#damn i can no longer deny the trolls obsession im out here writing about this 5 inch guys ptsd at 1am

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Not to get autistic about trolls on main but.

(Also i am. Sleep deprived this is half coherent do not even mind me)

SCREAMING- ANyway LUTERALLY and no ome is talking about the bunker either. Yeah the whole thing was skimmed over in the movie how shes dead and he had to raise himself and people get So upset (me too tbh) about it bevause its DEVASTATING but the bunker? It lives in my head rent free

Not only knowing that he originally intended for it to be a safe space for his brothers (also thinking about how upset he was when poppy got everyone in there in the first movie to get him to come with her, which is now a lot more upsetting than it was) but the the writing? On the walls?

Like these are kids movies sure and so they wont go too deep into stuff and will use jokes to lighten and skip over heavier scenes but. It was so jarring to see when i first watched this with 0 preparation or knowledge about the plot. He spent 20 years building it, alone, horrified to the point where he was craving stuff into the WALLS

And also something something rooms/houses being symbolic to someones mental state/trauma like a blocked door indicating repressed stuff too

Its huge that he made the bunker and like its gonna make me cry again to think about it in 10 minutes but can you even IMAGINE how the brothers would react to the place? Okay maybe he changed that bit up by now (and i dont remember if we see the bunker more later on i am. Not as awake as i need to be) but if he didnt can you imagine being lead down by your baby brother into the bunker he said he will build since he was a baby for all of you only to find the most insane room youve seen in a hot minute?

Like yeah everyone was terrified of the bergens but that. That feels like something. That sure feels like Something

Branch's trauma is constantly on my mind right now. The depth of his abandonment issues and how it could be layered on top of itself.

For the longest time Branch was a character defined entirely by loss but with BroZone he's not only defined by his grief but his loneliness and guilt.

The death of Rosiepuff is so much more devastating in the context that Band Together offers. Not only was she all he had left but Floyd tasked him with taking care of her. Floyd's attempt to offer his little brother purpose only gave him more trauma to shoulder. Not to mention baby Branch had already adopted the idea that the band breaking up was his fault, what would that mean if he failed the one thing that was asked of him? He was so little when his brothers left and not much older when Rosiepuff died, he couldn't understand that it was all just a series of cruel coincidences.

Branch and how his past and his issues only get in the way of the healing process that he worked hard to start. How he's spent his entire life taking care of himself and preparing for the worst because he's sure that it's going to come, and how that means he struggles to ask for help even when he knows that he should because he doesn't need anybody. He never has before so why should he now? How it's so easy to regress into that isolationist mindset because it's easier than being vulnerable and allowing people that opportunity to either hurt him or be hurt by him again.

I have so many ideas I want to write really fleshing out how fundamentally hurt he is as a person.