I am both horrified and amazed at your troll HC and i want more!
okay! im not 100% on what exactly you might be asking for so im using you as an excuse to dump my trolls thoughts and hope that's what you meant!
ALRIGHT! I'll start with my "trolls history and evolution" thoughts
In my mind, there was music before the ancients, i call them the Folk Trolls. There are six folk trolls, one to represent each continent.
The folk trolls lead tribes of their own, but they still interact, they're friends who play music together at their simplest of forms.
When the Folk Trolls eventually pass, they each leave a string behind, a physical manifestation of their friendship and passion for music made from their own bodies.
The tribes they leave behind end up straying further and further apart from each other but they're still mostly on good terms.
Until the ancient trolls
or rather the Elder's children
When that little pink dork decides to steal the strings in a "you'll never have to feel anything but happy again" kind of way.
Then all that drama happens, pinkus dinkus gets kind of exiled after going kinda insane and blah blah blah.
Theennn, while the other tribes head to the plains or mountains or oceans, the Pop Trolls head into the forests. They're definitely not the greatest at being alive, getting picked off by just about everything that can fit them in their mouths.
They stay a small tribe, small enough to live full time at the troll tree. At least up until they're found by a group of desperate bergens, then it goes like that for generations until the current timeline, which I've worked out below.
it's a little messy but yknow (edit: that is supposed to be Februrary 20, 2025 lmao)
THEEEENNNNN
I have my trolls is plants thoughts which everyone has been subjected to lol
That whole situation adds some fun ways the trolls interact with each other LIKE the thought I've been having that during incubation, before the egg detaches, the parent and child undergo a transfer of knowledge. This is why baby trolls mature quickly and why they're born with knowledge of the music in they're community and other, more ancient communities.
Anyway- enough about trolls in general, its time to rattle off about the characters. (probably mostly JD i love that guy)
• John Dory got his original goggles from his dad but had to trade for new ones after, in a moment of frustrated madness, he threw them into a fire. He then tried to fish them out of the fire, just as desperately, burning his hand and leading to a need for the one glove.
• on the topic of the glove, John Dory is a leathersmith, out of necessity mostly. Selling a lot of garments and supplies to any travelers he ran into.
• Clay lived in the crevices of the architecture in Bergentown after he left and before he noticed viva and her group of stranded trolls, too afraid to move into the woods.
• Bruce made the ballsy move of cutting through Bergentown to move east. He lived on the beach for years until one particularly bad storm swept him into the ocean. He was found by a few techno trolls and was brought to Vacay Island by them, too far from the mainland to be taken back safely.
• Floyd cut straight west, finding the Funk trolls and eventually making his way through each territory before getting a little too far out of Troll kingdom and getting captured by VnV.
• Because of his time traveling, Floyds gotten spectacularly good at stealing stuff, but he doesn't do it often.
• Bruce and son's started as a small, almost food truck-like seaside grill station before he met Brandy.
• Bruce also has a nice relationship with the techno trolls because of his run in with almost drowning. They visit him sometimes, being most of his customers in his grill phase.
• Clampers is 1000% an orphan.
• the yodelers have goat feet to me
• certain trolls hatching with clothes on is an evolved trait caused by difficult weather and previous high mortality rate.
• Branch followed the progress of the village from afar, sulking over not being found or protected after Rosiepuff died a year before the escape.
• Both JD and Branch adapt growling and hissing from their time in the wild.
• all of the brothers are autistic lol, each with their own additions or caveats like JDs OCD or Clay's bipolar
• Techno troll cities have pockets of bubbles for visitors, similar is structure to the Funk tractor beams.
Aight i can't think of anything else rn
if anyone has any more questions im happy to answer, and i hope this is what you wanted! if not pleaseee tell me
