Jim: My stomach growled super loud in French omg
Jim: I would like to clarify my stomach did not speak French. It growled in French class I apologize
Claire: bonjour
Douxie: le growl
Toby: hon hon hon feed me a baguette
Jim: Why do I even go to training
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“I don’t want you to think any different of me.”
“Nothing you say right now will change how I see you.”
Royalty AU where Prince Jim and Princess Claire are from neighbouring kingdoms.
No one knows Claire possesses shadow magic. No one besides her parents and a certain sorceress they found to keep Claire’s powers in line.
Jim isn’t able to come to terms with the fact he will have to take over as king someday. He doesn’t think he’s cut out for it.
They find each other, what could possibly go wrong?
(I imagine this piece would slot kind of farther into them knowing each other. At a point in their developing relationship where it’s becoming harder on Claire keeping this secret from Jim.)
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Hi! Here's an interesting idea. What if James Sr had come back to town during the events of season one to cause trouble?
He is not a changeling or a supernatural creature. He's just a major class A jerk.
Not even the teams enemies would team up with him.
Oh, nice one! So James decides to come back soon after Jim has found the amulet. He contacts Barbara first, but she simply tells him their relationship is a thing of the past and she isn't going to revisit that page (it happens before she starts dating Strickler - James is just not someone she is willing to forgive). Enraged by the rejection, James decides to take away Jim from her - only to discover that he has no connection with his son. Jim is cold and distant to him, and all attempts to start a conversation fall flat. James gives his son some terrible dating advice regarding Claire (which makes Jim uncomfortable and disgusted as his father treats girls like trophies with no respect altogether). James also buys Jim Vespa for his sixteenth birthday, which is seemingly a working strategy, but in the end, Jim realizes that no expensive gift can compensate for all those years of absence so he gives it back (and that's why Jim's bond with Blinky works even more here). When Barbara starts actively dating Strickler, James tries to sabotage it, much to Barbara's annoyance.
James also gets in the way of Jim's trollhunting with his constant visits and nearly learns about trolls several times. Toby proposes to feed him to Bular several times.
However, the team Trollhunters isn't the only one annoyed. At some point, James tries to flirt with Nomura (who also is tempted to feed him to Bular). Strickler initially is rather neutral, but as his relationship with Barbara progresses, he makes plans to get rid of him for good. Eventually, Angor Rot scares James off (unintentionally as James stumbles upon him by accident and Angor decides to simply scare him to death).
He isn't seen afterward so everyone just assumes that he finally gave up. No one is sad.
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Thank you tumblr for absolutely destroying image quality. Freaking wtf?
Some more Dark Excalibur AU
The Knighting of Steve Palchuk
We all agree that Steve needed a better arc than what RotT gave him. He deserved a chance to be a hero, a path that he started in Wizards before it fizzled out into being the comedic relief. Wizards set everyone up as the better generational mirrors to Camelot. Jim to Arthur, Claire to Morgana, Douxie to Merlin, Toby probably to Galahad, and Steve very obviously to Lancelot. I've said at the start that no one comes out of this AU unscathed, so while Steve gets the heroic redemption, it comes at a cost, one that pulls on that parallel.
RotT in the Dk-E still happens, I'm not letting everyone get their happily ever after at the end of Wizards. But I'll be damned if I end it with Toby and so many others dead, and Jim pushed into a timeline reset. You can thank Steve for that. It's because of Steve that Toby lives. Steve goes with Toby in the Taco truck, and it is Steve that yanks Toby out of the way of the collapsing debris. But Steve becomes pinned himself, resulting in the loss of his arm. An act of selflessness and bravery, valor and sacrifice, that earns him the title of First Knight of the Roundtable of New Camelot. An equal advisor, responsible for not only the protection of Camelot, and those Jim has claimed as his (which is everyone, human, troll, changeling, down to the last gnome), but also finding and training new knights, those who value all life and are willing to fight to protect it, and want to see the worlds of man and magic together in harmony instead of hate and fear.
And so we come to the Knighting of Steve Palchuk. This isn't just pomp and meaningless ceremony, this has true weight and meaning to both Jim and Steve. Jim pulls on Excalibur's magic, his voice resonating with ethereal power, creating a bond of trust and loyalty that goes both ways, only formed if given willingly. Knight to his King, King to Knight, both to the protection of all worlds and their peoples. Jim's eyes light up in tandem with the blade as the power of Excalibur and Nimue courses through him, flames licking along the blade's edge and into Steve. Steve's armor reflecting this bond as the magic burns through him.
And like Lancelot, Steve will get a fully functional prosthetic arm. There will be hardship, adapting to this new reality. But Steve has become a hero. A man of courage... far from his highscool self. A survivor, who will fight with everything he has.
Rise now, Sir Steve, First Knight of the Roundtable and New Camelot.
Closeups below
Notes: some of the descriptive wording around the ceremony itself came from a discussion about Jim using Excalibur for the knighting, and are used with permission of Sakon76, who is a much better writer than I.
Expect more if Steve's story at a later time.
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