#it's Always Loving Branch hours at sandflakedraws

[sandflakedraws]

So... I saw Trollz band together on the airplane and, yeah, I get the love for Floyd now!! I love e him too! More of the emo boy please!!!

Floyd feels almost custom made to be a Joey blorbo like dang.

If a character has:

a separation that eats them up inside (bonus points if the circumstances are a combo of things in and out of their control)

an implied history of loneliness

no guarantee that anyone beyond our main circle of characters even cares about them

compassion

sensitivity

mediator skills (bonus points if they stepped into this role when they were really young, and shouldn't have had to)

the ability to pick up on what someone needs emotionally, and show that love to them

innate love for a creative pursuits

self sacrificial tendencies

the nerve to stay kind in the face of calamity (and in Floyd's case literal torture)

then i'm a goner. Floyd ticks off all these boxes and then some.

There's gonna be more of the emo boy for sure.

[sandflakedraws]

hey-hey-j replied to your post “god i need to draw more dreamworks trolls…”

sits. please. talk to me about JD :)

it boggles my mind that JD is likely the most touch starved out of his brothers. like, branch went gray, but he also stayed with the village, and was routinely roped into hug-time against his will. floyd, for all of my own speculating, must have at least kept around civilization. clay had the putt putt community & viva, and bruce had his own family.

but JD..?

all of the information we can glean about him implies that he went off to the middle of nowhere and just. stayed there alone. roughed it pop idol style....

and there's something so deeply, incredibly sad about that. JD makes my heart hurt, the poor idiot.

(floyd is no. 2 on the touch-starved list. to me. the life of a transient musician is not one filled with a lot of contact. this is part of the reason that this moment vvv)

(makes me so weepy like good lord. please hug each other)