#dad floyd

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Here's Floyd when he, hours after leaving Keanu's dorm, suddenly popped an egg out of his scalp. (Unbeknownst to him, the same thing happened with Keanu around the same time.)

Additional context + closeups of each individual image under the cut.

Just then, Bruno*, Floyd's lover whom he thought to be dead, found him and took him and the baby in, finally setting Floyd on a road to recovery.

Mama Floyd here is afraid get attached to this baby because he already lost two before: his last daughter who died two years prior from SIDS at just one month old due to having been conceived under the same circumstances** as her sister after her, and his baby brother whom Floyd believes got eaten while he was away.

Ravin and Keanu belong to @zivazivc

Yes, the pants Floyd is wearing when he's holding Ravin's egg was based on Živa's 20s Floyd outfit.

*New OC replacing Reese in the Mirverse and adjacent AUs such as this one here.

**I HC that many troll eggs conceived while the parents are on drugs turn out to be duds, and many drug babies often wind up stillborn or dying from SIDS.

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Pink Floyd in Moscow 1989

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

Here's that short story I made the poll about. Reminder this is not canon to the rest of the FOF au.

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This pic takes place before this.

Floyd and his half-techno kids are walking home from school, and Ravin is talking to Floyd about her day at school.

Ever since the kiddos were brought to Pop Village, they've been doing well in their recovery. Well, aside from recoiling or freaking out at the sight of Techno trolls...

Ravin has been making good progress! Her colors have even returned for the most part. Edwin's progress, however, is slow-going.

Eddy M and Ravin belong to @zivazivc

EDIT: I just realized I forgot to include the drafts for Floyd's tattoo, so here:

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What if Floyd is called "mama" by his babies?

I've been imagining that because I like to picture him with motherly traits. I like to think of him as an egg-bearer and primary caregiver.

And because I think it's cute.

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[Insert dialogue of a ten-year-old ranting to his previously-unknown Pop dad about the mistreatment he and his sister endured in the Techno foster system just for being half-Pop.]

--We didn’t ask for any of that! We never asked to be made!! Where was all that love and care these past ten years? Where was that these past FIVE YEARS?!!

I have no excuse… I’m sorry I wasn’t there.

No kid should ever have to go through such hardship, especially not at such a young age as you were…

Despite how angry and upset they are, they’re still kids and they’re hurting and they need a hug. Also, you gotta let them get it outta their system.

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I love @zivazivc's OCs Eddy M and Ravin! (Oh, and their Techno dad is confirmed to have been in his twenties when he had them.)

Some songs I listened to while working on those pics:

This takes place in a universe in which Floyd mans up and takes those kids in after being reminded of their existence and informed of their situation. There are some other things that sets this AU apart from Ziva’s but I’m not gonna spoil any more than I probably already am. Plus, the AU is still a work-in-progress.

The kids are sent straight to Pop Village after the events of Trolls World Tour, and all of BroZone is informed of the kids’ existence after ancestry test results come out.

Why’s Eddy M pissed at Floyd, you may wonder? It’s because Eddy M knows Floyd knew of his and Ravin’s existence from the start and didn’t bother being part of their lives until Floyd was reminded of their existence and informed about their situation. Ravin knows that too, but she’s more upset that she’s reliving the trauma she and her brother underwent.

In the Mirverse, Eddy M and Ravin’s Techno dad died when they were five, and their Techno grandparents, whom they thought loved them, shunted them off to the Techno foster system where they were mistreated for being half-Pop.

Wondering about Eddy M’s bandages? Well, all I’m gonna say is that Eddy M ran into trouble and got hurt. And nope, it wasn’t during his and Ravin’s time in the Techno foster system.

The kids are supposed to be ten years old in this. If Floyd is thirteen when BroZone split, in his mid-twenties when he had those two eggs with that Techno troll, then he should be in his mid-thirties in this (at least in the Mirverse and according to my headcanons).

If you notice the kids’ heights are possibly inconsistent for a ten-year-old, please ignore this error because I was too late to fix it. Maybe their time in the shitty-ass Techno foster system stunted their growth?

As for the clothes the kids are wearing? They were gifted those clothes when they were in the much nicer Pop Village foster home/orphanage.

Notice Floyd’s tattoo? The flowers are forget-me-nots, which I picked for a symbolic meaning that's literally in the name. I’m gonna let you try to figure out the rest (;

btw the tattoo design isn't finalized, so it's subject to change.

Oh, and I hope you don’t mind the alterations and errors in Eddy M and Ravin’s designs. I was almost done with the pic so it was too late to fix those errors (the bangs and eyebrows), I’ll try to rectify that and see if I can make those details work next time I draw those two.

As for the alterations, I wanted to simplify Ravin’s skin for ease of drawing and I struggled to make Eddy M’s Techno troll teeth work.

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I'm a sucker for Dad Floyd...

...be it begotten or adopted.

Look how sweet he is throughout the movie! Look how compassionate he is!

Look how he tries to help John Dory! Look how he gives baby Branch a pep talk! Look at that heartfelt goodbye between those two*! Look at how he tries to appeal to the good he knows is within Veneer!

That is the make of a good dad! One who would offer emotional support to his kids when they need it, offer them advice, and be patient with them.

Floyd is absolute dad material and you can't change my mind!

*Side note: Floyd DID come back to the Troll Tree as promised. He was just a little late and thus drew the conclusion that his baby brother got eaten. Not even CANON will make me change my mind!

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If Floyd witnessed Velvet physically and verbally abusing Veneer...

Floyd would drop whatever escape plan he has and stay to comfort Veneer, emotionally support him, and try to get him to leave the abusive situation.

The guilt of leaving Baby Branch behind (and the belief that he got eaten) still haunts Floyd, so he's not about to leave another kid behind.