uhhh okay so we're doing a little bit of a fresh start
the objectives of this post are: to clarify the concept for my MCD rewrite/au (and therefore provide adequate content warnings), provide a rough timeline so you can see how things are tweaked for said au, and clean up organization. if i succeed with all three AWESOME. if i don't... well fuck
(edit: as i write this i am having hellish cramps and am pretty distracted. you'll notice i go in and out of detail; i apologize, i hope there's still a thread of sense 💚)
so, my au will be strongly inspired by game of thrones, outlast 2, and diablo iv. helluva matchup, am i right??
anyway:
DIVINE WARRIORS. i'm thinking... heavily morally ambiguous divine warriors (which serve as their historical origins) who are less of irene's posse vs. shad and more of a "gradient"? like what if irene was considered the holiest, BUT she did x, y, z. shad did/does do a lot of cruel, violent things, but provides a different context to x, y, z. esmund especially omg he's going to be my poster boy. a golden-haired, blue-eyed, charismatic and chaste man who devotedly serves and protects the goddess by blade, pining contently after her and expecting nothing at all; but inwardly being an insecure, cowardly, self-centered control freak? come on guys it's a classic 💚 ANYWAY I GOT OFF TRACK </3. the divine warriors get their relics, eventually go to war with each other and die, their relics, belief systems, etc. get passed down through their descendants.
SEASON 1 from the descendants come most of our cast (garroth, laurance, katelyn, travis, etc.). lucinda is quite a bit older than the others at least by number LOL (being a witch; i'll figure out what to do with her dad eventually dw); "aphmau" is irene's niece, who she sealed into the staff during the havoc of the war to have a "back way out", so to speak. after being sealed away into a pocket dimension (magic furnace item) to burn and fester, shad's bloodline is carried on by his sister (who i made up), hence aaron. once vylad dies, becomes a knight, escapes the "nether" (furnace) through a crack, and meets hyria, he "respawns" aphmau, placing her exactly as she was when irene sealed her away. with a descendant present, irene's relic & consciousness awaken and her realm is activated. nobody quite knows what aphmau's deal is but emmalyn eventually pieces together that aphmau isn't uneducated, she's just educated according to ancient traditions. the village bands together with aphmau to teach her how to be a good lord, she gets up to all sorts of shenanigans, recruits the boy band (laurance, dante, and aaron), phoenix drop grows! MEANWHILE, in the o'khasis/tu'la region, civil war is breaking out (greedy human government exploits and abuses foreign country & encourages political corruption, resulting in severe instability and dependency, where the people can't see it; standard procedure </3). zane's ransacking of o'khasis-occupied villages FINALLY pays off and his spells start working, so he decides to look for his brother, which eventually brings him right to phoenix drop. zane torments phoenix drop a little, uses dark magic on a baby (alexis my blorbo), then goes back to o'khasis to do more evil things for a few more months; aphmau goes through her first almost-shotgun wedding, finds nicole, etc. scaleswind and phoenix drop (with help from neighboring villages) enter war with o'khasis, pain and misery & a 15 year jumpcut enters.
SEASON 2. aphmau must once again adjust to being from a different time as a lot changes in the 15 years that she's gone (at least for how used she'd gotten to that life). she reunites with her family and friends and does some "house-cleaning" so-to-speak around her old stomping grounds. after not too long, though, o'khasis' egregious laundry list of problems eventually makes it back to aphmau's plate, and this time she gets a glimpse into tu'la; at the few thin refugees that escape the war and survive rampant sickness, starvation, and hostile weather/encounters. revives a boy, has a 2nd almost-shotgunned wedding, meets travis, etc. then towards the end, after developing an intimate and questionable semi-dependent relationship with aphmau, aaron sacrifices himself to bring garroth back from the irene dimension & to kill zane once and for all. now aphmau is pregnant, garroth is traumatized asf and lashing out, laurance is fighting against the physio-psychological pull of the calling and lashing out, and aaron is DEAD. but at least zane is dead? shad's relic eventually surfaces and aphmau has it for a time until she gives birth to her daughter, who then takes the relic. uhhh i don't remember season 2 well but that's the jist.
AFTER. at long last everyone is getting their shit together and gearing up for an realm-wide brawl, because not only is o'khasis completely off its rocker, but tu'la's corrupt government begins attempting occupation in neutral regions AND shad successfully retrieved both aaron AND zane from purgatory, allowing him to generate a vessel and bring back our number 1 opp. now with physical form, shad escapes the furnace and begins razing villages to goad irene out of hiding. laurance is occupied in the nether trying to maintain the remains of his rebellion, but actually manages to flush shad's army into the overworld—beneficial because with everyone out, the nether can be sealed and removed from the equation; unfortunate because now there are hundreds of violently conditioned super soldiers accessible via a freak hivemind. after that IDK but that's the general idea :D
the main "issues" it'll comment on are politics/corruption, misogyny, religious trauma/morality/etc. (i'm currently thinking from a christian-inspired perspective because that's the one i'm most familiar with, but i might research more religions for this work xx), and trauma. now i say trauma very broadly beause there are a lot of different ideas i want to touch on and explore, but i want to make one thing very clear: CHARACTERS WILL MAKE BAD DECISIONS. it does not mean i condone it. it means i am representing a realistic, although fictious decision that someone is any instance MIGHT make, and providing contexts that may explain said decisions.
i'm STRESSING this because i know i can be really intense. i love horror, i love psychology (its my major :DDD), i love sociology, and i remember/learn about things through reproducing them in stories. basically all this account is, is letting you observe a strange autistic ramble on about a minecraft roleplay from the 2010s that nobody cares about anymore.
i love interacting and encourage it! i can be shy and awkward but i promise i am always well meaning; if you feel i'm representing something in a derogatory/ignorant way, i am always always down to educate myself if you let me know!
with that said: if you read my content and feel the need to start making moral claims on my character, please don't 💚 i will block/delete/etc. any aggressive responses. i'm trying very hard going forward to just exist on the internet without being weird and neurotic abt it but as you can probably tell i'm disordered 💀/silly
with all that said ... i think all that's left is to discuss my organization.
eventually, everything i've posted up to this point will be tagged with #clutter and that's it. some posts might get deleted if i decide they're not worth having up even for fun.
any art i post will be tagged with #aphmau fanart, #god willing / god fearing / god denied, and related character tags.
any fics i write will be tagged with #aphmau fic, #god willing / god fearing / god denied, and related character tags.
all others will be tagged with #ramble.
anyway i'll hopefully have art soon byeee
