#brozone cardigan

[theonemaca]

It’s almost done ☝️😈 (I was gonna wait till it was finished but the buttons are gonna take 10 days to come in)

[kittyball23]

Playing the Part (a Trolls fanfic)

Summary: Now that the brothers have come together, it’s time to rehearse once again, but are they ready to get back to the groove of things?

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At this rate, Poppy was going to get a bruise on her arm from how many times she had been pinching it.

The way she saw it, she had to. This moment was unreal to her, and she wanted to be extra sure that she wasn’t stuck in another perfect dream. She’d had plenty of dreams like this before, where she was there, a young tween girl, frolicking around with the five cute boys that made up her favorite band. But each time she pinched herself, she would not wake up in her bed in a swoon. She would still be standing there, tingling with joy, because nearly all five of the boys that she’d dreamed about were actually right there… just a few paces away!

Holy cupcakes and sprinkles… Poppy thought, as it hit her once again. BroZone is actually here!!!

She couldn’t believe that her dream really was true! Well, at least somewhat true. For one, the boys did not resemble the way they looked in her dream. There was a good twenty-year age gap between the boys she saw in her dream, and the men that stood before her now, taller and older. Age wasn’t the only difference, though. So was appearance.

John Dory still very distinctly wore his shades right above his head, though the rims of the goggles were a light green instead of orange. And while he still had a vest, it was a snow coat instead of the hair-matching turquoise one he was known to have on.

Spruce, the second eldest, also had a vest, though it was black and white, and decorated with a flowery pattern that perfectly gave off that island-vibe, a good thing, too, since Vacay Island was indeed his home! His purple hair had been smoothed down to a flowing, surfer-ish mane that extended well past his shoulders and blew elegantly in the wind.

Clay was nearly unrecognizable when she’d first seen him. He’d thinned out and grown tall, and had a mop of wild, unruly lime-green hair instead of the old yellow that he’d had when he was a teen. To top it off, he’d ditched the vest look entirely and traded it in for a style that consisted of a glittery green cardigan sweater, and wristbands to match.

And then, of course, there was Branch – “Bitty B” – the ‘baby’ of the group, who was certainly no baby anymore! Her boyfriend had come along on the journey in his usual outfit of choice, the leaf green vest and brown patchwork shorts. His blue was not as vibrant as it had been when he was little, but it was still there, looking as handsome as ever, and he was still a teensy bit short compared to the other brothers (though she wouldn’t point that detail out to him).

The only one missing from the squad was Floyd, the second youngest BroZone brother, who much to her dismay, had been unjustly captured. She had to wonder what he looked like now, since everybody else looked different. Regardless, she couldn’t wait to meet him! But, there was only one itsy bitsy problem that was keeping her from meeting him – and that was the obvious fact that he was captured, by some strange creatures from the sound of it. The way that John Dory had described them, they were tall and limby, green-haired with pale skin and eyes that looked too large for their faces.

Poppy creased her eyebrows in worry. It was obvious to her that not everybody was friendly, despite her desire to believe it was true. I mean not all Trolls were friendly, she reminded herself. Barb wasn’t at first… She recalled the World Tour and how one of her now closest friends had behaved at first. In the back of her mind, she was hoping that the pair of siblings who had captured Floyd would be able to change for the better, too. But, for the time being, it was going to be a battle of the bands, with the ultimate goal of achieving the most perfect Family Harmony in order to free Floyd from capture. The Family Harmony, of course, had to be accomplished with harmony among the family, as the name suggested, which was something that had to be worked on. Given that the band had broken up from an explosive argument, it was obvious that there perhaps was a significant lack of harmony.

But not to worry! Poppy thought to herself. That’s why they’re here – they’re going to perfect the harmony, get back into the groove of things like they were when they were at the top of their career, and then become best friends again!! Poppy could hardly wait to see it happen!

Her eyes flitted over to the boys, who were taking a few warm-up stretches to prepare for the routine. She had to stifle a laugh watching John Dory, trying to reach down to touch his toes but hardly able to even get his arms past his knees before he was giving up with exhaustion. Spruce fared no better, but instead of embarrassing himself with trying like JD did, he did a couple of simple yoga-like poses, extending his arms out and trying not to look silly doing so. Clay, on the other hand, looked like he was quite in his element. Alongside being known as ‘The Fun One’ of the group, Poppy remembered hearing how he was their unofficial choreographer. It was no wonder his stretches looked the most natural and practiced, like he knew what he was doing as he held a split and stretched his arms down toward the end of one long leg. Branch was also a bit athletic, too, his Bergen-survivalist past making him able to pull off a few stretches with ease. But still, by the look on his face, she could tell he was feeling a bit awkward about it. In fact, now that she took a look, they all looked a bit awkward, like they weren’t really sure about this, and definitely not sure if they would be able to flow together in the same way they used to.

Well, even if they don’t believe they can, I believe it! Poppy thought.

Suddenly, JD cleared his throat, swallowing with a bit of uncertainty. “Okay, then,” he said, naturally taking charge, “I guess we better get to it!”

“I guess,” Spruce mumbled, getting ready. Clay cracked his knuckles and Branch stood a notable few steps away from them, with his arms crossed.

“Wait a second, what song are we doing?” Clay asked, not sure what position to put himself in.

“Err… good question!” JD said, thinking. “I mean, we could always do ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’, right?” he suggested.

“Save that one for one of the songs at the big showdown,” Spruce said, putting a hand up. “How about something easier?”

“Easier, like what?” JD asked.

“Hmm… how about ‘Sailing’? That one had a lot of simple dance steps,” Clay piped up, believing that perhaps something a bit more basic would be good to start with, for the sake of having them rediscover their rhythm with one another again.

Luckily, John Dory saw the logic behind it, too, and he beamed. “Alright, sounds good!” Just to be sure, he peered over at Spruce and Branch.

Spruce gave him a thumbs up, while Branch simply got into position, and gave a nod to show that he was ready. Each of the brothers arranged themselves, ready to give it a go.

Sure enough, they began to harmonize, jumping right into the middle verses of the song.

“It's not far to Never Never Land

No reason to pretend

And if the wind is right you can find the joy

Of innocence again

Oh, the canvas can do miracles

Just you wait and see

Baby believe me, oh

Sailing (takes me away)

Takes me away

To where I've always heard it could be

(I heard it could be)

Just a dream and a wind to carry me

(Soon I will be free)

Soon I will be free, yeah…”

Poppy gushed. They sounded amazing! But, unfortunately, it seemed that despite their vocals being quite on point, things were not looking so pristine in the choreography department. The brothers faltered, either stepping too fast or too slow in comparison to each other, and therefore making themselves stumble more than once. The four finally put a halt in the production after one too many missteps.

“All right, look, I think I know what the issue is,” John Dory said. “We’re not getting the timing right because we need a fifth brother. We need Floyd.”

“Yeah, well, news flash, genius, Floyd’s kinda indisposed right now,” Branch pointed out, crossing his arms.

“So! We still need someone else,” JD retorted, a little embarrassed.

Poppy perked up. Wait. They need someone else. I mean, I’M somebody else, aren’t I?? She remembered how well she had flowed with John Dory, Spruce, and Branch when they had sang just for fun on Vacay Island. But they were just being nice to me, Poppy thought. Would they let her join in now? Before Poppy could help herself, she suddenly stepped up, wringing her palms nervously together and offering a tentative smile. “Would you settle for a sister?”

The boys looked at each other, indecisive for a brief second. But then it disappeared a moment later. The way that John Dory, Spruce, and Clay saw it, BroZone had been more of a ‘no girls allowed,’ even though the rule was never officially written on paper. But seeing the situation that they were in, the fact that this was the Queen of Pop making this request, the glare that Branch was giving them, and that it was a silly rule overall, they gave in.

“Yeah, sure… why not!” John Dory replied chirpily, waving her over.

Poppy gasped, unable to believe it. This was like a dream come true. Meeting BroZone (or at least most of them), and then being able to actually rehearse with them? She could burst with happiness! The pink Pop queen squealed in delight and scurried over to the brothers, more than ready to join in the choreography. But before she could take her place next to them, John Dory put a hand up to stop her.

“Hold on a second, girly,” he said, “If you’re gonna sing and dance with us, you’re gonna need to look the part. In fact, we all need to!” He reached into his hair, and pulled out some items that made everybody gasp once they recognized what they were.

“Whoa! Wait a minute… is that what I think it is?” Clay asked, his blue eyes wide.

“You bet your cardigan it is!” JD replied, tossing him a couple of the items. Clay caught it and his jaw dropped. Because right there in his hands was a very familiar little yellow vest and white slacks – his performing outfit from when he was a teen!

“No way!” he breathed.

A similar reaction arose from Spruce at the sight of his purple vest and white slacks. “Oh, wow…” he said, sizing up the vest, and not quite remembering it to be that little. All of them had certainly grown since then!

“Oh, Braaanch,” John Dory cooed, “lookie what I got for you!” John Dory held up his old pair of shades, the white rimmed glasses with the slight pink tinted lens… as well as a diaper!

Branch gave him a murderous look. “I am NOT going to wear that!” he growled.

“Oh, come on, don’t throw shade on the shades!” JD said, observing the white-rimmed glasses. “These used to me mine, you know.”

“You know I’m not talking about that!” Branch said.

“Oh, what, the diaper? Come on, how else are we gonna be BroZone without our cute youngest little bro, Bitty B?” JD tried reasoning, teasing Branch with his childhood nickname and pinching his cheek.

Branch took a deep breath, calming himself. If an argument broke out now, among any of them, that would be the end of everything they were trying to work towards. The last time an argument happened, he didn’t have to remind himself how that ended. I’m doing this for Floyd. We’re doing this for Floyd, Branch reminded himself. Everyone’s in good spirits now. Let’s keep it that way. And if this is the way that we’re going to accomplish the Family Harmony… well, then…

Branch snatched the diaper from John Dory’s hands. “Okay, fine!” he said. “Whatever. I’ll do it.”

“That’s a good boy!” John Dory teased, and then playfully punched his brother on the shoulder.

“I really can’t believe you kept this!” Clay said, still looking over the small yellow vest in his hands and running his fingers over the puffy material.

“I guess I thought we could use them again one day,” JD admitted.

“Not exactly a perfect fit, but hey, it’ll still do,” Spruce spoke up, adjusting the slightly tight vest better on his body.

JD took the opportunity to slip out of his snow coat and trade it for the turquoise vest he wore. It, too, was small on his body, but he didn’t let it bother him. “Ohoho, yeah, still as fly as ever!” he exclaimed, clicking his tongue and striking a quick pose. Then he turned his attention to Poppy. “Oh, yeah! And for you, Madame Poppy…” He handed her the little magenta vest that had belonged to Floyd. “It kinda works out, y’know, since you both have the pink hair and all!” JD pointed out.

“Oh, yeah… you’re right!” Poppy giggled, happily slipping her arms into the openings and letting it hug against her. EEEEE! This is the same vest that Floyd wore!! she squealed inwardly, incredibly grateful that she was allowed to even have it loaned to her.

Clay in the meantime had thrust his yellow vest on himself, surprising himself with how glad he was to be back in BroZone gear. Then, he got an idea, and whipped out a couple of cans of hairspray from his hair, spritzing it onto his unruly lime-green waves. If John Dory had said they needed to look the part, then he would make sure that he one-hundred percent did!

Spruce noticed and extended his hand out to his brother. “Ooo! May I?”

Clay gave a curt nod and tossed the cans over to him, the purple Troll catching it midair and spraying his luscious locks. Both Trolls donned themselves with pairs of sunglasses to make themselves look sharp. JD polished his own goggles like he’d done many times in his youth prior to any kind of performance, even rehearsals. Soon enough, the four brothers and Poppy all stood in a stunning row, posing elegantly, impressively, coolly. It didn’t matter if their clothes didn’t exactly fit the same way, or if Branch’s diaper felt like it was beginning to give him bum a rash.

For a second, the youngest member of BroZone actually felt good. No, he felt great! It was just like old times, when he would go onstage and sing with his bros without a care in the world, young and cute, and feeling free.

But then the itching began to get to him.

“Oof!” he complained, trying to adjust the diaper better around his bottom.

“Need this?” Spruce asked, pulling out a bottle of talcum from his hair that he used for his own kids. The sight of the powder being presented to a very flush-faced Branch sent the bunch into hearty laughter. Branch hurriedly swiped the item and mumbled, “I’ll be right back,” before scurrying off out of their view.

“Don’t be too long!” JD called out between laughs. “We’ve still got a show to do!”

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[theonemaca]

Officially done 3/5… 6/10

The next update I should be done, here’s a sneak peak

[theonemaca]

This is for my brozone cardigan, Look closely at the bottom row, so we like the sparkly boarder or the blue boarder?

PLEASE ANSWER I REALLY NEED HELP!!!

[theonemaca]

Update on brozone cardigan-

I crocheted so much my hand pain started coming back and now I’m taking a short break because it hurts to write or hold things ☝️🥲

I should be fine in the next day or two,

I just have to do the sleeves now

[theonemaca]

I wonder what this is for 🤓🤓🤓

(I messed up twice but think I got it down and will do it tomorrow so if u have suggestions to change it lemme know)

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Giggling (please send help Floyd’s hair is so much harder to make than I thought)

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Oh yah it’s all coming together

[theonemaca]

I had to take a break due to my summer course, but the buttons came in I just have to paint them!

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I wasn’t kidding about the brozone cardigan thing

[theonemaca]

Brozone cardigan

[kittyball23]

MORE INFO FROM ANNECY

Via a Portuguese-language article that came out earlier today and that I was able to read with translation that describes the 20 minutes of footage of Trolls Band Together that was shown!

However, I will say that it IS a little spoiler-ish, so I’ll leave it up to you whether you want to read my paraphrasing under the cut :3

Okay! So, apparently, the film kicks off with a BroZone flashback (I knew there would be a prologue sequence!). BroZone – JD, Spruce, Clay, Floyd, and Baby Branch – are rehearsing for a show that they are going to do and throughout the sequence we see how each of them are different in personality/behaviors from each other. The argument from the trailer happens, and the event that they had been rehearsing for did not end well for them, which in turned caused them to get “out of sync” and break up.

20+ years later, in present time, the wedding sequence occurs, in which Poppy, Branch, and all the Troll Kingdom prepare for the wedding of Bridget and King Gristle. The opening melody happens and they start the matrimony, only for it to be interrupted by you-know-who (JD).

There are snippets of scenes shown at the panel from here, mostly where the brothers live as adults and what they are like in the present. Spruce does live on Vacay Island (and apparently he has a family??) Clay dropped his funny-guy personality and switched it out for a more serious type guy who wears a cardigan sweater and lives in a place (probably the Putting minigolf place) run by Viva. Viva herself is very excitable, according to director Tim Heitz “Poppy 100x.”

Then, there is a scene shown where they have to save Clay and they end up inside the psychedelic world (something separate from the Hustle button maybe??) Another place they end up in is described as a large colorful city for fans of influencers live (Mount Rageous?) and intended to be the Trolls version of Las Vegas and Hollywood. And finally, there is a scene in which the brothers have reunited and a young Troll who is a fan of BroZone is practicing dance moves with them (cute!).

Also, the character Crimp appears to be describes as a "nervous assistant" though I am not sure if she is a Troll or a Bergen, nor who's assistant she is.

Welp, that’s all for now!

Okay guys, listen up!

Got some insight to the Annecy Film Festival and some of the news it revealed! The info I found was from a posting on the YouTube channel "jstar" (if you're on Tumblr, I'd love to know 😀) from a screenshot presumably found from somewhere on social media ( A friend I speak to on Wattpad brought this channel and its postings to my attention). Here's what exactly was said:

"To be factual: after the furious madness of the second Trolls, whose psychedelic energy had something orgasmic about it, exit hard rock and welcome to the glorious era of boy bands. A retrospective choice (still) logical given the astounding popularity of Kpop today. He's Justin Timberlake's character, Branche, who was actually in a boy band with his brothers when he was little (watch out for the puns in the movie on Nsync, One Direction and the like) before being cowardly abandoned, becoming th grumpy, melancholy troll he is today. The goal of the film will be to reassemble the band to save one of them, captured by idols without talents who sniff him to become good singers. By breaking a crystal that imprisons him with the power of perfect harmony."

So I guess the brothers have to sing the 'Family Harmony' (which sounds like a special song of some sort) to save Floyd who is trapped in a crystal that Velvet and Veneer placed him in after they smell him to obtain his talent?

Um... what? XD

So I guess it kinda makes sense in a way - Bergens ate Trolls to obtain their happiness, so perhaps sniffling them means that they can get their singing abilities?? Perhaps that's why they have to keep him - maybe inhaling his talent is only temporary? Maybe each time they do it continues to turn his hair the white that we saw in the first poster? And what's the deal with the Family Harmony? How will that play out? Are their voices going to combine like a magical force and break the crystal Floyd’s trapped in? If this is all true, I've certainly got a lot of questions lol

Other postings that were made on social media stated that the first 20 MINUTES of the movie were shown.

Here is a posting regarding Broppy:

"Branch definitely has a bigger emotional hurdle to jump through in this movie and Poppy really helps him with that, kind of like in the first movie, but it's a much different issue, even though Poppy feels like it's the same kind of situation to solve."

I had a feeling that this movie would remind me of the first :) This next one is about my boyz:

"We explore the world of boy bands in the world of 90s music! We celebrate them, but with a certain irony, having a little fun with them. They are more expressive and maybe they also have problems on their side. It was fun exploring these different personalities, feeling a likeness and family connection to them. But also for each of the four brothers to find their own personality, their own voice and their own part of the family."

This last quoting is about the music:

"The composer remains Ted Shapiro and we are working with a great musical team at the moment. Justin is still the executive producer of the original music and was involved in its development early on. There are five original songs that he spearheads, as well as more jukebox songs, classic and familiar happy tunes and he calls on other producers he wants to work with to create the best song for this moment in the film."

Still don't have word on the original songs, but we do know from previous info that some of the involved songs are We Are Family, Staying Alive, Everybody (Backstreet's Back), The Hustle, You Got the Right Stuff, Sailing, Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This, and I Want You Back. I also have my own ideas for what songs I think could work for the movie, but I'll save it for another post :)

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Dayam bro this is so gid damn cute !!!!! Great job !!!!💖💖💖💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗i love how you crochet baby branch!!

It’s almost done ☝️😈 (I was gonna wait till it was finished but the buttons are gonna take 10 days to come in)