#mcd shad

[sleakrl]

A child’s death was the cause of it all.

Change my mind.

[peculiarwizard]

another batch !!!!!!! they were calling to me. did this instead of studying for finals

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[mcdfanaticx3]

Irene & Shad, THE tragic couple

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Aphmau Here

Zane https://www.tumblr.com/mcdfanaticx3/786351394858876928/zane-romeave-redesign-done-he-has-two-versions

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💬 1  🔁 16  ❤️ 181 · Zane Ro’Meave redesign done… He has two versions one with a hood and one without I decided to give him some more Irene

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[euphorune]

a few hours, fighting through burnout, and a few creepypasta podcast episodes later, we have shad the destroyer

aphtober day 21: legacy

shad wasn’t my first choice. of course i considered irene, a dual shot of hyria and lucinda, zianna or even garte ro’meave, before i realized how good shad would be for this prompt. the way i thought about it upon my deliberation, shad the destroyer did leave a legacy through inevitability.

irene left an impact, yes, but there were no footsteps to follow with it. politically, things were different after her, but it was an assumption they’d be followed, not a hope that her work would be continued.

shad however, with my interpretation of his story, was the harbinger of the world as we see it in diaries and even mystreet, for better or for worse. nothing, and i mean nothing, as we know it, would have been if not for the war of the magi. i like to believe that humanity once knew what irene did, whether through shad and the shadow knight’s talking, or through the simple context of that war, but enki the keeper had become a strong enough warlock in his witchcraft to make every single person forget. this, mixed with his own infinite knowledge, cursed enki and all of his reincarnations to become the demon warlock.

nothing would be as it is now if that father had been granted the luxury of loving his daughter. that was stolen from him by irene in her quest to save humanity from its end, and in his conviction, he built his own children to protest irene the matron with the ashes she left in her path of death and destruction. he built his own family in the chaos and hurt she inflicted in her pursuit of peace. combine that with his immortality, gifted by the naive or conniving irene, and that simple fact built on my interpretation of the divine warriors makes shad the destroyer a beautiful cosmic horror within the universe. his legacy is built on inevitability, as there will always be those enraged by their end, and there will always be some cruel enough, for better or for worse, to continue his pursuit at what was once justice.

[revxwrites]

GUESS WHO'S BACK TO RAMBLE HEHE

I'm sorry for the horrible ms paint doodles but I needed something to explain my Shadow Knights

anyways ramble under cut as always

cw mention of cannibalism and light gore (?)

SHADOW KNIGHTS!!

Undead fellas /silly

In all seriousness shadow knights are well, yeah undead, a subcategory of undead in my rewrite, specifically knights of our dear shadow lord

humans affected by sk magic

there's humans like brian and alexis that have been exposed to large amounts of shadow knight magicks, which made them have the same 'veins' sk's have under their eyes, but still be human (ie. alexis' curse)

usually there's no side effects to large amounts of exposure to shadow knight magic other than mood swings (irritability or rage)

incomplete (premature) sk's

a 'premature' shadow knights eyes are their original eye color with very small hints of red in them, as if alluding to the side of themselves they pick to repress typically only magicks users can see the red of their eyes, and the 'veins' they have around them. to the untrained human eye their eyes look their original color but don't have any life in them

they have a hard time controlling their temper, still attempting to retain a sense of humanity that they have long lost

immortal sk's

to become immortal a shadow knight must kill either their lord or the person closest to them, and ingest their heart (as mentioned in gene's story), or alternatively, they must take countless lives of the innocent

once immortal they may gain different abilities, or a boost to the ones they already own. ie. Gene's mind manipulation working without having to touch the person (unlike his mortal counterpart)

another example is Zenix' flame manipulation (despite not being a magicks user)

general shadow knight facts

they're smelly, especially when having recently emerged from the nether shadow knights have an incontrollable appetite, similar to a

zombie, they can eat human food but it doesn't sit very well with them (the only thing that'll control their appetite is human flesh)

there's certain shadow knights who's bodies cease to exist (or are reclaimed by the earth in the mortal realm). in cases like those they are made new vessels of materials of the nether

shadow knights stop aging once they gain their immortality

Shadow Knights hibernate in order to heal their bodies in the overworld, their healing can be sped if left in a place that'll connect it to it's undead roots (morgue, graveyard, etc), due to the fact they feed off of the dead spirits lingering, using what little energy is left of them to heal.

Shadow Lord > Sergeants > Commanders > Magicks Users > Soldiers

with the hierarchy set above we go

shad > gene > zenix (pre betrayal) > sasha > vylad (before caught) > glenda

in terms of the shadow knight 'rebels' we have (in strength)

vincent > zenix (mostly due to his instability) > vylad > laurence > amethyst (this is before the rebellion is properly set in place, still during season 1)

anyways thank you for attending my ted talk /silly

[kaewinter]

the reason shad doesn’t hit as hard of a villain in mcd is because all we have of s3 is buildup. and because they wanted to focus on zane since they bothered to bring him back as a villain instead of properly using zenix or gene or EVEN FUCKING BRIAN WHO GOT A GHOST MENTION AT THE BEGINNING OF S2 AND THEN NEVER AGAIN IS MENTIONED DESPITE HIS BETRAYAL

obv they had bigger plans for shad as the antagonist as shown with the heart of darkness mini arc, and the clips they would show of him in the nether, and the little convos between him and aaron, but we’ll never get to see the fruition of that buildup because of the forever hiatus we got after the “We NeEd To Go TO TULa” thing

i REALLY wish we’d gotten to see more of the characters and plotlines that were brought up in early s3 and the entirety of what we got, and ik everyone else feels that way, but i feel like there were such interesting little threads they left in too that have really kept my attention and now i wish i had a genie so i could wish that i could know what direction they were going in

[citythedestroyer]

Been working on the concept for a fic where the heart of darkness meets all of the DW descendants/present day representations and it spawned the idea of Shads mind being so fractured he struggles to discern past and present and that's why he keeps seeing Aphmau as Irene.

Like the scene I originally was working on was Travis and Garroth joining Aphmau and Katelyn for when they first meet the heart of darkness in the elven forest and the heart says something snarky like "What, was Kul'Zak too busy to join you in your gloating?" And then he proceeds to respond to them as if he is partaking in a completely different conversation that Aphmau and co are trying to have with him.

Stuff like them asking what his motivations are and him responding with "You know why I started this war, don't mock me like this." Thinking that he's in prison before they banish him after defeating him during the War of the Magi instead of a random cell.

Idk, just an interesting concept that could kind of parallel Irene losing her emotions, Shad loses his perception of past and present.

[5prink135]

Part of me thinks that, in some way, Irene is punishing Aaron for Shad's crimes, even if subconciously. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if some part of Irene resented Shad for his turn to evil and cruelty, all over a "necessary evil," at least, in her eyes. So why not take the feelings she so stubbornly ignores and force all his incarnations to go through immesurable pain while calling it "love." I mean, the man has died and come back from the dead/almost died a rough total of 8 times throughout his 7 seperate incarnations, and that's just based on what we HAVE seen.

The same could potentially be applied to Irene's own incarnations as well...