#mcd Lilian

[xerith-42]

Redesign the Nine Part 2

That's right babey, we're doing a part 2! Because I went outside and sat in the sun but the brain rot still consumed as it does and I had premonitions about more of the Jury members. Before we discussed ones who were completely new, reworking characters from MyStreet into MCD. This time I want to take a closer look at three Jury members who we know were part of the Jury, but lacked on screen appearances, or depth portrayed in the appearances they got.

These are members who's stories are far more shrouded in mystery. Even the elements of it I know feel... incomplete. Because characters like lying to me and refusing to let me tell their damn story.

Let's get into it.

Lilian The Silver Tongue

That's right, she isn't going to be another scythe user, that's boring as hell. Let Ivy slay with that. Instead Lilian is a rather enigmatic member of the Jury because... She didn't go through the same process. Janus, Zachary, and Ivan were all members when Zane inherited the Jury, and everyone else went through the process via the Guard Academy. But Lilian...

Lilian was found by Zane. It was a routine trip to Nahkra, just checking in on the village so close to O'Khasis' borders. A simple trip, so he only took Janus with him. While the two were in the market place, Lilian called out to Zane from her barely functional stall. What mattered was that she had a deck of tarot cards on the table, and a peculiar look about her. [proceeds to pull out my tarot cards and do a divination or two]

She didn't know anything about Zane. Lilian wasn't from Ru'aun, she was a runaway from Gal'ruk. She didn't know about Zane, or O'Khasis, just that she saw a nobleman and his guard and had a distinct feeling about them. The reading she got of him was even more fascinating that her gut feeling. She didn't even know his name and he didn't know hers but she knew there was a great mystery in front of her.

The Seven of Cups, the Five of Cups, and the Reverse Nine of Swords. Over ambition, sorrow of a loss, and the potential for time to heal.

Zane was never superstitious, but he believed in the Divine. In other realms. In the supernatural. Who's to say a deck of cards couldn't be used to predict the future, or read the inner parts of a person? These cards were accurate enough to give him pause at the explanation. Enough to make him stop and listen to the odd hooded woman who was suddenly speaking words the public had yet to hear of. They didn't know Zane's brother was dead yet, or that he had inherited O'Khasis. But her cards knew his loss.

It made Zane pay to get a better reading from her. A deeper look into him, this time with six cards that he pulled himself at her instruction. She didn't know the question Zane asked the cards, but when she read out the result, it was chilling. The question was simple; "Will my father's health get better?" The answer?

Past: The Chariot, Reversed Queen of Cups. A successful, balanced, triumphant man comfortable in his life, and a beautiful but perverse woman, not to be trusted.

Future: Reversed Fool, Knight of Wands. A hasty and impetuous man will offer a key choice, and The Seeker, be that Zane or the subject of his question, will make a foolish and disastrous choice in response to this offer. Tread with caution.

Present Attitudes: Justice, Two of Swords. A well balanced mind, body, and heart will be key to future successes. If one can keep their mind open, emotions calm, and thinking balanced, then great fortune awaits.

Lilian never gave Zane her own analysis of it, just the meanings of the cards. She left it all up to his imagination. And this was before Zane wore a mask. Even if she didn't know what he was thinking, she could see the gears turning in his head. She could see his reactions. She was piecing together who he was through these cards. He left after her reading, in an unsure position.

It was days later, when Lilian was preparing to leave and travel to another city that Zane found her again. He asked her for another reading. A simple yes or no question he wanted answered. And due to her fascination, she didn't even ask for payment. She gladly did it for him. This is a reading he didn't even let Janus witness, asking that his back be turned, and that Lilian not give him any explanation. Let the cards speak for themselves.

The answer Zane got was unsure. But he acted upon it anyway. He asked, and the cards answered. Lilian was to be the newest member of the Jury of Nine.

"What in the name of the Divine makes you think I want that?"

Lilian's retort was the final nail in the coffin. She came from nothing, she was nothing, and came to Ru'aun for nothing. Zane could offer her a proper life, an identity, a purpose. She used those cards to learn about others so she could imitate being human, and her lack of knowledge was an advantage she was keenly aware of. One Zane wanted to understand how to utilize himself. He and Lilian went back and forth for a while, but in the end he convinced her. In the end, Lilian was the first member of the Jury Zane ever assigned, and he didn't even recruit her properly.

And she instantly joined the rank of his most trusted ally at the time.

Janus the Silver Death

Janus was a member of the Jury when Garte held control, yet before that he was always assigned to help Zane. When Janus joined the Jury, he was the youngest member, the first to be freshly out of the guard academy and into the Jury. Garte preferred to bring in already hardened veterans, but he saw a ferocity in the way Janus fought, and a willingness to kill when told to do it. He was loyal and fierce. But he was young, spunky, and in need of discipline.

As was Garte's at the time youngest son, a teenage Zane. So despite attaining the best position a guard in Ru'aun can attain, Janus was given the job of babysitting body guarding the youngest Ro'meave. Awesome. He was so happy about this and it did not piss him off at all. But in spite of a... let's say less than great first impression, Janus still took the job with stride, and put his all into ensuring that Zane would be trained properly in combat.

It uhhh, didn't go that way. Instead Zane was a nerd who learned about magic and relics n shit, and Janus couldn't really stop him, but he still wanted to do his job. He still wanted to help Garte in that goal of making Zane into a potential successor for him. Janus never verbalized any confusion as to why Garroth wouldn't be more fitting of this training. In achieving this goal, Janus just encouraged Zane's interest in well, whatever nerd shit Zane was interested in. He doesn't understand any of it but Zane's clearly passionate and makes a solid case for why this is useful knowledge to have.

And when Zane becomes High Priest while Garroth is off at the Guard Academy, he selects Janus to be his top advisor. Zane hasn't even inherited the Jury yet, but he and Janus have just been doing shit together for long enough now that it just makes sense. When Zane does inherit the Jury, when Garroth fakes his death and Zane is officially named successor, Janus becomes his most trusted ally. But why does Zane trust Janus so much?

Because he doesn't ask questions. Janus was taught to be devoted to a fault, to not question his superior, and to take what he is given. When Zane asks him to go pick up the order from the butcher, he does it. When Zane asks him to help him run scenarios of taking over villages through subterfuge, he does it. When Zane asks him to slaughter an entire village while holding a probably cursed amulet so it can absorb their remaining life force or power, he does it. Unlike Zachary or Ivan, Janus wasn't loyal to Garte for very long. He is loyal to Zane.

That's why he and Lilian share the title Silver. It's a sign of loyalty to Zane, as it's his favorite color. The two members of the Jury that Zane trusts to know him on any personal level are given this title in common, even before he fully trusts either of them. He makes it mean that. I firmly believe that Zane saw almost every other member of the Jury as a pawn, or outright disposable. But Janus and Lilian? Those aren't just Jury members. Those are Zane's friends. Zane's fucked up and evil friends. Zane's friends who would help him commit war crimes.

Truly the ride or die friends of all time.

And uhh, then there's this fucking guy

Ivan the... bitch

I don't actually have a funny clever name for Ivan, I just think he's a little bitch. A little warlock bitch. I think Ivan's sick warlock powers let him get into the Jury easier, but his bitchy cocky attitude did not exactly work well with others. He was a respected fighter, but didn't often play nice with other members of the Jury, particularly Zachary who he got into a lot of fights with, and later Ivy when she joined. He was infuriating to be around, partially because he's just a massive jackass, and partially because he's so good at what he does that he gets away with being a massive jackass.

I don't have a lot to say about Ivan, I will admit. I don't have some dramatic backstory, no deeper connection with anyone, no family that's being blackmailed. Just an entitled bitch of a man. However, I did have a really interesting take about his relationship with Lucinda.

Hear me out on this; Zane finds out that he's potentially going to have to marry the heir to Pikoro. Wanting to avoid the disaster that happened when they tried to ask Garroth to marry someone he'd never met, he sends Ivan undercover into Pikoro to learn more about Lucinda and report back to Zane about his findings. His job was to just observe Lucinda, maybe talk to her once or twice, figure out what kind of person she is and whether she's actually compatible with Zane, or if this marriage is really going to be a sham.

Ivan ends up seducing her and telling Zane that she's a disloyal harlot of a witch. Because Ivan sucks. But y'know, Lucinda doesn't know about any of this, and when Ivan disappears, he lies to her. He leaves Pikoro saying that he's going back to the Academy to be a teacher there, and promises to see her again. In reality he just goes back to Zane, back to normal life, only occasionally sparing a thought for the beautiful witch he met.

And when Zane disappears with Lilian, and the Jury starts to slowly disband itself, Ivan thinks of where to go. What does he want to do with his life? Lucinda.

Good choice honestly. Prick.

That's all for today. See you losers next time when the brainrot really takes over and we tackle my favorite Jury members, who don't necessarily need redesign, but do need some fleshing out. Especially Ivy. See you then ;)

[nottoofondofgaypeople]

hi hello figured i should send mcd asks to your mcd blog

anyway what’s something in canon that your changing? can be important or not im just curious about your rewrite

Thank you so much for the ask! I literally don't get anything done with this rewrite if people don't ask me about it.

Editors note: I think I missed posting on Tumblr because this post got away from me in the span of five minutes of writing...

I've been having a lot of thoughts about changing canon recently, some that I'm not super solid on. I know I want to change Aaron's death, but I'm not sure how. And I know for a fact I want to change Tu'la pretty drastically, but it's hard to do so with the current cast because so few of them would ever be really connected to it. Those are ideas I'm work shopping right now.

The one thing in canon I know I want to change is Garroth's betrayal. Because Lilian is an illusionist. So like... She could have knocked out Laurance and stole the amulet while disguised as Garroth. And then used the mask she had already used on him to mind control him away from the battlefield and to Zane while she did this.

This means that Laurance thinks Garroth betrayed them just in time for the mind control to properly set in and Garroth can actually betray them. And Lilian plotted all of this out. That's another thing, I'm fleshing out Lilian A LOT because even if she's a barely present character, I find her incredibly fascinating. She's 100% a girl boss and absolutely Zane's favorite that isn't Janus.

I like the idea of Lilian and Zane working together on more things than any other member of the Jury though. She's his most trusted confidant. Because I did something evil. I always thought that Lily, Aaron's dead wife, and Lilian looked similar and had similar names. Suspiciously similar.

Let's be honest, Zane is a petty malicious bastard, he absolutely would have a member of his jury willing to give up their identity to him take on the appearance of one of his victims. Just to taunt another. Man what was I on about with Gene as Arthis, Zane is clearly Arthis Menathil, but his Sylvannas is a man?? Unless Lilian is Sylvannas?? Or wait would it be Kiki?! I should stop going down this path, thinking about WoW only causes trouble.

Hey random aside, Lilian is totally trans, and she's used magic to transition fully. Zane helped her with all of this when she first joined the Jury and confessed to being born in the wrong body. That's all!

Anyways what I was trying to say is that Zane basically asked Lilian to take on the appearance of Lily when she pledged her loyalty to him. She had a different name. It's never clear if she remembers who she was or not, because her life seemingly started when she joined the Jury. Even if Janus is stronger and therefore better at enacting Zane's violence for him, Lilian is the most loyal member of the Jury. Zane knows that he can always rely on her.

And y'know what?? I'm gonna say it. Maybe they were a little in love. There. I said it. Fuck it, I'm gonna make Zane break from canon by expressing a genuine moment of vulnerability when he sees Lilian die because he cared about her. That sort of loyalty may be a tool he uses, but he also just cares about Lilian. How can he not when she's so devoted to him and so genuinely kind? She actually loves Zane, sort of, in a bad way, and he actually loves her, sort of, in a bad way.

Did I just imply that the inner most rankings of the Jury of Nine are actually just Zane's Polycule?? Y'know I can't even be surprised a post that was supposed to be about Garroth somehow turned into a new villain polycule, but I'm still a little amazed I managed to do that...

TLDR: Garroth gets mind controlled, Laurance gets played like a fiddle, and Lilian is a slaytastic girl boss that will surely be missed.

[xerith-42]

I will now be putting all of my brain power to work to try and make this work logistically-- I figured it out!!

You kinda have to go with my headcanon of Teony escaping the Jury of Nine to the Gal'ruk islands, but I imagined Jeffory went after her of his volition. Zane doesn't trust Jeffory, so he could have sent someone like like say... Lilian? Who shares a striking resemblance to Lily in both name and appearance?

I'm just sayin'... Could've happened.

i was thinking abt the nymphs on that one island in mcd and like how one of them turned into aaron after he died to to fuck with aphmau and like. imagine if we ignore the logistics of it, one of them turned into lily to try and keep aaron from rescuing nekoette ane dimitri from the demon warlock that one time…. like oh my god the angst potential. .

[maragidyke]

look what i redrew :)

old one is below

[zavbees]

Small Character Dump for my fic

As of Chapter 8

THE JURY

Zane is still a little fucker. He is still power hungry, and insanely manipulative. However, he is now the second youngest in the Jury, meaning he has a MASSIVE chip on his shoulder. Also, he earned the position of High Priest by studying, and is the YOUNGEST in the cities HISTORY to gain it. Meaning manz is smart as fuck. I need more studious Zane in my life.

The Upper Four (Ivan, Jeffory, Janus, Katelyn) have been in the jury together for a few years now, so they are all basically siblings. Granted, they mainly hate each other, but they are brothers in arms. Only they can fuck each other over.

Zero is essentially Ivans minion. The boy never leaves his side unless he is specifically ordered to. And he is near emotionless. Idk why but I lowkey love this unfeeling bastard.

The Lower Four (Zero, Ruby, Lilian, Clas) are extremely separated from each other. Where the Upper Four are the siblings who hate each other with a burning passion, the Lower Four are essentially the cousins that play nice at family gatherings only to never speak once they go home.

The Jury really is just hanging on by a thread. Sometimes the Jury is a tight nit band of soldiers who would get along great, but others are this close to imploding on themselves and possibly causing a civil war. This jury is the latter.

Basically every single Juror has some form of trauma, the majority of it being religious. They literally were separated from society for a few months and forced to take in magical abilities their bodies weren't supposed to have. And O'khasis is a HEAVILY religious city.

THE SHADOW KNIGHTS

Gene has Delfina and Zenix under his command in the General Army, yet they both constantly threaten his authority. By that, I mean they are the only two who will OUTRIGHT call him a dumbass in front of everyone. Usually it doesn't end well.

Zenix is for some reason eternally in his teenage dirtbag phase in the worst way possible. He always has an attitude, and is basically a chihuahua: way to loud for way to long despite his size. He is actually really smart, but if you try to give the solution to world hunger via a string of fuck yous and death threats, no one will listen. They'll just be annoyed.

Vylad and Laurence are probably the most caring of the main Shadow Knights I have in here. And the saddest. They have their ways of not giving in to the idea of taking revenge on the Surface, meaning they constantly carry a sense of guilt.

Ok but like genuinely, Laurences arc to becoming a SK is fascinating? And I honestly really like it? I feel like if you take out "Aphmau was his reason for not loosing his sanity", he'd still have the fortitude to not give in and maintain his sanity. He'd just be extremely broken.

Also Laurence gets to keep his long orange hair because I say so. One of these men need to take one for the team and have hair longer than their shoulders.

For some reason, once I started looking more into the backstories for the SKs, I forgot that they all had died and Shad gave them their revenge arcs. I forgot just how much angst this group had. Whoops.

Also Sasha and Laurence knew each other and i completely forgot?? H O W ???

[nottoofondofgaypeople]

This is actually their dynamic in my rewrite!! Both of them know they're the best at what they do, but they do totally opposite things. Lilian gaslights people while Janus cuts them in half. So they're trying to one up each other in their own respective fields and always rubbing it in each other's faces, even if they barely value one another's accomplishments.

Zane is fully aware of this rivalry and actively feeds into it because it makes them both better at their jobs. Sometimes they take it too far, he has had to reprimand Janus for killing someone he was meant to leave alive because Lilian pissed him off, but Zane is overall okay with this dynamic between them. He shows them as much love as he wants to, and then they spend the rest of their time fighting for more of it. Probably fuels his ego a lot.

i love zajanus as much as the next person but i think were failing to see the potential in lillian/zane/janus where lillian and janus have an on going rivalry of trying to be zanes favorite. thats just me tho

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[roman-cup]

Poll: MCD most hated Round 1

[ID: An image of Brenden from Minecraft diaries and an image of Lilith from Minecraft Diaries. End ID]

[cloverrr8]

Aphmau MCD Outfit Inspo VARIOUS CHARACTERS EDITION

Travis

Season 2

Training outfit

Formal outfit 😍

Season 3

Lilian

Fortune teller disguise

Alternative

Jury outfit

Sasha:

Season 1

Season 2

Also hair inpso cause it’s so gorgeous

[laurancezvahlslefteyebrow]

Rewriting This Scene:

MCD S:1 Ep:90 Mask in the Trees

because it’s stupid

Once Garroth spotted the cloaked person, he wasted no time. He quickly jumped into action, chasing them down into the thick and dark forest. It wasn’t long before he could no longer see the person in which he pursued. They were gone without a trace. He lingered for a moment before deciding to head back.

Sighing, he turned around , only to find the masked person standing mere inches away. Before her could act, a swift hand was placed on his forehead and the person began to sing. Their voice was beautiful, so much so that Garroth felt he could not move. His vision began to fade and he could feel himself beginning to sway.

Suddenly he was standing in the middle of the forest, no recollection of how he got there or why he was there in the first place. Confused, he began to head back to the baby shower.

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So I’m currently rewatching and this is the ep i’m on. It was going fine up until this happened soooo i wanted to write my rewrite version.

In my rewrite the person he chases down is lilian (i think it’s her in canon but i don’t actually remember we’ll see lmao). Lillian in my au is a siren, a very powerful one at that. She’s working for Zane, and does a good portion of his dirty work. Here in this scene, she is taking control of Garroth’s mind. She now knows just how tricky he is to enchant, and knows exactly how. She’s also made him feel extremely exhausted (which will make him easier to manipulate), and is why he then spends so much time in his room. Not because he’s pouting

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

Time for introducing the second round of each poll

Tw cannibalism

These are the jury in my MCD rewrite, but it’s fair if you don’t agree with that!!

[xerith-42]

I just realized that the way I write Zane and Lilian is basically Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye if they were evil.

[xerith-42]

Kuri, Kuri, oh my you can't do this to me

You can't just DO THAT

JEFFORY AND LILIAN AS CINEMATIC PARALLELS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS

and their kids continuing the cycle?? making me ill.

Something to sprinkle in to just like... Sweeten the deal I guess?? Katelyn may never have had kids, but she did have brothers, all younger. And while MCD never goes into too much detail about her home life, it's very likely she played some part in raising them as their older sister. She wants to raise them to stand up for themselves and what they believe, whatever that may be. She's honest with them about the fact that she may not always make choices she likes, that she may serve someone with ideals she doesn't agree with.

She teaches them to do what they must to survive, and to play their parts until the time is right.

Even that can't prepare them for the sudden loss of her when she joined the Jury. The silence they were forced into, the fact that Katelyn could look out into a crowd in O'Khasis and see a head of hair that she knows belongs to one of her brothers, and has to turn the other way. The fact that they have to watch their sister basically become a celebrity while forsaking them and leaving them behind.

Maybe her oldest brother could have taken her words to heart. Could recognize that Katelyn was willing to abandon them to keep them safe. That she was serving Zane and playing her part until the time was right. We'll make him Kacey because I love adapting MyStreet characters into MCD. Kacey is able to see the complexity in his sister's situation that his younger brother's might not.

He can't blame them for resenting her. He tries not to. But then Jeffory dies. He knows that Katelyn was friends with him, and he expects that she'll make her move any second. And then... Nothing... O'Khasis and Scaleswind go to war but the news of Katelyn's betrayal takes months to make it back home. By the time it does she's already gone. He can run to Phoenix Drop, but all he'll be met with is the news that she disappeared, and has been declared dead.

Now he has to find her. And the best way to do that? The easiest access to resources and leads as to what she was looking into and maybe what Zane was making her keep quiet about? Why, it's joining the Jury of course.

And this the cycle begins anew.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[senticous-fanbase]

Janus the Silver Death boutta be Janus the Silver Death of me stg

[forestcat000]

jury and shadow knights collections

zane collects knives, not for any reason they just like them. they collect chefs knifes, pocket knifes any type of knife really.

they have a few ornate knives that they got from garroth and vylad for birthdays charismas.

zenix loves to collect guns old guns new guns but he does especially love vintage ones. he also does taxidermy

lilian collects masks not face masks, masks like these

i though it would be fitting since in mcd she is the masked man

Sasha collects bird skulls chicken skulls blue jay skulls hawk skulls

Ivan collects old tomes and spell books

gene collects old rock records

that was all the ones i could think of

[garrothromeave]

i was rewatching the later episodes of season 2 of mcd, and during one of aphmau's conversations with vylad, he says something that really interested me:

... and i just want to take this time to point how incredibly inaccurate this is.

garroth is not at all how vylad described him. garroth is very emotionally weak. in fact, i'd argue that he lets his emotions get in the way more than most of the mcd cast.

the only place where i could see him being mistaken as someone who doesn't let his emotions get in the way is early in season 1, when he seemed stoic and mysterious. back then there wasn't much to him, but i'm pretty sure that's just because the story hadn't really begun yet. as he actually develops character, we see multiple instances where garroth directly contradicts vylad's statement.

just to name a couple off the top of my head: - garroth failing to protect the village from zenix while aphmau was away. it's not that he couldn't fight, it's that his attachment to zenix was still there and he was too heartbroken to give it his all. zenix had been like a son to him, and he simply couldn't hurt him - that's not putting your emotions aside for the situation. after this incident, he then locked himself away out of shame and guilt and avoided everyone, aka, he didn't seek help from those around him. - during the malachi's castle arc, laurance provoking garroth with the whole, "don't talk to me like i'm some apprentice guard! ...because i heard you have such a reputation with those." out of complete impulse, garroth attacks laurance. a mindless act, one that he didn't properly think through, because he let his emotions command his actions. - the entirety of the last 10 episodes of season 1. when he saw that illusion of laurance and aphmau kissing, he let his emotions get to the best of him, causing him to lock himself away for days and not talk to anyone. then he proceeded to get his emotions manipulated by lilian/zane. - garroth sneaking off by himself to see his mother while him, aphmau and katelyn were in o'khasis, despite how much danger he could have put them in. when explaining himself later, he tells aphmau that he didn't want to "bother her" with his personal business - he recognized that he needed help, and yet he still avoided roping anyone into it. "but! what about his character development after season 1!?" hahaha yeah sure uh, 1) garroth is still very emotion-based in his actions in season 2 (see the last example i gave), and even then, 2) when does vylad ever get a chance to see this side of his character development? (or, lack thereof.) he didn't talk to his brother for like over 20 years and when he finally spoke to him again he doesn't stick around enough to actually get to know him. which brought me to another thought: "maybe that's just how he remembers garroth from back when they were younger?" which seemed farfetched, but was logical enough as to why he'd say that. since like... it makes no other sense otherwise. BUT THEN APHMAU AGREES? after vylad says that garroth doesn’t let his emotions get in the way, she says, “that’s true.” after the entirety of the season finale of season 1 happened? where he literally back stabs everyone because of the way he feels? don’t buy it. and like, back to vylad: he watched phoenix drop for a long while during season 1, so he was (most likely) there when garroth met zenix, grew attached to zenix, [he literally saved garroth from dying after zenix shot him], and watched garroth fail to protect the village against zenix. as for the other things, i don't know what else he's really seen? but either way like, where would he get the idea that his brother was so different than what he actually is? he's spoken to him only a few times since they've reunited, and you'd think that if vylad was really as observant and smart as he is he'd be able to recognize that garroth is in fact a huge heart-over-head guy? idk man, even if he hasn't seen the full picture, i don't know where he's getting that idea from? so i honestly think that this is less of a "how vylad perceives garroth vs the reality," and more of a writing inconsistency with jess. because i mean, vylad’s fuckin’ smart, y’know? it just kinda looks like she doesn't know her own characters all too well. i mean, not just with garroth either, she's always kinda done that. or like, maybe she does know her characters, and she just isn’t the best at conveying certain traits in them - which is also something that she’s always done. because honestly, like, jess tried to display garroth as this level-headed, reserved and observant guy - which, yeah, wouldn't be wrong because he typically is - but i think she jumped to a conclusion in the process, that because he was like this, he couldn't be quite as emotional. even though we know he very clearly is. something we gotta note: quiet, reserved and serious =/= emotionally in tact. i'm just saying, garroth is much more emotional than most fans make him out to be. he's constantly battling with his own emotions, which is so often overlooked by the audience. i encourage y'all to look deeper into his character, there's so much there that's hardly explored and he really deserves the attention :)

[roman-cup]

MCD most hated poll

Welcome to the MCD most hated poll! The bracket making caused me issues, and annoyed me, and i didnt have enough people for it to be even, so pretend Brendan is going against Lilith. sure.

First 4 polls will go up tomrrow (friday 3pm EST) unless i something happens

mashup under cut

Laurance vs Garroth

Vincent vs Gabriel

Levin vs Yip

Nicole vs fenrir

Brendan vs lilith

Kiki vs lilian

Lord Janna vs Shad

Michi vs Ivy