it did not matter as the army of meif'wa all possessed night vision. Tashi collapsed in the middle of the temple, bleeding from a cut on his know and an arrow to his eye. He watched as his sisters ran only to have his skull crushed on the altar, last sight being Sumire and Himawari falling to a volley of arrows. (DEPRESSING)

A soul filled with rage such as his would be a prime target for the shadow knight transformation, but Tashi died in a temple to a being much older than Shad, one much older than the corruption of the nether. For Tashi died in a temple to the end, a temple built to appease the spirits of the land, he was an unjust sacrifice to those of the dead. A sacrifice that did not go in vain as the next day Tashi found himself alive and awake in the middle of a cave covered in sculk. No longer just a tiger meif'wa but a now living spirit. (Think Malachi but was revived human and didn't stay ghost)

He left the cave but found that his new left eye (the one shot with an arrow) was sensitive, and saw things that weren't always there. His sleep was a lot weirder as he found himself dreaming of places where he has never been and could not be, even finding himself in the dreams of others. One day he even woke up to be on a completely different continent, all the way in Ru'aun. Waking just in time to save a new immigrant family of meif'was from bandits. Tashi didn't come back just as a spirit, but as a living guardian.

Oddly enough, he took to this in stride, using every teleportation to help those and explore, a distraction from the cruelty he faced. He picked up sword fighting, painting, and became whatever was required of him, a dream to those in need. Though the powers weren't always good as soon Tashi found himself stuck in his tiger form more often than his human. He felt more primal, but more relaxed. Animals were more connected to spirits after all. His powers reached a peak when he was summoned to an unknown island, one riddled with shadow knights about to sacrfice a small Tu'la baby to open a nether portal. Having just killed her mother previous.

Seeing the young baby in danger awoke something in Tashi and suddenly he found himself asleep as a monster took hold. His stripes were no longer on his body and he was no longer even an animal but a beast. He slaughtered all of the shadow knights, waking up once more as he swallowed the last one whole. He stayed with the child until he heard the loud cawing of Wyverns, knowing that wyverns mean no harm to children, that is where he made his escape.

He continued on for a few years, letting his body take him wherever he awoke until it stopped. He hadn't moved in his sleep in weeks, alone in the forests of Ru'aun when he encountered a small child, one with familiar blue eyes and yellow-bark colored hair. A small lost girl named Lilith, a flower much like his sisters.

HIS BACKSTORY IS COMPLETE! I will probably write more about him but here we go. This leads directly into my old concept story/fic about him Tiger Lilies and Dandelions

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First post of the blog! Let's start this off with a Shadow Knight infodump! This will also include info about two of my OCs! Abaris and Anna! Anna being my Aphblr minecraft server character :D

I thought of these with input from the lovely @gumbootrambles

AHEM SO-

The Shadow Lord can pick and choose who becomes a SK, mostly talented guards & soldiers, though exceptions are made for magicks users and those who practice witchcraft.

The current named Shadow Knights, in order of creation, are:

Xavier, Abaris, Vincent, Amethyst, Anna, Glenda, Vylad, Gene, Zenix, Janus, Sasha and Laurance.

All Shadow Knights have scars pertaining to their deaths or torture. Xavier had a big scar on his chest from having his relic ripped out of him, Abaris has a large scar on her chest and back from being ran through by Esmund, Gene has a scar around his neck with two others messily cut into the back of his neck (He was still alive for the first two), Sasha has burns over her body under her shoulders, Zenix has scars crisscrossing all over from being blown up, Vylad’s throat and stomach are scarred internally from poison, Laurance has scars from his torture, as does Vincent & Amethyst with the three of them having their throats slit at the end, Anna was many small cuts on her neck from rope-burn as well as an indent in the skin, Janus has three scars through his stomach from Abaris’ trident and Glenda has a scar on her throat from her throat being slit.

Shadow Knight’s armour is made from their blood, their death/torture scars reopen and the blood forms the armour-like shell, they cannot take it off.

Their armour is unique to them, making it easy for them to identify each other. Though their armour will also have marking indicating their rank, and if they use magicks/witchcraft.

You can also roughly tell how old a Shadow Knight is by the colour of their armour. The lighter it is, the younger they are.

The reason for that is their blood darkens over time. First Gen Shadow Knights, like Abaris and Vincent would have black blood, while a new Shadow Knight like Laurance would just have the usual.

A Shadow Knight’s weapon is also unique to them, it depends on their fighting style and personality:

Xavier had a rapier

Abaris has a double trident

Gene has a katana

Laurance has a falcion, which then becomes a rapier

Vylad has a kusarigama/chain knife

Sasha has daggers

Zenix has a battleaxe

Janus has dual greatswords

Vincent has an odachi

Glenda has a longsword

Amethyst has a guandao

Anna has a scythe

The blue soul fire is commonly used in the Nether as a symbol of rebellion against the Shadow Lord for those that defect, rebel, or those wishing to do so. Shadow Knights that rebel often mark their armour with it.

Shadow knight armour colour chart, with added symbol of rebellion soul fire blue.

[killerzshadow]

Guys, I'm So Fucking UNWELL About MCD (Mainly) & Mystreet Right Now. Especially Rewrites And Just Personal Ideas And Rps I've Done With My Beloved. There's So Much I Want To See Fanart Of, Or Hell Even Just Other People's THOUGHTS. Absolute RAMBLES Below The Cut!

• The Shadow Knights And Being Poly? HELL YEAH! Whether You See Them As Romantic Or A QPR, I Do NOT Care. They're So Cutesyzgch

• An Rp My Love & I Are Actively Doing Is, Cadenza, A Marshal, And Gene Meeting. After Everything With Laurence Becoming A Shadow Knight And Whatnot. Oh, My Girl Is PISSED! Because, In This, Gene Was The One Who Hurt Laurence. Hurt Her Little Brother. Changed Him. She Had To Mourn Both The Brother She Lost, And The One Of Which She Gained. OH, AND YKNOW A QUOTE FROM GENE IN THAT? Cadenza Was Stating How She Had Things To Do, Like Check In On Laurence, AND THIS MAN GOES,

"I see how it is, you want to make up for not taking care of it before its death, huh, Cadenza?" LIKE HELLOOO??? AND SHE'S JUST LIKE "Or I Just Fucking Care About Its Well-being Like Anyone With A Damn Heart Would. I Did What I Could. It's Nobody's Fault Besides Yours." After Having A Whole CRISIS Because She Blames Herself And Gene Knows It. He Had The Audacity To Then Laugh And Go, "That's what you'd like everyone to believe, isn't it? But you and me both know that as much as Laurence's death is my fault, it is equally yours. You're the Marshal, you're responsible for your guards, let alone your own brother..." 😭 What I'm Saying Is, I NEED ART LIKE THIS! I NEED OTHERS OPINIONS AND IDEAS OR HCS! LIKE AUUGHHH

• Also Just. So Much More Of Cadenza And Laurence's Siblingship. How Cadenza Was Affected. Everything. The Angst.

• Or Or Or, Might I Suggest. Cadenza And Laurence Role Swap? 🤔 I'm Just Sayyiinngggg.

• More About Gene Tormenting Laurence During His Stay In The Nether. I Just Need To Read It. I LIVE For It, Guys. This Hyperfixation Is Going CRAZYY.

AlsoLikeAreThereMCDRoleplayBlogs?TheNeurodivencySaysToMakeOne,Guys...

Anyways, Fuck Cringe Culture. Give Into Childhood Hyperfixations! 💖

[faun-the-hound]

Shadow Knight Height chart

SK is their Shadow Form heights, adding up to a foot of extra height. Laurance is special, so he gets to be extra tall.

Warning for gory descriptions, and possibly body horror.

Tyrant Forms are special monstrous forms given to Commanders (Gene and Sasha in this case) to give extra power in battle.

Gene's Tyrant is massive compare to most, leaning heavily into his siren heritage- fish fins, gills, shark teeth- and his skin peeling away, splitting and tearing apart as he doubles in size. Tearing through his own flesh- his skeleton cracking and breaking loose of the skin. His face splits open, a crooked grin forced in place by the snapping of his jaw. The burned skin on his face melting away to dark, bloodied bones- a hollow socket where his eye once was.

Basically a giant fish monster with bare bones and guts visible where his burns are (ribs, lungs, spine, face, and right arm). His remaining eye get sealed over, blinding him. The overflow of Dark Magick heightens his other senses, and his own natural Magick, allowing him to track down anyone just by the activity of their minds, entering their mind, melting it and twisting it to his will, leaving the victims brainless followers at his mercy.

Sasha is significantly less gory, as her death wasn't so.. graphic. Her Tyrant is lithe, slim- easier to hide in the dark recesses of castles and buildings. her ribs tear out of her back, her arms split into halves, four extra limbs, ragged and sinewy claw out of her flesh. Ripping open her face, eyes roll in to the fresh wounds, glittering bloody red. Her lower jaw splits into mandibles, dripping with a burning venom.

I a spider was fitting for Sasha, with the common phobia of them and how dangerous and aggressive the females of certain species are. Sasha's venom is the 'potions' she uses, bottling her Tyrant's venom to use in battle without expending the energy needed to transform. Her actual manipulation is literal puppeteering, tying the silken threads she spins between her fingers to the arms and legs of her victims and pulling them this way and that like a marionette, forcing them against their own allies.

Zenix, Laurance and Vylad don't have Tyrants, being Soldiers, and should they get too close to a Commander, they would be at the mercy of their mind manipulation Magicks.

[shameofokhasis]

i’ll uncanny YOUR valley bitch

[goat-guy-tm]

I was having trouble sleeping last night so I got to fully finally thunk a thought I had that had been itching at the back of my brain for a bit;

In my mcd rewrite I wanna play with the concept of Shadow Knights not just being "heehoo person but kinda taller and stronger and eeevvvviiilll with a big cool sword" but instead incorporate the ideas of like vampires and demons and such, that Shadow Knights are basically just undead who have been cursed with being nether re-born.

Like, silly little freak guys who are just chilling as their new undead selves. I wanna have the idea of Shadow Knights also being a bit more, socially accepted into society, like there's some people who are still afraid of them but most Shadow Knights are like "hey man we just wanna live okay?"

"But Goat that defeats the whole purpose of them in the story!"

Ah shut your yapper I do what I want with my rewrite and you do you.