Light In The Darkness

A blog dedicated to all things apocamarc🥰 Icon by @pizzee, header by @tiptapricot Run by @tiptapricot

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Welcome to the apocamarchive!😳🌘🛸✨

That’s right! Here you will find all things apocamarc (the pairing of Apocalypse from X-Men: Apocalypse and Marc Spector from Moon Knight), ranging from fan content, to cursed memes, to lore posts.

History

While it started out as a very cursed joke originating in the Moon Knight fandom (following a previous string of other cursed jokes involving propeller tits and Apocalypse attractiveness discourse), apocamarc slowly evolved into something more strangely serious as jokes tried to give it playful legitimacy to highlight how ridiculous it was, only to discover a very strange but interesting pairing instead. While still crack-y, it slowly built up a small following of serious fans with dynamic thoughts, headcanons, and art.

And here we are :-)

The original apocamarc posts:

Bisexual lighting connection, coining the ship name in the reblogs

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Main shitpost thread

Rebirth of apocamarc back on the dash

Additionally important content:

First ship edit

First dynamic study

First fanart piece

First fic

The aCOCKalypse groupchat

Additional content can be found on the blogs of @mockspector (#attack of the apocalusties, #apocamarc my beloathed, and sometimes #cursed mutual content) @pizzee (#apussy, #apocamarc) and @scarabgrant (#apocamarc)

This blog will be sorted by #fanart, #fics, #headcanons, #memes, #music, #analysis, and #lore. Additional tags for certain topics include: #apocababy (for a headcanoned child) and #apocafamily (for apocamarc family content). This list will be updated as content is added.

You are welcome to send in asks or submit posts, but please try to provide IDs if you do (and leave a note if so since ALT can’t be checked on mobile). Other then that, apocamarc to your apcaheart’s content, and enjoy updates as they are reblogged :-)🤙

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HAPPY ONE-ISH YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO APOCAMARC!!!!

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Apocamarc lore part 8: Marc and Apocalypse’s parallels

This one’s big, and also the current last lore drop for now! Enjoy :-)

Expanding on previous convo on sleep:

And to wrap up thoughts here on general stuff and scale difference, since we didn’t quite have an ending:

Both Marc and Apocalypse have been raised to believe in their own overinflated or under inflated worth. Apocalypse was groomed to be a weapon and a conqueror and set on that path, divorced from his humanity and ability to see human life as worthwhile and able to be connected to because he was put on a pedestal so far above them his set of morals changed. There was no reason for him not to believe himself a god in the same way of any other in myth, the ones that cause mass destruction and plagues and floods and set off wars because it is their choice and will to. And as a result he nearly achieved that. But he didn’t. And now he has to reckon with never being a god at all, but a dehumanized and grandiose human mutant set up for power before he could be understood. His belief in betterment and in his choices being right almost caused mass destruction on a global scale.

Marc, on the other hand, is the same and opposite. He was taught to believe his worth did not matter, that he caused problems to those close to him and was not deserving of care. As a result he is set on a path for manipulation. He joins the army, then becomes a mercenary, and then Moon Knight, each time being an extension of someone else’s will, used as a tool in a personal crusade of political power, money, or revenge. And he wreaks havoc on small targets and his personal life in the process. He destabilizes groups, places, crime rings. He cuts people off, ghosts people, isolates himself. And it is because he believes himself to be so harmful that he should never be touched and as such builds a web of distrust and violence around him. He thinks he can do everything alone and that he has to, that he is the only one capable and bringing anyone else in would only hurt them, so he has to be the only party responsible, even though that’s never been the case, not with his friends or his headmates or anyone. His price of protection and doing what he believes is the cost of himself and his own relationships and morals. But he is painfully aware of that connection throughout.

Neither of them are right, but both intensely skewed world views stem from a similar yet opposite place of origin: from believing that worldview to be wholly correct, that it can do no wrong, and that actions taken for it are justified. There is a strange understanding in the middle. One that requires unearthing pain, shifting the view of the self drastically, and understanding that at the center, both of them are inescapably human. Something that, in many ways, is an idea they have to reckon with.

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It will all be discussion n hcs and creative content from here until new convos happen! Feel free to send anything in, tag this account in any posts, whatever ;-D

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Apocamarc lore part 7: Sleep and Bonding

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Apocamarc lore part 6: Apocalypse and Layla

The return :-) And a more casual convo in advance of. Some very deep cuts for the next two and currently final lore posts that I’ll b trying to post this week/today.

That’s all for now :-) This was one we didn’t end up unpacking too much but there’s sTILL TIME TO! Cause honestly Layla’s dynamic with all this fascinates me. If y’all have your own ideas feel free to send them in!

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I.. will be returning to posting lore once again. They are in there again. They are in my brain.

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apocamarc spotted on a date in the chamber of the gods. it can't be going too well though, marc looks a bit mad😨

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[ID: an edited screenshot of the moon knight show showing Marc Spector standing in front of a dimly lit set of stairs, looking towards the right with a tense expression. Apocalypse from X-amen apocalypse has been edited to the right, looking somewhat towards the camera. /end of ID]

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he's looking at marc

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[ID: a close up shot of Apocalypse from X-men apocalypse, his mouth slightly parted. Red hearts have been drawn on his eyes, and small pink blush lines on his cheeks. /end of ID]

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guys look I caught an apocamarc embrace on camera🥺

[tiptapricot]

[ID: an edited shot from x-men apocalypse showing Apocalypse from the waist up, his arms outstretched as dust and debris swirl in the background. A cut out of Marc Spector in his Asylum clothing has been edited horizontally over his arms. /end of ID]

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Bonus: ApocaMarc💗💜💙

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[ID: A digital line art drawing of Marc Spector from moon knight and Apocalypse from X-men apocalypse. They are visible from the waist up, and in a formal dancing pose. Marc is in the foreground, his back to the viewer, and is lined in black and wearing a suit. His head is tilted to the side enough to see his profile, and he is smiling softly. Apocalypse is facing the viewer and drawn partially obscured by Marc, lined in a light blue. He is holding Marc’s hand outstretched to the right, his other hand resting on his waist. He is also wearing a suit, and smiling softly. There are a few pink hearts drawn around their heads, and the background is white. /end of ID]

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Bonus: ApocaMarc (Marc found his hat)

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[ID: a simply styled digital drawing of Marc Spector from Moon Knight and Apocalypse from X-men Apocalypse. They are visible from the waist up, holding hands, and drawn in a chalk-like brush. Marc is on the left side, wearing his black cubs hat, a black shirt, and a grey over shirt, and he is smiling like an anime cat and blushing. Apocalypse is on the right, wearing an open black long sleeved shirt over an orange undershirt, and is looking away bashfully as he blushes and says: The hat is… pretty cute. There are several pink hearts drawn around them, and the background is white. /end of ID]

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Was reading the marvel book that i brought from library and bro apocamarc canon???? 😭

From page 110 btw

APOCAMARC CANON‼️

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Hadn’t realized they were off before but asks are now turned on!

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Steven giving Apocalypse the Shovel Talk.

If anyone asks I didn't make this, thanks.

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[ID: a digital black and white drawing of Steven Grant from Moon Knight and Apocalypse from X-Men Apocalypse visible from the shoulders/torso up respectively. Steven is on the left, one finger raised threateningly as he chides Apocalypse, face stern as he says, “If you even think about hurting Marc… you’ll be joining the Queen of England.” Apocalypse is on the right, angled a bit more towards the viewer and scratching his face with his far hand, looking a bit downtrodden and told off. /end of ID]

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A companion piece to this 💖

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A special edition version of this just for you guys also bc I don’t want apocamarc to breach containment NSNNSBDBDB (ID in ALT)

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It is still apocamarc’s one month anniversary in British time, so happy Queen dying to your love lads!

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Apocamarc Lore, Part 5.1: Apocalypse and Marc’s development; the beginning

(This is a mini post as I sort through things and organize them, the others will b… very long. But this seemed thematic for the occasion of today :-)c)

And after things go down with Steven and Jake and the Khonshu reveal, the reason Marc is better able to handle Apocalypse is because:

Some text analysis n explanation under cut!

So this is a mini post like I said, but I wanted to make it on its own because these were all tied together and worked as a jumping off point to understand why the development I’ll post ab later between them not only works but is needed, and why Marc’s time spent with Apocalypse leads to it.

Things are rough at the beginning because they are so used to and ready to fall back into the old roles they inhabited, Marc as a subordinate to a god, and Apocalypse as a god others are subordinate to. It’s only when they realize that that is not the situation they find themselves in, that by Apocalypse existing Marc is free, and that by existing within the system’s mind Apocalypse his lost his “godhood,” that meaningful and more healthy connections can actually be created between them. Which is what will be explored in future posts :-)

Hope you are all having a lovely one month anniversary!

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