#kanjigar

[focuriousity25-blog]

Even the kindest of faces can have the darkest stories behind them.

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So, something I should clarify for copyright reasons, 'I Remember' technically (emphasis on that) takes place in the continuity established by "Trollhunters: The Secret History of Trollkind", the comic published by Dark Horse Comics. It's not 100% a complete copy, but it definitely uses said comic and its counterpart 'The Felled' as a baseline. I'd for sure recommend giving them a read if you're interested, they're really solid installments and have the same feel as the books they tie into.

Speaking of which, a HUGE thank you to @itsmergb for allowing me to use their version of Skarlagk the Scorned, theirs is a really great design and take on the character, I'm still shivering with hype ^^

Course, it's thanks to the work of @undeadchestnut that this has been brought to life for our enjoyment, so another big thank you to her as well :)

[sobie-is-scared]

I was listening to Godhunter by the Aviators, and it got me thinking about Jim again. But specifically about what is provably the most creative kill of the series - his final stand against Bular. It was stunning visually and really good choreography wise, but it got me thinking about another fight involving Bular. One of the very first things we see in the entire franchise.

The fight between him and Kanjigar. And why I think Kanjigar wouldn't even think of doing what Jim did in that final battle. It's fascinating how differently both trollhunters use Daylight, and I have my thoughts on it to share.

Let's start with Kanjigar. As we see in Wizards, he was a warrior long before getting chosen by the amuket, and it's safe to say he has been trained in using a sword. And so even when he fights with Daylight he treats it pretty much the same as a regular blade.

Like over here. He burns himself to reach for the sword, when we know that Daylight can be teleported straight intk your palm. But it's not something Kanjigar would have had to use often because, as it's established, he is an excellent warrior. He probably is disarmed very rarely, if at all.

Not our Jim, though. He is a scrawny sixteen year old fighting giant creatures of living stone. The sword is flund from his hands constantly. And so he had to learn how to get it back in an instant or die. He is doing everything in his power to keep up with beings much stronger, bigger, and faster than he is, and so he is using this trick a lot.

So for him, the sword is much less of a physical thing, is what Im trying to say. And that allows him to come up with an idea for something like this:

Like he says in this scene, he is not a troll, and he doesn't fight like one. What a genius way to write a protagonist going against much more traditionally powerful opponents.

[draal-mostly]

potato man

[geckoodles]

One sleepy old man, doodle prompt 1/2.

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

After Wizards, knowing who Deya was makes me think about the implications of everyone who came after her. If, in the series, she was the first Trollhunter, then that means she was the one to set a precedent. Everyone after her was following her lead, which is kinda worrying because no one really liked Callista.

You might think that because she’s Deya the Deliverer and how she went down in history that she was well liked, but…

Jim literally killed Bular and almost all of Trollmarket was willing to turn on him at the drop of a hat. If we take that behavior and take it into account, there’s a large chance that she was pretty isolated even when they put her on a pedestal.

Why does this matter? What if her distance made every future Trollhunter believe that they had to work alone?

And what if she was killed by Angie Rot, so she couldn’t even go to the void to tell the other Trollhunters that she didn’t mean for it to be that way?

[gentleeclipsey]

I feel like the parental issues between Gunmar, Bular, Kanjigar, and Draal, would have the WORST possibilities of being solved.

Between Gunmar and Bular, it's abuse. Bular is terrified to piss off Gunmar for a reason, if he fails, it's hard to say what the punishment would be. He's gotten so good at not failing he'd rather die than face his father a failure.

Kanjigar is the trollhunter, and that fundamentally destroyed what he and Draal had before. He's a stubborn troll, and fears losing Draal more than anything. Unfortunately, he's already lost Draal. Draal doesn't look up to his sire, he looks up to the trollhunter, and never felt good enough to take on the mantle.

Bular and Draal both suffered because of their fathers, they deserved so much better...

[lilith-91]

Damn, i’ve rewatched the whole Tales of Arcadia series, and Wizards introduced so many plot holes.....

Let's not even get started on how screwy the overarching timeline is, because I will lose it. Seriously, Draal and Kanjigar were both alive and adults when Deya became trollhunter? It makes no sense.

They fucked the canon by having Deya be the first trollhunter since it's stated that Gunmar has killed trollhunters before. Not only did they state he had killed trollhunters before, Kanjigar also told Jim in the void that Daylight had fought Gunmar many times and never killed him. Also the stone body of Deya is shown and is completely different than her design in Wizards bruh....

The battle of Killahead was only good trolls vs Gunmar and his gumm-gumms, with Merlin and Morgana fighting off to the side. In Wizards they made the same battle Arthur and his army vs Gunmar with the good trolls joining later, and Merlin and Douxie fighting Morgana in a completely different location.

You can't claim that it's because they changed the past, because what was shown in Trollhunters IS ALREADY THE PAST lol

Deya should've been the trollhunter that came before Kanjigar so the timeline made a bit more sense. Plus it adds to why Draal wanted to be the trollhunter so badly. He was there when Gunmar was first stopped and so when his father became the next trollhunter he saw it as his destiny to live up to the one who banished Gunmar and his father.

Trollhunters is stronger as a standalone piece of fiction. It's not that I hate 3Below or Wizards (I do hate ROTT, but that's another story), but the other two series rushes their stories so much that they don't flow nearly as well. My favorite thing about Trollhunters is the relationships, villains and character development, which, in my opinion, are pretty lukewarm in all the other stories.

The three seasons of Trollhunters are perfect! Especially the first season.

[blacksloth-blog]

I just rewatch ss1ep7. When Jim let Draal hold the Daylight Sword. The reflection on it is Kanjigar and Draal can see it too. I gonna cry.

[oliswamp]

TOA AU where…

When the Trollhunter receives their amulet, they hear the name of the next Trollhunter. It's to ensure they're properly trained before receiving the mantle.

And so when Kanjigar receives the amulet and activates its power for the first time, he hears “Jim Lake Junior”.

That… doesn't sound like a trollish name. That doesn't sound like a trollish name at all!

He consults Vendel and Blinkous and they come to a conclusion that it's a human name. Oh woe.

After days spent on trying to rip their horns off from stress because what if they're gonna be a changeling?? Huh?? Vendel whacks him on the head and tells him to stop worrying. Whatever comes, comes.

It's not until nearly four centuries later when he hears the name again. He was hiding from sunlight in a mini-forest near human dwellings when he heard a woman screaming “James Lake, you are not going to leave me here with our son alone!”

He watches, with batted breath as the male human does indeed leave. Feeling a pull of fate he sneaks into the house during night fall, and hears the woman talking to a sleeping child. “Oh Jim… how are we going to get through this…?”

He found him. He found Jim Lake Jr, the future Trollhunter.

He sneaks out, the same way he sneaked in, and goes to consult Vendel.

“He is but a whelp! A human whelp at that!”

“Well, we're gonna have to work with that. Somehow.”

They decide to wait a few more years until the kid looks like he could pick up a training sword and not fall over, and then they reveal themselves to his mother and him.

Barbara Lake is a demon in human skin, Kanjigar swears. The woman is protective as all hell towards her son, and she proved that by breaking a broom over his head. Kanjigar briefly entertains a thought of her being a Trollhunter but drops it quickly. Amulet chose Jim.

And oh Great Gronka Morka is Jim different. He's a soft, empathetic boy who doesn't shy away from them. Sure, he was scared at first, but curiosity and wonder won. And when he learnt about being tasked with protecting a race he hadn't known existed a few hours earlier? He took it in stride, saying he'll do this.

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Essentially Jim gets three troll dads (one dies, sorry) and learns how to be Trollhunter much earlier on.

[alix-xer]

I've always liked how trollhunters portrays their characters when they're possessed, take arg for example, in part two when kanjigar possessed arg to advise team trollhunters how to get Jim back from the darklands kanjigar carried himself/arg on two feet with a confident and proud exterior. When arg prefers to walk using his arms as support and keeps himself low and calm/hidden, opposite to the krubera tribe lead by queen userna

Or when draal was possessed by gunmar, he was suddenly more feral and (If remeber correctly) on all fours at points, he moved and spoke differently (as did arg)

The funniest one has got to be when Toby uses a glamour mask to pretend to be vendel, I know it isn't possessing but it's still funny

Overall I find it really cool on how much attention/detail to each character was put into the show, it makes me wonder what would happen if Jim got possessed? I've seen a few skits and art about it but not much writing, I wonder if Jim got possessed post rott?

Feel free to expand on this

[saturnniidae]

I'm rewatching trollhunters and just got to 3x7, and it never fails to make me emotional. Like, the opening flashback of Merlin making the amulet (especially the scene of Morgan's hand sinking into the cauldron. it's amazing, actually),

And all the parallels!

Angor Rot convincing Gunmar to let Draal live because what he said reminded him of his time obeying Strickler, Draal saying "don't make it weird" when he offered Jim a hand up just like when Jim first spared Draal after their fight,

AND MY FAVORITE ONE: the parallel to Kanjagar's death, with his son dying in the same pose as his father as he falls off a ledge, presumably smashing into pieces on the ground. It's just so ajdjsjsnfi

[focuriousity25-blog]

Miss you, Draal... ... 3/6 om/g/to-be-contin ...

As usual, this was drawn by @undeadchestnut, who continues to impress and inspire :D

[ainolop]

becoming part one | part two

[draal-mostly]

have some odd headcanons about Ballustra, Draal`s mother

[geckoodles]

A small, fun doodle work of all my currently active TH muses; keep an eye out for a flags edition possibly coming out soon too!

[peachbun03]

Draal being at the Battle of Killahead never made any sense to me and it also doesn't make sense with the details presented earlier on in the story in my opinion, it would've made more sense if in that scene in part 3 that instead of Draal, Jim sees Kanjigar fighting in Merlin's memory and he realizes how similar they look without the armor etc etc, like if Draal happened to be around during that time he wouldn't have been an adult. However because he initially called the trollhunter his birthright, how he talks about the existence of changelings as if he wasn't there when their young was stolen, he had to be born after those events occurred or atleast during.

Also don't get me started on how the existence of wizards completely like screws up the rest of the timeline as well, ESPECIALLY when it came to Morgana, like none of those events lined up AT ALL, like when during that time did she join Gunmar and promise the eternal night ?????

Like I know Wizards was cut short but I feel like even then there could've been better writing choices made.