#toa morgana

[foursidecity]

☆•It is Written In Our Fate, and The Fault is When Our Stars Collide•☆

#ispy.png #toa #tales of arcadia #trollhunters #art #fanart #arcane order #bellroc #skrael #nari #morgana #but just her hand #toa morgana #guys this is so funny but i just realized ive been drawing nari without a refrence this whole time #wdym shes not completly green

[eurazba]

I've talked to my shadow before... She isn't very nice

#raz drew #claire nuñez #toa morgana #clairegana #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #playing with a redesign of claire to make her at least a little more alternative and a little closer to her book counterpart

[elegantjellyfishwerewolf]

A serious conversation between a son and a mother

#trollhunters #root #tales of arcadia #toa #trollhunters rott #wizards #3below #art #trollhunters rise of the titans #fanart #trollhunters strickler #walter strickler #toa strickler #trollhunters morgana #toa morgana #morgana la fey #morgana

[saturnniidae]

Some changeling & troll!Jim headcannons

Morgana had been considering making changelings for years, it wasn't a sudden idea; it was something she'd been planning for a long time

She even discussed it with Merlin at one point (under the guise of wanting to better 'unite' humans and trolls), and he proposed the idea of humans turning into trolls instead of vice-versa.

This is where the concept for the half-troll potion came from. What Jim became was essentially a modified version of a failed recipe for changelings that Merlin kept around in case it ever became useful.

Jim wasn't the first half-troll, he was just the first successful one. There was a chance it could've gone horribly wrong (as it has in past attempts) but Merlin took the risk anyway since he saw it working in his vision.

The reason Morgana's version always ended with better results was due to dark magic and Merlin's outright refusal to go there.

Because they were on a time crunch, Merlin substituted some of the rarer ingredients common in transfiguration potions with material from a preexisting changeling.

All they know about the bone used in the potion was that it came from a changeling. They never learned who, or what kind of troll they were, And subsequently have no clue as to what species of troll Jim was partially turned into. And Merlin didn't ever feel like helping them figure it out even though he probably could've with relative ease.

If they had more time for him to work on the potion, and if Merlin actually measured his ingredients instead of throwing them all in a blender, Jim probably would've come out less wonky (an even amount of fingers, among other things).

#theres more but im bad at organizing my thoughts 💀 #i feel like young douxie probably walked in on merlin & morgana either scheming or arguing #a few times and they just shouted at him to leave #and he was probably so fucking confused #wait is it scheming? #actually yeah probably #like obviously merlin was doing all this with much more 'benevolent' intentions and morgana was just lying to his face #but id still call it scheming since merlins definitely willing to do morally questionable things #with his whole 'ends justify the means' and 'looking at the bigger picture' mentality #troll jim #trollhunters #toa headcanon #toa changelings #tales of arcadia #jim lake jr #toa merlin #toa morgana #Moth.txt

[albentelisa]

Hi there! Are there any headcannons about Douxie and Morgana before she switched sides? Or even Arthur amd Douxie?

Oh, Douxie and Morgana is something I wish we had more of.

Initially, Morgana was annoyed by the fact that Merlin got another student - not because she had something against Douxie or felt insecure that her master was looking for someone to substitute for her, but because she believed that Merlin absolutely sucked as a master and didn't want him to control another unfortunate soul. Because of that, initially, Douxie thought that Morgana hated him and tried to throw him out of the castle.

Eventually, those two had a proper talk, and Douxie realized that he was wrong and Morgana actually liked him.

It greatly hurt Douxie that Merlin and Morgana fought all the time as he couldn't pick the side there.

Morgana actually liked Douxie's music and encouraged him a lot.

She also occasionally tried to convince him to switch masters but without being too forceful. Besides, Morgana is also the one who advised Douxie to try things Merlin disapproved of (much to the latter annoyance).

Morgana switching sides actually hurt young Douxie a lot. Still, he had enough time to process all of that before encountering her again during his time travel.

When Morgana processed Claire, she didn't realize that the waiter was Douxie as she thought it was someone with a similar appearance (as she wasn't sure that Douxie had survived for that long).

As for Douxie and Arthur, I believe that Arthur only tolerated Douxie because he was Merlin's apprentice, and well, I don't think that Arthur ever considered Douxie dangerous.

Douxie on the other hand, didn't have a good opinion of Arthur, and he absolutely loathed the system Arthur built because that one forced him into hiding.

#tales of arcadia #toa wizards #my headcanons #douxie #hisirdoux casperan #toa morgana #toa king arthur #text post #ask box #anon ask

[yellowmagicalgirl]

Ah, yes, Claire's three parents (two biological, one theoretically adoptive) and their parenting styles

And before anyone complains or questions my reasoning: Ophelia is in girlboss not because she's more of a girlboss than Morgana is, but because for all of Ophelia's parenting faults, she never has made Claire hallucinate (or think she's hallucinating for that matter). The closest she has done is question if Barbara and/or the kids are on drugs re: trolls.

#trollhunters #tales of arcadia #toa morgana #javier nuñez #ophelia nuñez #toawizards #toa wizards #claire nuñez #she's tangentially related to the post so i'm tagging her even though she's not there #shitpost #has image description #accessible shitpost

[arcadian-socks]

Merlin: ...Do you think I'm too confident?

Morgana: Nope.

Merlin: Don't lie.

Morgana: You're my boss.

Merlin: Alright then. Anything you say in the next 30 seconds is free, starting right now.

Morgana: I think you're cocky, arrogant, bossy, and pushy. You also have a god complex. You never think about anybody but your damn self.

Merlin: But-

Morgana: I still have 22 more seconds. I'm not done.

#incorrect quotes #toa merlin #toa morgana #tales of arcadia

[i-am-gun-robot]

Chapter 13 of ABRTL is up, at long last! Thanks to everyone for your patience :)

#tales of arcadia #toa #a brief reliving of troll lore #jim lake jr #troll jim #claire nuñez #abrtl #toa wizards #toby domzalski #barbara lake #toa morgana #toa arthur

[az-daniels-yeeter]

Arcadiatober 2023 #10:

Sorcery

#azure za raid #arcadiatober #arcadiatober2023 #tales of arcadia #toa #toa trollhunters #toa wizards #trollhunters #wizards #morgana la fey #morgana #toa morgana #my art #fanart #toa fanart

[coolestzed]

Toby: Hey Merlin, you practically raised King Arthur, Morgana, and Douxie right?

Merlin: You could accurately say that, yes.

Toby: Weeeell, who’s your favorite?

Claire: Really Toby?

Toby: Come on, I’m curious! He’s gotta have a favorite.

Claire: Parents aren’t supposed to have favorites-

Merlin, without hesitation: Hisirdoux.

Jim: Woah, no hesitation.

Toby: Why Douxie?

Merlin: He never turned on me and walked the path of darkness for one.

Claire: Yeah, that’s fair.

Arthur:….

Morgana: Fuck you too Old Man. 🖕

Douxie: 😎🤟

#tales of arcadia #toa merlin #toa morgana #toa arthur pendragon #jim lake jr #toby domzalski #claire nuñez #hisirdoux casperan #toa douxie #I just realized that merlin practically raised all three of them and two of them turned evil #this immediately came to mind XD #douxie is totally the favorite child

[montaryoo]

Drew Morgana xD

I love her old personality

#tales of arcadia trollhunters #wizards tales of arcadia #tales of arcadia #toa trollhunters #toa morgana #morgana le fay toa

[eurazba]

Redrew and digitized an old Clairegana piece of mine from 2018

#raz drew #claire nuñez #clairegana #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #toa morgana #raz kush

[elegantjellyfishwerewolf]

I assume that all magical creatures end up in the same place after death

It would be the best reunion after death

#trollhunters #root #tales of arcadia #toa #trollhunters rott #wizards #3below #art #trollhunters rise of the titans #fanart #toa angor #toa angor rot #trollhunters angor #trollhunters angor rot #angor rot #Angor #toa morgana #trollhunters morgana #morgana la fey #morgana

[dreamcrow]

I need some Hot Crow Takes on what was the worst example of Villain Decay throughout ToA. also on what Leonora Janeth uses in her hair

send me a meta prompt (currently closed); thank you for the ask!

the arcane and esoteric mysteries of janeth's haircare regimen are beyond my humble (straight-haired) supposings. but for the villain decay? oh, morgana, hands down. 

gunmar is spooky, but a bit of a ham. for most of trollhunters, he’s also relatively distant. bular is a lot closer, and much more of an immediate threat, but he’s always ultimately subordinate (either to stricklander or his father) and he does, in the end, get got by a teenager. angor is initially presented as terrifying, and rightly so, but even if he becomes sympathetic he’s always formidable; stricklander starts out pretty nefarious (especially if you think about some of the implications of e.g. feeding bular a human security guard) but is of course, in proper gdt fashion, domesticated by wuv. obviously i have niche side blorbo brain fungus re: the arcane order but it's hard to assess their actual "villain decay" without having to think about That Film. at any rate, i don't think they're actually the worst example in toa: despite a concept/design that fucks so absolutely severely, once they get on screen, they're not actually built up all that much (or...well). it takes them less than the space of an episode (22 minutes) to go from "dread, ancient terrors that even merlin is afraid of" to "merlin shooing away them, the green knight, and their evil floating skull castle with less effort than he usually spares to criticize douxie." but that's another post.

morgana, though. part of what made her such a compelling villain was how little arthur figured in trollhunters. the existence of merlin implies the existence of arthur, of course, but in trollhunters arthur isn't there at all. instead, we get the negative space of him: his right hand (merlin) and the anti-arthur (morgana). obviously this is partly her role in arthuriana proper, but it also strikes me as pretty deliberate here: merlin's liege vs. merlin's student (and that liege's sister); humanity's last best hope vs. the queen of the otherworld; the king under the mountain vs. the witch under arcadia. i was not very tuned into morgana when i first got into trollhunters, but looking back over the series for this ask, the parallels are so obvious. and so tight! i wouldn't be surprised if some of this was even deliberate.

and the thing is: trollhunters has enough space as a series that its antagonists don't really have to pull their punches. morgana was nasty in trollhunters. pale lady, baba yaga, eldritch queen, mother of monsters—holy shit, right? and she's creepy, too: all muttering whispers and dread ancient magic! she takes angor’s soul, and then his free will. she taunts stricklander while possessing the body of one of his students (while threatening the permanent exile of two more to the depression dimension), and then in the guise of the human he's in love with. speaking to her faithful children—who only exist through morally dubious, unpleasant processes, for which she is implied to be responsible—via institutional heirloom phonograph! she's so much more connected to the shadow realm, here, probably the most compelling justification for reading shadow magic as dangerous. she's the big bad behind angor and gunmar (while playing them both against each other). she absolutely feels evenly paired with merlin, and (rightly) kicks his ass through most of the battle of the eternal night. she's evil but charismatic and even despite all that still a little human: when she taunts jim for not knowing merlin used her hand for the amulet, it isn't without a shadow of what must have been an ancient hurt.

and then. wizards. jesus christ (tired ben affleck smoking dot jpg)

[ » read the rest of the essay on ao3 ]

#tales of arcadia #toa morgana #trollhunters #toa wizards #morgana le fay #q&a #mine #the obvious solution to your second prompt is 'janeth is also a wizard' ofc #but i was sitting here thinking about the first one and if you will pardon the pun. this answer. possessed me #this is public for now bc i know at least one person i really want to read it who might not have an ao3 account... but watch out maybe

[albentelisa]

Hi! So, was there any headcannon or theory you had of Merlin in Trollhunters while writing Mirrored Conviction's? Because he could easily be seen as the villain given how it looked like he manipulated Jim when he was trying to make him into a half troll if Wizards hadn't shown why he did that.

Hi, sorry for the delay with the response - I've been rather busy lately. So, without further ado let's proceed to the question.

Honestly, I've never viewed Merlin as a villain. Yes, he totally sucks as a person, and even the fact that he acknowledged Douxie in Wizards changes nothing. On the other hand, I find it interesting that a deeply flawed character like Merlin is one on the good side (and has always been).

And now to some headcanons (which I also use while writing my fics):

Merlin is commonly disliked in the magic community because he's arrogant and mostly acts according to what he considers the most beneficial to his goal (which is humanity's survival). Obviously, that led to countless situations where he outright abandoned his allies when there was an option to save them while jeopardizing the plan. The situation with Jim in Wizards proves it good enough and I feel that one wasn't the first or only time Merlin did that. And obviously, that wouldn't give him much love from everyone else (and Zoe hates him for a reason too).

Merlin led both Arthur and Morgana to their downfall or at least, partially responsible for that. Why do I think so? Let's start with Arthur. I believe that Merlin to Arthur was the same kind of figure Blinky was to Jim - a mentor, an older friend, and kind of a father. However, unlike Blinky who can always find the right words for Jim in his darkest and lowest moments, Merlin either didn't know what to do or outright ignored the problem (somehow, I more lean towards the latter). It seems like after Gwen's death, Morgana was the only one trying to reach her brother. If Merlin had joined her, everything might have ended differently.

As for Morgana, instead of leading her and helping to find control over her shadow magic, Merlin tried to correct her magic, most likely putting her within some strict regulations. He obviously finds shadow magic vile and corruptive, refusing to see that it might be not different from a knife - a tool that could be used both for good and evil. Obviously, Morgana lost all the respect for her master she had most likely possessed initially as Merlin had never listened to her or her opinion.

Merlin is also incredibly stubborn and frigid. He lacks adaptability and fails to either have some backup plans or adjust his plans on the spot. That one is his clear weakness.

And another of his problems is that he's a genius and has convinced himself that he knows better than everyone else. It led to the mindset that only his plans were right and everyone else just told him some unhinged and dumb stuff that would never work (which could be as far from the real state of things as possible). Merlin also genuinely believes that if he cannot do something, no one will be able to do a thing and that if something didn't work for him, it wouldn't work for someone else.

So? Merlin may be intelligent, but he isn't wise. He's too short-sighted to see the bigger picture and too stuck to his own beliefs to see alternatives.

There's some curious detail about Nari. It makes some sense that she came to Merlin after abandoning the Arcane Order because despite all his flaws he was probably the best when it came to giving her shelter. However, Nari also seemingly treats Merlin nicely, despite being his enemy for a long time before coming to him. It may have something to do with Nari's personality, but I also have a headcanon that Nari knew Merlin before he grew to become the unpleasant person he is now. Nari is hopeful, so, perhaps, she still believed he could change his ways.

And now, there's some heavy speculation part. The scene when Merlin manipulated Jim made me think that Merlin was projecting his own experiences there. He seems to be the kind of person who absolutely loathes their younger self. Most likely, Jim was unlucky enough to remind Merlin of his younger days.

I feel that Merlin lost some dear people during his young years, most likely because of his own reckless actions. He probably thought that if he took some precautions it might end differently. That is why he chose to force Jim to undergo the transformation. In Merlin's eyes that might even count as some kind of redemption for his youth's mistakes. He sees nothing wrong with that and believes it is a good thing and that Jim is simply too young and naive to understand and will come to appreciate it later. And obviously, Merlin believes that ruining Jim's everyday life wasn't a big deal. To his mind, it was an adequate sacrifice. Well, Merlin simply forgets that Jim is not him or even his younger self.

I had a discussion with a friend once, who claimed that younger Merlin was like Douxie, but personally, I feel that Douxie reminds Merlin of the close person he had lost in the past (best friend, perhaps?). That would explain why Merlin ordered Douxie to stay away from everything until he woke up - so that Douxie didn't end in some kind of trouble. I feel that Merlin was scared to lose Douxie, because it would be a second time for him.

#tales of arcadia #toa merlin #toa trollhunters #toawizards #toa morgana #jim lake jr #douxie casperan #character analysis #my headcanons #text post #ask box #anon ask

[beannary]

I always thought the portrait of Merlin Morgana and Douxie that was shown in wizards looked so awkward so I decided to draw it myself!

#my art #tales of arcadia #trollhunters #toa wizards #hisirdoux casperan #douxie casperan #hisirdoux #douxie #toa hisirdoux casperan #toa douxie casperan #toa hisirdoux #toa douxie #toa morgana #toa merlin #i want to go back and make the frame look nicer but also li #like i also simply dont want to do that aksdjhfaksjdf