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Laurance my Shayla 💔

Currently working on a My September animatic that focuses on MCD Laurance and Garroth but it’s taking so long

Here’s two wip images tho!!

I love Alien Stage so much

I like to come up with silly headcanons and what-ifs while I’m hoovering or doing jobs around the house so I raise you this, aphblr…

What if the Shadow Knights in PDH are just a nerdy, teenage coven of vampires. That’s why they’re so abhorred when Zane is doing everything in his power to join them, they can blatantly tell that the fake fangs he keeps wearing aren’t real and they think he’s either mocking them or is just really strange…

It’s also why Laurance leaving their group feels like such a betrayal, they’re the only vampires in the school and they’re so tight-knit. Despite how he may have been treated (assumedly not well if he abandons the group of his own accord) he’s a vampire and they should stick together no matter what.

It hurts even worse when he completely renounces his vampirism in the physical sense, going out of his way to appear human to his new group of friends.

Vampires and Aphmau lore are like my favourite things if you can’t tell :3

Currently writing a pretty sad Laurance fic 🙏🙏 I saw a prompt about ‘character dies but they’re brought back wrong’ and obviously, that already sort of applies to him. Howeverrrrrrr… I love making my favs suffer so don’t worry guys he’s even worse 🫶🫶

Here it is!! MCD Laurffany! I love these two so much and I'm so excited to share this with you!! A lot went down at that season 2 wedding.

If you guessed Tiffany’s love interest would be Laurance Zvahl, you were correct!! These two own a penthouse rent free in my brain, I swear! I pronounce them, Laurffany!

revisiting this old laurance doodle almost 2 years later

2022 vs 2024

I miss my Lu Lu...

some of the sketch for thoses intrested.

I also mashed like 3 outfit's together

Also a Walmart doodle Lu Lu

Okay so I'm taking this for my rewrite. Basically, Zane married some Lord for a village I made up because I refuse to rewatch the series. Because of this when Zane becomes a Shadow Knight he's tied to Orion(the Lord). Orion, who is a Fae creature that I added specifically because Fuck It, is already basically immortal unless killed. So these two are stuck together, Zane slowly losing his edges, softening over the years as he stands beside the unholy pacifist. Orion slowly letting his too sharp edges peak through the gentle exterior.

When Janus, the last of the Jury of 9 to die, passes they both sort of cling to each other. Every century that passes changes them. Zane goes from MCD!High Priest Zane to PDH!Zane, letting himself be pushed around because he refuses to fight back in fear of his own power.

Orion, manipulative and pacifistic but willing to fight for his people, makes himself sharper as Zane softens. He becomes colder, crueler even. PDH!Orion is basically Zane's shield throughout PDH and basically is fending off attempts at being inducted into the Shadow Knights.

The Shadow Knights don't get why Zane makes them so uncomfortable or why Orion is so attached.

Guys, I'm in a sort of... mess. I've had so many cool ideas, but now they're starting to interfere with my actual plot that I have planned out for my mcd rewrite.

Here's the deal. My shadow knight lore is that the souls of dead guards killed in the nether are turned into shadow knights via the nether's dark energy. So essentially, my shadow knights are made out of a mist/energy type substance that forms into their body. This allows shadow knights that are in control of their bodies (shadow knights that have broken their guard bond by killing their lord) or shadow knights that completely lose themselves (think young SK that are engulfed by rage or bloodlust) to transform into monsters not unlike the hellish beasts from the nether.

This is also why they are able to be immortal. Once they've broken their guard bond, the dark energy wrapping around their soul corrupts the soul completely. So if they get badly hurt, their body fades into a mist-like substance again and gravitates to the nearest nether portal so they can heal.

But if a shadow knight hasn't broken their guard bond yet, if they are badly hurt, their body will fade into mist and go back to the nether, but it's unable to bring the soul with it, allowing the soul to pass on naturally like it was supposed to when the shadow knight first died.

So, if a shadow knight with an unbroken guard bond (Laurance) never gets hurt badly enough for his body to fade away, then he'll just be immortal anyway. It's not full-proof, he can still be killed. But he doesn't age, doesn't really need food or water, can't be killed by the elements, can't get sick, etc. He isn't human anymore, he's a creature from the nether.

Also, Irene is just immortal. The other divine warriors (excluding Shad) reincarnate, but she doesn't. This is why she got so numb to emotions and wanted to get rid of her memories and go into a deep slumber in the first place.

Aphmau isn't a reincarnation. It's Irene's body that doesn't have any memories and forms it's own identity. So she still is immortal. Especially when she gets the relic at the end of season 1, Aphmau is no different from Irene. She just lacks experience and skill with her abilities.

So now that we've established that Aphmau and Laurance are immortal and will never age, we run into a problem. If I wanted just the two of them to be end-game, it would be perfect. But I also love Garroth. I want the three of them to be together.

But having old man Garroth next to young Aphmau and Laurance doesn't feel right!!!!

So I'm trying desperately to think of a solution. If I take away Aphmau and Laurance's immortality, I would have to completely change the story. Especially with Aphmau, because her existence depends on Irene living so long and losing touch with her humanity.

I also really like the idea of them being immortal.

I could also make Garroth immortal, but how? Even if he gets a divine relic, it won't work. He's set to reincarnate, not live forever. And making him a shadow knight feels wrong.

...

Okay, what about this. I let the three of them be a happy trio for a while, and then Garroth dies suddenly. What if he dies protecting Aphmau from some sort of horrible threat? Laurance is losing his mind because he could have taken the blow, not Garroth. But as he's dying, Garroth tells Laurance that someone has to stay with Aphmau for the coming centuries, and he was never meant to live that long.

I could also have some build up before that of Aphmau refusing to come to terms with her immortality. Having panic attacks because as all her friends age, she isn't. Having nightmares about the day everyone will die except her. And Laurance is her only comfort because he won't age either.

What's the verdict on this line of thought?

This was originally intended for people who tangibly create their own designs of characters, but if you have your own designs of MCD characters floating around in your head for any reason at all, drawn or not, this poll is for you too!!

"Combination" and "Elements of Orange AND Brown" refers to if there are multiple hair colors going on at once. EX: a gradient from brown to orange, red streaks in brown hair, etc.

If the hair color of your Laurance doesn't depend on his time pre/post Nether, or falls outside of the bounds of the options here for some other reason... Use your best judgement!

If things get complicated, feel free to leave clarification in the tags/etc! :D

Back at it again with more design polls! I'd like to do polls more regularly on this blog again, and personal interpretations/designs seems to be a good way to do those :D

I know I'm definitely in the weirdo camp here, so where do you fall?

✥ | a map of ru’aun, circa 1416 a.i. (after irene)

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hi!! it’s me again!! today i bring you a little teaser for my mcd roleplay that’s gonna be coming up either this or next year!!

i’m really excited for it, and the guys in the mcd big bang server have really inspired me to keep on crafting. more updates about this will come soon if you guys are interested in hearing more!!

(under the cut is a little tidbit about roleplay locations)

every city in red is going to be an area/setting you can actually roleplay in!! it’s not concrete, and could change—but this is what i’m thinking. key below <3

circle with diamond — ‘capital’ of the phoenix drop alliance

circle with dot — major cities

circle — minor cities

diamond — settlement/village

animal footprint/marking — high concentration of that region’s nonhuman species

I might've yassified and babygirled Laurence a lil too much... But hear me out 😭.

too real 😞😞😞

rewatching pdh s1 LOL

he rlly said “no worries if not” 🤓

Some art based off of my Aphmau hyper fixation rewrite!

So, I got hyper fixated on Aphmau’s MyStreet in 2025, which I haven’t thought but about since like 5 years ago.

Anyways, I like many others realized that the series had so much more potential than how it’s ended up, specifically in the character department.

So I started messing around with the idea of how I’d write it and the changes I’d make.

I don’t know how I feel about including all the magic and non human shit, so as of now this is a completely normal world with some remanants of magic for slight hijinks.

I also don’t want to delve into the romance parts just yet, and honestly would rather focus on the non romantic relationships first

I’m also going to state that I absolutely love the idea of Aaron, but I don’t like the canon execution of him. Fanon Aaron is far superior, and I’m going to do my best to channel that.

Please keep in mind that this is kinda just a rough idea of stuff I’d want to do, so It’s not all that polished!

High school:

- Aph starts high school as a sophomore, homeschooled previously because of bullying and over protective mom. She meets FC online and they talk every day. BFF/online siblings.

- She meets Garroth who’s a year older than her, prodigal child of his family leaving high standards for the others.

- Also meets Laurance, who is in the same year as her, friends until he moves away towards the end of sophomore year but comes back during senior year.

- Zane is a year younger than her, is a bit of a menace. Bad relationship with garroth due to the expectations placed upon him.

- She, KC, and Kaitlyn are in the same grade and become quick friends.

Collage:

- Aph and FC still talk every day.

- She and KC go to the same college, Kaitlyn goes to a different college that is nearby and meets Lucinda. At their college, Aph meets Travis and Dante. Lucinda Kaitlyn, KC and Aph have girls nights every other Saturday so that’s how Lucinda folds into the group

- Laurance and Garroth go to the same school, Laurance on a soccer scholarship, garroth for business. They’re roommates.

- Garroth shares several business classes for the first year with Aaron (who’s been forced into it by his parents). They actually become pretty good friends, at the end of their first year they both switch majors. Garroth realizing that business wasn’t actually his dream, and that the only reason he did it to begin with was to make his parents proud. His parents are happy that he switches to doing something else he loves. Aaron transfers schools entirely, but him and Garroth keep touch. [ while Garroth does, tell Aaron about most of his life and his parents and yada yada, Aaron really only says that He’s in a similar boat and that His parents want him to take on the business but it’s not for him, so while good friends Garroth doesn’t really know everything about Aaron’s family life)

- Aaron transfers college and ends up meeting Blaze and his friends, idk exactly what Aaron is going for but he goes and kinda disappears off his families Radar (or they decide to let him have a bit of rebellion) [Blaze quickly becomes Derek and Rachel Lycans number one hater]

Pre Mystreet:

Aph has an apartment, that turns out to be in the same building as Garroth and Laurance, who she’s kept in touch with since hs, but not as much as she prefers. This is where the two would really realize they have feelings for her.

KC and Kaitlyn have an apartment about 20 minutes away, Lucinda has a diff apartment but is at KC and Kaitlyn’s place often.

Dante has a job at the same place as Garroth, which leads him to getting introduced to Laurance, the trio becomes quick friends.

Zane, still a bit bitter doesn’t talk to Garroth or keep in touch, tho he went to collage for business and minored film. He’s actually the first to move to MyStreet.

Travis is off doing something else at the time tho he keeps in close contact with Dante, and occasionally calls Aph

Aaron has a house out in the woods, he actually opens up a dog training business out of his house, as well as a doggy day care. He really only keeps in touch with blaze, Garroth, and occasionally Shu (they’ve been messaging less and playing their game less as their adult lives start)

Lucinda and Nicole went to Hs together and buy a house on MyStreet not long after Zane, but before the rest arrive.

Mystreet:

- To be less creepy, Aph is the one who actually suggest moving to MyStreet to Garroth and Laurance. The landlord at their apartment changed the lease and has been getting worse, so the three collectively decided they want out.

- Aph convinces Kaitlyn and KC to join her, as their apartment is rather small, and definitely not in the greatest shape, and they agree.

- They all decide to get places near each other, and end up moving out around the same time, Garroth and Laurance only a few days ahead of them. They invite Dante, as the boys had gotten pretty close and they wouldn’t mind living with him. The six move in the same week, they still don’t know Zane lives there.

- Aaron’s family eventually find him through his dog day care, and are pretty disgusted in what he’s doing. His parents call him uncivilized, and essentially threaten to ruin his business if he doesn’t “go back to being a civilized human and move into a real house.” So he starts looking around and ends up in the City the rest live in. A few people see him around town, coffee shop, convenience store, grocery store, and around their neighborhood as he’s looking at the house there, and they think he’s a Hobo (he does in fact look like one a bit)

- When he moves in, no one really notices that it’s “the Hobo” since he really isn’t out that often. When they do l, they finally get to show Garroth that guy they’ve been seeing around town. It takes garroth a moment but he eventually recognizes Aaron. (Since he was till under his parents thumb at the time, Aaron’s appearance was much more well kept and clean.)

- Aaron actually bonds with the other members of the crew instead of just being their cause they’re Aph’s friends. He’s only really introduced to the guys at first, since Garroths the only one that knows him (and the guys were the only ones noisy enough to gossip about the “hobo”). So he becomes pretty close to Garroth, Laurance and Dante. He’s also pretty chill with Zane, their mail gets mixed up often, which is how they met. Zane likes that Aaron’s a pretty good listener, Aaron is happy that Zane’s fine with him just listening instead of responding.

- Aph finds out Aaron is FC, because he sent her a picture of the logo he came up with for his dog training/daycare site, and she sees the same logo as a sticker on the back of Aaron’s laptop. He had no idea she was Shu till she told him.

That’s all I really have for now but if I get more ideas I’ll definitely post them up here

this is so them

me when i'm filled with so so so so much love but it cannot save me from The Darkness (and perhaps has condemned me to it) .

(and i'm brunette and have blue eyes that change color when i'm Evil and i have a cool sword and i would do Anything to protect people i care about and i'm funny and so charming it almost makes you forget about the growing darkness within me and that you cannot save me from it.)

also i have a younger adoptive sister who is orange and has blue eyes and is awesome!!!!!

last one is specifically inspired by this post

need to rant for a minute here. i rewatched an episode of phoenix drop high awhile ago and i keep thinking about this one scene where garroth asks aphmau if she wants a boyfriend, laurance comments that it’s a blunt question, and garroth says “well at least i’m not afraid to ask blunt questions.”

like. JESSICA. how do you mischaracterize your own characters that badly?? garroth was always the more reserved one, while laurance was always more outwardly flirtatious and bold. that interaction should 100% be flipped; it should be garroth telling laurance that he’s being blunt and laurance telling garroth that “at least i’m not afraid to ask blunt questions,” not the other way around!!

it just drives me crazy because, after rewatching mcd recently, i’ve realized how much garroth and laurance were changed and watered down when they were adapted from mcd to mystreet/pdh. i feel that they had much more distinct personalities in in mcd while in mystreet and pdh, they almost seem like the same character in different fonts?? tbh, i think a large part of it was done to make room for aaron to be front and center instead, but that’s a whole other tangent.

bring back interesting and multifaceted garroth and laurance 2k25 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

welcome to what the inside of my brain has looked like every day since march 21st, 2025. i love you laurance zvahl.

please ungrth,, no more

found out what i already knew: can't draw wyverns. I did fine going over the blocky version, but freehanding it? oh nonono sir

putting under bc shitty doodle with a lot of effort

laurences hair was fun, and i had the idea that cad/lau’s parents met when they were taking painting classes because i dont remember if they were even there in any series

also it started off as cadenza asking laurence if he was trans and him going O,O pretty much and i wanted to play with his hair fading

also also laundry day, i like how their mom ended up

i did it. after 7 years ive finally drawn them again that wasnt a doodle. anyway it was fun trying to decide what to do because my old designs looked like shi--

also trans laurence {in my heart its spelt with an e stfu /lh} who is hanging out with his best friend freshman year and also his hair is fading back also may or may not be trying to come out who knows, interpretation is the best

I will get their designs down if it’s the last thing I do!!!!!

lets both have evil brothers who become shadow knights and not tell laurance

As I said in my last post, I was going to draw laurances all hot n bothered but I also just wanted an excuse to draw void!laurmau because DAWG THEYRE KINDA CUTE 😭😭 Void!aph n Laurances dynamic was so cute and funny like UGH AND THE FACT LAURANCE PROTECTS HER AS IF SHES HIS OWN APHMAU LIKE BRO LOVES AND PROTECTS HER IN ANY UNIVERSE I love Laurances character as much as any aphblr user , that’s all, I love my son anywho lemme keep talking about void paradox the series I wish continued.

I loved the mini series it was a nice break from the post Jess was making at the time ( a lot of myst content ) but also it was just super cool?? Seeing the mod mod world again I do wish she brought back Reese n marsh just cause I loved those two brothers as a kid but not the point. It was just super cool seeing an MCD character in modern times?? Especially with an Aphmau who didn’t know ANYTHING of this character like if it was mystreet Aphmau she would’ve made fun or poked at Laurance since she knew him but this Aphmau hadn’t a clue who he was?? Which omg opened to so much character for Laurance n void! Aphmau!! It didn’t show Casanova Laurance it just showed a guard who thought void!Aph was his and even after the fact he wanted to stay by her , ALSO JUST I KNOW I KEEP BRINGING IT UP BUT THEIR DYNAMICSSS AHHH ITS SO FUNNY !! Laurance being the more serious one out of the two is so unlike him especially where his character development was at?? Ok imma get to some lil hc(?)

Btw! I did draw the two slightly in different styles more of line work n shading IM NOT BEING INCONSISTENT IM BEING SPIDER-MAN

Laurance n void!aph explored eachothers bodies laurance still thinks it was a dream and so when he kisses MCD! Aph he says that was his first kiss, it was in fact not

I’d like to think void!Aph doesn’t just forget about Laurance , but she does look back at the weird medieval guard who kept her safe for those few knights a lot and often chats to Tommy about him

Void Aphmau does talk to Laurance about MCD!Aphmau and she out right tells him to take his chance on her, ofc Laurance tells her he’s waiting for Garroth to tell his feelings but void Aphmau laughs at him straight up and teases if he even likes her if he’s waiting for another man to confess. Laurances get fed up with her comment but he does think about that comment a lot even though he knows she knows nothing about his life .

Laurance when he talks to Tommy can’t help but see Malachi weirdly enough

Laurance out of habit moves void Aphmaus hair out of her face as he does to MCD Aphmau but voidaph is purposely outing her hair in her face

Once when Laurance was watching over void Aph as she slept he lightly grazed his hand on her cheek where MCD!aphmaus mark would be. Tommy called him out for being weird

ok that’s all bye 😇😇

There’s gotta be a reason why Laurance of all characters was the star of void paradox.

I’m surprised Aaron wasn’t the top choice considering he’s usually the main man

They could’ve picked anyone but went with Laurance

He’s practically forgotten about in every other series yet suddenly now he’s the center of attention? Parts of episodes are through his pov?

Not to mention he’s the only character to travel dimensions and not get void burns

I just think it’s important somehow