#deep!jim

[yellowmagicalgirl]

I guess Jim's fear came true

[badsongpetey]

New AU idea:

Vendel assembles deep!Jim, hunter!Jim, gritshaka!Jim, gravesand!Jim, and beast!Jim into a Trollhunters universe Suicide Squad. It's very funny and very very violent.

Thanks to @bluheaven-adw for the convo that inspired this insanity.

[lui-the-cute-snek]

At first I wanted to do it just for myself, to experiment a bit with markers, but I really like how some of them turned out, so I decided to share it with ya.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

If you were to write a version of Wizards without time travel but still keeping the struggle against the Arcane Order how would you do it?

This is pretty much a combination of plans I have for the cagemates au as well as the backstory of this fic I wrote pre-Wizards. This is very self-indulgent and I doubt it makes sense but oh well.

Okay, so the story starts the exact same way, with the single change of how I’m going to be using my revised backstory for Douxie (aka there was forwards-only time travel and he’s only 17 as opposed to 900-ish). Also, Jim hasn’t been sharded yet.

I think the story would involve a teleporting castle as the kids’ home base, with them effectively going on fetch quests. There are scenes of the kids bonding with minimal adult supervision (just Archie, Merlin, Blinky, and AAARRRGGHH!!!). And, that includes the following private conversation between Jim and Douxie:

Jim: You know, you’re actually pretty cool when you’re not flirting with my girlfriend

Douxie: Uh, thanks, but I never flirted

Jim: Yes you did

Douxie: No I didn’t

Jim: Yes you did

Douxie, in a lower volume and nervous: Jim, if I wanted to cause you and Claire to break up, and I wanted to get a significant other for myself in the process... I wouldn’t have flirted with her.

Jim: Oh? Oh! Okay, that’s cool. I support you. Uh, does anyone else in this castle no?

Douxie: Just Archie.

Jim: Okay, cool, I won’t tell anyone.

(The rest is going beneath a cut because this is getting long)

Back in Arcadia, after Merlin teleports the castle away for the first time in the story, Bellroc and Skrael grumble and travel the mostly-empty streets of Arcadia Oaks. And they find Gaylen’s core. Eons ago, they gave a fraction of their power to an akiridion who wanted to create a permanent home for his people, spacefarers who were constantly having to leave their planets due to war and inhospitable landscapes. And when he went mad with power, they gave Seklos the strength and inspiration to create her cannon.

They pick up the core, and they learn of an akiridion whose core resonates with Gaylen’s. And, it’s not like they would have to leave the Earth to find him - they just have to go to a wrecked and ruined spaceship to find a lonely boy whose family is dead or far away, and his best friend has left him. He tries calling his other friends, but they’re not responding (mainly because they’re recovering from the battle that Krel doesn’t know about.)

Krel’s consent to Bellroc and Skrael causing him to integrate with Gaylen’s core is dubious at best, but they do convince him that Merlin the Evil™ Wizard (along with his apprentice) has kidnapped his friends.

Steve and Toby try to reach out to Krel, but he doesn’t answer. He needs time, they think. He’s grieving and wants space, they think. In the mean time, some of the mooks they have to fight have some disturbingly akiridion qualities. And then, the kids get kidnapped. Everyone but Douxie gets placed in a surprisingly well-furnished cell, and Krel goes to them and tells them how happy he is that he was able to save them from Merlin and his apprentice. The kids, of course, can see that Krel has been changed and are scared.

Krel is sad that his friends are scared of him (and he doesn’t like that he’s been changed by Gaylen’s core, either) and so he decides to leave them so he can go to try and interrogate Merlin’s apprentice. Tries is the key word here. Varvatos may have tried to teach Krel, but Krel is too squeamish to cut off Douxie’s thumbs and thus the two of them end up bantering. Krel gets flustered; why does he like talking with his enemy so much? Krel tries to intimidate Douxie by putting the tip of his serrator’s blade under Douxie’s chin and using it to tilt Douxie’s gaze upwards... instead they both manage to get more flustered because it’s a homoerotic sword-under-chin scene now. Krel leaves the room, and finds out that his friends have broken out.

Claire ends up awakening stronger shadow magic, and she and Krel spam portals at each other as the kids try to find Douxie and escape. Someone asks Douxie if he’s okay. He claims to be physically fine and emotionally compromised. Jim finally gets sharded in the escape. He’s in a great deal of pain, and Barbara finally gets brought in. She’s terrified because her baby is hurt and she can’t do anything for him.

The other kids ask Douxie about the whole emotional compromise thing when they’re safe.

Toby: Just because Krel was our friend before you, that doesn’t mean it’s okay that he hurt you. Are you sure you’re okay.

Douxie: If he’d hurt me it’d be easier.

Everyone: o_O what?

Douxie: I... why is it that the only time I’m able to talk to a cute guy and not get too flustered to speak is when he’s trying to interrogate me by being really sweet and funny?

Everyone: O_o

Toby: You really weren’t flirting with Claire, were you?

Douxie, relieved that Jim didn’t out him but also frustrated: Why does everyone think that.

Claire: I didn’t think that. Well, I did for a little bit but then I remembered seeing you at the GSA meetings back before I switched schools from the Academy to the High

Douxie, grumbling: Why do I get the feeling that I wouldn’t be in this mess if I had just managed to try to talk to that cute DJ at the Battle of the Bands before the Eternal Night happened

Steve: Quick question, are you saying you had a crush on DJ Kleb?

Douxie, head in his hands: Yes

Steve: Yeah, that’s Krel’s human disguise

Douxie: Fuzzbuckets.

Toby: If it’s any help we all thought you were the token cishet.

Krel is panicking, because the Order was fine with hurting his friends, and also because he has a crush though he’s in denial about the latter.

Jim ends up looking way more like he did in the Deep (except he still has horns) than just growing into a giant beast.

Douxie gets a staff. Somehow.

Krel defects at around the same time as Jim joins the Order. He’s able to make up surprisingly easily with his friends, and Aja and Eli come back to Earth, shocked to find out what has been done to Krel but affirming that they still care about him the way they did before.

Merlin’s death is more-or-less like canon.

Morgana remains evil in her dying breath. Claire gets to kill her. “Oh happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rest and let me finally start to live again.”

Barbara, Blinky, AAARRRGGHH!!!, and Toby snap Jim out of the shard’s corruption.

Nari sacrifices herself to destroy Bellroc and Skrael, which would make Wizards the end of the story rather than needing Rise of the Titans.

Cut to an epilogue where Eli is complaining about how Krel is dating a guy from their rival school while Aja is laughing in the background, Steve is hanging out with Coach Lawrence and talking about teaching sports to kids after school, Douxie is training Claire in magic, Toby helping Miss Janeth direct a play involving Shannon, Conrad, Darci, and Mary, and Jim (still a half troll) is building a new motorcycle so he can be prepared for whatever next adventure is lying in wait for their sleepy little town of Arcadia Oaks.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

Reasons why I think the changeling/troll!Jim theory could be true

Why did the amulet choose a human? Did Merlin or Kanjigar know that the Janus Order exists, and thus a Trollhunter that’s immune to sunlight/can blend in with humanity would be needed? It seems a bit unlikely.

According to an interview, there was an event in the last episodes that allows for Jim to gain a different voice that would be explained in-universe, and deep!Jim both looks like a troll/changeling and has a deeper voice (no pun intended) than regular!Jim

Jim can clearly communicate with the blood goblin, but doesn’t appear mention this to his friends, and is surprised by the fact that he can do this. Meanwhile, Steve and Eli have to use a translational device. Whether blood goblins are naturally more intelligent than regular goblins or not hasn’t been revealed (that I know of)

Jim’s deepest fear has become of himself as a troll/changeling, while previously it was of his friends and mom being petrified at the Killahead Bridge

In the second season, several characters questioned if Jim was a changeling or not

When Blinky and AAARRRGGHH!!! attempted to use a gaggletack on Jim in “Unbecoming”, he runs despite it not having an effect on him in the past. While on its own the action could seem harmless (especially given the nature of the episode), but it does look suspicious given the rest of the evidence for Jim not being fully human

Jim says to Toby that Strickler was just as likely to be a changeling as he (Jim) was, and we all know how the first part of that turned out.

During “It’s About Time” Blinky (accidentally, due to changing his train of thought) tells Barbara that “Jim is turning into a troll”. It has a reason in context, but it also seems oddly specific given later plot points.

In “Hero with a Thousand Faces”, trollhunter!Jim states that regular!Jim is caught between two worlds and eventually would need to choose between the two. However, changelings exist in both worlds but also don’t belong in either.

Why are Nomura and Strickler at Jim’s house in the end of “In the Hall of the Gumm-Gumm King”? To train him, yes, but both of them could have gotten away from Gunmar and hidden (at least temporarily) .

Jim has been compared to Peer Gynt, who finds out that he is not a human but a troll

There are probably more reasons but tl;dr it feels like there’s a large amount of textual evidence for this

Reasons why I think the changeling/troll!Jim theory could be false

It’s an actual plot point that he’s the first human trollhunter, and if Jim were part human it would take away from this

Jim’s deepest fear could just be that, since he’s a human, he isn’t a good choice to protect trollkind

Jim very well could just have a different voice because he’s 16 and going through puberty

It is very easy to overanalyze things, and I’ve been in AP English Literature for nearly a year sometimes the curtains are just fucking blue

[yellowmagicalgirl]

Is it just me or does deep!Jim look older than regular Jim?