Zephyr/Zephyrus

Malachi is hard to draw...my design for him may change who knows.

We all agreee Malachi has horrific abandonment issues right?? right???

Like there's no way in hell he didn't experience horrible anxiety/depression when Laurance (HIS FUCKING DAD) dissapeared AGAIN...into HELL mind you...

Abandoned by his birth parents. Left behind by his adoptive parents for 15 years. Then his dad dissapears into the nether for years with no hope of seeing him again.

AND YET, I think he still speaks rather highly about Laurance. When his sisters ask about their dad whom they have never met, Malachi remembers the kind hearted and charismatic man who he met in the moving castle. The man who stayed with him when he felt utterly alone in the world. In the 15 years his parents were missing, he held onto Laurance's scarf, secretly hoping that he would return. And he still holds on to it with the hope that one day Laurance will return from The Nether.

Laurance left his sword behind for Malachi, but he chose to save it for Joey because, 1) he has no practical use for it since he doesn't really fight, and 2) Joey doesn't have anything to remember her father by so Malachi decides it will he her sword, not his.

I mourn the loss of the potential conflict and angst the revised oath would've given us.

Imagining it from Garroth's POV is actually so painful.

You help revise the Oath of The Guard to prepare for an impending danger, to protect the people you love. The decision was already hard enough, but it is made more difficult when your Lord, the woman you love, expresses her horror that this newly implemented rule would mean forcing someone she cares about to end his own life.

So for her sake, you keep it a secret. For her sake you turn a blind eye. Just this once.

Years later—after your relationship with the person you were previously warry of transforms from rivalry, to friendship, to something more—you forget about the oath.

Until one night, your heart comes to you, sword in hand, and kneels before you. Begging you to end his life in order to protect the woman you both love. He explains that he is a danger to everything you both swore to protect. He pleads for you to uphold the long forgotten oath on his behalf.

Dread begins to swallow you. The realisation settles in your bones.

'I did this...'

These are my Mystreet redesigns so far! This is a series where I kickoff and redesign in aphmau's Mystreet series 🐺

The daughters of Phoenix Drop 💚❤️

This started off as a quick warm-up doodle but very quickly devolved into me actually thinking about my headcanons for Lilith-Garnet and Alina (Or Joey in this case)

Alina is now a Laurmau baby (I literally flipped a coin on who got to be the father, and it landed on my man Laurance lmfao). Johannah is named after Laurance's late father (Joh/Johanson) and she's a carbon copy of her mother except for her eyes. Joey's a very chipper and charismatic young girl who carries herself rather elegantly as she takes after Garroth's mannerisms and overall politeness. She wonders about her dad a lot and constantly asks her brother about him, to which Malachi will always cave. That man loves telling stories to his baby sisters.

Lilith-Garnet is the living embodiment of a firecracker. She gets in trouble a lot because of her rather colourful vocabulary that she picked up from all the adults in town, her favourite cuss word being "twat". Aphmau thinks its hilarious. Garroth does not.

Lilith-Garnet kept Aaron's surname because he was the one who initially adopted her before Aphmau took her in after he died. She's set to inherit his longsword once she's old (and tall) enough.

They both ask about their dads a lot, and both Aph and Garroth love telling them stories before bedtime. The two miss their husband and dearest friend a lot, and telling their daughters their stories helps them keep their memories alive.

Joey dreams of becoming a lord just like her mother and brother, and Lilith dreams of being a guard. They made a promise to each other that if Joey ends up a Lord, then Lilith will automatically be her head-guard so they can be there and protect each other for as long as they live.

I have a weird addiction to drawing blind Laurance from season 1.

Me since learning that gene opens a nightclub in the cat cafe after everyone goes to starlight. Well, everyone but Laurance....;⁠)

Okay yeah, maybe I should have thought of this like. a month ago. BUT!!! better late than never.

Base color version under the cut

"The reawakening of Irene" - aka that one scene in season 2 where Dante almost dies and aph saves him and everyone freaks out about it

Aphtober - Day 4 - Guilt