#Javier Nunez

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WE WERE ONCE KIDS:

Friends in poverty

Star in controversial film

Then get left behind

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A Secret's Worth

Chapter 30: Claire

Ao3

“Hola hermanito, you excited for your party?”

Enrique blinked up at her sleepily. His weight resting comfortably on her lap, head tucked into the crook of her elbow.

“We have the whole family here, all our friends and even some of mom’s coworkers,” she carefully slid her arm further under him, pulling Enrique close to her belly without jostling him “All here just to see you,”

His eyelids fluttered, shutting them once again as he settled back into her lap.

Claire felt a grin tugging at her face “Popular already aren’t you?” she cooed down at her brand new baby brother. 

Ever since he’d come home from the hospital Enrique hadn’t done much besides eat and sleep. Not that Claire was complaining, she’d heard horror stories about babies crying nonstop, so having Enrique being so quiet was a blessing. But according to that nurse as babies got older and had more energy…

Well for the summer at least she’d be able to spend most of her time outside the house, and hopefully whatever loud crying phase he had was over by the time school started.

He yawned, eyelids squeezing together and tiny nose crinkling up, Claire’s chest fluttering as her heart practically ached with the tenderness surging through it.

Claire had been an only child for so long that when she’d first been given the news, she hadn’t known quite how to feel about getting a new sibling, then a bunch of other stuff had happened that pulled most of her focus over the past several months. So she’d only had the mental space to worry about the birth going ok for most of her mom’s pregnancy.

She’d still been uncertain when her dad picked her up after school to visit mom and Enrique in the hospital. But then when they’d handed her Enrique in his swaddled up bundle and she’d looked into his eyes for the first time, Claire had been hit by an overpowering wave of love and affection.

Claire wasn’t an only child any more, she had a little brother, and she loved him with all her heart.

Even all the bad things that were supposed to happen to older kids when the family got a new baby either didn’t happen or turned out to not be a problem.

Sure now that he was born her parents were paying a lot more attention to Enrique than her, but he was a baby. Of course he got more attention when he literally couldn’t do anything for himself. And it wasn’t like Claire had been desperate for her parents’ attention before, more than anything she was relieved to have them off her back. Final exams were coming up but her parents were so busy with Enrique they hadn’t once hounded her about studying.

And one of the things Claire had started worrying about when she first saw mom and Enrique in the hospital, being permanently stuck on babysitting duty, ended up being shot down on the drive home. When that woman in Dairy Queen had come up to them and told them how adorable Enrique was and how nice it was that they had Claire to help take care of him. 

Ophelia had lost it. 

Screaming at the woman how parentifying is a problem that cripples kids’ futures and that Claire’s one and only responsibility was to keep her grades up and Ophelia would be responsible for Enrique because she ‘Wasn’t a lazy waste of space who had children she refused to take care of’.

Claire had been massively relieved to hear her mom say that, followed by completely mortified immediately after. She’d grabbed the ice cream and booked it back to the car while her dad pulled her mom away after throwing a few twenties at the petrified cashier.

Later that night Ophelia had made them both swear to never let her leave the house while on pain medication, no matter how badly she was craving ice cream.

Her parents were too busy to nag her, she wasn’t going to become a live-in babysitter, and Enrique was the cutest, sweetest little baby she’d even seen.

At the beginning Claire hadn’t known how to feel about getting a new baby in the family, but now, holding him in her arms, she knew that Enrique was the best thing to happen to their family in a long time.

The sound of footsteps coming down the stairs pulled her attention, tearing her gaze away from Enrique to see her parents stepping into the room.

“Thanks for watching him while your mother and I got ready,” Javier approached, arms outstretched to accept Enrique, Ophelia trailing right behind him.

“No problem,” Claire carefully lifted Enrique up off her lap, allowing her papi to scoop him up and cradle him to his chest, sleeping expression not even twitching “I’ll be out in a bit, I just want wait for my friends to get here so I can let them in,”

Instantly her parents' faces dropped, turning towards each other and sharing a look.

Her guts curdled.

Uh oh, Claire knew that look, nothing good ever came from that look.

“About that…” her mom stepped forward “We were talking about the sleepover you want to do on Wednesday…”

Claire’s stomach pinched, this was it, they were going to tell her that there was no way she was doing a sleepover on a school night, even if they weren’t doing any actual school the next day. She knew this was coming, they may have said that they’d thinking about it but she knew there was no way that they would ever let her–

“You can go,”

Claire blinked, not sure she’d heard that correctly “Wait really?”

“Yes,” her papi stepped up to join her mom, gently bouncing Enrique in his arms “You don’t have any classes the next day, so it should be fine,”

“However,” Ophelia cut in, folding both arms across her chest “This sleepover is a privilege just like any other, not only do we expect you to be on your best behavior at all times, if you get into any trouble or let your performance in class slack, even that Wednesday morning, we–”

Claire surged forward, ensnaring both her parents, and her baby brother, in a powerful hug.

“Thank you thank you thank you! I promise I’ll study hard and I won’t let you down!”

Her mom stiffened before reaching an arm around to pat Claire on the shoulder “Oh, yes, very good,”

Claire released them and stepped back, still buzzing with giddy energy, allowing her parents to head straight into the backyard to greet the waiting guests now that they had said what they needed to and were free of her bear hug. 

But they didn’t, instead they stayed where they were, sharing another look.

Papi cleared his throat “Now remember, if you get uncomfortable or want to leave you can call us any time, even at two in the morning,”

Claire frowned “Oh…ok,” 

Were her parents nervous about her spending the night over at a boy’s house? Granted she’d had several sleepovers with Toby already but none at his house. And why were they giving this whole talk after they’d already said she could g–

“And I know that Dr. Lake will be the adult there, and you should listen to her,” Ophelia pressed her hands together “But if she tells you to do something that goes against your…insincts, you just stick with your best judgment over what she says,”

Claire felt her face fall, confusion smoothing into cool understanding, an ice cold weight dropping in the pit of her gut.

So that’s what this was about.

“And call us,” Javier added, nodding enthusiastically “You can always call us, if you or any or any of your friends need help,”

Guts still roiling, Claire forced herself to nod, even though she intended to do no such thing, at least not any time before sunrise “Got it, will do,” 

Her parents nodded back at her, sharing one more conspiratorial look before heading out of the room. Claire waited for a few seconds, then when she heard the backdoor open and shut she let out a deep breath and flopped back against the couch.

Talk about a reminder she didn’t need.

The five of them might have buried the hatchet, with things between them getting better and better by the day, but that didn’t change the fact that Dr. Lake’s reputation was still in the dumpster. With half the town, her own parents included, thinking she was a monster. Add in the fact that the reason people thought that was due in a direct result of Claire’s own actions and you had a double whammy of guilt. 

Claire pressed a hand to her belly, intestines twisting up tighter and tighter. She wanted, more than anything, to set the story straight and clear Dr. Lake’s name, but there wasn’t any way to come clean, even to her parents, without giving away Jim’s secret. 

Which was not an option.

Not to mention Dr. Lake had made it very clear she didn’t want them meddling. And as guilty as she felt Claire wasn’t going to go behind her back and do something she’d explicitly asked them not to do.

Again, not an option. That particular lesson had been hammered into her skull more than a few times.

Which left her here, stuck between a rock and a hard place. It still didn’t feel right to let people go around thinking Dr. Lake was an evil witch who locked her son in the basement, but there wasn’t anything she could actually do without making the whole situation worse.

Out of nowhere the doorbell rang, startling Claire out of her thoughts. She jumped to her feet, gloomy thoughts banished from her mind, and hurried to go open it, revealing four familiar faces.

“Hey guys,” she pulled the door open wide “Glad you could make it,”

Darci beamed at her and brandished a shiny silver pan “We brought casserole!”

“And diapers,” Mary added, shaking a green and yellow gift bag.

“I’ve got Nana’s famous tuna surprise,” Toby bustled around her, pan in hand and his own gift bags dangling from his arm “Fair warning I’m pretty sure this is what the cafeteria based their chicken surprise on, and I also brought the baby blanket Nana knitted,”

Quick as a flash Mary slipped the dish in her hands on top of the tower of pans in Jim’s arms, darting up to Claire and throwing both arms around her “Congrats on being a big sis now C-Bomb, how does it feel?”

Claire smiled and squeezed her back “It hasn’t even been a week yet, but I would both die and kill for him,”

Jim carefully stepped inside, peeking over the tower of aluminum and plastic in his arms “How is the new little bro doing?”

“Great, come see for yourselves,”

Claire lead them into the spare bedroom at the back of the house, where their gift bags and boxes joined the others in the mountain on the bed, gathering at the large window looking out to a full view of the backyard. The entire fenced in space had been set up with pastel colored streamers and balloons. The most impressive of which was a massive banner that read ‘Welcome home Enrique Nuñez’. Dozens of people milled around the yard, every inch of the picnic table covered in various foods and dishes, her papi standing ready at the grill keeping a close watch on his precious chorizo. At the center of it all was her mom, leaning back in a reclining lawn chair with Enrique swaddled on her lap, flanked on either side by each of Claire’s abuelas.

“OMG! He’s so cute!” Toby set his pan in Jim’s arms and scurried towards the window “Quick question, am I going to have to fight your grandmas if I want to hold Enrique?”

Claire chuckled “No, but it’s probably a good idea to ask their permission,”

Adding her own pan to Jim’s pile, now completely blocking him from view, Darci joined Toby at the window with a squeal “He is so adorable!”

“When did I become the designated food holder?” Jim grumbled from behind the mountain of casseroles. 

“When you said that none of us could be trusted with phyllo dough,” Mary said without missing a beat, siding up to Claire to survey the window at a distance. 

Jim mumbled something, carefully setting his pans on a side table before heading to the window himself.

Toby’s nose was less than an inch away from the glass, eyes wide as he surveyed the crowd milling around the yard “This is a lot of people, is your entire family here?”

“Pretty much, almost everyone in my mom’s lives in Pasadena so they were all able to come no problem, and nearly all of my dad’s family made a point to fly in. Most of them will be going back to San Ángel in a few days, but my abuelita’s staying in town for about a month,”

“It’s cool you have such a big family,” Jim said, with just a trace of wistfulness.

Claire very deliberately ignored his tone and just focused on the spoken words “Yeah they’re all pretty cool, I just wish my tías and primas would stop teasing me about getting a boyfriend,”

“And it’s cool that both sides of your family all get along together,” Darci added.

“Why…wouldn’t they…” Toby said slowly, turning away from the window to face Darci.

“Oh! It’s not Claire’s family, it’s mine,” Darci turned around until her back was to the window, gaze sweeping over the four of them “My mom’s family and my dad’s family don’t like each other, have I never told you guys this?”

“No,”

“Nope,”

Claire and Mary stayed silent, they had been given this whole rundown back in middle school, for them this was nothing new, but it looked like the boys hadn’t been brought up to speed yet.

“So you know my mom died when I was a baby?”

“Yeah,”

“Uh huh,”

“Well what happened was my mom and dad were originally living in New Orleans where my mom’s family is, then when I was three months old they came to Arcadia to visit my dad’s family and while they were here my mom died in a car crash,”

Toby’s eyes got huge, jaw dropping open “But that’s…that’s not your dad’s fault, how could he have possibly–”

“Oh no,” Darci held up her hands, alarm flashing across her face “They’re not mad about that, they know it was an accident. The reason my mom’s family got mad was because my dad decided to stay in Arcadia,”

“Ah,”

“So yeah things were tense for a long time and they didn’t really have anything to do with each other and I didn’t see a lot of my mom’s family until I was five,” Darci leaned against the window, hugging her elbows, the words all coming out in a rush “But anyways that was all a long time ago, so no one’s super mad about that anymore and they all talk to each other now, but they’re still not super friendly,”

Jim winced “That sounds…tough,”

“I mean…they don’t hate each other,” Darci shrugged with forced casualness, avoiding meeting anyone's eyes “They’ll be polite at airports and restaurants and stuff, but hosting a party together, no way,”

She trailed off, heavy, awkward silence filling the room, the small space quickly becoming claustrophobic.

All of a sudden Mary darted up towards the window, elbowing Toby and Darci aside to come right up to the glass “Hey Claire, are those your cousins?”

“Yes but remember, no flirting with them,”

“I never agreed to that!” Mary shouted back at her as she hurried out the door. Almost immediately after Toby and Darci broke away and headed out themselves.

“Love to help you put the casseroles away but I want to go visit Enrique before a line starts,”

“Same,” Darci turned back just long enough to wink at Claire, letting her know that she wasn’t actually sorry at all. The two of them vanished through the doorway, seconds later the sound of the backdoor opening and shutting echoed into the room, leaving just Claire and Jim alone in the house. 

Clearing her throat, Claire turned and picked up a stack of pans off the side table “I’ll load these up in the fridge and be out in a minute, you can go ahead and–”

Jim swooped in and grabbed the last few pans “It’s fine, I’ll give you a hand. Besides, I want to make sure my phyllo dough is taken care of,”

The two of them headed into the kitchen, Claire setting the pans on the counter to open the fridge door. She moved to grab a pan, but Jim swooped and held one out to her, allowing her to slide it into the fridge before he immediately handed her the next one, setting up a silent assembly line.

This was the first time the two of them were alone together for more than a minute or two in months.

With no danger of interruptions. 

As soon as the realization hit her the wasps nest that had been buzzing in the back of Claire’s head, a quiet hum for the past four months that had been getting steadily louder over the past few weeks, was kicked over.

Claire discreetly sucked in a breath and tried to pull herself together, but her mind had latched onto the idea and refused to let it go. And despite her best effort to suck them down, the words–

Do you want to go out sometime, just the two of us?

Tickled in the back of her throat, ready and waiting to be let out.

Their hands brushed against each other as he handed off the pan, Claire turned away, heat filling her cheeks, forcing herself not to squirm as the beginnings of butterflies fluttered in her stomach. If only the others hadn’t bailed so qui–

Wait did they set this up!? Leaving her and Jim alone in the house together ‘so Claire could tell him how she really felt’.

Mary would to.

She bit her lip so hard it hurt, chest going tight. Whether or not this was a setup didn’t matter, the outcome was the same. Jim was only inches away and no one else was around. 

There was nothing stopping Claire from telling him, right here right now, all the feelings for him that she’d been bottling up for months.

To say that she liked spending time with him in their group, but sometimes she wanted him all to herself. To hold him close and forget that the rest of the world existed.

The sharp, metal edge of the pan in her hands cut into her hands as she tightened her grip, the taste of blood filling her mouth.

But she couldn’t– wouldn’t. Not because she was worried that Jim would say he didn’t feel the same way about her, but because she knew he would say that he did.

“So…” Claire said slowly, turning away from the fridge “Mom had Enrique in May so she wouldn’t be super pregnant in late summer, but she had me in December so she wouldn’t have to take care of a newborn during an election,”

Jim blinked at her “Oh, you were…planned,”

Claire’s entire face ignited in a hot flush. Willing the earth to open up and swallow her whole. 

“Oh, yeah, right,”

Stupid stupid stupid!

Forcing her limbs into action, Claire snagged the pan from Jim’s outstretched hands and snapped around to jerkily slide it into the fridge.

Well she’d wanted to keep things from getting too intimate, mission accomplished alright.

They put the last few dishes away in silence, Claire having to rearrange a few pans to shut the stuffed fridge behind her, only turning back around to face Jim when she was sure her skin tone wasn’t crimson. Task complete, the two of them shuffled awkwardly at the counter for a few seconds, then Jim cleared his throat. 

“So how is it having a new baby bro?”

Claire let out a small sigh of relief, then gave a casual shrug of her shoulders “I love him, and he’s adorable and everything, but he’s a baby, he can’t really do anything besides eat and sleep. Mainly it’s the stuff he can do when he’s older I’m looking forward to,”

“What kind of stuff?”

“Teaching him his first words, his first steps, the complete works of the immortal bard, you know sibling things,”

Jim couldn’t have known, but he chuckled all the same, Claire joined him in laughter. 

“Thanks again for bringing all this,” she gestured towards the fridge “We have enough meals that my parents shouldn’t have to cook through the entire fourth trimester,”

Jim gave a soft smile and looked away, running a hand through his hair “It wasn’t a big deal, I’m already awake for most of the night, might as well kill time by making a bunch of casseroles,”

He turned back towards her and laughed again, but this time there was a forced edge to the sound, a flicker of uncertainty in his eyes.

Claire’s throat tightened, even as she willed her expression to stay neutral.

They’d all been hanging out again for several weeks and for the most part things were good, but there were times when Jim laughed just a little too loudly, when his smile didn’t reach his eyes. 

When he seemed so unsure.

They’d come a long ways, all of them, but Jim still had far to go.

He never said as much, but one look in his eyes and Claire could see just how scared Jim still was. Scared of being alone. Scared that his cursed form would drive them away.

It wouldn’t, regardless of what Jim looked like or what he ate they’d all still be there for him. But they hadn’t built up enough trust for Jim to fully believe them when they said it.

Claire knew that if she asked him out, right here and now, Jim would say yes. Regardless of whether he actually wanted to date her or not. Because he was still so terrified of any of them leaving that he would do whatever they asked in order to make sure they stayed.

Jim would absolutely force himself to date her, even if he didn’t want to. Smothering his true feelings and bending over backwards to keep from losing the only friends he had.

And Claire cared too much about him to ever put him in that position.

“Well we appreciated it, having meals taken care of is a huge help,”

Jim smiled back at her, nearly managing to conceal the relief washing over his face “Well uh…I’m going to go outside and meet the new little bro,” he turned and took a step towards the backdoor “You coming?”

“In a bit,” Claire leaned up against the sink “I have to compose myself before getting ready for the tías,”

“Ok then, see you out there,” Jim waved back at her as he stepped out of the room. Claire returned the gesture with a grin and a wave of her own. She heard the backdoor open and shut, leaving her alone in the kitchen, wave slowing to a stop and smile falling off her face.

Now she was alone, just her and her emotions.

Her many many conflicting, contradictory emotions.

The worst part of all of this was she knew she could be ok being just friends with Jim. If he said he only liked her as a friend, it would sting, but she could get over it. He was a good friend, a great one, and Claire knew that once the bandaid was ripped off the hurt would fade and they could recover and stay friends without things getting weird.

But the only way Claire could even get that closure was by asking him, and she knew if she asked him he wouldn’t say no, even if he really wanted to deep down. He was so scared of upsetting their fragile, budding friendships he’d go along with whatever she asked.

Whatever any of them asked.

Claire pressed a hand against her stomach to abate the queasy feeling now surging back in full force. Every time she thought about how much of a pushover Jim had been the past few weeks she was hit by a fresh wave of guilt and something thorny she couldn’t identify.

She wanted to date Jim, she did, she really did, but only if he liked her to, not because he was afraid of her leaving him and the fallout shattering their group.

So that left her here, stuck.

She shut her eyes, willing the rolling in her abdomen to subside.

There had to be a solution to this puzzle, something she just wasn’t seeing.

She liked Jim, as a friend and maybe more, and she wanted to know if he felt the same way.

But Jim was still so nervous around them that he would never say no, so how could she get him to voice his true feelings when he was still so insecure even after weeks of–

Her breath hitched.

That was the answer, time.

Jim was still pretty nervous around them, but even in just the last two weeks he’d gotten so much better. Last week they’d had a bonfire when before he would never leave his house, next week they were all going to have a sleepover together.

He’d come so far already, maybe one day soon he’d be confident enough to be able to tell her no

Or yes

And mean it.

Excitement fluttered up in her chest, blasting the nausea away as a plan started falling into place in her mind. Claire didn’t want to keep bottling up her feelings forever. But she wouldn’t have to do it forever. Jim was getting more and more sure of himself by the day, and one day soon he’d be in a good enough place for her to ask. But when?

Dates and numbers flashed behind her eyes. How long it had been since Jim had come clean, how far he’d come since, all the trips and plans they’d made for the summer.

Summer. August. The start of the next school year. By then he should have enough self confidence for her to safely ask him out.

Claire pulled a breath in and let it out, expelling the rest of her emotions, and released the sink, feeling infinitely better now that she had a plan of action. Right now she wasn’t going to worry about her and Jim, she would deal with all that when the next school year started. She’d revisit her feelings on the first day of sophomore year and not a minute sooner. Claire wasn’t going to spend her summer worrying and working herself into a lather. This summer was just going to be about having fun with her friends, all of them, and her new little brother.

She headed towards the backdoor, all the stress sinking down further and further into the bottoms of her feet, feeling lighter with each step.

The time for worries and confessions would be later. Claire wasn’t going to think about any of that right now. Right now all that mattered was that all of her friends were doing well and getting better by the day; Enrique was here, safe and healthy, and her parents were so busy taking care of a newborn that they didn’t have time to be on her back about grades and extracurriculars.

A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, spreading into a broad grin as she stepped into the bright sunshine of the backyard.

This summer was looking bright.

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[albentelisa]

Hi!

What do you think would change if the parents had found out about the Trolls early in the first season?

You can get creative as to how the parents find out.

I feel that it could create some complications for sure.

Barbara could find it because of Draal - he isn't the stealthiest guy around, and it may take a sudden return home for the secret to collapse.

Ophelia and Javier could find out because of NotEnrique not being careful enough.

Nana, on the other hand, is definitely the least likely to find out the truth (as she met Aaarrrgghh in the canon and bought Toby's lies), but she also could overhear something that would be impossible to explain.

In any case, I feel that no matter which one of the parents would find it first, they will inform others rather fast. As for when I'll say, it could happen between Bular's defeat and Strickler's return with Angor (so Claire is also involved).

And here are the complications. Firstly, the parents will be against their children risking their lives, and unlike the canon where Jim, Claire, and Toby managed to prove their competence, here they are less experienced and trained (and Claire and Toby still have no weapons), so the parents are justified in their worries. Obviously, Ophelia and Javier also want their son back, but they want someone better suited to play the hero's role.

Jim, Toby, and Claire try to convince the parents that the quest is less dangerous than they think - they will simply retrieve Triumbric stones, and travel to the Darklands to save Enrique (they omit the detail that the Darklands are full of bloodthirsty trolls and who-knows-what). It goes more or less normal until Angor Rot arrives and all the parents go full 'we won't allow risking your lives' mode. The teens are forced to sneak out at first, and it takes a major fight with Angor where the trio demonstrate that they can protect themselves so that the parents finally agree to be supportive of their adventures. Barbara takes over as a medic, Ophelia usually helps Vendel with organizing trolls, Javier tries to learn some fighting, and Nana tries to domesticate gnomes (and gnomes surprisingly take a liking to her).

Another major change is Stricklake's dynamic - after all, Barbara learns that Strickler is both a changeling and an enemy early on. She thinks he used her to get closer to Jim (and as their relationship is at an earlier stage, Strickler needs to put way more effort so that she forgives him). In this AU, Jim and his team initially have no idea that Angor serves Strickler as Strickler pretends he has changed sides. There is no binding spell here, but well, Strickler screws a lot even without it with his lies, so when Angor exposes him eventually, Barbara is furious. However, Strickler starts to waver even earlier, thinking that perhaps he could just drop his plan altogether (he secretly hopes that Jim's team will slay Angor, and with that, his dirty secret will be safe, and he will be able to just have a peaceful life with Barbara and Jim).

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Trollhunters! Nomura Au

Final

The third part(2/2)<

This AU was made me and @enniyart

While part of the team, consisting of Nomura, Angor, Blinky, Draal, Aaarrgh, Toby and Jim, went in search of Merlin. Another part of the team with Steve and Eli stayed to look after the exhausted Claire in the Lake house (due to recent events, the house was empty for a very long time).

The journey to the tomb is uneventful. The only interesting moment happens when Merlin wakes up and Nomura says that she is now a trollhunter. This statement makes the Wizard surprised, for a second he looks at Jim, but quickly assumes the usual cynical expression on his face and together with the others goes to Arcadia where an unpleasant surprise awaits them.... The fact is that while the trollhunter and the others were looking for Merlin's tomb, the Creepslayerz, who were left to look after Claire, witnessed her obsession with Morgana (due to the fact that there was more concentration of dark magic in Claire, Morgana's possession occurred earlier than in the original). Steve was already ready to say goodbye to life, but fortunately Eli watched all seasons of "Supernatural", so the first thing he does is throw a jar of salt into the obsessed Claire and lock her in the basement to wait for the rest of the team.

After the rest of the team returns, Morgana is tied up in the same way as the original and they think about how to return Claire to her body. They decide to send a couple of team members to the world of shadows to pull Claire's soul out of illusions. Jim and Toby are called to go to the world of shadows, Angor remains to keep the portal open, and the rest remain to watch the queen of the Eldrich.

While Jim and Toby search for Claire, Morgana tries to manipulate the remaining members of the team. But Merlin begins to do what he does best, infuriate others, and Morgan is already being led to his manipulations and jokes.

Just like in the original, Jim and Toby find Claire's soul and together they expel the witch from her body.

At this time, Gunmar, with the help of Avalon's staff and Strickler, frees Morgana. Gunmar decides that he no longer needs changelings, but Strickler stops him saying that of all those present, only he is aware of what is happening in the world (and with the help of his connections has a great influence in the human world), he also says that he should not underestimate the superiority of people in technical terms. Strickler proposes a plan according to which his changelings penetrate into all important spheres of humanity, and when Gunmar decides to begin conquering the upper lands, humanity will already be destroyed from within and will not be able to provide proper resistance to the Gumgum army. Morgana, who has just been released, agrees with Strickler's plan and Gunmar and Morgana go into the shadows for a while to regain strength after a long imprisonment.

After all she's been through, Claire decides that her parents deserve the right to know what's really going on. At first, Ophelia and Javier do not believe their daughter, but when her teacher from the "exchange school" appears, all doubts disappear instantly.

Thanks to the help of a member of the Nunez council, the team is better able to hide trolls from the trollmarket.

A team of hunters is discussing a plan to defeat Gunmar and Morgana. Merlin tells about the stones of the three shadows capable of summoning the eclipse sword. The trollhunter already has the eye of Gunmar, and therefore the whole team goes for the rest of the stones. It turns out to be quite simple to get the stones of death and birth. Only in the process of extracting the second Draal accidentally turns into a human (he and Nomura even manage to go on a date to a human restaurant. The date itself happened surprisingly well, until Draal started eating curtains). After learning about this, Merlin and Angor finally figure out how to defeat Morgana once and for all. They decide to prepare a potion that, like with Draal, will turn Morgana into a human and when she will become mortal, they will finally be able to kill her.

Angor also decides that they need all the

powers they have and therefore helps Claire create her own shadow staff.

Blinky and Aaarrrgh, as well as in the original, gather allies among the trolls to fight back against Gunmar.

Gunmar also wasted no time and while the trollhunter was looking for the stones of the three shadows, he attacked troll settlements and replenished his army, simultaneously absorbing their hearts of stone, becoming even bigger and stronger because of this.

After that, Morgana begins eternal night (she also breaks Merlin's staff), but when they come to the surface, gumgums do not find a single person.

The fact is that council member Nunez is seeking consent to conduct a training evacuation of the entire city, so all residents of Arcadia are safe.

Morgana, seeing this, immediately begins to ask Strickler what is going on, and then it turns out that Walter has long betrayed her and sided with Gunmar. Morgana is about to kill the changeling, but she is attacked by an Angor that appeared from the portal and takes them to another battle location.

Gunmar at the same time starts a fight against Nomura in the eclipse armor and Draal.

Merlin goes to the ruined market to get a staff, and the rest of the team, together with the Order of Janus, fight against the Gumgum army.

The trollhunters' plan is that Angor should get close to Morgana and poison her with a poison that turns into a human (Angor himself understood that he was unlikely to be able to get out of the battle alive). Claire, when the witch finally turns into a mortal, will deal a fatal blow to the exhausted Morgan, thereby canceling eternal night. At this time, Nomura and Draal will try to restrain Gunmar in an open area, so that when the sky dissipated and the sun appeared, Gunmar fell under his direct rays and turned into stone (the fact is that he became so huge that Merlin was not sure whether the eclipse blade would be enough to kill Gunmar). The task of the rest of the team is to restrain Gunmar's army so that she could not come to his or Morgana's aid.The task of the rest of the team is to restrain Gunmar's army so that she could not come to his or Morgana's aid.

Angor and Morgana begin their battle during which the staff of the shadow breaks and Morgana kills Angor, but he manages to cut her with a poisoned blade. Morgana notices that her wounds do not recover, but remain and begin to bleed. In a panic, she tries to escape to regain her strength and stop the effect of the poison, but Claire, with a new staff of shadow, blocks her path. A long fight ensues between them during which Claire loses her right eye and is again in a dying state, but still she manages to kill the witch.

Gunmar finds himself right under the withering rays of the sun. He tries to find shelter (his skin has almost turned to stone and has become very fragile), but at that moment Nomura and Draal decapitate him. Gunnar dies, but also due to a strong surge of magic, the stone in the amulet splits, and Draal also loses his right arm.

The remaining gumgums, which did not have time to eliminate, are destroyed by themselves due to the death of Gunmar, as in the original.

Eternal Night ends (Merlin, due to the fact that Morgana broke the staff of Avalon, does not regain her powers).

Residents of Arcadia are returning to the city (a little oh.evayut when they see the consequences of the battle against Morgana and Gunmar). And when the team of hunters relaxes, the changelings take over the city and Strickler declares that his plan remains unchanged. Changelings will also destroy humanity from the inside, and then using human weapons they will strike at all the deposits of stone hearts, so the world will belong only to changelings (the world did not want to accept them, and they are not going to accept this world).

Claire goes to the hospital. Draal also becomes incapacitated due to the loss of his arm. Steve, Eli and Toby say that they will fight with the others, but Nomura does not want the children to participate in the massacre, so takes them to the pantry and locks them for a while until it's all over. Jim looks at all this from the side, and then follows Nomura (she did not look for him because time was running out, and she thought that he would have enough brains not to follow her (not enough)).

Nomura (already without the amulet, armed with khopesh), Merlin (still with 10% of his magic), Blinky, Aaarrrgh and the remaining surviving trolls go to storm the Order of Janus.

At this time, it is not Enrique who goes to the dark lands for familiars (let's accept the fact that the Darklands were not destroyed during eternal night).

While the rest of the trolls are fighting the changelings, Nomura infiltrates the headquarters of the Order of Janus (Jim slips behind her unnoticed) where Strickler is now. A fight ensues between Nomura and Strickler during which Strickler prepares to deliver a fatal blow to the hunter....

*BANG*

Jim picks up a crossbow lying on the floor and shoots his history teacher.

The surviving changelings escape from Arcadia. It is NotEnrique who successfully gets out of the Darklands with the familiars in the cradle stone.

Afterword: after the finale, Jimmy and Claire start dating (they fell in love with each other at joint sessions with a psychologist).

Claire continues to practice shadow magic (after the battle, she picks up a piece root of the Angor Rot body and now it grows in her pot).

Nomura, Draal, Blinky and Merlin, along with the rest of the trolls from the market, leave for New Jersey. Aaarrrgh stays with Toby and the others to protect Arcadia.

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@mythunderlegion sent: 🌻 = a character I wish to write with

send me a symbol and i'll tell you... (currently accepting)

Hello, I appreciate you sending in an ask, Nic! Anyway, let's cut to the question, shall we? A character I wish to write with is well, I have a lot of characters I'd love to write with. Be aware, this is gonna be a very long post.

As for the muses I currently have the muse for, it's Karl Uhl & Varvatos Vex and they have their own blog at arcadiandefenders along with E. Aster Bunnymund, Classified, Valiente, and Alfred Pennyworth (I'm only familiar with Wayne Family Adventures & Telltale's Batman games).

Now, let's break this down. Lately, I've been feeling the urge to write Tales of Arcadia but I noticed that there isn't much active Tales of Arcadia roleplay blogs now than it was years ago. As for one of my Tales of Arcadia muses, Karl Uhl, I'd love to throw him at the most underappreciated characters which would be mainly the adults within Tales of Arcadia series although I don't mind throwing him at characters from different shows/games/books/etc. I absolutely love crossovers!

I'd love to throw my Karl at either Coach Lawrence, Lenora Janeth, Javier Nunez, and so forth. I'd love to throw my Karl at all sorts of creatures and anybody.

Let's start with Varvatos now, shall we? Varvatos is an extraterresial being from the planet of Akiridion-5. He may be intimidating and threatening but deep down inside, he has such a caring and brave heart. By brave, I mean he just goes into a battle head-on. He cares tremendously about Aja Tarron and Krel Tarron along with Eli Pepperjack. Nearing the end of season two within 3Below, Varvatos shows concern about Eli's whereabouts which means his character development got more interesting and somehow better.

Okay--truth to be told, I'd love to throw my Varvatos right at Jumba Jookiba from Lilo & Stitch and some Tales of Arcadia characters such as the teachers. I would also love to see Varvatos interact with Mr. Strickler and the Tarron children, Krel and Aja Tarron. I do not mind crossovers at all. Like I said, I absolutely love crossovers!!

Okay, let's now focus on my muses that I have here on this blog. The muses I currently have the mood to write are Classified, E. Aster Bunnymund, Valiente, and Alfred Pennyworth.

As for Classified, gimme your Madagascar muses/OCs. Classified needs his North Wind family and he needs to interact with others than just the North Wind and the penguins. He also needs to interact with Zootopia/Beastars/Aggretsuko/Animal Crossing muses too as well.

As for E. Aster Bunnymund, throw ROTG muses at them. Althoughhhh...my highest characters I would like to write my Bunny with are Pitch Black, North, and Jack Frost.

As for Valiente, throw barn animals at him. Throw Ferdinand muses at him. Crossovers 100% appreciated.

As for Alfred, personally, I'm more familiar with Wayne Family Adventures and Telltale's Batman series version of Alfred but I'd love to interact with DC muses within WFA and Telltale's Batman series muses.

[pedropascal24-7]

Pedro looked nothing like the real life Javier Peña and didn’t have to undergo any physical transformations to look like him aside from growing out a moustache, so I don’t think he’ll gain a bunch of weight or wear a prosthetic suit in order to portray this dentist - a haircut and shave would do. Nunez isn’t a well-known or historical figure that such attention to detail is that important, IMO.

Fair point. We’ll see how accurate they want to be and how much they think the character’s looks are important to the story. Although there is a chance that the series doesn’t move forward and we’ll never know how he’d look like.

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The capo who ordered the death of journalist Javier Valdez is released from prison

The capo who ordered the death of journalist Javier Valdez is released from prison

Damaso Lopez Serrano has been released from the United States prison where he was serving a sentence for crimes related to drug distribution, according to the Bureau of Prisons. He is the son of Damaso Lopez Nunez, nicknamed Graduate, who was the right hand of another drug lord, Chapo Guzman, but the now released prisoner is well known in Mexico because he is credited with the death warrant that…

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Man Utd sẽ tấn công gì nếu Ronaldo ở lại?

"Sở hữu bốn tên đình công trong đội luôn là một lợi thế," huấn luyện viên Alex Ferguson từng nói khi tuyển mộ Robin Van Persie hè ốp t2 từ Arsenal, mặc dù Man Utd có Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez và Danny Welbeck. Quan điểm của anh ta là càng nhiều người đình công, thì càng có khả năng ghi bàn.

Trong mùa giải 2012-2013, Van Persie đã giành chiến thắng ở Premier League thứ hai trước giải đấu thứ cấp liên tiếp, với hai đội khác nhau. Anh ấy đã chơi 38 trận, ghi 26 bàn. Và Man Utd cũng ghi được 86 bàn thắng, thành tích tốt thứ ba với họ trong thế kỷ 21.

Theo Athletic, đó là lý do tại sao HLV Erik Ten Hag kiên quyết giữ Cristiano Ronaldo, mặc dù anh không còn muốn ở lại Old Trafford. Có một tiền đạo tốt hơn, đặc biệt là khi Man Utd chỉ có Marcus Rashford và Anthony Martial có thể đá.

Trong năm mùa giải gần đây, 4 đội hàng đầu đã ghi được ít bàn thắng nhất là Man Utd (68 bàn), Chelsea (63), Man Utd (66), Chelsea (58) và Tottenham (69), tương ứng. Theo thống kê này, đội muốn lọt vào top 4 mùa tới phải đảm bảo ghi được khoảng 69 bàn thắng trở lên.

Top 4 đội mùa trước đã củng cố tiền đạo này với các hợp đồng đáng chú ý, như Erling Haaland (Man City), Darwin Nunez (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Chelsea) và Richarlison (Tottenham). Và Man Utd vừa mang đến cho ba tân binh, cả hai ở tuyến đường thấp hơn, bao gồm hậu vệ Tyrell Malacia, Lisandro Martinez và tiền vệ Christian Eriksen.

Mùa trước, Man Utd lần đầu tiên kết thúc một giải đấu hàng đầu mà không có sự khác biệt về mục tiêu. Hàng phòng ngự của họ đã đâm thủng 57 bàn thắng, lịch sử nhất của giải đấu. Đội cũng ghi được 57 bàn thắng, trong đó số lượng mục tiêu của Ronaldo chiếm 32%. Man Utd cần ghi được nhiều hơn so với các mục tiêu mùa 12 trước đó, để có nhiều cơ hội hơn trong top 4.

Sản phẩm Man Utd mùa trước thất vọng. Ronaldo ghi được gần một phần ba mục tiêu của đội, mặc dù chuỗi dài nhất trong sự nghiệp. Fernandes đã ghi được 10 bàn thắng, nhưng thông số này giảm mạnh so với 18 bàn thắng trong mùa giải 2020-2021. Edinson Cavani hiếm khi chơi, Jadon Sancho đã không thể bắt kịp với bóng đá Anh, và Marcus Rashford và Anthony Martial đã trải qua mùa giải tồi tệ nhất ở Man Utd.

Mười Hag đang cố gắng xây dựng lại vở kịch tấn công của Man Utd. Trong năm trận đấu thân thiện, họ đã ghi trung bình 3,4 bàn mỗi trận. Mặc dù chỉ thân thiện, các mục tiêu luôn giúp các tiền đạo như Rashford, Martial hoặc Sancho tự tin hơn. Họ dự kiến ​​sẽ dẫn đầu cuộc tấn công tấn công mùa tới, với Fernandes chơi ở vị trí công cộng.

Liệu Ronaldo không có khả năng ghi điểm những người chơi này đã được cải thiện? Nó được đảm bảo rằng nếu Ronaldo không chơi, cơ hội hoàn thành những người chơi khác sẽ lớn hơn, dẫn đến khả năng ghi điểm cao hơn.

Trong sáu mùa vừa qua, Fernandes cần trung bình 2,8 kết thúc cho mục tiêu để ghi một bàn thắng, và hiệu suất này cũng ổn định trong những năm qua. Trong mùa giải 2020-2021, anh ấy tuyệt vời với 18 bàn thắng, từ 51 kết thúc cho đến mục tiêu. Mùa trước, số lượng phát súng như thế với Fernandes chỉ là 29, giảm gần một nửa.

Với Rashford, màn trình diễn của anh ấy là 3,1 trong năm ngoái. Giống như Fernandes, Rashford hoàn thành mục tiêu 37 lần 2020-2021, nhưng tham số đó giảm xuống 12 lần trong mùa giải 2021-2022, thậm chí không một phần ba mùa trước.

Hiệu suất của Sancho và Martial tốt hơn, tương ứng 2.0 và 2,6 cú sút về mục tiêu của mục tiêu cho một bảng. Và màn trình diễn của Ronaldo mùa trước đã đạt 2,4, với 18 bàn thắng từ 43 cú sút vào mục tiêu. Số liệu thống kê đó cho thấy Ronaldo có một màn trình diễn ghi bàn từ mục tiêu cao của Sancho.

Hơn nữa, không còn Ronaldo, Man Utd cũng sẽ làm tốt hơn trong giai đoạn để tạo áp lực từ xa. Điều đó giúp họ giành được nhiều quả bóng hơn, giữ bóng dài hơn và cũng dẫn đến khả năng tạo ra những cơ hội lớn hơn.

Tất nhiên, mười Hag vẫn cần Ronaldo, khi Man Utd khó có thể đưa đến một tiền đạo hạng cao khác mặc dù thời gian chuyển nhượng vẫn còn hơn một tháng để đóng cửa. Hơn nữa, nếu Martial bị thương, anh ta vẫn cần một người chơi thay thế. Ronaldo sẽ thường xuyên đến trên băng ghế dự bị. Nhưng làm thế nào để thuyết phục siêu sao 37 -y -old chấp nhận từ bỏ vị trí "chính" sẽ là một vấn đề khó khăn đối với mười hag.

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He's trying his best

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[albentelisa]

Hi What's your headcanons between Jim and Claire's Parents

Hi! Oh, it's an interesting question, for sure!

We all know that Jim's relationship with Claire's parents started horribly and it's easy to understand why they initially disliked Jim (they had no context, and Jim seemed to be a kid who wrecked their house, not to mention the mess his clones caused later).

However, I feel that once Ophelia and Javier learned the truth, they warmed up to Jim. After all, he's a good guy and someone most parents would approve of as a date for their kid.

I can imagine that Javier could possibly teach Jim how to cook some of Claire's favorite dishes (I think Javier is the one cooking in his family). Though I bet Javier cringes a lot while listening to Jim's atrocious Spanish.

As for Ophelia, I believe that she sees in Jim many traits she appreciates in people - decisiveness, determination, responsibility, and politeness. I feel she suggests the career of a politician to Jim more than once.

Anyway, I feel that eventually, both start to see Jim as their family and will gladly give their daughter a blessing (in the second timeline or in an AU when Jim and Claire reach that point of their relationship).

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Today on never pause Trollhunters

“I don’t know what’s going on, but what do you call this?”

[elizabethemerald]

Lightning Scars

“But it’s my birthday!” Claire flinched from the sad cry that trailed them as they drove away. She didn’t know what Jim was thinking asking her parents for a ride, she could have told him they wouldn’t let him into the car. She was surprised they even opened the window for him. 

She turned around and watched morosely as Jim looked around in desperation. For just a moment he was illuminated by a flash of lightning before they turned the corner. He looked so sad and scared. She turned forward and leaned towards the central console. 

“Mom, what about the storm?” Claire asked. “It’s not safe to for him to go home by himself with all this lightning!”

“He should have thought about that before he trashed our house when he was supposed to be watching your brother.” Ophelia said tersely. “Or should I say, when you were supposed to be watching your brother.”

Claire receded back to her seat. She didn’t need to do anything more to upset her parents. If they grounded her any more she wouldn’t be able to take part in the play. Instead she watched the street go by, until with a sudden flash the power around the town went out. Now they were driving with their headlights as the only light. 

All she could do was hope that Jim would be able to get home safely. 

* * *

“Amazing job Claire.” Javier said proudly. 

They had just finished the play and the Nuñezes were going out for ice cream. Claire was frazzled beyond belief. Fortunately she was able to pass it off as exhaustion from the play, because the truth was so much stranger. 

Trolls and magic exist. Jim had been hospitalized trying to protect her from goblins, and whatever that pink...thing was. Then Jim had told her in a hurried whisper during intermission about his fight with the troll called Bular. It was all almost too much to take in. She needed time to process, but she had to go to ice cream with her parents. 

“Thanks dad.” Claire finally said. 

“You know, without that costume of his, that boy has some strange scars on him.” Ophelia said, mostly to herself. Claire started panicking, Jim had just come from fighting Bular, maybe he still had some marks that were visible. If that was true, then she would have to come up with a convincing lie in a hurry. 

“Jim?” Javier asked. “What do you mean?”

“On his hand.” Ophelia traced a strange jagged line across her palm and down her arm. Something about the pattern stuck out to Claire. 

“Oh! Litchenberg Figures! They happen when someone is hurt by electricity.” Honestly Claire hadn’t had the time to pay attention to the marks though she had noticed them during class. The scar went from his hand all the way up to his chest she presumed. 

“On his hand? What did he do, grab a live wire?” Javier said, disdain heavy on his voice. 

“Maybe he got struck by lightning?” Ophelia said. 

A sudden awkward silence filled the car. Claire wondered if her parents were thinking of the same thing she was. Of Jim desperately chasing after them, begging for a ride home in the midst of a thunderstorm. That was certainly heavy on her mind. On top of everything else he had to go through since joining the play, he was struck by lightning, all because her parents wouldn’t give him a ride home. 

“Oh.” Ophelia said softly. 

“You don’t think-” Javier replied. 

Claire didn’t want them paying any more attention to Jim when he had such a huge secret he needed to keep, but she knew they had let him bike home in the storm. And he had almost payed the price with his life. 

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“Well, something is going on. We used to have living room furniture. Now we do not!” - Javier Nunez to Nancy Domzalski (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, Episode 3.5)