#iph theory

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me: making my way downtown, walking fast 

my brain: what if there’s a dramatic scene in wizards where jim says "It was supposed to be me" 

me: walking faster

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At this point, which seems more likely: Wizard!Toby or Wizard!Steve?

Anon, have you been reading @akozuheiwa's fics? I'm inclined to think you have.

In my honest opinion, Toby's the more likely of the two. But not as a straight-up wizard - maybe more like an Artificer or something. The concept of Toby directly commanding magical forces with lightning surging from his hands is... too much like an AU to sound canonical.

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What is the absolute weirdest theory for Wizards you have that you could convince people is the true?

Toby has alien heritage.

And I already have. ;)

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A friend, in response to the post earlier, mentioned Jim's title of "Young Atlas" by Strickler, which is a lone Greek mythos theme that succinctly describes Jim - but in a slightly inversed way. I'll get into that later.

Now, as an avid Homestuck fan devoted sincerely to optimisticduelist's readings of Homestuck, I'm inclined to think that the title is something that is forced upon Jim by Merlin and Trollkind, but one he takes to with incredible gusto and willpower, despite the overwhelming stress of such a responsibility (which fits my reading of him as a Knight in Homestuck title terms, aka one that Serves). And I may be right on that, but then there's to consider the fact that Atlas in Greek mythology is explicitly an antagonistic force, being the leaders of the Titans whom are the enemies of the Greek Gods.

"ATLAS was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance (atlaô). Atlas was a leader of the Titanes (Titans) in their war against Zeus and after their defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders."

(taken from theoi.com)

So why then, does the narrative and Strickler himself treat this as not something to be ashamed of, but something almost heroic?

Because Trollhunters is a story about inverses.

It's an obvious theme in GDT's work. He shows us to love 'monsters' and give them something almost akin to humanity. Perhaps literally (Shape of The Water, amirite?).

Trollhunters gives us two sides of the coin about Trollkind: One that just wants to live their lives out in peace, and the other that wishes to dominate the Earth, a clear good-evil dichotomy. Realistically, we'd fear trolls and see them only as inherently natural forces that want to eat and devour us for sustenance, because oh my god, they're actually demons, wow. Trollhunters doesn't do that. It gives the Trolls a sense of humanity, and a deep sense of cultural variety.

I mean, you can say this about a lot of magical fantasy adventure narratives, and I sure as hell have critiques about Trollhunters, but this isn't about that. I'm getting to my point.

My point is is that Trollhunters inverses the interpretation of the title of Atlas in Jim's life - not as a punishment, but as something heroically inherited. Like all Trollhunters, Jim bears the responsibility of keeping both the mundane and the magical worlds in balance, and safe.

Maybe even to the point that the antagonists in Wizards will force Jim into serving a literal/metaphorical Atlas role, making him endure the pain of keeping the world up and safe from destruction.

Or maybe I'm entirely wrong, and the title of Young Atlas will turn out to be a metatextual plot device in an incredible plot twist where everything we know is revealed to be wrong, leading to Merlin revealing he's actually The True Bad Guy and Jim has a crisis of fate.

But that seems unlikely. Yet, who knows? The writers, that's for sure, but they're not saying anything.

And that's all for today, folks.

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TALES OF ARCADIA THEORY: SOMEONE LOSES AN EYE

There's a theme in this show with (glowing) eyes.

And with someone losing an eye.

So, consider the idea: someone of the main cast loses an eye.

Current biggest contender: Toby. Connecting with my Alien!Toby theory, and the fact that his flour baby lost an eye (see: above), it's rather likely to happen to him, one way or another. Maybe it's metaphorical, like with Jim's "death" being him shedding most of human half to transform into a half-troll, then the "loss of Toby's eye" could simply be him gaining a "new view" of the world/the universe, bigger than that of a human can comprehend.

Or he literally loses an eye. Who knows.

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is this foreshadowing

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the main casts

trollhunters: regular generically white boys (one thin, one cartoonishly fat) + two gay trolls + a latina girl

3below, probably: borderline gay nerd and jock dynamic + two aliens disguised as a latino boy and a girl with heavy accents + alien bodyguard disguised as an old man + a douchey fucking british fucker who's probably mordred + giant gay troll that's been separated from his husband + the same fat white boy from trollhunters except he's probably a half-alien

am i wrong

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it took me quite a while to get around to posting this but yes, a writer has confirmed that there is something to the half-alien toby theory

credit to @chickenpermission-ghost for asking the writer

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