#william joyce

[enchantedbook]

Art by William Joyce

[cosmonautroger]

William Joyce

[mahoganyrust]

Early Easter post that was secretly made last year but who cares eggs are eggs and Jack is a menace

[theartisticendeavor]

Art by William Joyce

[artist-issues]

okay SO

If I were to pitch a sequel for Rise of the Guardians I’d have the Pied Piper be the villain.

And he is introduced because Sophie (Jamie’s little sister, she’s about 11 now) has had a falling out with her parents.

Sophie Bennett is excited to finally join the super secret “Belief Club” that her big brother Jamie started when he was her age at their local school. The Belief Club, as you can imagine, are a gang of middle-schoolers who still believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the other Guardians. They collect library books about folklore figures, make up fun stories about the Guardians, look for evidence of their work in their own town, and just generally try to keep belief alive. They’re mostly the younger siblings of Jaimie and his friends who got to watch pitch be banished from the first film.

Jamie went off to college, and Sophie misses him, which is part of why she’s so determined to get elected President of the Club, like he was. Aside from the club itself, Sophie hates school and all things learning. Her grades start slipping immediately. This is a big issue, because Sophie’s mom has recently been hired to be a teacher in her daughter’s school.

When stress levels boil over, Sophie’s mom declares that Sophie is too old to spend all her time daydreaming about fairies and rabbits. She signs Sophie up for after-school tutoring, which is devastating to the pre-teen, because that’s right when the Belief Club usually meets.

Sophie decides to run away and live as an explorer, together with as many of her “supporters” as she can from the Club.

All of this is what’s going on in the human world. But of course, it’s influenced by…

the Pied Piper!

The reason Sophie’s mom turns so cynical and even short-tempered with Sophie is, in part, because Piper has stolen her baby teeth (and therefore, childhood memories) from the Tooth Palace. While there, he also kidnapped the Tooth Fairy, herself. Because of this, tensions are rising between adults and kids around the world—they’re no longer able to relate to one another.

It seems inconceivable to the other guardians that she could’ve been kidnapped—after all, there are an army of baby-tooth-fairies that should be between their queen and any harm. Bunnymund smells rats—but the magical kind of rats that appear to have infiltrated the Tooth Palace can’t be controlled. They’re forces of chaos, and they never should’ve been able to organize themselves well enough to overcome the tooth army.

Unless. Only one person could control rats like this (it’s the best line in the script)

North calls a meeting of all the remaining Guardians together, and Sandman explains. Long ago, just after the Dark Ages, the Man in the Moon chose a new Guardian. Apparently, the children of the world were still having a hard time believing that it was okay to relax and stop jumping at shadows—Pitch was gone, but plenty of other monsters lurked in the shadows, trying to take his place. For example, the wicked Mouse King, a monstrous creature of chaos who appeared in the form of a sea of rats, was stifling the wonder and hope of the poorest villages.

The Man in the Moon selected Pit D. Piper, (a gifted young German musician who tried to educate the poorest children with his rhymes until the plague ended his life) to become the Pied Piper and help solve this problem.

He would become the Guardian of Fun.

The Man in the Moon, as well as the other Guardians, advised their newest member to fight the Mouse King by working together, the way they had done with Pitch. But Piper, who wanted very badly to be believed in, had another idea. He didn’t think the other Guardians’ setup of hiding in secret palaces and doing their work in secret was a good idea. He wanted to live among the people, and have them see him.

He played a couple of clever tricks, got the children of a nearby village to believe in and see him, and even convinced their mayor to let him stay and make their village his home if he could end their rat problem. Piper did this, but the suspicious leader of the town declared that there was nothing “blessed” or “magical” about Piper—he was a charlatan, who had brought trained rats into the town to extort them.

The lonely Piper tried to prove he could be trusted, but to his surprise, the next day, several of the children could no longer see him. They believed the mayor’s story; he wasn’t a fairy or a hero come to save them, he was a trickster. Desperate to keep the few who still believed, Piper told them they should come with him. He would set up shop in a secret place, like the other Guardians, after all. And these kids could be like his elves—or his fairies, or whatever. He wouldn’t have to be alone.

But the children chose to stay with their parents—they didn’t want to leave, even if they did believe he was magical. Desperate not to lose them too, the Piper played his flute, trying to enchant them to follow him. When he turned his magic against them, the Man in the Moon summoned the other Guardians, and the Piper was cast out.

Now he’s back, and, plot twist, he’s working with the Mouse King. They plan to drive a wedge between all the children of the world and their parents. For the Piper, this is revenge; he wants to teach children never to trust in anybody, not their teachers or their mayors or their parents. Just trust themselves. But for the Mouse King, any chaos is a chance for him to grow more powerful and feast on the world again.

The Guardians have to rescue Tooth and lead Sophie’s mom to he, despite the fact that she can’t see them, and they wind up going to college to get Jamie to do it with them.

And I don’t know, I slapped all this together roughly. But I just think it’d be cool to end it with a redemption arc. Then the Pied Piper can be the Guardian of Trust, which I think is greatly under attack these days, especially between kids and their parents.

Get it, because the Pied Piper trusted the villagers to do what they’d promised, and when they didn’t, he gained the kids’ unconditional, twisted “trust” with his music in revenge. Anyway. I know it’s messy, but I don’t believe Rise of the Guardians could ever sustain a sequel, anyway.

. I started out making him look way more willowy and triangular, but then I realized both Tooth and Pitch and Bunnymund are triangle-shaped, so I tried to do squares…

And then James Dean happened by accident. I don’t know, somebody better at this stuff try to do this.

[theladyheroine]

Small ROTG Imagine 🍓

❥ Hi guys! I thought of this little prompt, but I hope you like it! Thank you & enjoy!

Prompt:

Bunny and Tooth secretly hold tea parties or lunch meetings at her palace when they have the time. They’ll eventually switch hosts and Bunny will have them in his Warren.

Sandy tags along sometimes but they haven’t invited North yet because he’ll eat all the food. Jack hasn’t been invited yet because Bunny wants a peaceful time before chaos arrives. 😅

[mediummushroom]

in the land of curves and curls, he's the swellest kid around ⚙️

[aliciavance4228]

Guardians of Childhood (Book Series) VS. Rise of the Guardians (Movie) Character Design Comparison

Jack Frost

Nicholas St. North

Toothiana

E. Aster Bunnymund

Sandman

Kozmotis Pitchiner

[camriku]

Hello !

For those who have seen the Original Concept Idea of Wish with Asha and Starboy and are sad that it didn't happen, let me introduce to you the book series "Guardians of Childhood" (or "The Guardians"). In those books (Which inspired the movie "Rise of the Guardians by the way), we follow a Starboy name "Nightlight". In his adventure, he will meet a girl named "Katherine" with who we will fall in love.

The concept art for Wish really made me think of those two, so I wanted to make a redraw of that ! I hope you like it, and I really suggest reading the books !

[sirgalahadbt]

Quantum Break ponies *giggles* 🤭

[m00nb04rd5]

Jackson Overland Frost/Jack Frost (Rise of The Guardians)

[mikyapixie]

𝟏𝟖 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[cosmonautroger]

William Joyce

[mahoganyrust]

Early Nightlight obsession. Nightlight looks a lil too smurfy but eh well. Jack being all emo and dramatic in the bac

[duckysamlake]

I'd like to shoutout to my best friend who suffers through my delusions, silly little theories and fixations on Alan Wake and the Remedy-verse despite knowing fuck all about the existence of Remedy until several months ago.

[proxentauri]

someone on discord really wanted me to draw will and i've been wanting to try drawing jack so here's a sketch of the joyce brothers!! would love to do more polished fanart of them at some point but my mind was totally blanking on the composition lmao, if i come up with any interesting ideas i'll draw them

ngl both of these faces were super hard to draw even with ref LOL, i guess after years of only drawing samefaced anime twinks its really hard to capture facial features of real adult men lmfaooo