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albentelisa · 6 months

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Hi! Heres a super interesting ask. How would you write a au where Jim is a changeling and Claire is the Trollhunter? Just to be clear, he and Bular HATE each other.

Hi! That's a premise I really like (and at some point, I wanted to write a fic like that, so I have some ideas).

So, Jim is a changeling, but he's a really young one and lacking a good chunk of the Janus Order's training. In any normal scenario, he'd never ended with a familiar, but Strickler pulled some strings to put Jim in his current position (as he noticed his talent and potential and decided to guarantee a strong subordinate early on). Nevertheless, Jim's lack of indoctrination shows as he is reluctant to follow the Order's rules, gets attached to people and openly shows his dislike of Bular (much to Strickler's amusement - though he'll never admit that one).

Still, Strickler doesn't approve Jim's rebellious streak as he's sure it'll get his protegee into a trouble. Walter is both mentor and father figure to Jim, but he is cordial only on public, while rather strict and demanding in private (though only because he cares about Jim's survival). Strickler starts to date Barbara to get better control over Jim's actions some years prior to the canon events start, however, it soon gets way beyond 'just a mission' as Walter falls in love for real. Strickler denies it, but both Nomura and Jim know the truth. By the beginning of the canon events Barbara and Strickler are engaged and planning the wedding.

As for Nomura, she is Jim's fighting instructor (as much like her Jim is one of more battle-capable changelings). She likes him a lot, but he reminds her of her younger self too much, so she believes that Jim is doomed to face so much disappointment and despair in the future.

I have mentioned before that Jim has attachments in this AU, despite being a changeling. Obviously, both Strickler and Nomura are 'family' for him, even if he never says it aloud (as those two would scold him for that statement), but there are also humans he cherishes too much. First, there is Barbara who he starts to consider his mother rather fast (Jim would kill for her if needed). Then, Toby appears in his life - while initially Toby initiated their friendship and Jim just went along for the sake of keeping his cover, it eventually turned into the real thing. However, Jim keeps his real identity a secret from Toby as he's not sure how Toby will react to him being inhuman. And finally, Jim has feelings for Claire, though he falls in love with her for a different reason than in the canon. In this AU, Jim accidentally sees Claire sneaking out to attend a concert despite her mother forbiding her that. For Jim, it's her bravery and rebellious streak that leaves the lasting impression.

Strickler is aware of Jim's crush and while he doesn't forbid it explicitly (because he's in a relationship with Barbara himself), he still warns Jim to never let his heart rule over his mind.

And then Claire finds the amulet and everything just goes to hell.

Jim discovers it the first, way before Strickler as he catches the glimpse of the amulet in Claire's bag. His feelings are complicated as the correct course of action would be getting the amulet, no matter how. Yet Jim is against hurting Claire, so his first plan is either steal the amulet or pretend it was his. It didn't work as the amulet decides to summon the armor in response to Jim's not-that-totally-harmless intent. Jim manages to fake the surprise and Claire asks him not tell anyone. Another complication is that Toby also sees the armor, so he's also involved now (and Jim isn't happy with that as he would prefer keeping his best friend as far from the troll stuff as possible).

Claire brings Jim and Toby to meet Blinky and Aaarrrgghh. Jim still plans to steal the amulet as Strickler has told him for years that it's the only chance for changelings to be rewarded like they deserved. Besides, it's the perfect way to demonstrate Bular's incompetence. For Jim, getting closer to Claire and winning her trust is vital, not to mention that he genuinely believes he protects her as well as he tries to liberate her from the burden she got by accident.

Meanwhile, Strickler learns about the amulet as well and has a talk with Jim about it. Strickler approves Jim's plan and praises him for finally putting his feelings aside for the sake of the mission success.

Yet Strickler is wrong as Jim starts to waver the longer he is around Claire both as a member of her trollhunting team and a partner in the school play (which he also joined in the hope to get more chances to seize the amulet). After Claire defeats Draal, Jim starts to think that she might have a chance to beat Bular too (and he plans to fight by her side). With that there would be no need to serve Bular and Jim could live free life.

Jim also gets close with Blinky as he doesn't get enough kindness and support from Strickler. No, he doesn't discard Strickler as his father figure, but the new bond is also there.

Strickler starts to doubt Jim, especially after Claire finds the bridge in the museum (as Jim points out that one and gets on Nomura's way when she is close to seizing the amulet). Jim tries to talk his way out of the predicament and Strickler pretends he believes him. However, he also orchestrates Enrique's kidnapping and planting NotEnrique in Claire's family to spy on her. Jim knows nothing about this plan.

When NotEnrique is exposed, he tells Claire about Jim's real identity, but she refuses to believe him at first. Draal suggests a gaggletack test and Claire agrees to the plan. She catches Jim by surprise and learns the truth. Jim runs away, not being able to explain a thing. Claire is hurt as she started falling in love with Jim, but now thinks that everything was just a lie. Toby and Blinky are hurt too as they question their bonds with Jim. And there is some bonding between Draal and Claire as they both had feelings for a changeling.

Jim is angry and upset. Strickler tells him that it was his punishment for rebellious thoughts and that Jim is lucky to get away with just that. Nomura is more sympathetic, but she tells Jim that any love relationship involving changelings are doomed.

Jim considers giving up and just going with a flow as nearly all his bonds outside the Janus Order are in the shambles (Barbara is the only one remaining and Jim is scared that Strickler might scheme to ruin that one too).

Still, Jim comes to help Claire during the Battle of Two Bridges. He is the one who finishes Bular here. He also reconciles with everyone, changing sides for good this time.

It creates a new kind of friction though - Strickler initially flee somewhere (he tells Barbara he needs to visit an estranged relative). Jim initially believes that Strickler won't return.

The team is planning to save Enrique from the Darklands and Jim insists they should get his familiar out too. He plans to tell the whole truth to Barbara too as he has decided to live his life honestly now. He just doesn't know how to do it though.

Strickler returns after freeing Angor Rot and uses binding spell behind Jim's back (as he's scared that Jim can kill him to ensure Barbara's safety - and in this AU it is a real possibility).

Jim is enraged after learning about it and it's even more complicated as they all live under the same roof and Strickler never fails to remind Jim that each of his missteps may endanger Barbara. What he hasn't considered though is that Jim might approach Angor and try to bargain with him.

Alas, Inferna Copula is destroyed in this AU too, forcing Claire and Jim working with Strickler. Poor Barbara learns that both her fiance and son are not humans the same night (and here goes Jim's plan to proceed carefully). She is angry with Strickler, but surprisingly more accepting when it comes to Jim. When Jim promises to return her real son to her, she corrects him with 'other son'. Much like in the canon she forgets about supernatural after the breaking of binding spell, but Jim tells her the truth for the second time in any case.

Much like Jim in the canon, Claire travels to the Darklands alone (actually, that was her plan from the very start as she believes it is her problem to solve). Jim, however, goes to the Darklands too (after beating some guards), so he's now considered a criminal at the Trollmarket (not that he was in good position to start with because of his changeling status).

As Jim and Claire went separately, they don't travel together. Jim finds the familiars first (well, he knows where they are kept), but gets caught by Dictatious, ending the next cell to Nomura.

Claire rescues both her brother and Jim's familiar, but goes back after learning that Jim is still in the Darklands. Usurna orders to destroy the bridge, but the rest of trollhunters steal the fragments and hide them. Strickler, who has returned and now hopes to make up with both Barbara and Jim, also helps them. All of them go to the Darklands too, saving Claire, Jim and Nomura.

Gunmar is out, like in the canon. He tries to seize control over Draal, but Nomura saves him just in time (as she doesn't leave in this AU). However, none of trollhunters are welcome at the Trollmarket anymore because everyone believes they liberated Gunmar.

Barbara is upset that she cannot do a thing while her son and her fiance who is still trying to win her forgiveness are risking their lives while she cannot do a thing. She accidentally stumbles upon the shadow stuff (the team was using it but without much effectiveness) and starts to get mastery of it. Barbara is the one who ends summoning a huge shadow portal to save everyone and gets possessed by Morgana.

The team decides to awake Merlin, and his plan is no different from the canon. He turns Claire into a half-troll and when Jim faces him in a fury, tells him that Jim should be the last person upset as Claire's new species means they can be together. Jim punches him (hell, yeah!).

Jim leaves with Claire to New Jersey. Draal who survives in this AU goes too, hoping to mend his relationship with Nomura.

When Green Knight attacks, Jim takes the hit for Claire, so he needs to fight the corruption. The team goes back in time, with Barbara and Strickler being two additions.

Claire, Jim and Strickler end in Arthur's dungeons and meet Callista there. Barbara tries to talk some common sense into Arthur, and later end joining forces with Morgana (who she's wary off initially). They both plan the escape plan. Jim and Claire travel with Callista, however Strickler decides to hang out around Camelot as he knows some changeling history and wonders if some things might be changed without ruining the timeline.

The return to the future speeds up Jim's corruption, but rather than becoming the beast troll like in the canon, it brings up and multiplies the darkness in Jim's heart. It also makes him bigger and stronger.

Barbara takes Claire and they both go inside the Shadow Realm searching for Jim's soul. They find him trapped with his own insecurities and doubts and try to ensure him that he still has his own place. Jim snaps out of the control and Nari helps to heal his corruption (Morgana helps too).

As the amulet isn't destroyed here, Claire remains the Trollhunter. Jim, however, gets Excalibur and finds his role as the protector of the world.

#tales of arcadia #toa wizards #toa trollhunters #what if scenario #toa au #changeling jim #trollhunter claire #jim lake jr #claire nuñez #jlaire #barbara lake #walter strickler #text post #ask box #anon ask #typed it twice because i accidentally deleted it the first time

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toad-in-a-trenchcoat · 2 months

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ayo I kinda want to do both but things would get real repetitive if I allowed myself that so-

if I made a comic (since unsure how to really do full animatics) of the song “Shadowland” by Dalya Bernstein which dreamworks troll franchise should I use

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Edit: I know people get tired of this sorta thing but pls reblog for larger sample size

#To be more specific the trolls one would be branch-centric and the toa one would be kinda about an AU?#started the sketch for the branch one a while back but now it also makes me think of changelings #Toad’s notes #Toad’s trolls #Trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #Poll #Tumblr polls #Youtube #Changeling jim

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cf8wrk4u-us · 1 year

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The Changeling Prince

(Special thanks to @nikeofmars for helping me develop this AU)

In this AU Jim is originally a Troll named Jotnar, son of Gunmar and brother of Bular. Half Ice-Troll he struck fear in the hearts of Trolls and human alike with his frost magic and ice breath.

At the Battle of Killahead he was unfortunately imprisoned with his father and the rest of the Gum-Gums in the bowels of the Darklands.

Centuries in the dark and near starving there is a chance for Jotnar to leave the Darklands.

But only as a Changeling.

Despite being disgusted by the thought, Gunmar and his advisor Dictatious encourage the idea. Stating that it could be useful to have get an actually valuable member of their army to the surface world to assist Bular.

Jotnar agrees reluctantly and the exchange is made.

Jotnar replaced a young James Lake Jr. and precedes to live out his life, while also living as a Changeling in a world that has changed greatly.

Jotnar has developed a fondness for humanity, especially for his human mother Barbara and his human "friend" Tobias.

But he's determined to finish the completion of the Killahead Bridge and free his father.

His plans and goals were left in disarray when a human girl is chosen as the next Trollhunter, forcing him to confront who he is and what he really want to protect.

#trollhunters #troll jim #changeling jim #gunmar the black #bular the butcher #Gunmar is Jims father #Jim is a Troll #jotnar #Jim A.K.A Jotnar #Trollhunter Claire

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nikeofmars · 1 year

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Jotnar the Ice-Troll, the Frost-Bite, the Frozen Terror, Second Son of Gunmar, and Brother of Bular

First concept art of this bad boy from The Changeling Prince by @cf8wrk4u-us and me.

#trollhunters #The Changeling Prince #jotnar the Ice-Troll #art #my art #water color #jim lake jr #changeling jim #reblog appreciated

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sonicasura · 11 months

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Oh! Jim has a Changeling form?

How did he get it and how does it look like?

Yup! He got it from Strickler actually. Recipe For Disaster goes differently as I'm taking some inspiration from the Benwolf episode. Considering how funky Changelings are in their creation, the watch took a different route to process it. Jim was slowly transforming so he practically had to masquerade as his human self throughout the dinner.

Like Strickler, he has wings but these act a bit different. They're prehensile, serrated and can move more like hands. Best way to describe them is Valstrax's wings from Monster Hunter. Jim can fly by releasing bursts magical energy through the tips kinda like a jet.

The magic in his body is too volatile to be used for actual spells but ammunition and flight definitely works. Jim's more aqua green in color with carvings that glow sky blue when channeling his magic. It's well advised to stay 20 ft away if he's going in to land. Jim is like the Greatest American Hero and crashes with an explosion effect slapped on.

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crackship-connoisseur · 1 year

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normal stuff that goes on. i'm realizing just how old these are lmao

#toa #th #jim lake jr #claire nuñez #lakovos deceptrix #claire the kingslayer au #changeling jim #trollhunter claire #jlaire #art #googy art

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magic-and-moonlit-wings · 1 year

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I've recently read your fic "Becoming the Mask" and fell in love with it!

For fun I was hoping to ask some questions, what would be Dictatious reaction to finding out Changeling Jim was his brothers adopted son if he hadn't lost his sight?

Ether while he was still in the Darklands with Jim and Blinky captured in the show or while in prisoned in Trollmarket like you summarized in your potential story summary.

Dictatious' first reaction, in any version, will be shock that Blinky has a kid. Time is hard to track in the Darklands, so realizing he's been gone long enough for his brother to have had a child (regardless of whether the whelp was hatched or adopted) forces Dictatious to recognize just how long it's been.

Learning the kid is an adopted Changeling is its own kind of shock. Blinky is okay with Changelings? Blinky acknowledges a Changeling as a real troll? Blinky considers a Changeling, a trained spy and assassin, to be a child? Has the Changeling regressed in behaviour and been acting like a child, or are they pretending to be child-like to manipulate Blinky?

Dictatious assumes Blinky is being manipulated, which disappoints him because he thought Blinky was smarter (and more paranoid) than that, but which is easier for Dictatious to reconcile than the idea that Changelings are child soldiers.

If the reveal happened with Blinky and Jim captured in the Darklands, Dictatious would assume that the Changeling's manipulation of Blinky's emotions would be why Blinky agreed to enter the Darklands in the first place.

With the reveal happening while Dictatious is imprisoned in Trollmarket, Dictatious is left confused why the Changeling seems to care whether Dictatious lives or dies. It can't be to manipulate Blinky, because Blinky has already washed his hands of Dictatious' fate.

Is it to put Dictatious in the Changeling's debt, since he has more recent information about Gunmar's plans? Is it some kind of power play, the Changeling enjoying having this kind of control over the fate of a troll who once outranked him? Or possibly the Changeling Trollhunter is trying to avoid setting a precedent for killing ex-Gumm-Gumms in order to protect himself.

It's a baffling situation for Dictatious. He does not like being baffled.

#Becoming The Mask extras #Trollhunters #Tales of Arcadia #Dictatious Maximus Galadrigal #Changeling Jim #Blinkous Galadrigal

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frixey · 20 days

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trollhunters brainrot goes insane

based on my dms with my friend talking about what if toby just casually handed jim the gaggletack during the chnageling arc in s1 and he actually turned and toby passed out lmao

(based on all the aus where jim is a half changeling bcuz his dad was changeling and he doesnt know)

#this is trollhunter toby btw #trollhunters #jim lake jr #toby domzalski #changeling jim #troll jim #tales of arcadia

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skybson · 1 year

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