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MERCH HAS ARRIVED!!!
Ordered some trolls and hazbin hotel merchandise from Jupiter Riot on Etsy.
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Got a young Spruce pin, a JD-in-cookie-bag standee, and a spinning Angel Dust keychain!
I love all of them!
I got 2 extra stickers for free in the package too, and they're sparkly!
I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!
Media specific terminology!
I love when media/series play with language and invent words that only make sense or apply in-universe.
While rereading Girl Genius (again) I noticed a small example of a Girl Genius specific insult.
Sparkson—>child of Spark—>creation of a Spark—>Construct being—>(stereotypically) unintelligent.
Basically he's calling them stupid in a roundabout way.
s’it just me or was alex brightman in the ensemble for trolls. specifically two
I don't think he was, but google AI just tried to tell me he voiced Crimp in the third movie. Which is wrong, but funny.
Ötzi the icemans' murderer could still be out there. We just don't know.
How do we even know he was called Ötzi?
Did he have his name written down on something?
Or is that what the people who dug him up thousands of years later decided to name him?
And how TF does he even have a fanbase?
How TF do you even get a fanbase just for being murdered?
Apologies if this is all stuff you already know and you were being rhetorical but he definitely was not called Ötzi!
Ötzi is a 5300-ish year old mummy, found in the Ötztal Alps in Italy (hence his name). While the earliest form of writing was emerging from Sumer at the time, Ötzi likely came from a civilisation with no writing system.
Ötzi has a fanbase because frankly he's absolutely fascinating. For a long time he was the oldest tattooed person ever discovered (in 2018 older Egyptian mummies were discovered), with 61 tattoos, a series of lines and crosses, primarily on his joints. These tattoos were likely an early form of acupuncture since he had worn joints that likely caused him pain.
The amount we've been able to study and understand about Ötzi is incredible, and he has offered us an incredible view of the European Copper Age. He was 45. He was 5"3. He was around 50kgs. We know what his final meal was, how he dressed, where he came from and how he travelled to the Ötztal region (through pollen in his lungs). We know he was involved in copper smelting (high levels of copper and arsenic in his hair). He could still have 19 descendants alive today. We know he was sick three times in the last six months before he died. We know he had whipworms. We know he was lactose intolerant.
We know he was murdered. Not killed by a stranger, or robbed. He was murdered by someone, and it was probably personal, and he did not know it was coming. He bled out, from an arrow to the back, and nobody helped him.
His last meal was elaborate. He was not on the run, or in a hurry to get away. He was not chased up those mountains. Where was he going? Why was he being followed? His body was not looted. He was a wealthy man, for his time. He had good quality clothes, shoes that people have reconstructed and hiked up the mountain in (and found surprisingly comfortable, apparently).
Weapons, too. He was found with a copper axe, a knife, arrows and an unfinished bow, baskets and medicines. These were all valuable possessions. People were not so rich back then that they could easily discard items like this- so why were they left to rot on the mountain with him? Was the fact they'd been touched by Ötzi really so repugnant to whoever was on that mountain?
There are at least 4 other people's blood on his gear. On the knife. On the arrows. The arrow that they shot him with was left in his back but the shaft was removed.
We know so much about Ötzi. We know everything about his finals hours- except for everything about Ötzi. We do not know who he was, we do not know his name, and we do not know why he was killed. His murderers stand in the shadows and will never come out into the light.
Anyway, that's why I find him fascinating!
My favorite video on Ötzi is this one from Tasting History with Max Miller. He covers Ötzi's history and what he ate, and I love how sensitive he is about Ötzi. Despite being many years removed from us Ötzi was a person just like us.
Ötzi also had a wound on his right hand that was just starting to heal. The size/placement is likely the result of grabing an attackers knife or axe blade barehanded. Since it had started to heal, the wound was at least a day or two old. So he fought with someone a day or two before death and either won or escaped.
Some of the plants he carried were medicinal too.
PORTALS!
Went back and compared the different time windows and the current time beastie portal.
The earliest one we saw looks about the same shape as the current portal, while the muse of time and Agatha's group have the same lines in the background, implying the same place.
We are going to need at least one wardrobe change between the current page and time portal shenanigans, alone with picking up Moloch. Given we last saw him by the time beastie head, he'll at least be easy to find. Probably trying to get fencing or something put up to keep people off the thing while it's unstable. Good luck with that Moloch.
AU Rambles: Creek
Creek in the Sith!JD AU is a Jedi Knight turned Sith Apprentice.
Creek starts off as a newly knighted Jedi. He's in his early 20s, and a spirituality/diplomacy specialist.
He and his past Master are sent to their home-world to assist in the beginnings of peace talks between trolls and bergens, as started by Princess Poppy and King Gristle (Jr. Or Sr. I haven't decided yet if Gristle's dad is still alive).
While there, a group of Bergen extremists led by Chef kidnap Creek. They torture him to try and destroy any hope of peace between the 2 groups.
While Creek is suffering, he doesn't Fall yet. He's still got his Force-bond with his Master to hold onto. Until he doesn't.
She is unable to support Creek in his pain and search for him simultaneously. Either she opens the Bond and is crippled by feeling his pain to anchor him, or she closes it so she can be coherent enough to stage a rescue.
She chooses to close the bond. Calling for the nearest other Jedi's help while she searches for the kidnappers and her missing former Padawan.
The help that arrives is Branch and his Master Delta. They arrive just in time to be attacked by a Fallen Creek.
Creek felt his Master close their Bond, and without knowing why, believes she abandoned him. He is very unstable, and murderous.
Fighting and defeating Creek (who's own lightsaber was destroyed by his captors but who managed to take his Masters blade), was what earned Branch his 'trial-by-combat' braid bead.
Instead of going to prison, Creek is delivered to JD to manage. Creek is not happy about this. He makes several attempts to kill JD and loses badly. Eventually, Creek calms down enough to actually start learning things, realizing there's a lot he doesn't know about the Dark Side.
Creek hates his former Master for apparently abandoning him, refusing to consider evidence otherwise. He hates Branch, who still has good relationships with his Master, brother, padawan sibling, and friends. He's jealous and won't admit it. He hates being JD's apprentice, he'd JUST earned his Knighthood, and now he's a student again.
After being terrorized by JD into being civil with Rhonda, Creek actually starts getting along with her, taking up meditation again at her suggestion (though with more of a Dark Side mindset).
Creek doesn't believe in redemption after someone Falls, which is part of the reason he and Branch never quite got along as Jedi. So he's decided that if he's going to be a Sith, he'll be the strongest and most powerful Sith he can be. So he throws himself into JD's lessons, with occasional attempts to kill him for the title of Sith Master.
<ART! Creek has 2 different lightsaber designs, one as a Jedi Knight, and one as a Sith Apprentice.>
Left is Jedi: the patterns made with a mix of light and dark metal. It has a green blade, and a yin-yang on the pommel cap. The emitter guards are plain.
Right is Sith: made with fancier, more expensive metals like gold, silver and palladium. The emitter guards are shaped like flower petals, and the pommel cap is a red and white swirl with the red overtaking the white.
Art added!!!
Got my phone sorted, so I was able to add the drawings for my Sith John Dory AU posts. Three posts with art added.
You can find them with the (#sith john dory) tag here.
AU Rambles: John Dory/Darth Discordance
JD is the central character of my Sith!JD AU. He is, of course, a Sith.
After a nasty fight with his brothers, JD storms off to the nearby mountains, where he lives for several months, camping and cooling off. Shortly after realizing he's lost track of time and missed his own birthday, he goes home.
He finds his village completely destroyed.
Almost all trolls are somewhat Force-sensitive, not enough to be trained, but enough for general communal empathy. But rarely, trolls are born with much stronger abilities in the Force, allowing them to become Jedi... or Fall.
JD is strongly Force-sensitive, and the trauma of believing his family murdered, of losing his entire community at once, drives him over the edge.
JD never does regain his full memories of that night. He remembers finding his grandmothers remains, and the burnt ashes of his home, and the next clear memory is finding himself in a Bergen raid camp surrounded by corpses of Bergen/troll alike. He's pretty sure he tracked down the ones that burned his village and killed them/the trolls they'd taken prisoner, but he doesn't actually remember doing it; to blinded by grief/rage.
JD wanders around various planets for a few years, lost in a haze of anger/darkness, until he meets an Armadilla woman named Rhonda. She manages to break through his haze and befriend him, becoming an anchor for his unstable mind.
JD becomes determined to never let anything break him again, deciding to gain as much power as possible. So he travels to as many Sith Temples/planets as he can find, studying everything he can get his hands on. Artifacts, holocrons, Sith-Rune inscriptions, etc.
By the time he is 26, JD has earned himself full Sith Lord status and the title of Darth Discordance. (No one even tried to guess JD's Sith name, so no one gets a prize.)
Full Sith JD is extremely dangerous, but not very interested in building an empire. He's more interested in personal power than political power, always looking for a new artifact to study, or a new technique/skill to learn.
One of JD's most useful abilities is his hammer-space hair. Normal trolls only have a heads worth of space to carry eggs/small trollings/small objects. JD invented a Dark Ritual that gave him greatly increased storage space.
(Despite his brother's offers, Branch does NOT have hammer-space hair; he does not want to have Sith runes cut/burned/tattooed directly onto his scalp, thank you.)
A couple years after earning his title, JD/Darth Discordance picks a fight with a Jedi while in a bad mood. To his surprise, he finds his presumed dead baby brother standing in his way.
JD's new purpose in life is to bond with Branch again and try to see if he can find their other brothers alive too.
JD finds Branch's determination to 'save' him to be adorable. His baby brother is soft and weak. Clearly he needs JD's protection/guidance.
One day, Branch calls JD and asks a favor. He has a Fallen Knight in need of supervision. JD finds his new Apprentice to be tolerable, after a solid thrashing to establish that he's in charge.
Then war happens. JD initially assumes the Jedi have collected all their Padawans in the Temple for protection, and that's why Branch hasn't contacted him.
He is VERY angry when he has to rescue his brother from a battlefield, Branch is barely able to convince him not to murder his Master and kidnap him into protective captivity.
JD becomes Branch's partner in the war instead, whenever Branch is sent out, JD is right there too. The clones assigned to commander Branch are terrified of JD, who has made it VERY clear (out of Branch's earshot) that if they let Branch die, or even get notably injured, the Sith Lord will murder the lot of them. With extreme prejudice.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: JD goes from ages 17-30 over the course of the story. He wears dark clothes, and a long, dark blue cape with a white fur mantle and cross straps. His colors are bright, having lost himself to rage/Falling instead of shutting down/going Grey. Eyes are Sith yellow/red. Carries a red lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING] with a spike on the pommel made of cortosis. Before he Fell, he wore a green Kyber crystal he'd found camping as a necklace.
OTHER FACTS: JD mainly practices Soresu, as the defensive form is ideal for combining with the cortosis on his saber to disable his opponent's blade and go for the kill. Against non Jedi opponents, he mostly uses brute power/offensive Force techniques (lightning/crushing/etc.) to draw out the terror he inspires.
Best friend is Rhonda, she is one of exactly 5 people he won't willingly harm (the others being his bros).
Has a heavily modified ship that allows him to use something he calls 'Hustle'. It's basically a Force-meditation guided, manual hyperspace jump where he flies directly to a specific person/place at 3-4 times the normal speed, using his Force connection to navigate instinctively. Everyone he explains this to thinks (knows) he's insane.
As a self taught Sith, JD learned of the Line-of-Bane Sith during his research. He only knows the line exists, not who they are specifically. Palpatine/his line do not know of JD until he interferes in the war to help Branch.
JD's Sith Title is Darth Discordance. It's a reference to clashing sounds/ideas and a lack of harmony. Discordance often shows a disparity between the emotions he shows physically, and his aura in the Force. He's also really talented at interfering with other people's plans/schemes both on purpose/by accident.
[Art of JD's lightsaber is already made. Will add when I can.]
Lightsaber art!
JD has a red lightsaber made with a bled green kyber crystal. The handle has rings of crystals inlaid that match his brother's and grandmother's colors. The emitter guard is gold treated titanium (pure gold would melt that close to the blade). The pommel has a spike of cortosis to turn off other lightsabers.
AU Rambles: Delta Dawn
Delta in my Sith!JD AU is a Jedi Master.
As a younger knight, she was visiting a village on her home planet when she fell ill. While she was feverish, the village was attacked and the old woman who was caring for her died to let Delta escape with her grandson.
Years later, Delta is an experienced Master. She has already raised one Padawan and has just taken on a second; the little kid she saved previously. Branch is a delight to teach, always asking questions. She is glad that her students get along, Hickory helping Branch with lessons he struggles with.
When she's in the Temple, she is often followed by a tiny crecheling named Clampers. Maybe by the time Branch is Knighted, they'll be old enough to be her next Padawan.
Then, on a delivery mission, meant to help younger Padawans start exploring the galaxy, they are attacked. By a SITH.
Delta is terrified for her student, telling him to run while she holds the Sith off (she knows he wont, he's to much like her). Delta is disarmed and injured, shoulder burned. Branch jumps in front of her, and she yells his name, sure the Sith will kill him.
But they don't. They stop attacking completely instead. Apparently, the old woman, Branch's grandmother, had several grandkids? Her Padawan's older brother is a Sith Lord? Delta is so confused, she gets them back to the Temple as fast as possible.
Delta is not quite convinced about Branch's plan to rehabilitate his brother, but it wouldn't be the first time she helped her student reconnect with a sibling outside the Temple. Hickory's bounty hunter brother Dickory turned out to be trustworthy, after all.
Though she would like it if JD would stop resorting to kidnapping Branch out from under her nose. Wanting to take the kid for ice cream, or to the zoo do NOT require subterfuge. Why is this Sith so needlessly dramatic?
When her friend loses her student to the Dark, she doesn't argue about sending them with JD. The Temple has no way to help him, not yet.
Then WAR. Delta hates everything about this. She fights to have Branch kept at the Temple, off the battlefield. She fails, the Senate threatens to send him out without her if she argues. She is forced to back down.
She loses contact with Branch on the battlefield, fears the worst. She sees JD's ship arrive in the distance and is relieved. The Sith may kill her for letting his brother be endangered, but she knows he will keep her Padawan safe.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Delta is middle aged, wearing medium brown Jedi robes. she usually wears the outer robe tied over her front legs like a sweater. Wears her long red hair in a loose ponytail to keep it out of the way when she has to fight. Carries a Green lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING]. Wears a black saddlebag type purse with flower decorations, a gift from her first student Hickory.
OTHER FACTS: Delta prefers to avoid combat, being a skilled diplomat, but uses Niman when she needs to. Loves when she can bring people together in agreement during diplomatic missions. Hates when people think they can request Jedi intervention to use as weapons for their own goals. Teaches her students to ALWAYS look at both sides of a conflict and try to find a way to do what is right, not what is easy.
[Art of Delta's lightsaber is already made. I will add it when I can]
Lightsaber art!
Delta has a green bladed, two handed lightsaber. The belt clip is heart shaped.
AU Rambles: Branch
Branch in my Sith!JD AU is a young Jedi Padawan.
His grandmother was helping a Jedi Knight who had fallen ill when their village was attacked by a large Bergen raid. The Knight could not defeat the Bergens while sick, but was able to barely escape with a 4 year old Branch.
After growing up in the Jedi Temple, 12 year old Branch is a taken as a Padawan by Jedi Master Delta Dawn. She is very supportive, and helps him keep his natural paranoia from getting out of control.
Branch has a Padawan brother in Hickory, Delta's first Padawan. He's not in the Temple as often, but they get along well.
At 15, on a mission that should have been simple/easy, Branch's Master is attacked by a Sith looking for a fight. Master Dawn tells Branch to run of course, but when she is injured he jumps in to try and protect her instead. And that's when JD recognizes him!
Branch is very confused why this crazy troll has gone from trying to kill them to hugging him/crying. He barely remembers HAVING any siblings! But JD has pictures, and stories, and the more he talks, the more Branch remembers.
Branch is horrified to learn his brother not only Fell, but went all the way to being a full Sith Lord. He feels responsible, as thinking all his brothers were dead was the reason JD Fell. (Branch, no. You were a baby, don't feel guilty, it's not your fault!)
When he gets home, Branch immediately looks for any information he can find about Falling, and more importantly, coming BACK from a Fall. His finds are not encouraging...FINE! If there's no method here to save his brother, he'll invent one himself! He's going to get stronger, capture his brother, and give him ALL the therapy!
And so begins the story. JD is NOT willing to go through rehab, but stops attacking Jedi to avoid upsetting Branch (though any Jedi that attacks him is fair game to kill, and he loves trying to provoke them into giving him an excuse), and instead visits often whenever Branch is off Corusant.
A year later, newly Knighted Creek is captured by criminals/tortured. He Falls to the Dark Side. He attacks Branch, but has no lightsaber and is captured. Instead of taking him into custody, (and either high-security prison or execution) Branch calls the one person he knows can use the Dark without being consumed by it. His brother is surprised, but willing to take Creek as an Apprentice to keep him under control without locking him up completely. Branch continues working on his rehab plans, now with the goal of defeating JD and drawing him/Creek BOTH back to the Light.
A years after that, the Clone Wars begin. Branch becomes a commander under General Delta Dawn. He doesn't tell JD right away; he knows his brother will lose his shit about it. Then he gets trapped by enemies, and has to call for help.
JD arrives using his ships Hustle feature, slaughtering the droids with extreme prejudice. Then Branch/JD have a screaming argument. Somehow, Branch wins. He can keep participating in the war, but JD is now sticking close. A Jedi and Sith fighting together quickly catches a lot of attention.
JD splits off whenever they're on Corusant to avoid arrest attempts (emphasis on attempts) and let Branch relax at the Temple. So he's not there when they get called before a very concerned Chancellor Palpatine. Oh no...
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Branch is 15-17 for most of the story. He still has mostly bright colors, having recovered from going Grey much faster with the Jedi's help. His ears are still droopy though. He wears light brown Jedi robes, with a leafy scarf worn as a belt (from Floyd). His hair grows upward, except for his Padawan braid [BRAID ART PENDING] behind his right ear, with 4 beads and 1 colored cord. He caries a blue lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING] with a fish charm on the belt clip that he got from JD.
OTHER FACTS: Branch mostly practices Ataru, and is learning some Niman. His favorite missions are escort/guard type, especially when he protects Senator Poppy. His least favorite missions are anti-piracy ones that make him interact with Barb's crew of lunatics. The fact that they kinda like him is NOT a bonus.
[Art of Branch's lightsaber/braid are already made. I will add it when my phone is fixed]
Lightsaber art! And Branch's padawan braid!
It's a mix of metal and wood from his home planet. It has a blue blade, and a small fish charm from JD. The charm can be used to let JD know he's in trouble if they're too far away to communicate through the Force.
The braid has 4 beads. A flat orange one for starting his journey as Delta's padawan, a gold cylinder for earning his lightsaber, a dark green diamond shaped one for completion of a full extracurricular course(wilderness studies), and one black pearl for a trail by combat (survived a force user trying to kill him <Creek, not JD>). There is also a light green cord to show he's started diplomatic studies. When he completes them, it will be replaced by a bead.
Is this a rare pair or a crack ship?
What if I paired Clay and Dickory with each other?
Imagine Clay suppressing his playfulness to be taken seriously. Imagine Dickory leaning to be aggressive when people discount him because of his height. Learning they can show BOTH their serious and soft sides to each other. Clay taking responsibility for the stationary logistics of the Putt-Putt course. Dickory taking responsibility for the mobile logistics of bounty hunting. Both know what it is to argue with their brother. Both have strong personalities. Both are clever: licensed CPA/co-leader of a community VS disguise making/bounty hunting.
The more I think about it, the more I like the pairing. But what would the best ship name be? ClayKory? YodelPutt? Tall Bounty?
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AU Rambles: John Dory/Darth Discordance
JD is the central character of my Sith!JD AU. He is, of course, a Sith.
After a nasty fight with his brothers, JD storms off to the nearby mountains, where he lives for several months, camping and cooling off. Shortly after realizing he's lost track of time and missed his own birthday, he goes home.
He finds his village completely destroyed.
Almost all trolls are somewhat Force-sensitive, not enough to be trained, but enough for general communal empathy. But rarely, trolls are born with much stronger abilities in the Force, allowing them to become Jedi... or Fall.
JD is strongly Force-sensitive, and the trauma of believing his family murdered, of losing his entire community at once, drives him over the edge.
JD never does regain his full memories of that night. He remembers finding his grandmothers remains, and the burnt ashes of his home, and the next clear memory is finding himself in a Bergen raid camp surrounded by corpses of Bergen/troll alike. He's pretty sure he tracked down the ones that burned his village and killed them/the trolls they'd taken prisoner, but he doesn't actually remember doing it; to blinded by grief/rage.
JD wanders around various planets for a few years, lost in a haze of anger/darkness, until he meets an Armadilla woman named Rhonda. She manages to break through his haze and befriend him, becoming an anchor for his unstable mind.
JD becomes determined to never let anything break him again, deciding to gain as much power as possible. So he travels to as many Sith Temples/planets as he can find, studying everything he can get his hands on. Artifacts, holocrons, Sith-Rune inscriptions, etc.
By the time he is 26, JD has earned himself full Sith Lord status and the title of Darth Discordance. (No one even tried to guess JD's Sith name, so no one gets a prize.)
Full Sith JD is extremely dangerous, but not very interested in building an empire. He's more interested in personal power than political power, always looking for a new artifact to study, or a new technique/skill to learn.
One of JD's most useful abilities is his hammer-space hair. Normal trolls only have a heads worth of space to carry eggs/small trollings/small objects. JD invented a Dark Ritual that gave him greatly increased storage space.
(Despite his brother's offers, Branch does NOT have hammer-space hair; he does not want to have Sith runes cut/burned/tattooed directly onto his scalp, thank you.)
A couple years after earning his title, JD/Darth Discordance picks a fight with a Jedi while in a bad mood. To his surprise, he finds his presumed dead baby brother standing in his way.
JD's new purpose in life is to bond with Branch again and try to see if he can find their other brothers alive too.
JD finds Branch's determination to 'save' him to be adorable. His baby brother is soft and weak. Clearly he needs JD's protection/guidance.
One day, Branch calls JD and asks a favor. He has a Fallen Knight in need of supervision. JD finds his new Apprentice to be tolerable, after a solid thrashing to establish that he's in charge.
Then war happens. JD initially assumes the Jedi have collected all their Padawans in the Temple for protection, and that's why Branch hasn't contacted him.
He is VERY angry when he has to rescue his brother from a battlefield, Branch is barely able to convince him not to murder his Master and kidnap him into protective captivity.
JD becomes Branch's partner in the war instead, whenever Branch is sent out, JD is right there too. The clones assigned to commander Branch are terrified of JD, who has made it VERY clear (out of Branch's earshot) that if they let Branch die, or even get notably injured, the Sith Lord will murder the lot of them. With extreme prejudice.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: JD goes from ages 17-30 over the course of the story. He wears dark clothes, and a long, dark blue cape with a white fur mantle and cross straps. His colors are bright, having lost himself to rage/Falling instead of shutting down/going Grey. Eyes are Sith yellow/red. Carries a red lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING] with a spike on the pommel made of cortosis. Before he Fell, he wore a green Kyber crystal he'd found camping as a necklace.
OTHER FACTS: JD mainly practices Soresu, as the defensive form is ideal for combining with the cortosis on his saber to disable his opponent's blade and go for the kill. Against non Jedi opponents, he mostly uses brute power/offensive Force techniques (lightning/crushing/etc.) to draw out the terror he inspires.
Best friend is Rhonda, she is one of exactly 5 people he won't willingly harm (the others being his bros).
Has a heavily modified ship that allows him to use something he calls 'Hustle'. It's basically a Force-meditation guided, manual hyperspace jump where he flies directly to a specific person/place at 3-4 times the normal speed, using his Force connection to navigate instinctively. Everyone he explains this to thinks (knows) he's insane.
As a self taught Sith, JD learned of the Line-of-Bane Sith during his research. He only knows the line exists, not who they are specifically. Palpatine/his line do not know of JD until he interferes in the war to help Branch.
JD's Sith Title is Darth Discordance. It's a reference to clashing sounds/ideas and a lack of harmony. Discordance often shows a disparity between the emotions he shows physically, and his aura in the Force. He's also really talented at interfering with other people's plans/schemes both on purpose/by accident.
[Art of JD's lightsaber is already made. Will add when I can.]
Trolls = Marsupial-adjacent
We already know that trolls are monotremes (egg laying mammals). But in a way, they could also be considered a variation of marsupials.
Marsupials are mammals that carry their young in a pouch. Such as kangaroos, opossums, quokkas, koalas, and so on.
Trolls do not have pouches of skin to carry young. But they do have a similar feature.
Troll HAIR serves this exact purpose. It gives a way to carry/protect young in a way that doesn't impede the parent's movement. They don't take up a limb, or occupy the mouth. It can conceal the presence of baby trolls from potential predators and keep them safe.
Thus, skin pouches and nest-like hair are different methods to accomplish the same biological goals, being conceptually adjacent!
AU Rambles: Delta Dawn
Delta in my Sith!JD AU is a Jedi Master.
As a younger knight, she was visiting a village on her home planet when she fell ill. While she was feverish, the village was attacked and the old woman who was caring for her died to let Delta escape with her grandson.
Years later, Delta is an experienced Master. She has already raised one Padawan and has just taken on a second; the little kid she saved previously. Branch is a delight to teach, always asking questions. She is glad that her students get along, Hickory helping Branch with lessons he struggles with.
When she's in the Temple, she is often followed by a tiny crecheling named Clampers. Maybe by the time Branch is Knighted, they'll be old enough to be her next Padawan.
Then, on a delivery mission, meant to help younger Padawans start exploring the galaxy, they are attacked. By a SITH.
Delta is terrified for her student, telling him to run while she holds the Sith off (she knows he wont, he's to much like her). Delta is disarmed and injured, shoulder burned. Branch jumps in front of her, and she yells his name, sure the Sith will kill him.
But they don't. They stop attacking completely instead. Apparently, the old woman, Branch's grandmother, had several grandkids? Her Padawan's older brother is a Sith Lord? Delta is so confused, she gets them back to the Temple as fast as possible.
Delta is not quite convinced about Branch's plan to rehabilitate his brother, but it wouldn't be the first time she helped her student reconnect with a sibling outside the Temple. Hickory's bounty hunter brother Dickory turned out to be trustworthy, after all.
Though she would like it if JD would stop resorting to kidnapping Branch out from under her nose. Wanting to take the kid for ice cream, or to the zoo do NOT require subterfuge. Why is this Sith so needlessly dramatic?
When her friend loses her student to the Dark, she doesn't argue about sending them with JD. The Temple has no way to help him, not yet.
Then WAR. Delta hates everything about this. She fights to have Branch kept at the Temple, off the battlefield. She fails, the Senate threatens to send him out without her if she argues. She is forced to back down.
She loses contact with Branch on the battlefield, fears the worst. She sees JD's ship arrive in the distance and is relieved. The Sith may kill her for letting his brother be endangered, but she knows he will keep her Padawan safe.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Delta is middle aged, wearing medium brown Jedi robes. she usually wears the outer robe tied over her front legs like a sweater. Wears her long red hair in a loose ponytail to keep it out of the way when she has to fight. Carries a Green lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING]. Wears a black saddlebag type purse with flower decorations, a gift from her first student Hickory.
OTHER FACTS: Delta prefers to avoid combat, being a skilled diplomat, but uses Niman when she needs to. Loves when she can bring people together in agreement during diplomatic missions. Hates when people think they can request Jedi intervention to use as weapons for their own goals. Teaches her students to ALWAYS look at both sides of a conflict and try to find a way to do what is right, not what is easy.
[Art of Delta's lightsaber is already made. I will add it when I can]
AU Rambles: Branch
Branch in my Sith!JD AU is a young Jedi Padawan.
His grandmother was helping a Jedi Knight who had fallen ill when their village was attacked by a large Bergen raid. The Knight could not defeat the Bergens while sick, but was able to barely escape with a 4 year old Branch.
After growing up in the Jedi Temple, 12 year old Branch is a taken as a Padawan by Jedi Master Delta Dawn. She is very supportive, and helps him keep his natural paranoia from getting out of control.
Branch has a Padawan brother in Hickory, Delta's first Padawan. He's not in the Temple as often, but they get along well.
At 15, on a mission that should have been simple/easy, Branch's Master is attacked by a Sith looking for a fight. Master Dawn tells Branch to run of course, but when she is injured he jumps in to try and protect her instead. And that's when JD recognizes him!
Branch is very confused why this crazy troll has gone from trying to kill them to hugging him/crying. He barely remembers HAVING any siblings! But JD has pictures, and stories, and the more he talks, the more Branch remembers.
Branch is horrified to learn his brother not only Fell, but went all the way to being a full Sith Lord. He feels responsible, as thinking all his brothers were dead was the reason JD Fell. (Branch, no. You were a baby, don't feel guilty, it's not your fault!)
When he gets home, Branch immediately looks for any information he can find about Falling, and more importantly, coming BACK from a Fall. His finds are not encouraging...FINE! If there's no method here to save his brother, he'll invent one himself! He's going to get stronger, capture his brother, and give him ALL the therapy!
And so begins the story. JD is NOT willing to go through rehab, but stops attacking Jedi to avoid upsetting Branch (though any Jedi that attacks him is fair game to kill, and he loves trying to provoke them into giving him an excuse), and instead visits often whenever Branch is off Corusant.
A year later, newly Knighted Creek is captured by criminals/tortured. He Falls to the Dark Side. He attacks Branch, but has no lightsaber and is captured. Instead of taking him into custody, (and either high-security prison or execution) Branch calls the one person he knows can use the Dark without being consumed by it. His brother is surprised, but willing to take Creek as an Apprentice to keep him under control without locking him up completely. Branch continues working on his rehab plans, now with the goal of defeating JD and drawing him/Creek BOTH back to the Light.
A years after that, the Clone Wars begin. Branch becomes a commander under General Delta Dawn. He doesn't tell JD right away; he knows his brother will lose his shit about it. Then he gets trapped by enemies, and has to call for help.
JD arrives using his ships Hustle feature, slaughtering the droids with extreme prejudice. Then Branch/JD have a screaming argument. Somehow, Branch wins. He can keep participating in the war, but JD is now sticking close. A Jedi and Sith fighting together quickly catches a lot of attention.
JD splits off whenever they're on Corusant to avoid arrest attempts (emphasis on attempts) and let Branch relax at the Temple. So he's not there when they get called before a very concerned Chancellor Palpatine. Oh no...
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Branch is 15-17 for most of the story. He still has mostly bright colors, having recovered from going Grey much faster with the Jedi's help. His ears are still droopy though. He wears light brown Jedi robes, with a leafy scarf worn as a belt (from Floyd). His hair grows upward, except for his Padawan braid [BRAID ART PENDING] behind his right ear, with 4 beads and 1 colored cord. He caries a blue lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING] with a fish charm on the belt clip that he got from JD.
OTHER FACTS: Branch mostly practices Ataru, and is learning some Niman. His favorite missions are escort/guard type, especially when he protects Senator Poppy. His least favorite missions are anti-piracy ones that make him interact with Barb's crew of lunatics. The fact that they kinda like him is NOT a bonus.
[Art of Branch's lightsaber/braid are already made. I will add it when my phone is fixed]
AU Rambles
Okay, so the basic premise is a fusion-fic, not a crossover, about a Force-sensitive JD Falling to the dark side after believing his family has been killed by Bergens. [All AU rambles will be under the tag #sith john dory]
The following characters are important, and will get their own separate ramble. In no particular order of relevance:
JD/Branch/Bruce/Clay/Floyd Delta Dawn/Hickory Rhonda Barb Poppy/Viva Creek/Cybil
CONCEPT SETTING: Trolls/Bergens are 2 species from the same planet at the border of the outer rim/mid rim. Bergens are Besalisk sized, while Trolls are about Yoda sized. Trolls are not prisoners, but their villages are regularly raided by Bergens who capture and eat them.
The Pop tribe has the most problems with Bergens, but all the tribes are aware of Bergens as a danger. The troll tribes are NOT allied until partway through the story.
PLOT THEME: JD Falls after finding his village burned and family gone. He wanders around until he finds Rhonda, who helps him get stable again. He uses old Sith temples to teach himself/earn a Sith title. Eventually learns that the Jedi saved his baby brother, who is now a Jedi Padawan. Story focuses on JD trying to protect/bond with Branch, while dealing with a new Apprentice, some Line-of-Bane Sith trying to recruit/kill him, and Branch trying to capture him for rehabilitation.
Set before/during the clone wars.
A PRIZE TO ANYONE WHO CAN GUESS JD'S SITH TITLE BEFORE HIS RAMBLE GETS POSTED! FIRST TO GUESS GETS TO PICK A SITUATION PROMPT TO PUT JD IN AS A SCENE SNIPPET! (for example: barfight, temple trap, arrested, etc.)
