Part of an au I came up with where every sapient species in the Trolls-verse has a guardian angel that helped create them.
In the beginning, God made the world and sent angels to create living creatures. Every angel created a species by removing one of their body parts. The angels that made the different troll species all used their voice boxes but one of them didn’t remove her voice box but she used her shed tears and gave them her song to breathe life. Just like the various peoples are based on toys, the angels are based on ball joint mannikins. Small races have human-sized angels, Big races have giant-sized angels.
Angel of the Pop Tribe: Tara (named after the Buddest mother goddess) Nonbinary; uses neopronouns ei/eim/eir. Plant motif. Appearance: Tara has green skin, ivy for hair, pink eyes with daisy petal eyelashes, feminine features, flat chest, flowers growing from eir body, and a long green tail tipped with a trefoil leaf. Tara most often wears a sleeveless gown made of flower petals and a crown made of matching flowers. The flowers change with every new Pop Tribe ruler. Powers: plant control, healing, creating music, and growing plants from eir body. Personality and relationships: Eir personality is kind and cheerful, and ei has a calm demeanor when interacting with the tribe. When angered, however, ei becomes violently protective. Is best friends with Diwata. In my au, Tara became the Troll Tree long ago, and when the trolls fled, they took buds of the tree with them to keep communicating with eim. During “True Colors” Tara awakens from the tree.
Angel of the Rock Tribe: Camazotz (named after the Aztec god of bats) Male; uses he/him pronouns. Fire motif. Appearance: Camazots has red skin with glowing veins, solid yellow eyes with red pupils, shaggy black hair, vampire bat ears and nose, indigenous features, muscular build, glowing lava core in his chest, lava batwing arms with clawed hands and feet. He wears a gold chain necklace, and loose pants. Powers: fire control, manifesting weapons, flying, and lava manipulation. Personality and relationships: Fierce warrior who fights without mercy on behalf of his people. When not fighting, he’s very chill and goes with the flow. Will literally do anything to make the royal family happy, even fight other angels. Once had a romantic relationship with Tara.
Angel of the Funk Tribe: Shango (named for the Yoruba Orisha associated with dance and lightning) Intersex; uses they/them pronouns. Metal Motif. Appearance: Shango has purple skin, cyber green eyes with purple sclera, green afro hair, uneven breasts, African features, and metallic patches of skin. Their clothes are Afrofuturistic and based on traditional Yoruba mens clothing. And they wear jewelry of all different metals. Powers: metal bending, technopathy, mind-reading, and projecting holograms. Personality and relationships: team dad mentality, very protective and interactive with the Funk Trolls. The royal family affectionately refers to them as “GoGo”. Uses mind powers to communicate with others. Phases through different parts of Vibe City through electric currents.
Angel of the Classical Tribe: Brunhilde (named after the Norse valkyrie made famous by Wagner’s Ring Cycle) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Air Motif. Appearance: gold skin, gold eyes, gold hair worn in a pompadour, silver swan wings, and a silver pendant. Brunhilde most often wears a power blue Regency ball gown with matching gloves. Powers: air bending, manifesting clouds, creating music from nature, and flying. Personality and relationships: very serious, team mom mentality, builds a close relationship with each Classical leader. Once a week the Classical Trolls approach her with requests. She grants the requests as she sees fit.
Angel of the Country Tribe: Kachina (named after spirit beings of the Pueblo people) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Stone Motif. Appearance: Native South-Western woman with orange skin, brown eyes with square pupils, and long black hair styled in two braids. She wears a traditional Hopi dress made from quilt materials, and floral patterned moccasins. Powers: manipulating rock and sand, causing earthquakes, summoning horses made of dust, and creating tornados. Personality and relationships: Butch lesbean, laidback, presides over all important Country events, chooses the new leader when necessary. In times of danger, she’s the main line of defence.
Angel of the Techno Tribe: Tangaroa (named after the Maori sea god) Male; uses he/him pronouns. Sea Motif. Appearance: Potbellied body covered in blue scales with webbed feet and a long fishtail, coral eyes, tentacle hair that changes color, swim trunks and sash made from seaweed. Power: water bending, electric shocks, communion with sea animals, and camouflage. Personality and relationships: Cheerful goofball who avoids conflict as much as possible. Acts like a big brother to the Techno tribe. Has a close friendship with the leaders.
Angel of the Reggaeton Trolls: Yucahu (named after the Taino creator deity of indigenous Puerto Rican myth) Male; uses he/him pronouns. Taino coded. Appearence: chartreuse skin, war paint on his face, vine dreadlocks tipped with leaves, yellow eyes, wears a loincloth made from braided grass. Powers: static electricity, communion with animals, and stimulating plant growth. Personality and relationships: very casual with his tribe, fun uncle energy.
Angel of the K-Pop Trolls: Dalnim (named after the Korean goddess of the moon) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Korean coded. Appearance: Korean woman with tiger stripes, orange eyes with blue sclera, black hair in a fancy style called eo’yeo meori, and wears a traditional hanbok with snowflake pattern. Power: freezing objects, creating glowing lights, and taekwondo. Personality and relationships: sweet and affectionate, close friends with Tara and Yucahu. Bonds with a whole family of leaders instead of one specific person.
Angel of the Jazz Trolls: Samedi (named after the Vodou loa of the dead) Male; uses he/him pronouns. Creole coded. Appearance: handsome black man with magenta eyes, permanent skull makeup, a fleur de lis tattooed on his chest, wearing a top hat, tuxedo jacket, pinstriped pants, and dress shoes. Powers: fog, illusion, manifesting skulls, and summoning ghosts (only on special occasions). Personality and relationships: very sly, very coy, communicates by playing a trumpet, has a very intimate relationship with Jazz leaders.
Angel of the Yodel Trolls: Perchta (named after the Alpine Goddess) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Austrian coded. Appearance: fair-skinned woman with black hair, cloven hooves, and brown goat eyes, wearing a black dirndl with a red apron and floral pattern. Powers: invisibility, sonic thunderclaps, and turning into a troll-sized goat. Personality and relationships: fem lesbian, in love with Katchina, acts as a mother figure to the yodelers, very affectionate with people she likes.
Angel of the Platinum Tribe: Diwata (named after the Filipino precolonial deities) Female; uses she/her pronouns. She is Filipino-coded. Appearance: curvy, plump, has platinum blonde hair, white skin, and yellow eyes. Wears a rainbow crop top and a matching saya (it's a Filipino traditional skirt), golden jewelry with rainbow diamonds, and golden tattoos on her arms, upper back, the side of her legs, and around her wrists, ankles, and tail. Powers: Despite being the shortest, she is the strongest with light powers, and aether physiology. Personality and relationships: As the eldest of the angels, Diwata is a fair but firm leader/parental figure to both the other angels and the platinum trolls, knows when the platinum leaders come to ask for favors when needed, focused on keeping nature in order but at the same time, friendly but protective and loving to her fellow angels, and the trolls, especially towards her best friend, Tara.
Angel of the Space Tribe: Urania (named after the Greek Muse of Astronomy) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Space motif. Appearance: green skin with sparkly star freckles, floating silver hair, indigo chitin with constellation pattern. Powers: gravity manipulation, controlling starlight, summoning creatures based on constellations. Personality and relationships: intelligent, nerdy, polite, forms a psychic bond with each new leader.
Angel of the Indie Tribe: Inari (named after the Shinto god of rice) Male; he/him pronouns. Japanese coded. Appearance: gradient sunset-colored skin, coral-colored hair tied in a topknot that resembles a fox tail, amber eyes, and his outfit is a mix of traditional Edo period clothing and modern Indie Rock clothes (yakama pants, denim jacket, cool sunglasses) he also has gold jewelry including bracelets, anklets, and gold teeth grill. Powers: teleportation, illusions, levitation, sound waves, and light manipulation. Personality and relationships: Brave, confident, playful, curious, sometimes broody, loyal, protective, and encouraging. He’s like a big brother to the Indie trolls. He used to be close friends with Camzots, but they had a falling out before the big “Rockpocalypse.”
>Lighting round of genres that aren’t fully fleshed out.<
Bollywood trolls - Saraswati (female)
Polka trolls - Yarillo (male)
Mariachi trolls - Tlaloc (male)
Samba trolls - Jaci (female)
Folk trolls - Herne (male)
Bergens Guardian Angel: Danu (named after the Celtic Mother Goddess) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Removed her heart to create the Bergen people. Appearance: twelve-foot-tall obese albino woman with long, shiny hair and a broken heart tattoo on her chest. Goes completely naked. When the light touches her body, it sparkles like a mirror ball. Powers: floating, light distortion, thunderbolts, telekinesis, and terraforming. Personality and relationships: She is aloof, almost apathetic, keeping distant from her people and only interacting with them when they pray to her. When the Bergens first found the Pop Trolls, they thought the trolls were a gift from Danu.
Party Crasher Angel: Bachus (named after the Roman god of wine and revelry) Male; uses he/him pronouns. Removed part of his brain to create the Party Crashers. Appearance: Bergen-sized Mediterranean man with snake eyes, black hair, and a bald spot covered in scales. Wears a green tunic and poncho. Powers: breathes fire, and flies, creates miasma and deliriums. Personality and relationships: Well-meaning but forgetful and absent-minded. Constantly comes off as drunk. The Party Crashers still love him. One day, he wandered off, and the Party Crashers have been looking for him ever since.
Vacay Island Angel: Kanaloa (named after the Hawaiian shark god) Male; uses he/him pronouns. Removed his hands, finger by finger, to create the first Vacaytioners. Appearance: twenty-foot-tall Hawaiian coded shark tale merman with sunset-colored yarn hair, arms that end in shark fins, and solid black eyes. Speaks only in the native Hawaiian language. Powers: controlling waves, creating storms, forming whirlpools, and changing his size. Personality and relationships: very serious and very protective. Nothing comes to the island without him allowing it. He spends every day underwater swimming around Vacay Island like a soldier on patrol. Once a year, he comes on shore and the Vacaytioners throw a luau. He and Tangaroa are boyfriends.
Mount Rageous Angel: Bast (named after the Egyptian cat goddess of festivity and warfare) Female; uses she/her pronouns. Removed her feet to create the first Rageons. Appearance: twenty feet tall, with hair made from gold fibers. Also wears a golden cat mask. She’s Egyptian coded, with bronze skin, clawed hands, and a bejeweled linen dress. After she cut off her feet, the stumps crystallized and spread up the rest of her legs. Powers: growing crystals, extending her arms and claws, seeing through the eyes of cats, and making her voice heard by everyone in Mount Rageous. Personality and relationships: She sits immobile underneath the mountain itself. She watches her people through her spirit cats but tries not to meddle in their lives. She only interacts with the Rageons when something horrible is happening, so they tend not to give her much thought. However, every Rageon has to make a pilgrimage under the mountain to see her at some point in their lives, usually after they’ve reached adulthood.
(As for people such as Cloud Guy and Crimp, I don’t know enough about their species to come up with an Angel for them.)
The Platinum trolls belong to @artstar1997. The Space trolls belong to @x-elyssa-x. The Indie trolls belong to @ntci
Questions, comments, and suggestions are appreciated. Edits and additions will be made if requested
