#mcd headcanon

[rinrinkho]

Some personal Shadow Knight headcanons. Vylad and Zenix were a pain in the ass to draw ima be so real.

I know in the show its explained that once a Shadow Knight gains their immortality their eyes will be permanently red but literally the only SK who conforms to this lore in Vincent so I'm throwing that out of the window and just say that once a SK gains their immortality by killing their lord or slaugthering thousands, they have the privilage to look human again.

Also I wish more people looked at Shadow Knight armour like a second skin/exoskeleton/carapace because 1) CMON THAT'S JUST OBEJECTIVELY COOL and 2) Zane literally describes it as a 'shell' in s3

[ungurth]

Heraldry again

[novawatermelon]

27 layers and I’ve finished Garroth Ro’Meave! I wished I could have made him look a little older than this, but I couldn’t figure it out without making him look middle aged.

[kitzuuwinters]

a round of MCD headcanons for my eventual rewrite project:

Laurance never regains his sight. His face is mauled with void burns from Ungrth tearing the boundary of the Nether and the Overworld. In fact, he can only see when in shadow knight form :)

Garroth x Laurance x Aphmau frfr

Werewolves actually don't exist. They are replaced with Lu'pines, the wolffolk, who cannot turn people and morph between a teue wolf and wolf-ish human (think mystreet werewolves, leona, etc).

I lied. There are werewolves. But they are not the lu'pine. They were led by the Ultima, a cursed man, but were all slaughtered by decree of the High Priest of O'khasis.

Only two survived. The red-eyed ultima and a lu'pine-werewolf who follows him whispering that their cause is just and that they are the perfect lifeform and the ultima should turn or slaughter everyone in their path. The ultima is not pleased.

Witches and warlocks are not a weird seperate species of people. It's a profession, some have immense talent, but it's not a birthright.

Aphmau, Garroth, Lucinda, Laurance, Travis, and Aaron are reincarnations of Irene, Esmund, Menphia, Kul'zak, Enki, and Shad. Aphmau is NOT Irene.

The Irene Dimension is actually limbo. That constant chiming is actually to keep those inside from losing themselves in the nothingness.

Aphamu's total love interests are Garroth, Laurance, Zoey, and Aaron. No one else.

Garroth and Laurance treat Dante like a son. He's only a couple years younger than the two and HATES this.

The process of becoming a shadow knight is essentially being maimed, killed, and injected with shadow knight blood. Once ressurected, the knight is essentially undead, bloodlusted, drawn to the Nether and Void, and briefly physically weak. During that period of weakness, initiates are often abused and beaten in any way the others see fit to "break them in."

Zenix and Vylad were taken prisoner by the shadow knights to transform. They were frnding off the knights to save a small village and let them escape. Vylad sacrificed himself as a chance for Zenix to get away, and he ended up tripping and getting captured anyway.

It tooks years for Katelyn to get over Jeffery's death. She went into the Irene dimension to protect Abby and was horrified to learn that Abby had to geow up without her. It haunts her to this day.

Hyria knew the moment Lucinda was born that she was Menphia's reincarnation. She taught Lucinda magic against her father's wishes because of this.

Laurance is a meif'wa. It's funny.

Laurance can speak wyvern. After Ungrth's passing, he speaks with Raven for a long time about the event. Raven joins the trio's cuddle pile that night.

Zoey loved Aphmau. Aphmau might have loved Zoey, too. But after she was trapped in the Irene dimension for so long, Zoey realized that her love had not only weakened her but was futile, she had maybe three years left to live. She gave up, dying of a broken heart a mere year after Aphmau returned.

One day is eight in the Nether. One day in the Irene dimension is one year in the Overworld.

Levin and Malachi are about ten at the beginning of season one, and around 14-15 at the end of it. The gang is trapped for 7 years this time.

The gang trapped is Aphmau, Garroth, Laurance, Zane, Katelyn, Travis, Lucinda

Zane might have actually loved Kiki if he stayed long enough. They had sex, it wasn't a weird pendant that made Kiki pregnant :/

Alina is Aphmau and Garroth's daughter. Lillith Garnet is hers and Laurance's. It shatters Shad Aaron that Irene Aphmau chose them over him. He succumbs to the latent destruction of his nature.

The Divine Warrior's poweful magical prowess has also cursed each of them. Shad became a werewolf, the Ultima. Irene would always lose her emotions, in each lifetime she lived. Esmund would be last to die, alone and hated, unable to keep his family safe. Enki would lose his sanity to the demon Micheal he had sealed away in his mind. Menphia would suffer the same curse as Shad for defending him, as the first vampire. Kul'zak would be blinded to the knowledge he thirsted for, each and every time.

In modern MyStreet, "werewolf" is synonymous with lu'pine. The Ultima is a myth. Something of note is that there are also rumors that a Maxima meif'wa would exist, with eyes of silver-blue.

Sasha claims shadow knights don't feel, but she lies. She still loves Kenmur. She still looks up to Candenza. She still sees Laurance as a goofy older brother. She pretends she doesn't.

Gene did do all those horrible things. He probably kissed Laurance at some point too.

Much more species diversity, lore and overall explaining. Currently, we've seen humans, lu'pines, meif'wa, wyverns, vampires, ghosts, and elves in the series proper.

Her name is Nana Ashida.

[xerith-42]

Had a new thought about Xavier The Admirer. What if part of why he isn't as well remembered is because he didn't have the honorable warriors death he was meant to have. He didn't even get the dignity Esmund had of dying after a longer lived life than most. He died in a sudden and violent act off the battle field, and his death was said to be from an illness as Irene refused to let anyone see the body. Less they see her strongest guard have weakness to this degree. His death was not honorable, nor one a great story could be spun out of. At least, not one anyone else got to know.

Instead his death is just another of the many tragedies that follow the Matron Irene. It's almost inevitable that not all of them are remembered after a thousand years.

[rosetashes]

Aphmau didn't want to be Lord at first. She had no memories, didn't understand what was going on, and two people were hurt. She just wanted to explore but life had different plans. She agreed to be Lord, as she realized two things: Someone had to do it, and everyone else was pointing at her. And this could help her friends to get stuff they needed. Like medical supplies.

So she became a Lord, and a mother. For five years. She grew to accept it, and was a great Lord. But after the timeskip, a part of her was happy she didn't have to be Lord anymore. Yeah, what happened sucked. And she wished that she had to be a mother to her kids more. But now she gets to explore.

But exploring taught her a lot more. Things were definitely different now. And people weren't safe anymore. So she made the island. She ended back at square one. But this time, she was going to protect a ton more people.

[euphorune]

oh also another one of my theories/headcanons about diaries and travis related things. something i think about all the time.

see i choose to subscribe to the belief that every descendant of enki who obtains his relic will inevitably become the demon warlock. i believe that this corruption is fueled by enki’s grief and towards guilt for what he did to shad the destroyer, mixed with shad casting a curse on enki’s relic in his final moments during the war of the magi.

also because of this concept i’ve vaguely heard of that if you know too much, and you almost understand it but then fail to, you will lose your mind. enki the keeper kept aaaaalllll of the knowledge of the war of the magi and the divine warriors, and i headcanon the world. i headcanon that to be enki’s power as a divine warrior. but for someone who knows only a human amount to suddenly stumble into that power, especially records of events that have been widely mistranslated, lied about, etc, shattering their view of literally everything…

[karllost-mymind]

Headcanon that the seasons move backwards in mcd. As in Summer then Spring then Winter and Fall.

Hear me out:

When the series begins, it definitely feels like summer. Everyone's busy and everything is focused on working and farming.

When Levin gets introduced it slowly starts feeling like spring. There's babies everywhere, the wedding, the world is filled with new discovery

The Malachi/Picoro arc is obviously winter, however short the snow period may have been, maybe they just have really warm winters.

And when they return and towards the war arc is totally an autumn vibe. Everything is warm tones, browns of the armor, Lucindas orange trees

It kinda extends to season 2 in a way but that's a bit more muddled because they travel a lot and the Enki island is literally cursed to be in eternal winter but there is definitely a vibe of going from Fall to Summer.