#mcd brian

do you think he and her were friends. do you think they couldve been something more. worlds first briandenza shipper /j. but like what do you think her reaction to his betrayal was. how upset was she. did she know him better than everyone else. did she see it coming. was it out of nowhere.

brian's relationships are fascinating to ponder if you take the time to do so. laurance famously calls dante and garroth his brothers in arms. but he also calls brian that. HUH??????? wdym laur. what's that relationship like. brothers how. did you guys hang out would you go on patrol together. laurance whats his favourite colour his favourite dish PLEEEEEASE laur dont leave me high and dry like this. what did the other guards think of him. what did they know about him.

I think it would be very funny if we got cuts to Zane trying to manipulate Brian and it is just not working. Zane underestimates how truly stubborn teenagers are and pays the price for it. Brian just comes up to Zenix and complains from time to time.

Brian: Your uncle weird asf.

Zenix who had to deal with Zane's antics first: Tell me about it! 🙄

Zenix still becomes a shadow knight but mostly for the cool powers, after he gets them he fucks off from the other shadow knights and doesn't say a thing about his new status to Garroth because he's a teenager with a bit of a hero complex thinking he can be some cool superhero.

Garroth: A shadow knight has been spotted lurking around the village creating fires, I want you to be on guard and be very careful.

Zenix who had been trying and failing to control his fire powers earlier: ....You got it Dad.

So Brian was 15 when he met Aphmau, he was sent to the guard academy as soon he was 6. He was expected to be top of his class by his father. When he finished his training he wasn't even in the top ten, but still went to train under Garroth. The first week he came back, the old lord died. So when Aphmau comes, he watches as things are fixed up but at the same time a ton of bad things happen.

Brian looked up to Zane when he first came, with Zane being a High Priest, and Brian raised by a very religious mother, he looked up to Zane. Zane used that to his advantage. Zane used manipulation to try to sweeten Brian up, due to Brian being young he bought it hook line and sinker. Zane told him whatever he did was in the name of Irene, and he cared very deeply for every village in Ru'an. Right before the Alexis incident, Zane told him that he could allow him and his family a much better life, all Brian had to do was follow him. Brian didn't answer right away, so Zane gave him time to think.

When right after Alexis woke up, Brian got a letter from Zane. Zane used his manipulation once more to convince Brian that Aphmau was a bad guy. Zane did this by stating all the bad things happen in the village because she showed up, and if Aphmau joined O'kasic then everything will be peaceful once more. Brian just wanted things to be peaceful like when he was a kid, so he agreed to work with Zane on the condition that Zane will leave Phoenix alone afterwards.

After the war, Brian used the fact that everyone was recovering from the war to flee. He ran home when no one was watching and grabbed anything he needed to restart his life. Later after Aphmau's group went to the Irene dimension, he left at night. He would run to Tu'la and live in a small village for the rest of his life. He did leave a letter for each member of his family. The letters explained what he did, why, and that he was never coming home. Dale didn't read his letter by choice, Molly read her's and cried for days on end, Alexis didn't really remember Brian so never cared to read it.

YEAH. I'm personally of the mindset that how they handled Brian in Rebirth is much more accurate, especially judging by how fucked the timeline of everything would be because of how fast he ages in S1. Brian having already been sent off to guard school and grown up before meeting Aphmau just makes more sense to me.

But that doesn't change the fact that Garroth is absolutely not fit for having an apprentice directly after everything that happened with Zenix. That goes for whether he takes Brian or before or after Zenix leaves, whether you prefer the Rebirth timeline of things or not.

I think Dale "forcing" Brian onto Garroth is maybe a bad way of putting it, Garroth is the head guard and he could absolutely turn down Dale if he wanted to. And Dale isn't really a forceful person in general. If you want to justify it with lore you could say that maybe Garroth understands that having an absent teacher is better than having Dale as a teacher... But sometimes you just have to admit to yourself that MCD was written with zero logic in mind, and that sometimes things just Don't Make Sense as they were written.