On another annual re watch of Minecraft diaries and I really like this series because the amount of inconsistencies in the lore give obsessed super fans like me the room to input their own vision on to the story and I love it- so I’m puking up all my thoughts (and I have a LOT of em) here because I have nothing better to do!
I know this isn’t art and I’m making this post as long as a post can be, but if you’re an Aphmau/mcd fan please stay and read! I’d love to hear other fans input or opinions cus I really do love the series but the writing is literally EVERYWHERE😭
Even if no one reads this, I still gotta get it out because it’s driving me nuts el o el
SO Starting from the very beginning my biggest and probably most controversial change is I’d have Irene and Shad be siblings, Irene the older, instead of lovers. Personally I find doomed siblings more tragic than doomed lovers, and I don’t care for Aphmau and Aaron as a ship😭 I actually like mcd’s iteration of Aaron, but I’m a Laurance fan so💀
I don’t remember Shad’s power being explicitly explained in the series but the best way I could understand it is that it is the complete opposite of Irene’s; as in it is utter destruction. It was the sickness to her cure, and it was quite literally killing Shad as they were growing up together. Because this is an adventure series, he of course runs away, and Irene gives chase after him all over Ru’aun- using her own powers to fix what he destroyed.
Eventually, they end up gathering all six of the divine warriors together (including Xavier the admirer and Hyria-I’ll elaborate later), first Inki, then Memphia, then the rest lol I don’t remember all of their names. And as the story goes, they band together to take down the king and end the war with the wyverns and bring peace to the land, a peace that does not last.
Now the whole history with the king is really confusing throughout the series. It gets changed a lot through the seasons and episodes and because the series never finished there’s no concrete answer to exactly what happened 10,000 years ago in lore. In my attempt to put the puzzle pieces together, the story that I got was; Ru’uan during Irene’s time was a monarchy canonically and was ruled by a king based in where today’s O’khasis is. This king was being used and manipulated by the demon warlock to start a war against the wyverns for whatever reason and of course the divine warrior got together to stop him. This happened much later in the divine warriors adult lives, and Irene‘s powers had gotten God-like powerful, and so had Shads.
Quick side note that’s important but I remember in season two when they were talking about the demon warlock, they explained that he was not a real demon, but just a man. I would change it so that he *is* actually a demon just because it makes him more powerful and makes him into a bigger threat.
Before Irene was able to send the demon warlock off into a separate dimension like she had done with the wyverns- he had gotten his claws into Shad, and I won’t say he necessarily manipulated him, but did something to where Shad’s powers became too much for him to handle and consumed him. The divine warriors had to once again band together to stop their old friend from destroying the realm. A feat that nearly killed them and had completely broken Irene‘s heart.
To most of the divine Warriors Shads turn was a long time coming, and they had often had discussions on what to do in the event his powers had grown too much for him to handle, with or without Irene’s help. Irene claimed to her friends that she had killed her brother, but the truth was that she had managed to send him to another realm a.k.a. The Nether. Something that’s def gonna come back to bite everyone in the ass later el o el.
At this point all the major threats had been defeated. The divine warriors eventually went their separate ways, and Irene lived out the rest of her life seemingly peacefully. She dismantled the monarchy, started the Church of Irene and had created the Lord and guard system with the help of Xavier. And when she died, she died a shell of a woman. Lonely, and without any lovers. And a day never went by where she didn’t think of her brother, his defeat known to the realm as the divine warriors greatest victory, but to Irene, her own personal greatest failure.
And Hyria was there to witness it all.
Now, I’m pretty sure this is all how it canonically went down in the series, but the lore is so spread out and so often changed that I legit could not tell😭 but yeah! That’s the not so quick background for Irene and the Divine Warriors, and it’s our starting off point for the present!
My next major change is that instead of Aphmau/the reincarnation just appearing outside of Phoenix drop, like how she did in rebirth, she was actually born from a woman. The reincarnation had a mother that they never knew and either Hyria tracked her down or she was killed off or something—eventually, this baby landed in the hands of Hyria.
Hyria raised this baby alongside a much older Lucinda in the magic forest (or whatever it’s called) and it’s sort of the catalyst for their falling out. Hyria can’t treat the reincarnation normally, she is overly protective while being overly distant out of fear that they’ll go through the same horrors that she saw her best friend go through over 10,000 years ago. No, this child cannot leave the forest, and no, this child cannot read books about the world and no, Hyria won’t tell them about the world because it’s a terrible place and she’s scared to death that, just like Irene, the reincarnation will take off at the first sign of someone needing help and that it will kill them. Hyria watched her best friend sacrifice her whole being for the world— sacrifice her brother for it and get nothing back. And by the end of her life, she wasn’t even a person. Hyria only see’s Irene in the reincarnation, and Lucinda hates that.
Lucinda hates that her mother hovers over the reincarnation, Lucinda hates that her mother cares about the reincarnation more than her, lucinda hates that her training is all about protecting the reincarnation, and Lucinda hates that in her mother‘s eyes the reincarnation isn’t a person. Day in and day out Lucinda and her mother would fight over the right and wrong ways to raise the reincarnation. Hyria wanted to keep magic away from them while Lucinda wanted them to embrace it. Anything in Hyria’s eyes that could possibly lead the reincarnation to follow the same path as Irene, she shunned. And she did make mistakes while raising the reincarnation, and she was angry at them, and sometimes resented them, and sometimes loved them more than anything in the world. Because she’d never done this before. In all her 10,000 years of living, she never had to raise what used to be her best friend, and she never felt so afraid. In her whole life, she’d never been so scared of the world, or so scared of a person. And lucinda saw that fear and she couldn’t take what it was doing to her mom or what it was going to do to the reincarnation. She didn’t hate them. She didn’t know if she loved them either, so it was an almost easy decision when she left.
From here, the reincarnation is forced out of the forest or either they run away themselves or because of Zane’s fucked up crusades throughout the realm. Either way, they eventually end up on the outskirts of Phoenix Drop and are found by Garroth and Zenix; and as the story goes, is taken in by the village and through shenanigans becomes the lord.
I wanted to keep rebirths version of Aphmau that doesn’t know much, while still giving the reincarnation a personality—though not as great as one from the og series. I want to leave room for them as a character to grow while still having their path set. They know about magic but because Hyria never taught them, doesn’t conveniently know spells to get them out of trouble. They know Lucinda but doesn’t know where she is. They know enough about the world to survive in it, but not enough to thrive, there’s space for the reincarnation to learn like in the og series and rebirth while still being a person.
A lot of my changes later on do cause major plot holes, which I realize, but that’s why I’m writing it all down so that I can fix it as I go! This is all really for fun and not to be taken serious at all. I really do love the original series and I rewatch it literally every year, but it does drive me crazy because it’s written so flippantly. Which sucks because it has an amazing cast of characters and amazing potential with its lore.
Like I said, this is for funsies and nothing else. I know other folks are re writing mcd and I wanna hear y’all’s changes and opinions on my own! But for now I’m leaving it here but I will continue with season one cus I wanna! 
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