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[crisp-whisp]

Tired of your bitch of a teammate? Turn em into stone👍

[mystery-2266]

breathing heavily

[skylandersamalgamation]

SWAP Force Headcanons

The following are a big old list of headcanons I have for the SWAP Force. Tried to include at least one for every character.

Age-Coding

60s: Night Shift 30s: Wash Buckler, Blast Zone, Trap Shadow, Rubble Rouser, Grilla Drilla, Rattle Shake 20s: Fire Kraken, Free Ranger, Magna Charge, Spy Rise, Stink Bomb, Doom Stone 19: Hoot Loop, Boom Jet 18: Freeze Blade

Team Dynamics

Freeze Blade, Hoot Loop, Boom Jet and Fire Kraken are the youngest and see Night Shift as “grandpa” (more so Freeze Blade than others).

Freeze Blade, Fire Kraken and Free Ranger are good friends and the main chaos trio. Hoot Loop helps, but is usually too busy taking pictures and eating popcorn as they get their tails handed to them.

Boom Jet and Freeze Blade are stunt friends.

Rubble Rouser and Grilla Drilla are friends and play instruments together: Rubble on ukulele and Grilla on goblet drum.

Trap Shadow avoids everyone. Stink Bomb socializes with everyone but prefers solitude. Rattle Shake is friends with everyone, but prefers to be alone with his snakes. Night Shift is old and grumpy and keeps to himself with an aristocratic sense of respect and dignity. All get along courteously with Trap Shadow. All are considered “the resident loners”.

Magna Charge and Spy Rise are best friends. They like to geek out with one another in private.

Wash Buckler and Blast Zone are both best friends and co-leaders, Blast Zone sees himself as the one who keeps Wash Buckler on a leash, Wash Buckler is the one who thinks that's kinky.

Night Shift, Grilla Drilla and Blast Zone are the sane ones of the team. Rubble Rouser is the sane one who is also a reasonable bridge to insanity. Trap Shadow is the straight man, so he's sane but he also sets up the jokes or indulges in them with a straight face.

DoomRanger

Free Ranger and Doom Stone are very close companions and often check up on one another either emotionally or with gifts like food for late nights of work or extra clothes, repaired and polished weaponry etc. Small favors and such to help the other out. Also dance partners as Free Ranger likes to dance and loves to invite Doom Stone to dance with him specifically, and Doom Stone enjoys dancing.

Doom Stone acts as the therapy friend and is always looking out for others and helping in any way he can. He feels immense pressure to be this way. Because of this, Free Ranger will often reassure him and comfort him whenever he's stressed.

Free Ranger and Doom Stone look out and care for one another. Doom Stone takes care of Free Ranger by keeping him calm and helping him through panic attacks. Doom Stone acts as a pillar of support, giving Free Ranger somewhere to vent and be vulnerable about his struggles. He also brings Free Ranger food to make sure he’s fed.

Free Ranger takes care of Doom Stone by giving him somewhere to cool off and vent. As Doom Stone takes care of others, Free Ranger gives him that same luxury of being cared for. Free Ranger comforts Doom Stone and supports him, doing work to take the load off his shoulders and so on. He’ll polish his weaponry, repair things, clean and more so that Doom Stone isn’t swamped with work.

Doom Stone and Free Ranger were the first to become friends on the team. Their friendship tests the limits of friendly and romantic so often that the entire team made a betting pot for when they'd become boyfriends. Everyone adds 10 gold to pile. The betting pot is up to 320,00 gold, and that isn't counting the contributions from Master Eon, several Senseis and the previous Chieftess of Woodburrow. And the Ancient Elementals. And Brain.

Color-Vision

Tetrachromatic: Free Ranger

Trichromatic: Magna Charge, Spy Rise, Blast Zone, Fire Kraken, Doom Stone, Rubble Rouser, Boom Jet, Night Shift, Grilla Drilla

Dichromatic: Trap Shadow, Freeze Blade, Stink Bomb, Rattle Shake

Achromatic: Hoot Loop, Wash Buckler

Individuals

Hoot Loop is nocturnal but he's been screwing up his sleep schedule for so long it no longer matters. Either way, he sleeps when he can and he sleeps in a small ball on any kind of surface above the floor. He has been caught sleeping on light fixtures, inside people's closets, on hangars etc. Makes sense since he's 4ft tall and the smallest member of the team.

Trap Shadow hates wearing clothes and proudly champions not wearing clothes. Everyone else is usually demanding he put on some pants, or at least underwear. He refuses.

Magna Charge is often found racing the SuperChargers on their racetrack or in Spy Rise's lab doing science experiments. So far, he's supercharged a potato and has built a magnetic-wheel-powered wagon to give the kids a fun ride. Unfortunately no one told him that wagons are not permitted to carry children if they go above 100mph.

Spy Rise is a gigantic geek for spy stuff to the point of worshipping Tidepool and fanboying over her. When he found out she was a Sensei, he straight up fainted on the spot, and then swung around squeeing.

Blast Zone is one of the team's better cooks and is a grillmaster supreme. He is often making large cuts of meat on a grill just for fun which he then gives to homeless shelters and such.

Fire Kraken is a gigantic culture nut and basically absorbs cultural knowledge into him. Related to his search for wisdom, he tends to chase after small spherical objects that float.

Freeze Blade tries to put on a cool guy persona but he secretly desperately needs affection and hugs. Luckily, he gets all the affection he needs no problem.

Wash Buckler speaks 4 languages: Pirate, Swears, Innuendos and English in that order of fluency. He can and will say crazy stuff or d crazy stuff because Y.O.L.O. is a motto and rules are guidelines.

Doom Stone often mixes up or misunderstands idioms and slang. Alongside his general tendency to say stuff with incorrect context, he inadvertently has the dirtiest mouth of the team by pure accident.

Rubble Rouser is a real country guy, and he's a great cook. Unfortunately he cooks rocks and rocks only. His best dishes are Marble Muffins and Fossilized Shrimp and Gravel Grits. Only Free Ranger actually eats anything he makes.

Boom Jet rarely removes his flight suit and helmet, but when he does, he always has the most adorable helmet fur

Free Ranger, because he's a storm rooster, has really long comb feathers and tail feathers which are bioluminescent and make for great decoration. His teammates regularly steal them to use for clothes.

Grilla Drilla does not date men and women, he dates ladies and gentlemen. He's a very high-class man and with refined tastes and a feel for the finer things in life. He is the only one on the team who actually understands the finer things in life.

Stink Bomb does not actually like to smell bad. In fact, he prefers to smell like nothing at all, or like whatever his environment is. So he usually takes long baths and uses lots of soaps and stuff. He's actually quite good at that kind of beauty.

Night Shift has adopted the entire SWAP Force to a degree. He looks out for them, and though he isn't afraid to punch them when they do something monumentally stupid, he loves and cares. He gives the best Grandpa Advice and everyone has gone to him for something at some point.

Rattle Shake is such a loner that it's hard to discern any quirks from him. But one that has become extremely well known is his tendency to sleep on warm surfaces. So sometimes he'll be found taking a nap in a pile of freshly dried laundry if it's warm. One time Doom Stone was unloading dry laundry and Rattle Shake slithered into the room, slithered into the dryer and fell asleep. Doom Stone just left the machine open with a sign to not disturb him or run a cycle.

[spiritmander13]

SWAP Force Supremacy

Free Ranger

Boom Jet

Rubble Rouser

Doom Stone

Blast Zone

Fire Kraken

Grilla Drilla

Stink Bomb

Trap Shadow

Hoot Loop

Spy Rise

Magna Charge

Night Shift

Rattle Shake

Freeze Blade

Wash Buckler

They had the best mechanic out of all of them (IMO), they're the only Skylanders to be able to be dual-element, and some of them are just really good.

[artbywaffless]

drew every single member of the swap force because im just insane like that lol

[yourlocaltoad]

Assets used for Grilla Drilla's Character page (skylanders.com, 2013/2014)

[loveaxolotls]

Happy 10th anniversary of Skylanders Swap Force

“Holy Swapamole”

[unofskylanderspages]

Seen above: Magna Drilla's promotion SWAP artwork

[fyeahspyroandcrash]

[mightyart]

Went camping for Easter have some Skylanders sketches

[thespianinthebackcorner]

God. Imagine if they'd been calling each other's names too. Especially since a solid half of the Swap Force aren't too emotional as a rule or else have rather stoic personalities (the two undead guys, Grilla Drilla, etc. I'll remember their names eventually) so hearing that must have been so jarring.

Imagine Eon sending out that message back here hoping himself to death that the SWAP Force got sent to another world and didn't die out there.

Imagine the elation, even over a hundred years later, when some kid gets back to him with a single figure. Just one.

But it's enough. It's more then enough.

Jesus.

I’m always thinking about how the Skylanders novels depict Eon as having a telepathic link with each and every one of his Skylanders so that he can communicate with them at virtually any distance within Skylands and provide them with a Portal back home at any time.

I’m always thinking about how Eon has been a Portal Master for many centuries and has likely shared this telepathic link with each one of his previous Skylander teams.

I’m always thinking about the very real possibility that on the day the SWAP Force were caught in the Mount Cloudbreak eruption over 100 years ago, the last thing Eon ever heard from them were their screams and cries for help as they were split in half, frozen, and banished to Earth. Eon couldn’t bring them back home in time.

I’m always thinking about the very real possibility that, in the 100 years between the eruption and the SWAP Force’s miraculous return to Skylands, Eon had lived under the assumption that his team had all died, all at once, and he would never get to hear their voices again, all because he couldn’t activate a Portal fast enough.

[incorrect-skylanders-quotes]

Grilla Drilla: Did you hear about the gorilla who escaped Kaos’ forces?

Troll: No, I did not.

Grilla Drilla: That’s because I am a quiet gorilla.

(muffled sounds of gorilla violence)

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Fling Kong: Did you hear about the monkey who escaped Kaos’ forces?

Troll: No, I did not.

Fling Kong: That’s because I’m a quiet monkey.

(muffled sounds of monkey violence)

[askelflanders]

Based on an askmeme sent to me by @tabbythekouhai of Grilla drilla pinning Rider to a wall to hit on him

[puff-world]

I'm gonna rank every skylander and ripoff @jelloapocalypse

This will not be based in gameplay but design because fuck that noise any how les go

PART 1: MAGIC

Wrecking ball: [insert dead joke] -6

Voodood: dood you are like totally forgettable 3

Spyro: [insert joke about his face] 6

Double trouble: despite being forgettable, you survived -6

Pop fizz: he drinks mountain dew, truley a gamer 7

Ninjini: ok your fucking cool 8

Trap shadow: who 1

Star strike: yall remember those egg theives from spyro? 7

Hoot loop: CRAZY ASS -8

Dune bug: my apologies to trap shadow, who are you? -1

Enigma: you look like a wow boss 9

Deja vu: cute pigtails lazy name 5

Cobra cadabra: COBRA COBRAAA 7

Blastermind: kaos what are you doing here 4

Splat: dranie bob Ross 6

Pain-yatta: how are you magic dude: 7

Mysticat: eh 1

Buck shot: and eh 0

Over all score: 5

PART 2: UNDEAD

Hex: who's goth gf is this? 7

Ghost roaster: why did they scrap you? 7

Cynder: why are you here? 6

Chop chop: he has a bone to pick with you 7

Freight rider: you look like a common enemy 5

Eye brawl: ok ngl really fucking sick -9

Roller brawl: my bad this is the goth gf 5

Rattle snake: yall ever watch rango? 7

Night shift: I dont get it 7

Grim creeper: dopey but cute -6

Short cut: hesh gonna gecha! -7

Krypt king: chop chops top boyfriend 8

Funny bone: play dead! -6

Bat spin: bleh both literally and figuratively 4

Fiesta: drip 9

Wolf gang: London 8

Pit boss: this sssssucks 3

Chopscotch: your pun name is your saving grace or grave -1

Over all score: 8

PART 3: LIFE

Zook: [insert soldier tf2 quotes] -5

Stump smash: neat -7

Stealth elf: porn bait 6

Camo: you're not very camouflaged 4

Tree rex: man going hard 9

Shroom: mama mia -7

Zoo lou: uhm 3

Stink bomb: gross 5

Grilla drilla: isnt a drill counter active to the eco friendly drip 5

Bumble blast: [buck bumble theme] -7

Tuff luck: furry bait 4

High five: hesa pupper 7

Food fight: trigger happy rip off 5

Bushwhack: whack off! Wait? 3

DONKEY KONG: DONKEY KONG 9

Thrillipede: he gives a 1000% 8

Crash bandicoot: WOAH 9

Chompy mage: dr livesly walk 9

Boom bloom: coolio 7

Ambush: not expected 7

Over all score: -7

PART 4: FIRE

Sunburn: sqwaaaaa 6

Ignitor: kinda lit 7

Flame slinger: the writers were blind making him 4

Eruptor: I finna puke, in a good way 7

Hot head: kinda dopey but also really neat 6

Hot dog: stop drop and roll over: -5

Smolderdash: yall watch moana 8

Fryno: I'm kimda loving it -6

Fire kraken: he so dopey I love him -7

Blast zone: ignitors top boyfriend wait didnt I make this joke already 7

Wildfire: anduin if he liked fire 7

Trail blazer: my little arson 7

Torch: she hot literally 7

Ka boom: compensating much 7

Spitfire: lit but not in the good way 5

Bowser: look up @were-Ralph 9

Tae kwon crow: is this a fried chicken joke? 5

Flare wolf: furry bait 5

Ember: she was better in danny phantom 7

Over all: 7

PART 5: WATER

Zap: alotta spyro ripoffs 6

Wham shell: dont look at me with those big ol eyes 6

Slam bam: for being so chilled hes kinda hot 8

Gill grunt: this man goes hard 9

Thumpback: thumpback mountain 9

Chill: not really cool tho 7

Swash buckler: disney lawsuit 9

RIP tide: here comes the crimson chin -7

Punk shock: kinda cool kinda forgettable 5

Freeze blade: "I like your cut g" 7

Snap shot: yall play pokemon 7

Lob star: is mayonnaise an instrument 5

Flip wreck: [vulgar dolphin noises] 4

Echo: zap became a goth gf 6

Dive clops: scooby doo vibes 7

Tidepool: meh 5

King pen: 7

Grave clobber: excuse me what 0

Over all: 7

PART 6: EARTH

Terra fin: did he get fatter over time 8

Prism break: the pun was under utilized 8

Dino rang: picks up phone* "what's your favorite dinosaur" 7

Bash: awww rock pupper 8

Flash wing: theres the spyro rip off 5

Crusher: blag blag blah prism breaks top boyfriend 8

Slobber tooth: a pale imitation of bash 6

Scorp: sorry I'm a scorpio -6

Rubble rouser: uga uga -7

Doom stone: sorry but naw 4

Wallop: furry bait 5

Rocky roll: a lil guy 8

Head rush: I want her to kick my ass 9

Fist bump: hows it going bros its [insert n bomb] 4

Smash hit: yall watch ice age 3? 6

Tritip: pick up the phone a lil kid wants to talk dinosaurs 5

Golden queen: yasss queen 8

Barbella: once again hit me 8

Over all: 8

PART 7: AIR

Whirlwind: spyro ripoff again 4

Warnado: I like turtles 7

Sonic boom: good show 6

Lighting rod: move that cloud so I can see that lighting rod: 7

Swarm: buck bumble literally 8

Jetvac: kirby still better 7

Scratch: again 4

Pop thorn: oh hey it's that balloon I lost -7

Free range: I thought it was a piss joke

Boom jet: human??? 6

Thunder bolt: lighting rods less slutty brother

Gusto: oh my 6

Flip kong: MONKEY!!!! also Nintendo lawsuit

Storm blade: she so pretty 8

Wild storm: I dont get it 4

Bad juju: why are you here? 0

Air strike: bird shit every where -6

Over all: 6

PART 8: TECH

Trigger happy: he has a gun -8

Drobot: another one 4

Drill sergeant: show me your war face 7

Boomer: pfft 7

Sproket: kenzie from saints row 8

Bouncer: DR LIVESLY IS ALIVE AND HE IS AN IRON GINAT RIPOFF 10

Wind up: hit him so hell shut up -8

Spy rise: [sam Fisher voice] 8

Magna charge: yoooooooo 9

Countdown: soccer fans be like -6

Tread head: how do you drive that -5

Jawbreaker: he looks like an orc made him 9

Gear shift: robo waifu 7

Chopper: dinosaurs!!!! -7

High volt: he has a little blue line flag on his car 5

Robow: ok this goes hard 9

Dr neo cortex: jaundice 9

Dr krankcase: gangrene 9

Chain reaction: robo viking 10

Over all: 9

PART 9: LIGHT

Spotlight: must I say it 7

Knight light: palidins be like 6

Astroblaster: the only space themed skylander 8

Blaster tron: what's light about you? 0

Aurora: at this time of day in this part of the country 8

Over all: 7

PART 10: DARK

Knightmare: death knights be like 9

Black out: despite being a spyro clone hes really cool 9

Night fall: Lovecraftian ass 9

Starcast: slam bams emo cousin 7

Hoodsickle: you should be undead 0

Over all: 9

PART 11: KAOS & OTHERS

Kaos: DESTROY US ALL DESTROY US ALL DESTROY US ALL 10

Cyclops snail: theres a reason he was scrapped -10

Over all: 10

PART 12: RANKING TOP 10 AND WORST

10. Cyclops snail

9. Eye brawl

8. Head rush

7. Jaw breaker

6. Chompy mage

5. Fiesta

4. Black out

3. Kaos

2. Chain reaction

1. Bouncer

THE WORST: buckshot

PART 13: thoughts over all

So..after ranking every skylander, no I will not do enemies or trapped bosses, I can kinda get a method with them

Magic are based on religions and the arcane

Undead are often dead or malicious

Life are based on flora and fauna

Fire are based on fire, magma, and explosives

Water are based on ice and marine life

Earth are based on rocks and Crystal's with a few rough boys

Air is based on flight, avians or weather

Tech is based on machinery, metal and demolition and man made things

Light is based on holy and benevolent forces

Dark is based conversely on lovecraftian and malicious things

I originally intended on looking at all scrapped skylanders too but I realized there were too many so I only covered the one that was most well known scrapped skylanders

I also noticed some of the sensei's in imaginators were really independent of their element

And another thing was that some skylanders were dropped. In the original generation they had 4 skylanders and then replaced one for giants then again for swap force but the ones they keeped were given ultimate versions that sometimes looked wholly different and then in superchargers some where brought back again ang given new armor.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this look into skylanders history thank you and have a nice day

[cyberstarlope]

Do you have any headcanons about Sonic Boom or Boom Bloom?

[paper shuffling noises] I love this unprompted trend of basically just asking me to infodump the specific narratives I’ve created in my head (/gen) but anyways yes a few!

Sonic Boom:

♬ it took her a long time to accept the fact that her kids won’t grow up but she’s gotten used to it

♬ despite their size, her kids are a little more mentally developed than their physical age suggests

♬ her kids names are Screech, Sleek (the ladies), Bellow, and Buff (the guys)

♬ she’s still searching for a way to undo the curse and hopes that one day her kids will be able to grow

♬ in general, she has a very maternal personality and is always one of the first to welcome in new students at the academy

♬ she was actually the mother that jet-vac granted his wings too as hers were injured when escaping a wizard of darkness

♬ she’s very close with jet-vac, whirlwind, camo, sunburn, and bad juju

Boom Bloom:

��� she at first struggled with how she saw herself considering the unconventional way she came about but after arriving at the academy and seeing the range of differences, she didn’t feel like she stuck out as much anymore

✿ she was actually one of the first alongside mags to encourage krankcase to join the skylanders, and after helping him make up for his uh... environmental crimes and growing closer to him, she’s come to consider him her father

✿ a family can be a feral scientist, his mutant plant daughter, and several spider-legged robots <3

✿ bloom is one of the more exuberant and excitable senseis and can sometimes be impulsive, running into action without really fully planning things out

✿ despite this, she’s very good making plans in action, making her invaluable in surprise situations

✿ she’s closest to mags, tessa, krankcase, tuff luck, whirlwind, tree rex, and grilla drilla

[sampos-catgirl]

on a slightly related note i LOVE how grilla drilla calls boom bloom "flower child"