#trylla hilda

[jetcat-14]

Saw this screenshot and I just love how Trylla seems so worried about Johanna

[saintharvest]

[blaithnne]

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[wildflowers-of-trolberg]

Here's an interesting AU Idea. What if Trylla never casted the changeling spell in the first place?

I mean, it depends. If she’s still the same character (willing to do all the things she did, just doesn’t get the chance or decides against it in this case) then I still think the show would be better off without her. But expanding on just what we saw in Stone Forest and building her out from there would make her a pretty interesting character - it’s what I’d do if I was going to fix the movie :))

[fox-from-malta]

I redrew this silly fan art (on the left) and will now call it the Hilda!Cat AU.

Updated them with their season 3 outfits, I think they deserved an upgrade. I also doodled it more in my style, rather than how the 2021 was my attempt at drawing in the show’s style.

Added Trylla and Kaisa this time round as well. (tried to make my cat version of Kaisa a bit differently since there are already some amazing cat versions of her out there lol). Was going to doodle other mythical creatures, like Alfur or Tontu, but I think they’d basically just stay the same (maybe just have cat ears haha)

also bonus, added @blaithnne’s oc Lauren, cause I like her design.

Silly Hilda Fanart from like 2021

Ugh, them as cats and dragons I guess? I thought they looked nice enough to share ~ will redraw the cats one - maybe - depends on my time and schedule, but rn im in the Hilda mood xD

[dontcryurprfect]

Random Rant: Hilda and the Mountain King. I tried watching it again and just... ugh

Trylla in Hilda and the Mountain King is a villain for kidnapping Hilda all bc she wants Hilda to see the troll's perspective. I don't care how scared someone is, that is NOT HOW YOU DO IT! and considering this is HILDA we are talking about, I'm 100 percent sure they could have found another way.

I don't know why the movie is trying to convince me otherwise. She literally turns her back on a crying HYSTERICAL JOANNA who JUST WANTS HER DAUGHTER BACK and refuses to help Hilda, who just wants to go home. Evil. Evil evil evil evil.

And I'm supposed to side with her because "well, being a troll is a fearful situation" YOU DON'T GET TO KIDNAP A CHILD FROM HER MOTHER AND FORCE THE CHILD INTO A WORLD AND AN UNFAMILIAR BODILY FORM JUST SO SHE "CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH."

It doesn't matter how smart the kid is or how desperate you are! You separated a child from her mother! You forced her into a body she doesn't understand! You turned your back on her mother, who just wants her back! YOU'RE A HEARTLESS BITCH!

If she is such a smart girl, YOU TAKE CARE OF HER! NOT ABUSE HER LIKE THIS! (It is abuse, I won't take this back.)

Any other normal person would make this even more of a reason to hate Trolls. Period.

Why is it so hard for some kid movies to have a good lesson when it comes to dealing with things like this? You can't tell a kidnapped kid to get over it and be empathetic about other creature's issues when it's the creature who ripped her from her family in the first place! A scammer can't scam others just bc they have more money bc the money still belongs to them, and they need it. A thief can't steal from a store for food bc then it hurts the shop owners- especially if ppl see them get away and start stealing themselves (you can argue about big corporations but it's the smaller stores that will be hurt the most)

YOU CAN'T KIDNAP A CHILD AND ACT LIKE YOU'RE THE VICTIM BECAUSE YOU ARE IN A FEARFUL STATE! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PPL WOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE IF THAT WAS ALLOWED!? ALMOST EVERYONE! TRAUMA WOULD HAVE NO MEANING! MENTAL HEALTH WOULD MEAN NOTHING!

No. Nonononononono. This bitch is a villain.

Villain below 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

[great-raven-parade]

What is your opinion of Trylla?

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

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

[autumnalfallingleaves]

I love that the new intro has Trylla and Baba so much. So much.

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

You possibly have drawn one of the most adorable Johanna's I've seen. These are all great.

Hilda has three moms and an elf dad

Also I think Baba’s mom and Johanna is adorable together like it’s the best dynamic - the human and a creature being misunderstood but most of the humans

[jetcat-14]

This comes after seeing a post by Bean and having so idea's on it

(this post)

Hilda: WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HER.

Trylla: I.........Swapped our places I saw how she was with you and ......

Hilda: YOU TOOK MY MUM .

*Hilda rans past her too the door*

Trylla: Hilda Wait!!!!!

Hilda: NO.......

*Hilda rans out*

[saintharvest]

anyways

[secretkittywolf]

Regarding Hilda S3, I have one thing that disappointed me and that was the trolls. They played a pretty big part in S2 & the movie, had some importance in S1 but then completely forgotten in S3, minus episode 5 and briefly seeing Trylla and Baba at the end.

I thought that we would see more of them, especially around Tofoton since it's more out in the open than Trollberg. Or in episode 6 when Hilda & Johanna were going camping, I don't remember seeing any troll rocks when it would make sense to have some out there since they're outside the city.

I was really disappointed that no trolls were seen around Trollberg after what happened in the movie. How the trolls only showed up once and then just acknowledged as a one time thing. It should have been like the Bird Parade, where once a year trolls are allowed in Trollberg.

I know this seems very nit picky but I was hoping for more troll stuff after having so much of them in the previous seasons and a movie dedicated to them.

[setting-ink]

Finding Home

My first (very late) contribution to @sketchbookweek 2024!

This fic combines prompts from Day 1 & Day 2, both because it took me two days to write, and because it managed to wind up fitting Day 1: Home and Day 2: Past/Future well enough for me to justify it.

Read on AO3

Home was Tofoten, first. The house with her Aunt, the peaceful hills, and the half-remembered trauma. Johanna can remember now, the years with her parents, and the pain of losing them. But Tofoten stopped feeling like home a long time ago now. Being sent off to Trolberg was a mixed blessing. It soured her relationship with Astrid, but it was the place she came into herself. Joining the Sparrow Scouts, finding her love for art in boarding school. Trolberg came to feel more like home than it did an escape.

It was also where she met Anders. Anders admittedly never quite felt like home, which felt cruel to think, but she also had a feeling he’d agree. What they had was nice, for a time, and neither would ever regret it, given what it had brought them, but it was better now, with the understanding that they wanted different things out of life. Hilda had been the greatest gift she could have asked for, but with her birth came the desire for change. She wanted to give her daughter the chance to grow up away from the hustle and bustle. Somewhere peaceful, like Tofoten had been for her. But also as far away from Tofoten as she could get. Her grandfather’s cabin had been perfect for that, away from it all, with the peace to work, and for Hilda to grow. Hilda grew, she thrived. She met Twig, and he saved her, and became a welcome addition to their little family.

And so for a time, that was home. The Cabin, and Hilda. She loved them both dearly, but her daughter would always be the most important part of it all. So long as they were together, that would be enough. She hadn’t quite expected that to be put to the test so abruptly as it was, but the actions of giants are hard to plan for. And that meant moving back to Trolberg. It would be good for Hilda, she knew. Her own time there had done her wonders, and she’d been sent there at around the same age. She missed it, if she was honest with herself. Sure, Hilda would take time to adjust, but it would all be for the best. Johanna hadn’t quite expected there to be quite so much for her to adjust to. Alfur was strange, to begin with, but soon became a welcome presence, as another voice of reason in Hilda’s life. Well, an attempted voice of reason at least. Tontu had been a more difficult shift, her own biases making for an awkward start, to say the least. But soon it was difficult to imagine home without them. It was nice, to have more people in her life. Not that she had been lonely before. She had Hilda, and that was enough.

Johanna very pointedly did not think about what she’d do when Hilda would be old enough to move out. To explore the world, as she almost certainly would want to do. She could barely picture home without Hilda there. But that was years off still, and she wasn’t quite as alone anymore.

Losing Hilda had destroyed her. Yes, they found each other again, and Johanna understood why Trylla had done it. A mother’s love was a powerful thing, and she would do anything for Hilda. But it put things into perspective for her. So when Astrid invited them to visit, she accepted. Astrid had been home once, and once there, she found she had missed her quite a bit more than she’d thought. So to almost lose Hilda again to the Fairy Mound, the thing that had haunted her for years? It hurt. So back to Trolberg it was.

Anders visiting again was interesting, to say the least. She would never begrudge him time with Hilda, but she was disappointed on her behalf when he vanished again. He had never been perfect, but she’d thought him good enough to say goodbye, at least. So learning he’d been taken to the Fairy Country, and that Hilda had gone in to save him? She wished she could say she was surprised, but she knew her daughter better than to expect anything less. Going in after her was all she could do.

Home had been her parents once. She could barely process how much she had missed them, once she remembered them again. And surely, Fairy Country could be home for them, couldn’t it? Her, her parents, and Hilda, together, and free to fly. To catch up, to be together, after so long. It could be home. It could. For her, at least. But Hilda? Hilda had a life outside of her family, she had friends, great friends, and a whole world to explore. She couldn’t leave that behind. And Johanna would never forgive herself if she made her. Saying goodbye to her parents hurt. Losing Astrid hurt. Getting her back was unexpected, but she knew now that she was going to cherish every moment she got to spend with the people she cared about.

It was somewhat mortifying to realize that outside of Astrid, the people she cared about had all entered her life through Hilda. It’s one thing for your daughter to claim that you have no friends, and another entirely to realize that she was correct. It had been so easy for Johanna to imagine leaving her entire life in Trolberg behind, because who would she miss, really? Alfur and Tontu, certainly, and Twig, yes, but who then? Stilted conversation with David and Frida’s parents, the occasional chat with Gerda? Maybe it was time for her to find her people, like Hilda had done so well.

Spending time with the Librarian had been accidental, at first. She had gone to the library intent on finding a book, and was met with a very interesting looking woman, who was nice enough to not react visibly when asked where she could find a self-help book. She had simply pointed her in the right direction, and left it at that. She only spoke up when Johanna brought her selections to the checkout desk, informing her, oh no, not that one. Trite, reductive, you’ll feel worse about yourself after reading it. The other one’s fine though. Johanna had blinked, laughed, and then thanked her, as the Librarian set the apparently offending tome aside to be reshelved later. And the other book was in fact more than fine, and she resolved to take its advice to heart, reaffirming the relationships she actively enjoyed, and seeking out things that brought her joy. This meant making chats with Gerda a weekly thing, because the other woman could be quite the conversationalist, and moreover, was wholly non-judgemental about how long it had been since Johanna had proper friends. It meant spending a day out with Hilda and Anders, because if he was going to be living in Trolberg now, they may as well get used to each other again. It meant letting Tontu and Alfur know how much she appreciated what they did for her, and giving Twig an extra scratch near his antlers now and then. It meant talking with Raven Leader about volunteering for Sparrow Scout events, because she missed the sense of community that organization had brought about. It meant calling Astrid a bit more often, just to say hello.

It also meant that when she went to return the better-than-fine self-help book, she asked the Librarian if she had any recommendations. It was her turn to blink now, but she recovered quickly, giving Johanna a once-over before directing her to a marvelous work of dramatic fiction from an author she’d never heard of before. When it came time to return that, she was surprised when the Librarian had barely seen her come in before she smiled, and pointed her towards another equally enthralling book.

Johanna was a little upset with herself that it took until her fourth visit to realize she didn’t know the Librarian’s name, and had in fact just been thinking of her as ‘the Librarian’ with a capital L. But Kaisa was nice about it, saying if she wanted everyone to know, she’d wear a nametag. It felt nice, for some reason, the knowledge that she had apparently earned the right to know, somehow. And from there, it had felt easy to go from book recommendations to other topics, what she thought of Trolberg, what she thought of Trolls. (Kaisa didn’t seem the type to still be biased against them, but it couldn’t hurt to check. Johanna was glad to learn she had nothing to worry about there.) What she did outside of work, things like that. It was a bit surprising to learn that Kaisa apparently tutored Frida occasionally, but privately she was glad to hear it. Frida had made it very clear by now that she would go through hell and back for Hilda, so if she seemed to like Kaisa, all the better. Johanna tried not to think about why she cared about what her daughter and her friends would think of Kaisa.

Learning that Kaisa had already met, and was in fact quite familiar with her daughter, had only been slightly surprising. Hilda seemed to know everyone nowadays, and she’d certainly spent enough time at the library for it to make sense. Frankly, Kaisa had seemed more surprised about it than she was, although she was unsure if that was because she had never mentioned a daughter, or because, admittedly, Hilda was a good deal more outgoing than Johanna had ever been. But knowing that Hilda liked Kaisa? And that Kaisa seemed to like Hilda as well? (Provided, of course, she wasn't causing trouble?) It was heartwarming. For no particular reason, of course.

Kaisa being a witch was a bit more of a shock, but again, all the pieces fit looking back, and so when the two of them met up for coffee, she found herself asking some of the questions she could never quite bring herself to ask Frida. Things like just what Hilda being a familiar entailed, if there was anything she could be doing to keep her daughter safe. Whether or not Hilda being part Fairy would have any impact. It was her turn to shock Kaisa now, apparently, because then she was the one with questions. How much is part, on which side of the family, could you tell me a bit about Fairy Country? It had been a bit embarrassing to have to tell her that she didn’t actually know all that much, but she did pass on Astrid’s number, in the hopes her Aunt could help Kaisa out a bit.

The phone call she received afterwards from Astrid, asking just who this witch was that Johanna was spending so much time with, telling so much to, was more than just a bit embarrassing. Because she was spending a good bit of time with her nowadays, more than just at the library, and perhaps it was time to be honest with herself about the why. Kaisa was interesting, and not just for the obvious reasons. She was witty, she was fun. Johanna felt comfortable with her, and she seemed to enjoy Johanna’s company. Johanna liked her. And perhaps that was too simple a sentiment, but it was true. She enjoyed the time she spent with Kaisa. And she wanted to keep enjoying it.

Because Kaisa was starting to feel like home.

[demonicallyslaying]

Theory about Hilda: What if the troll and troll baby we’ve were seeing throughout the show since Hilda’s first troll encounter in episode one and the episode where David brings a troll rock to school were Trylla and Baba all along? I mean by the time they become a big part of the show Baba is already pretty big, and the whole show takes place across a span of three years. If you really think about it it makes sense.

[kaifolk]

KAIFOLK

deep in the witchwood forest lives a girl with teal hair with an affinity for all things wild, her loving father, and her pet deerfox.

hi there!!! @pastriibunz here! I have made a Kai in Hatchetfield AU because i am. Autistic.

it combines my latest obsession, Hilda, with the Kai in Hatchetfield series! I have watched the entire Hilda series, so be wary of spoilers!

this is the main post, which will be updated with important information when it comes up.

THINGS TO NOTE:

 1. hatchetfield geography is changing so we can fit in different stories. its bigger, i think its connected to the mainland, and theres a mountain range [6/27/24, 4:30 PM MST]

2. the witchwood is gonna be. slightly less weird. theres still things going on, but its safer to live [6/27/24, 4:30 PM MST]

WHO’S WHO?:

KAI DREW as HILDA PAUL MATTHEWS as JOHANNA [HILDA’S MOM] EMMA PERKINS as ANDERS [HILDA’S DAD] GRACE CHASITY as FRIDA JASON JEPSON as DAVID PETER SPANKOFFSKI as ALFUR HENRY HIDGENS as VICTORIA VAN GALE BOY JERRY & GIRL JERI as RAVEN LEADER(s) LIL JERRY as THE WOOD MAN BILL WOODWARD as TRYLLA ALICE WOODWARD as BABA CHARLOTTE SWEETLY as AUNTIE ASTRID TED SPANKOFFSKI as ERIK AHLBERG WIGGOG "WIGGLY" Y'RATH as THE MOUNTAIN KING BLIKLOTEP "BLINKY" as THE RAT KING POKOTHO "POKEY" as EUGENE THE LAUGHING MERMAN

[last updated 6/29/24, 1:21 AM MST]

[blaithnne]

SO since it’s something I get asked about a lot, a bit ago I made a thread on Twitter discussing Lauren’s relationships with her main family members. I honestly can’t be bothered to reformat it for tumblr so…just gonna post the screenshots lmao! But there’s too many for one post, so there gonna be separate and I’ll link them all from here

|| HILDA || JOHANNA || [???] || TWIG || ALFUR || TONTU || BABA || TRYLLA ||