I love the explorations of Parentified John Dory, but I barely see anyone bringing up Parentified Branch. And I don’t mean the kind in Age Swap AUs.
As an oldest myself, I won’t disregard whatever responsibilities JD might’ve carried, since such expectations do fall upon the eldest the most.
Plus… they’re parents are never mentioned (and tbh I wish they were just dead in canon bc that would be a whole new can of worms)
But I think half the “taking care of them” crash outs was just their band gig and having to manage his brothers. I mean… Grandma Rosiepuff was there, you can’t tell me she didn’t do the raising part of the brothers (otherwise she’s just an unspoken asshole.)
Branch definitely experienced a much bigger parentification. He raised himself, built himself a home, prepared himself for the worse —I assume he taught himself self-defense and weapon crafting— and forced himself to grow up mentally.
He’s also the one carrying the group (or tries to, even when no one’s taking him seriously) whenever they’re going on a ‘mission’.
Calling it now! If they ever make a Trolls tv series of events taking place after Band Together: All the brothers are living in Branch’s bunker (Bruce not really, bc he has a family), and Branch is the one taking care of them. They’d occasionally help out, but also mess up because Branch has a whole system he works with, in his home. (Floyd being the one who frequently offers help).