#hilda and the stone forest

[remked]

Does Johanna knew?

Source: Hilda and The Stone Forest (2016)

[great-raven-parade]

What is your opinion of Trylla?

*deep sigh* I keep getting asked this. So like. She's a really controversial character in the fandom. My own opinion is that I don't hate her, I want to like her, even, but I don't think she was written well. Especially in the way the movie adapted her. Hilda and Johanna have a rockier relationship in the graphic novels and Hilda has less friends and attachments to Trolberg. Trylla picks up on this, and the changeling spell is sort of a 'what do you mean you don't want what you said you wanted' device for Hilda. There are even a few scenes in the middle where Hilda seems to genuinely enjoy being a troll- for the exact reasons Trylla perceived. We see that the emotions here are complicated. The format of a graphic novel also has a looser pacing and leaves more things up to interpretation (such as tone) so it's easier to read between the lines. In this version, I read Trylla as an interesting character that had good intentions, but that made a huge mistake by meddling and heavily regretted it. The problem is, In the animated version of Stone Forest, Johanna and Hilda pretty much make up by the point they even meet Trylla, and even more-so by the end of the episode. And over the course of Mountain King movie, Hilda repeatedly expresses that she misses home and her friends, interspersed with scenes of everyone looking for her. Which makes the changeling situation extremely sad, and Trylla's observations that lead her to do the spell in the first place (that Hilda doesn't get along with her mother, and doesn't quite fit in in Trolberg) flat-out incorrect. Overall in this version, Trylla's actions seem unreasonable, and her viewpoint becomes hard to sympathize with- Leading lots of people to hate her.

Now, I think Hilda is generally a very well-written show, and Mountain King is a good movie! But with the differences between the graphic novels and the series adding up over time, the plot of Mountain King needed to be rewritten just a bit more to fit them. Trylla becoming a character that the plot wants the audience to sympathize with but comes up short on reasons why they should do so is one of the biggest symptoms of the pieces not quite fitting together. I would have liked to see the movie acknowledge this issue with an extra scene or two with Trylla explaining her point of view, apologizing, or more explicitly promising to help Hilda and make things right.

[airborneice]

VERY late to the party but here’s my piece for @hilda-appreciation-week Day 2 - Favourite Episode - STONE FOREST BABEYY

hmm I was gonna talk a little about why I love this episode so much but it got kind of long so that’s going under a cut lol

ok so this would’ve been a really tough one for me to choose, if it weren’t for the fact that Stone Forest has had a very special place in my heart right from the moment I picked up the comic in 2018 and spent the next 2 yrs hoping I’d see it in the show. since that was pretty much my introduction to the comics and it was a hilda story that was yet to feature in the show it was just. so much fun. the art style of the comic is wonderful and a joy to look at and I would argue that pre-Mountain King it was the first comic to show a bit more dimension to Johanna and really have her along for the adventure, and I love it for that so much

I was so hyped to see this episode when season 2 dropped, and imo they adapted the story perfectly. I admire how the writers adjusted the story of the comic to fit into the show with all the changes they’d made, making the same conflict work with a slightly different Hilda-Johanna dynamic in the show, and how they made room in the story for the supporting characters who aren’t in the comic so much (even if that meant they got rid of my boy the stray sod to have hilda’s friends there instead 🥲 it's fine I snuck him into the bg of this drawing bc he’s still there. in my heart). Anyway I love this ep, I loved seeing how my fave comic moments made it onto the screen while also getting the completely new B plot with Frida, David, Gerda etc. I also really really love that the story being animated meant they had room to expand on some smaller moments in the comic and make them more emotional and nuanced (the part where they try to sleep behind a rock and Johanna thinks about reaching out to Hilda before giving up comes to mind…love little additions like that which take advantage of the medium!!!) also they had Johanna do cool stuff like tell a troll to get lost to its face so in conclusion this episode was made for me specifically and I just think it’s such a treat :D

[tatleensocean]

I thought it be funny

[blaithnne]

I’ve put off posting this for months because I wanted to find my comics so I could talk about how she fits into this one story wise, but I’ve officially given up on that so AT LONG LAST here’s Lauren in The Midnight Giant!

Comic Lauren is younger and a little less mature than her show counterpart, she has less of a parental role towards Hilda and enjoys messing with her. She’s considered a lot less…reliable by her mother. But she genuinely tries, she does everything she can to help her family and prove to her Mum that she’s capable, but that’s a little hard when Johanna’s focus is on Hilda’s shenanigans so often…

Some individual drawings!

[hyperpsychomaniac]

Realising the biggest reason Erik/Gerda wouldn’t work is that the second someone floated the idea to Gerda she’d immediately flashback to having to manage Erik in a work context, transpose it to a romantic one, and immediately nope out. Like would probably yell NOPE, quite loudly, wherever the heck she is hopefully not at a wait this is a romantic dinner I thought we were just catching up with Erik.

[loz-untold-myths]

Untold Myths Masterpost

A collection of my "original legends" - imagined stories and mechanics for The Legend of Zelda fan games!

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Untold Myths

❄️ The Mage's Lantern

Hyrule has been cursed with eternal storms by a vengeful mage. A young boy follows a familiar voice to a spirit who may just be able to help him, and they join Princess Zelda in a quest to save her father.

Master Post

#loz the mage's lantern

[Rated T] (Ongoing)

💗 The Princess's Heart

A fairytale told in Hyrule, set in a forgotten age of the golden queendom. Passed by word of mouth from queen to princess, it is a tale of sacrificial love, hope, and determination.

Master Post

#loz the princess’s heart

[Rated G] (Completed, Bonus Stories Expected)

🍃 Stone Fate

Two children are raised in New Haven, a sanctuary hidden beyond the mist of Lost Woods. One is raised by the children of the forest, and the other by lights who tend to keep their distance. When the childhood friends find that their home is threatened by one who has breached the mystical barrier of the forest, they must take action... and risk losing everything they have ever known.

Master Post

#loz stone fate

[Rated G] (Ongoing)

🥀 Wilting Heart

Hyrule is a small but flourishing province, united with many other smaller ones to create a larger kingdom. The provinces are said to be the most beautiful place in the world, blooming with life and celebration every night. However, the kingdom falls into a sudden despair when the Queen of Hyrule— beloved by her people— passes from an illness that had affected her for quite some time. A man named Arn is appointed to tend to her most sacred place: the garden she left behind for her daughter, Zelda. Brought in as his apprentice is his son, Link— a ten-year-old boy who takes notice of the princess's grief and, believing it would make him like the heroes of old, makes it his mission to heal the hearts of her and the castle staff in any way he can.

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#loz wilting heart

[Rated G] (Ongoing)

🔮 One Brave Deed

A young street magician named Ravio is taken in by the greatest Sorceror in Lorule, Yuga. Ravio is cared for and mentored by the wizard, but it turns out Yuga is not who he seemed to be. He is cruel, ill-intentioned, and obtains his magic from dubious sources... Ravio plans to escape to his former life, but then the wizard takes on a second apprentice: Princess Hilda. Something about the princess carries a sadness unlike any he has seen before... So he decides he must stay. He must protect this stranger from whatever use Yuga has for her, and he swears to himself it will be the one brave deed he ever does.

🪞 The Dark World

Princess Zelda follows her brother to a forbidden site, where the evil spirits of the world were sealed 1,000 years ago. Upon her arrival, there is a crack in the seal that allows a malicious creature to drag her in. Left in the unknown with only more questions than answers, Zelda must navigate The Dark World: a realm beyond time where every being in sight wants her dead.

⚔️ Will of the Spirit

The Kingdom of Hyrule has long been shaken by tragedy. It has been years since the final hope against the coming end has disappeared, and the most the country can do is prepare for a battle that could strike any day. Link, a low-ranking palace guard, accidentally finds himself in the heart of it all during one of his rounds in Castle Town. Now that he has come into contact with a demon of twilight, their spirits are forever intertwined… All he can do is preserve his will to move forward in the destiny that has chosen him as a vessel.

👁 Strings of Darkness

The prophecied Demon King has arrived too soon. When the Chosen Hero and Priestess are caught unprepared, they are defeated - and their remains are corrupted into plagues upon their home. A young Sheikah woman named Impa stays in hiding as the Demon King orders for her tribe's exeuction, but receives a vision soon after; one that commands that she will be the one to steal the Triforce of Power to restore destiny to its former course.

👻 Imminent Darkness

Link was abandoned amidst the shadows to be saved from a horrible war. His mother left him only with a wolf spirit they conjured in her final moments, and for years he went without hearing a human voice. However, this begins to change when monsters intrude upon the Forest of Spirits - and bring with them a peculiar prisoner. Within a shrine dedicated to a horned statue, the boy meets Princess Zelda: a priestess-in-training who was separated from her mentor whilst escaping the demons haunting her. The two of them, although young children, find themselves alone... and they must rely on each other to get her home safely.

🏅 Sages of Hyrule

💭 The Dream Spinner

In the land of Hyrule, nightmares are no more. An era of peace and prosperity reigns, although Hyrule is small and without a King or Queen. The young princess Zelda rules under the Sage Raura, her mentor, and guides the land based upon her dreams of prophecy - but her perfect world is threatened to be shattered when she begins to have horrifying visions. The only one she can confide in his her childhood friend, Link - but can they escape the jaws of darkness, or will they be able to navigate the terrible reality that brews in her mind?

🪶 Overthrown

🗡 Era of Malice

Years ago, the land of Hyrule was plunged into a war on the night of a blood moon. Under the constant threat of demons and the haunt of The Dark Beast, fate is uncertain. However, a young man bearing the legendary Master Sword may be able to prevent the end— provided he can protect the vessel of the complete Triforce: the only friend he has left.

🔹️ Echoes of Hyrule

🌹 Fable of Hyrule

[ Many Unnamed Stories In my Files ]

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If you aren't one of those people obsessed with the Zelda timeline, that's fine! That isn't a main focus here. If you are, then I will specify that Untold Myths features stories based all over the place. Some are in the same general continuities as the games, having had similar events play out (although not always exactly the same), and others are alternative timelines from the very beginning. Consider it a large web of time's infinite branching paths - but this never matters to the stories on their own.

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[waiting4winnie]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞.

𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 💟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐞 : 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫.

“Mmhmm… the years have gone by fast,” Arielle agreed, her tone sickly sweet to mask the lack of enthusiasm behind her words.

“We’re the only ones holding down the fort, honestly,” Mara went on, swirling her wine. “Everyone else is either divorced or staying together for the kid. You, Dashawn, Evan and I—we’re the only ones still standing.”

Arielle listened, tired and detached, as Mara, one of her and Deshawn’s old high school classmates, rambled on about “the good ole days” and what she believed love to be. It was the same tired routine every Friday night: Deshawn would invite his old football teammates over to hang out, which meant Arielle’s former cheer squad would tag along too.

Being Westside High’s golden couple had been one of Deshawn’s biggest claims to fame. Being quarterback had been his identity. And Arielle? She was over it.

She glanced to her right where Deshawn stood, watching him with thinly veiled contempt. She was tired—tired of his charming smile, tired of his too-perfect teeth, tired of the fake charisma he put on for his friends. It was all so… exhausting. So bland. What kept them together anymore? Love? Or just history?

“Speaking of Kraven-Rayne… maybe you should bring her a plate, babe,” Deshawn said, breaking through her spiraling thoughts.

“Shit, eating egg-whites all day gotta be depressing,” one of his friends chimed in with a laugh.

Arielle nearly sighed in relief. Finally, a reason to excuse herself. A moment to breathe.

“Good idea, babe,” she said, offering Deshawn a quick smile before slipping away toward the kitchen.

Hilda, their maid, was already tidying up. She looked up with a warm smile as Arielle entered.

“Can I help you with anything, Miss Bryant?”

“Yeah, can you pack up three plates for me?” Arielle asked, moving past her toward the cabinets to retrieve a picnic basket she’d stashed away months ago.

“Of course, ma’am.”

The transition from her home to Kraven-Rayne’s was a blur. Deshawn had given her a lazy wave goodbye before being swept back into a loud discussion with his friends. Just like always.

And just like always, Arielle left—quietly, unnoticed, and already halfway somewhere else in her mind.

The drive to El Cerro Verde felt like slipping out of reality and into a forgotten dream. As Arielle left the manicured perfection of Sunvale Heights behind, the landscape began to shift—strip malls gave way to winding roads, thick with creeping vines and towering eucalyptus. The hills climbed higher, fog curling around the trees like a secret being whispered. There were no manicured lawns here. Just rain-soaked stone steps, tangled ivy, and buildings that looked like they had been swallowed by the forest and spat back out with character.

She parked near the base of a moss-slicked staircase and climbed slowly, heels clicking against the damp stone. Kraven-Rayne’s building stood tucked into the hillside, a two-story remnant of another time—its green-painted wood siding damp from the mist, and the wraparound balcony glistening with rain. Plants spilled from terra cotta pots, banana leaves swayed gently in the breeze, and wind chimes whispered in the distance.

Arielle adjusted the picnic basket in her hands and stepped into the corridor, where the scent of wet earth and incense met her. The tension in her chest loosened, just a little. Kraven-Rayne’s apartment sat at the far end, the golden glow of her window a soft contrast to the silver haze blanketing the hills. It felt a world away from Deshawn’s crowded living room, and that was the point. This wasn’t Arielle’s first time here but it would be her first time going past the curb. She usually stood in Deshawn’s car whenever he visited his sister.

With the picnic basket in hand, Arielle stood at the front door of Kraven-Rayne’s apartment and knocked. The instrumental of rock music poured through the door which caused Arielle to knock a little harder. The locks clicked and the door opened, revealing Kraven-Rayne.

The twenty-eight year old stood at five feet and eleven inches tall. Her build was stocky yet statuesque—dense muscle wrapped around a compact frame. Broad shoulders and a thick back gave her a commanding presence, while her biceps and triceps bulged with definition, like coiled ropes under her skin. Her arms weren’t just strong—they were functional, cut with symmetry and raw strength that hinted at the hours spent in dimly lit gyms and sweat-slicked spaces.

Her torso was solid, with a strong chest tapering into a firm, defined midsection. She carried herself with the ease of someone who understood her own body—how to push it, how to rest it, how to move with controlled power. Thick thighs and strong hips anchored her, giving her a grounded, athletic silhouette. There was nothing delicate about her build, but it was undeniably beautiful—a body that was lived in, worked for, and wholly hers.

Arielle stood in the threshold of Kraven-Rayne’s studio, momentarily taken aback by the sight of her. The low golden light from a corner lamp cast deep shadows across Kraven’s frame, highlighting the carved lines of muscle along her arms and shoulders. She moved with quiet force, every step grounded, her body dense with strength but fluid—like a panther in repose. Arielle had seen strength before, but not like this. Kraven didn’t just have a strong body—she wore it, lived in it, commanded it. Kraven-Rayne oozed masculinity without any ounce of its toxicity.

Her eyes dropped to the curve of Kraven’s thick thighs, the subtle flex of her abdomen as she reached for something across the room. There was an intimacy in watching her move, in the soft rise and fall of her chest under the worn tank she wore. Arielle swallowed hard, feeling suddenly aware of her own pulse.

“What’d you want?”she said finally—low, flat, without warmth. Her expression was unreadable, jaw locked tight, her hazel eyes blank was your emotion behind them.

“Hey Kraven…um Dashawn sent me to bring you some dinner.”

Kraven-Rayne stared at Arielle blankly for a few moments before she stepped aside.

Arielle hesitated in the doorway, unsettled by the stillness in Kraven’s body, the way she stood like a loaded spring. Even her gestures were spare, precise, like she rationed every motion. No hug, no smile. Just that deep, steady gaze that made Arielle feel both seen and pinned down.

As soon as she stepped inside, Arielle was met with the sight of tranquility and a bohemian oasis. The small space consisted of a large window that captured natural sunlight and moonlight perfectly. It had recently been covered with a creamy-white, almost-beige large linen curtain. Near it was a king-sized bed that sat on a low profile platform. Dark charcoal-grey covered the bed. Various floor pillows were scattered by the window near large planets.

Across from the sleeping area was a small kitchen. Basic white fridge, white gas stove, and farmhouse style-sink. Everything had been clean and the whole house smells of chocolate chip cookies. The home was the complete opposite of DeShawn and Arielle’s house. But, she liked it.

Here’s a refined version of your scene that enhances the personalities of both characters—Kraven-Rayne’s reserved, direct nature, and Arielle’s curiosity with a hint of budding desire. I’ve smoothed out the flow, tightened the dialogue, and added more subtle sensory cues to increase the tension:

“What does he really want? I doubt you drove two hours just to bring me leftover takeout,” Kraven-Rayne said coolly as she locked the door behind them.

“Um, actually, he did,” Arielle replied with a touch of attitude, then sighed, her bravado slipping. “Well… he said it in front of a room full of people, and I kind of used it as an excuse to bail.”

A slow, knowing smirk tugged at Kraven-Rayne’s lips. “The truth always tastes better than the lie.”

As she brushed past her, basket in hand, Arielle caught a whiff of something warm and indulgent—spiced amber, cinnamon with a trace of dark rum. She blinked, distracted by the scent and the faint heat that lingered in Kraven-Rayne’s wake.

“I’m not the most social person,” Kraven-Rayne said as she unpacked the basket on the counter. “But what’s the point of throwing weekend parties if you’re just gonna dip early?”

“They’re exhausting,” Arielle admitted, sliding onto a kitchen stool. “I’m either burned out… or overstimulated. Probably both.”

She tried to focus on the counter, but her gaze kept drifting to Kraven-Rayne’s back. The way her muscles shifted beneath her shirt—controlled, effortless, like she was always ready for a fight or something much slower.

Kraven-Rayne didn’t turn around. Just nodded once and tossed the container into the trash.

A beat of silence passed before Arielle spoke again. “Enough about that. What about you? Any plans this weekend? I figured you’d be at the gym right now.”

“It’s one a.m., Arielle. Gym’s been closed for hours,” Kraven-Rayne said, tone flat but not unfriendly.

Arielle opened her mouth, ready with a retort, but paused when Kraven-Rayne pulled open the oven and retrieved a tray of cookies. The rich smell hit her instantly—molasses, vanilla, something warm and unexpected.

“You bake?” she asked, eyebrows raised.

Kraven-Rayne glanced over her shoulder, one brow slightly arched. “Sometimes.”

Arielle smiled, a slow curve of curiosity and something else. “Oouu, ok I see you…That’s kinda sexy.”

Kraven-Rayne didn’t smile back. But she didn’t look away either. Her eyes narrowed in on Arielle’s dimples when she smiled.

Arielle watched as Kraven-Rayne placed the cookies on a cooling rack with practiced care, her movements deliberate. It struck her how little she actually knew about the woman standing in front of her. “You always this quiet?” Arielle asked, elbow on the counter, chin in hand. “Or is it just when I’m around?”

Kraven didn’t answer right away. “Quiet people aren’t empty. We just don’t waste breath.”

“Hmm.” Arielle bit back a smirk. “That almost sounded poetic.”

Kraven turned slightly, eyeing her. “Don’t get used to it.”

Arielle chuckled under her breath. “Deshawn talks about you all the time. Swears you’re the only person he trusts.”

Kraven’s jaw ticked slightly. “He’s reckless. Trust doesn’t mean I agree with him.”

Arielle perked up at that. “So you don’t think the diamond job is a good idea?”

A pause. Kraven looked her dead in the eye. “I think planning a heist with a bunch of half-loyal players is how people wind up in a ditch.”

The weight of her words hung in the air, and for a second, all Arielle could do was watch the way Kraven leaned against the counter—calm, still, but somehow coiled like a loaded spring.

“You don’t think I’m loyal?” Arielle asked, voice softer now, a little more serious.

Kraven’s gaze lingered on her. “I think your loyalty has thinned as the years have passed.”

Arielle felt that one. She looked away, fingers grazing the smooth rim of her glass. “You’re not wrong. But he’s good to me.”

Kraven didn’t respond. She picked up a cookie and set one piece in front of Arielle.

“You can be good to someone and still lead them into bad places.”

The cookie was warm in her hand, soft at the center, just like the moment.

Arielle met her eyes again, and for once, Kraven-Rayne didn’t look away.

“I wonder what you’d lead someone into,” Arielle said quietly.

Kraven-Rayne didn’t answer. But her stillness spoke volumes. Her silence was sharper than a threat—more intimate than a touch.

@sapphicideas @richyys

[autumnalfallingleaves]

Was thinking about my Mando Hilda AU that has Lydia and Phinium (because I like them), but then got to thinking more about the AU I came up with a little bit after s3 dropped where Johanna never got sick as an infant, so Lydia and Phinium never had to leave for Fairy Country, so Jo grows up with her entire family and without having to get her memory wiped.

Growing up, Johanna does not know she is part-fairy. Lydia and Phinium want to raise her as a "normal" kid and planned to tell her when she turned thirteen-- but that plan was derailed when the spider-frog creature from the lake attacked the family on an outing, and Astrid was forced to protect them, revealing her-- and Phinim's-- true nature in the process. They tell Jo she's half-fairy when she's nine, instead. So Johanna grows up with her entire family, knowing she's half-fairy. Phinium and Astrid teach Jo how to use her magic.

Later, Johanna goes off to college in Trolberg. She meets Anders there, and her ensuing relationship with him is her version of a late-teenage (she's in her early 20s) rebellion. Predictably, none of her family back home likes him. Jo thinks she likes him, but he dips, and we get the attitude toward him that Jo has in canon. Hilda comes along soon after. Anders is whatever, but Hilda? Jo loves her so, so much. Luckily, her parents and aunt do, too. I feel like Astrid would make a comment like "So, that's where Phin's blue hair went!"

(Continued under the cut)

Side note: I feel like Phinium would be thee dorkiest grandfather. He'd probably be Hilda's favorite grandparent tbh.

Anyway. Jo does what her parents did and decides to raise Hilda as normally and as humanly as possible. She moves out of Trolberg and out to her family's house in the Wilderness. Hilda grows up similarly to canon, but with the added bonus of grandparents :)

(I was thinking about the elves, and have decided that they still don't find out about them until the same point in canon. Even fairies aren't exempt from the elves' paperwork and rules.)

Canon continues largely the same from there. The most major difference I can think of until the end of s2 is just Lydia, Phinium, and Astrid helping Jo, Hilda, Twig, and Alfur get settled in Trolberg after Jorgen steps on the house.

However, Stone Forest is where things get different. Like Jo, circumstances force Johanna to tell Hilda about her fey heritage earlier than thirteen. At the end of SF, instead of Hilda being saved by the white woff, Johanna, in a panic, jumps out of the balloon to use her abilities of flight to catch Hilda. She doesn't answer any questions until she and Hilda are back home, at which point she says something along the lines of "This is something your grandparents should be here for." So, she calls them, and they and Astrid agree to come over the next day. However, events continue as normal and Hilda swaps with Baba that night. Jo is then left with a newly-human troll baby and her parents and aunt arriving soon.

They, of course, help with the search. Lydia elects to stay back with Tontu and Baba, and Jo, Phinium, Astrid, and Alfur go up to the mountains to search for Hilda, since they (excluding the resident elf) have magic and can possibly pinpoint Hilda. (They can't; the trolls' magic is too concentrated to find Hilda.)

I have more thoughts than what can fit in here right now, but a big part of this version of MK is Gerda working with the fairies and getting her mind opened to even more magical beings who are just people, same as anyone. Hilda also learns about her fey heritage and is, of course, ecstatic. Frida and David think Hilda's grandparents are wicked cool. Lydia and Phinium are delighted to have even more grandchildren (Tontu and Baba). I have no idea what s3 would be lmao.

[brightorangelover]

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books: dont let the forest in and stone butch blues. (tbh i dont read much💔)

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[nisse-room]

All things must come to an end. Hilda, Frida, Twig, and the elves are trapped in the Stone Forest. Will they reunite with David and the others? Find out here, in the conclusion of Remorse of an Adventurer 2: Tangled Paths

[kitkat-the-muffin]

I had a dream last night that the new Pale Garden biome in Minecraft extended through the ground into the Deep Dark and when they merge together they make a Pale Dark biome and it was cool looking as hell and also scary as hell

Made new blocks like rooted stone or something that could be harvested for both wood and stone. Looked a little like that stone forest from Hilda but with more Deep Dark shades of blue and various foilage

Creaking mobs spawned but didn’t attack because their cores were too far away or something. The Warden spawned with tiny Warden babies for some reason (like baby zombies but baby Wardens)

There were letter statues like in Terraria except made out of Copper. That’s about it on the details I remember

Well okay, one other thing about the dream that’s totally unrelated to the post though is there was a giant Enderman about the size of 8 giant zombies stacked atop each other just standing on the beach holding a spyglass for no reason

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

I was rewatching The Stone Forest and I really like to think that Hilda had to pass by the Bell Keeper’s outpost on her way out of the city limits. I like to think that idiot looked at what was happening, shrugged, and said ‘eh, she’s the scariest thing out there’

[waddles-ex-machina]

hi please bear with me while i go insane about the colours in Hilda (aka I'm looking at the trio's season 3 designs and losing my mind)

SO in most visual media, quite a bit of thought goes into the colours they use and how those colours interact with one another - not in a "the curtains are blue bc [character] is sad" kind of way but in terms of which colours stand out and which are harmonious, and even if the viewer doesn't know any colour theory (like me, lol) and isn't paying attention to it, I think it still helps reinforce what we know about the characters, and influence what we take away from the show. visual design is a language and colour is one of the key aspects of it and if you want to hear about how Hilda uses colour in so many clever ways, to guide the viewer's eye or distinguish important characters, there's a really excellent video on that made by someone who actually does know what they're talking about, but one thing I wanna talk about based on my own limited knowledge is how it tells us about the characters -

FOR EXAMPLE Johanna - so you have Hilda, who is dressed in bright primary colours, especially her signature blue hair which makes her stand out as different even more - and then there's her mother, who has, by contrast, a much more toned down colour palette. she broadly shares the colour red with her daughter, but a less-saturated shade and her standard outfit consists of that, brown trousers and sometimes her yellow coat. Hilda's signature blue is completely absent from her design (and even if the creators didn't want to give Johanna the same hair colour as her daughter, they could have added some small blue accent of clothing if they'd wanted to, but chose not to), leaving her with purely warm, harmonious colours. she has an almost completely different palette to her daughter, but still just enough similarity (particularly with her yellow coat) to reinforce that the two are related in some way. (I'm not saying that Hilda is related to everyone who wears yellow in the show, just that the fact they share a colour helps tie them together on screen)

(yep, this is the screencap i'm choosing to illustrate this point it's fantastic)

most importantly (to me, anyway), Johanna's colours are warm. they're safe. to me, the dominance of warm colours and absence of Hilda's blue signify that Johanna is a safe person to Hilda, someone who is supposed to be a respite from her adventures rather than someone who dives into them with her (which, y'know, ties in quite nicely to Hilda's line in Stone Forest about preferring to adventure on her own and then come home to her mum, and how in the show she generally likes to keep her adventures and home life separate... (I could probably write an essay on how Hilda and Johanna's issues in season 2 were kind of a commentary on how Johanna has been coded as the safe stable bg character and how she is actively trying to go beyond that role but I shouldn't tbh)). the point is, they are connected, but Johanna doesn't have the same adventurous streak that Hilda does, so they have some of their warmer colours in common, but not Hilda's unusual, stand-out blue.

(I could also talk about Kaisa here and her copyright claim on the colour purple, but truthfully all I would be doing is paraphrasing the excellent video I linked earlier, so I won't. however I do think its fun to compare her to Johanna, in the sense that here are two adults who Hilda often comes to for guidance, and one is all warm gentle colours that match the home decor and the other all monochrome with two little hints of a colour we rarely see elsewhere in the show, suggesting that this is a character of particular interest.. it kind of hammers in how one is meant to embody the safety and comfort of Hilda's home life and the other is literally there to point hilda at things that might kill her lmao)

that was supposed to be a quick example and it got away from me so uh ANYWAY what I'm getting at here is that in Hilda's friend group, I believe their colour palettes were constructed in a similar way - they work together to tell you about the group

I feel like Hilda as a show is known for making excellent use of a limited colour palette - a lot of the characters have at least one black or brown item of clothing and just one or two stand-out colours, particularly the main trio. you can easily look at Hilda, David and Frida come away with one particular colour associated with them - blue or red for Hilda, orange for David, and...blue again for Frida, which doesn't sound great on paper but works well in the show because Hilda's palette also has a lot of red, so when the two characters are put together it doesn't seem like blue is dominating the colours. I also find Frida's colour palette (basically just her hoodie, lol) super interesting because it used to be different.

now, I haven't spoken to anyone who worked on the show about this, this is purely conjecture, but if you've ever googled the characters you've probably seen an official-looking turnaround page of Frida in a purple hoodie.

this is real pre-prod show art, and considering the purple hoodie made it all the way through the design pipeline to be included in the turnaround (generally the last stage of character design, as this is what would be given to the riggers to make the character rig)....and was even posted on twitter months before the show aired -

then I think it's safe to say that her hoodie was changed after the fact (2 or 3 episodes into production, by my vague guess looking at the date of this tweet) - not too hard to do, if your show is 2D rig animation, luckily - but if you're me and like reading into things way too hard, this begs the question of why. having purple as Frida's signature colour is perfectly serviceable and sets her apart from Hilda and David nicely. but what her new hoodie colour does is the opposite - it ties them all together

(the other possible explanation is that maybe Kaisa's design was finalised later in production than this turnaround was made (speaking purely from my own experience, secondary characters who appear in later episodes are often finalised later than the main characters, just ahead of the episode they're needed for, and Kaisa wasn't needed until halfway through the first season) and someone noticed that her and Frida sharing the colour purple made them look a little too similar...(I'm sure ppl who like the idea of Frida and Kaisa being witch sisters are yelling through the screen rn that this would've been a good thing and maybe lightly foreshadowed Frida becoming a witch, like Kaisa, but this was all set at the start of season 1, probably a bit too early to start hinting at the witch stuff :') we will come back to this tho)

anyway I love the trio's designs bc if you put Hilda and David next to eachother, they don't visually have much in common, but if you put Frida there then suddenly they're a unit. they got rid of her signature colour and gave her her friends' ones. she quite literally ties the group together so that they look cohesive as a whole

and this is absolutely me digging too deep in things here but her being the one to bring the group's colour palette together also lends itself thematically to their falling out at the end of season 1, and how Frida leaving also caused Hilda and David's friendship to struggle. they are a set and it doesn't work the same if they're not all there. Frida sharing Hilda's signature blue could also lend itself to the idea that Frida shares her love of adventures to a greater extent than David does (though maybe that's closer to 'blue curtains' territory tbh). anyway I love the design of this show so much

SO (if you actually made it this far down I'm so impressed) the thing that sparked all of this was...if this is what the trio's designs are doing in seasons 1-2.....what are the season 3 designs doing

no but this is super interesting to me, Hilda essentially just traded her skirt for leggings and left her colour palette intact, but David and Frida changed theirs entirely and I'm fascinated. both their signature colours are GONE. is it to imply that they've grown and changed in the duration of the time skip? is it David's turn on the 'having a colour in common with Hilda'?? but particularly I want to draw attention to Frida bc now that her hoodie is gone her original purple is BACK and (if there is any weight to my theory that she was changed bc she looked too similar to Kaisa) what's even more interesting is that they doubled down on the witch vibes. she literally has Kaisa's exact colour palette minus the dark purple cape lining. Kaisa's design reflected her personality as this unknowable person with a hint of mystery to her - all monochrome with that pop of an unusual colour - are we to expect the same of Frida? is this a sign that she's leaning further into witchcraft than before? does her contrast to Hilda and David signify that she's come more into her own and has a stronger sense of her own identity (something something closure for her issues in season 1)? or do we take things way too literally and assume that season 3 has her breaking off on her own from the group? or maybe it means absolutely nothing and someone on the design team just thought grey/purple was a neat combo. I know I've talked in this post as if I know things but here I truly don't and I'm obsessed w the possibilities. what does it mean what does it all mean

anyway that's all for this delusional fever dream post, hope you enjoyed and if you made it this far down you deserve some kind of prize

[wildflowers-of-trolberg]

Do you think there's a noticeable lack of appreciation in the fandom for the badass side of Johanna? The side that we saw in "The Deerfox" and "The Stone Forest" - mother who's secretly just as adventurous as her daughter, who's climbing the cliffs like mountain goat well into her 30s, whose survival instincts and quick thinking saved Hilda so many times in troll cave and who's straight up ready to die to protect her daughter? Like seriously, this woman is an Ellen Ripley incarnation.

Nah I think a lot of people see and love that side of her - I certainly do :))

[blaithnne]

Early concept sketches of Midnight Giant Lauren! You can see me figuring out the style, colours, as well as Lauren’s outfits, plus a little Hilda that I wanted to include but gave up on cause I couldn’t get her to look right.

Johanna switches outfits about 3 times in this comic, so I wanted Lauren to do the same. Also, since Johanna’s deerfox outfit in the flashback is based off one of her looks in mountain king, I wanted Lauren’s to as well! So one of these outfits will be repurposed for teenaged Show!Lauren in the deerfox later down the line, which I think is fitting because she’d be around the same age in the flashback as Comic!Lauren is here

I didn’t talk much about my design process in the original post, so I’ll make a couple notes on that under the cut!

Here’s the final product for reference-

Though Johanna changes outfits about 3 times in this comic, one of these outfit changes is just the same outfit but with trousers instead of a skirt. So I wanted one of Lauren’s outfit changes to be more subtle, keeping most of the same items of clothing but only changing the jumper!

In terms of her outfits, I tried to add a little bit of a late 2000s - early 2010s vibe, which I think makes her fit in a lot more

Whilst this style still features quite noodley characters, it allowed me to bulk up Lauren much more than the troll did, so I took advantage of that and started adding in juuuust a little muscle! But she’s still kind of twig looking, so I brought back the same trick I used in the troll and gave her a big ol’ pile of logs and a heavy axe to weild in one of the sketches just to show that she’s a strong girl. I swear I tried to think of something other than an axe but it’s surprisingly hard to think of heavy objects that a character would just be. Carrying around lol

Looking back at this design a few months later, the biggest thing I’d change is I’d make her look a bit younger. It’s a little hard to design a unique character when you only have two points of reference lol, one of which is an adult and the other of which is a child, so I think I made her look a bit too much like an adult, oh well!

One thing I kept though to help her look younger is her freckles, same as Hilda! I love freckles but I swear I never use them in character designs. This design feature disappears from Hilda in the later comics, but I wanna keep them for Lauren for as long as I can tbh…

I mentioned before that I thought it would make sense for Lauren to go through a couple different hairstyles before reaching her final one in these early comics - the designs in the show are based off the ones in stone forest, which was the most recent comic to be released at the time the show came out. The style and characters designs had changed a lot from the early comics, and one of my favourite things about reading through the series is seeing how the designs changed and progressed before reaching those “final” versions, so I’m kinda reverse engineering Lauren’s design process to get that effect here, and I think one way that’d be shown is through her hair. Here her style is getting closer to the final version, her fringe has been lifted so it no longer covers her eye, and she’s got more of a curl! But her strands fall a little differently, so we’re not quite there yet…

I struggled a LOT with colouring this one, and that’s because I got the colour count wrong! One of the most overlooked ways to emulate a style is to count how many different colours appear per character - Hilda The Series generally has 6, 2 for hair and skin, and 4 for outfits, though the number can change. I miscounted here and thought the comics had 4 outfit colours like the show, but they actually only have 3. Once I realised that it made things much easier, though I still sent a little over it with some varying shades of green in her shoes. These kinds of rules generally aren’t firm, and might not even be one’s the original artist is even aware of, but when you’re trying to emulate someone’s work these little things can make all the difference

Show!Lauren probably doesn’t play guitar, I’ve mentioned before that I think she’s decent at piano and I stand by that, but I thought it was fitting for Comic!Lauren lol

That’s everything I can think of right now!