#aphmau lore

okay because aphmau lore is confusing as HELL sometimes 😭

i made a google doc for people who want to get into the roleplays/lore stuff easier 💜

it includes: ✨ the series in order ✨ basic lore explanations ✨ hidden details/things people might miss ✨ descriptions of what each series is about ✨ youtube links for every series

so if you’ve ever been confused about: “wait what comes after diaries” “why is this character here” “what timeline is this” or “where do i even START”

i made this for you 😭

hope you enjoy! an if there is any other information I should add let me know.

aphtober day 21: legacy

shad wasn’t my first choice. of course i considered irene, a dual shot of hyria and lucinda, zianna or even garte ro’meave, before i realized how good shad would be for this prompt. the way i thought about it upon my deliberation, shad the destroyer did leave a legacy through inevitability.

APHTOBER DAY 16: Lore

Instead of doing some heavy emotional fanart, I decided to do some heavy emotional fanart.

I did a funny

I am completely aware this is not how ghost’s reveal went I just couldn’t be bothered to go looking through several episodes to find the right scene. Please don’t attack me.

so like irene was human then she ascended to become a deity because of the relic then she created mcd aph as a vessel who THEN technically became irene 2.0 and in myst the irene we saw was technically mcd aph but she technically received judgement so does that mean irene is dead

may perhaps be cooking potentially

had this idea stewing in my brain matter for awhile where a version of Zane that’s had his body mutated and burned by the void comes into the cocomau universe body snatches cocomau Zane and experiments with the worlds rules and on it’s inhabitants. Do to the weird unexplained protective barrier that keeps out the void around the world me and Lion joked the cocomau universe must have cause we thought it was funny. Bros going a little mad though because well he’s in the cocomau universe and he’s seeing someone that looks like his wife but isn’t her doing things she’d otherwise never do. (Very modzilla esc yes. Although that wasn’t really my intention funny enough. I just wanted an au where the universe gets scary but actually plays with the lore Jess set up. Parallels to mod mod world only really came to me now that I type this out.)

yes cocomau Zane is trapped in a jar get your laughs out now.

Void Zane also does have a fully mutated “true” form the way his body looks is delegated into percentages. Although he never has complete control cause it’s not his body, it’s like putting on clothes that don’t fit.

Mind the unprofessionalism cause I haven’t filled out the time stuff yet but this projects mainly for fun. I like animating dumb shit like this.

did yall know there was an Aphmau arg btw. Shits crazy. Yeah that’s where Halla(?) comes from. It also explains the celestial canon, although it’s basically lost media. Lion looked for it and there’s still remnants (fnaf?) of it here and there but it’s almost impossible to find fully now.

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Pspspsps Tumblr I have some angst(?) for u 😚

First of all, I’m pretty sure Lucinda says that they were all perfectly aware of what they were doing under the influence of the potion. For me, that statement would make sense to mean they were all aware of what they were doing and what was going on, they just couldn’t control their bodies. They were watching, trapped, unable to act.

Honestly, that concept of being frozen and trapped is a lot more horrifying to me then the Silent Hill Nightmare thing. It’s because the character under the potion lose their autonomy. They’re fully aware of what they’re doing but they have no choice but to watch.

It would also make more sense narratively if all characters under the forever potion were fully aware of what was going on. It adds to guilt Zane Aphmau and Lucinda feel about hurting the ones they love. It would make them question their autonomy, if they’re really in control of their own lives and actions. It also ties in to the themes of When Angels Fall, because in that season Garroth and Katelyn lose their autonomy in the same way.

Also, you’re going to have to hear me out, but it also relates to themes in Minecraft Diaries, specially Aphmau as a reincarnation of Irene. It’s called into question whether Aphmau is a separate person from Irene, whether she’s destined to follow the same path as Irene, etc. Also the whole part in MCD Season 3 about Irene taking over her body to kill that one lady which is reflected again in MS Season 6 where Aphmau and Irene interact again.

These examples all kind of fall under the same themes of autonomy and destiny and freedom to make your own choices.

Moving on, this is why I think it doesn’t make narrative sense for Aphmau to have been experiencing the nightmare while under the potions effects during the events of MS Season 4. In the new video, while in this nightmare Aphmau still has the ability to act, she’s just experiencing a warped sense of reality. It clashes with the idea of her being aware of what’s happening in reality, because in this case she doesn’t. She gets flashes to reality but I wouldn’t call that “being aware” of what’s happening.

Which is why… I think the new video takes place in an alternate universe.

I’m rusty on lore but I’m like 90% sure Aphmau confirmed on a livestream that every roleplay takes place in an alternate timeline/universe. That’s what Void Paradox is about; Laurance from MCD gets stuck in a different universe (Mod Mod World?) This multiverse is collapsing? Or experiencing some kind of decay through the void.

Anyways it just makes more narrative sense for the new video to take place in another universe where Aphmau didn’t break free from the potion. She’s stuck in her own mind, unable to process the reality around her due to the trauma of losing her autonomy. In her mindscape she still has the ability to act and she lives through a twisted version of the events of MS Season 4. In this universe, she’s has autonomy, and she’s not the “evil one”. But the truth keeps seeping in. She has green eyes in the mirror. She hears Aaron’s voice come through. The pyramid head guy who was chasing her the whole time wasn’t trying to kill her. He was trying to save her. She’s the bad person. Her mind just was trying to convince her otherwise.

Idk if any of this made much sense but oh well.