#the 3 magical being things from troll hunters

[cattonicdragon]

Finally someone who also adds viggo and the troll hunters villains.

Anways so true bestie dreamworks>>

Friendly reminder that Dreamworks villains are superior.

[zan0tix]

Pleaseeee tell me more about that homescryption au

A little something between you and me and everyone else who happens to look at this post. Im working on a lineup for the four scrybes :D

Roxys design is subject to change and you guys have already seen D1rk. Jane and Jake are in progress!!! (Also D1rk and Harley are the names for dirk and jake but weve been struggling to come up with appropriately fantasical/magical names for Jane and Roxy that align with magnificus and grimora😞 Harley feels old-manish enough that it fits in well… im sure well get there but if anybody has ideas feel free to comment ✌️)

But yes i can tell you more!!! ILL PUT IT ALL UNDER THE CUT THIS POST IS GOING TO BE LONG o7

Working with cyrus repliiku to flesh it out x3 he was the one who got me into the game and im CRAZY NOW!!!!

The four alpha scrybes methods of inscribing cards are that Harley uses his magic blunderbuss and the things he shoots become cards, Roxys cards are the fantasical characters she creates in her stories, Jane will be a detective of death, uncovering how cards die and writing up a casefile in her detective agency about them (might give her a magic magnifying glass. Well see), and D1rk were trying to figure out something with Sburbs captcha card + ghost captcha system like how Po3’s cards are printed from real robots

The students/the scrybes underlings are going to be other homestuck characters or splinters!

D1rks will be the robots (aradiabot, arquius (wanted him to me more unique than just brobot + hal so he gets to be a robot) and jadebot.

Harleys will be jake-ish splinters rather than new characters. Thered be the Adventurer (prospector), the Hunter (trapper/trader), the Sailor (angler), the Ectobiologist (mycologists), and the Actor (woodcarver) and his campaigns would be more Action packed like jakes action movies type stuff hehe

Janes will be the dead trolls, nepeta, equius and feferi. Not much to say besides them being dead lol 😭

And roxys were still figuring out but nerm. Viceroy/Casey, Rose (maybe goobert but they are actually nice and kind to her) and Eridan….(lonely wizard he was banished to the shadow realm for being annoying 😁👍)

Luke Carter is going to be Calliope and Satan in the greater scheme of the daniel mullins-verse will be Caliborn/Lord English because i think itd be very funny for him to just. Be making video games and thats his evil plot. LOL and Sado would be Gamzee. (Will not expand to pony island or the hex this is just clearing up the ending of inscryption)

Kaycee would probably be Aranea but like just some normal girl. Not all that sure abt the OLD_DATA tho ??? Maybe just all the wrong doings Lord English has committed and influenced culminated into the files or the code that brought him into the universe I DUNNO.

Retconning the drawing i did when i first scribbled this AU, i believe when harley turns the other scrybes into preexisting cards d1rk would become a seagull (kingfisher replacement) roxy would become a jaguar (wolf replacement) and jane would become a jackalope (pronghorn replacement) 😁

And the way harley would be defeated would be using his blunderbuss on him with a special bullet instead of film. Po3’s decapitation fulfilled the Dirk prophecy too LOL

I think that of the gameplay/card gimmicks themselves would work basically the same but i might try and come up with more creative homestucky twists on them

Im planning on finishing the designs and making sprites and more mockup screenshots :3

I might write up or draw a comprehensive ref sheet for this au someday but for now heres what weve jotted down 👍

[ottosbigtop]

Thinking abt trolls 3 and why it picked up so much traction compared 2 the other 2 movies. Like technological advancements aside I think the main thing is just the character lineup.

Movie one was mostly branch and poppy. All the kidnapped trolls operated as One entity really so it’s not like u could particularly??? Care about them too much. Bridget and Gristle were really really fun but the villain wasn’t anything particularly special or noteworthy judging by just how little people. Talk about her. OH and also creek was there (literally forgor im rereading this for typos and adding this now) but like. Oh no the guy who showed up for like 5 minutes is a Bad guy and im supposed to care about the quest to save him mostly just because theyre telling the audience they should care because Poppy cares . But theres just not a lot of setup (and Creeks just not that. Interesting?)

Second movie had considerably More bangers and was definitely going in the right direction character wise. But it had the Opposite problem with wayyy too many guys that were really interesting and not a lot of time to do anything with them. You get King Trollex’s intro, Biggie, Cooper and Prince D and their parents, Delta Dawn, and Allll the bounty hunter trolls, PLUS Barb and the rock trolls. Barb was definitely a prime example of a major upgrade from the movies, having a villain that the audience actually vibed with and u could Tell by fan reactions I think. (Parb sweep) But there was just. Sooo so much, on top of the lore dump and a plot that you really had to get cool with really quick to get invested in. theres a bunch of new trolls and these strings that are definitely super important promise (lie)

The third one feels like they finally like. Know what theyre doing. With their own universe. No big lore dumps, theres not even any Explanation for what Mount Rageous is, they just introduce you to it and the Rageons with confidence thru Velvet and Veneer and expect you to get it. Plus, theres still a lot of characters, but theyre much more tangibly connected now. All the brozone brothers are well established and have preestablished relationships with each Other so even if we dont get much time with them it doesn’t feel like theyre that out of place. It still requires some suspension of disbelief vis a vis “Branch had Four super secret brothers hes Never mentioned,” but they make it work and frankly, the set-up is a lot more easier to get invested in than “secret magical strings that Invented Magic I Guess.”

And with Brozone and Viva theres a connection To the main characters rather than just being tag-alongs for tag-alongs sake. They’ve all got their own niches to make them individually compelling but theres a connecting thread here so they still feel like they’re a part of the story. And they’re all there to do something!! And then Velvet and Veneer of course continue the vibe that Barb had of being villains with enough screen time and personality that you like them As characters and arent just viewing them as The Plot Obstacle. Which is cool i think. Overall i just think the third movie felt a Lot more confident to do what the fuck ever and thats Really good.

[initial-lime]

Stardew valley “lore” ramble for my own game below the cut,, I’m like halfway trough my second year (first time playing) and have just been making shit the fuck up, if you correct/spoil me on ANYTHING I will hit you with my car. Applause and intrigue only

So,, farmer “hunter” (me :3) comes to the valley after being given the farm by mysterious dying grandpa with the shitty bed (I’d be dying too if you bed looked like that)

Spends the first 3 weeks of the game chopping down trees and weeding in a haze, as you do,

Eventually goes “oh yeah I should probably talk to these villager people a little,,”

I end up walking into the clinic after almost dying in the mines for the first time, like maybe,,, 3 pixels of health left, accidentally give Harvey a granola bar trying to talk to him (I did not know you can’t be holding items when talking to people) he asks if it’s “healthy” (Harvey doesn’t like my granola bars ): )

I obviously think that’s fucking hilarious, guy walks into the clinic practically bleeding out, gives the doctor a granola bar (that he hates) and then leaves.

I make it my mission to piss off harvey more so I get him a coffee the next day because y’know,, caffeine is “bad” for you, which APPARENTLY he LOVES, which is obviously where I fall in love with the nerd because he’s stupid and adorable.

I keep up my “charades” of buying him coffee twice a week, saying various things such as “this one’s poisoned for sure” meanwhile building up my farm and my skills, getting to know some of the other villagers also, like Linus and stuff (Linus is my bff)

Around fall I finally buy Harvey a bouquet and we start dating 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨 (yippie) winter passes without seeing him much (grinding money in the mines/fishing)

Eventually the first rainy day in spring I propose to my boy (he says yes obviously) and we get married (yippie x2)

Me and Harvey now live together on the farm (:

Specifically farmer “lore” vv

I like to think the farmer isn’t human, or at least not fully,, y’know we never hear about a “grandma” and like??? Stuff in the valley grows SUPER fast and the farmer is inherently very strong (can carry a bunch of stuff) all’at

So. The farmer is a supernatural creature sort of like a nature?? Protector?? Kinda thing?? (Inspired by ye’ Scandinavian trolls, because I’m Danish so y’know obviously my main viewing lens is from that perspective) we’re once they’re given/take a piece of land (grandpa giving me the farm) they’re bound to it and act as a protector and amplifier for that land, everything in the valley grows so fast because the farmer is passively magic.

The farmer can either have a “monster” form or a human disguise, for the first half of the game the farmer is in human disguise because people are generally distrusting of the supernatural but as he befriends the villagers he’s in monster form more and more (since that’s his natural look)

Since I’m Romancing Harvey I like to think Harvey had a suspicion but only found out about the whole monster thing after they got married but before everyone else finds out, he probably gets super excited about it since he’s a doctor and he’s like “omg,, you could study this” (nerd lol)

Uh yah 👍 there’s more but I think I’ll save that for later lol

[hermitdrabbles56]

!

I would love to hear about disguises and balls, just another beast, and troll hunters.

(⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) also if u want someone to rubber duck with, I'm open!

I have no idea what rubber ducking is but whatever it is absolutely!!And same too you! So here we go!

Starting off with Disguises and Balls!!

It's inspired by this amazing post right here

Currently the plot is that there was an assassination attempt on Dot and the chain has manged to track down the origin of the assassin and have to sneak into a ball to get more information and either find the assassin or whoever hired them.

Legend is absolutely unhinged in this fic, full feral, and he's devised the perfect elaborate plan that involves him and Twilight dressing up and going to the ball because they can pull it off discreetly by disguising themselves as a couple that had been invited but were most definitely never going to show.

The fic is basically my excuse to let Twilight feel pretty while still having a fun plot. Also sort of kind of me playing around with gerudo Twilight in a way.

"Okay…so that's all worked out but we still don't know who to send in, let alone who can pretend to be this Adalhard fellow." Sky says as he rocks on his heels where he's crouched, still peering over the maps as he does. 

"Yes we do, in fact we have the perfect person." Legend states with a grin.

"Really?" Wars says skeptically. 

"Yes really." 

"One of us is perfectly capable  of playing an exotic gerudo lookin…tan..skinned redhead…" 

Warriors voice slowly tapers into realization as he and the rest of the group follow Legends' smug gaze to where it's settled. His eyes locked onto Twilight who has returned his focus to diligently fixing Times chainmail. The big guy being completely oblivious to their conclusions. 

"Yeah…yeah he would fit perfectly." Four manages as he blinks a bit. 

"Who would fit?" Twilight murmurs, still not looking up as carefully links the complicated metal loops together. 

"You would." Legend states in a playful yet matter of fact tone. 

"Hehe, very funny." Twilight chuckles as he keeps working. Legends words taking a moment to actually register to him before a look of confusion hits him. Finally looking up and over to the eight pairs of eyes now watching, some shocked, some excited, and some unreadable. "Wait what?" 

"You, you make the cut and you're going in there as Heir Adalhard." Legend says  

"No the fuck I am not!" Twilight blurts out as he gets a somewhat panicked look on his face. 

Next! Just Another Beast

This one is my friendly fire au. It's got the first chapter out and oh boy does it get worse from there.

Wr0ng and Neutral have both heard how cursed its going to get

It's absolutely fucked

Ummmmmmm

Lemme just bullet point a few things

The next few chapters is them just trying to find and catch up to Twilight while things rapidly go down hill, but they aren't the only ones looking for him.

Dink is also in the caves and takes an interest in Twilight because of the shadow magic.

After all the cave business and they've sorted everything out, they get a brief respite at the ranch

After the ranch Twilight starts to act a little weird and more and more unlike himself. Standoffish, snappy, even mean and uncaring. followed by bouts of confusion sorrow and guilt that just worsen as time goes on.

Potions stashes go missing, weapons start malfunctioning and falling apart or just straight up go missing.

Worst of all monster packs with mini boss level beasts keep ambushing them all at random points in the night and Twilight is almost always strangely absent

>:3 its a very fun one that I hope to get back into soon. But it's also very vary dark and absolutely horrific.

Here's a little of what I do have of the second chapter

"...What the fuck just happened?" The Sailor finally pipes in. "Seriously what the actual fuck just happened I turned around and Hyrule was on the ground and Legend was chasing Rancher like a mad man!? What fucking gives!" 

"Wind…just take a deep breath I'm sure there's-" 

"You're sure there's what old man?!" Legend snaps. "A fucking explanation that's better than what happened? Rancher just nearly cut Hyrule in half! Don't you dare try and treat him like an innocent teacher's pet right now." 

Time shoots a harsh glare towards Legend as a look of horror crosses Wind's face.

And finally!! Troll hunters Again is just a troll hunters fic!

It takes place after the movie as horrifyingly cringe as it was it left for some lovely angst potential.

Jim goes back in time, and redoes things but this time lets Toby have the adventure of being the troll hunter. He's there with him every step of the way and goes through every possible extent that he can to make sure History won't repeat itself.

Couple key points I've established:

He still has the amulet Krel made but only uses it in extreme emergencies until later on. It allows him to travel through time in small doses.

Jim remembers absolutely everything and is understandably a little fucked up because of it and boy does he sound confusing sometimes

Toby gets his hammer sooner >:3, come on he's war hammer he's gotta have his hammer. Jim rigs the system so he gets it.

It's kind of a fic/chat fic because of how often these teenagers use their phones and Gods I need to binge watch tales of Arcadia again and get back into it so I can work on this fic because a love it alot. So many interactions go differently but all of the best relationships are still there and GAH!! HHHHH

Here's a clip

It's about and hour and half later that he makes his way back over to Toby's. The sky now completely dark as he climbs the steps to Toby's door. Listening quietly to the door for a brief moment. 

"This! Is the most sacred of mantles, and honor to have bestowed upon you. Now would you Please Stop Throwing things at us!" That familiar educational tone sounds all too familiar along with what sounds like canned goods hitting the wall. 

"Hell no! Hey hey back up big guyaaAAAA!!!" 

"Got you." 

Jim quietly opens and closes the door before making his way silently across the floor boards. Taking a brief moment to collect himself for the upcoming act before stepping to where he can actually see them and be seen. 

"What in the world!?" He exclaims loudly to draw their attention putting on his best look of shock and confusion. 

Arrrg currently has a hold of Toby, though the teen is upside down. The big gentle giant looks at Blinky who is beginning to freak out now. 

"Arrrg! This is precisely why I said you should keep watch!" Blink says in a panic. 

"Oops..sorry." Arrrg says with a small frown. 

"Put me down, put me down!" Toby shouts as he wiggles around until the big guy lets him go. Followed by Toby crawling quickly across the room until he can hide behind Jim. "These crazy monsters came out of nowhere!"

"How dare you, we are not monsters. We are peaceful trolls!" Blinky says in an offended tone. 

"Trolls?!" Toby exclaims. 

 "Yes.." Arrrg says with a nod. 

"Like...hobbit level die in the sunlight trolls or Hilda level sentient rocks that go dormant during daylight?" Toby asks as he slightly steps to the side of Jim but is still mostly behind him. 

"Ah...well..some of both I suppose?" Blinky says in a confused tone. "What is a Hobbit and a Hilda?" 

"Hobbit is a movie, Hilda is a cartoon...is it like..living stone but can't go in sunlight..?" Jim 'guesses' to move the topic along before looking to Toby. "Why are you using me as a human shield?" 

"You were dumb enough to challenge Steve you may be a noodle but your more danger built than me!" Toby states causing Jim to roll his eyes a bit.

[sharpen-jadescythe]

Sharpen's Warband, 3

In the packed Dalaran portal room...

"This is impossible." Hotchkiss glowered, and it was especially dark for a demon hunter. "There are too many idiots in here. We should just save the world some trouble and CUT THEM DOWN."

It was so loud in the Dalaran portal room, nobody really heard Hotch's threat. Sharpen had, though. He shouldered his new crossbow, but kept getting squeezed as people pushed to get through. There were only three glowing silver portals, and worse, it wasn't clear whether this one was the one to enter, or if that one was where people were returning from. Or if that one over there led to a displacement site that was currently active or what.

"I... don't know--"

"Idiots!!" Hotch snarled again. He didn't like getting shoved, he decided to be the one shoving people back.

"Goddess only knows what's keeping that shifty Al. But where is Hainko?" Sharpen hoped that would be enough of a subject change for the irate demon hunter.

"She used her magic to avoid all this, obviously! A shaman can just go to wherever the elements need them, can't they?"

"Well, I doubt Thrall was standing on the other side, arms wide open to catch her like some giggling tauren-sized, woman-child. It's got to be hectic on her end, too. Maybe if we can communicate with her somehow, she could tell us which portal to enter?"

"She abandoned us!!" Hotch near-roared with his frustration.

"Hokaaay. This was a bad plan." Sharpen began to look around for any help at all. No one official seemed to be about. Unless they were already flattened beneath the throng.

A woman's familiar voice pealed nearby, "The Kirin Tor doesn't need help from adventurers, they need travel agents!"

"Trixany!"

"Oh gods, it's him! Why are you so obsessed with me, Sharpen? Stop following me!"

Trixany was joking of course. Well, he hoped. He was never sure, with that one.

Sharpen attempted to introduce the two Blood Elves, though there was a crowd pressing in on all sides.

"Trixany, this is my new demon hunter buddy, Hotchkiss. He's incubus-infused. Hotch, this is my friend Trixany. As in Horde B-celebrity Trixany Cuomo, rival to Haris Pilton? She's goblin-infused--"

"Don't tell him that! Hey, isn't that traitor tauren Hainko supposed to be with you? I've got the rest of the Kaja-Cola Flava Girls in my warband. This is Mojo Jojo, Black Cherry Dhalia, and Shuga Slam."

A Troll, a Forsaken woman, and an Orc, all of them in slightly flashy armor and makeup, tried to make a greeting in the press of other armored, agitated, heroes' bodies. Sharpen had met these ladies before. "Aren't there like twelve of y'all?"

"Girls, he thinks he's teasing us, but he's not being very funny, is he?"

Hotch grunted, "Somebody didn't make the cut."

Sharpen noticed the edge of Hotch's grin returning, despite hectic circumstances. Trixany's mood started to lighten, too. She playfully stuck out her tongue.

"Alright, I call a timeout. Let's pretend this is a game of carpball and we need a break after a rough play. Let's go find someplace to sit down, away from this crowd, huh? We can't get anything done for Khadgar while trapped in here anyway."

The Legerdermain Lounge was an old, reliable comfort by now. All the upstairs rooms were booked up, as expected on such a day. But there was patio seating beyond the carved marble screen along the wall. A nice result of the coffee shop expecting so many people.

They had tea. Sharpen felt anxious, knowing so much was wrong with the world and they couldn't get out there to address the problem. However, the Alliance, nor the Horde, had conscripted any soldiers yet. Things weren't exactly dire. Just... disorganized.

Shuga Slam, the orc lady, was always pretending to be from a different clan. Whatever seemed to be trending. She had finally done the unthinkable and claimed to be a Mag'har Orc from alternate Draenor. Trixany hated it.

"You don't even look like a Mag'har! You still have that fel-green skin."

"...Only on my father's side. Like Garrosh."

Several of them hissed in breath, decided not to touch that topic.

"Your dear leader." Hotch waggled his glass of tea. Iced tea. Everyone else had ordered a steaming cup of brewed tea from the pot. Again, he wasn't the edgiest demon hunter around, was he? By comparison to the Illidans of the world, he was sort of a... B-demon hunter.

They tried to speak about pleasantries again, or keep predictions about the portal situation light. However, Hotch in his blindfold was getting hotter glares from Shuga each time the conversation went around the table.

Finally, the worst thing happened.

"... I know you," Shuga bared a fang. "I used to know you well."

Trixany snorted laughter, "Not if you were a Mag'har on alternate Draenor! Uh-ooooh!!" And she high-fived her friends.

Sharpen remained concerned, though. He had to live with this guy. All their supplies and weapons, their maps and other documents, their lives, everything was mingled together back at their base camp in Thalzdraszus. They shouldn't fall out.

"Well, isn't that, whatever it is, in the past?" Sharpen shrugged, tried to be helpful.

Shuga nudged Trixany, hard. She had to do it twice. "Trixany, are you really going to tell me you don't recognize this guy?"

Trixany blinked, "Well. I admit that he does resemble my long-lost little brother some. Except that this guy's a platinum blonde. By the way? Go off, king!" She snapped her fingers with attitude, "You demon hunters have been through enough. Yes, you dye that hair! Go find yourself some joy, amirite?"

Sharpen kept looking from Hotch, to Trixany. And back to Hotch again. The others were doing the same.

Sharpen smacked his forehead and leaned over the table. "That's... that's Trixany's brother." He muttered to himself. "It's so obvious."

Hotchkiss high-fived Trixany, suddenly very upbeat, especially for a demon hunter. "Thank youuu! I followed someone I cared about to the Outland a while back. I even joined the Sunfury for her, when she did. Eventhough I knew it was wrong to follow our prince down an evil road. But still, I always feared she would reject the monster I had to become. However... you approve?"

Everyone sat there, extremely uncomfortable and quiet.

"I mean, yeah, whatever. Like I said. You do you." And then she ordered more macarons for the table. "These are good, but aren't as cool as the Tarts' macarons, you guys remember those? So much glitter!"

Welp. At least now Sharpen knew why this mysterious demon hunter had showed up in his life, his warband. But were they gonna survive the Cuomo blunder twins not dealing with the obvious??

Sharpen eyed Hotchkiss very hard, to please tread carefully. There was a lot of rough adventure ahead of them, yet. They needed to pay strict attention to--

Then Sharpen blurt out, "Wait, so Burmussia, Coco, Sandy Dunes, and that other Kaja-Cola Flava Girl whatsherface, are now in another warband? Haha! So this IS a second, B-warband isn't it? Didn't I say it?! Trixany, you guys didn't make the cut after all--OW!!"

Then again, Sharpen the himbo always was so easily distracted.

[absmare]

AbsintheNightmare Fic Masterlist

Making one of these because I can, all my fics in one post ✨

✨Spark Claimed Rated T, 3.8k, oneshot Yeosang/Seonghwa, pirate AU, prequel to Undrowned

✨Undrowned Rated M, 78.4k, 23 chapters (completed) Yeosang/Seonghwa, background polyteez, pirate AU featuring tasteful tentacles

✨Error: Could Not Communicate Rated T, 26.7k, 18 chapters (completed) Wooyoung/Yeosang/San, background seongjoong & yungi, university/college AU, chatfic

✨Blue Band-Aid  Rated M, 11k, oneshot Hongjoong/Seonghwa (kind of but not really), vampire AU, soulmates AU gone wrong

✨You Had One (Dragon Slaying) Job Rated T, 14.1k, oneshot Hongjoong/Yeosang, fantasy AU, 14k of Hongjoong trolling mercenary Yeosang, written for Spring Fantasy Exchange

✨Hippity Hoppity, Found Your Property Rated T, 14k, 3 chapters (completed) Wooyoung/Yeosang/San, university/neighbors AU, established woosan, Wooyoung throws things out of the window, Yeosang picks them up

✨Worth A Scandal (Or Seven) Rated M, 32.1k, 8 chapters (completed) Yeosang/Everyone, victorian/edwardian AU, just Yeosang being a slutty gentleman socialite and rest of Ateez adoring him

     ✨Metsänpeitto Rated T, 35.7k, 5 chapters (completed) Wooyoung/Yeosang, Finnish folklore inspired historical AU, slight horror elements

✨Silent Distress Rated M, 29.8k, 5/? chapters (on hiatus) Hongjoong/Yeosang + polyamory shenanigans, fairytale AU, prince Hongjoong & cursed voiceless damsel in distress (sort of) Yeosang

✨People Die If They’re Killed... Except Him, Apparently Rated M, 16.8k, 3 chapters (completed) Wooyoung/Yeosang/San, serial killers/immortal AU, established murder husbands woosang, immortal San who wants his wallet back (Also available as a podfic!)

✨Adjusting Rated M, 40.6k, 18 chapters (completed) Yunho/Yeosang, Seonghwa/Wooyoung, university/college AU, chatfic (better and more chaotic than the first one)

✨The Final Route (Extra Hard Mode) Rated M, 5.7k, oneshot Wooyoung/Yeosang/Seonghwa, lowkey fantasy AU, Ateez dorm for the slightly peculiar, bantacles (banter + tentacles) (Also available as a podfic!)

✨No Ordinary Boy Rated T, 11.7k, 2 chapters (completed) Yunho/Yeosang, mermaid/siren urban fantasy AU, strangers to lovers, written for Spring Fantasy Exchange (Also available as a podfic!)

✨All Grown Up Rated M, 27.7k, 3/6 chapters (in progress) San/Yeosang, Hongjoong/Yeosang, 80s/90s small town horror AU, eldtrich Hongjoong and evil eggs, Yeosang has a bad time, San is a hot biker

✨Wouldn’t Harm A Fly... Rated M, 51.1k, 4/5 chapters (in progress) Wooyoung/Yeosang/San, vampire/magic AU, vampire Yeosang, mage San, vampire hunter Wooyoung, established sansang

✨Rasputinian Death Express Rated E, 10.4k, 1/3 chapters (in progress) Yunho/Yeosang, vague historical AU (early 20th century), murder mystery set in a train, aspiring author Yeosang, rich boy Yunho, sugar baby lessons from Seongjoong, written for 0615 Fest

Will keep this updated! Remember to heed the tags and author’s notes!

[smokestarrules]

Caught some good Hunter/Willow posts on here.  Was wondering what you think of some of these headcanons well more about Hunter and an unrelated one having to do with ASiaS:

1. I just imagine if Huntlow took a romantic turn (even if just Post-Series) that he would find Willow’s strength to be attractive.  Maybe coming upon her while she’s working out an being a little smitten at the sight.

2. Kind of imagine Hunter being happy to read any book, especially cause that bit in Hunting Palismen where he relates to Luz his reading on Wild Magic.  You know as he arguably sounds like a real kid in that moment.  So I see him if given the chance to go through the Good Witch Azura.  And with the airing of ASiaS, thinking he might be a potential Book Club member.

Between this and #1, I half expect Eda to tease that all girls are turning his brains to mush.

3. Speaking of Eda, I don’t know if she would ever read the GWA books, but I believe she would force herself to read any fan works published by her kids from in and out of the house.  And if a troll online makes the most hateful comments just cause, then yeah.  Mama kill:-D.

–

Aw, I love these! I feel like Hunter would fight a bit before reading TGWA, but after he figures out that Luz co-wrote Ruler’s Reach, well…. he’s not gonna get more embarrassed than that LMAO. And Eda would absolutely read everything her girl writes, 100%. She is AGGRESSIVELY supportive in all things and that doesn’t exclude Luz’s writing. 

[toh-tagteam-au]

Okay the whole "brother/sister" thing is so witch coven-y, it's perfect

Why do I picture Hunter, if he can get away with it, would just go ahead and refer to Amity as his sister's girlfriend to Ed and Em? Just being on the chaotic sibling/troll squad

How does the first meeting face to face with Eda go? I got the feeling it's along the lines of Luz being "that woman is everything I aspire to be" and Hunter being "oh no, she's not" while blocking her from going any further with a hand to the face

Does this mean Willow and Amity will never patch things up?

Think Hunter ever picks up some Spanish from Luz's occasional expressions?

1) Honestly it’s slightly modeled off of how Lilith talks to Eda in season 1. It probably gives them the air of being pretentious too. 

2) Oh man Hunter’s dynamic with the Blights. You’ll see when the first arc is done how that might potentially go down. 

3) Meeting Eda is coming up actually! Unfortunately, Eda is more of a means to an end with Luz at first. Being under Belos has put Luz under a lot more scrutiny (trying to keep up with her witch coworkers), and her position tends to keep her busy/distracted from doing things that SHE likes. For now, Luz’s mindset is a to-do list of goals, and trying to convince Eda to teach them the wild magic needed to heal Belos is just a bullet point. If anything, Hunter would probably warm up to Eda faster bc he doesn’t compartmentalize as hard. 

4) Willow and Amity, depending on how scripting goes, will most likely have a moment during the Covention! I don’t think they’ll “make up” but it’ll definitely get the ball rolling on Amity’s development. After that, I have no clue how the memory situation would go so far. 

5) YES! He’s not fluent or anything, and no one else in the Isles knows it but Luz so it’s not like he has a need to know, but he def picks up a few things that he mutters to himself. A favorite of his is the one canon Luz says in Looking Glass Ruins, “No te preocupes, todo va a salir bien”, since I imagine Tag-Team Luz says it often for comfort (to remind her of her mom). Hunter associates it with comfort in turn and sometimes chants it when he’s stressed, kind of like a calming mantra. 

[ambivalence-and-torpor]

Troll WIPs

Mostly for myself so I don’t forget all the ideas I’ve been gathering and working on, because I’m an easily excitable dude who’s also very easy to distract and awfully tired and forgetful... so you might see how that might affect what the hell im doing on this blog...

However, if you were ever interested in shippin with me in any kind of capacity and find my current roster lacking, ya can of course check out what I have on the backburner.

This is going to be a very long post, because I'll probably add some visuals here and there and because yeah... I have a lot of ideas, so it's going into a readmore!

Basically done!

Elyzia - just gotta finish those talksprites! <3

Xiento Ethuri - needs some talksprites <3

Romida Gartho - could probably use a talksprite

Stryxe Sangui - talksprite? :3c

Well underway, solid ideas

Vizlei Alvear - Male - He/Him + A very friendly fella, maybe not the smartest though? + Student studying to become a veterinary! Loves animals! Childhood friends with Elraik, friends with Ghalen + Study buddies with Salhus and Ialvah :D

Elraik Maarvi (Left) Transfem Nonbinary - They/Them + Design by @8bit-mau5 + A Business and Fashion Student who has commitment issues, but enjoys being desired by others, is childhood friends with Vizlei and enjoys doing pole dancing as a hobby, a bit sassy this one

Ghalen Centin (Right) Male - He/Him + Design by @8bit-mau5 + A chronically tired fella that's kinda friends with Elraik and Vizlei, also a Student, a bit of a mutant, tends to be chill most of the time, likes snacks... feed him snacks please...

3 literal troll children who are kinda some feel good characters for me, who have nothing bad happen to them besides regular ass lil kid troubles (literally all 3 of them are mutants in some ways) + Revenn Spirav (Left) - 1 hemoanon baby duck nonbinary knight that likes to go on adventures and be the protector of their friends! adopted Striga as their parent + Veltin Airlin (Right) - 1 shy violet prince boy, "giant seabunny" parent, very timid and a lil clingy, wants to be a good boy, Design by @goddesstrolls + Anthea Cornis - 1 pink super sparkly unicorn princess who wants to be the bestest empress when she grows up! Is surprisingly level headed for her age... will still put makeup on you and try to pretty you up with sparkly clothing though

Kazmir Lycant (Left) Male - He/Him + An indigo werewolf shifter, that's kind of chaotic evil, that's a pretty rough design idea, used to be a really nice guy until he got fucked over so much that he just went apeshit at some point, though he's mellowed out some since + Used to hate Hespar, because the guy almost got him killed when they were both younger, but at this point he's kind of gotten attached to the old fool and they might manage to bond with one another yet...

Hespar Laetum (Right) Male - He/Him + Old man Monster Hunter Cowboy Wizard! He's a design trade I got from @goddesstrolls + He hunts the undead and other creatures that are dangerous to most regular trolls - he started hunting Kazmir many years ago when the guy started to go apeshit and almost killed him, but got away + Kazmir has since become Hespar's white whale of sorts, always trying to find him and take him down, though he's starting to get old enough where even his magic can't help offset his waning strength and skills anymore

Anudal Nubihs (Left) Neutral - He/Him + A Businessman, if you will... Not quite a troll this one, is he? + What business? You're not sure, though if you'd ask him he'd probably say he was in the business of death, which is why the Alternian Empire is so lucrative + He's far above most petty, mortal things, but he indulges occasionally to alleviate potential boredom

Orvear Retrix (Right) Male - He/Him + Rainbowdrinker artist, chaotic evil, a wee lil bit insane! A design trade I got from @goldenguillotines + Orvear is... a lil fucked up in the head, he's obsessed with beauty (or at the very least what he himself defines as beauty), he's always looking for models for his paintings and sculptures and might become obsessive with what he thinks is a beautiful troll + he will seduce trolls he thinks are attractive enough for his taste, get them to pail with him and then drink their blood, because that's how feeding works best for him

Crovin Thonyz - Male - He/Him + a drunk ass teal who can't get his shit together ever since his matesprit died quite a few sweeps ago, he loved him too much and can't seem to move past it

Temero Rargym - Male - He/Him + a lime chemist that hates the world and hates being alive but would never let you kill him because that would be doing you a favor after all + he finances himself by selling designer drugs - as in specifically designed for your wants/needs, he's ridiculously good at it

Rough ideas, working on it

Balton - Pokemon Based silly boy for Sylvie <3

A specialized team for Athokk, he needs some coworkers other than Aitreo

Masc Enby Guitar Player in a band with Etatio

A Sexy GNC dude, singer in a band with Etatio

Gonna have to figure out a drummer for that band too

Amalia Ashado - Genderfluid - She/Xe + Design by @8bit-mau5 + Originally wanted to put her into the Venturia gang, but I changed my mind in the meantime + Wanna put xem on Alternia with some of the others, a noble lady

Mlanee (Left), a GNC boy - He/They + a popstar with creepy cute vibes, may or may not be evil/insane, rough design idea

Myelee (Right) - She/They + a feel good dancer, making choreographies and videos for youtube, but also has their own studio where they teach, rough design idea

Adopts I love but really need to figure out

Purple (Left) + Design by @cherrytrolls (wanna edit the look a lil) + potentially ditzy, airheaded idol, cute and well meaning?

Indigo (Right) + Design by @cherrytrolls (wanna edit the look a lil) + maybe a pit fighter, kinda tough gal?

Lil Miss Bloodthorne (Left) + Design by @clown-fuckers-r-us (wanna edit the look a lil) + seriously gotta think about this one, probably a demon of sorts

Pastel Goth (TBA) + adopt by (TBA) highblood, probably a former friend of Etatio's

The Venturia Gang

It's an entirely different planet (Venturia) where technology doesn't really work the same way it does in the rest of the Empire. + Imagine it a bit like DnD themed, leaning more on the fantasy than the sci-fi side. It's got kingdoms and various forms of ruling castes, mutations, flora, fauna, gods etc. + Trolls originally came to the planet to colonize it, but found they couldn't leave anymore. If ya land on the planet, yer stranded there for the rest of your life and find that pretty much all your tech is useless. + Ya gotta adapt, bro! Become one with the fantasy setting! + I gotta figure out more about this quite literal homebrew im doing

Ithora Khaave (Left) Nonbinary - They/Them + Ranger Design by @8bit-mau5 + generally unfriendly, kinda dislikes other trolls, adventurer

Namkor Argean (Right) Genderqueer - He/They + Bard Design by @8bit-mau5 + gay ass disaster

Lyonel - Male - He/Him + Himbo Supreme Barbarian, rough design ideas - Lion hearted, stupid but friendly, courageous or maybe too stupid to be scared + heart full of love and ass full of dumb

A sexy sexy rogue bastard <3 abs out whore dude + only really have some visual ideas so far

I kinda want more DnD/fantasy trolls

[llendrinall]

A terrible question, but which Weasley has the highest body count?

Both Arthur and Molly have something under 10, from the first and the second wizarding war. Molly’s count is higher than Arthur’s.

Ginny is a zero. She is a very dangerous person and people know. On a base, instinctual level, veteran Death Eaters know to stay away from the freckled teenager. Ginny hexes a lot of people, but she doesn’t kill anyone during the war.

Ron is between 3 and 5. All after the war. All were attacking someone else. When they attack him, Ron engages in a duel, casts and counter-casts and dances around just like he would in a chess game. When they attack others, Ron flips the table and the board and finishes things in a very terminal and permanent way. (Hermione won’t admit it because she thinks it’s uncivilized, but she finds it so hot).

Fred and George are a 5. Together, because they fight together and no one can tell if it was the spell or the kick that ended Julius Mulciber. It happened during the Battle of Hogwarts except for one incident right when they had to go into hiding during the war.

Percy has killed 3 people and all of them were stone cold murders. Is killing someone in a duel a murder? From a legal standpoint it most likely is, but nobody in wizarding society considers it so. If you have your wand and it’s one on one, it’s not murder.

Percy has murdered three people. One was a mild mannered middle aged wizard. A perfectly polite and proper gentleman who was on his way to report Angelina Johnson’s location and blood status. He would claim that he was not a Death Eater and that he was merely following the rules and adhering to protocol and he would be saying the truth! Really! He was just a law-abiding citizen, someone who didn’t necessarily sympathize with the new government but who didn’t tolerate those radicals mix-breed who openly defied it.

Angelina would had been arrested and killed. Someone was going to die either way, Percy merely changed who.

The second one was also a man working at the Ministry. Actually, he came first. It was before Pius Thicknesse ascended to power. A head of department. Powerful. Influential. Charismatic.

Serial sexual harasser.

The thought “what if it were Ginny?” never crossed Percy’s mind because he couldn’t picture Ginny working in a Ministry office. In any case, it wasn’t a question of what if it were someone else, it was a question of being someone right now. Paula.

Percy didn’t kill him right away. Just because Percy was a stone cold murderer it didn’t mean it was his default mode of action. He tried to speak with him first, and with Paula. He told her he would support her if she filled a complaint. None of that worked, so Percy wrote a complaint himself that was ignored. The wizard who handled it actually burned it before Percy and told him he was doing him a favour. A promising young man like himself should be more careful about who he was baselessly accusing.

He did it on a Tuesday. The poison was slow and silent so it wasn’t until Thursday when they were told the tragic news of their dear colleague’s passing. Paula burst into tears and people used her reaction to say that she was hooking up with him, she was the one chasing him. Percy had a brief moment of panic, but he overheard an old woman in the cafeteria saying “good riddance” and over the next week Paula lost the exhaustion shadows under her eyes and Percy acquainted himself with the concept of “pattern of conduct”.

His third murder was of Mr. Wu, which is only relevant because Mr. Wu was very surprised and because Percy didn’t use magic.

Bill has killed 2-3 people, all at the Battle of Hogwarts. There was also a troll. It’s unclear if they count as people.

Oh, but you have skipped Charlie! You say.

No, I have not. Charlie comes last because Charlie is at the top. Definitely more than 18 kills but less than 45.

It’s the poachers. Dragon parts are used in potions and wand-making and many other things. There is a strong demand for dragon ingredients. Dragon reserves collect the shed scales and horns and even dragon dung, but that’s not enough to satisfy the market. They want more. Blood, liver, heart. And they are willing to pay for it.

They come get it.

And they find Charlie.

More than 18 but probably less than 45 confirmed kills Charlie.

Charlie came to dragon work believing, like everyone else in England, that the short life expectation for dragon workers was due to the dragons themselves, or rather, careless dragon work, Mum, if you are careful there is no danger. In fact, over 80% of injuries and deaths are due to furtive hunters. To be fair, they usually take measures to disguise their murders as dragon-related accidents.

The point is that Charlie didn’t come to this work expecting to be murdered and he won’t stand for that nonsense.

There is an annual dragon conference in Tanzania where all the world experts in dragon keep and dragon lore meet, and the sole reason it exists is so the Tanzania reserve would have an excuse to invite Charlie down for a bout of not-dying-today.

Charlie imparted a workshop on Romanian Longhorn’s calls, which is his actual area of expertise, not poacher fighting. That’s an unfortunate side effect of his job, much like dragon dung collection. The second night of the conference an armed group attacked the leader of the Kenyan reserve, who had been making amazing progress in winning legislative support. Charlie killed three of the poachers, scared the rest into a different career and earned a standing invitation from everyone to come work at their reserves whenever. Charlie is happy in Romania, so he declines the work offers but accepts all the conference invitations he keeps getting, happy under the assumption that people just want to hear more about Longhorn’ calls.

The Tanzanian Spiked Colossus is no longer in danger of extinction.

[pashfoxx]

I've been thinking about this for a while so here you have me writing a post about headcannons and alternate universes of troll hunters I'll start with headcannons don't be surprised if most of them are about strickler

HEADCANNONS

1-strickler can become a socially awkward person. He has spent most of his life lying and cheating without creating any true friendship so when he finally tries to have real friends he may stumble over his words or ramble on some or another historical fact Inaccurate

2- Arcadia oaks teachers are friends I really like the idea so yes. One of my headcannons is that Strickler, Coach Lawrence, Señor Uhl and Lenora Janeth are friends although Strickler will probably not admit out loud that he considers them his friends

3- the first time Walter's heart started to beat faster for Barbara this he believed that he was dying

4- strickler likes British rock so he has in his department vinyl records of Queen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stone and Pink Floyd

5- following the British theme strickler loves his British accent and is refuses to lose it, this got worse after Barbara told him she liked his accent

6- although strickler loves history books he has a large collection of mystery, fantasy and science fiction books and the entire Percy Jackson collection has been read

7- nomura, otto and strickler used to be sent together on missions quite often by some way they managed to work well as a team they also managed to make many of strickler's cars end up falling off cliffs

8- there is a stone that can turn changelings into humans even though they will still be somewhat better than a normal human with this I mean they continue to have better reflexes, they are somewhat faster than a normal human but no longer as fast as a troll and considerably stronger than a normal human. This specific headcannon was made to support headcannon number 9

9- Coach Lawrence he likes his co-workers to be fit so during summer break he sometimes takes them to the school gym and makes them Doing the same exercises as the students Walter used to avoid this by arguing that he was already very old but since it was revealed that he is a changeling, Lawrence forces him to double melt Uhl and Miss Janeth. I know this doesn't make a lot of sense but the idea popped into my mind and I couldn't help but laugh at it.

10- Strickler's pupils can dilate like a cat's, this can also happen to him in his human form, so one day Barbara saw Strickler who had his pupils dilated and she thought he was drugged

ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES

1- Strickler is a magician but his magic only wakes up when he is near the trollhunter's armor for the first time after that many chaotic situations come until he accidentally bumps into jim and toby and gets caught up in the whole thing that his favorite student is the trollhunter

2- DID Strickler if I thought about this AU in which strickler has a dissociative personality disorder so while one alter is Walter who is the human and history teacher the other is Stricklander who is the troll, Walter really has a crush on Barbara from the beginning and Stricklander is determined to kill Jim so both tend to fight quite often for control Walter knowing of the existence of the trolls but being totally oblivious to what stricklander is doing even so when he finds out that stricklander plans to kill Jim, he tries to prevent it which leads to constant headaches and constant fights for control of the body (Gaggeltacks also force stricklander to take control of the Body)

3- this is strongly influenced by a Daredevil fanart so strickler is blind his blindness was caused by bular after strickler failed in a mission but thanks to being a changeling his blindness does not affect him much in addition to the area of ​​not being able to read even so, he teaches history normally, he stopped being loyal to bular after he blinds him so he is not interested in opening the killahead bridge, he still belongs to the order of janus but that is only because he prefers not to die, when he finds out that Jim is the trollhunter he decides to join him being aware that in this way there are more possibilities that the changelings are accepted, he also falls in love with barbara

4- basically this is in a few words an au of those in which children They are adults and adults are children and then I will explain with whom each character changes places Jim changes places with Strickler so Jim is a changeling and Strickler is the trollhunter, Barbara changes places place with claire so barbara takes claire's place in the series but no claire will not be the strickler mother because to start in this AU strickler is an orphan, coach lawrence changes places with toby I thought that otto would change places with toby but i feel that otto would be as loyal as peter pettigrew to the potters so lawrence is strickler's best friend, eli pepperjack swaps places with lenora janeth, mr. uhl swaps places with steve but i can't imagine any of the teachers being a bully so there will be no bully for now

(ps: you know I don't speak English and I wrote this publication in both Spanish and English because sometimes it is annoying to want to review your publication and not remember everything you wrote)

[brixxcos]

TROLL HUNTER: RISE OF THE TITANS A Rant:

-First off I really like the movie movie was very good seeing a Jim without his powers really hurt me.

-I love and Nari and Douxie's relationship I wish it blossomed more even if it was just friendship.

-Douxie great job with the mind switch thing that was a literally genius.

-The interrogation scene at the police station was fuckin brilliant Claire being like we're not going to talk and then everyone talking🤣

-They broke themselves out and was like we are from the CIA NSA and your mom??!? 😂

-Strickler and Jim's mom are engaged. They are super cute I personally don't love them but I'm very for her Jim's mom being happy after all the shits she's been through so go off.

-I love asha as a queen I love everyone calling her your highness. I don't know what the fuck we is doing but I'm going to make another post completely just about the baby situation so I won't get into it.✨

-ELI SIMPS THIS YOUR FUCKING MOVIE!!

-The kill count for this movie is fucking ridiculous.

-Can I just say that Jim's mom is actually a fucking 👑 Queen. Not only was she just like there's nothing I can really tell you about your dad but only thing I'm going to tell you is that you are your mother's son and I'm just like yeah fuck yeah fuck that man who cares we don't need to know anything about him he wasn't there he wasn't around he didn't make him who he was supposed to be his mom did.

-Nari please tell us wtf to do fam stop speaking in riddles.

-Nari died and she told us that she was going to die and the other two Titans and I was still surprised.

- I really wanted Nari to be the last villain because if Earth took over the Earth like the Earth element I feel like that be more visually stunning and so much cooler than anything rather than like the fiery depths of hell lava monster that we fought at the end.

-That excaliber scene was so funny to me cuz I was just like I know he's not going to take this sword out and I'm like they're all going to do it yay friendship is magic ✨🤣

-I already said it and I'm going to say it again don't f****** time travel nothing good happens when you time travel stop doing it it's f****** stupid

-Claire should be the troll Hunter but she's not because she would be too overpowered and no one would be able to hold her back.

-Toby is troll Hunter get over it and move on we'll see what happens from then good luck to him with that overall I really like that it was very sweet it was a good movie or all the best out of them absolutely not.

3/5 stars ✨✨✨

[taags-old-account]

I have had this idea churning around in my head for a while and I had to put it somewhere, so here I am! torturing my 9 followers with this idea. Almost like a complaint of sorts, but whatever!

Why has barely anybody made crossover fanfics of Avengers & Tales Of Arcadia. (The ones that are made are good, I'm just really surprised that there aren't more?) I'll give you a few reasons why this crossover would actually work really well (I would write one of these myself, but I would never complete it and there are so many more talented people out there other than me and personally I think I would end up failing it so bad!):

1. Arcadia, in reality, would so be noticed; All the weird shit that goes down in that town would have to get noticed by somebody (Specifically S.H.I.E.L.D. or H.Y.D.R.A.) but even other groups or people like Natasha and Clint on a mission (I associate them with The Avengers more than S.H.I.E.L.D.) or Loki (Imagine him in Arcadia!). Things like the Eternal Night and Morando's invasion were bound to get noticed by somebody. Like area 49B could have a connection to S.H.I.E.L.D. or even better: H.Y.D.R.A.! Or maybe Asgard has tales of the great Trollhunter and Merlin and Morgana? Imagine if Loki and Thor heard those tales? This leads to connections and a good starting point (ideas for starters below):

- Loki manages to escape back in 2012 (The first time, not in Endgame or in Endgame if you prefer) or gets banished to Earth instead of Thor and lands in Arcadia. (Or Thor if you prefer him) This could mean that Darcy, Selvig, and Jane are getting weird readings and stories from all over town and finally meet Thor or Loki then, later on, find an Akaridion, one of the Trollhunters (or all 3), or Douxie. (I would stan a Loki, Douxie, and Darcy friendship!)

- Natasha and Clint are sent on a mission to search out Arcadia Oaks. They discover that this town has a lot of crazy shit happening to it daily (I got more into the Loki or Thor one because I know more about them than I do Clint & Natasha)

- The Winter Soldier is sent to capture an asset from Arcadia Oaks. He can either fail or succeed (if you want angst). If he fails, S.H.I.E.L.D. will sooner or later, find out about it and begin to search for answers...

- S.H.I.E.L.D. was monitoring through cameras all over the world per usual when they discover something crazy happening/something suspicious happening in Arcadia Oaks. (This could be the Eternal Night, Morando's Invasion, Trollhunters fighting bad trolls, Aja, Varvatos, and Krel fighting Bounty Hunters, or Douxie and Archie defending Arcadia using magic by night) and send the Avengers in to investigate (After 2012, Loki can either be good or bad in this situation)

- After either a binge night with the entire gang or some Akaridion Tech mixing with Magic going horribly wrong: Arcadia's protectors land in the MCU universe (Begining in whichever movie), now they have to travel through the MCU timeline, make sure nobody dies, maybe make some tweaks, and hopefully not go on ANYMORE time-traveling adventures (Poor Douxie)

These are just some of the ideas but you guys get the point.

2. FRIENDSHIPS!!!!!!!! The number of friendships all going on at once would be beautiful and interesting. They could help each other fight baddies (physical or mental/emotional), get into trouble/pranks together, or just pure friendship. Here are some examples (Douxie mainly because he is amazing):

- As I mentioned earlier in this post, a Douxie & Loki & Darcy friendship! Darcy would find all the magic cool and rock out to music from Douxie, Loki and Douxie would bond over magic and try to learn each other's styles and all that! (This also applies to Dr. Strange and Wanda... so maybe a magic friend group???)

- Krel & Tony & Bruce & Jane & Selvig & Peter (Parker); SCIENCE BROS!!!!! Do I need to explain further? No.

- Krel & Tony & Douxie; MUSIC! Those 3 jamming out would be so great!

- Thor and Aja; I just feel like they would connect for some reason!

- Steve and Jim; Such angst and bonding possibilities so it's really hard not to put these two together!

- Dr Strange & Loki & Wanda & Claire & Douxie; MAGIC FRIEND GROUP! MAGIC FRIEND GROUP! MAGIC FRIEND GROUP! No more explanation needed.

Once again, you guys get the idea.

3. Possibilities to change canon - this is my take, but Takes Of Arcadia was done so beautifully that I don't really want canon changed in that universe (except for maybe more episodes and content because I love them but otherwise I love it!). But I feel like the Arcadia crew would actually change a lot of the MCU canon. With more people to help fight against the baddies, things can go differently. Maybe Claire realizes that Loki was being controlled in 2012 because she knows what it feels and looks like. Maybe the snap would have never happened? The possibilities (on both sides) are endless and so much could be changed. I think it would be interesting to see what would come out!

Either way, I spent 45 minutes writing this and I feel proud! So if any writers (if you want to) are fans of Tales of Arcadia and the MCU universe, why not give it a shot? It may end up being really cool, as quoting Merlin (gosh sometimes I just really hate him, and other times I like him?);

"A Wizard does not make mistakes, only unexpected possibilities"

Why not fuzzbucking try it? It wouldn't be a mistake, it would be an unexpected possibility!

Peace Out, and Keep It Crispy!

- Moi

[noethicalconsumptionunderdisney]

Hogwarts Sorting Profile: Max Russo

So, confession time: Initially, I wasn’t actually planning on writing one of these for him.  I’m sorry!  I love Max, but he’s often in the background of Wizards of Waverly Place and just has these really random plots thrown in his direction, rather than interesting character-exploration-type shit like the main sibs.  (Which, to be fair, is probably why some of y’all might be curious what I’m going to say about him.)

But I was thinking about what makes Max so odd as a character, and specifically I was thinking about him in comparison to other characters of his archetype in the Disney Channel-verse.  Because we’ve seen the messy, funny, underachieving brother character a lot, but they come in very different flavors.  Part of that for Max is that he shares some of those traits with Alex in contrast to the overachieving, overly serious Justin, but part of that is… Max often seems to be in his own little world, incomprehensible to mortals and wizards alike, and generally takes in the “real-world” around him with a shrug.  He still cares about the “real-world” when it suits him, but he’s often kind of divorced from it, and that discovery fascinated me.  Furthermore, it made his Sorting “click.”

We’ll start off easy: what does Max do?  The answer is… he’ll do pretty much anything.  He’s not a Burned Secondary, though, he just doesn’t give a fuck.  Max is every bit the Slytherin Secondary that Alex is, we just don’t usually notice because he spends most of his time in his Neutral State.

The Slytherin Secondary’s Neutral State is blunt, rough, and often unphased by stepping on people’s toes. It’s easy to mistake this for a Gryffindor Secondary’s honesty, but it comes from a different place: comfort, relaxation, and/or apathy.  It doesn’t inspire or motivate so much as sit back and do as it pleases, and the Neutral State’s honesty is there for convenience rather than necessity— if a different tactic will work better, a Slytherin Secondary can ditch their honesty and change direction far more easily than a Gryffindor Secondary.

Max isn’t exactly shy about saying what’s on his mind, even if it’s usually dismissed as nonsense.  He also does seem to charge into situations without a care sometimes, but that’s the thing: he’s able to charge into those situations because he doesn’t care.  When he tests out the zombies’ No-Fear Ring, it doesn’t work on him because he’s already fearless.  So while some Slytherin Secondaries are nervous about showing their honesty to others and only show their Neutral State when they’re home safe with people they’re comfortable with, Max lives in his honest Neutral State because he feels comfortable and safe most of the time… even in situations where he really, really shouldn’t.

Curiously, one situation where he doesn’t feel comfortable or safe has very little to do with actual danger, but about personal identity: when he’s turned into Maxine.  And in Maxine’s body, he’s a lot more manipulative.

“You know, I can’t help it if people think I’m cute.  Watch how I make it work for me.”

As Maxine, he uses his cuteness to get out of chores, to get revenge on Alex and Justin in karate, to guilt dishonest customers out of cheating his parents, and comes up with a plan to talk his “boy self” up to a girl he likes as Maxine so that she’ll like him when he changes back.  Yeah, can’t imagine why Maxine reminded Jerry and Theresa so much of Alex…

But there are Slytherin Secondary indications from Max in his usual form as well.

He has no qualms about outright lying — inventing a fake illness to get out of P.E., pretending to be “Tom Sawyer” so he wouldn’t be embarrassed by/compared to his family — but he prefers obfuscation, aka confusing people with his “Max-ness.”

“How do you get your brother to say what’s really on his mind?”

“Oh, I use randomness.”

“What?”

“Well, I just say random things and while people are trying to figure it out, they say stuff that’s on their mind.”

One example of this tactic being employed successfully is with the Genie.  While Alex fails to outsmart the Genie using her quick wits, as the Genie is every bit as cunning as her, Max figures out a way to piss off the Genie enough to blackmail her, then talks circles around her and confuses her until she reveals a way for them to undo her wishes.  Alex calls it “outdumbing” her, but in any case, he succeeded where she failed, and showed that he’s more capable than often assumed.

We get another rare moment of clarity from Max during “Alex Tells The World.”  

“Alex, you know you can’t reveal magic!”

“Oh, even I know that. That’s why I just make people think I’m dumb so if I slip up, ehh, they figure, the kid’s an idiot.  And I slip up all the time, so.  Who’s dumb now?”

Max’s admission that he “slips up all the time” isn’t exactly reassuring, but it is telling that he’s the only one who doesn’t reveal magic during both the Season 4 Premiere and the Season 3 Finale.  Perhaps it was dumb luck that got him there, but I think there’s more to it than that.  There’s a method to his madness.  There’s a logic to it, even if Max’s logic often doesn’t follow all the way through.

Which leads me to his Primary— Ravenclaw.  (LOOK I KNOW. HEAR ME OUT.)

Yes, Max is often seen as “the dumb one.”  Yes, Ravenclaws are perceived as “the smart house.”  And while I’ve just demonstrated that there’s a brain under all the Max weirdness, I’m not about to argue that he’s secretly a genius.  He misses the mark more often than he hits it, and oftentimes when he hits it, it’s through coincidence or dumb luck or Insane Troll Logic that’s impossible for anyone but Max to follow.  But I do believe he operates on logic, just his own wacky version of it.

The thing about Max is that he’s neither as dumb as most people think he is, nor is he as smart as he thinks he is.  He’s somewhere in between, and the fact that people never quite know where exactly he falls on that scale is kind of the point.

In fact, part of the reason I struggled with Max was because I was trying to figure out where exactly he did fit in:

He can be selfish enough at times to argue Slytherin Primary, the stereotypically “selfish” House, but he’s missing Justin’s protective streak.  He doesn’t feel that same sense of duty towards his family that Justin does; when Mason breaks Alex’s heart in “Wizards vs. Werewolves,” Justin turns on him instantly because he Hurt His Little Sister And Is Therefore Bad, while Max is the one most willing to give Mason a chance, because he has his own reasons for wanting Mason in his life.  Yet, he still clearly cares enough about his family to rule out the possibility that they don’t factor into his morality at all, not to mention how easy it is for them to influence him.  

His more humble ending of inheriting his father’s sub shop might make people think Hufflepuff Primary, but there’s even less justification for such a sorting upon scrutiny.  As I’ve touched on above, the staunch loyalty to community isn’t all that important to him, and he’s also not all that into traditions.  There’s no compulsion to help strangers, he doesn’t really make enemies but he kind of just ignores people he doesn’t like (or shatters them in a million pieces on accident), and let’s not forget that he unleashed countless monsters in New York City that killed all the Monster Hunters just to win the competition… even if he did do it when his Conscience was separate from the rest of him.  Not exactly behavior you’d expect from the morality system of “a person’s a person no matter how small.”

Speaking of Conscience, it’s notable that he argues with it, rather than accepting his advice. I’m still a little unclear as to how much this matters (there’s definitely room to argue that most of his brain went into Conscience as well, and that whole plotline was… weird), but even with his Conscience inside his body, he seems to lack that moral drive Alex has.  Gryffindor Primaries have this embedded sense of justice deep within their characters. Even when it’s hidden most of the time, like in Alex’s case, or when it becomes twisted into something dark and dangerous, or becomes Stripped of its certainty, there’s still this sense that there is Right and Wrong in this world, that trusting your gut should lead you to the right conclusion, and that it’s wrong to ignore it.  I have a hard time remembering if there’s really any situation where Max gets that gut feeling of Something Being Wrong at all, much less acting on it with a Heroic Plan… at least, not without convincing.

But Max can be convinced, and that’s key.  Alex often takes advantage of this to manipulate him for her own selfish ends, such as talking him into paying her for handing out fliers to her zombie prom, but more often it’s his parents that act as his voice of reason, whether it’s convincing him to go after the “deli robber,” convincing him to give his siblings a fair shot at the Wizard Competition, or convincing him to tell his girlfriend the truth… and then unconvincing him of that when he takes it too literally and tells her he’s a wizard.  

Actually, Max is prone to misinterpreting advice in this way while trying to follow it to the letter— he does this when he tries to sell fountain water with a puppy, as well, because his mom told him to “add something to it.”  I think he is, to an extent, aware of his own intellectual limits.  He knows he misses the mark a lot of the time, so he’s often willing to trust other people’s judgment over his own, so long as they can get it through to him in a way that he thinks makes sense.

But beyond that, he’s often willing to question “common knowledge” in a way the other characters don’t. When Justin tries to tell him he can’t make life out of the stuff from his room, he simply replies, “Where’s it say that?”  In season 4, when there’s a distinct possibility that he’ll win the competition, he expands the sub shop business by making the Wizard Portal into a Drive-Thru, which genuinely worked as a business plan until Jerry took it too far.  Later that season, he saves his siblings by creating a black hole and then jumping through it to pull them to safety from the black hole in Alex’s apartment.  Like, that was his idea.  He came up with that.  It was weird, it was risky, it was unconventional, it could’ve been incredibly stupid… and it worked.

And that’s what I keep coming back to with this Ravenclaw Primary sorting— that sense of ingenuity, curiosity, and the willingness to experiment.  On one hand, you have your System Claws, who are dedicated to The Rules because they’ve been convinced that living by them is The Best Way To Live, and on the other hand, you have those that are willing to challenge conventional wisdom and try new things.  It’s this willingness to question that I personally attribute to a Ravenclaw mentality, rather than inherent intellectual ability or a large knowledgebase.  While Max may not have the latter, he has the former in spades, and that, more than anything, is really what told me that he truly belongs here.

Conclusion:

Max Russo is a Ravenclaw Primary and a Slytherin Secondary.

As a Slytherin Secondary, Max often likes to confuse and obfuscate to get what he wants, is flexible in his methods, and can even be manipulative when he wants to be.  He’s also relatively comfortable with himself, thus he often lives in a Neutral State where he says whatever’s on his mind without thinking much about danger or whether he’ll be understood.

His Ravenclaw Primary is as curious as it is undefined, and operates on a logic that only Max truly understands.  While this leads him astray more often than not, this also allows him to break from tradition and try new things, and this unconventional thinking can sometimes lead to better solutions than anyone else could’ve come up with.  However, it also comes with a set of brakes in the form of taking input from others.  It’s not always easy to get through to Max, but he can be reasoned with, which in his case, is probably for the best. 

In this combination, we find a character who truly dances to the beat of his own drum.  As the most flexible Secondary and Primary, respectively, Max is a conundrum to most who meet him, confusing even to those who know him best.  That said, being the Russo who “goes with the flow” the most often, he’s also probably the Russo that has the most fun.  He’s certainly more fun to write about than I was expecting him to be!  I’m glad I did, and it’s good to be back.

[alittlealien007]

Sooooo I just finished watching all of Tales of Arcadia's series and while I loved it (I did cry because duh) before it ended, I'm kinda lowkey upset by how it actually ended.

Rant and possibly spoilers obvs:

1) Writers/creators practically threw out all the character development of all characters except for Jim's and that's fucking annoying. Tobes is a hero in his own right and while I want him alive, I'm not really fond of the idea of him being the Troll Hunter mainly because he IS Warhammer and he made Warhammer a hero. Tobes is a wingman and a hero. That development is my favorite and it's annoying that it was kinda overlooked and sorta considered as not really worthy enough to be a hero.

2) Also, is Jim now like a super fucking Troll Hunter with a super suit who can travel through time as much as he wants to or is it a one-time thing? Honestly, I hope it's this because that's fucking AWESOME SAUCE.

3) Anyhoo, if it's a one-time thing, will Jim and Tobes be stuck in an endless time loop (say, if the other will keep on dying at the end still lmao) or not, since technically Jim already knows what will happen before they will happen?

3.1) But time travel is a fickle thing and who tf knows what changes could occur now that Tobes is TH? Will Jim be always able to save Tobes and Arcadia's asses? Will Tobes own decision-making even matter? If Jim keeps on guiding him (read: forcing him to make certain decisions), will Tobes even grow to be a worthy hero in this case?

3.2) Also, a lot of things happened the way they did because Jim WAS TH. If he's not TH, then chances are that they'd happen differently. I mean, the part where Jim became full troll and then back to human happened because of his connection with Claire and the many attempts Claire did to bring him back. Will Tobes even go back to being a human after being a half human/half troll (since, well, Jim could stop him from becoming a full troll)? Will Claire even be the shadow sorceress or is it gonna be Darci? How will this new timeline even line up with the events in Wizards which is supposed to be something that's actually within the regular timeline based on present Merlin's reaction and the fact that Archie said that Douxie re-using knockout magic spells on his past self will make his past self lose memories?

4) The ending felt like a cop out and I'm annoyed. I hate Tobes' death but there defo was a better way to change it aka pulling out the fucking Excalibur earlier in the movie so they could all defeat the Titans much much much earlier.

5) Are we just really going to erase Staja's babies from existence? Don't these two have a say in Jim's decish?

6) AAAARRRRGGHH!!! <insert frustrated screaming here because this is GOT finale all over again>

P.S. Always have been, always will be. And they just fucking threw the importance of that line away.