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[garrothromeave]

trying to act normal anytime someone brings up final fantasy because i have to pretend that my special interest (minecraft diaries) doesn't steal so much shit from that franchise and be Really Chill while they talk about the soundtrack and i just go "hhahaha yeah i really like the song dancing mad :) its really good :) lots of sentimental value :))"

#this cant be a niche experience. please mcd fandom tell me u know wtf im talking about #like i feel insane #minecraft diaries #they always agree w me abt the song too #uhh dancing mad is the song that plays in the irene dimension #for those who dont know

[garrothromeave]

this is pretty niche but i’m sure most mcd fans will catch what i’m getting at, but to give a general understanding: i’ve been hyperfixated hardcore on sonic for a while now and there’s some neat things i’ve taken from trying to force mcd/sonic aus, lol.

in the game sonic and the black knight (my favorite game. no i don’t have a type/j), sonic goes on a quest to save the kingdom of camelot from the underworld, of which king arthur is trying to take over - but, in the end, it turns out that he’s just an illusion puppeted by the kingdom’s sorceress, merlina. merlina goes crazy, merging the underworld and the kingdom in order to make the kingdom live forever - because she’s saddened by death.

tl;dr sonic beats the shit out of the wizard merlia after she tried to take over the kingdom with immortality and then has this incredibly touching moment: “merlina… every world has its end. i know that’s kinda sad, but… that’s why we have to live life to the fullest. at least, that’s what i figure!”

and i can’t help but connect that to aphmau. to me, aphmau is PERFECT for sonic’s role - even if their personalities are very different, their core traits are still the same. make sure everyone gets to live life. to live freely, and to love!

another core feature about sonic, is that generally, he’s not meant to change. he changes the world around him. he, despite being the main character, isn’t the focus of the story - the people and the world surrounding him are! and i LOVE to imagine aphmau in that similar role, not necessarily changing herself, but everything else. motivating people to be their truest selves, liberating everyone for that chance of freedom, and giving second chances.

and honestly - she is this character. in season 1, aphmau stays primarily very much so the same. she’s the strong, fun, light-hearted one who never seems to take things too seriously (while still taking them as they are). that’s what’s so appealing about her! she’s driving the world to change! she’s making huge influences on the people around her! she’s the main character, the story-driver, the reason the world is going uphill.

and then by season 2, we lose that.

there’s nothing wrong with character development. obviously! it makes for characters to feel more real and 3-dimensional, and i’m not even saying that mcd’s format would have supported this type of character anyways, but truly… i think the concept still remains dear to me. aphmau is not meant to change; she’s meant to change the world around her. support everyone else into achieving what they’re meant to achieve. etc :(

kinda rushed art below but. consider. consider

#what am i supposed to do. ok . i need to merge my special interests it needs to happen #sonic x mcd who’s feeling it #IF ANYONE ELSE IN THIS FANDOM LIKES SONIC PLEASE INT #I HAVE SO MUCH. SO MUCH TO SAY #anyways my sonic and the black knight / mcd au will never see the light of day here but #that au sits in my brain. a lot #anyways #aphmau #minecraft diaries #mcd

[garrothromeave]

OH MY GOD I HAVE SOME TOO

except theyre all uh uh uh sweats

i made the sillies :3

update: i made them kiss btw

[garrothromeave]

a conversation post-irene dimension about living with yourself

#WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME YOU POSTED DTHIS ADIUWHIAUHWDUIWDAPIDWHADIWOB #I WOULDVE COME ON AND REBLOGGED IT SO FAST I LOVE THUS SOSOSOS MUCH #SHAKING U BY YR VERY SHOULDERS #dante mcd #garroth ro'meave #minecraft diaries

[garrothromeave]

i’d like to think that garroth is on the aroace spec. i don’t think he realizes it (obviously lol) but typical romance isn’t really his thing. the way he loves is very intimate and personal to himself, so he’s already not very outspoken about his feelings. we know that much. but i also don’t think he would engage regularly in things like kissing or flirting all of those really giddy “romantic” things. he doesn’t make grand, chivalrous gestures. he doesn’t gift flowers, propose date nights, etc. and i think outsiders wouldn’t realize that garroth loves just as deeply as anyone else would, even if he didn’t outwardly show it by what is standard to them- but the people close to him know how much he love them because he has his own ways of showing it. just not in the conventional way. i mean, that doesn’t stop him from occasionally doing or saying things that are “romantic,” it’s just not what he’s most comfortable with. he’s private and i really like that about him

#garroth ro'meave #minecraft diaries #aphmau #garrance #laurance zvahl #i love projecting my aroacism on every character i love

[garrothromeave]

Your playlist <3

i love you stranger

#in all seriousness tho that playlist is my pride and joy #ive put real sweat and tears into that thing #garroth ro'meave

[garrothromeave]

i love it when garroth is on the mind. he's like a little parasite. go away little guy! oh shit he's attached to my brain. oh shit. fuck. he's not leaving. what do you MEAN you can have a SINGLE CHARACTER as a special interest WHAT THE FUCK

#garroth ro'meave #aphmau

[garrothromeave]

The depersonalisation/dehumanisation of mystreet Garroth. A character analysis.

I am not sure if that’s the right term, depersonalisation is about lack of own identity, dehumanisation is stripping someone away from their positive human traits. But I don’t mean either of that, I mean just treating someone as not human?  Garroth is often either extremely over idealised in pdh or seen as a moron in mystreet.

This is pretty long so I'm putting a read more here.

First off his father over glorified him, him being the golden child and all. Being the golden child actually sucks. You have all the pressures, and the feeling of being a fraud as he was praised for stuff he didn’t do. We see Garte canonically praising him for stuff he hasn’t done. And this causes feelings of being a fraud and a fear of being exposed.

Then we have all his fangirls in highschool, obsessing over him and over glorifying him yet again. He isn’t recognised for him as a whole with his flaws, he isn’t recognised as just a human.

I noticed a pattern; very often, it's as if the better people know Garroth, the less they like him. The more he is just an idiot. This probably increases the feelings of being a fraud. 

He is the comedic relief now, to the point some fans don’t recognise him of having any serious sad feelings at all because he is the comedic relief. Now everyone just sees Garroth as an idiot, too dumb to be seen as a person.

And you have the fact he was experimented on, a very dehumanising experience probably. They also refer to them in code names during it I think[A1, A3, A3, A4 and A5]  making it more dehumanising, in a scene in starlight you see a photo of Garroth as a toddler with A1 under it, katelyn being A2 and Travis A3. This hints he was the first to get a forever potion expiremented on him. This would also mirror season 4 and 6. As then the order would be Garroth, Katelyn, and Travis. Just how in season 4 the possession order is Zane, Lucinda, and Aphmau. Those people being the ones to set them free out of their possession in season 6 and that being the order in which they get depossessed in season 6. that's irrelevant really but I just wanted to mention it because it makes Garte look even worse.

Not to mention his possession being one of the most depersonalising and dehumanising ones of all. As unlike all the others, he doesn’t say anything except a few words during it and doesn’t show off much if any emotion at all. The screen also goes over to Garroth when Michael says “And your little toys are mine” basically referring to Garroth as a toy. Garroth during the possession is also almost like a robot, or a puppet, he attacks Nana being in the way but doesn’t continue because he directly switches targets when ordered to. Seeing yourself act like that and someone in your friend’s body boss you around like that is sure to mess you up you know. And then you have him becoming a werewolf, making him “less human” too.

Despite being basic he isn't really like his peers in a way. Oh also his basicness in itself is also kinda depersonalising, ‘Golden children’ often end up having to perform to please their parent. Due to this act to keep their status they often lack individuality and creativity. Perfectly in line with Garroth’s basicness and lack of an interesting taste and so forth. A lack of an personal identity. this is soo interesting with it being implied Elizabeth made the Ro'meave's forget about Garte in the mystreet season 6 finale. That's an identity crisis waiting to happened.

He also turns his own feelings into jokes in a way.

Like his fear of Ivy. She blackmails him to be with her in pdh season 2 aswell as constantly making him uncomfortable and just making it all about her getting his name wrong. As if he doesn't recognise his own feelings so he searches for a superficial reason to explain the feelings he is feeling. And how he after that he kinda forces himself to get over it without a real apology for it from Ivy. I only remember her apologising to Aphmau and explaining her lisp to Garroth. So since everyone is okay with Ivy and it's all about the lisp it's good now. But during their relationship Ivy consistently crossed boundaries and she blackmailed him. He was visually afraid of her in pdh for reasons outside of the lisp.

And we have in the good cop bad cop sidestory thing where in a conversation it was revealed his bad cop joke was actually backed up by him actually distrusting Gene. But after a conversation with Laurance he gets Gene a house a few episodes later.

He doesn't care about his own feelings,in a way. Like how Garte doesn’t care about Garroth's reluctance to inheret the company and still makes him do so.

#v good analysis #mystreet #tw child abuse #tw emotional abuse #tw Garte #tw Ivy neg #garroth ro'meave

[garrothromeave]

Although the writing of diaries had dropped what's your general opinion on Mcd Aphmau? I liked her generally and was annoyed with her in season 2 but generally fine. Oh boy I don't like season 3 Aphmau. I wish there was moral conflicts with her. She is a leader after all and it would be cooler if we saw her struggle more instead of ALWAYS being this benvelont goody two shoes. She would learn anyway given she was reborn with no memories right?

minecraft diaries season 1.

you're greeted by an energetic youtuber, ready to adventure and begin a world of roleplay, mystery, and fun. hey voice is peppy, either keeping you drawn in by the charm or annoying the shit out of you for listening to her for the millionth time. she's by no means a minecraft genius, but there's fun in that.

there's fun in watching her learn the world around her, having been obvious to all of the world around her. you learn as she does, and as she learns she begins to take what she knows and improve the world. she's now the protagonist of this beaten up little village, a smiling face that's only goal is to make things better for her and her growing family. life easier, more fun, enjoyable. there was so much misery and confusion before. she really helped it.

this woman was fun. she was growing. she didn't give up. she didn't understand. but she was love.

minecraft diaries season 2.

something has happened. years of her life were stripped from her in a matter of minutes; she would die the same death, of course, but the world moved on without her and everything she built was gone.

she is not so happy as she once was. there's a saddness to her now. her voice is heavier, not nearly as chipper as what you were used to. where did she go? her clumsy and silly conclusions, jokes, attempts - all washed away, leaving a shell of what once was.

she attempts to be the same, on occasion. but she's not. she doesn't carry the energy she once had. can we blame her?

we'll see.

this woman was tired. she was powerful. she wouldn't give up. she understood too much. but she was isolated.

minecraft diaries season 3.

a woman who was torn down, traumatized, and straight-up taken advantage of. she's come to terms with the fact that she has to make a name for herself, apparent from the title she'd received three years prior.

goddess.

that's not her. she has to prove it. that, and she has to prove she's not willing to be taken advantage of again. she's stronger now; you can hear it in her voice. something so lifeless, so serious, so routine.

she's here to prove she's different than what she spawned from.

it's not working. she's going backwards. she'd never been more herself from the point she'd started this adventure, she struggled to keep the ideals that kept her as

this woman was stern. she was formidable. she couldn't give up. she sought the truth. but she only needed herself to do it.

throughout minecraft diaries, we see a slow decline in what made aphmau such an interesting character to begin with. this head-on attitude, taking everything on first hand without taking in the risks. she wasn't here to stall, she was here to succeed. she did what she wanted, and what she felt would protect the people around her. in season 2, we lost a lot of the laughter s1 aphmau brought. we lost a lot of the smiles, the energy. we lost everything - because we lost jess.

now, say what you will, but in the end, season 1 aphmau was jess acting through a persona. yes, aphmau was in fact a character, but jess was just pulling the strings. she was just her. jess is a very energetic person, and that was very apparent in her initial performance of aphmau. notice, that as the season progressed and got deeper into the pit of the story, there ARE declines in said performance. because now, jess is learning that aphmau NEEDS to be a seperate character. with a world so in depth like this, a story running this deep? she can't hold aphmau's hand anymore!

she begins to distance herself from aphmau, making more clear-cut distinctions. aphmau is still oblivious to a lot of things, but she doesn't make a lot of foolish mistakes anymore. a lot of the clumsiness was gone, but the laughter was still mostly there! though, that was beginning to lose its momentum. aphmau was in much more serious situations, she needed to respond more appropriately than she did in the past. no more giggles in serious situations, no more "woah, that's a lot" in commentary of npcs dialogue, smiles seem more scarce.

by season 2, no more high-pitched youtuber charm. we're in the big leagues now - aphmau doesn't remember her origins as a character. she's fully immersed, and all of the continuities are irrelevant to her. she has to be able to build up great character relationships, right? she has to be serious to do that! besides, a lot has happened, its only fair to say that she has the right to be a little upset.

i think its a wonderful narrative of an optimistic character learning the horrors of humanity and slowly declining from there. that's great! but that's not aphmau.

it seems like a progression of aphmau's character, if you wanted to see it like that.

i don't.

i think the best thing jess could do for aphmau was to continue to embody her. something so face-palming about s1 aphmau was the fact that she did not seem to take ANYTHING seriously at first. obviously, things change, but she'd be dropped some important lore, take it in, and move on as always. no matter how distressing the information seemed to be. yeah, some of her reactions make you think "holy shit aphmau why are you laughing. aphmau. what." but that was her charm!

season 2 eliminates that entirely. aphmau is still learning things but she seems to hang on to them. what's weird is that they jumped 15 years into the future without the irene gang but it feels like aphmau emotinally progressed at least three of them, making her a completely different character. now with all of the love problems kicking off, she begins to take a much more isolated, serious, and quite frankly boring route. no more fun commentary. no more adventure risk-taker.

i'm getting tired and losing focus so i'm going to try and wrap this up.

in season 2 she becomes a lot more selfish in my opinion. i promise i'm going to gather reasons as to why i believe this and i'll attach them at a later date, i just need to do a rewatch first to gather everything. she is less an embodiment of love, and more... admiration, i suppose. she's the woman who did it all. she's not the woman who spreads love anymore. this grows increasingly apparent by how she treats laurance later on. she's wrapped up in her own world. i understand having your own issues and needing to work through them - trust me, i do. but some of the issues she faces don't feel like they belong to her character. if you know what i mean you know, but again, i will attach things later.

in season 3, we're not even looking at a blueprint of the same character. she seems to have aged far beyond her damn years, having a strange holier-than-thou tone and vocabulary. put her next to her s1 character, reskin her, boom no reminisce of what once was.

"but matthew thats how character development works" uh yeah WHEN WE SEE IT. bro she skipped a whole ass 3 years we didnt see jack SHIT, its lazy writing and for that i cannot under any circumstance see her as in-character. she feels so empty. she's just a character being voice acted and brought around so that we can learn mroe about world building at this point. please bring back my girls initial charm

anwyays on soemthing im pretty sure i alluded to earlier, it is still interesting though that she becomes more and more like irene the more she tries to distance herself. irene, who became a stoic who felt no emotion - aphmau isn't like that, but she's defintiely losing the power & strength in her emotions. if jess took this direction in writing, id be more content. but she didnt and now we'll never know LOL

#tl;dr #brah idgaf abt aphmau after s1 she becomes a bitch #i still love her ig but damn #her charm lied in jess' goofiness #as much as im not a fan of jess. #after aphmau became a character instead of a persona she lost who she was #aphmau #minecraft diaries

[garrothromeave]

Your header image is giving “It’s over, Anakin! I have the high ground!”

this sat in my inbox until i understood the reference. u gave me a good chuckle thank you

[garrothromeave]

hye guys remember that whole "light" thing brought up in like ep 20 of s1 where lord burt explains if the bond between a guard and a lord is so powerful the guard is protected by the light and it keeps them from becoming a shadow kngith yeah thats garroth we win boys

#im sure theres a narrative out there where this applies to laurance too #with the whole uh. really difficult transofrmation thing #clinging to humainty #etc #but yayyyyy garroth ily bbg never change #aphmau #minecraft diaries #garroth ro'meave

[garrothromeave]

an experience all aphmau fans can relate to

watching people mischaracterize ur favs while biting ur tongue is the aphblr experience tbh

[garrothromeave]

i only believe in happily ever afters now i cannot handle anything else

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#GO SUPPORT MY FRIEND RIGHT NOW. #LOOK AT HOW AMAZINF THEY ARE ARGHHHH #aphmau #minecraft diaries #garroth ro'meave #laurance zvhal #garrance

[garrothromeave]

watching people mischaracterize ur favs while biting ur tongue is the aphblr experience tbh

#aphmau #minecraft diaries

[garrothromeave]

Hi! I just wanted to say I randomly stumbled upon your post about people’s reactions to the aphtwt confession about Laurance as a love interest and the reaction he had during the pregnancy arc and I have a lot to say but have a lot of nerves, so I’m doing it like this. So I hope you don’t mind! This is probably super long, and I really apologize for that.

I think one of the reasons people brought up Garroth so much is that people see a lot of the romance drama as ridiculous (at least I do), and Garroth and Laurance are incredibly similar in some regards when it comes to Laurance. So even if it was unintentional, people wanted to pull them onto the same level.

Laurance has a charming character, it grabs viewer’s attention and keeps it. But I bet one of the reasons people probably like him so much is probably because they like the version of him that they made up in their head. That's why there's people who say stuff like "no one understands this character like I do.” people pretty much accidentally create their own version of their favorites the deeper they are into a fandom. Yes, everyone uses the same canon, but it doesn’t mean everyone sees those events the same. This fandom, especially here on aphblr is FILLED with rewrites.

Laurance is an odd character. He does questionable things for questionable reasons, but seems to get away with it more than other character. Especially if you scope into end of season two. I think one of the reasons for this is because we never truly see the fallout of what his actions after the pregnancy announcement caused.

There's this thing l've noticed in media that two characters can to the exact same bad thing but one will be brushed off and the other will be more focused on. The character whose bad action has the fallout more focused on ends up becoming more disliked for that action than any other character who did the same thing. It's hard for people to criticize certain aspects of a character's decision if the after effects of that decision are never truly explained or focused on, and what their intention for doing said thing was. It doesn't mean they're exempt from criticism, but people tend to focus less on those things because there's simply less to look at. But we'lI never get those answers about Laurance, and people know that. So it’s easier for us to turn a blind eye and focus on other things or characters.

I’ll end this similar to how you did: Laurance fans (like myself), it’s okay to criticize one of your favorite characters. Even if you’re like me and create a justifiable reason for why one might do what he did in some of his situations, it doesn’t mean it’s a good decision. It just means it’s explained. Thank you for your time :)

very well said :) thanks for getting out your thoughts homedawg.

i genuinely don’t have AS much of a problem with the end of season two and him leaving. he had shadow knight shit to deal with, he left to protect aphmau, i really do get that. that’s not actually what i think laurance fans try to unnecessarily defend—i’d honestly defend that too. i think you’re very right to say that fans will criticize characters for the same things that others do—i’ve fallen victim to this too, with the whole aaron vs gene in pdh. double standards, yk?

but when it gets to the point that laurance criticisms are ridiculed and it’s an excuse of “um, idc what he did he was hot while he did it” it gets SO fucking annoying so fucking fast. like you can like a character with flaws. like that is perfectly ok.

laurance is a charmer, he’s flirty, he’s loyal. but yeah, let’s not talk about how he’s also obsessive and creepy, making advances on aphmau after she shows no interest. let’s not talk about his “i’ll wait for you” mentality. because no! as you pointed out, fans love to keep this very specific interpretation of him in their heads, so that none of that is acknowledged—because it’s seen as romantic. that is so infuriating. behavior like this in real life is gross.

and then there’s like “okay, laurance did all of that, but garroth LITERALLY BETRAYED PHEONIX DROP OVER A KISS” no! he didn’t, that’s literally a scapegoat i see ALL the time—but in reality, with some general paying attention to his character, that misinterpretation could genuinely be worked out. does that excuse his actions? no. does it make them more clearly understood? yes. but i can still acknowledge, as a garroth fan, that he did betray them and does need consequences for his actions. he’s not free from doing bad things just because he’s my favorite character. but people also won’t look at his character like that because they just don’t give a shit, so?? don’t know what to tell you there, buddy! i’d just say it’s not fair to criticize a character without fully understanding the situation lmfao. like, i’ve been a diehard laurance fan. i know that he does not have bad intentions. there’s just things that should be talked about

we can do stuff like this with laurance. someone mentioned this under my last post, that every single character is honestly quite shit. the best thing we can do is acknowledge those flaws, and then portray our interpretations and explanations as to why this character did this. but it’s not an excuse. it’s an explanation. i saw under that aphtwt thing A LOT the saying “idc, im still a laurance dickrider” LIKE IM NOT SAYING YOU CANT BE. JUST PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT HE’S DONE BAD THINGS. it’s INFURIATING watching people continue to brush off what he did without at least trying to work out explanations?? and doing a, “okay but he did worse” is NOT a good excuse im sorry its fuckin not

you made a really good point with the fact that we just don’t get explanations for laurance, hence why it’s ignored. and the hard truth is the fact that he was just genuinely like that. jess wrote him. of COURSE he’s going to suck.

but yeah anyways ill eventually drop the laurance doc i have going over him as a character but lord almighty folks, pleaseee take an unbiased look at him. he’s not the knight in shining armour that you thought he was when you were twelve. thanks

#aphmau #minecraft diaries #garroth ro'meave #laurance zvhal #mcd

[garrothromeave]

I think a bit of it is how sometimes people will criticize characters just because they don’t like them and people assume that’s the majority of opinions that criticize their fav, so they assume that someone who clearly likes Garroth is only criticizing Laurence because they like Garroth more.

Most of it is definitely just this fandom being wild but I feel like some of it’s probably based in the shipwars nonsense. Like one guy has to be better than the other so obviously it has to be their favorite that’s the better one.

nail? head. i’m going to make a much bigger post on this but yeah, you’re right, it’s basically shipping wars but subtle

#aphmau #minecraft diaries #garroth ro'meave #laurance zvhal

[garrothromeave]

idk seeing people jump to defend laurance so quickly after that post on him being a shit love interest or whatever really solidifies how much this fandom refuses to acknowledge how weird of a character laurance is. like its ok to critique your favorite character lmfao he’s literally sooo far from perfect.

“you’re going to criticize LAURANCE after GARROTH did so much worse?!?! oml” <- basic deflection imo

maybe one day i’ll talk abt laurance but lord almighty this fandom cannot get a GRIP

#aphmau #minecraft diaries #garroth ro'meave #laurance zvhal