#raven MCD

[laurancezvahlslefteyebrow]

so no head?

[warlocks-and-phoenixes]

Wyverns are spirit guardians originally meant to protect ghosts but sorta evolved away from that and just live as their own species now. Except the “wyvern realm” is actually purgatory. And this is way Raven refused and still refuses to ever leave Malachi’s side. He’s still got a lil ghost in him

Idk I saw a post abt Malachi with the spirit world and for some reason my brain went to wyverns

[stillbreathing-aer]

HAHAHAHAHA RAVEN JUST CHOMPED IVYS HEAD OFF. AND IM SORRY DID HE LEAVE BY SAYING "CAW CAW" HELP I CANT TAKE KESTINS VOICE FOR HIM SERIOUSLY

[noble-guards]

Mcd Minor Character Tournament R.5

It’s another three person one, so the winner and second place of this group will go on against one another tomorrow!

[mac-audcheese]

i feel like the same could be said for raven, garroths wyvern, as well. i don’t remember if he was supposed to be the family wyvern or what relationship garroth had with him exactly besides his messenger, so it’d be cool if there was more explanation on that too. like did garroth just stumble upon raven while running away, or did raven seek him after he was gone. what was their bond like to result in raven being his messenger id like to know !!

I WISH we saw more Laurance and Ungrth in mcd. Like seeing Laurance be a badass dragon rider. But NOOOOOO. Ungrth had to die. I feel like it would have been cool seeing more Ungrth and Laurance content.

I wish we had more story for those two. I love the idea of a boy raised by a wyvern. Lost by society. Young wild boy, messy hair. Can't speak any language except wyvern. Lost when he comes back to society.

This is such a fun concept for a rewrite. Like for more of Laurance's backstory.

[anonmothgod]

Zane Ro'meave in my fic is just down unluckly. Not knowing what his ansector did, nor what his future holds. But stuck with being a prohpet and dealing with two different people who knows the potential that he holds.

Mind you, he is currenlty wrangling the equvilent of two feral cats running loose in his home after stiching them right back up and one of them is BENT on revenge for everything that he's done.

I wish I could write FASTER so I can get everything from my brain out into the world to keep discussing about it. I'd love to explore more about this world I've been making.

[kurithedweeb]

He also voices Lucinda’s ex boyfriend. And other characters. It’s wild.

Just went through the VA page

Malachi, Ivan the ex-boyfriend, some background characters, filling in for a couple MyStreet guys . . . Xavier?? Xavier the dude who created the Jury of Nine??? LEVIN????

I was watching S2 last night and I did not connect Levin & Malachi’s voices at all. I thought Malachi was voiced by Andy Cowley (Garroth & Jeffory's main VA) because to me it sounded like Garroth and Malachi speak with the same cadence, but Kellen Goff's always voiced Malachi. Andy Cowley used to voice LEVIN though - he voiced him at the start of S2 and Kellen later took over as Levin's VA is both MCD & MyS.

We're learning things today, y'all.

[lyraofthestarsss]

Rip MCD!Garroth you would’ve loved Royal Mail

[nottoofondofgaypeople]

Some thoughts on Wyverns

We as a fandom need to talk about how ridiculous the whole "you need to be descended from divine blood" to talk to wyverns thing is. Like... Why?? The wyverns were literally just chilling in the overworld, and though they may have taken things a step too far when they taught the divine warriors about realm magic, the Divine Warriors were just people. They weren't born divine, they were turned into them by the relics, and the divine warriors have no real connection to wyverns beyond existing in the same time.

"Oh but maybe the relic gave them the power to commune with the wyverns!" Then why can their descendants do it? Is the divine something that becomes part of their blood and is then passed down regardless of where the relic goes? And even still, it ignores the fundamental truth that wyverns are literally just there. They have another realm, but in the time of Irene they were just chilling out. Just some big winged lizards with intelligence.

Intelligence enough that they would have just... developed their own language with? Obviously after the disaster that happened with the Divine Warriors, wyverns pulled back and stopped being a common thing in Ru'aun, they weren't always like that. Wyverns likely had friends that weren't the divine that they communicated with.

So for my rewrite I'm gonna recontextualize this. Wyvern's had their own language, one that a human would have to learn as a sign of loyalty to their wyvern companions, but after wyverns dipped out, their language fell into obscurity. While record of it exists, these records are hard to find, and not always in the best condition. So while it's theoretically possible to learn their language, it's incredibly difficult.

Unless you have a relic. If you have a relic or are the direct reincarnation of a Divine Warrior (not the same as being their blood descendant), then the memories of the relic/divine allow a basic understanding of wyvern communication. They can have conversations with wyverns, but sometimes a wyvern will use a word they've never heard before, or just have forgotten the meaning of.

All this to say that Vylad totally learned how to talk to wyverns while in 15 year isolation and so did Travis (even though he didn't need to) and they communicate with one another in said language sometimes just for funsies. Laurance and Garroth know some level of this language due to Ungrith and Raven, but in different ways. Unrigth was Laurance's friend, he cared deeply for him, and likely would have taught Laurance his language as they grew up together. while Raven and Garroth clearly have a connection, Raven insists that they are not friends and clearly wasn't a consistent presence in Garroth's life. The only reason Garroth understands him at all is because he's Esmunds reincarnation.

Vylad and Laurance using this wyvern language to communicate when Laurance is having a Shadow Knight moment? Absolutely. Travis trying in vain to see if he can translate this speech into some form of music or language? Yes please. Aaron being completely and utterly confused when he understands this language he has literally never studied and that being a vector for the cast to figure out who's a reincarnation if they notice that pattern? I'm just saying.

Sorry I have a lot of thoughts about language in mcd

[puppsworld]

Brother Dubious

[archaic-grey]

i wanted to be the one

He thinks that you’re dumb, but you have the car, a shiny red Mustang your father sent you the keys to on the day of your sixteenth birthday, and you have him. You have Whelk’s afternoons and evenings and nights, his laughter and his grin and the way he hovers his pencil above his paper when he’s thinking. You have him in your car, you have him next to you, you have him sprawled across your dorm bed and perched on your desk chair.

or, the one where noah lets himself love someone he shouldn't

featuring: not actually unrequited love, a confession, murder, and extended metaphors

1.7k - read it here

(written for the @twbmccevent)

[karmaphone]

I wan..............burg er

[xerith-42]

Some things we may have forgotten

I've been rewatching MCD and taking extensive notes on it in hopes that I'll never have to watch it again and this is just a list of things that I don't see mentioned or brought up very often/ever that we should talk about and think about more

In the first episode Garroth tries to attack Vylad (angst potential) and Vylad literally just combat locks him by logging out of the game. This is objectively funny and should not be rewritten in any capacity. This should be canon as it is in every universe.

Aphmau's cat Meowki gets randomly killed in Episode 12 by a skeleton while Kiki is right upstairs. Just saying, there's some angst potential there.

In episode 11 Garroth reveals that he knows some medicine. Pretty sure this is never brought up again, but we could always bring it up.

Logan is apparently good with a bow while Zenix is trash at it despite being a self proclaimed "expert archer" which I think is very funny (I know this is part of Zenix's cover but what if we took it seriously it would be so funny)

Zoey is originally from the river village, as is Donna. Pretty sure they retcon that for Zoey, but I like to think the two of them could have been friends before Phoenix Drop.

Garroth actually almost dies in episode 15. Like Dr. Doctor says he will probably die soon at the start of the episode. And he doesn't get healed until episode 20. He literally spends 5 episodes laid up in bed dying.

Brendan's at his side probably angsting the entire time I'm just saying if you want sad gay fanfics, it's sitting right there!

Azura and Garroth were friends as kids??? Hello???? I think this is just a massive plot hole considering what Garroth's actual backstory ends up being asjfgshjdfgjk

Okay but if we twist it a little bit, they were friends as kids as in like at the guard academy??? Bc they're like vaguely teenage/young adult so maybe that's what she means? In which case I wanna think about that more because childhood friends to lovers is one of my favorite romance arcs ever. But is it really childhood friends if you met when you were like... 18?? And you're in your like mid to late twenties probably, I wouldn't really classify that as childhood friends.

WAIT IT GETS WORSE!

I don't... I don't even have a joke here, this is just a massive plot hole. Like all of this is just not true to Garroth's backstory as we know it. Grew up in the same village? You mean O'Khasis?? Where Garroth also FAKED HIS DEATH????

I literally don't know what to say to this I was just trying to find silly little facts to try and incorporate into my rewrite and instead I found a massive gaping plot hole

Moving on, in episode 19 when Aphmau confronts Zenix and they fight, he actually apologizes to her. As if he regrets having to hurt her for the sake of his/the Shadow King's goals.

The Lord of Brightport says the Shadow King "used to be a lord". Which like... Okay, I can bend backwards a few ways to say that he could be referring to how Shad started Falcon Claw, but how the fuck does this dude know that??? I feel like Laurance constantly just stumbling into plot holes by complete accident

Dale is apparently a Garmau shipper, going as far as to ask Aphmau if she plans on hooking up with Garroth. I like to think that he and Molly have a bet going for how long it takes for one of the two of them to finally fess up.

Raven's mom tried to eat him??

Okay then.

[noble-guards]

Mcd Minor Character Tournament R.3

[gomzdrawfr]

If only

cw: mcd, blood, angst

A comic dedicated for my oc, Eira "Raven" Liu :) check out some writings and context afterwards <3

Raven wakes up with a long metal rod impale through her abdomen, head’s bleeding, there's blood everywhere as she lays in the rumbles.

ah the explosion, right.

It’s loud, somewhat.

The constant ear ringing and the throbbing of her head took her a few moments to be back to reality.

The reality of living the last few moments, maybe just minutes of her life.

It was only her and the world.

looks like I'm leaving the same way I came—

Doesn’t even feel the pain anymore, there were probably no much blood left to bleed anyways.

—covered in blood, abandoned, alone, weeping.

weeping?

She blinks once or twice, feeling her vision growing blurry. The single tear slipping out her eye was almost comforting, it was warm against her cold skin.

If only...

She wished as her eyes slowly falls, she thinks she saw something moving in the distance, footsteps crunches and voices that seemed familiar, but she never did find out what was it.

Or who was it.

If only I could see you one last time

The last scene is just Price trying to shake Raven’s shoulder, but she was already gone.

The aftermath:

context:

[anonmothgod]

Fic Explanation

I just realized I was posting stuff about my fic without really explaining it, so take this as a quick rundown of what it's about

Omen of a Half-Blind Raven is where Zane is housesitting the entire block for 2 months and at the very start of it, MCD Laurance and MCD Travis are now there and in his house. He now has to get them "home" (or just away) before one of them decides to snap his neck.

In the fic, since the narration is limited to Zane's POV (third person limited) he refers to them as "Other Laurance/ Other Travis" to make that mental dissconection between the two. He's also an unreliable narrator due to having "visions" and general paranoia clouding his mind.

(More serious note; I am writing the very real effects of suffering from audio/visual hallucinations and general paranoia and these come from my personal experiecence. I won't get into much detail but stress and enviroment contribute a HUGE factor on what can trigger an episode and depending on the situation, full on psychosis.

Another thing is that Zane is a prophet in the sense that yes, a supernatural entity is fucking with his head BADLY. This doesn't mean that all of his psychological issues are caused from this enity or anything supernatural like possesion or haunting; I am AVOIDING that. That's a really bad movie and show trope and I am not going to fuel that fire. Instead, I am going to carefully have both elements there. Zane is not the only person harrased by supernatural entities here, but it is meant to contexualize how in modern time it's treated rather then back in MCD time.

Regardless of supernatural fuckery or not, Zane still has issues with hallucinations not tied to anything and paranoia. This is just a fact for him as a character and is not treated as a bad trait nor a good one; it is a neutral trait that he just has. This will be adressed in the fic, I promise.)

Timeline wise, both Others are from the tail-end of Season 3 MCD, assuming mostly on what is happening, and the near nuclear fallout the war has had on the main cast. They were mid-battle before they were just thrown right into the future, 1000 years later. In Mystreet, you're firmly looking in Season 1 since the cast had just graduated college.

That's the most basic rundown that I have without going into the chapters themselves. If you have any questions please ask away!