#mordu

Which Disney mutant bear would win in a fight?

I hope I interpreted this correctly!

From left to right we have:

Zip (oc)

Darling (oc)

Mordu (oc)

Scooby-Dee (belongs to Scooby doo franchise)

Kerem (oc)

Lauren (oc)

Every time I rewatch Brave, I'm compelled to re-write it. AU where an older Merida's spell sends her back in time to Mor'du's era and, in helping him mend the relationship with his family, she learns how to face her own problems. Add a little, ill-fated, tragic romance between the two of them for flavor.

He goes from hating everybody except Mairon to:

Enjoying Mordu’s company, and establishing a small level of trust

Making time to pay Shelob regular visits and bring her something tasty

Playing his fucked up little games with Celebrimbor and then missing him once he’s gone because, in a way, he viewed Celebrimbor like a younger sibling who he both loved and hated and genuinely enjoyed spending time with him, even if most of that time was them spitting at one another and scowling in silence. The marchwarden is VERY upset.

DEEPLY respecting Adar (to him it’s a bleeding shame that he was just soft enough for the orcs to turn on him. He can respect treating them like humans, though. It was poetic. Pretty. Foolish, but pretty.)

Genuinely loving his ranks (if Adar’s the good-cop father, Marchwarden is bad-cop mother 💅, only the Marchwarden is nasty enough to survive and keep them in line. He knows them all by name, knows their combat styles and their favourite meals, but they also know that he will carve that name into the ground six feet above them if they misbehave.)

He actually kind of loves the silvan elves though he won’t admit it. They’re not as uptight as the other elves. They’re cooler.

Thranduil in particular. Thranduil almost succeeds in swaying the Marchwarden from the darkness; he starts to get himself imprisoned on purpose just to speak with Thranduil and be fed elven food, which progresses to regularly pulling a houdini from his cell to walk around the halls, dining with the elven king, being clothed in fine things if only for a night, being bathed and doted on… and eventually being fucked very tenderly as an act of secret friendship (which breaks his brain a bit because he always expects pain, but it never comes). He’s never had a friend like Thranduil.

But of course, the marchwarden being who he is, learns from the experience and applies it to Sauron when he returns.

And Sauron is caught off guard for once, because the Marchwarden doesn’t do what they both usually go for - he sleeps with him gently and tenderly restrains Sauron whenever he goes to scratch or claw at him, holding his hands, making him spill over and over again. It makes the Dark Lord cry. Where did he learn that? And why was he applying it to him? Because he loves you and wants you to feel good.

This was done for a fictional play of Brave me and my friends brainstormed. I loved the idea of Dennis playing one of the triplets, and Ericka + Van helsing and him singing "Mordu" while Drac watched besotted at his wife singing joyfully about terrible things and Mavis having some concerns.