#mcd Jacob

[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.

[kurithedweeb]

An idea I had last night: Jacob survives.

So, instead of the amulet just making everyone drop dead, we're going with the curse being a plague. (Thank you @irenes-journal for turning the plague amulet idea into what it is today.)

In canon, the amulet kills everyone save the person holding it, so the plague amulet would theoretically grant one person immunity, or at least resistance. How it grants some kind of immunity/resistance is by releasing antibodies for the plague, slowly at first to acclimatize the body a bit before it floods the system, and Jacob got some of the antibodies before he gave it to Aaron.

He was the first to fall ill, and he took twice as long to succumb to the illness than anyone else infected did. The town doctor died before Jacob did, so when he fell into a coma that looked a whole lot like death, he was mistaken for dead.

Lily was barely holding on herself at this point, and Aaron came back from burying the day's dead to find his wife and son dead in Jacob's room. Lily worshipped Menphia and some minor gods, being from Tu'la, and raised Jacob to do the same since Aaron's side of the family doesn't worship any recognized religion (Ultima stuff is for later), and there was a small tomb previously made for when Lily and her children died according to Tu'lan burial practices. Which gives Jacob some more time than he'd have in a grave to get out before he runs out of air.

Aaron goes on burying bodies and surveying the sick while he mourns his own family's loss. Jacob wakes up maybe a day or two later in the dark with what remains of Lily. Obviously, he freaks out, crying out for help, and no one comes. Fueled by adrenalin and fear, he manages to open the tomb door just enough for him to squeeze through, and he finds the streets covered in graves. He has no idea what's going on, no clue how long it's been, but he runs home and his dad's not there and all the streets he's run down are empty and stinking of rot. He needs his dad to not be dead, so he comes up with this idea that obviously Aaron thought he was dead like everyone else and left.

And so Jacob packs a bag and sets out to leave Falconclaw, and he leaves barely an hour before Aaron gets home. They just miss each other.

Jacob isn't well. He collapses on the road and wakes up in a merchant caravan bound for some village way North. He asks if any of them have seen his father, says he's the son of the Lord of Falconclaw, and one of the mercenaries hired to guard the caravan sees an opportunity. By the time the caravan reaches its destination, Aaron is already in O'khasis being groomed by Zane to become a Juror.

Jacob is snatched off the street by the same mercenaries who were guarding the caravan and sold to someone visiting from Tu'la, and he winds up a servant boy for one of the king's vassal clans. Maybe Nana's, maybe the one his mother escaped from. The plague left him incredibly scarred, so for a long time he's a faceless, bandaged figure in the shadows of the house, all this anger and frustration building up inside him at not being able to figure out a way home, until one day the master of the house thinks it'd be funny to match a servant boy against one of his soldier-apprentices.

And Jacob wins. No training, having thrown away his weapon and beaten the other boy with his bare hands until they were dripping in blood. He's sent to the gladiator pits, maybe the same ones Liochant grew up in, and as long as he has his anger he dominates. His contract is bought by some wealthy noble with a penchant for collecting pretty, broken things, and on the road he kills them and flees into the night.

By the time he gets back to O'khasis, Aaron's time on the Jury is over and he's disappeared completely, having forsaken his own name and become The Stranger. This is when Jacob finally hears about, finally confirms, the fall of Falconclaw. He goes to Zianna, waiting for her to be out in town before he approaches her. She and his mother considered themselves sisters, once, and Zianna had been an excellent spy in Tu'la, if anyone would help him it'd be her. All Zianna has to give him is rumors, but anything is better than nothing.

He takes it, he thanks her, he goes on the road trying to find his father, and gets waylaid a bunch on the way by saving people and taking out the mercenary company that sold him to that Tu'lan visitor and into years of servitude and gladiator rings. He had a number of names in Tu'la, but he goes back to the name from a lifetime ago, introducing himself everywhere he goes as Jacob Lycan, son of Aaron Lycan, last Lord of Falconclaw, in an effort to see if his father will be drawn to the man using his son's name. By the time he makes it all the way around to Phoenix Drop, it's the middle of the Irene Dimension time skip, and since no one knew who The Stranger was or ever really saw his face, they don't realize that that's exactly who Jacob is looking for.

He goes back to Falconclaw, thinking maybe he can find some clues where this all started. It's practically the same as he left it since everyone thinks the land is extremely cursed, and in looking through their home he finds books on the teaching of his father's faith. He fits his father's old clothes, his old faith. He takes whatever he cares to keep from the Lycan estate and visits Lily's tomb before he leaves, and not a day later he comes across Abby, who's taken to the road hoping to find a lead on the woman she believes killed her father, Lady Katelyn the Firefist, who disappeared without a trace years ago about the same time High Priest Zane Ro'Meave and a few other Jurors did. She and Jacob agree to help each other and become good friends, and eventually they round back to Phoenix Drop.

A week after Aaron died.

Jacob introduces Abby first, notes that the Lord, or maybe she's the Lord's mother, seems to know who Abby is, and then he introduces himself. As Jacob Lycan, son of Aaron Lycan, last Lord of Falconclaw. And the look on this Lord's face is indescribable. She asks to speak with Jacob alone.

She tells him about his father in the last part of his life. She tells him how he saved her several times, taught her to fight, saved her guards, those two over there. That one he sacrificed himself for just last week, when he saved the man from another realm and finally got vengeance for his family and village. How he once said that when his journey was done, when he had taken the life of the man who cursed them all, he would finally be at peace with his wife and son.

Then there's a child's cry, and suddenly Jacob is being introduced to two little girls who his father helped raise. To his sisters.

He can't even process it properly before he hears Abby scream, and suddenly he is running to pull her off a blue-haired woman and holding her, thrashing and spitting vitriol, yelling how she thought of Katelyn like her mother, as Katelyn explains what really happened that day, and everything Abby has been keeping inside her for years spills out in wave after wave of tears. She clings to Jacob, and he finds himself crying too. If only they had known the truth earlier.

If they'd only learned the truth earlier, Abby wouldn't have spent so long hating an innocent woman she once adored, and Jacob could have seen his father again. Maybe if he'd known Aaron was The Stranger, if he'd known to wait in Phoenix Drop, Aaron would be alive. He would have had his son to live for.

They can't make themselves stay there once they know the truth. They're not ready. Abby tells Katelyn she'll be back to catch up later, and Jacob tells the Lord he'd like to meet his sisters another time, and with Jacob's quest over they go to hunt the Jury of Nine for Jeffory Goldenheart.

[iridiss]

Why do you get to be a father?

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Zane~Chan MCD AU where Zane gets a redemption arc, falls in love with Nana, and (unwillingly) becomes Nekoette’s new loving father figure, especially following Dante and Nana’s divorce. Aaron has feelings about this.

[goat-guy-tm]

Welcome to another "Goat posting crazy ass ships that only make sense in his rewrite". Today I present you; Zenix×Jacob (Aaron and Lily's son)

Extra context under the cut;

While thinking about Zenix, I realized that because of how my rewrite is, him and Jacob would be around the same age (a rough 1-2 year age difference.) and that got me thinking that they would also both be in the Nether at roughly the same time too during the time skip! And then I thought "how silly would it be if they become murder boyfriends!".

The context of Jacob calling him "Ro'Meave" is that in my rewrite Garroth is Zenix's 'legal' father and this would of course be much after the time or everyone realizing Garroth is Garroth, so Zenix changes his last name to Ro'Meave.

And in case you're wonder what in the hell is going on with his hair; in my rewrite Zenix is the reincarnation of Esmund. As he grows older and out of his teens into adult hood, he starts to slowly look more and more like Esmund, one of the first things being that his hair slowly starts becoming blonde.

Also a fun little fact; in my rewrite Esmund is represented heavily via a very, messy looking circle, thus the strange circle on Zenix's armor. "Why a circle?" you didn't ask, well!! It is supposed to be in refrence to the oruborus, the snake eating itself for eternity. Esmund in my rewrite only creates by destroying, only becomes more of what he dreams by tearing himself apart from the inside.

Jacob's is Shad's relic, as Jacob in my rewrite after a certain point becomes the holder of Shad's relic instead of Aaron, and for the whole rewrite after the Falcon Claw tradgey, Jacob is basically Shad's lap dog, doing all his dirty work and getting treated like the weird prince of the Nether who will disect you if you breath a way he doesn't like.

[aro-laurance-zvahl]

What if Aaron’s character was replaced by his son Jacob? Making him this very like. Stereotypical D&D rogue edgy teenager/young adult that comes in during season 2 maybe? So he’d be like 21? 22? I dunno. The idea of this hurt kid who would go to the ends of the earth to kill Zane Ro’Meave intrigues me.

He’d be a sort of narrative foil to Levin I think. A lord’s son whose parent(s) died/went missing and their home falling apart when they’re barely old enough to remember. The difference being Levin had a support system and Jacob didn’t, causing their differing trajectories in life

[packcoventhing]

Just wrote on Shad and the Shadow Knights and feeling the urge to post it 💪💪

[irenes-journal]

Aphtober day 2 - Gift

Zane was so nice to give a pretty little necklace to a child outside of Falcon Claw. Absolutely nothing bad happened. The story ended nicely and everyone was happy. Totally.

Oh also I wrote a fic about it :) (first ever Aphmau ao3 fic!! Woohoo!! Link is under the cut) it’s called The Fall of Falcon Claw and it’s my first fic in multiple years so hopefully it’s good? Link is also under the cut too!

Once again, Aphtober prompt list is by @vyladromeave !!

Tw for death, because actually the necklace wasn’t nice and bad things did happen. Sorry if I got your hopes up before.

[ambivartence]

prince hanbin ✨

[theladyofrosewater]

Okay somebody correct me if I'm misinterpreting this but I'm rewatching season 2 rn and I just got to the Falconclaw flashback and I think it's stated that because Aaron grabbed the amulet from his son Jacob, that is the reason why Jacob, Lily, and the rest of the village died but Aaron lived.

A really fucked up implication is that IF the amulet was intended to kill everyone except the holder of the amulet in a set radius. It could mean that Zane intentionally gave the amulet to a small child with the desired outcome leaving little baby Jacob an orphan, perfect for swooping up and molding into a future weapon since Jacob would have also been a descendant of Shad and way easier to manipulate than Aaron would have been. Like it would have been SO easy for Zane to put the blame of everyone's death on Jacob and use that fact to manipulate the kid. like "Oh you poor thing this was clearly your fault because your a descendant of Shad the Destroyer! and not at all from the cursed amulet I gave you. You better come with me and the Jury so you don't use those powers to hurt anyone else." Like don't tell me he wouldn't have told Jacob that if he managed to get Irene's relic he could totally resurrect his parents but he needs to get the relic first so... Time to go on baby's first war crime filled field trip supervised by Ivy which is defiantly not a awful idea nope not at all.

In other words I have an au to jot down so if you'll excuse me...

[rexecutioner]

Guys Jacob (Aarons son) and Brian were in the same goddamn boat but one of them was an innocent six year old and the other was a bitter teen

(Given amulets by Zane to eventually kill everyone in the village they lived in) (only one succeeded)

Idk where I was going with this im just really missing Brian bcs he didn’t even show up once after s1 I hope those fifteen years treated him well :(

Also Aarmau shouldn’t have been a thing in Mcd but we all kind of knew that already (Aphmau and Zoey 💔) (what we could have had 💔)

Anyways my plane home leaves tomorrow so if yall miss my weekly rants and art posts it might become more frequent idk

Have this Garroth art that I drew with crayons yesterday

[zanemau-freak]

Something that will always get me is the truama that would follow a divine reincarnation for the rest of their life.

( Based upon my rewrite; )

Aphmau, Claire and Ein will never know the true pain and suffering Irene took on to rid the world of evil, the healing she did or the love she spread so that one day all Ru'Aunians could be happy.

Aaron will be forever reminded that those who are misunderstood will be seen as plagues of the land, and how easily those who are undermined can be thrusted from their lives and shadowed into nothing. Jacob will come to live that same fate, until he is pushed to the edge and snaps back at the hand that feeds him.

Travis will forever feel like a disappointment amongst the vast ever growing library of his ancestor, Enki constantly breathing down his neck. A reminder that his existance in the long run is a eons planned out mission for Enki to become knower of all, that his greatest grandfather will continue to collect family spirits to keep the library and his life going, until the world fizzles out.

Zenix will live with the overbearing guilt Esmund never felt, the sickening hunger and shame, an animalistic need for blood and viscera that will never be quenched until all life in the Overworld is stomped out.

Keori will live with shame, knowing she helped continue the oppression of her own people under her father's crown, against Menphina's own teachings and beliefs.

Modzilla will continue to live. Kul'Zak never dies. Afterall, he wasn't one of them, was he? He couldn't simply put himself to sleep and return a new soul. He will live on, walking the realms carrying the sins of the divine on his shoulders, continuing their mission of fighting off the Void, until the Void calls out to him like it does all dimension hoppers and he answers, returning home to once and never was. Tommy will live as a disgrace. Knowing he was the attempt for his 'father' to try and be like those divine he so missed. That science for once could not outsmart magic, and that he will forever be a mistake. Knowing that when his father looks at him, all he will see is a life wasted, a soul made yet given free will. Maybe one day the two will forgive each other. Tommy will not have to live with that pain, Monty will never die. He's too tired at this point, he has too much work, the Void, it still calls, and one of these days he'll have to listen.

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

Dadron HCs always fuck me over

Like I hc Aaron with tattoos and just the idea of his kids getting pens to colour them in 🤭🤭🤭

Especially because he has kind of edgy/realistic tattoos and they’re just absolutely covered in sparkly gel pen.

[kurithedweeb]

Thinking of Aph/Ana's kids calling the guys different variations of dad.

Laurance is Ta/Tati to Levin, Ba/Baba to Malachi, and Da to the girls. These are how he referred to his own fathers, both when addressing them directly and when speaking of them to others. The Zvahl household speaks Seafarer's, Ta and Ba being two words for father. He will straight up not respond if any of them refer to him as Father because it doesn't process in his brain as a word he associates with fatherhood, because he never called his own fathers that, which is the only reason Levin doesn't call him Father as an adult.

Garroth is Papa to the girls, Pa to Malachi, Pa to Levin when he was a baby and Father when he's an adult. The first time Levin calls him Father he has a panic attack and thinks he's hallucinating. He looks very much like Garroth when he's older, and he has some of Garroth's accent since Garroth was one of his primary caretakers in his formative years, and he reminds him so of himself when he was young. He gets used to it eventually, after Levin explains he feels he needs to act more proper as Lord.

Aaron was Dad or Father to the girls because he would be described to them as 'your dad' or 'your father,' they never actually met him. He was never really as much of a dad to the boys, and that was perfectly fine by Aaron since if they did call him dad all he would be able to think about is what Jacob would be like if he'd had the chance to grow up.

And honorary Uncle Dante to all the kids, he is Uncle to every single person in the village Levin's age or younger

[noble-guards]

Mcd Minor Character Tournament

[romeave-wives-club]

IM AN IDIOT AND IM HORRIBLE HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT BABY BOY BABY- JACOB. JACOB LYCAN NEEDS MORE FUCKING LOVE.

Okay but the kids/next gen don't get enough love I swear.

My baby boys Levin & Malachi have been running a village as Lords while being so young (well in Levin's case anyways-)

And my lovely Leona is so strong for everything she's been through and they barely even COVERED the topic of her coping with Zane as her father like Canon MCD!Zane is a horrible person (still bbg tho) and yet she never has like issues with it?? was she not told or did she just not care??

AND MY BOY KYLE- HE IS LIKE DANTE JR. BRO CANNOT FORGET. And will likely outlive his friends & family-

[that-one-i-think]

HEAR ME OUT Y'ALL

MCD Garroth or younger MCD Garte but they look like Jacob Holland from Sea Beast

Just...... hear me out y'all.