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"The Chickens See everything"

Laurence: She's something isn't she?

Chicken Shaman: Hmph! What she is, is a Terrible Chicken House Builder.

Laurence: Heh. Well the chickens seem to like her.

Chicken Shaman, Flustered: Don't claim to know what the Chickens think!

Laurence: Come on. They cling to her like baby ducks. They clearly think she's nice at least.

Chicken Shaman: No they don't think she's she's nice! She isn't nice! Hehe! She's DIVINE! Hehe heh (runs off to commit Chicken war crimes)

Laurence, Rolling with it: ....so you think she's cool?

Chicken Shaman

OK, so I'm not really a rewrite myself BUT I've been thinking about what a rewrite of the Chicken Shaman would look like.

I love the idea of him being comedy relief, but I feel like the approach to it would have to be different than a minecraft roleplay would portray him to be taken seriously. Plus a lot of the humor and chemistry comes from him being one of Jess' friends I feel, which wouldn't really work so well for an Avra or Aphia or Aphara- whatever.

I really like the darker approach people are taking to Minecraft Diaries. Considering it was previous a minecraft letsplay for kids. Because when you really think about the lore it is REALLY DARK. So I want to continue that approach.

This of course extends to the chicken Shaman. I want to see a portrayal of him that is funny but in an off-putting way. In that "is it funny haha or funny boohoo" kind of way. Like the guy is CLEARLY unhinged in the original, but make it less in a harmless portrayal, so that the reader feels as unnerved and cautious as the characters should be by him. Make it so no one is truly sure if he will harm them or not.

AND LET THIS GUY BE A SHAMAN!!! I want to see some wild rituals, disturbing practises, and ominous beliefs. Some true viking sh*t! It would also be fun if you threw in some ominous prophecies in there threw him as well! I love prophecy tropes, especially vague ones. I think it would really set the tone for all the underline evils that Aphmau was Blissfully unaware of in S1 but would soon come to face as her world gets bigger and scarier. Or perhaps just little comments that just so happen to come true mysteriously.

I don't know if it's because I am binge watching Vikings & Vikings Valhalla right now, but I really crave this portrayal. I want to see some Floki behavior from Castor (if you know, you know). I want his mannerisms to be impulsive and erratic, and scary for all who don't really know him. But then you do know him, and he's still crazy but he's still your homie, and you love-hate him.

If anyone IS doing this interpretation or has SEEN it please please tag, or reblog, or link, I NEED thisssss!this session!

(Also if there was a "Hold The Door!!!" Plot Twist with Irene and Castor or something that would be AAAHHH 🤯 If you know, you know)

As if tha would stop him

This fandom forgets that one time Aphmau looked at Brian and told him that if he see's Castor to throw things at him

Such an immersive deep dive! Of course we love the much welcome addition to 🎆Chicken Lore🎆, but also I'm loving your take on Nana here. Really brings her character to life for me.

As a kid I was never too involved with her character because she was more ascetic-driven than plot-driven. But just the idea of her being from a circus already brings so much to her character without changing it all that much. And I love that. I'm getting a Ty Lee or Dick Grayson vibe over here.

Also love the implications of Tu'la no just being Japan, but a Slavic-Asian terrain (similar to Central Asia) with many different cultures all entirely unique.

Like the Authentic Japanese culture in Tu'la is very much a top headcanon for me, especially with all the art and content it has brought with it. The Tu'la region is very big, and has much room for a lot of worlds to explore that usually would not be explored. How cool would it be to portray Nana in traditional Kazakhstan-inspired dress, to show her friends dances and food all based in Central Asia!

Like this

Or this

But like- super pink

I think that would be interesting to explore.

Character Analysis and Rewrites: The Chicken Shaman (Castor), Cadenza, and Kawaii~Chan. 

The Chicken Shaman, or Castor, as we all know is a powerful magic user and quite adept in potion-making. From logistical standing. We can’t just have him be as he was because in canon I don’t particularly count him as someone who was a true *character* rather than a convenient cameo who was given a rough idea and script to follow. 

I have other plans for him. I’m thinking that perhaps there’s a reason why Castor is the way he is. Maybe he thinks he’s the lord of a small ‘village’ of chickens because he was a lord before. 

Maybe something happened.

I’m thinking I’m going to place Castor in the age range of 50’s/60’s. Older man who’s lived a good decent time and ran a village as best as he saw fit.

Castor was a lord to a village a long time ago when he was younger but fled due to an assassination attempt (shadow knights weren’t super popular. That’s something that’s become a much more prevalent thing in the past 20 years or so). It was an assassination done by a rival village and it would have caused a war if he had not fled. He knew that his village wasn’t strong enough to support that kind of situation and so he left his head guard in charge and told him as a final order to avoid war and keep the peace (I’m thinking this might have even been some lore I made up about the Neapolitan villages. Perhaps they were three separate villages and he was lord over one of them. At some point, all three of them joined into one after Castor fled).   

After this, he fled to the village of Meteli. I’m wondering if he is known there since it’s kind of a far-off place and at the time it was such a small village. But, alas, he moves and takes up home in Meteli. This is his home for years and years but the guilt of abandoning his village ate away at him and at some point I feel like he might have even helped Joh at some point with lordship things since he had previously been one even if it was so small. That only made things worse for Castor and he began to fall rapidly into a spiral of disparity. 

He fell into a steep slope of addiction and moved out somewhere in the woods nearby enough Meteli to remain close but still stay distant. He then decided that it was his only chance of feeling guiltless if he forgot everything permanently via a magic spell. He studied for months on how to achieve this and ignored any warnings from Joh. He wanted to forget and by the gods, he was going to. 

As we all know, it’s dangerous to learn more than one magic and it can cause more harm than good. We’re not exactly sure what kind of magic Castor has but for the plot, I’m going to assume it’s more of a general spell forming and breaking magics. I haven’t quite worked that one out yet. Please someone tell me if he actually has a specific magic type or if Jess just said whatever with him. 

Castor's spell succeeds in making him forget but it kind of makes him a little bit less than stable. Still struggling with addiction and now not having a clue as to who he is, he stumbles into Meteli claiming to be the lord of chickens. The chicken shaman is a name given to him by Joh as a joke that stuck because Castor took it incredibly seriously. 

The rest is kind of just history. He became known well as the lord of chickens: the chicken shaman. 

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Cadenza. We love a strong independent woman when we see one. 

For the most part, I’m keeping her source the same. 

As you’ve probably already gathered, I’ve decided to alter quite a bit of the story and characters. Enhancements and then fill out changes as I’ve done with Garroth, Castor, and in the future, Kawaii~Chan, newly and straight out of the bat as Nana. 

I’ve decided to alter some of the ages of the characters to fit into the timeline as well in order to make a bit more sense. As before, Garroth is getting into his late 20’s early to mid-30s. He’s been hiding for a lot longer than just a year or two. This is the same for Laurence as he’s only a few years younger than Garroth, maybe standing in somewhere at the 27/30 range. Markus is unsure of his age to be clear, but it’s assumed that he is within the range of Laurence and Garroth. In actuality, he’s really like 70 or close to 80 even, but with all that happened, he’s still young. 

This being said I’ve decided to make Cadenza a younger, more spunky, kind of young mature yet newly naïve young woman. I am going to make it to the best of my abilities to not write her like a child because she isn’t one. But, throughout the series, her character has always been the sweeter kind of innocent do-gooder. I kind of have the idea to write her as a type of homage to how Garroth experienced the world. Being thrown into a situation that is completely uncontrollable and having a choice. The only difference with cadenza is that she has her father and people around her to help and guide her. 

Cadenza in my head is a young woman, possibly newly 20 or possibly even 19. Still young and able to view the world as very calm and kind. This does not mean she doesn’t understand that the world is harsh. She did lose her parents at an early age. She isn’t a complete stranger to the world being cruel. But, that still was when she was incredibly young. Hayden, her father, took her in and what I can only assume, raised her as something to be protected. Heavily. I’m thinking she possibly grew up in a bit of a bubble. Not to where she wasn’t allowed to go outside at all because that’s just part of her personality and it’s said that she would often go to Castor’s village and play with the chickens, but to the degree where she might not have explored or even been to other villages aside from Castor’s ‘village’.

I’ve effectively decided to just. Disregard the whole Cadenza is a chicken arc because. Well. Some things, especially in earlier diaries, fit well into a survival series with some storytelling elements. They do not, however, work well in a cohesive, true, story. 

Cadenza does go missing but it’s not because she got turned into a chicken.

Basically, what happens is the shadow knights make a little bit of an error. The shadow knights are well and aware that Castor has magical capabilities but chose not to deal with that because he is known for being notoriously harmless but also notoriously crazy and absolutely monstrously difficult. And so? Who do they go for? Why, his daughter of course. Who is his daughter you might be asking? Why Cadenza, of course. That’s completely and totally factually correct and in no way a false assumption due to her being sensed around the area quite regularly. I mean, why else would someone visit that often? 

And so, Cadenza is in the nether and Castor is being blamed for her disappearance. Everything then follows pretty much as it goes with cannon just a bit more structured and less messing around with miscellaneous dialogue. This is all followed by a very briefed, better-paced implication of all that happens from episodes 26-40. That whole traveling + getting Cadenza and Castor back arc is just more condensed into a better coherent novel style. 

I’m, at the current point in time, a bit confused about the amount of time Cadenza is truly stuck in the nether, but I’m assuming from the time that arc starts and they get everything done is in no more than a week's time. Just for the sake of having the trauma for them be nothing or close to nothing other than possibly being a bit hungry and tired. Just because their stay in the nether was less cinematic and meaningful and much more comedic for a plot greater than theirs.

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Kawaii Chan is one of the only characters I just decided to damn near completely gut because good god. She is just a walking stereotype that deserves so much better. The borderline fetishization of Japanese culture and the infantilization of her is just. Not something I enjoy. Any time I see her on screen I have a visceral reaction of, ‘I can do it better.’

And so I am.

Nana, in my rewrite for the sake of trying to keep it as canon as possible, is still a meif’wa because I think that’s something that could very easily be like a regional thing from Tu’La. 

A brief synopsis of her is she's a trans woman who came from Tu'La and specializes in enchantments. She specialized in enchanting puppets, an important detail, and worked as a traveling performer to make money and get out of the region to find something better. She started selling her puppets to people who would buy them in abundance and for cheap, no questions asked. Well, she should have asked questions, because the people that were buying her puppets were using them for committing crimes and using her as a scapegoat. Her magic was somewhat traceable and at the time she was a man named Ilya and the dolls weren't dolls so much as they were just poorly made puppets from having little to no money. She used this opportunity to get out of Tu’La as well as begin her transition and start a new life. She transitioned during the time this all happened and escaped from Tu'La to Ru'Aun. Now she specializes in porcelain dolls and still uses them to perform.

One of her taglines is, “They’re technically looking for a man who enchants felt puppets. Not a woman who enchants dolls. The magic strength it took to get the puppets to move is not as strong as the magic it takes to enchant the dolls. The magic isn’t different, but it’s not as complicated. If they tried to trace me from my puppets, it would either take a very skilled magician or call all of the enchantment magic users to one place to try and sift through all of them. It’s traceable, but nowhere near pinprick accuracy. The crimes I supposedly have done are nothing more than petty theft and social annoyances.”

Nana is no longer a Japanese stereotype but a kind of Slavic performer as an homage to the Russian Circus! I thought it would be a funky little thing to do. This is mainly just a personal choice rather than making the region itself a Slavic-based thing, although, I think it would be really neat to have it be that way! 

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No exceptions.

If your MCD rewrite doesn't have Castor the Chicken Shaman in some form or another then I don't want it