just a little pathetic guy

shoutout to @shadowmancer1215’s hilarious memes, this group just keeps getting bigger lol

part 1: pages 13-16 (fixed)

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page 13: (I wonder if there’s anyone who could help.) *phone buzzes* (Hi mom, how’s it going?) (Just hanging out with Walter, how about you?) (Just at the castle with Claire and Douxie, why? What’s up?) (Do you want to come over for dinner? Wedding leftovers!) (Sounds good to me.) (Wonderful! See you then!) (See you then.)

page 14: Good evening, Young Atlas.) (Hi Jimbo! I’m heating up the food now. I’ll be there in a second!)

page 15: (Someone’s rather downcast today.) (You could tell?) (All of Arcadia Oaks could tell, dear Jim. Penny for your thoughts?) (No, thank you.) (Is it truly that dire?) (I don’t really feel like explaining.)

page 16: (Well, here we go, leftovers night! I’m sure you’re glad I wasn’t cooking it myself. Ha ha!) (Truer words are rarely spoken, my love.) (Thanks for inviting me, Mom.) ]

Author’s notes: Jim is tired. For him to lash out at the closest thing he has to a father (other than Blinky of course), it’s unlike him. It shows that something is really truly bothering him, and Strickler can tell. But don’t worry, they’ll talk about things soon enough.

Yet again, though, the two are conversing in hushed tones when they know Barbara cannot hear them. Brings back old memories. (remembers their knife fight in the dining room) Ah yes, fond memories.

ALSO STRICKLER KEEPS THE KRIFFING TURTLENECK SHIRT 🫵 peak character design, I will not let it go

The most fun thing about posting my trollhunters fanfic comic is realizing that I will miss extremely obvious details in the canon simply because I’m fixated on blorbo. That blorbo in question being Jim. I’m just so focused on locking in this story arc and set up all of these plot points that I just… forget that some of the other characters have certain defining traits about them. Fun fact: I had to search up what Claire’s hair looked like post-ROTT because I could not remember how white it was. Yeah. Lowkey crazy for that. And I ended up changing it anyways because it looks cooler, yay me (sarcasm) and then I forget Strickler can’t be human anymore. DARN IT I will continue to make mistakes I’m sure, keep pointing them out so I can either go back and fix them OR add it to the lore. I love lore. You can pry lore from my cold dead hands.

Anyways, Trollhunters: Changed Heart AU is running pretty smoothly. I thank you for your support as I irregularly post sets of four pages for all of y'all to see. I appreciate it

part 1: pages 9-12

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page 9: (Heh, they do. But Jim isn’t the type to give his life story to a stranger.) (I suppose that’s fair.) (I think… he will figure out his issues, with some time.) (Same.)

page 10: (They probably don’t know that I can hear them. I understand their concern, but my concern lies elsewhere. Merlin’s potion was meant to be permanent, so what made that not true anymore? And don’t get me started on the Khronisphere. I need to learn what these things are. For myself, not from others.)

page 11: (Now, to do some research.)

(The Potion of the New Flesh is a dangerous potion, its effects permanent and completely transmuting the user's form into that of another species. The potion's effects depend of the ingredients chosen, as they will connect the body's base form into the bodily system connected to the ingredients chosen to create the potion, transforming them into that creature.

For example, if the user is a troll, their form can be altered to a specific degree of severity, depending on the amount of ingredients used, making them either fully non-troll, or simply part-troll. This applies to any being that uses this potion.

It is also important to mention that sentient beings can only be transformed into a form of another sentient creature, and the same goes for non-sentient beings. Trolls cannot become plants or animals.

Overall, the process is completely permanent. The potion's effects cannot be tampered with post-use, and any attempt to reverse it, even with the same potion, will not result in anything happening, Though, if a powerful enough magic affects the user, the effects will either become more prevalent or will mutate, changing the user into something different. This is extremely rare to occur, though, as few magic users are capabale of curses that can create this much dysfunction.

If a user of this potion would somehow miraculously become their base form again, know that this is not true. The traits of that second form will always be there in some shape or form.

Mutation can even resolve in changeling-like physiology.)

page 12: (Tch! Thanks for the heads up, Merlin. I can only hope that I’ll figure this out.)

working on concepts for my comic lol

I think that also has nice ties to why I really like characters that become nonhuman which forces them to confront parts of themselves they’d neglected to see as parts of themselves. you’ve become something different and been given a new role, new struggles, and new challenges to overcome, but they’re the same ones you had before, just… in a different font. cinematic parallels via a human turned monster seeing just how much they were suffering BEFORE they became something else, because now those issues are more obvious. and no they can’t permanently turn back human because that’s negating the metaphor.

part 1: pages 5-8

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page 5: (How’re you feeling?) (Fine. Just tired) (Last night was nice though, right?) (Yeah.)

page 6: (Do you mind if I check out the library? It’s been a while.) (Sounds good.)

page 7: (I take it he’s still grieving? It’s been a whole year, but thats how it goes, I guess.) (Well… He was thrown into a magic war at age sixteen, and forced to endure intense combat training that could’ve killed him. Actually, he’s almost died many times. He’s fallen off cliffs, drowned, almost hanged, and was even stabbed in the heart. He’s been forced to hurt, lie, and kill for a cause he’d only just been taught of. He’s seen his friends and family almost die many times. He’s fallen was forcefully turned into a half-troll, destroying his sense of humanity and forcing him to come to terms with it immediately. Then he had to sacrifice his humanity completely just to save us, only for him to be mind controlled, and he almost killed us. And then we went to war.)

page 8: (Not to mention Jim finding out the Khronisphere doesn’t change time, so when he used it to try and save Toby-)(-He just ended up watching Toby die over and over again. Thats why he chose to break it. So yeah, now that the war has ended, he’s just stuck processing all that has happened. I understand the feeling. I had nightmares for months after I’d been possessed by Morgana, after all.) (I mean no offense, but does Arcadia Oaks not have therapy or something? There’s… a lot to unpack here. Maybe simple rumination isn’t the best solution.) ]

idk I just feel a lot of empathy towards Jim, because being forced to shove down pain just to get things done is something I think the show didn’t have the time to deal with, but I think he deserves that time.

part 1: pages 1-4

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page 2: [at the castle…] page 3: (someone’s rather chipper on this fine morning.)

page 4: (well, last night was a riot and you two came to visit.) (speaking of…) (*yawns* g’morning)

Alright then, for a fanbase I thought was pretty much gone, yall are pretty excited! Lemme lay out some details about this comic so you know what exactly it is. TROLLHUNTERS: CHANGED HEART AU

This takes place after the events of Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, but with a few events changed including:

Steve didn’t get pregnant (very important that this didn’t happen)

Strickler was able to survive falling in the ice

Nari does die, but she never tells Jim to use the Khronisphere

Jim does get get Khronisphere and contemplates using it, but he follows that by destroying the Khronisphere (because using it to reverse time actually goes against his entire speech so it was honestly just really bad writing smh) (he may have actually used it a few times but I’ll get to that later hehe)

There’s probably some other stuff but I can’t remember, I’m still working on rewatching everything

Edit: Things that did stay:

Nomura and Toby did die

Archie did get stuck, but he gets unstuck with his dad’s help

Other stuff I don’t have the space to list

Next, the setup for my comic!

Jim, Claire, and the rest of the gang have been enjoying their lives in Arcadia Oaks post-war. (This comic takes place about one year since the events of Rise of the Titans)

Strickler has been working on troll-human agreements and communications so the two civilizations can interact, to at least a small degree, without having any conflict. It’s a tough job, but he does it well. He’s also worked to establish peace between trolls and changelings, so they are no longer seen as impure and evil. A lot of changelings have even chosen to move into the new Trollmarket to seek community from others like them. Douxie and Zoe have built themselves a giant fortress in the forest, a hub for communications between the current leaders of the magical world. That is to say, it’s a castle for Jim and the Trollhunter gang XD

Jim’s mom and Strickler get married, and the comic begins the morning after the wedding, with Jim and Claire staying over at the castle for the night.

currently rewatching Trollhunters and the other Tales of Arcadia shows (plus the movie that exists but the last ten minutes and some random scenes don’t) and I have been blessed with the idea to make an AU alternate ending that takes place after the end of the kinda real movie, and I want to make it a comic :3

would you guys like to see a Trollhunters fix-it au comic? and it might have angst and some fun little plot twists?

I probably won’t be consistently able to make pages but I’ll do what I can and hopefully I don’t get bored, if I do I’ll just write the whole rest of the story and post it via AO3 or smth lol I AM NOT leaving people hanging

here are some low quality doodles I made before and after watching tadc ep 8 back in March

From before the episode we got Gangle dreaming of running Jax over with a jeep, a crack ship that I made up to send my friends reeling, and disappearing guy

watching Arcane for the first time and it’s very good but I have some questions specifically about the scene where Jinx staples her pants while wearing them