after gold was defeated at the end of s1, he went back to the shadow world and couldn't escape, since he was really weak. he was there, alone, until z3r0, where cami decided to try and put him to use again.
gold was ecstatic to see cami again, her saviour who had pulled him out of the shadow world once was back to rescue him again. to put him to work like he was always meant to. he was overwhelmed with the sheer amount of emotions he had never felt before. resentment, love, frustration, thankfulness, excitement. and by god, he just wanted to see another human. so as cami leads the way back to the human world, gold reaches for her hand. to make sure she is there, she is real, she won't leave him again, and just to touch someone. to touch his saviour, his angel. he's not used to this. hes barely interacted with people before, let alone touch them. he's not sure what to do. but he will, this is not a desire, it's a need.
he needs to connect with her again, with humanity again, just with a touch.
i mean first of all. this ship appeared in like one episode and it wasn't even meant to be a ship and it was enough to fuel the community for a lifetime of maiggie content. the camp episode speaks for itself; maggie is a very confident and very serious but easily annoyed person. mai, on the other hand, is very silly and goofy, and, while she does deal with serious themes such as the shadow world and magic in general, she is never really shown to be that serious. i think they have a really nice contrast and they both can bring the best out of each other, such as mai convincing maggie to indulge more in the stuff she likes instead of being serious all the time and pushing those things aside (Submitted by anonymous).
Propaganda for Camold (Under the cut for length):
The evil version of goldami. They perfectly enable the worst in each other. In Cami, Gold has someone he can follow mindlessly, the one and only thing he has done throughout his life. At the same time, she's his saviour, the one who pulled him out of the shadow world with her magic and let him taste the real world, at least for just some time. He's completely devoted to her. In Gold, Cami has someone "just like her" (an unfeeling peon, what she pretends to be) who she knows for sure will never abandon her or leave her alone (literally, he's always standing next to her) she doesn't need to work on herself, show herself, heal, or any of the sort. She also has someone who will let her play out her deepest controlling tendencies and will do everything she wants exactly how she wants it. They're fucked up.
they're one of those couples were everyone knows they're a couple except for them. they're OBLIVIOUSSSS to their own feelings and the fact they look like a couple (they don't know what couples do). gold is always following cami like a lap dog. he loves the human world so he's always showing her stuff excitedly and sharing his food. cami only trusts gold to rely villain work on, she thinks he's the only capable one and the only one who sees her vision of how stuff should be done. they GET each other like no one else, they don't even have to talk. they do NOT get social cues though, they're both extremely confused together. also the amadeus camp is their special place 💚🤍 artistic rendition of a normal day with these two (Submitted by chocottang).
Also, I reblogged this animatic but I'll include it here because it is amazing and you should watch it.
day 4: HALLOWEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
originally, this was just going to be cami and gold wearing matching customes of a witch and her black cat (got changed to gray because otherwise you wouldn’t see the marks) BUT it snowballed into an au. so if you’re interested in the random lore i made up (+explanations of the drawings), it’s under the cut
okay lets begin with explaining the drawings. so, about the two drawings with the red background: gold has the ability to change to cat form or humanoid form as he desires. he usually stays in cat form out of personal preference (+witches aren’t supposed to have humanoid familiars, i mean its not technically prohibited but it is an extremely weird thing to do) BUT he involuntarily switches to humanoid form while asleep, because it’s his “original” one. he likes falling asleep in cat form though (because he’s stupid) so he can end up in awkward positions.
about the drawing on the left with the purple background: in this world, witches are seen as both dangerous and helpful to people. they can help you with magic, but for a price, and if u don’t pay, you can get your ass cursed, or worse, they are said to also wreck havoc out of rage. because of this, there are certain people who see them as menaces to society and hunt them down: witch hunters! so, witches live in isolation and have a “territory” they oversee to make sure no hunters get near them, and they’re pretty protective of them. i imagine the drawing is what cami and gold would look like before Destroying a hunter. gold usually stays in his cat form though, as he doesn’t really fight unless cami needs the backup. he also can’t do magic (besides his own physical transformation), so he’s just a physical fighter, hence the claws.
about the little gray doodle, it’s just gold thinking about cami. since they’re together all the time in their territory, when they Have to separate to do their own thing, gold misses cami a lot and won’t stop thinking about her. he’s a kitty cat with separation anxiety
the other two drawings were just to figure out their designs and gold’s cat form design
okay lore time. so, gold used to be fully human, but his dad made a deal with a witch and failed to pay his part. as punishment, his firstborn was cursed to become a beast. gold didn’t know the reason why he turned into a beast out of nowhere. he didn’t have a good relationship with his family, and then his dad saw him and wanted to hide him from everyone, and everything became too much, so he ran away while in cat form. aaandd he stumbled into a coven composed of a witch and her pupils, one of which was cami. cami and him got along very well and her professor told her he could be her familiar. gold decides “hey, i have literally nothing better and these people are nice to me while they think i'm a cat so yea sure”. but alas, when he falls asleep he turns back into his humanoid form, and cami is the only one who saw it. gold explained what happened and cami figured out he must’ve been cursed somehow, after some research she figured the exact curse that was put upon him. when gold learned it was all his dad’s fault he was LIVID, and the only way to revert the curse was to complete the deal his dad made. they figured that if they are able to find the witch who cursed him and repay them themselves, they could convince her to lift the curse. thing is, they couldn’t, for the love of god, figure out who it was. with time, gold kinda got used to the curse, so they started working less and less on figuring out how to lift the curse until they kinda just… stopped.
i don’t have a lot on cami, she was a very cold and isolated kid, she didn’t have any friends and her family was Not… Good… she was always interested in magic, so when she had the opportunity, she joined the aforementioned witch coven. it's pretty common for witches to take in girls as pupils, creating the rumor of them “stealing and eating kids”. in reality, they are not kidnapping anyone, they are almost like a refuge for weird little girls. also, when gold and cami met they were like 12, in the present they would be in their early twenties, so they’ve been together for quite some time. and also yes they’re dating. what can you expect from me.
fun fact: fred and freddy are here! freddy believes fred is the product of some sort of curse, and he goes to cami to try and strike a deal to get rid of fred. cami is sure fred isn’t a curse, so he must be some sort of bound soul, but isn’t sure if fred is a ghost, an angel, or a demon. so now freddy and cami are trying to figure out What The Hell is this guy. fred is not happy at all OBVIOUSLY, he doesn’t want to disappear. i don’t have a whole lot more on them than that (not even i know what the hell fred is lol), but i like the idea of cami sending freddy off to get her some stuff for a ritual they’ll do, while she herself goes get a different item that is way more dangerous to get, and she tasks gold to help freddy so he doesn’t die (and thus doesn’t fulfill his part of the deal (unsure what the deal will be)). gold is NOT happy. he generally hates anyone who isn’t cami, and now he has to be with this guy 24/7 without cami there, while she’s off in a dangerous mission, and he just has to be worried sick about her until they see each other again. he’s not having a good time, he’s very cranky. he does warm up to fred and freddy eventually. when they have to sleep, gold wouldn’t even sleep during the first nights. he would just stare at freddy from the other side of the room because he didn’t trust him enough to fall asleep. then he gets more comfortable (and tired) and starts falling asleep in a couch or just a blanket on the floor. when they become friends, gold would start sleeping at his feet (remember, he falls asleep in cat form, although he turns humanoid while asleep, so sometimes he’d fall asleep before freddy and just look extremely silly all curled up at the end of the bed in humanoid form). also yes freddy eventually realizes he doesn’t want to get rid of fred and they make up.
also golden is here too! him and gold are twins, but gold is the older one, so only he got cursed. when gold disappeared, their father told golden that an evil witch kidnapped gold, and they weren’t able to find him. so golden became a witch hunter LMAO. in freddy’s voyage to get the ritual items, he meets golden and stays at his mansion for some time and its Very Awkward. freddy actually starts believing that maybe cami is Actually Evil and kidnapped and cursed gold. but no, and gold does tell him, when he feels like it, because he’s a cat and he does things only when he wants to. gold will tell golden eventually, well, rather than “tell” he’ll turn into humanoid form so golden sees him and goes “holy shit that’s my brother” and THEN tell him what happened. idk when or how but i’m cooking, maybe. i also want golden and cami to meet because i think it would be funny, golden would definitely hate her at first. cami would just look at him and be like “wow you look like gold but less cute. have u tried using bells?” (she gave gold those bells cuz she thinks they look cute) 😭
i want to add the rest of the characters too, at least the animatronics and villains, sooo maybe ill post more about this au? idk
i think that’s all the rambling i have LOL happy halloween i guess? does this count as halloween themed? halloween themed au? if you’ve read all of this thank you. i love you. i hope you have a great day and fhs week
Witch Cami x Catboy Gold aesthetic for @chocottang! I tried to edit kitty ears on him but they looked kind of silly, so I also made a version without them lol.
