What are your thoughts on Jim and Toby getting trollish pattern tattoos that are a mix of AAARRRGGEE and Blinky’s?
Maybe even some patterns curtesy of grandpa Vendel and brother Draal too.
I think they'd wait til they're older, but it's definitely something I could see them doing. Claire too! They love their troll family, and trollish culture is something that each of them has adopted in so many ways, some intentional and others learned. That part of their lives is so important to them. It would mean a lot, having something that serves as a permanent reminder of it.
And you just know Blinky is gonna try not to cry with how moved and proud he is, and how excited Aaargh would be!
...Only one baby survived!? IT WAS A BAG OF FLOUR! NONE OF YOU COULD KEEP IT ALIVE FOR 24 HOURS!?
I'm sorry my mom threw it away cause I'm allergic to gluten. she wrote a not to explain :(
*crushes note*
You all fail, except for Scott and Somzalski.
Congratulations. You're compentent enough to just bearly pass this assignment. I weep for your offspring, and pray I'm retired by the time they reach highschool.
This is one of my favorte scene in this damn show bruh
YAYYY WORLDBUILDING!!! (And random character info I feel like sharing)
first off: what is the rest of the USA doing?
most of the west coast is considered dangerous, though really the entire US and North America is. Most of its residents are either on the east coast or migrated to Mexico and Canada, or even overseas. There’s many evacuations happening at once and it’s chaos for government activity. Most military is focused on evacuation and control of keeping gumm-gumms out of the rest of the country but..well that doesn’t exactly work. They stopped the spread for the time being during the story. Not permanently. A lot of military is still in the west coast area to try fighting, or they just got straight up abandoned there. Most people do not trust military anymore if they are in California, mainly because they are known to try gathering up survivors (women, children) and traffic or just straight up make horrible encampments. It’s such an issue even country wide that a lot of whoever is left in the US avoids military areas out of fear.
why has the states not just been nuked?
Changelings in world government disabled the codes long before anything was public and widespread. There were also so many changelings in high ranking positions that many world governments are in shambles.
are there any safe spaces?
island countries like Ireland/Britain, Australia, Japan, etc are for the most part isolated and not a target of Morgana or Gunmar for the time being. So kind of. But those places are also very overpopulated after everything happened.
how does WiFi and power work?
States neighboring California keep the state’s power on and WiFi connected to help survivors escape. Hydroelectric dams also play a big part, with some people staying at facilities just to maintain them so nothing goes out.
What about tanks and military force?
morgana took care of most of the immediate threats like tanks and artillery. The spell caused a temporary disabling of most vehicles/electronics. By the time they came back online evacuation was a more viable option than brute force. And again, changelings in government. Personally I think high ranking changelings would be multi-changers like Hans so only a few would be revealed, Usually ones non important to controlling the government. This would divert attention away from any changelings left.
where is Merlin?
Still fucking asleep. That might change later. Or Morgan’s just straight up kills him once she finds where he’s sleeping. Either way his ass is not important to anyone but Morgana and Douxie.
EXTRA CHARACTER THINGS!!!
Gunmar first:
His left side (where his eye was torn out) is mainly numb and he cannot hear well from that side. The scar also pulls up his lip slightly and makes one side look permanently slightly ‘grinning’. He gets migraines a lot aswell from badly healed fractures in his skull from his fight with Deya.
Remember how I said he can mimic voices? Well once he’s not malnourished from the Darklands he can also create illusions. Usually of a few set specific humans he’s killed prior, and he only uses those illusions to hunt and deceive. If he’s trying to blend in with a group he just uses a human he controls with the Decimarr blade.
In the Toby post I mentioned how troll skin type depends on minerals in the skin structure that can mimic stone or gem appearances. This is true for every troll but Gunmar and any trolls he has full control over long term (more than a year). The soldiers will take on the appearance of a very very saturated smokey quartz no matter what they eat. This is also considered to be why one of the names his army has is ‘Death walking’. Those soldiers are not alive in any meaningful way.
Blinky and Arrgh:
The pair is safe with Jim in his settlement. Arrgh recognized what Gunmar would plan to do, aka take over trollmarket, and had already told Blinky to begin moving things before it happened. Blinky has a very large space for his books in the form of a human library repurposed for him and Arrgh to live in. They are gay in this btw. Anyways Blinky is busy day and night helping Douxie with finding Merlin’s tomb and getting other things sorted, but he also has time to tutor humans who want to know troll history or learn the language. Claire especially. Arrgh helps Jim train a lot, and during the first weeks was Jim’s main guard against further attacks from Bular. Bular doesn’t fight Arrgh without someone else present because Arrgh knows exactly how Bular fights and can take him down. Taking inspiration from mildeleef (not directly tagging them bc I don’t wanna bother them. Pls do go check them out though their art is AMAZING), I have decided Arrgh and Bular used to have a brotherly bond and were raised together. Gunmar seems like the type to adopt in other whelps and Arrgh happened to be the lucky one, and is only a bit older than Bular. So they grew up and trained the same way. Does this past really affect arrghs perception of Bular? Yes. Arrgh knows he is dangerous but hopes he can one day get bular to see it wasn’t worth it.
dictacious:
He isn’t blind until a few weeks after the eternal night began, when Blinky found him and confronted him in a way that ended up with Dictacious fully blind and Blinky blind in two eyes. Yes it was because of explosives. Despite the blindness Dictacious is still with Gunmar as an advisor, since he is a source of wisdom.
Drall:
I bet you’re wondering why Drall is mentioned. Well he still helps Jim by being a helpful amulet spirit. He wants to protect Jim and make sure he can do what he failed at.
Strickler:
he is not in Jim’s settlement but is in Ellie’s. He wants to stay close to monitor Jim and Barbara after realizing what Jim inherited. I haven’t fleshed him out to much though.
Bular:
my favorite evil man. He’s very happy his father is back but he is having his doubts. Gunmar is not the same as he once was- being away from him for centuries let Bular see what other trolls did: that his father was unsettling. At first he played it off but as the months pass he is finding it harder to feel accomplished in the eye of his father. He made a new den at the museum once he realized he wasn’t sure what he wanted anymore. And sometimes stares at Dralls statue, wondering if he felt the same about Kanjigar. He thinks no one notices it, but Ellie does, and then Jim. (Daddy issues times four)
angor:
he wants his soul back. He doesn’t know who has it: Morgana does not. Strickler doesn’t, but claimed to know Hans may have the location of the ring. He’s playing the long game at getting it back. At the same time he’s keeping an eye on Claire and her sick state. He knows what the signs are of Morganas power at work.
Ellie (this is just a fun fact):
Ellie uses a flare gun when she’s patrolling as a weapon and a threat to any humans who threaten her. Shooting a flare off where she normally roams (aka very close to gumm-gumm territory) is a death sentence if you don’t know how to get away fast. She does usually. But one time she was being chased and almost killed by a lone survivor and survived by shooting a flare into their head. She will never erase that memory.
Ellie is the only one in the group besides Claire to almost be mind controlled. Her and Claire got captured once and while Claire was being interrogated by Morgana and fighting her off, Gunmar almost got Ellie under control. The after effects of partial linking to his power are memories she never had, changed behavior, and a very weak emotional link that usually only becomes an issue if he is angry.
Claire:
Claire is the second victim of partial mind linking- but it was to Morgana like in the show. It’s the same gist as the show but the after effects are worse. She gets nightmares, visions, and occasionally Morgana can speak with her in her head or move her body for a moment at a time.
Do you do art requests? If so would you be willing to draw a troll jeve cuddle session?
I do take art requests
However I was working on the intial sketch of this piece of when I got this ask and while it took me forever. It is just a lot of Jeves
While its not quite Troll Jeves cuddling I hope it works anyway
We have book Jeves, below that is show Jeves, then the Prince James au (needs a better name) with human and troll Jim. I then have a monster hunter au with a werewolf Jim, a Bird au where Trolls are Dinosaurs and a cat au because I grew up on Warriors
