#trollstice

THIS IS SO DARK 😭

they cook the trolls ALIVE 😭

Poppy - Strawberry & Spinach Salad With Poppyseed Vinaigrette

This is a healthy and flexible recipe with flavors that complement one another. I would start with dissolving the troll’s hair in a vinaigrette base. The happier the troll the sweeter the taste, so apply the dressing to taste. I would candy the remains and add them along with walnuts or pecans.

Grandma Rosiepuff - Puffball Schnitzel

Puffballs have a relatively bland and earthy flavor profile which makes them the perfect pairing for trolls. I would start with filleting the troll and using the flesh to accent the deep fried puffballs. I would squeeze fresh lemon over the puffballs and serve with aioli.

Creek - Fish Tacos

A spineless fish taco recipe for a spineless troll! Rather than adding lime juice to these fish tacos, I would juice this troll and sear the fish in the juice over high heat. I would use the troll hair as garnish before serving.

Branch - Dandelion Salad

Unhappy trolls typically take on a more bitter flavor. Expanding on this, I’ve decided to add this troll to a famously bitter salad. Rather than dissolving the hair, I would juice the entire troll and add it to a vinaigrette base to expand on the flavor. I would garnish with dandelion flowers and hair clippings.

Floyd - Ombré Pink & White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Poppy is King Peppy's heir, shes the future queen. You'd think that would make her off limits. She needs to survive to be crowned and eventually continue the royal line. The bergens are a monarchy themselves so they understand this importance and the trolls are their livestock so they would have to put some focus on maintaining genetics and keeping the trolls at a somewhat stable quality of life, that includes the social dynamics of the tribe. At least as much as we would keep track of the Queen bee in a hive, the biggest bull in a herd, or the fastest horse in the derby.

But now with Band Together it makes more sence.

Viva is older than Poppy, which means that she would likely have been assumed to be the future queen. As far as the bergens are concerned King Peppy already had his "heir and a spare". Poppy was just the spare.

With that in mind, i wonder if it was a tradition for bergen royalty to be fed a royal troll for their first trollstice. "Every prince deserves a princess" Chef had said. Did Peppy have a sibling that was fed to Gristle's dad?

If Poppy hadn't been born, would Viva had been considered old enough for Peppy to be given to Gristle instead? She managed to lead the Puttputts when she got seperated. Or would Gristle have gotten Viva and the bergens just hoped Peppy would create a new heir?

And back to the genetics bit. Do you think they selectively bred the trolls for the best taste or effect. Like specifically choosing trolls or families with undesirable traits to cook at trollstice so that their genes die out. Is that how the average pop troll of the current generation got to be so... delusionaly cheerful.

Like i know its all played up for the movies because their pop trolls, constantly singing and dancing and eating sugary sweets. But in comparison to the other genres they just seem more exaggerated.

So how much of that happy positivity and optimistic near lack of self preservation that most pop trolls have is natural for their genre and how much is enhanced due to at least 100 years of selective breeding.

I imagine the happier a troll the more dopamine/serotonin they produce naturally so the bergens would probably take care to decrease the the amount of trolls that wernt as "potent". Which likely would have been trolls that sang and danced less, were more likely to develop anxiety or were prone to depression or going grey.

On the evolutionary side of things this would have led to the happiest and more optimistic pop trolls to be the most attractive and ideal mates even if the trolls don't relize the scientific reason behind it or consciously notice that happy trolls had a higher servival rate.

(Which kind of reminds me of that one post that said something about boybands like Brozone who made trolls happy with their music likely being "protected" in some way because bergens wanted them to continue making trolls happy)

And i do think the pop trolls were captive for at least 100 years because i doubt a whole town and castle, essentially a small kingdom can be built in one life time. Especially not one with an established monarchy and near religious holiday that has a "minister of happiness". Honestly i wanna see it as over 200 years, give them plenty of time to forget their pre-trollstice history like the existence of other tribes

OHOHOHOHO! fair warning, my headcanons tend to be really dark and this is no exception.

I'm not typing this anew, I'm just pasting two blocks of text I sent to a friend via tumblr messenger on two different occasions, so it might feel a bit disjointed while reading:

block of text one:

okay basically in my hc trollstice is also a once a year thing but it’s not barbaric in the sense that on that day they let the bergens into the cage and they just go ham catching trolls left and right. in my hc king peppy and chef actually have a fucked up agreement where chef shows up a few weeks/days before trollstice on a particular year and tells him how many trolls she needs that year and then the trolls pick that year’s victims by lot (only trolls who are 40 and older participate (with a few exceptions like obvs the king, but also rosiepuff but more on that some other time)) (also the age limit used to be much higher at the very beginning but they had to adjust to their population growing smaller). they implemented this to keep the kids safe and also to kinda force the population to reproduce more, because everyone starts having kids young bc they want to see them grow up before there’s a chance that they can get picked for the next trollstice (it’s also why jd and freesia we’re already thinking of starting a family at 18) ANYWAY during all this the trolls have been secretly digging the escape tunnels for years, and they are getting close but they keep pushing the date back because of cave ins or other setbacks. ANYWAY the bergen king has a baby son who will be old enough for his very first trollstice in a few years, and the chef being a demon spawn proposes that the prince’s very first troll should be a princess. king peppy and everyone is horrified because viva is still young and he tries arguing that she’s the only heir to the throne. So then Chef is like “then make a new princess for the prince, you still have two years time”. SO THEN the king is forced to have poppy (hence why she’s so much younger than viva 🙃) but the trolls are still all horrified of the idea that the bergens would eat a child so they collectively start working extra hard in the tunnels and they manage to finish them just in time for the prince’s first trollstice…….

this would also explain why chef was so confident about where baby poppy was located at the last trollstice at the beginning of the first movie when she walked into the cage and knew which pod to grab - it all had to be planned in advance.

AND there being no “old” trolls would also explain why so much life wisdom and knowledge about the outside world managed to disappear during the time the trolls were imprisoned. no grandmas or grandpas to pass the knowledge on.

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block of text two:

Techno trolls and later Pop Trolls have Flip Phones (Pop Trolls have those pink like, Motorola ones? Very cute with a lot of charms, at least a lot of girls in my school had these)

Funk trolls have those fancy slider phones

Rock trolls have blackberries or Nokias

Here's a spotify playlist of songs I think Pop Trolls would sing to comfort themselves and each other every Trollstice.

Although I think they either had to sing before or after the fact, or they had to sing very quietly as the unfortunate ones are being picked off.

Maybe there was some kinda magic mumbo jumbo that made their hiding spots soundproof so the bergens can't hear them when they sing.

It's located in the more darker bits of the forest, but the stones are decorated with flowers and beautiful nature. Each stone has the names of the Troll that was eaten during Trollstice, including their names, year of death, occupation, etc. Since they were eaten, there's sadly no burials for the Trollstice Trolls. Each year,  all the Trolls gather around the memorial and pay their respects to those who lost their life due to the Bergens. A holiday, if you can call it that.