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[brotherbandchronicles]

Seawolves, a new (and probably only) BB discord server just dropped! @rangerthursday11 and @heronbrotherband did an incredible job and invited me aboard!

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[glamwisegamgee]

obsessed with this search result for “yearning stock photo”

[cottageaesthetic]

[brotherbandchronicles]

"It's not that bad, we'll be alright." Jes smiles at Gilan, elbowing him slightly. They are hidden behind a log, waiting for a signal. The ranger keeps drumming his fingers on his knee.

"Hal looks quite tense, though," Gilan shares his worries.

The Skandian looks over his shoulder to see where the skirl and his firstmate are crouched behind a low stone wall. They are whispering furiously back and forth.

Jesper shrugs. "Hal looks tense half the time. It's when Thorn starts praying, then you know we are in deep shit."

Both of them look to their right, where Thorn and Stefan peek from behind a pile of wood. Thor grins at them and winks. Jesper grins right back.

"See? We'll be fine."

[twofoursixohjuan]

axes and swords sequel finally real I promise this time

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I have kept my part in the agreement!

[haveyoureadthisfanfiction]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Have you read Game Changer?

Yes - I’m in/was in the fandom/s

Yes - I’m not in the fandom/s

No - I’m in/was in the fandom/s

No - I’m not in the fandom/s

Voting ended onJul 2

Author: @claireen

Fandoms: The Brotherband Chronicles, Ranger's Apprentice

Summary: Those times when the Skandian national hockey team ran the world are long gone. But Erak, who used to be the captain of the unstoppable dream team and now is the coach of the juniors, feels like there is hope on the horizon, or more specifically, in the junior dressing room. He just needs to stop the young players from killing each other until the end of the championships, and explain to them that hockey is a team sport for a reason.

But maybe, the solution for his problem may be easier to find than he initially thought. And maybe, it has a shape of a kid who was dragged into the team by one of his old teammates.

or me, thinking putting herons, sharks and wolves into one hockey team was a good idea

Submitter’s notes: A Brotherband hockey AU in which new player Hal Mikkelson joins the brilliant but dysfunctional Skandian U20 team.

[expressions-of-nature]

Sagres, Portugal by Luca Severin

[brotherbandchronicles]

if there were a brotherband movie, it would be like all those war movies where they throw 15 identical guys in uniforms at you, and you have no idea who’s who until you are halfway through the movie

[huh-well-thats-awkward]

The Heron’s height chart! Now that I’ve finished all of them! (If you have any questions on why I made some of them the height I did I do have some justifications for some of them)

Also, since posting Hal I have made the executive decision that he needed more freckles.

[brotherbandchronicles]

Hal: I think I am overthinking this.

Stig, very carefully: Hal, thinking about overthinking is definitely overthinking.

[brotherbandchronicles]

Thorn: Alright, let's go back to the basics. This is a sword.

[moments-in-35mm-film]

Blue hour in Finland

[coldthinwolf]

Outsideby skyline4

[brotherbandchronicles]

"How's the instructor thing going by the way?"

Thorn tears his gaze off his tea and throws a judgmental eye at the beer Jesper's been nursing next to him. The kid, almost a thirty-year-old but still his a kid, is grinning at him, a cheeky spark in his eyes.

The Heron landed in Hallasholm for winter five days ago, dangerously late in the season. Thorn had never really thought about it before, never felt nervous about not making it back home in time, but he watched his wife silently fret over the previous month and found himself growing nervous, too. But they returned, with Wulf favouring his right side and Ingvar with a new scar on his face, but they made it back.

Thorn could almost say that all was well. For the first two days. When they were sleeping through the day and telling stories in the evening, too tired to get on Thorn's nerves. Then they perked up.

"Fine."

That is not exactly a lie, but it's not the whole truth either. There are always troubles with teaching. No, trouble is a wrong world. Challenge is better, Thorn thinks. But, to be honest, he thought he would struggle more. Sigurd thought he would struggle more as he admitted one evening after drinking a bit too much. What Sigurd doesn't know is to what extent he's done it before. Every other day, he finds himself using the same tricks that proved to be effective on Herons all those years ago.

Herons were first. Thorn'd never truly taught anyone before them. Yeah, he taught a thing or two here and there, but those were the little things. How to perfect the turn, how to move from one position to another more quickly, or how to sew on a gorlogdamn button. The last one didn't go that well. Svengal is still absolutely awful at that by the looks of his clothes.

But Herons were the first to get the full training package. And after all those years, Thorn thinks he can say that he didn't screw up that much, and they turned out fine. Strong enough, quick enough, skilled enough to make it through another day.

They also turned out to be Gorlog damned categories he subconsciously uses now for teaching. Harald's eldest? That's Edvin. He needs something entirely different from him than Orm, who fell right away into the Stig category.

The thing with Jesper is that there's not a single kid similar enough to him to get the Jesper stamp. They are either not lazy enough or do not learn fast enough, which is a thought that still sounds just as crazy today as it did on the day Thorn finally figured out why there aren't more Jespers running around the way Ingvars or Stefans are.

Almost fifteen years after that first lesson, Thorn realized, while teaching an entirely different group of kids, that Jesper was probably not as lazy as he was bored to death. What others have to sweat and fight for, he figures in a few tries, and then he's done because he doesn't feel the need to absolutely perfect it and he basically got the hang of it, and now he is bored, and would like to try something more complicated, but others are not there yet so he has to wait and- oh Gorlog, sometimes Thorn feels like Jesper taught him more than in reverse.

He looks him up and down, contemplating. Maybe it's time for him to taste his own medicine. "Actually, what are you doing tomorrow morning?"

[that-one-enby-ranger-2000]

I had a dream last night that a new Brotherband book got released and had a polar bear on the cover and now I need a new book to be released (and be another crossover and have Halt in it)

[thelastranger]

[that-one-enby-ranger-2000]

I really really want to see Halt and Thorn from Brotherband interact. They're my favourite boys and they're similar in their character roles therefore they must interact.

Can't believe there was a Rangers Apprentice and Brotherband crossover in BOTH series and Thorn and Halt HAVENT met!