#R!Skrael

[alovesongshewrote]

Can I then request headcannons from you in the Trollhunters fandom? How would Nari, Skrael and Bellrock react to a fem reader who helps them imperceptibly, and when they catch her, instead of being afraid of them, she playfully laughs and jokes. It's okay if you can't or don't want to do it. Anyway, thanks.

this is kinda short, but i did my best 😅 just a reminder, i don't write gendered readers, so this is allll gender neutral. goddamn i haven't written for this fandom in a while.

Y’know that one line, from brooklyn 99, where the main detective guy is talking about his time undercover in the mafia, and he says something like

“I mainly just helped them switch over from AOL” 

Y’know that one?

Yeahhhh, i'm thinking that’s kind of how you help the order

Look, you just think the game is rigged, okay?

These trollhunting assholes are from the modern day

They know how phones work

They understand texting and shit works

Also, they have access to gps tracking, the brats

So, you decide to even out the playing field

You like

Buy the order iphones 

You leave the phones in their base with a little note, like

“Here, use this, it’ll help you defeat ur enemies, trust me”

They do not trust you.

They think the phones are bombs and the first set of phones you buy get thrown out of the base 

Rip

It’s okay, you have more iphones

And you just

Don’t stop giving them phones until finally, one of them turns the gd phone on and they go

!!!

“We can send foreboding messages to our enemies!  Sick!”

And like

That’s what they do for a solid week

They like

Stop working towards their goal, and for a week, they just keep tweeting at jim like

“We r gonna kill ur mom >:)”

And this is before twitter went to shit, so they kept getting banned from twitter

And like

As funny as this was for you to watch

You could think of a thousand other uses for modern tech

So you just

Break into their base (again)

And start 

Installing wifi shit everywhere???

Of course, this is when they find you

You get a thousand weapons pointed at you, blah blah blah 

But you?  You’re calm

You’re collected

You’re kinda into it tbh

With a wink and a smile, you try to charm your way out of what looks like inevitable death 

And hey, it works

You start off with a “Hello friends!” and end it with a, “and that, beloveds, is how I ended up here!”

And they

Enjoy you

Who knew that ancient fire demigods would laugh at being called “hotman” ?

You did, i guess

Anyway, since the order enjoys you so much, they decide to keep you

So now you just

Live with them

And honestly, with housing costing what it does?

It’s not bad

You could genuinely have worse roommates

Bc these ones are pretty cute, and they will kill for you, so

#x reader #bellroc x reader #skrael x reader #toa x reader

[crystalcoiner]

Naricharic

A gender that is related to, affected by, or can only be described as Nari of the Eternal Forest from Tales of Arcadia. It can also be connected to their earth titan.

Bellrocharic

A gender that is related to, affected by, or can only be described as Bellroc Keeper of the Flame from Tales of Arcadia. It can also be connected to their lava titan.

Skraelcharic

A gender that is related to, affected by, or can only be described as Skrael of the North Wind from Tales of Arcadia. It can also be related to their ice titan.

All flags are color-dropped from the characters.

[Flag IDs: Three 9-striped flags side by side. Each flag has two thick outside stripes, two thinner stripes inside of those, and three thick stripes in the middle. The stripe colors for the first flag, from top to bottom, are dark green, light green, olive green, medium blue-green, light blue, medium blue-green, olive green, light green, and dark green. The stripe colors for the second flag are dark blue, dull dark red, dark red, orange-tinted red, yellow, orange-tinted red, dark red, dull dark red, and dark blue. The stripe colors for the third flag are dark blue, dull blue-green, light blue, gray light blue, white, gray light blue, light blue, dull blue-green, and dark blue. End ID.]

[Divider ID: A lavender image of a dragonfly with dotted patterns in its spread wings and sparkles falling from the wings. On either side of the dragonfly is a lavender line extending outwards. This image appears below the flags and two more times between the gender descriptions. End ID.]

#mine #my flags #my terms #new term #new flag #xenogender #mogai #gender coining #term coining #character gender #kyanite's toa pride #the arcane order #tales of arcadia #toa wizards #not tagging as r*tt even though the titans are mentioned #skrael of the north wind #nari of the eternal forest #bellroc keeper of the flame

[skraelofthenorthwind]

on seeing skrael's return: bellroc slips up beside him, unusually silent, before pulling themself close for a tight, wordless hug.

Skrael holds them, perhaps a little too hard, drawing in lungfuls of their true scent - faintly of smoke and cinders and spices, like the hearths of old -

- and banishes the false version from memory, the one that had fooled him for a moment only by feigning weakness, before he'd caught the smell of decay and their lips had pulled into a slanted, malicious mockery of the grin he loved to coax forth.

The comfort of their warm skin is like balm on his nerves and his hands - cool but not freezing - wanders along their neck to cup their head, tucking them protectively underneath his chin. One hand settling on the back of their neck, a comforting weight, the other arm curled around them, securing them together.

Whatever horrors she has visited upon them he will see to, whatever ill seeds she might have sown he will root out one by one, for as long as it takes. In time, all will be known and made well.

But for now, holding them again is enough-

- and as it should be.

#flamekeeperbellroc #{ bliss of another kind ~•~ bellroc ❤ skrael } #ahhhh my h e a r t #(*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)

[karaktcrs]

He’s not sure of how he’s supposed to feel about those. . . Nicknames???

#i c (hisirdoux) #d a s h c o m m e n t a r y (hisirdoux) #// OIWREUOIRUROE SKRAEL

[ssiggss]

Give us some of Jim’s allies’ reactions to his death in your War on Peace AU. I WANT TO BE H U R T.

BET.

I present to you,

Toby screaming and crying and being the first to run to his best friends corpse. Claire losing control of her powers as the grief of losing the love of her life hits her like a freight train.

Aja numb and in disbelief, Steve and Krel unable to move as they watch Jim fall to the ground. They watch the friend whose always had their backs die in front of them, with no way to stop it.

Aaaargh can barely speak, overcome with grief and anguish, Blinky can't stop yelling. Thats his son. Thats his boy.

Nari, running as fast as she can trying to save jim but knowing she's too late, Skrael in complete shock because the Trollhunter has always prevailed, and Bellroc absolutely losing their shit because THATS MY SON. THATS MY BOY.

(YES I KNOW I FORGOT DOUXIE I WILL GET TO MORE OF THEM LATER IM SORRY)

#tales of arcadia #trollhunters #my au #toa au #rott au #my art #krel tarron #aja tarron #skrael of the north wind #nari of the eternal forest #toby domzalski #bellroc keeper of the flame #blinkous galadrigal #aaarrrgghhh #steve palchuk #claire nuñez

[falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand]

AIGHT HEAR ME OUT- what if the Order was immortal as in comes back when they die, not as in can’t die at all? I choose to headcanon this occasionally, not only because I’m f r agile (and ROTT killed me), but it’s actually pretty compatible with canon (not that that makes anything better, esp when ROTT exists)

rambles under the cut

To start off- what made me first wonder this:

how did Skrael and Bellroc just….walk off falling unconscious from the literal sky? they’re probably more durable than the average human but still, that’s a lot of fall damage (yes cartoon logic I know I KNOW). It certainly nerfed douxie, but he had the mentor speech and main character insurance to keep him alive and well. Also Nari probably

but then we’re shown bells and skrael, up and attem, assumably happening right after, as the fortress is still fresh and burning. hm.

fig. 2: Bellroc’s miraculous recovery from being hit in the face with a sword and blinded.

we dont know exactly how long after Killahead the second scene took place, but from the way Nari spoke we can infer it was semi-recent, and no matter how you slice it, it’s pretty surprising they were doing so well after getting seriously wounded on the face, and literally having lava pouring from their eyes. I’m not sure how the injury carryover would work, but still.

and then this line: “you cannot kill a god”. I’m gonna take Bellroc on their word for this one! It would certainly lend to one’s confidence to know that even if everything goes to absolute shit, there’s a backup ready. (I know I’m entering into dubiously canon ROTT territory, but hear me out)

also, this whole piece

look how damn unconcerned they are to have a huge sword at their throat, that is not hey-this-could-actually-kill-me behavior. And while the baddie doesn’t care if they survive, only if they win, is certainly a Trope™ that I have MMMM THoughts on, I’m counting it because I feel like it

and, finally, me desperately trying to justify whatever tf was that last fight between nari and Skrael

look….. I know I am very much the minority in this idea, but I really don’t think that even in that situation, Nari and Skrael would genuinely go for each other’s throats like that. They‘ve known each other for millennia, there’s no way they would be perfectly fine with genuinely permanently killing each other like that. However, if was just a way of taking each other briefly from the fight, it’s… still not great but makes more sense then them suddenly deciding to be okay with murdering their companion of who-knows-how-long

Just- a lot of stuff I noticed so I shoved it together and called it some meta! I choose to semi-headcanon it because it could be angst and/or total crack (my two favorite things!)

#Baby’s first meta #the arcane order #bellroc #kiwifae says shit #skrael #tales of arcadia #bellroc keeper of the flame #nari #wizards toa #skrael of the north wind #nari of the eternal forest #(I do admit that I am terribly influenced by the idea of this going on post ROTT. It’s just so darkly funny to me that after everything the #the Order just… shows up again the next day

[archies-litterbox]

the fact that there wasn't a callback to the three rules of being a trollhunter in r*tt makes me so mad. like. WHAT was stopping anyone in the gang from rule number threeing skrael. WHAT. NOTHING

#mine #tales of arcadia #toa #rott #rise of the titans #skrael #tales of bullying skrael #skrael of the north wind

[battleyak]

🌿 N A R I 🌿

The cutest veggie lady :3 I had so much fun painting her! That also wraps up the Arcane Order portraits :) I might end up doing some more Trollhunters fanart down the road, especially after the movie comes out, but if you’re interested in seeing anything else let me know!

Process video is up on my Insta (you can find Skrael’s there too!) thank you for looking :)

#nari #nari arcane order #nari trollhunters #nari wizards #nari toa #toa nari #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #wizards #toa wizards #arcane order #arcane order nari #toa fanart #toa fandom #toa #toa wizards fanart #fanart #trollhunters fanart #trollhunter wizards #trollhunters tales of arcadia #veggie lady #procreate #procreate art #digital illustration #my art

[sergeantsporks]

I Won’t Let Go (or Run Away)

Gen, General Audiences

Nari won’t fight Skrael alone. Douxie won’t let it happen.

Based on this post by @archies-litterbox . I have never watched Pacific Rim and don’t know what drift compatibility is, but the idea of Douxie co-piloting Nari’s titan Vibes With Me.

@alovesongshewrote

Ao3

“No. You have a titan.”

Nari’s eyes started to glow, and her titan rumbled up.

She looked so… ethereal. And terrifying. And… a little bit sad. A titan fighting for them, a titan fighting against them—either way, she was alone.

So when Claire opened the shadow portal for them to get off the titan, Douxie didn’t go through it.

“Hey, c’mon! I can’t keep this open, I’ll need all of my magic for the titan’s portal.”

Douxie shook his head. “I’m not going to leave her alone again. I promised I would protect her.”

“Douxie,” Nari murmured, “You cannot share this with me. It is my burden.”

Douxie took Nari’s hand once more. “No more running, Nari. This is my fight, too. You are my fight.”

The world lit up, and he was huge, he was powerful, he could crush forests with his steps and destroy anyone who got in his way. Douxie let out an exhilarated laugh, lifting one arm and watching it crack stone with the force it came down with. He was unstoppable, he had the power of raw, untamed magic at his disposal and he was a god!

Nari’s hand in his anchored him to himself, reminded him who he was. Douxie. Punk-Rocker. Customer Service Expert. A master wizard. Certainly not a god.

Claire’s shadow portal surrounded them, transferring them to a forest. Nari leaned forward, and Douxie followed her lead. The titan ran forward at full tilt towards Skrael.

What if…

Douxie used his magic to light his regular hand on fire.

The titan fist he swung towards Skrael’s titan was wreathed in blue flame.

Skrael howled, whirling around to face them. “What—Impossible! You cannot pilot a titan!”

“Not alone!” Douxie responded.

Nari’s hand squeezed his, and she brought their other fist careening towards Skrael. The ice titan dodged, but barely.

“You cannot contain such power,” the ice demigod taunted, “It will consume you, and spit you out!”

“I won’t let it!” Nari howled. Vines shot out, reaching towards Skrael. With a thought from Douxie, they glowed blue and sent off a sleeping spell that made Skrael’s titan sway on its feet. Another punch from Douxie’s fiery fist sent the ice titan reeling.

Maybe Skrael was right about this consuming him—the scale of magic it took for the whole titan hand to light was exhausting, and Douxie could feel himself starting to fail.

A blow from Skrael sent them skidding to the side, and Douxie’s hand slipped out of Nari’s, instantly severing his connection to the titan. He fell, tumbling off of the titan towards the distant ground.

Falling.

Again.

“Douxie!”

Nari lunged out of her titan’s control sphere, holding onto a vine with one hand and grasping Douxie’s hand with the other. A vine snaked out, lashing their wrists together.

“Don’t leave me,” Nari begged.

Douxie gave her hand a squeeze. “No more running,” he murmured weakly, “I’ve got this—I can do it.”

The vine in Nari’s other hand retracted back into the titan, pulling the two of them up. They resumed control just in time to scramble out of the way as Skrael charged towards them. They whirled around, and Douxie lit his hand on fire, ignoring the wave of dizziness that swept over him. They slammed the fiery fist into Skrael again, knocking him back into the mountain. Nari’s vines stretched out again, and again Douxie set off another sleeping spell. Almost—there—

And then, all at once, there was blinding, horrible pain in his side, a freezing, stabbing sensation that seemed to freeze the blood in Douxie’s veins. He and Nari screamed in unison, their voices blending together into a harmony of agony.

Through the blizzard of pain, Douxie saw Nari raise their hand and stab Skrael back.

And then they were falling away, still connected by the vine at their wrists.

And by their hands, clutching each other.

Xxx

Claire screamed as the titan fell, running forward, stumbling over rocks and roots, but making her way to the fallen titan. Skrael was gone, reduced to dust, and she staggered over the pilot’s area of the earth titan. Douxie and Nari were still there, a barely-conscious Nari cradling a passed-out Douxie in her lap, their hands still linked and a vine wrapped around their wrists. Ice was spreading up their bodies from their sides, and their breaths were visible, little clouds in what was otherwise warm air. Claire skidded down next to them, checking Douxie for a pulse. It was there, but barely—and it was getting slower.

“Nari, you have to let go!” Claire begged, “You have to let him go—he’s dying!”

Nari shivered violently. “D-dy—”

The vine slowly retracted, and she started to pull her hand out of his.

Douxie’s hand clenched harder, and his eyes opened just a fraction. “N-no m-more r-r-running,” he chattered.

Claire felt Jim’s hand on her shoulder, but she was more focused on the wizard in front of her. “Douxie, please—”

“Sh-sharing the curse,” he murmured, his eyes unfocused, glowing slightly. Pulses of blue magic were rippling over his skin and spreading to Nari, slowing the ice down, only for a second, but each pulse prevented the ice from killing him just a moment longer. “S-stronger to-together. Camelot.”

“I can’t get you there, Douxie, I’m spent, that titan portal took too much—please, Douxie, I can’t lose you!”

He reached out with one hand and brushed Claire’s face. “Magic i-is emo-emotion. Use—use your fear. It—it doesn’t control you—you c-cont-trol it.”

Claire gripped his hand. “Come on,” she howled at the air, “I’m not going to lose him! ONE! MORE! PORTAL!”

It flickered, small, unstable. Shadows pressed at the corners of Claire’s vision, whispering and tugging at her soul, and she pushed them away.

“YOU! OBEY! ME!” she screamed, and the portal opened, swallowing them up and dropping them on the floor of Arthur’s throne room.

Xxx

Douxie staggered to his feet, pulling Nari along with him. He stumbled to the table with the gems in it, overshooting and spilling to the floor.

“Hngh—no—"

Blackness pressed at the corners of his vision—he was using so much magic, had used too much to fight Skrael and now it was all he could do to keep Nari and himself alive—but he summoned his staff, using it to haul himself up. “The gems,” he gasped, “They—” He scrabbled for one, prying at it with his fingers, but he was shivering so hard he couldn’t get a good grip. “Claire! Grab that yellow one!”

Claire pulled out a pocket knife and pulled it out. Douxie grabbed it, hobbling to Merlin’s study.

“What’s going on?!” Claire demanded.

“It’s—the gem—different gems hold—power—”

“Like the triumvirate stones?”

“Yeah—this one—fire—” Douxie grabbed a hammer, and handed a chisel to Nari. “Right—right there.” She held the chisel in place, and he slammed the hammer down on the gem.

Too hard, too hard, Merlin’s voice chided in his head, to shape a gemstone, you must be gentle, but firm.

But he didn’t have time to be gentle—he hit the gemstone again, and a surge of power flooded out, filling his veins with fire. It joined his own magic, and he and Nari floated up.

“Nari, now!”

He didn’t know how he knew she could save them—he just knew, the titan bond still joining them. He just felt it, deep in his soul, that their magics combined could stop the spread of Skrael’s curse.

Nari was chanting something in a language he didn’t know—or maybe he just couldn’t figure it out because everything was getting fuzzy, and now Nari’s magic was the only thing keeping him up. Her magic pulled on his own, and the power of the gemstone. They were surrounded by a maelstrom of flowers and vines made of dancing blue flames.

And then they were collapsing to the floor. He still felt cold, but the deadly ice no longer crept through him.

Nari pressed her forehead to his. “Share the curse, share the burden,” she murmured, “Thank you, Douxie.” She got up. “Bellroc still remains, and they will remake the world in fire. My task is not finished yet.”

Douxie grasped for her hand. “No!” he protested weakly, “We barely managed to defeat Skrael—you can’t—”

She giggled, holding out a hand. A flower made of ice formed. “I survived. I have assumed Skrael’s powers. I think—I think it will be enough. Not as good as you and I, but… enough. You cannot accompany me this time, Douxie. Stay here and rest. You are not a demigod—even together, piloting the titan cost you too much power. You cannot fight in this shape.”

Her face kept flickering in and out of focus, but Douxie clutched her hand as tightly as he could. “You can’t go—I have to go with you!”

Nari held up their linked wrists. The vine dissolved into green and blue magic, making a glowing, connecting thread that faded out of sight. “You do not have to be close to be with me, Douxie. We are linked like the moon and the tides—even separated by the expanse of space, they still know each other, are still affected by each other. You will be with me. Now rest.”

She tapped his forehead with one finger, and the world went black.

Xxx

“Shhhhhh, Steve, be quieter, you’ll wake him up!”

“He’s been asleep for ages, just wake him up already!”

“We told you, piloting the titan took a lot out of him. Regular wizards just aren’t built for it, and besides, he used a lot of magic in the fight—let him sleep.”

Douxie yawned, stretching. “Morning,” he mumbled. Everything was sore—and his whole body felt weak—but fuzzbuckets, he hadn’t gotten this much rest in, well, ever.

He tried to sit up, but a wave of dizziness washed over him, and he lay back down.

His friends all crowded around his bed. Jim was clutching Excalibur in his hands, and Douxie gestured to it. “Hey! You did it!”

Jim nodded, beaming. “We weren’t sure we could do it—I figured out what the ninth configuration was, but we needed you.”

“Me?”

“Yeah! And we were thinking ‘well, that’s it then, unless Claire teleports his unconscious body over here’ and then this—this glowing blue ball of light appeared, and it split into eight pieces and hit each of us, and then we… I don’t know, it just felt sort of… comforting? And hopeful? And then the eight of us were able to pull out Excalibur. I think… maybe you unconsciously sent out some magic?”

Claire gave him a warm smile. “You knew when we needed you. And you pulled through.”

A bolt of panic shot over Douxie, and he sat upright, ignoring the fatigue. “Nari! Where’s Nari?!”

“She’s fine,” Jim promised, “She was amazing—she fought Bellroc’s titan and got it down so we could face Bellroc, and then Toby used the anti-magic ray, and we… we finished the fight. Together.” He chuckled, rubbing the back of his head. “Even with their titan out, Bellroc put up a heck of a fight—it took all of us to finally take them down.”

“And—where’s Toby?”

“He’s okay, too. A few broken bones—he got pinned under rubble from the titan. But Nari got out of her titan and to him in enough time to save him. Guess what?! She found Strickler, too! He fell from the explosion and went under the ice! It froze him and sent him into a kind of hibernation, but she pulled him out. She’s resting now. Two titan fights in a row plus healing Toby and finding Strickler really took it out of her.”

“She grew a whole garden in the courtyard,” Aja breathed, “It’s beautiful—I wonder if she could make one for me back on Akaridion 5?”

“But after she wakes up, she’s going to use her empathy magic to find coordinates for Archie,” Krel volunteered, “And then we’ll just wormhole in!”

“And… the Chronosphere?”

Blinky gave a short nod. “In Camelot’s vault. Saving it for a rainy day. We saw the ninth configuration in it, and Claire managed to see and prevent Bellroc from stabbing Jim, so I suppose it served its purpose. Meddling with the powers of time is a dangerous endeavor.

Douxie nodded. “I know that one for sure.”

The powers of time moved on their own, in one direction. Forward. They managed to open a wormhole to the Hong Kong trollmarket, so Archie and Charlemagne could come and go as they pleased. Mrs. Lake became Mrs. Strickler-Lake. Jim refused to change his name.

Douxie still felt stabbing icicles in the night sometimes, waking him up from the pain.

Winter always filled him with dread.

And he almost always felt cold.

But Nari would always come—every time he started feeling just a little too frozen, every time he jolted up in the night, she was there.

And other times, he could sense her feeling the same, and he would be there for her. They shared the same curse, the same chill in their bones.

But they also shared the same fire. The same determination.

And that was enough.

#watch me make this thing dissolve into a fix-it-fic real fast at the end there #toa #tales of arcadia #rott #nari #douxie #my writing #toa fanfiction

[cherrykamado]

Bellroc, keeper of the eternal flame (they are hot and so queer coded and I just wanna fuck th r m yk)

Nari, the eternal forest (don't really simp but their baby🥺🥺🥺🥺)

And Skrael the north wind (me and him have like 'i hate you but I love you yandere' vibes)

FN JFNAJKFANK

wait but nari is so cute🥺

#🍒— cherry's mail #🍒— cherry's moots #xion<3

[prismarts]

🎨 SK R A E L DRAW SKAEKRL DKRLEE SKRALR

HERE YOU ARE ANON BAB, COME TAKE THE ICY DEMIGOD WIZARD

They were SOOOOO FUN to draw! It's my first time drawing Skrael though, so I hope you like it! I tried my best to make them look cool-

Thank you so much for the ask, bab!

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

#prism's sleepover event! #tales of arcadia #toa wizards #wizards #wizards tales of arcadia #the arcane order #skrael #skrael toa #toa skrael #skrael of the north wind #prism's art 🎨

[b8ggy-corez]

Skrelin? Like- like the ToA fandom? Like- Skrael and Merlin? (*insert the patrick meme of "mom come pick me up i am scared")

HELP-

yes they r in hell together

[arcadianstuff]

School rivals p.t 6

Next chapter is up !! Hope you enjoy

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To caught up in their own argument, your family didn’t notice you slip away from the living room whilst Toby and Claire were being distracted by the fight unfolding before them.

So quietly, you scampered out of the house, regretting not changing your clothes as you stepped out into the cold morning air. Finally, the sun had begun to rise bathing the world in her glorious golden glow. It made Douxie's eyes gleam as he turned to look up at you with an unexpectedly angry expression, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes gleaming with fury.

Hesitantly, you took a few steps towards him, stopping a metre in front of him. A lone bird swept up to the sky, as the two of you stared at each other on the street. Nobody else was up and about yet, the silence deafening. Desperate to say something or anything you went to speak, only for Douxie to completely lose his shit.

"I can’t believe you. I-I seriously can’t undertand what the fuck you think you were doing ?!" His voice rose in volume, going from a hateful whisper to angry shouts. He struggled to contain his fury any longer. From the moment his eyes had fallen on your returned form, he’d been both overwhelmed with happiness and anger. Part of him wanted to scream at you and the other just wanted to reach out and touch you, to make sure you were real.

"D-douxie.." you began to whisper, reaching out a hand which he only swatted away, the gesture stinging not only physically but mentally. His glare pierced right through to your soul. You’d seen him annoyed before, angry maybe. But never furious. Not like this.

Inside of you, you felt your own patience shortening. Much like a candle being lit a sudden burst of anger came over you.

"You know what ! I saved you and my brother so you could at least be grateful for that ! You selfish piece of shit !" The distance between you closed, as you grabbed the collar of his jacket and practically shoved your face into his. His own hands came up to your shoulders, and the two of you glared at each other with such hatred and emotion it felt like you were on fire.

"Grateful ? Grateful ?" He let out a bitter laugh, the sound causing your blood to boil. How dare he laugh at the fact you sacrificed your life for him ? The absolute prick ! His dark eyes bore into yours as he spat his words out, the venom coating them laid thick.

"You’re so ducking stupid sometimes (Y/n). Always so impulsive and hard headed. Didn’t you think what it would be like for me ? Or for Jim ? Huh ? If you’d died !" His voice tore through the street, the birds in the nearby streets scared into the air at the volume of his shouting. A flock of crows fled to the air, their dark forms contrasting with the soft glow of the pale sky.

"I-I...we would’ve all died. Better it was just me than all three of us ! I’d not regret what I did ! I’m not sorry !" Your faces were centimetres apart as you screamed back, voice cracking as you felt your emotions beginning to drown you.

"It wouldn’t have been better ! I-it W-wouldn’t.." Douxie’s voice was hoarse as he choked out his last words, the screaming having left his throat raw. The tears that had been threatening to burst all night finally started to tumble out of his dark eyes, spilling down his cheeks that were red with anger.

The man finally broke, letting out a soft sob as he collapsed into your arms, the gesture catching you a little by surprise.

"I don’t know what I would’ve done if you hadn’t come back...I can’t.." he mumbled into your hair, which was beginning to dampen as his tears stained the locks. You buried your head into his neck. The hug was somehow so right, it didn’t matter that you hated each other, it didn’t matter that he despised you and you loathed him. The hug felt natural.

You couldn’t quite hear his last words, muffled by your shoulder.

"Douxie what did you say ?" You whispered soothingly, anger vanished at the sight of the first test. A part of you was still furious at his reaction, but a greater part of you was singing at the feeling of being in his arms.

"I-I need you here (Y/n). Don’t ever do that again." He spoke with so much sincerity, and pulled away to look straight into your eyes. You found it quite overwhelming.

Hesitating for a second, you didn’t bother to think twice and leant up, cupping his cheek as you placed a soft kiss to it. The gesture was short lived but had a profound effect on him as his cheeks instantly pinked. It was a little salty from the tears but you were too embarrassed to care.

"I promise I won’t Douxie." Your voice was soft, he’d never heard you speak so gently before. The two of you normally argued, berated each other, joked or insulted the other. This was different, not bad just different. He kinda liked it.

For a moment, you two stood there, basked in the morning sunlight as it trickled through the trees and onto the pavement. He reached out tentatively and took your hand, smiling a little as you squeezed his. He’d been dreading asking this next question, because honestly it was just to good to be true that you’d managed to survive. If he asked how, he was afraid the miracle would be ruined. There’d be some horrifying revelation. Or he was secretly afraid he was getting his hopes up, and they’d be shattered. Because he knew of only one wizard with the power to cheat death.

"I need to ask (Y/n)." The sudden shift in atmosphere has you on edge a little, his words serious and cold. "How did you survive ?"

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"It was weird. One moment I was experiencing the worst pain of my life and the next I awoke in this place...this other world." Your words had everybody on the edge of their seats, as they listened to you. Jim and you had made the gang breakfast, and they were sitting around the dining table as you spoke. You sat at the head of the table with a plate of untouched pancakes in front of you.

Blinky and Aaargh had come back to join you after visiting troll market to make sure that Bellroc and Skrael were checked on. They wanted to be sure the two were dead. There was also the issue of the resurrected gumm-gumms.

Jim was sat closest to you, his eyes widening at your words. No one dared to interrupt, curious and saddened.

"It was quite pretty, everything seemed to glow a little. It was like heaven. Maybe it actually was," you chuckled a little at your words, though a bit bitterly, "This man was there. At the time I didn’t realise it, but I’m pretty sure it was Merlin."

The whole room gasped at that, displeased expression crossing your family’s faces. Toby's usually happy expression faltered masked with the same anger that had twisted Claire’s pretty face. Even the two trolls looked agitated, Aargh in particular. It was only Douxie and Archie who appeared shocked, even a little hopeful.

"Actually he..he had a message for you Douxie." You looked at the boy to your right, who nearly spat his orange juice back into the cup at your words. You would’ve laughed if not for the severity of the situation.

"He wanted me to tell you that he’s proud of you, that he wishes he had more time to watch you grow into the man you are today." As you delivered the wizards message, a crestfallen expression had Douxie fighting back tears, the only reason why he wasn’t crying was because he was surrounded by people. Claire patted her teachers back sympathetically, knowing how much the man mattered to Douxie.

You hated yourself for the next thing you had to say, wishing you wouldn’t have to ruin the atmosphere like this. It hurt to have to burden your family with more bad news.

"That’s not all...he also gave me a warning. There’s something coming, he didn’t say what, just that it was evil and...he seemed afraid." At your words, a chorus of grumbles and gasp echoed in the room.

"Of course he doesn’t give any damn details." Jim grumbled, shaking his head at the cryptic wizard he disabled throughly.

"He did give me one piece of advice. Actually this is what I need to know about. Mum did dad have English heritage ?" Your question had the ginger woman pursing her lips as she thought hard for a second.

"I think so on his mother’s side, why dear ?" You sighed at her confirmation.

"Well apparently, we’re descended from Arthur Pendragon, who’s apparently a real fucking person but I shouldn’t be surprised.” Whereas you were just incredulous at this point the others erupted with a mix excitement and disbelief.

"Dude that’s so cool ! Jimbo you’re royalty !" Toby clapped his friend on the back, his best friend not quite as excited to be related to such an awful king. The man had tried to kill him once for gods sake.

"B-but I couldn’t remove Excalibur ? How can we be related to him ?" Jim didn’t undertand how the sword in the stone wouldn’t budge for him if he was directly related to Arthur. It made no sense, unless...

"No way..."he breathed out watching as a grim smile graced your lips.

"Yep. He’s given me instruction to retrieve the blade. He says we’ll need it to win the war that’s coming.." you sunk back into your chair, looking sadly at the untouched pancakes that were soggy from the syrup.

Only a week ago you’d been a normal girl, ready to move away from cramped home town and explore the world. You had big dreams and hopes, a desire to see everything and experience all the world had to offer. Soccer captain, A* student, part time waitress turned magical being with a great great great great like a hundred more great grandfather who was a king. Fucking spectacular. How had your brother lived these two lives simultaneously and so well ? You had to applaud him for that.

"Well it’s clear, Miss (Y/n), though Merlin can be a tricky character sometimes, he’s clearly warning us and if he believes you should wield the sword then you should." Blinky spoke up, a contemplative expression on his face. There were dark times ahead of them and it had the old troll worried. He only hoped they could prepare themselves in time.

"No !" Out of nowhere Douxie’s voice burst forth, rattling the table as he stood up abruptly from the chair.

Everybody paused to stare at him at his outburst, a mixture of confused and worried expressions in their faces. You in particular looked at him with confusion.

"I mean...it’s not safe. The sword is bad luck. Look at what happens to the last guy who wielded it." Calming down he slumped back down into his seat, hands clenching into fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

He wanted to trust Merlín, he really did and he knew should but seriously ? You’d only known about this world for like a week had been kidnapped, enslaved and then died. Now you were talking about wielding a sword and leading them into war. So yeah he was a little against it.

“Guys, we all know how well...difficult Merlín can be. You know I’m not the biggest fan of him, but if he’s warning us about a war then we need to prepare for it.” To your surprise Jim was the one who came to your defence. Honestly you’d expected him to react similarly to Douxie, refusing to let you go and fight.

It was nice to see your little brother defend you.

“Jim’s right. We’ve done this before and we’ll do it again. Together we can win.” Claire stood next to him, linking hands with him and sharing a smile.

There was a chorus of cheers from the people around you even your mum smiled at you in support. However Douxie still looked conflicted, the tension vivible in his shoulders.

“Come on Casperan. Don’t lose it on me now.” You tried to joke, squeezing his shoulder sympathetically. The man gazed from your hand on his shoulder to your reassuring eyes and felt his resolve falter.

“Okay, just don’t die on me again love.” He placed a hand over the one on his shoulder and felt himself relax at the warmth of your touch.

“Well then Ms. (Y/n) let’s go get Exaclibur !” Blinky chuckled as he spoke, glad to see everyone in a good mood as he spoke. It had been a difficult couple of days but now there looked like there was light at the end of the tunnel.

“Umm sorry to burst your bubble you guys. But you have school in like an hour. And no I can’t send in another note sorry kiddos.” Barbara’s words shattered the excited atmosphere and a chorus of groans left the younger teenagers.

You however smirked at Douxie, a mischievous glint in your eyes.

“You ever been on a motorcycle?”

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Tell me if you want a part seven !! Hope you enjoyed

#douxie x reader #trollhunters #douxie #tales of arcadia #toa #hisirdoux casperan x reader #toa hisirdoux #toa wizards

[skraelofthenorthwind]

Dash: CUDDLE PILE (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ ♡

Skrael:

#dash commentary #omggggg #skrael y r u like this #cuddle pile!

[cherub-toes]

imagine

u r on a date with skrael. you go to the top of a cliff!!1! how romatnic 😁👍 u are about 2 kisd but then he pushes you!! you fall and your spine snaps in half “foolish nortal” he says giggling very cutely 💔💔

#tales of arcadia #wizards tales of arcadia #wizards toa #toa skrael #skrael #imagine #jacob sartorius

[archies-litterbox]

You know... tonight I'm thinking about how I and much of the rest of the fandom had alot of positive feelings about Wizards, even though it had its share of imperfections, in comparison to ROTT, which had such an overwhelmingly negative response.

And I think it's because much of the criticism of Wizards was centered around what we didn't get to see, while criticism of ROTT is largely centered around what we did see (and what we shouldn't have seen).

Two of the most popular criticisms I saw of wizards when it first came out were:

1.) The story was so tightly condensed that there was alot that didn't get to be explored.

2.) Zoe didn't get to have a larger role.

And I think both of these criticisms share one uniting sentiment: we wanted more. The audience loved what we did see, and we wanted to see more of it. We wanted more of Douxie's time in the spotlight/more of Camelot explored/more of The Pink-Haired Girl And What She Means to Douxie. It's INTERESTING and WE LIKE IT.

Since the show only had ten episodes, there was alot that had to be squeezed down/removed to fit in the time allowed, but Wizards spent the time it did have giving us amazing characters, compelling dynamics, and interesting lore expansion that the audience was ENTHRALLED by, to the point where much of the criticism of the installment comes down to: the audience was so intrigued/fascinated by this content that the fact that there isn't more sucks.

Now... cut to Rise of the Titans.

With its runtime of nearly two hours, it theoretically had the chance to do more of what Wizards, as great as it was, couldn't fit in: more of Douxie in the spotlight, expansion on his other relationships (like Zoe & ADP), compelling lore expansion, and smart utilization of characters & completion of character arcs for a satisfying ending.

And... it didn't deliver.

Firstly, let's get one of the big ones out of the way: it used a good ~10 minutes (?) of its runtime, which it could have used for doing something like 1.) a scene of characters who didn't get to interact much in the trilogy 2.) showing us why douxie and nari stopped running/them running at all 3.) my personal favorite, a scene of human jim coming home to his mom - and used it to give one of its side characters with the best character development I saw in the series... one of the grossest "comic relief" subplots I've seen in a long time. I would have rather Steve not been in the movie at all (like perhaps he heard arcadia was in danger and went to make sure his step-dad was okay) than seen that.

...Moving on.

What Douxie was able to do in the movie was good: he was VERY enjoyable to watch on-screen, and his big brother/baby sister dynamic with Nari was simply too precious.

But, like Wizards... it wasn't enough.

After finally getting his chance in the spotlight in the last installment, Douxie was sidelined and kept losing the people he loved left and right for what seemed to be for the mere sake of making him suffer (Nari dying as she killed Skrael/Archie getting stuck in the Hong Kong Trollmarket) when he'd already had to grieve Merlin in Wizards. He also doesn't use his most iconic item from Wizards: his spellcaster guitar. Sometimes, honestly, it seems like all he was there to do was 1.) suffer 2.) do spells (guitarlessly) to help people out and 3.) scream "NARI!"

(But Colin's voice acting DE👏LI👏VERED! Everyone's did, really. There were honestly alot of other aspects to the movie like voicework/animation/music that were really good and it sucks to see it dragged down by all the staggering missteps in writing.)

And arguably the worst aspect of that? His sidelining wasn't even unique to him; to me, every protagonist from the subsequent series' post-trollhunters seemed to be sidelined for the sake of Jim's spotlight.

Which wouldn't have been a problem... if it was used for any other confliction/crisis than him doubting being the trollhunter without the amulet, a question that was already answered in Trollhunters.

Aside from the fact that Jim felt strangely out of character, the whole ~confliction~ he had over being an amulet-less Trollhunter was redundant and felt unnecessary (I sort of wanted Merlin's ghost to show up and thwack him and say "WHAT DID I SAY!? WHAT DID I TELL YOU!?" and dip back out). In my opinion, a better confliction to explore would have been his connection to his humanity, which he'd just gotten back, or coping with what he'd done as a beast under the order's control. But instead, it badly recycled an old aspect of his arc that was already discussed in Unbecoming.

Besides Jim being what I never thought he'd be, an irritating and honestly sort-of unlikable protagonist, other characters were greatly underutilized as well.

...Especially Nomura.

First of all, they made the ridiculous decision to send two trolls with Douxie to Brazil in the daytime, knowing trolls TURN TO STONE IN THE SUN. But THEN, just for the sake of showing how deep Nari is under control, she pulls Nomura into the sunlight and shatters her when she gets petrified. It happens out of nowhere for complete & utter shock value.

To me, it seems like they brought in Nomura for the sake of having Nomura, and then they didn't know what to do with Nomura, so they killed Nomura.

And honestly, not knowing what to do with the characters and deciding to just nerf/kill them was this movie's whole thing.

But it's okay, because we have... the COP-OUT-ENDING-O-MATIC 3000! 🥳🎉

Oh, wait, sorry... the kronosfere.

[underwhelming party favor noise]

There's really no need to repeat myself on what it did - if you watched R*TT, my condolences you know what I'm talking about, and if you've read this far along, you're probably ticked about it too.

So, because of this little ball of SHAME AND BAD THINGS combined with Jim's edge-brood OOC-ness, not only did the movie give us underwhelming/unsatisfying/devastating-and-not-in-a-good-storytelling-way plotline and giving us so much that was... bad, it took away everything that was good - everything we loved. It was the second worst thing introduced in the story (the first is the entire garbage heap that is 7 kisses = MPreg (even though akiridions are projections from CORES)), and to be completely honest I WISH skrael and bellroc broke Nari and Douxie's spell before nari could say "kronosfere will make right"

(...AND the ninth configuration thing too tbh)

So... while Wizards spent the short time it had giving us something amazing, Rise of the Titans, instead of continuing to deliver on what Wizards couldn't fit in, squandered the potential it had as a finale and used its time to give us gross subplots/frustrating once decisions/underutilization, as well as to take everything else down with it at the very end with the Green Shame Orb.

And... yeah. Technically, it's not exactly two months post-ROTT anymore, because it's like 2 am on the 22nd, but I thought about this a lot felt compelled to share.

#mine #tales of arcadia #toa #rott #rise of the titans #toa wizards #wizards #enjoy my bang-energy fuelled rant lol im gonna go finish a fic