Welcome to the Dump! :)
These posts are all copied and pasted from the original posts on Tumblr (typos included), and dated based on when the last entry was made in each thread.
Links to the original thread are included at the top of their page, and they're there especially if you'd like to join in or resurrect any of the old ones. :3
October 26, 2024: Fae!Angus after I finally figured out how to make Angus-is-a-changeling work for me. This covers his backstory, how he met Rohan, what sort of magic he has, why we've never seen him use it, and how we'd open the door on getting to see it eventually. It also fits with the Hypothetical Season Two ideas - we just take every reference to Angus being fae in general and lock it on to him being a changeling specifically. :3 I genuinely enjoyed writing this! It felt like I broke new ground on scenarios instead of scratching at the bottom of the same barrel. And I fully meant to elaborate on those three 'reveal' scenarios later. I will eventually, I suppose!
October 1, 2024: Asking why Angus couldn't stay in the hut in Episode 38. Very short.
September 25, 2024: Angus + Rohan. Making the besties fight again (but now it's not Rohan's fault; he was trying to be nice). Fwend, fwend, fwend fic. :3 It's not meant to be Angus/Rohan, but I'm not gonna argue against it either. Anyway, I like this one - and I was supposed to continue on with it. I'm still planning to, but I'll put it here in the meantime. It's on my 'To Remaster' list.
September 16, 2024: Sort of me wondering how, in Episode 11, the Temran soldiers knew Angus was a thief. I'll be honest - this was the brainrot really setting in. It's fine, but you can tell I was scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to wonder about. :P
July 4, 2024: Hypothetical Season Two episode: the Mystic Knights picking the worst time to finally learn their lesson about giving their weapons up. Short, but good!
June 5, 2024: Angus/Lugad (with Lugad eventually getting a human form, 'cause I used my big adult brain to puzzle out that that's what Liam was eventually going to be). Four parts so far; I meant to keep going with it, but I got bored and then wanted to change the direction, and then I forgot what the direction was going to be and just left it. :( I still think it's good, and I genuinely love the idea of Lugad coming back to Kells, Rohan trying to connect to his brother and neglecting Angus over it (that's right - it's one of my "Rohan is being a dick" posts, but I was finally out of that phase so he's not doing it on purpose. He's genuinely just having a rough time), and long-suffering Angus is being a bro and agreeing to help him out anyway.
I'm not sure I wrote enough to get into the actively shippy parts yet. It's mostly setting the stage and pausing that 'cause Rohan and Angus start fighting again (Angus + Lugad = Jealous Rohan). It isn't meant to be Angus/Rohan, but if you wanted to make that case, I could see it. I just figured that'd be too much drama to purposely cram into one concept (she says, forgetting how much of this seems to be following from the August 15th, 2023 mega-thread 👀).
May 7, 2024: Angus + Rohan, thinking about when they could've met and become friends as kids: by Angus bullying him. My usual idea was what they were friends right away because Angus was just so fascinated by what a little psycho Rohan is, but this was a break from that - and a total inversion of it. Angus still ends up being pathologically loyal at the end, but it starts differently here. :)
This was also the second post I'd made where I was trying out an Autistic!Rohan concept. I like the idea of that, and I'm gonna keep it for future ideas, but I don't apply it to everything. I get into this more in an earlier post - it's a vibe I wanted to throw into the mix, not really something I picked up from the show.
May 3, 2024: My "Rohan is autistic" concept. :3 It's the first time I've ever done that as a head canon, so I don't really know if I'm doing it - quote unquote - 'correctly,' but I like the idea and had a few things from the show I could draw on to fill it out. It stops kinda abruptly since I thought I'd have more to say, but - uh... didn't. :D But there ya go: Autistic!Rohan.
May 2, 2024: Me being a little sus over Rohan's interest in girls only ever appearing when someone else expects it from him.
April 22, 2024: Me using my big adult brain to piece together that Liam - the character they were bringing in to replace Angus after they FUMBLED him - was probably going to be Lugad's human form.
April 15, 2024: Liam + Rohan + Angus friendship triangle, before I uhhhhhhh figured out Liam was probably Lugad and not just a random character I could turn into an OC. So this was me turning him into an OC. Angus and Rohan fight (it's Angus' fault this time - well, he starts it, but Rohan finishes it), Angus leaves and goes away for years, Rohan does not take that well, and then some random guy named Liam shows up looking to be a squire to the Legendary Warrior Draganta - who's busy grieving the fight that made his friend leave, and who takes this perky, Golden Retriever of a person trying to enter his life even worse. So it's another big, ol' "Rohan is an asshole" story, where Rohan's lashing out at everybody and Liam's like, "fwend? :3"
I could not be projecting my "YOU'LL NEVER REPLACE ANGUS" onto Rohan any harder. It literally could not be done.
January 20, 2024: Look - they can't all be bangers. This was about a random list of "12 Moral Virtues and their Deficiencies," which I thought was cool because it was a neat, simple, paint-by-numbers way to assign character flaws based on corresponding character strengths.
January 14, 2024: Angus/Deirdre observations from Episode 47 (aka. the one where Angus is done with walking).
January 9, 2024: Brainstorming how the writers brainstormed their ideas for the Sentinels.
I still think this is hilarious. Great job, past-me.
January 8, 2024: Hypothetical Season Two arc centered on exploring Angus' previously-unrevealed identity of being one of the Fae. Very long, but mostly light-hearted (even when I inevitably flash back to Rohan and Angus as kids and make myself happy-sad again). I love it; I was locked in as soon as @schimmelspore - a genius - came up with it and put the idea in my head. So this is a long one, but Fae!Angus is worth it. :D
January 3, 2024: Angus/Deirdre idea, starting with a flashback to when they kids and Angus was crawling around in the castle all the time, and ending with how difficult it'd be for these two to actually get together.
December 24, 2023: Giving Ivar some well-overdue credit for just up'n'deciding to hunt Torc down. Short, though.
December 10, 2023: An absolute GOAT across these threads. It's the one where @schimmelspore and I started talking about what the Fae in this show (Fin Varra, Midar, Aideen, and all of the fairies in general) think about the humans. Then it exploded into a Hypothetical Season Two arc for Villain!Rohan, and directly led to my other thread about Fae!Angus.
Easily in my Top 3 for any ideas about the show. This was so much fun, and it's still a blast re-reading it!
December 9, 2024: Angus + Rohan post-that-should've-been-an-actual-fanfic about what it was like for them growing up (spoiler: difficult T-T). Probably my favourite thing I've written as a fan, since it's at the heart of what I love about their friendship: Angus, for as much as he jokes about everything, takes Rohan's survival very seriously. And as much as it's sorta-thankless work, here it gets to be intentionally thankless, all so I can spring it on Rohan when he least expects it. :3 Sweet fic, still makes as happy as it makes me sad ("happy-sad"), I love these two a normal amount.
November 12, 2023: THE POLYCULE = Angus/Rohan/Deirdre/Ivar/Garrett. It's everybody, bbyyyyyyyy! I've never explored a polycule ship before, so it's wild that this is the one I did it for. :D And full credit for that goes to @schimmelspore; my eyes have been opened, and the possibilities laid out for me are endless. But this is also at the top of my 'To Remaster' list. It deserves a clean-up. :) It's fine as-is, but I know I can polish it to a far better shine.
September 11, 2023: Angus + Rohan idea about how they really get each other. :3 Which is great when Rohan's being 'Rohan', and an oddly prescient prelude to my eventual Autistic!Rohan concept.
September 11, 2023: Me and @schimmelspore chatting about the implications of each Mystic Knight's first test from Fin Varra, but especially around Rohan being tested for courage. Also the start of me admitting I have any interest in Rohan's character at long last. :3
August 30, 2023: Angus + Rohan idea about Rohan breaking under the pressure of being the chosen one, and Angus doing his best to support him through it. Short but good and angsty. :')
August 28, 2023: Me lamenting the Angus/Maeve idea I never posted anywhere. I didn't say in this post that it was about Angus/Maeve, but it was, I promise, and I still have the whole idea sketched out. I'll probably post it eventually. There's gotta be someone out there who'd be interested in it. (Btw: if you're keeping track, that'd make Angus three-for-three out of people I've hooked him up with in that family.)
Super short. Basically a single meme.
August 23, 2023: A single meme I made about Rohan getting pissed when someone agrees with him in Episodes 48 and 49. Back when I was still warming up to him, but had warmed up to him. :)
August 23, 2023: Angus + Rohan + Lugad episode for a Hypothetical Season Two. Rohan tries getting Angus and Lugad to be friends, succeeds, and is immediately jealous of Lugad 'stealing' Angus. I really liked this one when I wrote it, and I tried to pitch it as an actual 22-minute episode, but it's not quite as good as I remember now that I've read it. I enjoy the concept, though.
August 19, 2023: Angus/Ivar random rambling. Super short. Not great. Look - I don't always post these for me, okay? I post them for the person fifteen years from now who's like, "Was anybody else getting a vibe from these two?" You're welcome, future person. Because I did.
August 16, 2023: Two memes I made about me constantly drawing my analyses of the characters back to Episode 35 and Episode 37 over and over and over.
August 15, 2023: So this is probably my #2 - if not #1 - favourite thing I've written about this show, and second only to my Angus + Rohan post from December 9, 2023 about the two of them growing up together. It's the thread between me and @schimmelspore that almost perfectly led to every other thread and post after it, in a nice and clean, direct line of cause and effect. And it's got everything:
- Angus/Deirdre in a cute set of observations about them from the show
- Angus + Rohan in how their friendship impacts any Angus/Deirdre possibilities ('cause Angus personally ships Deirdre/Rohan)
- Ivar + Angus/Deirdre/Rohan as Ivar just watches this drama unfold
- Angus/Ivar 'cause fuckin' - surprise, they've got a fun thing going too, completely separate from the other people
- An analysis of the potential relationship experience each of them have previously had
- Angus/Rohan in a highly fragile, independently motivated decision to never bring that up and risk their friendship (cue the pining)
- The fucking CLIFF DIVE we take into pure angst - and borderline emotional whump - around Angus' horrifically shitty self-esteem, to the point that he thinks the others only keep him around as a joke and thinks playing into that is the only way he can stay
- Angus/Garrett 'cause SURE, and since Garrett's simple and straightforward, he's easier for Angus to handle than any of the rest of them
- Ivar + Rohan, since they can talk to each other about what to do with Angus, which is great when Rohan starts wanting to pursue something with Angus at the exact same time Ivar's run out of ways to get Angus to open up so Ivar can help him stop crumbling in front of them
- Angus/Rohan Part Two: Emotionally Devastating Boogaloo, 'cause read the room, Rohan, Angus was not doing okay
- Ivar + Angus truly having a connection with each other, but Angus interpreting that friendship far more cynically given the class and power dynamic between them, and Ivar not even realizing Angus ever took that into consideration
- Ivar + Conchobar because Ivar actually gets some good perspective from the king
- An analysis of how the Mystic Knights' elements help define and drive this complete chaos
So - yeah. Everything. Obviously long, but it sparked so many ideas. And it was the first time I seriously thought of Rohan as anything other than a generic hero cliché (excluding the glorious Himbo!Rohan we talked about in the February 25, 2023 thread). ... But I still didn't really 'like' him yet, so he comes off pretty bad in this. Not malicious, but so neglectful and ignorant of Angus' feelings that it doesn't need to be malicious to do the full damage.
Ten out of fucking ten. Top-tier, A+ content.
August 1, 2023: Angus/Garrett, mostly ramble-gush-analyzing how Angus provoked Garrett when they first met, and how that led to Angus getting tied to a tree. And there's a teeny smidge of Angus/Rohan if you squint.
July 9, 2023: Angus + Cathbad analysis of their dynamic, which I find fascinating w it plays out in the show, the backstory it implies as Angus grew up and kept hanging around Rohan (now a druid's apprentice), and how it leaves a lot of room for a whole theory about Angus being magic, plus a Hypothetical Season Two episode where Cathbad tries using magic to 'fix' Angus into being someone better behaved.
This theory about Angus being magic is a precursor to the Fae!Angus concept, but it isn't that. It's actually a separate headcanon I cooked up around Angus being a bard. That started heavily based on the Dungeons & Dragons class, being based on Angus getting to sing in the show, but then spiralled out of control into a bigger Bard!Angus concept that isn't explained in this, but that maybe I'll jot down some day. (the future tl;dr is "Druids are to nature what bards are to sound." So a sound-based mage. :3) Anyway - this post here gets into evidence from the show that implies Angus has his own magic, and Cathbad either knows and is actively hiding that fact to protect him (hiding it from Angus himself too), or Cathbad and Angus both know and it's a shared secret between them.
July 4, 2023: Angus + Rohan mini-post about Angus using Rohan's pockets as extra pockets for storing stuff. Just like snacks and stuff and other things Angus doesn't want to lose, and putting those in pockets he knows Rohan isn't going to check (even though these are Rohan's own clothes).
May 11, 2023: Angus + Rohan analysis around their living situation. This was the first time I got into the idea of Rohan getting a hut to 'bribe' Angus (more or less) into staying friends with him, aiming to give the guy a stable home since Angus never seems to have had that. But then looking at the way the show has everyone referring to it as Rohan's hut, and interpreting that as Angus never seeing it as his own home after all, missing Rohan's effort entirely. It's not angsty, but there are themes of angst you could run with. It's mostly light-hearted, though. Short-ish but not officially short.
March 31, 2023: Angus/Deirdre at the start, to the point of me asking how tf Rohan/Deirdre was supposed to work, and @schimmelspore answering that with a bit of Angus/Deirdre/Rohan uwu
March 29, 2023: Angus + Rohan and me reflecting on their friendship versus Rohan's heavy emphasis on blood-related family. I do mention that I love Rohan, but this is really about how he's so thoughtless in putting blood over been-with-you-all-your-life-best-friend water. Tbf I cut Rohan some credit, because he is starving to have an unambiguously 'real' family... but dude. is angus a joke 2 u
March 19, 2023: Angus/Garrett mini-post with @schimmelspore about Garrett being Angus' rich boyfriend (in the context of the greater MK polycule, but it also works on its own :3).
February 25, 2023: The Beginning 👀 aka. "the one where @schimmelspore was minding his business but Tartra miley-cyrus-sings-wrecking-ball'd her ass into the thread 💖" Beautifully long, and if I can be proudly snobby about it for a sec: this is what OG fan-chatting sounds like. I'm so happy I got to enjoy it again. Nothing beats the thrill of finding someone who's into the same stuff as you, other someone who's into the same stuff and gets it too. 💖
We started with Angus/Deirdre, all the effort Deirdre seems to put in for him, and Angus connecting with her as a person instead of 'just the princess'. Then we got into a Serious Academic Discussion (:3) about how Angus is at the center of this obvious five-knight polycule, where he pretty much went pspspspsps and summoned every royal to him on that island - including Rohan, who didn't even know he was a royal yet. That's the power of Chaotic Bisexual Boyfriend. But then we got into some character analysis around Angus, which covered everything from:
- how he's represented by his element to how he's constantly letting everyone's digs at him roll off his back,
- how much harder it probably was for him to grow up than he's ever admitted,
- some of my early Bard!Angus concepts,
- whether or not Angus might have an implied talent for magic,
- how he'd be in the polycule coordinating dates among the others (partly to give himself a break lmao),
- the rest of the polycule having to have GROUP MEETINGS to brainstorm what to do if some outside royal ever gave Angus any,
- the unique dynamics Angus would have with each of them in the polycule
- how Angus would immediately back away from Angus/Deirdre specifically if it seemed like Rohan/Deirdre was on the table even a little bit
- some inevitable Angus + Rohan I threw in at the end about how he's kinda acting like the tank of this group at times, taking the hits so no one else has to.
Also Himbo!Rohan, in the absolute, most hilarious Version 1.0 of my Autistic!Rohan concept. I guess that's his final, beautiful, himbo form. :D