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“ Garroth’s Guilt ”

Aaron Needs Friends

Having him be aloof and mysterious was cool for the first few adventures, but for the amount of time that Aaron was traveling with Aph he should have been making SOME sort of relationship with her squad. This man was present since BEFORE Garroth was lost to the Irene Dimension. Yet all anyone had to say about him was "I didn't know much about him" "he was a good man". The group didn't even need to know him all that well, or be super close. He didn't need to expose all his secrets or be particularly socialable. But you're telling me that during the span of time that Aaron was around the same people, all the time, risking their lives...and he didn't interact with them on a more personal level? He ONLY interacts with Aphmau. That just isn't human nature.

I vaguely remember multiple characters getting shamed or dismissed for being concerned about his intentions. But looking back that is completely valid! From Aph's perspective, Aaron is a good guy who had proved himself, and doesn't need to explain himself ever. From everyone else's perspective, he is a complete stranger, with vague intentions and questionable goals, who they have know for at least a year in close proximity but goes out of his way (quite literally every single time) to interact with NO ONE but Aphmau.

Suspicious Behavior. That or he seems rude. But their distrust of that kind of put out is not unbased. Especially when his past comes to light, yet he is still no more than a stranger, and shown to be purposefully secretive. Suspicious Behavior. But the cast is supposed to ignore all that because...? "He's a good guy" how would anyone else know that?

I mean he doesn't have to open up to them in great lengths and cry about his tragic life, but by time he died he should have had a surface level relationship with the main gang. More than never knowing jack about him as a person. Training/mentoring with Laurence, amicable acknowledgement with Garroth, maybe teasing flusterable Katelyn. A joke or two outside of Aphmau. Just any amount of relationship outside of Aphmau. Please.

Otherwise his mysteriousness becomes an archetype instead of characterization. And it became more of a hindrance to the story, especially later on.

Having Aaron never build relationships with anyone BUT Aphmau sets him aside in a way that is very odd. Aaron is essentially NOT a character, but a plot point. He only exists to advance the plot, add suspense, or subvert the plot. But he himself had no character- other than grief.

And it especially took away from the significance of his DEATH! When he died the only person really grieving HIM was Aphmau. Everyone was sad for HER. It made so Aph could be sad but - "oh nobody else understands my grief". While Aph was grieving nobody could really grieve with her. It isolated her in a way so jarring and disconnected from the story it felt more like a plot diversion than a plot point. And everyone just continued with their respective plots, yet the STORY had to come to a screeching HALT after Aaron's death because aph was mouring and she is quite literally OUR EYES.

There in lies the problem. NOBODY could mourn for Aaron, because he was a stranger. But HE DIED! He died without ever getting to grow or build new relationships as his story was clearly building up to do. HE DIED with no mourners! What kind of depressing precedent is that?!? "You don't need to grow past your grief, and build new relationships after great lost! You just need to be HOT and (somehow impregnate) the main character! Plot 😃".

What a Lackluster death for a character!! A main character!!! To be mourned by no one. It should have been Aaron's death that brought the story to a halt, the fact that they had lost HIM. Not that Aphmau had lost him.

Aaron's death should have affected the entire cast, or at least the main one who had traveled with him so long! Yet everyone else is allow to move on as they would because essentially they lost nothing.

Yeah, we were all sad when Aaron died as kids. Because Aphmau was sad (that scream was something else). And, yes, Aaron's death was sad. But imagine how devastating it would be if EVERYBODY knew him- to some capacity- if everyone mourned his passing. Imagine how much more significance it would bring to his SACRIFICE.

Aaron was a man with nothing to lose from DAY ONE. BUT HE STAYED THAT WAY! He never grew! What kind of sacrifice is it for a man with nothing to live for, no mortal ties, to sacrifice his life.

It dumbs down his death to in essence, achieve his ONLY goal in life: revenge, and make his girlfriend-not-girlfriend happy.

He A STRANGER. Not because HE necessarily wanted Garroth back, but because Aphmau wanted Garroth back. It doesn't work well. Aaron should have sacrificed himself for Garroth because HE wanted to, because HE cared for Garroth.

It objectified him in a sense. His decisions- his world revolves around Aphmau, and only her? (And Zane strangely enough). He has free will but his choices like agency, desire, depth. He's a means to and end, hardly a character. He experienced no growth, no change, no discomfort.

He only experienced pain and Aphmau. Tragic.

i don’t think ive posted actual writing on here before but omg hi guys!!!! i just cooked some mcd aaron angst ^_^ there’s a few grammar mistakes that i’m too lazy to fix rn cause it’s almost 12am here so ignore those haha

drew snoopy in mcd aaron’s outfit because i thought it’d be silly

we as a society should start taking more straight ships and turning them into mlm or wlw. like mcd aarmau are so doomed yuri and i am not accepting any criticism THEY ARE SAPPHICS. TRUST ME.

i kind of hate this edit with my entire being but hi guys

hi i’m back with updates from aphtwt !! pat tweeted abt us and then we all proceeded to freak tf out. and he liked my tweet!!! holy shit dude

sharing this from my twitter

i have bestowed upon you mcd/mys aphmau angst : )

this is so angsty i’m so sorry 😭 hope u guys enjoy it tho. i worked hard ‼️‼️‼️

HEY GUYS WE GOT A MYSTREET MENTION IN THE CATFACE HIRING POST . JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW ..

my edits have been so mid recently so sorry abt that </3 but BAM!! started this earlier today hehe. also i realize now it doesn’t make much sense to aphverse canon but idc so ya

HAII I WAS PEER PRESSURED INTO MAKING ANOTHER AARMAU EDIT /J :33 enjoy!!!

“Aarmau had no chemistry” dont make me rant again I swear to god Aphblr I will start tweaking

i’ve been having a lot of fun planning out my own personal pdh rewrite recently. it’s super fun ^_^ anyways have silly pdh rewrite aarmau who r only 1 to 2 years apart in age from each other because canon is wacky :33

pdh era of mystreet except snapchat exists and aphmau keeps taking pictures of aaron while they wait at the bus stop ^_^

hello guys sorry i disappeared for like a month lol. art block has been kinda bad </3 n e wayz I thought this would be a quick fun thing to work on so I busted it out pretty quickly ^_^ !! hope u all enjoy 💜❤️

the aphmau, specifically minecraft diaries, brainrot has hit pretty bad again after like 8 years.

and you wanna know what my roman empire about MCD is? the fact that aaron had a wife and son. i think about that ALL OF THE TIME!

i can imagine him being serious/stoic as lord of a village (similarly to how he was in the beginning s2 of MCD), but actually tender and loving in private with his family. we saw glimpses of this side of him in his interactions with Aphmau and baby Lilith (& im sobbing at aph and aaron naming the baby after his wife Lily UGHHH), but can you imagine this gentle nature of his in full bloom? aaron said the first time he talked to his wife, he brought up the lily flower to her because of her name. aaron, the strong quiet loner, being young and shy about the girl he liked sounds so bizarre, yet so soft and sweet. can you imagine the fact that aaron had a wedding, and that was the probably the happiest night of his life? well, that was the happiest day until his son was born. aaron likely spent so many mornings adoring his baby boy. he said although he was afraid of disappointing his village, the one thing that kept him going was that he would never disappoint his son. imagine the quiet nights between him, his wife, and son, and how he wished for many more nights like those. he probably had so many grand plans for the village he was gonna raise his beautiful family in. he saw a bright future ahead, and it was all stolen away in an instant.

i do have my reservations about MCD aaron/aarmau, but he really was a compelling character. we knew he had a sad past, but thinking about these small details adds to the tragedy of his life and his sacrifice, making it that much more important.

Something very interesting about those nicknames is the thones of the nicknames itself.

Some of them are multifunctional. Can be spoken in multiple ways.

Laurance being called a vixen sounds threatening and mysterious. But also honestly cool, maybe even charming. You can imagine people speaking in fear of him, but also people gushing about the idea of him with a nickname like that. But a vixen also makes him sound like someone not to be trusted.

Garroth's nickname in comparison is a little less scary. It can be used in many different ways. A dog is loyal. Loyalty can be feared, devotion to a cause can be looked up to, and the reasons for the nickname are honourable. But calling someone a dog is also very insulting. Saying someone doesn't have a mind on their own. Devotion is also quite pathetic through another lense. A dog is something to fear but also to look down to. It's an exaggeration of the idea of a guard.

Aaron's first nickname, "hellhound," is both scary AND mocking. But a different mocking than Garroth, a dog sounds a bit pathetic. But a hellhound sounds monsterous. Scary, brutal, merciless, something to be feared. But it also sounds monsterous to a point that it's mocking him. Painting him as this beast. Kind of like in mystreet with his ultima curse!!

And Aaron's "dove" nickname. Cute, honestly. Way more positive than hellhound. Very romantic.

I FORGOT I HAD AN ASK BOX OML!!!

i’m very glad you catch onto the reasonings behind the name choices i picked!! i put a decent amount of thought into them so i’m glad u get the idea lmao. also i see your ask correcting yourself on the dove thing so dw!!! i do have it so aaron calls aphmau dove as a nickname anyway so u totally get the vibes im putting down hehe ^_^

hai guys i don’t mean to ramble but do you think as shad was trying to kill aphmau in the woods during season 3, that all she could think about was how they’d been there before 3 years ago. not in those woods exactly, but in the woods around the island village, or wherever they were traveling to. they were sparring. her and aaron sparred every few days out in the forest before everything suddenly came to an end. and here she is, in the woods again, sword to her throat, as if she was with him again, having fun. but he isn’t there to comment on her strategy or help her to her feet anymore. he’s gone. and he’s been gone for a long, long time. IM ILL </3

mcd garroth save me. save me mcd garroth . anyways haiii hope u guys like this ^_^ the composition is weird but idc lol

hi guys it’s me again. have a mcd aphmau character ref sheet to go with my mcd aaron one from yesterday!!!! she’s so slay i love them. btw!!! garmau are in a qpr in this rewrite !!! isn’t that fun ? :3

i’m so glad somebody said this it makes me way more confident in posting my art on here knowing that a bunch people still tolerate aarmau and stuff. makes me feel better about my life decisions fr 😭

I don't know how to feel about Aarmau. Honestly, I have so many mixed feelings.

Some fans just make so cool fanart for it!! Two in particular. Of their own versions of the ship. And it's so!!/pos

Honestly, I have always been one to fix things in my rewrites instead of just writing characters off. To see the faults but also the potential and change what was wrong instead of erasing a character as a whole. So the question on is Aarmau is good also depends on if you mean canon or not. Of course, I hate it in canon! But there's so much wrong with canon. And they are like that because of Jess and Jason's relation, she doesn't realise it's wrong. And so much else falls under that category too. Of characters that weren't MEANT to be shitty because Jess doesn't think their actions are even if they are. Like ghost, as a prime example. Where do you draw the line? What do you do when what they did was bad but it's never treated as such within the narrative? And can you really blame people for still enjoying the leftover crumbs and baking their own cookies out of them?

For making their own take on Aarmau.

We all have made our own versions of the characters in our heads anyway. What's the harm in someone shipping it if they erase the age gap and other icky stuff?

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projects the healing arc beam onto mcd aaron before scurrying away

“ are we soulmates in every lifetime ? ”

this took freaking forever omg ..

haiiii tumblr have a mcd sketch of aarmau and their toxic straight people ancestors (shad and irene) hehe 🫶

i will hopefully make this into an actual piece soon but until then here u go ^_^

hi guys have some zenix and garroth notes from my rewrite 👍

hello diaries fandom i’ve been trying to post on here more often so have this mcd rewrite idea i had!!! this was inspired by someone else’s post on here but i forgor their username soooo ya :’)

hello everyone i’ve been spending all my time writing a mcd hunger games au but i took a break and decided to make another aarmau edit. also to any of my fellow aphtwt members , omg!! awards night is tomorrow!!! im very excited to see everyone’s red carpet looks n’ stuff ^_^

anyways hope u all like this hehe , im trying to be more active on here so expect more stuff soon!

ps. if any of you are interested in the fic i’m writing let me know and i can maybe post some sneak peaks on here haha. i might just post them anyway but i would appreciate the feedback!!!!

hi guys have a very rough edit wip that is nowhere near being finished . and it probably wont ever be lol :33