#eclipse armor

It's been a long time since I posted something original. For this post, I wanted to overhaul the Triumbric stones' powers (specifically, what the individual stones give) and rework the Eclipse armor’s power. I was inspired by a post by @az-daniels-yeeter where he talked about his headcanons about the Triumbric stones and it's cool.

For starters, let’s talk about the Eclipse armor in this rework. While the daylight armor (or Trollhunter's armor because I don’t think it's ever really referred to as the daylight armor in the series) is made from daylight, the Eclipse armor is made up of sunlight, the pure concentrated energy of the sun. Some of you might be thinking, “Well, what’s the difference between the two?” my answer is that sunlight is stronger. What I mean by this is that the daylight energy that comprises the daylight armor turns trolls to stone, whereas the sunlight energy that comprises the Eclipse armor legit burns them to ashes; just one nick on the tip of your finger from the eclipse blade can incinerate an average trolls arm.

Another difference between the daylight armor and the Eclipse armor is that any weapons manifested while the Eclipse armor is active can petrify a troll as if it were the sword of daylight. If memory serves me right, weapons made with daylight in the show does have the same effect as if it was the sword of daylight, yet it was circumstantial. If it's circumstantial, then it’s unreliable, and it leads me to believe that weapons made with daylight aren’t as powerful as the sword of daylight.

I don’t think we ever got a legitimate reason why the sword of daylight can not kill Gunmar in the show. So the reason why Gunmar can’t be killed by daylight in this overhaul is because Gunmar is so incredibly powerful. Attacks from the sword of daylight are like cuts, and the resulting petrification is like small bruises that his natural healing factor can make it go away. On the other hand, Sunlight affects Gunmar the same way daylight affects an average troll.

It’s a power creep, I know. But that doesn’t mean it comes without any risks. Just because the Eclipse armor doesn’t affect the Trollhunter who wears it doesn’t mean it’s harmless to others. The Eclipse armor constantly builds up Sunlight energy as it has less control over how much energy is produced unlike the Daylight armor, and if that energy is not used to conjure and strength a weapon, the energy will build up in the armor to the point where it is dangerous for others to touch the armor, and then to a point where it will start to burn the wearer. In order to combat this while still wearing the armor, the wearer has to put energy into the weapon. This in turn strengthens the weapon. However, if not careful, the armor’s durability will weaken, and it takes a bit longer to regain that energy as a-pose to when its conjured.

Now, it’s on to the Triumbric stones. First on our list is the birthstone. The birthstone boosts the Trollhunter’s durability and healing factor. “Gift’s the wielder the skin of Gunmar” if you want to be short and cryptic. The killstone gives the Trollhunter an incredible boost in strength.

Now, it’s time for the Eye of Gunmar. I put more thought and effort into this than the other two stones (evident on how short the last paragraph is). The Eye of Gunmar gives the Trollhunter the powers of Gunmar meaning that who ever’s got it can absorb a heartstone’s power. With that much power of a heartstone’s energy, you could heal from fatal wounds, or regrow parts of the body. However, the bigger the part of the body is missing, the longer it takes to regrow it, unless you use a whole bunch of the heartstone’s energy to hasten the process, but then you’d be burning up that energy. The eye of Gunmar can also give away heartstone energy to heal and revitalize others, or to overload a person by giving them more energy than they can handel, sort of like how Gunmar almost exploded Dictatious in the hero’s forge in season 3. It also holds residual traces of his memories and instincts, allowing one to fight like Gunmar.

The Birthstone and Killstone’s abilities are passive and activate when the Trollhunter dons the armor, whether that be the normal Daylight, Eclipse, Moonlight, ect. The Eye of Gunmar, on the other hand, activates as a reaction to the user’s animosity, anger, and/or survival instinct kicking in at the current moment and deactivates when the user has calmed down. When this happens, there is a sunburn that appears on the area of the user’s right eye in the shape of the Eye of Gunmar when it was chiseled, signifying that it is now active, fading away only when the user has calmed down. Depending on how long and how much the Eye of Gunmar is used, the sunburn could get worse. While the Eye is in use, the users own anger and animosity is amplified, throwing away their own morals. It doesn’t matter if their just training or sparing, or if someone’s begging them not to kill them, they wont stop attacking until their opponent is dead. Unless a loved one intervens and talk some sense into them.

The Eye also connects the mind and souls of both Gunmar and the wielder, allowing them to feel what emotions he feels or would feel, and see what he sees. In order to see through Gunmar’s eye, one would need to be in a state between anger and frustration, and calmness, sort of like how you would try and calm yourself from frustration, along with having your eyes closed. What was just said, can also be reversed. As in how Gunmar could feel what the wielder feels and see through the wielder's eyes. Though the part where he would see through the wielder’s eyes can only happen if the Eye of Gunmar is still active, and relaxing with his eyes closed (though I kind of think he would just pace around to calm down).

This type of connection is very dangerous, as the soul is at risk of being corrupted by Gunmar’s own evilness, making the wielder act more and more like him, making it harder and harder for loved ones to calm the wielder down. If it’s not dealt with while the corruption is still small, then the soul will be permanently tainted and can’t be purified. A good, and only, visual indicator for how much the soul has been corrupted is how bad does the sunburn mark on the area of the right eye. If the mark looks like a type 1 sunburn, then the corruption is small and can be cured with minimal to no damage to the soul. If it looks like a type 2 sunburn, then the soul can still be purified with minimal damage to the soul. If it’s a type 3 sunburn, while it still can be purified, the soul will have some noticeable damage to it. If the mark is a type 3 sunburn and fades to a type 1 when the Eye is inactive, most of the soul has been corrupted and nows the time to really seek out a master wizard for help. Type 3 and fades to a type 2, it’s time to put them down. Type 3 sunburn and stays that way after the amulet has been taken off, you should have killed them when you had the chance. If the mark is still a type 3 sunburn, but now the eyelids are now colored burnt black, the sclera (white part of the eye) is black, the iris is a ghostly blue that emits a flame with the same ghostly blue color just like Gunmars. Congratulations, you’ve got a new Gunmar on your hands to deal with.