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Hey guyss (empty theater)

So my Aphmau hyperfix came back after five years so I'm rewriting Mystreet + Phoenix Drop 😋 It's gonna be in fanfic form because I can't comic and I think it's pretty neat

The main changes are largely just world building a bit better, taking certain topics more seriously (like school gangs, mental health, and bullying, although Phoenix Drop and Mystreet will still have funny moments), and also messing with the characters and character designs a bit. Like, I changed *a lot* about Kawaii~Chan and redesigned Lucinda, but largely kept her character the same

Expect some updates and art here and there, although nothing particularly big as its a huge work in progress. I write super messily and plan very little so aspects might change as I find things I find cool from other people's rewrites

If you have any questions feel free to drop them in my asks :D (please please please please)

Okay hear me out because I had an idea. So what if mystreet had an overarching theme of unlearning violence/generational trauma/stuff like that

Basically I realized a lot of characters have not so great families/home lives and I realized this could work really well as an overarching theme

The main one is with Aphmau. She's supposed to be an Irene, but in my little epilogue/hypothetical season 7, she chooses not to be Irene. Irene isn't as intrinsically apart of her as the Aphmau before her, so she has a choice. Accepting the relic would mean she's no longer Aphmau, she is Irene, and that could entail leaving behind her friends and family and Aaron unless she hands out the rest of the relics, but while she'd keep Garroth, Katelyn, and Travis, what about Aaron? For reasons I'll bring up in another post, only Aaron can receive Shad's relic. If he receives the relic with his Ultima curse what would that mean? That's not a question Aphmau wants to find out the answer to. She has to choose between her mother, her fiance, some of her closest friends, and fulfilling a legacy. She knows she can't ever go back to a normal life, not after everything that had happened, but she would rather adjust with those she deems the closest to her, rather than alone as a goddess

The Irene before her didn't get that choice. The first Irene had gone through a lot and it turned her cold and unfeeling. She lost the capacity to empathize with those around her. So when Lord Aphmau came along, the dilemmas associated with being Irene but not wasn't even something that crossed her mind. Lord Aphmau developed as someone not Irene, but she never really had a say in who she was. Her thoughts, her words, her actions, they were all Irene. She suffered under that role and she wouldn't wish that on anyone. As a result, she created a degree of separation between her and Aphmau. Aphmau was born to be Irene, that was her destiny, but whether or not she followed it was up to her.

Aphmau chose not to become Irene, adding yet another layer of separation. An Irene will always come, will always be born in order to combat evil, but Aphmau doesn't have to follow her mother and suffer under the legacy of her grandmother, in a role she doesn't want to fill. She already did her duty as Irene, becoming her also isn't necessary

This can also be shown with Dante standing up to Gene as they're brothers, Garroth and Zane unlearning Garte's shit parenting (especially with Zane's history with the Jury and Garroth just kinda sucking as a brother), Katelyn getting into fights and stuff in order to protect Kacey because she feels like she has to fill in for Elizabeth's absence, and then realizing that she doesn't make up for anything

Okay that's it, bye guys

It's Kawaii~Chan time

I am gonna ramble about my rewrite so yknow, enter the theater with caution

I just wanna start off by saying I renamed her to Hanami, which is the Japanese word for flowers viewing, more specifically viewing cherry blossoms. I figured this fit her more "cutesy" design as well as her usually pink and white color pallette. Also excuse me if they look bad, these were made a bit ago and I, for some reason, decided it'd be best to use the mirror tool the entire time

So, for her Phoenix Drop High uniform I just redesigned the uniform and gave her the same every girl will have. I changed it to have a blazer and a longer skirt like actual school uniforms in America although I kept the socks, loafers, and bow because those all fit, I'm just also giving everyone the same pair of socks.

Her season 1 outfit has been drastically changed. I decided I wanted her to have a more lolita-esque style instead of just vaguely cute, and let's all be real here, her season 1 outfit sucked. So, I gave her a longer, puffier skirt, a shit ton of ruffles, and some cute gloves. I think now is also the time to have a little fun fact section about meif'was. Their nails and hair grow faster than humans, with their nails growing than both humans and werewolves. That's why Hanami has long nails and freakishly long hair

Next up is her adorable Love~Love Paradise outfit. I'm actually super happy with how it turned out and I'm in love with her little buns. Her bathing suit with all its ruffles was made up by me :D

Her Lover's Lane outfit is the one that went the most unchanged because it's honestly my favorite outfit of her's. It just looks the most visually appealing with the addition of dark pink being a primary color. I just changed the dress up a bit with the neckline and added ruffles

Starlight is honestly my favorite. There's just something about color block clothes that itches a scratch in my brain. The giant bow and see-through ruffles also added a lot. You cannot thank me though, I took this design from someone else's swimsuit. Her nails changing for the first time since season 1 and now having blue with the pink is also a nice nod to how she opens up to Zane about not really being herself

When Angels Fall. Oh God, When Angels Fall. I fucking *hate* their "disguises" in When Angels Fall. Buy I'll get into that later, right now, it's just Hanami. I didn't like her outfit much because she had literally never worn pants in the series before and to just suddenly toss her in a pair of jeans and t-shirt? Like it's supposed to show how drap everything is but why would she just have a t-shirt and jeans packed?? Starlight is an island resort and theme park, so most people will be wearing bathing suits, much more breathable fabrics than *jeans* and Starlight merch. That's why I gave her a different bathing suit bottom and a Starlight shirt. It's the least you can do when you're the most visually distinct character. She also is covered in bandages because cats, when stressed, will over groom and can injure themselves. So Hanami picks and scratches at her skin often due to stress so she has very chipped nail polish and is covered in bandages. Also she cut her hair (sad violin noises)

Her final outfit is for my "season 7". Jess hasn't made it but I want to eventually tie up my rewrite, so I'm making one. Me and my girlfriend refer to it as the "epilogue" although it's not really an epilogue, she just called it that once and I can't think of a better name. I gave her essentially a mix of her season 1 and Lover's Lane outfits because why not

Now that her designs are done I get to infodump about her personality (hehe)

She's basically the same as Kawaii~Chan, but I make her a better person. She doesn't manipulate Aphmau into joined her bakesale! She also tones down a lot, so while she still struggles with boundaries, especially when it comes to shipping, she doesn't have a fucking shipping shrine in her basement. She's also autistic in my rewrite, so her not getting boundaries, baking being her special interest, and her masking her behavior to fit what she thinks people want/expect of her all comes from that. Will I maybe end up projecting on her? With the shipping stuff yeah, but only because Aphmau and Kawaii~Chan made me think shipping people together until they stopped being friends with you was normal

So thats it, the exit to the theater is on the right, make sure to throw your trash away on the way out. Have a good day

Me on my way to make mystreet/PDH garroth 10x sweeter

The bad part of messy writing is I started off writing very lighthearted because I wasn't totally sure what i was doing yet, but im now nine chapters and almost 90 pages in and I've just figured out that I want it to feel darker and more mature but still have lighthearted moments so now the beginning must feel super hard to get through knowing how actually good it gets later on

That just sounds like PDH and Mystreet though so I think I might be doing something right?

Aphmau headcanons yay!!

(Except its just four main characters and a handful of miscellaneous headcanons because writing more than that is too much effort and also painful)

Aphmau

She has ADHD that's usually inattentive but sometimes is hyperactive

Both a cat and a dog person

Had a bit of an anger problem in high school but is much better at anger management as an adult

Because of her half-werewolf blood her teeth are slightly more pointy

Listens to dubstep and 2000-2010s pop music

Has chronic insomnia but can and will sleep the entire day away

Rejection sensitive dysphoria. Would do anything to make sure you don't hate her

Would chug a bottle of imitation vanilla extract to prove she's sorry

Super competitive though

Would chug a bottle of imitation vanilla extract to prove she's right/better

"If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?" "Yes"

Aaron

It gets really cold where he lived so he used to draw stick figures in the frost on his bedroom window

Has a few tattoos, nothing serious, just a moon on his back and a full sleeve inspired by his favorite band (okay so a bit serious)

Listens to exclusively rock but is fine with Aphmau’s pop music. He doesn't get it, but he loves her too much

He got the tattoos like right when he was free from his dad and now he kinda regrets them, but he has to admit, the full sleeve is fuckin awesome

Writes songs for his guitar, although he doesn't show anyone because they range from love songs about Aphmau to full blown vent songs about his PTSD from his dad

Speaking of his PTSD, he gets frequent nightmares and even when he doesn't or when he can't remember his nightmare, he'll still jolt awake in a cold sweat

Used to have a pet rock that he'd throw at kids who bothered him

His dad made sure to take care of that one

Still draws stick figures on frosted glasses, but while as a kid he'd draw his family, he now draws his friends and Aph

Actually decently friends with Garroth and Travis. They shit talk people together

There was once one time Aaron hung out with Laurence, Garroth, Dante, and Travis, and they ordered pizza but they couldn't pay so they played rock paper scissors to see who would negotiate and Dante lost, so he attempted to sway the pizza guy into lowering the price while fucking 6'5 Aaron stood ominously over Dante, piercing into the guy's soul

It actually worked

It never worked again though

Hanami (Kawaii~Chan for the uninitiated)

Autism

Is the token straight friend although she acts super gay, like she doesn't like girls but she *will* kiss the homies goodnight

Bakes even though meif'wa literally cannot have sugar

She has perfected her own recipes for sugar-free, sugar, and sweetened cupcakes

When she's angry her whole body scrunches up. Like she tenses, her ears lay flat on her head, her arms are pressed tightly to her sides, and her face scrunches up

Has almost sent Lucinda to the hospital because they'd get in play fights and meifwa claws are sharp

Best girl scout in the business. Literally created her own cookie because of her love of experimenting with baked good

Would eat plain rice. Just a ball of plain white rice

When startled, she jumps like three feet horizontally

Always lands on her feet. Except for when she doesn't

Knows how to sew and often modifies her clothing to add more ruffles and bows. When Katelyn wanted to put on a play her and Cadenza worked on the costumes together

Super competitive also

Would chug a bottle of imitation vanilla extract-

Highly empathetic. It's to the point that people being upset around her can get very overwhelming very fast

Ran a meif'wa colony in high school. She was often underestimated by the other colonies but she ended up being front and center a lot of conflicts and her colony remained standing after The Jury

She only has like three people in it though. Aimi (OC because there aren't enough meifwa), Xin (OC because there aren't enough meifwa), and June

Zane

Autism

Also has asthma, ASPD, depression and PTSD

Like pick a struggle 🙄

Was in a gang in high school but luckily has a rich daddy who can afford a lawyer to get Zane out of the legal trouble

Greatly regrets it now as like his only options for work are minimum wage and Aphmau and Aaron’s business

Lacks a lot of empathy but still good at comfort. He just somehow knows the right things to say even if he doesn't really get what they're upset about

Not actually emo, he's goth. He was emo back in high school because Gene is emo but only knew My Chemical Romance. He realized that he actually much preferred goth music and had a trad goth phase in college before settling on just more casual outfits during a massive depressive episode

How much Zane dresses up is a legitimate indicator of his mental health

Is he just wearing sweatpants and hoodies? Depressive episode

Is he wearing jeans and jewelry? He's fine

Also genderfluid (he/him or she/her, depends what gender hes presenting as)

Didn't really explore that side of himself until he was friends with Aphmau

Trauma :(

Likes vocaloid (Hanami's fault)

Miscellaneous that might get their own posts

Dottie, Daniel, and Blaze were in an open relationship until, yknow, Blaze kinda died

After that, Dottie and Daniel continued dating but decided to close their relationship until they properly got over Blaze dying right in front of them

The Shadow Knights are also dating, but they specifically date after high school after they went through their character arcs and became better people

Sasha dated Michi once

You can imagine how bad it was

Canontypical first Sapphic relationship

Melissa likes Twilight but hides it

Travis is essentially one of the girls. He mightve flirted with every one of them but Aph swears on him being cool. They invited him over for a sleepover once and they had so much Travis is just automatically invited to the sleepovers and girl nights out. He is very happy

Imagine getting invited to every outing with the girls but you cannot get a single chick. Even Zane, who is an honorary girl like Travis some days and an actual girl other days, has a girlfriend

It's okay, he has Dante

Dante is like "bro I just cannot pick up chicks" and Travis is like "me neither :(" they turn to each other. "I would date you if you were a girl" Dante said. "Me too" Travis said. There's a pause. They begin making out

Dante did have Nicole but they broke up on good terms because Nicole pursued a master's in engineering and it required too much attention. They're still besties though and hang out whenever Nicole is in town

Nicole is steampunk goals

Okay that's it. You may exit the theater carefully on your right

Travis/Katelyn overhaul time

In my rewrite, I change Travis a lot, and it also affects Travlyn (spoiler: Travlyn is cut) and minorly changes certain aspects of Katelyn. By minorly I mean super minor, like Katelyn is still Katelyn I just change their dynamic and further flesh out specific aspects

Starting off with Travis. I change his character quite a lot in Mystreet, instead keeping most of his PDH personality but a little more mature. In PDH he wasn't really that big on flirting like Dante was, he largely followed Dante because he looked up to him like an older brother. It did kind of lead to Dante and Aphmau essentially playing tug of war with Travis, but that largely stops when Dante gets a girlfriend. They still hang out because they mesh really well together, but Travis viewing Dante like an older brother starts to melt away. It especially melts away in Mystreet, where Dante has entirely stopped unsolicited flirts and instead tries to pick up girls on dating apps (it doesn't work) and then dates Nicole, but she breaks up with him so he goes back to dating apps. Travis, who still kind of holds onto the want to get a girlfriend and the habit of using Dante's advice because he legitimately doesn't know any other way, continues unsolicited flirting until Aph essentially sits him down and tells him he has got to cut it out because it's making everyone uncomfortable, and he does actually listen. He gradually becomes friends with the girls via Aphmau because he's actually pretty fun to be around. Like he does care a lot and is just kinda dorky, but he loves gossip and is extremely fun to gossip with because he knows pretty every secret of the boys'. He has wingmaned before, also, and while the relationship didn't work out, he did do a fine job of wingmanning. He's also treated kinda like Aphmau’s younger brother, although Lucinda and him still flirted with each other until Lucinda stops because she gets with Katelyn. Katelyn, like Aph, also views Travis as a younger brother

Now it's Katelyn time! She's still the same Katelyn, but a little toned down. She keeps her anger issues, but she doesn't beat people, more like she gets frustrated then super overwhelmed (she's autistic). She's also fiercely loyal and although she is trying to work on her anger issues, she can get extremely angry when she perceives someone as being rude or hostile towards people she considers family. Like she thinks of Aph, Nicole, and Travis as siblings and Hanami (my Kawaii~Chan) and Teony like cousins. Travis and her have the kind of dynamic where Katelyn playfully punches or pinches him or drops ice packs down his shirt, but the second someone else disrespects him, its going down. She has a similar dynamic to Nicole where they'll play fight but also beat up anyone for each other. When she found out about the Demon Warlock and how he was possessing Travis and how he had nearly killed Aphmau, she had a kind of fire in her eyes where you couldnt be blamed if you assumed she was going to go up there and fight Michael herself. Btw!! Katelyn is Menphia in my mind so Menphia also carried that same fire and undying loyalty to those close to her. They both burn with the same fire that fuels them to fight for the ones they love, to defend their homes and family, and to stand by the sides of those they trust until the very end

Okay that's it, hope you liked it, please leave a good review on the movie rating website of your choice (or like/reblog this post)

I saw a post talking about Lilith and how mystreet Aarmau would find her and just. Imagine it doesn't follow Diaries and instead follows the plot of canon Mystreet, but now with the addition of Aph and Aaron having an adopted baby daughter. Imagine she mysteriously lost both of her parents, only for the events of Emerald Secret and When Angels Fall to happen. She does still have Aph, but she lost her once and she lost Aaron twice. Even if she wasn't in Emerald Secret and instead stayed with Sylvanna, she would still be with the cast in When Angels Fall.

At first, it was the happiest Aph ever saw her daughter. She got to teach Lilith how to swim and they got cute matching bathing suits. She got to be surrounded by her family and her family's friends, which were all essentially her aunts and uncles. She got to be loving doted on by her grandmother, Eric, and Zianna. Then that all changed. Suddenly, they were moving to a suite, everyone seemed tense and anxious, and Lilith wasn't allowed to leave anymore. It was fine for a month or so, but then she was being smuggled out by her mother and Zane, her mother and Kawaii~Chan (who probably spent the most amount of time with Lilith out of all of her aunts) got mortally wounded, and Garroth and Katelyn were siding with the bad men now. Melissa and Rachel were dead, her father was missing, and the rest of her aunts and uncles were talking about leaving. She was probably left behind with Sylvanna, Eric, and the Ro'Meaves while they went onto the celestial Canon, so she would've blacked out only to wake up to find she couldn't be with her parents

Imagine how traumatic all of that would be for a baby. She doesn't know what's going on, she can't understand or process it, but she knows she was scared and her parents were just as scared

Aphmau characters full names

Most are my headcanons btw

Aphmau Ramirez-Ross (Ramirez is Sylvanna’s last name, Ross is Zach's)

Aaron Lycan (canon)

Katelyn Murphy

Travis Valkrum (canon)

Garroth Ro'Meave (canon)

Kim Adams

Zane Ro'Meave (canon)

Kaneko Hanami

Lucinda Incanto

Ivy Love

Adachi Michi

Adachi Mikai

Sasha Petrovna Lebedeva

Zenix Moore

Gene Hernandez

Dante Hernandez

Ein Ross

Dottie Collins

Daniel Evans

Blaze O'Hara (canon)

Also I know Aphmau’s last name is believed to be Shalashaska but I say nuh uh

Ghosts in my rewrite are essentially just canon but fleshed out and also connected to relics

Everything either has a soul of its own, or a soul from a person passed. When something dies its soul will usually seep into the ground or the water or the air, filling the world with whatever magical essence they had and fueling the cycle of life. Sometimes, however, souls can be forced to take physical form, by only by extremely strong magicks, like that of the divine (hence the Shadow Knights). A soul can be separated from the body, however

When a soul is forced out of their body, they form either a relic or a ghost. Relics can be full or partial. Full relics can be reversed and are made with the Celestial Canon as fully turning someone into a relic takes a very large amount of magick that exceeds even the divine. Partial relics use only a part of a person's soul and are permanent. They are weaker and can be achieved with weaker magick than full relics. Once the person dies the rest of their souls enters the relic and turns it into a full relic. The Divine Relics are partial relics made of the Divine Warriors, that claims a part of the Divine's soul so that it can grow in strength with every Divine that it gives power to

Ghosts are souls that leave someone's body but isn't used in a relic. These ghosts can inhabit a body, but cannot re-enter their own. The body they choose to inhabit is known as their host body, and typically host bodies are dead so they don't have another soul inhibiting them. Sometimes, however, a ghost can take a living host. Usually this causes more problems than solutions as the two souls would fight over control and if the ghost is overpowered too much it can be forced out of the host, and if the ghost overpowers the original soul it can kill the host. Full possession is often very exhausting for the host body and usually leads to the body passing out or weakening. The stronger the ghost the longer it can possess the body without passing out, but the more weak the body will become

Emmalyn and Michael are both ghosts, but Emmalyn is significantly weaker and thus is only able to fully possess Kim for a few minutes, unlike Michael who is able to possess a body for days, although the body typically dies if he possesses it for that long.

While souls can fight over control, it is possible to reach an equilibrium where both souls have equal power over the body. This can only be achieved through the souls coming to an equal agreement to give up power to the other. The only known instance of this happening is Kim and Emmalyn (although this has happened before them)

With equal control It's usually the host body who controls their movements, although they can give up control to the ghost and the ghost can attempt to control the movements at the same time, which causes the body to freeze up and not move. The only part of the body they have full control of independent of the other is the eyes. The host controls one eye and only fully processes what they see through their eye, although they can see the ghost's half (it's too blurry to make out anything though), and vice versa. They're also able to communicate through their mind with each other being able to hear the other's thoughts. They also cannot talk at the same time, and attempting to do so leads them to stuttering out an unintelligible combination of the words they're trying to say, unless they're both trying to say the exact same thing. They also sound like the host as its the host's vocal cords, but the ghost might change its voice to be slightly higher or deeper to differentiate them

This does mean they can do shit like this

Which looks really goofy

Decisions, decisions. How many mystreet characters should I give PTSD to? Obviously Aaron and Zane because they're canonically traumatized. Aph also gets it because she was forced to nearly kill Aaron. By that logic, Garroth and Katelyn also get PTSD although I'm not sure if I want them to have it because I feel like Katelyn is able to talk about her emotions enough that while she does have trauma, it doesn't get to the point of PTSD. Garroth will probably get it though. Daniel and Dottie should definitely get it since they watched both Aph's presumed death and Blaze's death. If Lilith will be added to my rewrite then she 100% has PTSD. Melissa probably has PTSD from nearly dying next to her mother, who actually died. Idk if Lucinda gets it, but she definitely has mass amounts of guilt because she thinks she could've helped more even though them surviving was literally thanks to her. I don't think Hanami (my name for KC) has PTSD. The only really traumatic thing she went through was When Angels Fall and she had accepted her death happily. Like girlie was fully ready to die for Zane, so when she ended up surviving she was just happy that Zane was okay (Zane is severely traumatized)

I think Garroth's trauma and struggles are so overlooked in canon honestly-

->He almost died being turned into a werewolf

->He was forced to almost kill multiple people. Including his own brother.

->While under the forever potions control he basically is like a weapon/robot.

->After his brother finally gets him out of the forever potion. His own mother is used against him to get him under the control of the potion again.

->He was forced to almost kill another one of his friends.

->He was experimented on as a kid. AND the guy who let him be expiremented on (his own father) is someone that has been considerably close to Garroth. With Garroth being the 'golden child'.

->Golden child syndrome

->He doesn't want to inheret the company at all but basically gets no choice in that. Living your life knowing inevetably you be forced into doing something you just don't want to.

He also seems unlikely to actually communicate about his struggles.

No you are so right, he has been through like everything. I feel like though he *might* talk to Zane about their childhoods once they start working out their issues with each other, but yeah besides that I doubt he'd really talk about his emotions

(I also headcanon him with a "healthy" dose of older sibling syndrome where he felt like he had to fill in for his dad's neglect towards Zane and Vylad so that coupled with needing to always be the golden child means he never learned how to express or handle his emotions beyond bottling it up. Unfortunately it didn't really matter how much Garroth did because Zane resented him no matter what)

In my rewrite I have holidays based on the Divine Warriors and one is known as Shadow’s Eve which is Shad's birthday. Its like a Dia de los Muertos kinda holiday where it mourns the dead by lighting candles and setting out pictures to hopefully keep their loved one's souls safe from Shad, and in my PDH rewrite Aph celebrates it with the Ro'Meaves, namely Garroth and Vylad because Zane just leaves them. Here's a very low quality doodle of it because I have nothing else to post

Hey guys

I love foreshadowinh

Hey guys I drew michi

I'm debating whether I keep Michi's mean girl vibe or involve more of her MCD counterpart's personality. Regardless she'll be introduced in FCU so I can have a good excuse to introduce Donna since Michi is Donna's adopted sister in MCD

Donna!!

I tried to involve fish Donna a bit with mermaid-esque jewelry and a mermaid tattoo. Might doodle a younger Donna and Michi later

Donna and Michi family photo

Take a wild guess who the favorite is

I reworked the ages because most of the characters do not act like they're pushing thirty

here's their ages at the start of Mystreet

And their ages at the end

This does have the unintended consequence of making things like 10x sadder. Like in Emerald Secret Ein is 22, Aphmau, Lucinda, Zane, and Kim are 23, Garroth is 24, and Aaron is 25. Like that is so young to go through the things they do. Also Blaze dies at 25

She's dressed up for winter

Late night at Starlight but I can't draw shirtless men