#toa jim

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Don’t get me wrong, I love Toby so much. But I literally don’t think he could be the trollhunter.

Cause Strickler only turned good because of BARBARA. And he only met her because Jim was the trollhunter, he only pursued her at first to upset Jim.

Jim survived the darklands because he had formed genuine connections with Nomura and Strickler that I don’t think Toby could.

Love Toby but he’s a bit awkward and sometimes he says some crazy shit.

Also I don’t think he would be responsible with it—? Like he was literally telling Claire that Jim found a magic amulet and they WERENT EVEN FRIENDS. Toby could not lock tf in for his life in the early days.

That’s why my headcanon is that the amulet was like “Toby Domzalski… take me to Jim that bitch thought he could get out of this.” Jim and the amulet are a bitter married couple.

Also they kinda did this in like season two, Jim wishes he wasn’t the trollhunter and DRAAL can’t even stop Gunmar.

Toby is cooked I’m so sorry. Love you Toby but you cannot lock tf in.

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Jim when the amulet says fuck you and comes back swinging.

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No cause Jim was all too ready to push that shard into his chest and basically kill himself in wizards

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Yeah cause Jim’s worst time of day being the dead of night totally isn’t an allegory for how depression often gets worse for people at night and how hopeless it can feel when your have a MDE (Major Depressive Episode) at night because everyone’s asleep meanwhile your spiraling.

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It’s the fact that Jim has several episodes where he gets put on a mood enhancer. (The confidence necklace, the stone that separates him into like 100 different Jims, the gravesand, etc)

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Funny how Jim always seems to come back to that fucking bridge again huh?

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The villains/antagonists in trollhunters represent the different ways depression manifests when your a teen. Like almost every single villain. Even in filler.

Strickler? Feeling hopeless in school, like you can never meet your goals and how easy it can be to slip into a fixed mindset. You never feel like your doing enough in school despite trying you best your mind always finds something to feel inadequate in.

Angor Rot? The feeling of emptiness that many often describe as the focal point of depression. Theres an inescapable darkness that looms in the shadows and seems to hollow you out from the inside.

Nomura? Feeling like you’re too small or weak to handle the real world, feeling like a little gynt who has no shot at actually making it.

Gunmar? The helpless and looking threat of suicidal ideation. People think depression makes you crave death and want to die, but you’re terrified of it, you desperately want to live, to survive. But you don’t know how, you’re drowning in darkness and you don’t know what lies ahead. Gunmar is the feeling like death is the only path for you. (The decimar blade makes this even more clear with how it controls people, convincing them that Gunmar’s way is the only way.)

Fuck it even the FUCKING GNOMES represent how even the little slights of the world can feel like an insistent and constant force, piling up until you’re overwhelmed.

Changelings can represent how you feel like the people around you are lying to you, trying to be nice and kind while secretly hating you and waiting to drop you at a moments notice.

Bular is very much like gunmar in his representation but Bular is the feeling of how things would better if you died, the people around you would be better, how now matter what you do you’ll never be enough. He’s the more pressing threat of death. He’s the aggressive death, while Gunmar is more calm, passive, convincing.

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Douxie: I think I should get back with my band

Jim, knowing damn well he had bought his records, also knowing he has the brotherly obligation to annoy the shit out of Douxie: Nah it’s wasn’t that good anyways