#jd also lives in the bunker but not?

[ryssbelle]

Floyd walking out of his room in the bunker like he didn't just spend the last 16 hours straight crying

[lixxen]

Idk how well text posts do on Trolls Tumblr, but I have so many thoughts rn and want to talk about feral Branch details.

Feral Branch HC:

Branch has fur, claws on both his feet and hands, his ears move like a cat, and he can see better in the dark

"Feral Trolls" are gray trolls who have adapted from being away from others. Trolls have a built in instinct that recognizes strength in numbers. You see this with rainbow trolls being able to change their colors/auras, and all trolls being able to manipulate their hair. Gray trolls cannot change their aura, but they are around others so they can stay normal

But isolated gray trolls biologically change due to them not being around others. This happens over years, and not automatic. Once a troll changes like this, they cannot undo it. So this is why Branch cannot go back to "normal" physically, even tho he isn't gray and around others

(there's also a psychological/self actualization part. Gray trolls tend to see themselves as the problem and rainbow trolls end up more likely to becoming "feral" looking due to their ability to change their aspects.)

All genres have feral trolls, all presenting differently. Rock and pop are the most similar since they are the two physically closest looks wise

Normal trolls are omnivores, but eat more plants since their digestive systems and body needs focus more on plants. Feral trolls need more meat, but are still omnivorses

If I can get psychological, a lot of their "feral tendencies" are actually just trauma responses and bad socialization issues due to isolation. A lot of responses are stemmed from fear and anger, so lashing out/growling/swiping at others is normally out of fear or response. Plus having to survive in the wild, y'know?

Okay. Done with that part, let's get into Branch!

Branch likes to be in trees and high ground. It comes from living in a pod in the troll tree, but he lives in the bunker because it's safer. So you'll find him in trees normally because he likes being high

Branch normally hibernates during the winter, but ever since he met Poppy he stopped hibernating. This makes him horribly grumpy during the snow season

Not shown: Branch loving his ears to be scratched. Her more sensitive than normal and he loves them being pet. He also loves to lay on top of people. It comes from the need of warmth and him thinking that others need warmth.

He wouldn't lick others, since they don't have fur. But if he's around other feral trolls he'd definitely lick them.

His parents were both half rock and half pop trolls. They both looked like rainbow pop trolls, and the rock parent (dad) did not live in the troll tree. Grandma Rosiepuff was the maternal grandmother and a pop troll

The parents names were Briar and Melody

Branch has the need to burrow all the time. It comes from years in the bunker and from hiding from danger in the earlier years. You will see him burried in someone's bed probably.

Branch is really good at math and science once he starts learning and back into the village. It comes naturally to him. He wants to be a pod architect because it comes naturally to him

Clay and Bruce follow the same thing, where Clay really likes accounting and Bruce loves to run business.

Floyd is the best at performing, with JD behind him. JD though is actually really good at taking care of others and survival. Surprisingly JD can garden and keep a ton of plants alive to feed himself.

Branch and Clay are autistic with different levels of support needed. Branch needs less support while Clay needs more. Thought I'd mention this.

Clay and Viva were best friends before the Troll Tree attack. The others did not know this. Viva and JD are the ones that helped Clay learn better coping mechanisms when the band started to sour

Branch is more sensitive to sound and light. He hates fireworks and doesn't like to be touched unless he knows the person

Ablaze is the one who mainly is teaching Branch coping mechanisms for his PTSD. Poppy is his support throughout everything, but she doesn't know how to help someone heal.

Branch mandates Kismet group cuddles. This dude it touched starved and they’re the only ones he is comfortable like that other than Poppy

Even after Branch is able to speak again, as he was nonverbal when he met Poppy and by Trolls 2 he is speaking again, he prefers to be quiet and doesn't talk as much. It is simply preference at this point

Branch likes to interlock his tail with Poppy's when they're not touching, but close enough :)

I might do more later, but I am about to go into work :)

[zivazivc]

I sort of doubt Floyd would introduce his brothers to his ex bandmates at this point, but do you think they’d end up meeting somehow? How would they feel about each other?

By the time the movies take place there is no more band so they probably wouldn't meet all of them even if Floyd for some reason wanted them to meet (which I can't think of one). I do kinda want John Dory to meet Les tho, not gonna lie, and Branch. Floyd would probably want to visit him eventually and they'd tag along, or maybe Floyd would give them his contact for emergencies if his bipolar episodes got too bad and they'd meet him because of that.

Floyd would be very vague about the status of their relationship and he definitely wouldn't tell them about when it all started (because he doesn't even know himself (i don't think kissing someone who's nearly blackout drunk counts) also it was only really unacceptable in the first few years, once floyd was 18 it was more normal (les is not THAT much older) and in my hc floyd is 38 in the third movie so it's been a while since he was a teen so i don't think he even thinks about it much anymore)

But I think JD and Branch would start to form a picture about what they mean to each other through the many confusing passing mentions Floyd would make while living in the bunker. But it would be a weird picture that they wouldn't know what to think of lol

Anyway JD and Les both live in RVs and they're almost the same age and they're both "kind of" Floyd's big brother figures. I want JD to want to have beef with Les once they meet but he can't keep it up because "holy shit what wax are you using to keep your beetle's exoskeleton so shiny???"

[brrypiiix]

What happened when Clay and Trollex went on their first date? Was it the most romantic date ever? Did Branch, JD, Bruce and Floyd watch them while trying to be inconspicuous?

Oh, Trollex definitely tried to make it the most romantic first date he could ever give Clay. Clay actually wanted to plan the date, but Trollex was super insistent and even said that Clay deserves to be treated, that he stresses over planning things enough. So, despite Clay’s offer, he let Trollex do the planning and waited for him to get him from the bunker once he was ready.

Trollex was running around the whole day getting things ready, dragged poor Synth around to help him too.

By the time he was sure he was finished, Synth was pushing him towards the bunker to grab Clay because if he didn’t Trollex would be stuck there longer trying to make sure everything was perfect.

Unfortunately for Trollex, it didn’t go as planned at all. Pretty much blew up in his face. Which was hugely something he wasn’t used to, normally he’s way too smooth with these things

That’s just the affect Clay has on him though

Clay didn’t mind, of course. The entire time he was amused and loving towards Trollex, even when by the time Trollex realized the plan was a failure and was pouting about it. Clay just bent down where Trollex pouted to give him a kiss and reassured him that he didn’t mind at all, because he just loved spending time with him and that was enough. Clay also isnt a fan of showy dates anyways and much prefers a peaceful and loving hangout instead. Clay just cupped Trollex’s face and goes “You’re all I ask for in a date. This is perfect”, they share a kiss, and continue through the rest of the date laying in a nice open field and watching the stars together with Clay ranting about the constellations he’s read about. Trollex doesnt know a thing about astronomy(he’s a fish), but he listens to every word.

Also, Branch absolutely gave Clay a curfew which was at like 10:00 and they made it back by 10:01

Trollex was absolutely on a mission to get Clay home in time so JD and Branch wouldn’t let him have it, but Clay was taking his sweet time the whole way back. Had Trollex sweating bullets

Trollex ended up having to throw Clay over his shoulder halfway back because he kept trying to get them to stop and check out the nightly fauna(Clay was having too much fun with this)

Clay was very caught off guard when he was thrown over Trollex’s shoulder and kept trying to bargain with him and promise he wont keep trying to slow them down anymore, but Trollex wasn’t falling for it

Once they got back to the bunker, Trollex set Clay down in front of the entrance and that’s where they shared a deep goodnight kiss, one that lasted a lot longer than originally planned

And that very moment, the bunker is opened with JD and Branch both about to head straight out for a Clay rescue mission because he was exactly one minute late just to see this scene before them.

Branch screamed in horror at catching his brother making out with someone. JD jumped out, face planted on the ground, then scurried right back up to run and chase Trollex off his little brother

Clay had to tackle JD midway when he realized what was happening to try and hold him down while casually saying goodbye to Trollex(who had to float a good amount away from JD’s grasps), and right after Clay is being grabbed by Branch to be dragged into the bunker

Clay got the lecture of his life the entire walk to the living room by JD and Branch, but Floyd and Bruce were waiting there too, surprisingly to him, and started crowding to ask how the date went

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Also, the entire time Clay was out on his date, JD and Branch both sat in front of the clock to keep track and wait to make absolute sure Clay was getting home on time. Floyd and Bruce only joined them to make fun and to use this for some family bonding time

[empressgeekt]

Ok but what if JD had come back/found the Pop Village before or even during Trolls 1? Like, all we know about bis travels is he seemed to mainly stick to the Neverglades but he is confirmed to have returned to the Tree at least once only to find the place dead and empty, and we don't know exactly when that was. What if he had searched around more and found the Village, or at least Branch's Bunker on the edge of the village?

I can imagine after a justifiably explosive reunion, he might still doing his wandering thing but stay close by, even sending presents and souvenirs for Branch and Keith from his travel, visiting every holiday (well, major holiday they actually give a shit about). Maybe make an effort to reach out to and potentially locate their other brothers because as much as he loves his grumpy baby brother, he's worried about Branch and hopes reuniting Brozone could at least cheer him up a bit. Maybe he encourages Keith's idea about Branch becoming the Forest Guardian as well, teasing him about how it might be a way to get closer to the Princess he's crushing on (Branch vehemently argues he does not, has never, and will never have a crush on Poppy).

Honestly I think that on his way into the village, JD would get caught in one of Branch's net traps. Rhonda can't get him down, and after hanging there for hours (admiring the both the foliage and the work of the trap itself, it's a beautiful survival tool), a little mossy colored trolling finds him, and cuts him down. John would be a little worried about a very small child alone in the middle of the forest, asking if his parents know where he is, but Keith would quickly shut that down, by saying that his parents were dead but his big brother made sure he was safe. John would lament this as Keith leads him back to he village, as Keith's family situation hits close to home, and he really sympathized with Keith's older brother (who at the moment john thought was an older teenager), being saddled with a kid so young, like he had been. When john asks about his own family, Keith claims not to know any trolls, by the names of "Spruce, Clay, Floyd or Bitty B."

Once in the village, JD would spend a few days wallowing in grief and signing autographs, since apparently even after twenty years Brozone is still popular. John can't even be happy about his art doing well, his family wasn't here. After a few days he plans on leaving. This place can be home if his bros aren't here. Poppy and Creek approaches him as he's packing, and want to help. They also confirm that their isn't any trolls by by his brother's stage names...stage names...

"Is there anyone named Branch in the village?"

Poppy tells him there is enthusiastically. Creek does so with fake pity. Still John doesn't pay any attention to their tone only runs off in the direct of the forest outskirts of the village, feeling incredibly stupid for not asking for Branch's proper name and almost missing his brother's house by a few yards. He was not expecting for the same mossy trolling to open the door to the bunker, and for his baby brother to be gray, and pissed off at him.

Branch is not happy to see John Dory. While he wasn't the closest to John as a baby, he does know that a lot of the fighting was between John and Clay and no way was he letting that type of conflict around Keith. So, he shuts john out and pretends he doesn't exist.

John despite the less then welcoming reunion is way to hyped up on long dormant big bro instincts to take the hint. His baby brother is grey, a single parent, and living all alone. There was definitely not a happy backstory there. He has to protect him. After a week or two of camping outside the bunker door (Branch has several exits from the bunker other then the main one so he can just avoid John) and getting nothing he switches tactics. He had no idea what Branch's schedule is, but he does know that Keith goes to school, and starts to follow the trolling during the day. It comes off as incredibly creepy, to everyone but John.

Keith tells Branch about this, and the grey troll has no choice but to hear john out, since while he knows that John isn't creepy, just dumb, he can't have John behavior (no doubt that his older brother had told the whole village they're brothers) reflecting on him. The last thing he needs is the Foster System breathing down his neck about how John could be a "danger" to Keith, Adopted or not they would take the kid given the chance.

The after math of the conversation is John Dory being allowed into Branch and Keith's lives on a probation period and several conditions. Every hoop John is given he jumps through. And slowly he gets to know Branch again. He tries to get Branch to sing, but Keith would cut in saying, "Why do you want him to sing, you want to re-traumatize him?"

JD is out on a long supply trip when the whole wolf thing happens, but he's in full support of the whole Forest Guardian thing, much to Branch's annoyance. He and Keith nudge him towards playing the role. After the whole 20th Anniversary Party, John Drives both Branch and Poppy back to bergentown (the trip is very confusing for John due to the whole time he's trying not to call branch by his name). Rhonda threatens Cloud guy into telling them which tunnel to take inside. He does not agree with the whole dating plan, but he throws his machete at Creek when he turns traitor.

It takes everything for him not the breakdown at the sight of the chef attacking Branch. Suddenly he's fourteen and watching his mom and dad get carried off, only this time it was the tiny egg his mom handed off to him all grown up at the mercy of the Bergen. Branch survives of course, but the long months of recovery and rehabilitation is hard. John keeps things together, grits his teeth and bares it. He takes care of Keith, and even helps out with the rebuilding of the village. He can't see the bergens again, so he stays home.

John becomes one of Branch's main informants with all his traveling knowledge and a survival teacher at the training grounds. He's left in charge of village security during TWT, and panics when he can't find Keith after Branch and poppy left for the other tribes. He still gets the letter in TBT, but he's at the bunker when it happens (branch didn't get one since it's made out to his stage name and he doesn't go by it). Branch and Keith see it, and call trap, but John needs to at least check it out. He comes back just as the wedding is ending, and ropes Branch into the plan....and I let this get away from me sorry.

[secretpostsposts]

Brooooo at this point I'm literally trying to find out EVERY POSSIBLE OUTCOME of your obsessive brozone au. I AM ADDICTED🤣

So say if the special juice(I forgot how to spell it) doesn't work when jd makes branch drink during the fight. Because maybe over those 20 years of learning how to survive branch went as far as training his body to handle and fight a variety of different poisons naturally found, one of them being the special juice. So it only really weakens him and slight blear of his mind but other than that he's fine. Now say branch just gags the juice into jd's face and he's like "ew🤢" so branch takes that opportunity to pin down and knock out jd. Not killing him but probably giving him a concussion. Now that jd is out of commission, and the juice doesn't really work on branch, what do the rest of the brothers do? If branch was able to take out jd who I believe to be the strongest in terms of combat among the brother, then the others wouldn't stand a chance. How do the rest of the brothers react to the situation? Especially floyd.

Belladonna Juice; and they certainly panic, what the hell has Branch been holding on to? Has he also mutated some part of his body? At this point they are just waiting for Branch's tail to turn into the tail of some scorpion or something like that.

Clay and Bruce take care of John Dory, and Branch just looks at his brothers with betrayal, because they are crazy enough to drug him with something dangerous, although this would only leave him with the question of who twisted the 4 of them so badly.

so while Branch watches over his 3 older brothers, they are a greater threat, Bruce and Clay may not be expert fighters or have the knowledge of how to fight, but Clay is smart, too smart, and Bruce is strong, he can carry to Clay, Floyd and Branch at the same time and not to mention that he is capable of carrying one of his hybrid children, Branch knows that they are a threat just as big as John Dory.

but they are so distracted trying to wake up JD (Branch can't help but think that John is the leader, even if each one thinks individually, his other brothers will follow John almost instinctively, like a pack thought, follow the strongest ).

So he is not paying attention to Floyd who is behind him, Floyd is still weak from his captivity, so Branch does not think of him as a threat per se.

Floyd on the other hand is mentally collapsing, his baby brother beat the older one, and Floyd knows what John is capable of, he has seen his brother do horrible things to other Trolls just for breathing the wrong way in the direction of any of them. .

has seen John kill someone…

But they are talking about Branch, his brother, the baby of the family, his reason for living, John is not capable of harming him, but Floyd knows that if they don't do something they will lose him forever.

Branch didn't see it coming, he was so focused on keeping an eye on the biggest threat that he didn't see the literal predator behind him.

Clay yelled at Floyd when he saw him.

Branch turned and.

CLANK

and Branch fell to the floor unconscious and bleeding from the head, Floyd was behind him holding (I don't know where they are so I assume it's the bunker) a shovel, panting from the effort.

Clay is in shock still holding an unconscious John, Bruce runs to Branch and holds him.

"Don't leave his room" was the only thing Floyd said.

I am taking advantage of this question to say this, yes John killed (body count 2), and he was possessive with his brothers too, but as the others arrived he had a small change of priorities, Floyd and Branch have been together for 10 years so during that At the time, Floyd was the center of his brothers' "care", he did not mind losing that attention (he was already somewhat disturbed by the time Branch was born, in fact he was glad to be able to experience the same thing as his brothers, being an older brother). , but Branch is the baby, he is important

[draco-after-dark]

How do you think feral’s brozone (and co) would react to finding out about the support group?

Ooooooh this is an interesting one.

I also still need to do designs for Feral's brothers but not much changes just a few small things.

I'm going to take this in the direction of something me and a few other JD's group creators talked about before. It's basically a Brozone day where all the JD support group JD's and their brothers all meet up.

This also makes things easier because Feral can't tell his brothers about the group. For obvious reasons.

I guess it really depends on the timeframe. If were talking right after the third movie then they would all be pretty sad. They don't know where their JD is (except for Floyd but oof) and now here they are watching all these different JD's hanging out with their younger brothers. At least for the ones on good terms with each other.

They would definitely get approach by Eldest at one point or another. That man is wholesome and sweet to not check in on the group of brothers tucked in the corner with no JD insight or even near them.

Que sad convo where they explain they don't know where their JD is and that he's most likely dead. Eldest feels incredible bad and would defiantly make them hangout with his brothers for the rest of the event.

For Feral the event would be so over whelming he would tuck into a corner after running through the crowd trying to see if him brother might be here but would quickly start to panic and then run off. Hitman would probably find him hiding under a table cloth. Hitman would defiantly get some chips from grey and give Feral some snacks. Checking in on him periodically during the event.

Now if where talking a few moths after the third movie things would be a lot different. Feral would be so excited for him brothers to meet his fellow JD's. Upon entering the event he would pin point his favorite JD's very quick. Dragging all his brothers over to Eldest and Hitman. I can Feral grabbing the arms of which ever two brothers are closest to him and pulling them up into the air and shaking them around like a kid going "LOOK! LOOK! I FOUND THEM! WE FOUND EACH OTHER!"

I don't know if Eldest and Feral's brothers would recognize each other but i can see Eldest crying at the wholesome dynamic between them all. Feral's brothers all giving him head scratches like the animal his is. Feral trotting around with Floyd on his back as he gives then a tour of the house. Bruce and Feral starting a wrestling match in the living room. Snake would definingly be cheering on the sidelines or even join it dragging his brothers into the mix. So it just turns into one big play fight. Feral's Clay and Branch simple off to the side shaking their heads.

I can see Feral's Branch getting along with Grey easily and Grey giving Feral's Branch the info on the chip bag tactic. Branch may or may start keeping chips bags in his vest at all time incase a certain purple and green haired troll ever appears. Grey and Branch fist bump.

Also i see Feral grabbing Hitman abruptly when his mid conversation with some and picking him up only to place him down it front of his brothers and Hitman being the awkward man his is just stands stands well Feral starts wildly gesturing around. His brothers don't really know what his saying but clearly Feral really like this JD so after they get past the initial awkwardness they start talking. Also they all lose their minds over tiny Ronda. Clay most of all to where he starts going the shaking hands thing.

So yeah his brothers would be thrilled to know that even though their technically other versions of himself that Feral has a few nice and awesome people in his life.

It also explains where that chewed up prosthetic arm came from that they found in the bunker. Among a few other items.

So yeah they are very happy for Feral and it was nice for them to hear JD's voice again even if it's not their JD's.

Also they loose their minds over some of the stories Eldest and Grey tell them about Feral. Most notable is the chip bag and arm incidents.

They get mentioned so "Hey guys bet your weren't expecting this. L."

Eldest JD belongs to @matmiraculous

Hitman JD belongs to @lemony-and-zesty

Snake JD belongs to @gingisauce

Grey JD belongs to @ijjstlostthegame

[crumbazaar]

I rewatched Trolls Band Together, the movie still holds up really well, it's a nicely constructed story without too many clunker jokes and the character beats are all amazing imo.

Branch: Literally never takes off the vest.

The Better Place Whistles start kicking in when the team finds Bruce's postcard sunset!

Not a huge fan of the pink eye visual, but I love the design of these chars and seeing Bruce's kids touch their eyes setting up the ending joke.

Uh oh, don't rub your eye buddy!

What did I say!?

Not you too!

Save yourself, Bruce!

Velvet's instant button mash when Crimp reveals the shoulder pads kills me!

Bruce: Oh, my kids love these guys we're a total Veneer household! JD: They're the ones who have Floyd! Bruce: Ahh, it's gonna be hard to separate the art from the artist.

Viva time! Her design is awesome and they really do a nice job threading the characterization of her (and Poppy) so that they come off endearing rather than overbearing.

Poppy instant bond!

Poppy: Is this how people feel when they meet me? Branch: Yes.

This song slaps, Camila and Anna's voices mesh together so nicely and the Brozone brodown breakdown is a good changeup (while foreshadowing John Dory's overbearing nature coming back).

Viva's reveal of not wanting to let Poppy (or any trolls) leave is handled really delicately here. She doesn't even lock Poppy in anywhere, or try to keep her from anyone, she just tells her she can't leave and shuts the gate. She doesn't even physically restrain her when she goes even though as a char she does a lot of physical feats. It's nice because it doesn't overshadow the character moment of how traumatized she is from the Bergen attack. And Poppy ends the scene still trying to reach out emotionally (this will be important later!)

She literally starts panicking after taking 3 steps out of the gate. Nice shot with the shadow creating the border between the outer world and Viva's sanctuary.

Rageous cutaway. Love their designs btw. Pictured above is Vaneer resisting his Spider-Man origin moment. Also there's some theming with Floyd relaying some advice for dealing with overbearing siblings.

Cutting back to the Broz! This is my favourite bit of the whole movie outside of the finale. Everything comes to a head, the other brothers' resentment of John Dory, how they all treat Branch like he's still a baby, his bunker (which is a direct influence on why he turned out how he did). It's genuinely sad how Branch is rejected by his family, and how he tries to shut out Poppy because of how low it brings him. Basically, he tries to revert back to his loner status of the first movie (WOW!) But Poppy reaches out to him, engages genuinely with his emotional state and reassures him that she's there for him. It's really sweet!

The Brozone argument also contrasts really well with the Viva scene where she instantly assumed she was going to be with her sister for life while the brothers are all waiting to return to their regular lives without each other.

Floyd immediately recognizes how much Branch has grown unlike his brothers. It's a really cathartic moment after how much his other brothers belittle him. It's especially touching because Floyd gave it to Branch as a memento that has kind of become a security blanket. But he doesn't belittle him for caring about the vest or still wearing it.

Best Bros!

That's all I really wanted to point out. The ending is still super impressive, but I think I posted about that sequence before. Branch leading Brozone into a song with Poppy and Viva forming the perfect family harmony first with Branch and then his band is the perfect way to end this film and encapsulate the relationships that drive the franchise.

[goatcheeseandmilk]

I’m not going anywhere

Short little broppy oneshot abt poppy comforting branch 💕💙

(my first ever fanfic?? go easy on me)

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I’m Not Going Anywhere

The sun was finally setting, revealing a night sky that was covered in stars. After a long day of being on the road and trying to practice their “perfect family harmony” to save Floyd the group decided to take a break before it was time to turn in for the night. JD and Bruce were chatting off in the distance while looking at some tree and Clay was inside the bus getting his bed ready for the night. Branch was busy being lost in his own world. He sat down in the grass, running his blue fingers along the blades. Of course seeing his brothers again after all these years was great and he was happy to see them again but it also wasn’t easy. The whole ordeal exhausted him with the emotional war constantly happening in his head.

He hated the way being with his brothers made him feel like that baby again. Helpless and small watching them walk out the door, leaving him alone with their grandmother who then died at the hands of a bergen not long after. Before her death Branch could tell how much she missed her grandsons. She’d put on a happy face for him of course but he could still hear her crying sometimes at night. He held onto the hope that they would return and that they could be a family again. He built the bunker for them just like him and Floyd had planned all those years ago still hoping they’d come back. Part of him hated them for what they did to not just him but also their grandmother.

He hated them for leaving him especially when he needed them the most. He hated them for leaving him to be alone after their grandma died. He hated them for not being there to do something so their grandma didn’t have to die. He hated them even for trying to pretend like nothing happened since then, for trying to pretend like he’s still that baby they abandoned. Even with all the hate he couldn’t help but still love them. He couldn’t help but still want to be a family again and fix what had become so broken. He could recognize that they all came from broken lives in some way and that he wasn’t the only one who had suffered. All of it was confusing and hard to understand.

His complicated thoughts were interrupted by a familiar voice. One that he loved to hear, the voice that always seemed to speak the right words when he needed it. The voice that belonged to his favorite face in the world.

“Branch?” Poppy said gently, sitting down in the grass next to him, knees curled up to her chest mimicking how he was sitting, her shoulder resting against his, “Are you alright?” She spoke slowly and carefully. “Not really” is what he wanted to say but then he knew that would lead to a “what’s wrong?” and that was a question that was too complicated for him to even answer to himself.

So instead he replied, “Yea, I’m alright”, in a shaky whisper, not quite selling it like he wanted to. He assumed Poppy wasn’t going to take that for an answer and he knew that she knew better than anybody when he wasn’t really alright. It was impossible for him to hide his true emotions from her.

It was to his surprise when instead of digging for a better response she simply replied to his answer with, “I’m proud of you.” She leaned into his shoulder as she said it and tried to catch his eye.

He looked up from the ground locking his gaze into her pink eyes with a slightly confused look on his face, “For what?” he asked. She gave him a small but genuine smile.

“For all of it,” She said, grabbing hold of his hand and running her thumb along it, “for being here right now, for giving family and trust another chance, for how far you’ve come, for having such a great heart even after everything you’ve been through, all of it.” He looked back at the ground, feeling hot tears spring into his eyes that he tried to keep from falling, she kept her gaze on him and squeezed his hand. “I know this isn’t easy for you, Branch but I’m so proud of you for taking it all in so well. We’re in this together, me and you, and I’m not going anywhere, no matter what.”

Branch looked back into her eyes as she reached up with her free hand to wipe away the tears that fell despite his protest. She always knew exactly what to say to him. Most of the time he felt like he didn’t deserve someone like her. She was, without a doubt, the best thing in his life and he would do anything not to lose her.

That was one of his many reasons for being so hesitant to come on this trip. He knew it would be difficult, he knew how vulnerable it would make him, he knew how many complicated emotions would come up. He was terrified to have the girl he loved see him like this. He was scared it’d push her to give up and leave him just like everybody else had in the past, but hearing her say those words made him realize he had nothing to be scared of. She not only understood him but she accepted and loved him for where he was at.

“I love you,” He said. Three words that seemed so simple and routine but that meant everything to him. Three words that silently spoke a thousand more.

She smiled at him before she pulled him in for a hug, wrapping her arms around him tightly, “I love you too, Branch, so much.” He knew she meant it too and for that moment all of the questions without answers, all of the pain and hurt, all of the confusing thoughts and feelings didn’t matter anymore. He had Poppy and that’s all that mattered.

thanks for reading hope you enjoyed :)

I love them so much

[isabel3710]

Some random Feral! Branch and Clays thoughs/ideas because I am mentally ill and I felt silly:

- Some years after settling down in the forest, Clay learns how to make paper and now spends most of his time journaling and writing;

- At first, he tried to rewrite some of his old books from memory but found it too hard and emotionally painful to remember, but he will sometimes write some self-made sad stories as a little treat for himself;

- Branch takes the longest out of them to take on a hobby, the forever self-sacrificing and self-hating troll he is. But when he does, he tries almost anything he can think of;

- He paints, sculpts, does leather-work, baking and more. He can't and won't be stopped;

- Clay helps, food-wise, mostly by gathering and trap-making (also gardening, once they make some good progress on the building of the burrow/hideout). Branch, when he gets older, does most of the hunting and fishing (Clay is slightly embarrassed, but learns to live with it);

- The burrow or the nest (how they call their version of the bunker) is less survivalist and mechanical than canon, due this Branch being less paranoid and not having access to more advanced resources (Troll village). But this version is also way more cozy and home-like, so it balances out lol;

- They try to explore and venture out on the hopes of finding their other brothers (especially Floyd and Bruce), but think that it's way too dangerous to go far away from the burrow (and they never go in the direction of Burgentown, which is in the middle of them and Vacay Island);

- After some really long years of healing and bounding, Branch slightly regains his colours and hums/softly sings with Clay, but only in the safety of their burrow;

- Clay also rarely sings, especially before Branch does it as well, and has muted colours himself (by the 20th anniversary of the escape , they are roughly the same amount of greyish blue/green);

- To finish this ask with some angst, they have came close to reuniting John Dody many times. But because they only see Rhonda, which to them is an unknown and unpredictable animal, they always turn around or go to another direction. Jd also has spotted them once or twice, but thinks they are hallucinations at first and later, dangerous wild trolls who he rather not mess with (since by then, they stopped looking like their younger-selfs). He rarely goes close to their area, so he never made the association of those specific "hallucinations" (he had a lot of real ones during that time period) and the mysterious wild trolls.

I love all of these! Here are some of my own.

-Their burrow would only be a couple of rooms because the two spend most of their time outside.

-There isn't much in the way of furniture in their burrow, like instead of beds it's just a nest of anything comfy they kind find.

-They practically hibernate during the winter, they stay inside the whole time and sleep a lot. When Branch was younger they went out a few times so he could experience a snow day but due to lack of supplies and the cold weather they don't do this very often.

-Clay is less feral than Branch because he's older and socialized and spent time with other trolls more.

-They communicate a lot using animal sounds, for safety reasons, but Clay does his best to help Branch learn to read, write, and practice talking.

[bobbydagen24]

what are some episode ideas your hoping to see in the next tv show? assuming we do get one.

a few of mine would be.

an episode where JD and Bruce are shown still Butting heads with each other loads in present day annoying the other Bros a lot. and maybe during a Hike out in the woods or something something happens which results in JD and Bruce getting cut off from the others and being lost. leaving them stuck together in the middle of nowhere bickering over the right ways to do things with JD using all his survival skills he picked up but Bruce at first stubbornly refusing to go along with what he says given he doesn't want to admit that following JDs lead might for once be the most logical thing to do in a situation. anyway the episode could lead to them opening up to each other a bit more about their lives after the breakup. Bruce could tell JD about the effect he had on his self confidence and how difficult it actually was for him to learn to relax and not stress over every little thing he did after having him micro manage him for years. and JD could tell him more about his time he spent away from society in the 20+ years basically having no one but Rhonda for company maybe in part because he was too afraid of getting close with people and then ruining things with them like he did with their family. it'd just be good to have a little episode focused on their Rocky dynamic imo.

an episode where Branch is ill and his Brothers try to take care of him. a few other people have had this idea and someone even did a cute fanfic involving Both Kismet and Bro zone fighting over the best way to take care of Branch. but yeah I think the idea simply involving Bro zone coming around one day to find Branch so ill he hasn't left his Bunker and while he acts like its no big deal his Brothers insist on staying with him to look after him. somewhat confusing Branch but he agrees to it since he's too tired to argue with them and over the course of the episode they all lightly bicker and disagree on the right way to take care of him. while also annoying Branch with how much they mess around in his Bunker maybe not putting things back in their right places. I like to imagine this all culminates in Branch getting annoyed with them all and questioning them on what their even doing there and why they're all being so weird. kinda surprising the Brothers as they say looking after someone in the family when their sick is just normal to them. and I like the sad angsty idea of Branch not realising this and being confused by his Brothers behaviour throughout the episode since he's always just dealt with this stuff on his own in the past. kinda making his Brothers a little somber when they Realise this like they knew he'd always been independent but not to this extreme extent that he literally didn't have help even when he needed it.

this isn't really so much an entire episode idea as it just a single plot point I could imagine happening early on. that being at the start of the show Bruce is obviously only just staying in Pop Village for a short night or Two given he has to get back to Vacay. but as a plot point and an easy way to keep all the Brothers in one place for the first season I'd have something happen towards the end of the episode that makes Bruce change his mind and decide to stay in pop village a bit longer after talking it through with Brandi and making sure she'd be fine to cover while he's away. maybe something happens that makes him see things are still pretty complicated between all the brothers and he decides he should stick around a little longer until their in a more stable place.

an episode where same as the popular fan idea Floyd is shown to be claustrophobic and panics after coming out of a small space still having issues from his captivity tho he tries to hide it from other people. but it could be a nice chance for Branch to recognise what's going on with his Brother and try to talk to him about it. tho maybe after some poking and prodding Floyd ends up saying something along the lines of him suddenly having flashbacks or something. feeling like he's right back in that moment feeling helpless and like there's nothing he can do in the face of these towering giants tho Floyd thinks Branch might not understand. and this could be when he tells him exactly how their Grandma died and how helpless he felt witnessing the whole thing as a kid and how he still sometimes is reminded of that day just by ordinary everyday little things. it'd be a kinda cute bonding moment I think.

I've said before I can easily imagine an episode just focusing on Bruce and Branch as well given their vastly opposing personalities. since Bruce tries to be laid back and carefree and of course Branch is so high strung and particular especially tv show Branch. plus Bruce is probably the most Traditionally "" Normal "" out of the Brothers so I could imagine him having problems with crazier Tv Show Branch. like imagine him going over to Vacay to spend more time with Bruce and his kids only for Bruce to be weirded out to see Branch playing a game with the kids involving them having to run around lots tiring themselves out. all so Branch can at the end collect their sweat in his Jars to restock his supply in his Bunker. and when Bruce questions him on what the hell he's doing he says that his kids larger size means their sweat fills up his stocks much much quicker and easier. making it more efficient to use their sweat than his own 😂😂😂😂 and tv show Branch just continues to do stuff like this unnerving and annoying Bruce more and more to the point he eventually asks him to leave using the excuse that he's making their customers uncomfortable. and I like to think later on when talking to Brandi she'd kinda chew him out a little over it pointing out they were seen as weird at first simply for being together. I'm not really sure exactly how this episode would end but I like to think Bruce would see that he kinda just wanted Branch to fit a certain more normal idea he had of his brother. making him realise he's somewhat acting like JD used to. anyway those were a few general ideas I had for episodes I'd like to see if we do get a third show what about you what sorta episode stories would you like to see?

[blade-that-was-broken]

Intro, Stories, and Commissions!

Heya! This is my anonymous little blog for my current fixations and interests!

Name: Luthien or Blade

Age/Gender: adult woman

Level: family friendly with some violence.

Current Fixation: Dreamworks Trolls

Notes About My Work

Focus on familial and platonic bonds

Any romantic notions are never the focus

Minimal swearing on my part

Family friendly art and writing with some violence

No nudity, serious gore or smut

Feel free to ask any questions about anything - I absolutely love answering comments and questions in the asks.

Listed below not only my current series but also some other writings that I have finished! Feel free to check them out! I'd love to know what you think! Also listed are other fandoms that I am interested in and feel free to ask me about any of them! Enjoy!

Series!

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I’m Still Here - BASIC Finish

An AU where John Dory comes back to the Tree a bit earlier to raise Branch only for sixteen years later of traveling on the road with his little brother to give his life for him. Branch finds Pop Village at 16 and goes through the events of the canonical movies with the background of being a wandering traveler with his brother.

Status: Ongoing

Type: Multiple Books

Question to the World - prequel mini series - ✔️

Head Above Water - movie one - ✔️

World to Change - movie two - ✔️

Moment to Be Real - movie 3 - ✔️

Words and Whispers - Collection of Snippets

For This You Were Born

In an AU where Brozone doesn’t exist and trolls can trade their lives for the safety of their families, a mother tricks her eldest son only for him and her youngest to end up in a fight for their lives against a Bergen.

Status: Ongoing

Type: Multi Chapter Short Series

For This You Were Born - finished ✔️

Silence the Doubt - finished ✔️

By Design a Victor - currently ongoing

Half Life

In a human AU, John Dory has been working for years to get custody of his four brothers from his parents. When he finally gets it, he finds he had to fix what he inadvertently broke. As he tries to juggle a new life and protect his brothers, he does his best to repair his relationship with them.

Status - Ongoing

Type - Single Multichapter, Extra shots

Breathe Again - multi chapter - Ongoing

Unnamed - multi chapter single shots - unwritten

One Shots/Other

Trolls

Something to Believe In - An amnesiac John Dory arrives at Pop Village and ends up raising his youngest six-year old brother. (Ongoing, non-sequential shorts)

Things We Lost - Clay is snatched one day, only to be saved by his amnesiac older brother, who has no idea who he is and believes his brothers to be dead. (one shot, finished)

Divided Frame of Mind - Branch, Bruce, Clay and Floyd search for John Dory, only for Holly Darlin' (Trollstopia) to tell them he's staying in Lonesome Flatts. However, when they get there, they are not greeted how they expect. (one shot, finished)

Smoke and Starlight - a continuation beyond TBT, helped Poppy with an annual world meeting and learns about his parents and his brothers as he helps set up. (multi chapter, wip, Branch, JD and Floyd centric)

Keep Me Breathing - Upon being rescued and traveling back to Pop Village, Floyd makes some observations about his older brother and gives him a hug - which, turns out he really needed (one shot, finished)

The More I Learn, the Less I Bleed - an argument erupts in the bunker one night where the brother learns a horrifying truth - their oldest has been living his life in time loops; one of which including the last performance they did as a band. (one shot, finished)

Soldier On AU - human au, concept - John Dory hasn’t seen his brothers since their parents divorced when he was fifteen. Twenty years later, he is discharged from the military after an explosion and is slowly reunited with his brothers. (concept, snippets only)

Batman/Nightwing

Halfway Gone - Damian comes to Stephanie about Dick Grayson's apparent death with a theory. She believes him. After all, he is their Batman. (one shot, finished)

I'd Give You My Lungs - Jason had never heard the wail of a father losing his son tragically too young before. But when Damian dies, he does. (oneshot, finished)

I've Got You, Brother - Jason is glad he's the one who finds it. Jason hates that he is the one who finds it. But his brother is alive. And he needs to find out what happened. (one shot, finished)

Other Interests Include (Not Limited To)

Star Wars (Jedi specifically), Lord of the Rings (my username lol), Tangled (New Dream), The Mummy 1999, Psych, TMNT (2012 mostly), Transformers Prime, ATLA, Bones, Leverage, Nightwing (my favorite bat), Smallville (Clois), GotG, Treasure Planet, HtTyD, Elementary, Chuck, Stargate (Mostly Atlantis lol), X-Men, GL:A, VM (Logan Echolls deserved better), Once Upon a Time (captain swan, oof) and Narnia.

I have a few pop funkos, love getting involved in zines, and collect art and pins (collections being mostly AragornxArwen and New Dream but small collection of Nightwing, Star Wars, the Mummy 1999 etc).

This Post will be subjected to editing and reclogging with continued works, interests, changes and fandoms.

[misscinnamonroll16]

Brozone and the bunker part 4 and maybe the last part

You go down the last set of stairs and see two archways, to your right is the bathroom. That's Brandy in the living room btw. The outfit hanging on the wall is just one of their old outfits (again trying to fill space)

I imagine branch was old enough to remember that sharing a bathroom with his brothers sucked so he tried to make it not suck. Individual stalls for the toilets and showers. And a nice corner tub. There's not much clutter I can put in a bathroom that I didn't already put in each of their rooms 😕

Last room technically, the living room/dinning room/ kitchen. It's a big space and there were certain things I wanted to for sure put in. Like the bookcases on the walls, a bar for Bruce and Brandy to make drinks, different types of sofas, branchs round table that's seen in the TV series and movies and a decent sized kitchen. It was hard making the dinning room because they only seat a maximum of 8 (which isn't bad) but don't take up a lot of space. I wanted the living room to look mismatched bc branch acquired different things over the years. The bar is giving, like Bruce's room, beachy/sunny vibes. The dinning kinda sucks, even the biggest table didn't take up much space so I just made it wood to fit the woodsy vibe of branchs bunker. Blue was chosen as the main color bc that's branchs color, I'm realizing now I could have done brown or green or black but idk if that would have worked as well. So here's a blue kitchen, it has a coffee maker bc I imagine branch, JD and occasionally the others drink coffee. You can't see it in the photo but I used the vintage fridge, like he stole his grandma's fridge. I also added the fire thing (I forget what it's called) bc branch is prepared for anything, especially fire. Another thing you can't see, on the right wall I put up two aprons, a blue one and a lighter blue one with flowers. Like saying 'heres branch and Poppy's aprons'

That's all unless y'all wanna see the girls

@djmurphy @aerodominics @cow-boy000 @sharks-n-bones

[raiinshowers]

Making a trolls au based off The Croods

'What happens to BroZone’s parents?'

The same thing as Guy's.

It was little Branch's first outing, and as was tradition in the family, he was the only one of their children to go out with them. After not one of the three came back before the end of sunset, John knew that they wouldn’t be returning. He took over. Like his parents had always prepared him to do. Just like Grug in the movie (and like with the BroZone band), he would micromanage everything, but only to try and keep his remaining family safe. Later on he found signs of their parents and Bitty B around the tar(?)… he could assume what had happened. At least Grandma Rosiepuff is still around! (she’s a tad crazy)

John Dory never told anyone else what he saw. They moved immediately. Bitty B would finally find his way back home, alone, only to find it abandoned.

He would always think that he should have been able to save his parents

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Remember how everybody always thought Branch was catastrophizing about disasters in the 1st Trolls movie?

Yeah, that happens again. (same poses and expressions ha)

Branch also still went gray in this au, just this time due to watching his parents die. And it only got worse after finding their old cave empty and the rest of his family gone, almost as if they were never even there (were they? did he just imagine them?)

The Trolls movie roles are a bit reversed here. His brothers are the ones hiding in something like a 'bunker' (the Croods cave), always on the alert, while he spends the years roaming the lands. Eventually he doesn’t really remember that he once had a family outside of his parents. He doesn’t even remember his actual name: just something like 'B', or 'Bitty'. But that’s not a name. So he goes by — yep — 'Guy'. (Not to be confused with Guy Diamond). When he does 'meet' them again a decade or two later, he doesn’t recognize them at first, and they don’t either. They’ve never known a gray troll after all. John Dory doesn’t even trust him. At least, not until around the end of the movie's events… when 'Guy's' backstory is revealed and it sounds awfully familiar to old JD…

There's only one thing Poppy remembers about her sister —

She had loved the light.

As mentioned in The Croods, they once had other neighboring families that were over time, picked off. Following a disaster with Poppy's own family years ago they were all assumed to be dead besides her. After the fresh loss of his own sibling and parents, John Dory didn’t hesitate to take the orphaned trolling in to live with his grandmother and (remaining :)) brothers. And that’s where Eep's role came in.

One day though Poppy will reunite with her older sister 💕 Maybe even her dad too!

Come on…… Look at these two, you can’t tell me they don’t scream Poppy and Branch

They could even still have the whole 'grrr'/'rawr' thing going on

The brothers are all very protective over Poppy after losing their little sibling

Imagine them + Poppy doing a sleep pile or kill circle. 🙁💕

ALSO THAT would totally be Rhonda beside them :)

[jillianfahey]

Trolls AU - John Dory's Best Friend

AKA, my idea to give Branch someone to raise and love him no matter what and stay somewhat near cannon.

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I was thinking in a twist of cannon one of John Dory's best friends is a female troll named Lily he has known since they had hatched. The two have always been together as their mothers were best friends as well, so whenever the adult would meet or need someone to watch the kids they would be stuck together. So over the years she started helping him out with being the oldest and the other brothers love her, going to her more often than John.

When they are teens and the Band is a thing, Lily is supportive but keeps trying to keep John grounded. Reminding him that yes he's the leader of the band but he is also their older brother and to take it easier on them. We all know that he does not listen to that advice so she tries to take care of the fall out from his words and actions.

One of the things they do is keep watch for bergens together, sitting near the top of the troll tree. It is one of the times JD fully starts to relax knowing that she has no expectations for him. It is in one of these sessions that life takes a turn and they touch enough to make an egg. JD doesn't remember it and Lily does not press him about it, deciding the discussion about the egg can wait until after the big tour with Bitty B.

The day after the disastrous opening show and the band abandoning Branch and their grandmother Lily comes by to see if she can help. Hearing the situation she is torn between comforting the baby and immediately marching out to drag the idiot of the eldest back by the ear. But the baby's need won out and she moved into the pod to help until the brothers came back.

When Grandma Rosiepuff got eaten, Lily was visiting another pod and came back to a distraught Branch. The egg had hatched by this time and the trolling was sleeping in her hair as usual, when she picked up the sad little grey troll reassuring him again that she would never leave him.

Though the next twenty years Lily always kept that promise, changing things for him and helping him build the bunker for the three of them to live in. Staying behind in the first two movies to make sure that things at the village were safe and running smoothly with Branch taking the turn to promise he would come back. And when JD crashes Bridget and Gristel's wedding you can bet that Lily has an earful waiting for him. He is not getting near the boy that SHE raised.

[secretpostsposts]

In your story possessive Brozone x Tangled

Will Branch and his brother stay in a pod in the troll tree or will they build the bunker?

Btw I want tell you I really really really love this idea of story !

I can't wait to see poppy and creek took branch to a adventure 👀👀🤩 and make him understand what is freedom

a little of both? The brothers build a bunker, in a very thick and very large tree, yes they also have a level in the basement for storms, but more than anything in a hollow trunk in a very live tree, I don't know if it makes sense, there are no windows or doors, well there are 2 doors (but like in the Tangled movie one is hidden), but the main door is very high above ground level, and the brothers instilled in Branch a phobia of heights to prevent him from leaving ( It was more of a trap, which included an 8 year old Branch alone for many days, childish curiosity and hypervigilance/harassment by JD and Floyd for 1 and a half weeks; which almost ended with an accidental homicide, guess who was the almost dead?), to have access to the main door you need to know where to look because it is blocked by many leaves, which also prevents Branch from seeing the outside