#Professor Radcliffe Bomba

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Can you maybe write a bunch of random headcannons or a x reader for Mandrake? Sorry I'm weird lol.

Indeed I can, anon!! And dont worry, you’re not weird

Hell yes, mandrake stuff!!!!

Mandrake General and Romantic Headcanons

General:

While it may seem like Mandrake has a short temper, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. He wouldn’t have gotten as far as he has being Lord of Wrathwood if he was quick to anger.

He does, however, find a lot of things annoying, and his solution to that is usually to get rid of the annoying thing (said thing usually being troops of leafmen, toads looking to make a quick buck, rowdy boggans, etc.,)

He is opportunistic by nature. If Mandrake sees a chance, for anything, he will take it. This is why he was suddenly more aggressive on the offensive when Queen Tara was to pick an heir to the throne. He saw a chance to completely throw off the scales in his favor and he took it.

If it wasn’t already clear, this man is a family man. He fucking LOVES his family, they don’t just mean the world to him, they ARE the entire world to him.

If Dagda said he didn’t want to keep fighting anymore, Mandrake would begrudgingly come up with a truce with the Leafmen, he cares that much.

Whether he wants to or not is another story, he quite enjoys being a menace and having others fear him.

Mandrake goes through shifts with his son, Dagda, when it comes to commanding the troops. That way they both are able to get proper rest, but it also means that they don’t spend as much time together as they could.

When there is a lull in Mandrake’s offensive nature, him and Dagda will go on patrols or hunting together to catch up. He always tries to make time for his son when need be.

However when he does have free time, Mandrake can be found riding with his grackle, Nightshade, either hunting or exploring certain areas he had never been before, or back at Wrathwood reading stolen scrolls or working on new weapons.

He is curious by nature. If he finds something that catches his interest, he wants to know every little thing about it. He’s particularly interested in human music, instruments and records are fascinating to him, especially if music is on a CD or something like a phone or radio.

He has broken in to Nim’s tree multiple times. He doesn’t just read out of necessity but out of actual interest. He probably has taught himself and his son how to read English so that they can break into Professor Bomba’s house and read some of his books. And just in general harass him, they find it funny to steal his things and watch him fume over himself trying to figure out where they went.

Unlike the leafmen, they made it a point to mess with the human as much as possible. It became a game to see who could steal the most stuff without him noticing. Dagda currently has a streak.

While he doesn’t as much anymore, Mandrake loves to just in general mess with others. It is his form of entertainment.

Mandrake and Ronin have a serious score to settle between the two yet no one really knows why. Ronin won’t talk about it, especially after Tara’s death, and Mandrake will only allude to it in passing. The only people who know why is Ronin’s second in command, Finn, Nim Galuu, the late Queen Tara, and one of Mandrake’s closest confidantes, a boggan named Weevil.

Mandrake is a lot stronger than others give him credit for. That scene where he brought down a huge oak tree single handedly from meters away? Yeah, that’s not just a one-off feat of strength. That’s barely a taste.

For all his cruelties and reputation as a feared warlord, this man has a soft side and the common person will see it when he is around kids.

He loves children. He can’t resist being soft for a child and is really gentle with infants. If he could, he’d have a whole litter of them, he loved being a father and adores just being around kids.

He makes it a point to never harm a child directly, and he makes sure that the rest of his army knows the consequences if they do so.

Romantic:

I mentioned that Mandrake is very family orientated. This also applies to his partner. If you aren’t just a fling and you and him are together, this man is the definition of devoted husband.

When I say devoted, I mean D E V O T E D. Just say the word and he will be leveling the entire forest for you. Please say the word. Just give him the excuse to do it. Don’t ever joke about it because he will take any chance he can to burn the forest to the ground with glee.

In a relationship with him, there is noone above the other. The two of you are equals, both in public, in private, and in power among the hoard. Your word means just as much if not more than Mandrake’s, only because Mandrake has a pension for punishing those who disobey his partner. The boggans hope you’re the more agreeable of the two, because if you say “No you cannot kill another boggan just because they forgot to go on patrol like I told them to,” then everyone can breathe a sigh of relief.

That being said, your relationship is built on trust and honesty, so there is a LOT of leeway for teasing. So much of it. If it wasn’t for your relationship, it would seem mean, but he never means any of it and neither do you.

If anything either of you do or say crosses a line, there is no shame in telling the other so, boundaries and limits are always respected, and “no” will usually never need to be repeated.

The only exception will come to affairs with the leafmen. You will have to be very firm if you ever disagree with him in those matters. It might irritate him, but he isn’t mad for long. Even if you do argue. He firmly believes in not going to bed angry and he will be open to talking to you about whatever the issue at hand is.

He loves to make you flustered. Especially if he has to work hard for it, it makes the sight of you blushing even more satisfying.

Challenge him. Physically, intellectually, emotionally, playfully, he does not like anything easy and he doesn’t find complete submission interesting. It actually makes him uncomfortable. If there is a set power dynamic between you two, be a brat. It’s more fun for the both of you.

There is one hard line that Mandrake doesn’t break: You have to get along with his son. If you and Dagda don’t get along, sorry, he’s not interested.

Though, it’s very hard not to get along with Dagda, he’s generally fun to be around and you’d most likely be best friends with him if you hadn’t gotten with Mandrake when Dagda was a child.

Expect a lot of roughhousing. Whether it’s you and Mandrake, Mandrake and Dagda, whatever, this man is like a cat and will pounce on you without warning for an impromptu wrestling sesh. Sometimes its playful, other times it’s like trying to run away from a dog who is set on trying to tackle you.

While Mandrake is busy, very busy, usually, when he has down time he is always with you. He hates being away from you for long and gets extremely clingy. Depending on how much time away you spend from him, he might not let you out of his sight and will follow you around.

He will make excuses, though. Saying he has nothing better to do or that he has free-time. That’s a lie, he is purposefully skirting his usual responsibilities just so he can refill his “you time” meter.

He lives off of domestic moments, but he can pull out the romantic in him. Solo flights with you at night, finding a clearing and just lying down in the grass to watch the stars, bringing you trinkets and gifts that he had found on patrol, wait the gifts—THE GIFTS!

He is ALWAYS trying to bring you stuff. It could be stomper jewelry he found, something he stole from the Jinn, weapons, furs, fresh kills, cool bones or rocks, he is like a crow and he wants to show you all the near little things he found. Hang them up on the walls or shelves of your chambers or wear them and he will puff up in pride.

If you show in an interest in something, he is going out of his way to try and find every little thing that fits that interest. He can have a one track mind so you might have to keep him on a leash and tell him he cant just break into a stomper’s house and steal their stuff.

There are no secrets between you two. If there were, they aren’t kept for long. Mandrake doesn’t like gossip, but he makes an exception for you. The two of you will gossip like teenage girls but then never say a word to anyone else.

If you couldn’t fight before, that’s fixed within the week. Sparring is his version of a date night so you pick up very quickly how to at the very least fend off your partner. And if you can hold your own against Mandrake, you don’t really need to worry about anyone else.

But lord forbid if anyone hurts you. There isn’t anything, leafmen and nature be damned, that will get in his way once he finds out who dared to lay a hand on you in malice. He will make an example of them, and it will give him a lot of pride if you are happy to watch.

By himself, Mandrake is the most feared being in the forests of Moonhaven. By yourself, you might as well have the power to take over not only Moonhaven but the rest of the surrounding forests if you so pleased. But by each other’s side?

Ronin needs to be careful. Upsetting you just gives Mandrake the “go ahead” to raise living hell upon the forest.

You occasionally will turn around and see Mandrake gazing at you with the softest and warmest look in his eyes. You mean everything to him, you are his family, his world, and he would do anything for you if you allowed it.

Call him a sap, he won’t deny it.

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Epic 2013 - NAMES

In this post, I would like to talk about the meaning of the names of the characters from the movie Epic.

Either people think long and hard about how they are going to name their children (or anything for that matter), while others just pick a name that they like without looking any further.

Names are especially important in stories like books and movies.

While in the real world you can have 6 girls named Olivia in the classroom (something that really happened to me), writers can give every character in their story a different name to avoid confusion.

It can be as simple as ''This character is from Japan. Let's give him a Japanese name.'' or ''My movie takes place in the 80s in the US let's give characters names that were popular at the time.''

Sometimes names can give you an insight into what is character's personality, talent, etc. Some are more subtle than others. (Dr Evil or Dr Doom)

Let me start by saying this, names in Epic are all over the place. Let's get the simple ones out of the way.

Susan comes from Persian and it means lily flower. In modern Hebrew this also means rose and a flower in general. It's a standard name for the setting and the time period, modern times (the 2010s) somewhere in North America.

Professor Radcliffe Bomba, his title is supposed to explain how he knows all this ‘’scientific’’ stuff. Bomba means bomb in most Slavic languages. It's supposed to showcase how wacky, clumsy and does things that are detrimental to his own safety. Radcliffe derives from the place-name Radcliffe meaning “red cliff.” I didn't even know he had a name but fandom has spoken and it won't kill me to include it.

Mary Katherine is named after the daughter of the author of the book the movie is based on. Mary means Star of the sea/Drop of the sea ; Bitterness; Beloved. Meanwhile, Katherine means pure. Mary Catherine is a name that signifies a freedom-loving and free-spirited individual.  

Bufo is just an American bull frog. Bufo is a genus of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae. Bull + Frog = Bufo

Grub and Mub. I put them together because they're a comical duo and that's why their names rhyme. Common thing. Grub is the larva of an insect. To grub is to dig or poke about in the soil. I couldn't find what Mub means, just a bunch of acronyms to stuff. Their names are supposed to sound funny and disgusting.

Nim Galuu is weird. Nim is a game in which two players alternately take one or more objects from one of a number of heaps, each trying to take, or to compel the other to take, the last remaining object. Galuu means to enter and the main characters go into a tree to meet him and even deeper into the tree to see the scrolls. Also, Nim reminds me of The Secret of NIMH. It's probably just a coincidence.

Then there's a bunch of other characters that are just names of the species/plant they're based on. Dandelion, Pinecone, Stickman, Marigold Girl, etc.

Now we get to the interesting names!

Nod, in Biblical Names the meaning of the name Nod is: Vagabond, fugitive'. At first, I thought his name, Nod, is referring to the action of nodding, agreeing with someone. Because he's a rebel, his not doing what he's told, so he's not nodding. Irony! Him being a vagabond or fugitive shows in his concept art a lot more. In the movie, he deserts the army for like 5 minutes. I'm going to go into detail about it in another post.

Ronin, is  a wandering samurai who had no lord or master. This goes with the samurai-inspired design of the Leafman. Tara is the master that he lost. Again, not executed to its fullest potential. Also, there's a huge difference between a ronin and a samurai. Many times when movies portray samurais or cowboys they're more like ronins.

Tara, in South Asia, such as India and Nepal, Tara is a word originating from Sanskrit, meaning star, and it symbolizes the light of the soul. Tara is the soul of the forest.  

Mandrake, a Mediterranean plant of the nightshade family, with a forked fleshy root that supposedly resembles the human form and which was formerly used in herbal medicine and magic. It was alleged to shriek when pulled from the ground. Mandrake lets out a loud shriek to alarm his army.

Dagda, (Celtic: “Good God”) also called Eochaid Ollathair (“Eochaid the All-Father”), or In Ruad Ro-fhessa (“Red [or Mighty] One of Great Wisdom”), in Celtic religion, one of the leaders of a mythological Irish people, the Tuatha Dé Danann (“People of the Goddess Danu”). Highly skilled and wise beyond measure, he was not only the god of life and death, but of seasons, agriculture, fertility, magic, and druidry as well. There is so much lore behind this guy's name. He had so much potential! I'm going to rant about it in another post.

I think the naming system really shows the problems with this movie. It's all over the place and there's just too much.

Inspiration from the Bible, Slavic countries, Japan, India, Scotland, Ireland, and many more.

There are so many things that nothing gets enough focus. We got:

Romance

Tara and Ronin

MK and Nod

Mub has a crush on MK

Parent-child relationship

Ronin and Nod's father-son relationship

Mandrake and Dagda's father-son relationship

MK and her father's relationship

Deaths

Nod grieving over his dad

Mandrake grieving over his son

Ronin grieving Tara 

Ronin grieving Nod's father, his friend

MK grieving over her mother  

Magic

Plant manipulation

Shrinking and biggering people

The Rot

Anything involving this stupid bud

Resurrection?

Dark Prince?

Scrolls in the oldest tree 

Other stuff

Nod not following orders and not being part of the team

Bird racing  

Gambling? Some criminal stuff

Random song number

Shenanigans with the dog

MK's parents being divorced

MK running away from home

Believing in what you can't see

WAR!

Queen dying and finding her successor

Pointless fight with a mouse

Grub wants to become a Leafman 

The people behind this project wanted to make this movie awesome, deep and mature but they wanted too much too fast.

Nothing gets properly set up. The creators had all those cool backstories for the characters but we don't get to see them. The movie throws us into the middle of the action. It feels like we missed a previous movie. This movie should've been a trilogy and it shows.  

[darklythroughtheforest]

When Professor Bomba from Epic 2013 discusses Strange Magic movie.

Professor Radcliffe Bomba: According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.  Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.  *sees goblins riding dragonflies and fairy guards in armor riding squirrel mounts* . . . . . 

However ... fairies, goblins, and the bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.  

[fangirlingatstuff]

It's nice to see someone else who likes or even remembers Epic.

I think one of the biggest missed opportunities of the movie was the exploration of the relationships between fathers and sons. I wonder how Nod and Dagda would meet and interact with one another. They were basically raise to hate one another. But after they spend time together they learn how they aren't so different and just want to make their fathers proud.

You can make it platonic or romantic if you want.

Yesss there was such a missed opportunity for more emphasis on the whole child/dad relationship that was reflected throughout the movie! It’s one of my favorite parts and I felt like it was overlooked.

I feel like Dagda and Nod knew of each other, but like only in passing. Maybe they had fought each other, maybe the two had more run ins than normal, but I don’t think at first they’d know who each other actually was. It seems like the forest didn’t know that Dagda was Mandrake’s son, just that he was “the general”.

Neither knew each other’s name or really cared to know, they were just “another leafman” or “another boggan” in each other’s eyes.

However, they had enough run ins for Nod to have some serious scars on his chest from Dagda.

Now, this is just my own headcanon at this point since I don’t think they’d interact much outside of battle before the movie, but in an AU that Dagda actually survives, I feel like the one thing that actually gets Nod and Dagda to talk to each other is MK.

Dagda and MK would most likely start talking to each other first. Between her dad’s hyper-fixation on the leafmen and jinn, and Mandrake’s obsession to destroy the forest, there would have to be times where both of them felt pushed to the side at some points or disregarded.

After running into one of her cameras on accident, MK and Dagda kind of have a mocking sarcastic friendship with a lot of teasing. Then Dagda would be curious about her and humans and they just get closer from there. Kind of like neighbors who like to annoy each other while gossiping about the other neighbors. He lets her in on all the drama of the forest.

Dagda and Nod would’ve met through her, probably showing up at the same camera at the same time on accident.

Lots of shoving and mocking and making fun of each other but not being allowed to actually fight each other because of MK being there, but they are very petty with each other.

Usually its Nod being petty, Dagda just likes to push him around, the boy’s built like a quarterback and acts like a douchebag to people he doesn’t particularly want to be around.

But given time, the two, while not close like they are as individuals with MK, do start to tolerate each other.

They see it in each other through small glimpses.

Dagda will talk about how exhausted he is trying to keep up with troops, Nod will complain about Ronin always being on his ass even though he has done so much work, both of them vent to MK.

And recognize it in each other when they do interact. If one just seems not into the fight or its been a rough day for either of them, they will just ignore each other and go their separate ways. When their troop members ask why, they’ll say it’s not worth it and keep flying on.

When they end up at a camera at the same time, or are at different cameras at the same time, they are constantly making fun of each other. Part of it is legitimate annoyance, the other is just in jest. Dagda has made it a habit of scaring Nod off the platform if he sees him at a camera.

MK has to break them up because they will go at it, but if MK wants to hang out, they will tolerate each other in order to avoid having a mason jar cover them (MK’s version of a time out)

I wanted to throw in my own headcanons for how their dynamic would work in a world where Dagda lives because the boy deserved more screen time and MK’s own problems with her dad would be a really interesting topic of discussion between both her and Nod and her and Dagda.

I really hope you enjoy this, I’ve been trying to scratch my Epic itch for a while now lol XD

[fangirlingatstuff]

Im in a big Epic mood right now but don’t have the energy to write for my fic, so if anyone wants any headcanons or just general worldbuilding blurbs, literally anything to do with Epic, the askbox is open!

Otherwise Im just gonna compile whatever comes up in my head into a post anyways but I’d rather not cuz Im tired lol

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FINALLY CHAPTER 9!!! God I havent updated since June, this chapter has given me such a hard time and SO MUCH has happened in my life since then. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter, its been a long time comin!!!

[fangirlingatstuff]

Feeling in the mood for more Epic headcanons, so if anybody has any requests, send em my way! Will do general headcanons, world headcanons, and some ships

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Epic (2013) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mandrake (Epic)/Original Character(s), MK/Nod (Epic), Ronin/Queen Tara (Epic) Characters: Mandrake (Epic), Dagda (Epic), Ronin (Epic), Nod (Epic), Marigold Girl (Epic), MK (Epic), Mary Katherine “M.K.” Bomba, Professor Radcliffe Bomba, Original Characters, Original Non-Human Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Bufo (Epic), Queen Tara (Epic) Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Mother-Son Relationship, Father-Son Relationship, Father-Daughter Relationship, Fluff, Angst, shit ton of angst, Size difference???, Giant/Tiny???, look mandrakes small af and his wife is huge, boggans, Shapeshifting, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Depression, References to Depression, soft, Implied Relationships, Murder, main character eats people but its not graphic, crazy ass worldbuilding, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags Are Hard, Tags May Change, Canon/OC - Freeform, Post-Canon, Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, But only a little Summary: 
Mandrake had a wife, then he lost her. She was the surrogate mother to his son, the ruler of the boggans alongside him, and then she left one day and never came back.
Someone new just moved in next door to the Bomba’s and she is shockingly familiar, but MK just can’t quite place it.
And Rogon just wants to live her damn life in peace.