Laurance

Biography
Laurance is one of the main characters of Aphmau's famous series, Minecraft Diaries Season 1: The Rise of Phoenix Drop, and Minecraft Diaries Season 2: The War of the Magi.

Laurance is an orphan raised in Meteli, and was the Head Guard of the village of Meteli and he has a adoptive sister/friend named Cadenza. He decided to become a guard in Phoenix Drop because he fell in love with Aphmau when she traveled to Meteli, and was not afraid to tell her his feelings.

It is discovered that Castor was captured by the Shadow Lord and was held prisoner. Laurance agreed to go to the Nether with Aphmau in order to save Castor. They succeeded, but in order to hold back the Shadow Lord, Laurance stayed back and did not return for a short period of time.

He was then put into a torture routine and was turned into a Shadow Knight. Later, he tells Aphmau that the only reason he did not fully succumb to the Shadow Lord is because he kept thinking of her, his true love. Then his best friend, a Wyvern named Ungrth, rescued him from the Nether before his full Shadow Knight transformation. But, sadly, Ungrth died after breaking through the realm barriers.

Laurance has traveled on many adventures with Aphmau villages all around, and protects her with his life. However she does not love him romantically. Rather, she sees him as a best friend or a brother. Laurance has also grown close to Garroth and Dante, whom are also guards that protect Phoenix Drop.

After returning through the portal that trapped him, Aphmau, and others in the Lady Irene Dimension, 15 years later, he decides to stay in Phoenix Drop and protect it, though he still guards Aphmau, who is no longer a lord.

In S2 E20, it is discovered that Laurance is able to transform into his Shadow Knight form. This is caused by the jealousy that overwhelms him as Aphmau is forced into marriage with Fenrir, the prince of the South-Eastern Wolf Tribe. He slaughters all the werewolves at the wedding, including the king of the tribe. Quote him saying "Well that was not as messy as I was hoping for". After killing the king or leader wolf. He is just about to kill Fenrir when Aphmau kisses him, bringing him back to reality. Afterwards, at Scaleswind, shadow souls appear, he goes with Aphmau to fight them, but he loses control of his shadow knight power and turns his blade on Aphmau by, and is knocked out by Aaron. Then kisses Aphmau again to "seal" his promise of not turning to a Shadow Knight until he can fully control it.

Aphmau, Katelyn, and Laurence return home to Phoenix Drop and discover that Dimitri was a stow-away on their ship and had come to Phoenix Drop with them. When Aphmau returns to the Dream Realm and sees Garroth they talk about what's been going on between her and Laurence. When Aphmau wakes up, Katelyn tells her that Laurence watched over her all night since she went to the Dream Realm.

In Episode 34 of Season 2; Aphmau was waking up from a peaceful sleep and she awoke to find Laurence was sitting beside her on the bed and Aphmau started to get flustered and started assuming things happened the night before. Travis heard Aphmau screaming and rushed in the room and asked what happened. Laurance simply answered Cockroach and denied sitting by Aphmau's bed. Later, Aphmau decides to go to the bathroom and get ready and Laurence asks if he should "Watch her in the bathroom as well" Aphmau replies with a hard slap/punch or a falcon punch\slap.

Beach Vacation
Laurence is taken to the beach with Aphmau, Garroth and the other's But Zane makes a terrible mistake by entering a competition which was for GIRLS only.

Island Vacation
Laurence goes on a vacation with the others to a beach island theme park. While on a double date with Aphmau, Brendan, and Kawaii~Chan, he pushes Brendan down a slide. He also tricks Garroth into thinking Aphmau is in love with Prince Reese.

Movie Date/Dinner After Movie
Laurence is dragged along to the movies with Brendan who asks Laurence to help him because he asked 2 girls out to the movies, but he doesn't help. Later, he gives Garroth a confidence potion at dinner, which has made him act like Laurence for a while and is soon worn out.

Slumber Party
Laurence is one of the guys who decide to sneak into the girl's slumber party, steal all their pizza, then have a slumber party for themselves. Later, he agrees to have a slumber party all together.

Carnival Days
Laurence is taken to the Fall Carnival with Aphmau and the others. He ends up hanging around with Dante and Garroth, later going to the haunted house with the group.

Trick Or Treat
Laurence and the other boys are accidentally turned into kids by Aphmau and Lucinda. They go trick or treating with her and wake up later that day, forgetting everything that happened. Later, he and Aphmau carve pumpkins.

The Big Move
Garroth and Laurence think there is something between Aphmau and Aaron, but he is just helping them move. This causes Garroth and Laurence to do some crazy antics to find out where Aphmau is moving to and whether or not there is something between Aphmau and Aaron. In the 4th part, Aaron plays along with their assumption of him and Aphmau by saying they are on a date. As a result of this, Laurance goes into his Shadow knight form and Garroth goes into his Jury of Nine form, but were defeated by Aaron's fangirls.

MyStreet
Laurence decides that it would be a good idea to move in across the street from Aphmau, Katelyn, and Kawaii~Chan along with Garroth and Dante. However, Aphmau see's it and Dante starts to try and impress her and this leads to trouble between Garroth, Laurence and Dante.

Appearance
In the early episodes he had long amber hair, which was dyed by Cadenza and green eyes. He wore a white outfit with dark cuffs and gold sections.

When he becomes angry his eyes turn red and has red particles floating around him (he is a shadow knight), a very dark red and black chest plate with matching pants suddenly appears on him, and wields a long red sword (assumed as ruby or nether meterial) with a grayish black handle with a red stone and devil horns.

When he was blinded, his eye color changed to a pale grey color and he wore a tattered blue shirt. His voice is also deeper. His hair was dyed back to brown (his natural hair color) by Cadenza, and he regained his sight. Aphmau joked saying Cadenza dyed it blue causing Laurance to get upset. It was then noted by Aphmau that his eyes had changed to blue.

He wore brown gloves, a white undershirt, a blue jacket, and black pants before getting new armor.

When he got a new armor set, given to by Katelyn, it was a brown chain mail with a matching emerald green cape. It also came with a feather on top. His new weapon was also given to him by Katelyn, which is an emerald great sword which was blessed by a priest of one of the Divine Warriors. He also uses an emerald shield.

In Season 2, Laurance had became a Meif'wa, obtaining orange and white Meif'wa ears, a orange tail and his clothes were ragged and torn up.

When they were in Scaleswind, he has a green cloth around his neck, a brown leather vest from neck to knee and a long-sleeved undershirt.

Personality
Laurance is loyal, kind, creepy sometimes and tries to keep his cool But he's kind of a hot head. He's always jumping to conclusions, but it's just in his nature to be careful. He admitted in an episode that he would put himself in front of any sword to defend Aphmau from harm. He is very stubborn, persistent and funny. In the 100th episode, he also reverted Garroth back to normal with some words of wisdom. He can make things awkward at times by flirting with Aphmau, but he will do anything for those he cares about. He is also a playful person and always seems to have a smile on his face, and he cheers people up during their darkest hours. In episode 7 of Season 2, Cadenza stated he was playing the "nice guy" with Aphmau and how he never thinks about his own feelings and has always helped other people be happy. Cadenza was also angry that Aphmau never gave him a chance. Cadenza said she just wanted Laurance to be happy, and Laurance replied saying, "I'm happy just to be around her." In another episode, Vincent (It's discovered he is a full Shadow Knight, having killed his lord.) and Laurance got into a fight, since Vincent called Laurance a "Premature Shadow Knight" and Laurance yelled at Vincent because he was flirting with Aphmau- which got Laurance so angry he pulled out his sword and met Vincent in the middle of the room, swords pushing against each other. Aphmau broke it up by asking him to go outside and take a breather.

Relationships
Aphmau: Laurance has always been a very big Casanova, speaking his feelings for Aphmau frequently, which often ends up in them making a joke of it or in a subject change. At first his advances seemed playfully flirtatious in a very non-commital and joking way, but later it became clear that he really did love Aphmau, ultimately ending up with his sacrifice of staying behind in the Nether. After his return, the two ended up becoming very good friends and often joked around and had fun. Laurence still has open feelings towards Aphmau, but for now it simply sits at a very happy and content friendship as Garroth is stuck indefinitely in Lady Irene's dimension, so he feels like trying to woohoo with Aphmau would be unfair to Garroth. (After getting two kisses in with her!) <3

Cadenza: Cadenza and Laurence are very close. They grew up together as siblings, Laurence having been adopted by Hayden, the former Lord of Meteli. They know each other very well and are protective of one another, and all in all are great siblings to each other. All though Cadenza has said she's more like his mother because she dressed him.

Chicken Shaman Castor: Laurence has known Castor for a long time, since the Shaman had always been near Meteli. It's a bit of a strange friendship, Castor frequently asking where "Laurence's stupid face" is. But they do enjoy talking and catching up, so they're more 'friendly acquaintences than anything.

Hayden: Hayden, the old Lord of Meteli, adopted Laurence as a young orphan and raised him with his daughter, Cadenza. Laurence treats him just like if he were his birth father, and vice versa. Even though Laurence is adopted, the three of them are no doubt a family.

Garroth: Laurence often pokes fun at Garroth about his feelings towards Aphmau. Though they may admire the same woman, that doesn't stop them from being friends in the least. They don't have a rivalry, or even act bitter towards one another- in fact, they both state on seperate occasions that they felt like brothers. Laurence, Dante, and Garroth all mesh well, as best friends and as guards.

Dante: Like Garroth, Laurence is good friends with Dante. All three of the guards not only worked together as Lord Aphmau's guards in S1, but as brothers.

Ungrth: Laurance's wyvern(dragon like creature); He appeared on Episode 38 and he died on Episode 52. The it had a grave where Laurance was in some episodes(example: Season 1 Episode 99).

Table: Hes Just madly in love With Table. Not as much as Aphmau, but getting close.

Trivia

 * Laurance is an English name meaning "man from Laurentum". Laurentum was an ancient Roman city on the west coast of the Italian Peninsula, southwest of Rome.
 * Was blind for a short period of time after returning from the nether (feels cute for some reason).
 * In his earliest appearances, Laurance's name was spelled Laurence.
 * He said Cadenza looked "like a trash can" in "The Girl From Another Village." episode and was punched.
 * He is said by Brendan to have personality traits that resemble those of the character Rainboom Flash, a character in a parody of the show My Little Pony.
 * He has made jokes with Aphmau about his undying love for her, in one even joking about proposing to her but it is slowly becoming true.
 * He is currently cursed to be a Meif'wa, though Aphmau is trying to find a way to break the curse. All three, Katelyn, Laurance, and Aphmau were cursed
 * He is a Shadow Knight.
 * His voice actor is Sebastian Todd.
 * His name is commonly spelled wrong by fans. The three ways it has been spelled were, "Laurence", "Lawrence", and the newer version that is how it's supposed to be spelled, Laurance.
 * He's kind of hot-headed.
 * One of the characters that had undergone a best character development throughout the series. (Or his character is probably the most developed character in the series...)
 * Has been punched/slapped more than any other character which makes him cute too