#nicholas st north

[modestfashionqueen]

The idea for this has been in my head for months, and I finally got the artistic motivation to put it on paper! I hope you guys appreciate it as much as I do. Because lemme tell ya, I have not been able to stop laughing all day while working on these faces. And it's just made even funnier with the knowledge that this is basically canon from the movie.

Obviously inspired by that amazing post on X. (Under the cut)

[easterelf]

someone requested Bunnymund hugs? Have some North & Tooth as well

[easterpookan]

morning warm up with Bunnymund and North. i like the idea of Bunny decorating his close friends with flowers as a relaxing bonding activity. North's beard is next.

[artist-issues]

okay SO

If I were to pitch a sequel for Rise of the Guardians I’d have the Pied Piper be the villain.

And he is introduced because Sophie (Jamie’s little sister, she’s about 11 now) has had a falling out with her parents.

Sophie Bennett is excited to finally join the super secret “Belief Club” that her big brother Jamie started when he was her age at their local school. The Belief Club, as you can imagine, are a gang of middle-schoolers who still believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the other Guardians. They collect library books about folklore figures, make up fun stories about the Guardians, look for evidence of their work in their own town, and just generally try to keep belief alive. They’re mostly the younger siblings of Jaimie and his friends who got to watch pitch be banished from the first film.

Jamie went off to college, and Sophie misses him, which is part of why she’s so determined to get elected President of the Club, like he was. Aside from the club itself, Sophie hates school and all things learning. Her grades start slipping immediately. This is a big issue, because Sophie’s mom has recently been hired to be a teacher in her daughter’s school.

When stress levels boil over, Sophie’s mom declares that Sophie is too old to spend all her time daydreaming about fairies and rabbits. She signs Sophie up for after-school tutoring, which is devastating to the pre-teen, because that’s right when the Belief Club usually meets.

Sophie decides to run away and live as an explorer, together with as many of her “supporters” as she can from the Club.

All of this is what’s going on in the human world. But of course, it’s influenced by…

the Pied Piper!

The reason Sophie’s mom turns so cynical and even short-tempered with Sophie is, in part, because Piper has stolen her baby teeth (and therefore, childhood memories) from the Tooth Palace. While there, he also kidnapped the Tooth Fairy, herself. Because of this, tensions are rising between adults and kids around the world—they’re no longer able to relate to one another.

It seems inconceivable to the other guardians that she could’ve been kidnapped—after all, there are an army of baby-tooth-fairies that should be between their queen and any harm. Bunnymund smells rats—but the magical kind of rats that appear to have infiltrated the Tooth Palace can’t be controlled. They’re forces of chaos, and they never should’ve been able to organize themselves well enough to overcome the tooth army.

Unless. Only one person could control rats like this (it’s the best line in the script)

North calls a meeting of all the remaining Guardians together, and Sandman explains. Long ago, just after the Dark Ages, the Man in the Moon chose a new Guardian. Apparently, the children of the world were still having a hard time believing that it was okay to relax and stop jumping at shadows—Pitch was gone, but plenty of other monsters lurked in the shadows, trying to take his place. For example, the wicked Mouse King, a monstrous creature of chaos who appeared in the form of a sea of rats, was stifling the wonder and hope of the poorest villages.

The Man in the Moon selected Pit D. Piper, (a gifted young German musician who tried to educate the poorest children with his rhymes until the plague ended his life) to become the Pied Piper and help solve this problem.

He would become the Guardian of Fun.

The Man in the Moon, as well as the other Guardians, advised their newest member to fight the Mouse King by working together, the way they had done with Pitch. But Piper, who wanted very badly to be believed in, had another idea. He didn’t think the other Guardians’ setup of hiding in secret palaces and doing their work in secret was a good idea. He wanted to live among the people, and have them see him.

He played a couple of clever tricks, got the children of a nearby village to believe in and see him, and even convinced their mayor to let him stay and make their village his home if he could end their rat problem. Piper did this, but the suspicious leader of the town declared that there was nothing “blessed” or “magical” about Piper—he was a charlatan, who had brought trained rats into the town to extort them.

The lonely Piper tried to prove he could be trusted, but to his surprise, the next day, several of the children could no longer see him. They believed the mayor’s story; he wasn’t a fairy or a hero come to save them, he was a trickster. Desperate to keep the few who still believed, Piper told them they should come with him. He would set up shop in a secret place, like the other Guardians, after all. And these kids could be like his elves—or his fairies, or whatever. He wouldn’t have to be alone.

But the children chose to stay with their parents—they didn’t want to leave, even if they did believe he was magical. Desperate not to lose them too, the Piper played his flute, trying to enchant them to follow him. When he turned his magic against them, the Man in the Moon summoned the other Guardians, and the Piper was cast out.

Now he’s back, and, plot twist, he’s working with the Mouse King. They plan to drive a wedge between all the children of the world and their parents. For the Piper, this is revenge; he wants to teach children never to trust in anybody, not their teachers or their mayors or their parents. Just trust themselves. But for the Mouse King, any chaos is a chance for him to grow more powerful and feast on the world again.

The Guardians have to rescue Tooth and lead Sophie’s mom to he, despite the fact that she can’t see them, and they wind up going to college to get Jamie to do it with them.

And I don’t know, I slapped all this together roughly. But I just think it’d be cool to end it with a redemption arc. Then the Pied Piper can be the Guardian of Trust, which I think is greatly under attack these days, especially between kids and their parents.

Get it, because the Pied Piper trusted the villagers to do what they’d promised, and when they didn’t, he gained the kids’ unconditional, twisted “trust” with his music in revenge. Anyway. I know it’s messy, but I don’t believe Rise of the Guardians could ever sustain a sequel, anyway.

. I started out making him look way more willowy and triangular, but then I realized both Tooth and Pitch and Bunnymund are triangle-shaped, so I tried to do squares…

And then James Dean happened by accident. I don’t know, somebody better at this stuff try to do this.

[revive-the-fandom]

please please please talk about how Jack looks to North for confirmation and how he left after North turns away during the Easter scene I really wanna hear your thoughts about that

ahhh anon tysm for asking!!!! i will gladly ramble about this, but remember, you asked lol

(also so sorry!! this has been a draft since August :| whoops!)

i feel like it's important to note that the Guardian's don't have a leader - at least not in an official capacity. in battle they individually hold their own and defend each other, but there's no one calling the shots because they're all equal. and when it comes to decisions, they discuss them as a group (and seem to go by majority rather than unanimous decision).

North is often mistaken for the leader, when the fact is that he's not. He's just loud and driven, and often more proactive or impulsive than the others. They tend towards following him because he is the only one who actually suggests anything. He's the Idea Guy. He's also the Guy With The Tools. so they default to his house, not because that's their Home Base, but because North is the only one to invite anyone over.

But North's not the leader because there is no leader.

which makes this scene really interesting to me, because when Bunny dismisses him, Jack doesn't give up then and there,

Jack turns to North for confirmation that he feels the same,

and yes, technically Tooth is also there, and a part of the Guardians, and we've established that North is not the leader because they work as a team in all aspects. but Jack is not looking at Tooth, the camera work/angle shows that explicitly,

the only opinion that Jack deeply cares about is North's.

not Bunny's, who's holiday he (accidentally) ruined, who he just started honestly getting to know and like, whose relationship has the most history and tension and stakes. not even just because Bunny's the symbol of Hope and this scene is about the destruction of it.

nope. North is who Jack looks to.

because North has repeatedly proven himself as someone Jack can trust to have his back socially, emotionally and physically. North has shown that he's willing and able to see through Jack's blase front and that he knows how and when to knock it down and talk through the issue, and when to play along with it.

He knows when to seek Jack out when he by all accounts appears to want to be alone.

North and Jack is perhaps the most vital relationship in the whole movie. North is the biggest reason Jack stays with the Guardians, and Jack is the only reason the Guardians survive the movie. Despite the movie's focus on the Guardians working as a team (including Jack), the movie relies heavily on Jack and North's friendship/father-son relationship to carry the movie.

North and Jack have only known each other for a handful of days, and yet the scene in which Jack and Bunny have a falling out, which is central to their characters and character arcs/themes, has to include Jack and North because it's already such a deep bond.

and it's so clear as to why it is that way! after 300 years of isolation (whether that be near total, or just as someone disconnected from his family and friends in an unfamiliar culture) Jack finally gets someone who goes out of their way to bring him comfort and stability.

like, the others try, and they're lovely to Jack but they're not equipped to do the same thing as North. North has this near-instant and total understanding of what Jack needs to feel comfortable.

I know a lot of people don't like the GoC books, but given his backstory there - an orphan who was raised by Cossaks, who was constantly on guard, constantly moving around, demanding authority, but still retaining a strong moral compass - it makes a lot of sense. He's probably trying to emulate either Ombric (his mentor and father-figure) or Katherine (his little sister-figure), and how they comforted him. He's probably treating Jack how he himself wanted to be treated, though likely tweaked a bit to fit Jack's personality (he's shyer than North for sure).

which is a very long way of saying, I love that North's relationship with Jack is strong and deep enough that Jack, even after being threatened with physical harm

and being outright rejected by Bunny, he still looks to North. Not because North has any authority, not because Jack wants to stay on the team, but because he wants to know he hasn't disappointed North. He wants to know that North believes him, will hear him out, will sit him down and explain that no, actually, it wasn't his fault.

it's only once North turns away, rejects him too, that Jack accepts the rejection.

and his response? He throws away North's doll (which represents a lot of things for Jack, but for the purposes of this argument) because the relationship is broken at this moment. they've lost that trust and understanding, and Jack is acknowledging it, accepting it, and cementing it all at once by leaving.

and North immediately grieves and regrets it

because again, in this moment that's centered around Jack and Bunny, Jack is once again only (or, mostly) thinking about North. It's North's rejection, North's doll, North's trust and compassion that he cares about.

North gave Jack that little piece of himself, that little bit of Wonder that sits in North's core, so that Jack could experience it, lean on it in place of his own core, while he works out what his own is. He gave Jack that reasurrance that he would support him, and Jack throws it away because it didn't work (again, in part because of Jack's own failure to communicate).

there's just something so tragic in that moment to me. more so than the argument between Jack and Bunny, more so than the antartica scene or the memories. Jack and North losing faith in each other is more of an emotional gut punch than anything else.

[theladyheroine]

Small ROTG Imagine 🍓

❥ Hi guys! I thought of this little prompt, but I hope you like it! Thank you & enjoy!

Prompt:

Bunny and Tooth secretly hold tea parties or lunch meetings at her palace when they have the time. They’ll eventually switch hosts and Bunny will have them in his Warren.

Sandy tags along sometimes but they haven’t invited North yet because he’ll eat all the food. Jack hasn’t been invited yet because Bunny wants a peaceful time before chaos arrives. 😅

[bigfourfan]

Okay, hear me out.

Maybe the reason Jack gravitates to the guardians is because they remind him of the only friends he's had before. Or vise versa.

Toothina& Rapunzel: Colorful, kind, enthusiastic, importance of memories (if you told me the moon made Rapunzel tooth fairy, who guards important memories I would believe you. She motioned to tuck her hair behind her ear at one point and she doesn't have hair. Or ears? And Rapunzel remembering that mobile as a baby was a huge moment-)

Bunny&Merida: Unexpectedly creative, fierce fighters, quick to anger, stubborn, accent.

North& Hiccup: Creative, inventors, Northern European vibes, fur, communicates with creatures others can't understand, sees good things in unexpected places.

As a fandom, I think Jack fits so well with these characters because we've seen how he interacted with similar personalities in canon.

[rovermcfly]

let's settle this once and for all

[yourmajestybee]

I’m sensing a pattern here

[06strawberrylemonade28]

im curious what yalls thoughts on a rotg 2 are?? i'm rewatching rotg on netflix (because i just found out its back there again!! hooray!!) and it's just SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. its so sad that it didn't do so well at the box office and didn't get a sequel then-- i'm lowkey holding out hope (maybe not for the best reasons, but if there's shrek 5 and megamind 2 then i'm not completely delusional, because disney/dreamworks is making sequels and remakes instead of OG films... not that we like it that way, but...) i just want more guardians content and jack content. there was even an idea thrown out a while ago about a rotg tv show-- i think it would have a fanbase and traction! they just need to do it <3 <3 <3

[asagisnobody]

Guardians of Childhood

i'm now reading the books (i'm at 4th) and i just love them

i did some more fanart of random scene under the cut

Not my best works ever, but i like them:) guess the scenes...

[drownedinlight]

Santa-Off

Welcome to Round 2 of the Santa-off, the search to find the ultimate Santa. What’s the criteria for the ultimate Santa? No clue! You decide.

Round 2 will take place over 3 days.

[easterelf]

I like to imagine that North has a book specifically for remembering his former bandit crew. A bandit per page with their name and what of their story he knew or remembers. For many years they were his people, his men and he was responsible for them. Now they are but small elves happy to be happy with little to no memory of who they once were. The relationship they once had centuries ago is changed but also not completely? He is still their leader and they his ridiculous circus. Anyways I just like the idea of North curled up with a book and a few elves, reading their names & stories so that he never forgets them.

[harrisonblock]

Lego Rise of the Guardians - Pitch Black Reveals Himself At The North Pole

[artist-issues]

Omg I was gonna recommend rotg to you since it’s my favorite Dreamworks film besides HTTYD. So happy to find another fan of it! The fandom is lovely and the book series does a good job adding more background to the characters. If you want to talk about it at all, feel free; right now I’m feeling a lot like Jack in the beginning (lonely and invisible) so I’d love to gush over it with someone who gets it. ^^

I love Rise of the Guardians! I don’t think I’ve ever analyzed it before to figure out why. I think it’s probably just how earnest it is. It’s really firing on all cylinders, really trying to create moments of genuine impact and emotion out of characters that everybody has had a take on for like…several generations.

They didn’t just do their take on holiday characters. They tried to pay homage to everything a kid would like about those characters in their wildest fantasies. So yeah, Santa has tattoos and swords, but you know what else, he’s still jolly and jiggling his belly around and laughing. He still feels like Santa. He doesn’t feel like A Superhero Version of Santa. Because they put thought into having him be seen first in his workshop, making something, then making loud, silly noises of distress when it gets smashed. His first scene is not a superhero scene.

Bunny, too. Bunny is probably the farthest thing from what anyone imagines the Easter Bunny to be. But it feels like, if the character designers sat ten years-olds down and said, “okay, here’s a bunny. Now what if I give him boomerangs, should he have boomerangs? What if I make his legs longer so he’s up tall, should I draw that? Now what if he can throw eggs like grenades, should I draw that?” The ten year-old would be saying, “YES! YES!” At every question.

And they put so much effort into the way the characters move. But at the same time, nothing is too violent, or too scary. But they’re not afraid to do real, genuine emotion, or tackle hard subjects like, “What Does it Mean to Believe in Something?”

And they come at this movie from a kid’s perspective. I know they owe a lot to Joyce, but the movie has a lot of heart put into it. I don’t think it would lend itself very well to a sequel, but for a one-shot, it was wonderful. I think I saw it four times in theaters.

[frosted-night]

Did you know North has a canonical son?

Coming from the legends of Germany, he is called Knecht Ruprecht. Knecht, meaning Servant or farmhand. His other aliases are:

"Hans Ruprecht, Rumpknecht, but is also referred to as De hêle Christ ("The Holy Christ"), while in Mecklenburg he was called Rû Clås (Rough Nicholas)."

If you see any depictions of him resembling Krampus, those aren't true to life. He moreso resembles a dark bearded man or looking like a raggid St Nicholas.

Like Krampus, he was a foil to St Nicholas, meant to punish naughty children with his switches. However, he is much milder than Krampus. His legends goes as such.

"According to tradition, Knecht Ruprecht asks children whether they can pray. If they can, they receive apples, nuts and gingerbread. If they cannot, he hits the children with his bag of ashes. In other versions of the story, Knecht Ruprecht gives naughty children gifts such as lumps of coal, sticks, and stones, while well-behaving children receive sweets from Saint Nicholas. He is also reported to give naughty children a switch (stick) in their shoes for their parents to hit them with, instead of sweets, fruit and nuts, in the German tradition."

So he certainly doesnt take too much after Krampus, but whats his backstory?

One variant is that he was a simple farmhand who rose to the occasion to shadow St.Nicholas. my favorite is the foundling telling.

Foundlings were infants or children who were abandoned by their biological parents to either die or be found by another.

St.Nicholas found a poor baby boy alone in the woods of Germany and took him in as his own son. An accident involving horses caused Ruprecht to walk with a limp, but Nicholas fashioned him a cane to help him walk.

In the rotgoc-verse, its even more gut wrenching if you translate this with North instead. North, who grew up with brigands and was abandoned much like Ruprecht, finds an abandoned child who would surely freeze to death. Him cradling the small infant, choking up a little as the boy falls asleep in Norths warm arms.

He'd raise Ruprecht with pride, teaching him everything about the wonders of the world and how his job worked. The accident that caused Ruprecht's limp would wound North, feeling like a failure. Then he'd carve Ruprecht's cane by hand, enchanting it to grow with his son.

The guardians at first would be shocked to see North adopted a child, but it would make sense the longer they watch North interact with Ruprecht. North definitely had that baby in a sling on his chest. The proudest papa on the North Pole. (He just had to figure out how to tell Krampus...)