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I feel like Kul'zak is a pear guy. No, I don't really know what that means, nor is that slang for anything. I just feel like he would really enjoy pears. That's all I have to say.

Lady Irene {inspired by @miraculousdiaries who has a sick Irene design!}

Do not pray to your god. She is not listening

Finally fleshed out my Irene design, both alive and as the Shadow Lord!

She mainly appears as the second design once the reveal has happened. However, in the final fight once she is weakened, her mask begins to melt! That’s what the last design is. Wielding her relic has slowly eroded at her, something she has tried to obscure…

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Minecraft (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Garroth Ro'Meave/Laurance Zvahl, Aphmau/Aaron Lycan, Katelyn/Travis Valkrum, Dante/Kawaii~Chan (Minecraft Diaries), Zane Ro'Meave/Travis Valkrum Characters: Aphmau (Minecraft Diaries), Garroth Ro'Meave, Emmalyn (Minecraft Diaries), Travis Valkrum, Zane Ro'Meave, Dante (Minecraft Diaries), Kawaii~Chan (Minecraft Diaries), Lucinda (Minecraft Diaries), Gene (Minecraft Diaries), Zenix (Minecraft Diaries), Cadenza (Minecraft Diaries), Blaze (Minecraft Diaries), Levin (Minecraft Diaries), Malachi (Minecraft Diaries), Original Characters, Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Prophecy, Memory Loss, Past Relationship(s), Past Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Past Lives, Fantasy, The Nether (Minecraft), Genocide, Rape Recovery, Rape Aftermath, Implied/Referenced Torture, Aftermath of Torture, Magic, Plot, Fluff and Humor, Fluff and Angst, POV Multiple, Action/Adventure, Eventual Romance, Mpreg Summary:

Aphmau struggles to find herself in the midst of finding the lost memories of someone else, Irene.

She is tormented by everlasting search for answers, but when she finds the lead she's been looking for in the tangled web of prophecy, maybe it's not the answer that she wanted.

On top of that the imminent dangers of Shad and Tu'la threaten her home, her family and her children.

Aphmau is forced to find the answers she so dreads to save it all. Or lose it all.

 (Basically I'm continuing MCD where it left off, bit with my own biases)

I just came to a angst realization....

(Thank you to @shirazens for allowing me to use their comment)

I literally just came to this conclusion in a comment threat under my "Aaron Needs Friends" post with @shirazens .

In summary Aarmau comes off as unnatural

I think the main issue is how rushed and force the relationship was in the series, and the fact that it change key elements in the story to make a place for itself.

The Aarmau agenda also had to down other characters to build itself up, which sucks. A lot of character assassination stem from Aarmau. Including the way Aphmau interacts with her support. But I'd like to focus on how unnatural (and frankly problematic) this relationship comes across if you actually pay attention to how they interact with eachother.

And their relationship is certainly off.

@shirazens

THIS is why I've always disliked his character, he felt so disconnected.

also he continues to constantly mourn his past wife WHILE getting closer to aphmau which feels like to me he was just using her if that makes sense?

Their relationahip has always come across as strange.

In my former post I address a portion of this problem with Aaron not having any relationships outside of Aphmau. It is odd.

Aaron- despite being so closed off and mysterious and (quite rude in some instances), CONTINUED to follow her group around for months...but NEVER take an interest in ANYONE??? Except Aph. That is mad weird. If you like her so much to risk your life for her consistently why avoid her Support System so adamantly???

It makes the relationship seem very strange. Almost like Aaron is isolating Aphmau from her friends when building their relationship. They only really talked about his trauma or her stress-

Aaron and Aphmau are TRAUMA BONDING...

It hit me like a train! It isn't romance, it isn't a love story. It is codependency!

Aph ONLY goes to Aaron when she is stressed about her responsibilities. "Because he understands". And in turn Aaron's only personality trait is trauma- and he only really opens up to (or talks at all) to Aphmau. Think about it, this man is FOLLOWING her- for seemingly NO REASON by time the Post-Irene-Dimension arc roles around! "Having nothing" isn't really a logical reason anymore. He had NO motive to be present. He's made no connections, no character growth, no earthly ties, so WHY are you following the 🎆"magical friendship woman"🎆 if you don't want to make friends???

And I think this is great writing potential. This makes sense for the storyline in season two, as Aph was extremely overwhelmed, and the steaks had just risen from village quarrels to Armageddon. And I definitely can see where @shirazens was going with the how Aaron saw Aphmau, as a stand in or familiarity to his wife, or that he was using Aphmau to get a semblance of his late wife, Lily.

Personally I'm not amongst the re-write clan of aph-fans, (I prefer to progess with the shit show we were given). But this is a juicy narrative to explore for both, especially if you don't want to throw out Aarmau all together.

If you want to get angsty, you could argue that Aaron being so distant to Aph's support group was to isolate her from them. Again, this fits, and I am well aware Jesson did not intend this BUT Aphmau DID become a lot more distant to her companions for Aaron's sake. She became dismissive of their concerns, argued with their suspicions, and lowkey berated them because "she trusted him" and expected everyone to follow suit (fr a lot of them were so real for that, homie was acting up- ahem- Laurence- ahem- Katelyn). She put Aaron on a pedestal out of nowhere, and vouched for him undeservingly. You could argue that this was a result of isolating her, you could argue that this was just Aph blindness to Aaron's faults.

And this also really REALLY fits well with the Irene VS Shad motif and how that entire mess went down between them. I can totally see those two being codepent with one another as well with their similar struggles and pain. I can see them relying on one another too heavily. I can see that leading to suck strong feelings of betrayal. Especially if Shad was as isolated as Aaron. In fact I'd say Irene and Shad damn near prove this idea.

Fun right?

Love this idea!

Loooooove this idea...

Love. This. Idea.

That's all 😊

So you’re telling me that the relic Aphmau has, is commonly seen as fire and Irene doesn’t create, have fire magic and or the ability to turn people into a version of Shadow Knights?

I call BS

Hell’s Creator MCDRW!!

(The the arc of turning Laurance(Vlyad???) into a Shadow Knight under her magic

Coulda happened during “The Calling Arc”!!!

Aphmau should have learned to use her magic!! I wanted a training arc!!!

The fact we never got to SEE how all that played out will forever be the heartbreak of MY LIFE!!!

That is such a heavy and complicated lore drop! AND we never got all the details or relationships or even a full understanding on what the heck was going on with that! Just bits and pieces across different series.

I agree

What the hell, Irene!?!

I just learned why Shad hates Irene in canon and knowing what I do now about everyone’s favorite the Matron, I can say with my whole heart,

What the hell, Irene