#MCD shadow knights

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A thought about Laurance. I'm not "fixing" the love triangle, just making it make sense. Garroth makes plenty of sense to me, but Laurance?

So it's Canon in my rewrite that in order for a shadow to grasp humanity after being turned into a shadow knight, they must think of someone to ground them. This will turn into the person they must kill later on to gain immortality.

I think she was the first person he thought of. Not the only, but one of them. He knew he wanted to protect her, and he liked her. Emphasis on the liked. But after everything of all people, he thought of the shadow lord chose her.

Sure, the shadow lord didn't even know he forced laurance to fixate on her. He wasn't even fully formed.

Something Something laurance is in love with aphmau because shads influence. Something Something him not knowing how many of his emotions are altered by shad and not known what's real or fake. Cue Identity crisis.

[that-one-i-think]

So, a lot of the Shadow Knight lore regarding whether or not they age is very confusing because on one hand we did have a Shadow Knight who did die of old age (old lady shadow knight is season one, hinted to be dead in Season two) and immortal Shadow Knights like Vincent. Would make sense if we go with one of the Shadow Knight lores we were told which was that only fully formed Shadow Knights became immortal, but also, what about Gene? Sasha? Vylad?

My theory/solution to this blatant lore mess is this: Fully formed Shadow Knights are the truest way to immortality but there are loop holes and conditions for the others.

- Time spent in the Nether halts aging entirely. What is the point of building an army if they die before they can leave the Nether? While Shad could not give them full immortality without sacrifice, the Nether is a dimension that operates beyond the magic rules of the normal realm. (Gene partly in this)

- The more human you are, the more you age. Shadow Knights naturally have a much much longer life span, but the more you genuinely embrace your life, love, and happiness, the more human you are, the shorter your lifespan. It requires working out your trauma and fighting your new core nature, but it is possible.

- If you had no one truly close to you, you are almost immortal. Vylad is a bastard, an outcast who became a Shadow Knight with no love, lord, or lady, so he doesn't get the urge, but he hasn't fully turned to humanity. He is a weird grey zone of embracing his Shadow Knight nature without being insane. Gene also falls into this category, but due to the fact he died by a true (deserved) betrayal of everyone around him, he had no love to destroy.

Sasha isn't in a grey zone for she has Kenmur and has all of the feelings about it so she is just benefitting from the very slow aging. Zenix is fully formed in my opinion and permanently stuck at like, 19 because of it. Laurance is also in the same box as Sasha though, Season 3 he is just spending time in the Nether so thus, immortal until he leaves.

[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.

[amirikdraws]

Shad?

Literally, I'm obsessed with how this came out~

Also, I didn't know which skin tone to give him since I like my Aaron a little darker, lol

[lyraofthestarsss]

Aphverse headcanons I got from my dreams because this is like my third dream now about block people

Lucinda speaks Spanish

Laurance and Cadenza like to gossip and talk shit to each other

MCD Aaron is shy and awkward it’s just that the traumatic backstory completely warped his personality

The My Inner Demons cast like to play minigames together the same way the Mystreet cast do

Laurance (and presumably the other shadow knights) has the ability to morph into a ball of fire and deal extra damage. The flame is mostly orange but occasionally it can be blue

Garroth (both MCD and Mystreet) needs glasses and his friends keep telling him to just get some already

MCD Garroth dimension hops to Mystreet the same way MCD Laurance does in Void Paradox

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ABOUT THE DIARIES REWRITE!

What happens to Shadow Knights after they've fulfilled their revenge or task? IE. Killing their lord or 'avenging' their death?

Would they become mindless husks to serve the Shadow Lord? Do they retain a sense of humanity still, despite their immortality?

I'd love to hear your take on it! I love reading about your MCD rewrite!

me when I get the chance to talk about Shadow Knights in my rewrite

cw: very brief mention of cannibalism?? i think?? not like intense but i talk about drinking blood so idk. but it’s like SUPER brief and not graphic at all

so Shadow Knights are still very much a work in progress for me. there’s some stuff I need to figure out logistically and some of it might change, but here’s what I currently have. and this is like Shadow Knights as a whole because there’s lore that leads up to the immortal shadow knights, not just once they’ve avenged their death or whatever

SO. back at the beginning. like Divine Warrior beginning because that’s where the original Shadow Knights came from.

so both Irene and Shad are reapers, but initially it was just Irene. it was after one of the great wars that happened while they were still human that they learned this. Irene helped the souls of dead people get adjusted, but after a while they kept harassing her so Shad (with the help of Enki and Kul’zak) created the Nether realm where they could rest instead so she could have peace of mind, and now Irene simply became a passage for deceased souls to get from the Overworld to the Nether where Shad gave them a choice: fully lay your soul to rest for the possibility of being reincarnated, or become a helper of the Nether

okay, so y’all know the Shad vs. Everyone Else debacle that happened. basically it sparked because Shad’s resentment towards Irene for sacrificing their daughter for the world grew to unprecedented heights. the thing is because Shad was often in the Nether tending to deceased souls, he didn’t get to see his daughter often so when he learned she was dead by the hands of his wife (Irene) he freaked out (understandably so). the war started, and the original Shadow Knights were those that had chosen to become a helper of the Nether. there were only a few but they were powerful because they had the Destroyer as their patron Divine.

other of the first Shadow Knights included those in the Overworld that had chosen Shad to be their patron as well, though the ones from the Overworld became very split because they didn’t believe Shad when he shared that Irene had sacrificed his daughter

okay moving on to the more modern times! Shad was eventually put to rest, so there isn’t really an explicit Shadow Lord, it’s more so Shadow Knights trying to bring their patron back. now, the whole reaper system is a little more confusing now that Shad and Irene are gone, but there is still one!

there’s a bunch of factors that go into whether or not you become a Shadow Knight at all. ie, who did you take as your patron, how did you die, what attributes you possess, how Gene changed your memories once he came into the picture…

now concerning the question of do they become mindless husks or keep their humanity: it fully depends. if a person took Shad the Destroyer as their patron in their living life, then they are more likely to become a mindless husk. if a person took someone else, especially Irene the Matron, as their patron then they are much less susceptible to that. to kind of further explain I’m going to some of the Shadow Knight characters and how they got there

Gene: he is one of the few people in the world that didn’t officially take a patron, however Gene himself is very power hungry and driven by his desires. he became a Shadow Knight out of pure spite because he got caught trying to make the daughter of Borobos love him. so Gene still has full control of himself, he just chooses to work to bring Shad back. he didn’t necessarily choose to be a Shadow Knight, he was chosen and offered the opportunity because of how powerful and strong he was when he was living

Sasha: she took Irene as her patron, however the way Gene manipulated her memories made her somewhat of a husk because he changed them in a way that made it seem like Irene hadn’t been there to help her. some of her personality from when she was alive is still visible as a Shadow Knight, but it’s been dulled down. after she kills Joh she has this deep rooted feeling that she’s someone else, but she often brushes it off and continues serving

Zenix: mindless husk, however he’s very good at covering it up. Zenix was very young when he died (8), so already he was very easy to manipulate

Vincent: he is fully in control of himself and very in touch with his humanity, even after killing his previous lord. Esmund the Protector was his patron, and his internal duty to help people is part of what made him less likely to become a Shadow Knight for Shad

Vylad: he wouldn’t have been brought back but he was a Ro’Meave and son of O’Khasis, so he was mistaken to have the blood of Esmund running through him. this was thought to be helpful in the long run because they could use him as a bargaining chip to get O’Khasis on their side, but then it was discovered that he was only Zianna’s child, and she doesn’t have Divine blood. he was thrown in a dungeon and keeps his humanity

Laurance: he’s… interesting. he wouldn’t have been brought back either, but his power in being on the Jury List and as a guard was recognized so he was. he walks the line of being a mindless husk and retaining his humanity. Irene is his patron and he believes in her wholeheartedly, but he can also be very hotheaded and he jumps to conclusions often, which is what makes one think he might be a mindless husk. Laurance’s arc with his Shadow Knight thing is very similar to canon as of now, but I think I might change it

okay, now other overall Shadow Knight stuff. so obviously to become a Shadow Knight, you have to die and be brought back. however, when you are brought back you’re undead. I’ve equated it before to zombies and vampires but I don’t think that’s the best comparison sooo

basically, Shadow Knights don’t need basic things to continue living. They still age, but they don’t need to sleep, they don’t need to eat, they don’t need to breathe, they don’t blink, they don’t do a lot of stuff that people do. in fact, eating as a Shadow Knight actually makes them violently sick because they don’t have a way to digest and get it out of their system, so the only way to do that is by forcing yourself to vomit it up. the only thing that really comes back is the power of the nervous system (which is something I’m still working on because after Laurance becomes a SK his hair grows out and I don’t think that’s possible if he’s undead so…). another thing is that Shadow Knights tend to heal much faster than humans, so any wound they sustained before their death, during their transformations, after and anything else becomes fully healed with a short time

so when Shadow Knights kill their most beloved or avenge their death or whatever, they stop aging entirely. whatever age they gain their immortality is the age they are visually forever (ie, Gene is 22, Sasha is 26, Zenix is 17, Vincent is 48, etc.). another little ritual they need to perform in order to gain their immortality is to ingest the blood of whoever they had to kill, so often times people that know about Shadow Knights can tell someone was killed by one based on how messy the scene is

and also! Shadow Knights obviously experience the calling if they’re out of the Nether (both before and after) for so long and more susceptible to becoming a husk, but if they’re more in tune with their humanity like Vincent then they can resist it and put it on the back burner and even forget about it entirely. however something ALL Shadow Knights experience once they ingest the blood of their victim is that they HAVE to spend at least a week in the Nether to actually complete that full transformation. I haven’t figured out what exactly happens during that yet, but yeah.

i think that’s all I have for now. i feel like there was more but I can’t remember it. but anyways hopefully this answered your question!! once again if you guys would like to know about anything else in my rewrite just send in an ask and i’ll gladly answer it!!

[abxolotl-rewrites]

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]

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.

[passionfruitswirl]

I was cleaning out my camera roll and got jump scared by this picture, so throw back to when I made a Shadow Knight Laurence gingerbread man 🫶

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In my head there are 3 ways to become an immortal shadow knight.

1, kill the person you care most about and most times it's a guard killing their lord.

2, kill a bunch of innocent people this is how vylad became immortal bc number 3 wouldn't work for him.

Might I also say, after the werewolf wedding Laurence should have realized he was immortal.

2.5, kill others as an offering to the shadow lord.

3, you're so damn selfish and self-centered you gain immortality purly because your ambitions drive you to harm others.

[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.

[kurithedweeb]

I've just discovered that MyS!Zenix is 1-2 years older than MyS!Garroth. The apprentice being older than the mentor has struck me as an incredibly interesting addition to their MCD dynamic.

Zenix was young when he became a Shadow Knight. He doesn’t remember how old he was exactly when he died, but Garroth places him at being around the same age as Brian when he first finds him so he was somewhere in his early to mid-teens. Theoretically, he should be going through puberty, but that’s kind of pointless when you’re undead, and he eventually manages to catch on that his growth has completely stalled with his death. His voice is super rough from all the smoke and how long he was mute while it healed so he doesn’t need to figure out how to fake his voice dropping, but he’s not getting any taller. So far, Zenix has been getting by on padding his armor, wearing looser clothes, and sticking lifts in his boots. He’s rarely seen without his armor because you can see how small he actually is without it, but how long can he keep it up?

Does Zenix remember how old he was when he died? How long was he wandering before Garroth found him? How long was he dead? If you told him the date, would he be able to tell you with 100% certainty that he’s this many years old? Honestly, probably not, but maybe he gets flashes of information that’s older than however old Garroth thinks he is. Things he wouldn’t have paid attention to if he really was Brian’s age. 

Does he know how old Garroth is? If he knew for sure he was older, would that change anything? Would he tell Garroth?

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I'm working more on my McD rewrite so I can post it here on Tumblr, but how old is Zoey?

She told Aph that she was around 10 when Irene was alive, but that was 900 years ago if someone could do the math on how old Zoey is and give a brief estimate of how long elves are in MCD that would be awesome!!

better yet if someone could write their own opinion and think about the elves, how long they live, how they age, mature etc etc that would be awesome

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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??