Im back with my sweet pookies for the first theme, idk if I'll be able to do the others too (it's been a bit of a tough time) but I really wanted to share this because these two will always be in my heart <3
I might have strayed a bit off-topic, but I interpreted “interdimensional” as the possibility of creating art set in different universes/AUs, and of course I chose my beloved #trollhunterBarbaraAU<33
For Douxilly asks 33. What is their wedding day like?
AAAAHH thank you for asking bab!!!
Aaah! Okay okay! So definitely they would have had their wedding after Strickler and Barbara's wedding, if only because, yes, Douxie did propose during the battle but that was more out of like, now or never type of scenarios where if something were to have happened to them at least they got the chance to be engaged and have that moment together, when it comes to the wedding I feel like now that all the magical chaos is mostly over, they would settle down and just try to take in the peace before actually planning or having the wedding.
Does it have something to do with them being unusure if the peace is going to last after the 'Final Battle' because they have been living life on edge and on the run for about a year? Yes but we won't dwell on that right now.
Aaaa the wedding itself tho! I imagine them having a small spring wedding, maybe somewhere near the forests in Arcadia or or a clearing nearby where Illy can magic up a field of flowers for the wedding.
Their wedding being a mix of mostly traditional mortal wedding stuff when it comes to the decorations and the cake (made by Jim of course-) and for the ceremony, a spellcaster soulbinding ritual alongside the vow exchange.
Inspired by @tenyai of course and I have been thinking about how to picture it going here but for mine, I imagine that they found this ritual in the refurbished and like revived Camelot library and the ritual goes, they find a big clear crystal centerpiece and during the ritual itself, imbue the crystal with their magical auras, changing the shape of it but also changing the colours to resemble a gradient of both of their magical auras.
Another thing about the ceremony that that is very sweet is that Douxie, after possible months of searching, found his mother's old ring (maybe in a treasure pile of a dragon somewhere or just in an antique shop like his mother's pendant) and while they have the rings they carved for each other from their engagement that they were going to use as wedding rings as well, he did give Illy his mother's ring as her official wedding ring during the ceremony!
Of course, the music as a whole would be handled by Arcadia's very own Ash Dispersal Pattern, they just had to play for their lead guitarist and singer's wedding! Plus, gives Douxie a chance to sing Illy a song after their first dance together.
For like the wedding theme? The colours of the drapery and the tables and chairs, white, blue, turqouise and gold with maybe some black pearls here and there! As for the flowers, other than the field of flowers that Illy would conjure up, I can imagine the the decorative flowers being a mix of mainly forget me nots and dandelions with a few maybe wild flowers in the mix, same goes for Illy's bouquet.
Archie is of course the ring bearer, because Illy begged him with puppy dog eyes and Douxie encouraged it cause he found the idea very amusing. Of course, Archie relents, he cares about them too much, he gets extra roasted salmon for a week-
As mentioned above, Jim obviously bakes their wedding cake, and you know HE INSISTED on doing so as I imagine he has grown very close to the couple especially after the Titan Battle.
The cake is a four tiered beast with two alternating flavours, a chocolate cake with a berry compote and chocolate ganache for Illy and a cinnamon spiced cake with a salted caramel and spiced cream cheese frosting for Douxie because our boy is not fond of chocolate-
The cake would probably be covered in like a white vanilla buttercream and decorated with modeling chocolate flowers that resemble forget me nots and dandelions all over.
The wedding would be pretty small? Just the Arcadia kids, Blinky, Aaarrrgghh, Nomura, Strickler, Barbara, Zoe and the rest of ADP. As for the wedding party, I imagine Illy would ask her twin siblings, Orion and Thalia to be her bridesmaids (bridespeople???) And Douxie would ask Claire and Archie in addition to be his groomsmen (groomspeople???) OH OH AND Illy's grandmother definitely walks her down the aisle!
I think that's all! But wow I rambled a lot! I have been thinking about this a lot and I really hope to write this out as a fic someday! If I miss anything it will surely be in that future fic!
Oof. Okie- I *may* have gone overboard... Still, have some headcanons I got for ya! Because I have no self-control! And yes, there is a lot of them.
He speaks in innuendos almost exclusively, but she will just be blunt with it ‘cause who got time for that.
He follows her. Just. He follows her. (🎵walk him like a dog, sis, walk him like a dog🎵) Okay, but actually he follows her (especially after the Eternal Night when he’s stuck in his troll form) because his arms are much longer than a human’s so it’s a bit uncomfortable to hold hands while walking beside each other because either she needs to stretch her hand down or he has to sort of angle his shoulder up, so, to compensate he always walks just behind her so that his hand is easy to keep in hers. Hence: he just follows her. (yes, he had the choice to lead, no, he did not take it.)
After they get comfortable with each other again, Barbara MUST boop him on the nose when he yawns and does the *biiiiiigggg streeeeetch* but, when he always complains with a little grumble, she’ll kiss his cheek as compensation. (and a bonus little scritch on the base of his horns if he’s especially grumpy)
Speaking of which, he PURRS. A lot. At first it sounds super scrungly and rough because he never did it very often, but Barbara makes it her personal mission to coax the purrs out of him and turn them smoother by constantly making him do it. (She succeeds, obviously ;} and when Jim and Strickler are having a petty little argument for funsies she’ll butt in ‘all serious’ and give him the stink eye and flex her fingers ready to make him purr in front of Jim and he’ll automatically, but grumpily, shut up and let Jim win)
He blushes LIKE CRAZY at like the smallest look from her ‘cause oh my God how could he not??? She’s wonderful, and stunning, and bewitching, and oh man he’s hers and she’s his, and could he be more fortunate to have her and— Meanwhile Barb will NOT blush at much, EXCEPT, of course, when he gives the worst dad joke in the world or some stupid, down-bad line like a nervous dork and THEN she’ll blush like a tomato.
As much as I love the hc that Strickler snores loud…my mom is the one that snores really loud……………………………………….so, BARB is the loud snorer and when she’s asleep she’s ASLEEP AND UNLESS THERE’S AN EMERGENCY SHE’S NOT WAKING UP. You could poke her, prod her, move her around, she WILL NOT wake up and WILL continue snoring like she’s gotta scare off the morning birds from the tree by the window. Strickler is the lightest sleeper the world has ever seen, Barb could be shifting around and his eyes will bolt open and he’ll just lay there. But, when he is exhausted and starts dozing off on the couch he’ll already be asleep but when Barb asks if he wants them to go to bed he’ll wake up all offended like a true dad and say “I wasn’t asleep, but if you’d like.” “You were snoring.” “That is……my usual breathing at night.” “Uh-huh. Sure.” “It is-!”
(He always falls asleep easier when they cuddle, but for a while he didn’t completely understand he could just *ask* her to cuddle and she probably would, he didn’t want to bother her so he always waited for her to initiate it. Until one day he gets the nerve to ask her to cuddle and she’s like “Hon, you just had to get closer to me and I would’ve cuddled whenever you want.” “It was that simple???” “Yes, we’re MARRIED.” “Oh. Fair point.”)
He gets restless really easy (especially after the Eternal Night when sometimes he wakes up earlier than she does and he’ll be swamped by thoughts of his plummeting self-worth to actually be sleeping beside her after everything he’s done to them) so he’ll go for ‘morning jogs’/morning flights in the forest nearby and return to make Barbara breakfast. It makes him feel a bit better and he always comes back with a different flower every time to give to her, but when Barb catches on to the main reason why he does this, she starts trying to cheer him up more when he comes back. One morning she asks why he picked the flower he did and one thing leads to another and now he’ll always bring back a flower and explain to her the history of the flower and its meaning and all the dorky stuff he loves to talk about and she’ll listen while eating her breakfast.
His eyes dilate insanely wide whenever he even thinks of her and everyone has dubbed it the “Lover Look for Lake” so they (mostly Toby) can say “Ohoho, the triple L combo! You’re a loser for her, Strickler, take that L so you can kiss that L.” He NEVER lives it down.
Sometimes, on really cloudy, late nights, when Barb is working at the hospital and finally gets out, exhausted and fatigued, a little someone will pop by with dilated red eyes and a flap of leathery wings. After a LONG TIME of mini-flights, she finally trusts him enough to close her eyes and let him carry her home after her long shifts so she can soak up the lightness of the night sky while she can hear a purr in his chest as she rests against it.
