#trollhunter spoilers

[hellothereimaloser]

Baby boy, baby... Ngl Jim is my fave, he's adorable and extremely traumatized which is the best character traits combination ✨

[plentyelegant]

I'm so tired

[earthspark-shockwaves-reduction]

me getting a little too deep into criticizing the writing changes in the first batch of earthspark s2 and reminding myself that the trollhunters movie I refuse to name shows how it could always be way worse

[bluheaven-adw]

These two would either be best friends or arch nemeses. There needs to be a bro-off.

[jmeestella]

Okay, I have never done anything like this before, But I need to get this random thought out of my system. Small analysis and thoughts of color theory in tales of arcadia: Why I thin Gaylen Krel could be a real thing

I really like Gaylen Krel concept and here is a little speech about why I think it would be interesting with a very vague concept of color theory (it's actually just my my totally altered perception of reality and boredom).

(An apology if anything here sounds weird, English is not my first language).

I do not think it is necessary to say that this has spoilers for the entire saga of tales of arcadia if you haven't watched it

Some extra alert, I may be editing this constantly, since I may notice some new stuff and since my english may improve jsjs

So, there you have, the 3Below squad, as akiridions, all of them are basically blue, all equal, nothing to say here, this is clear, BUT- I think something interesting happens when they are in their human desguise: the predominant color is red.

In Aja it is easy to see this in her shirt and shoes, the only blue element is her jeans, For Varvatos it's a little less obvious, but both his shoes and his jacket are also red (His pants are a kind cream color (?), which like red are warm colors, the only cool color element is his shirt), and then we have Krel, basically all his color palette is blue, cold colors, The only red element is his shoelaces, which is hard to notice.

Someone once told me: ok, but Krel skintone is really warm, and this supports my theory, all the characters have most of their warm colors ON THE OUTSIDE, but Krel, aside from his cold clothes HAS THE WARM COLOR INSIDE HIM, HE'S THE WARM COLOR.

And just like fun fact, like, BRO- even the dog is designed in warm colors 🙃

It seems to me that this could represent a bit how difficult it is for them to fit in being themselves (?) after some point I''l explain this

Another extra parenthesis, I find it curious that in the TOA saga the blue color palette predominates in characters that are "not-human", Like Jim who becomes a troll, or Douxie who's a 900 years old wizard.

And it seems to me another important detail that Claire and Toby represent a little about this dynamic of cold and warm colors.

Toby is orange and red, warm colors = human. He was human and he¿ll be a normal human forever.

Claire is purple, closer to red, but still cold= normal human but a wizard (a kind of transition?)

Together, The path of the chromatic circle represents how they move away from being human. You can check de crromatic circle here:

Douxie does not seem to have any predominant color temperature, he wears neutral colors, this may be because he wants to go equally unnoticed in both worlds, but the detail is in his eyes, normally his eyes are amber (yellow, warm color) but when he uses magic they become blue like his magic itself.

Anyway, I don't want to stray too far from the topic.

It's been a long time since I watched the serie, But I think we even have a whole chapters on that topic. Aja even with problems at the end she fit quite easily as a human, For Varvatos, socializing is a weirder experience, but in the end he has his thing with Nancy and is quite accepted among the other older adults, But we get a whole episode of Krel feeling bad because he doesn't think anyone will remember him, because he never quite fits in.

Long short story if you already see the serie, no much what to say on that, good ending to everyone.

Aja although she tried hid in the human red, in a human disguise, in the end she fully accepts her responsibility and decides to live in the blue that she was born, as the akiridion she is, while Krel, Despite being the most insistent in wanting to have his life back in Akiridon-5, Krel Krel who wanted to hide behind the blue of what he considers his identity, he decides to live like the human he feels like.

But wait. don't missunderstood me, This for both of them is neither good nor bad, neither of them rejects their nature, and I think this is an important part of 3below, embrace who you love and who you are, part akiridion and part human.

I think you may be getting my point: For them being blue is actually good, because at the end they are not human, they just are who they are, And they proudly show their true colors, and they actually do it in a very literally way jjsjsj

BUT-

Here we have. Blue vs red.

I need to be honest here, at this point this becomes more imagination than anything, but I think you all might agree with me.

Gaylen represents many things that an akiridon should not be, And what color is him? Oh of course it's red, a fucking warm color.

Speaking of my theory that warm = more human, I find it curious to point out that Gaylen only has 2 arms, wich is very human for the royal ones.

I saw many people talking in many places here on thne internet that it seemed that Krel and Aja woul be a heirs of Seklos and gaylen, some in the figurative sense of "oh yes, don't let yourself be corrupted by power and be good people" and others in the literal sense. I believe both are true in some way.

There could be many things here but as I said it's a lot of imagination. Was it really a mere coincidence that Gaylen's core was on Earth? Are the colors a coincidence?

Here is a series of points that you yourselves can connect.

The cores of the tarron parents are blue. Probably any akiridion core is also blue. Cold Color

Heartstones are orange, warm colors.

Gaylen Core is purple, but he wasn't an Akiridion? shoul't it be blue? oooh, look a the chromatic circle, purple is just aside froom de red. May be healing?

Let's say Gailen and they would have been more than a vague part of the lore, following what was said before, that Aja's nature is blue and Krel's is red, it is easy to say who is who's heir each one, but Seklos is not seen nowhere, was she really destroyed or is she somewhere else? There are many suspicious places for me, the shadow realm, the darklands, I'm just saying...

I don't know how the whole thing could happen to get in the story to get to the point of Gaylen Krel, but there's my final though: After that, his new red colors could represent a lot of things, maybe the warm colors really only represented a nature that lost of magic and in the end we were all always meant to be magical (?) just saying that, for example, Toby's grandmother has lived suspiciously too long to be a normal human, perhaps he is not as human as they wanted us to believe. That would also be an interesting door to explain why Toby's presence was really necessary from 3Below.

Bu hey, I want some angst, what would meant that Krel is Gaylen's heir? He's a akiridion after he becomes like him? maybe he¿s something more, something weird or strange, not akiridion at all, not human at all

Under this theory, it is similar to what Jim went through as a half-troll, although it is predominantly blue, the eclipse details are red cause after all he's still Jim, that human boy that we all love, and that was sacrifice and change was somtething needed to be made bt doen't change him at all, they both had to become like this, and after all, Krel would still being Krel.

Just I would like to think of a parallel to Jim's breakdown when he becomes a troll but with Krel changing drastically when he becomes Gaylen's heir. Imagine the team trying to catch him to help him and cheer him up because, yeah, by this point in the story, since when did the team care about who they were o are?, and like the cherry on the cake, instead of the legendary Jlaire scene of "no matter who you are, I love you" we might have some cute confort sibilings moment with the same vibe but with "whatever you are, you will alway be my little brother, "

Someone please tell me I'm not crazy with all these thoughts, I am traumatized with TOA

[aaaarsonist]

Just in case, TOA SPOILERS ✨

I'm rewatching Trollhunters (again) and for the love of troll I NEED AN EXPLORATION OF JIM'S TRAUMA. LIKE, I JUST WATCHED HIM SHUT HIMSELF WITH LIGHTNING, KNOWING HE COULD HAVE DIE. AND THAT'S NOT COUNTING THAT HE COULD HAVE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS DUE TO LACK OF OXYGEN AND COULD HAVE DIE FROM THE FALL. Of course, this is not the first time he almost died, but It's the one that made me realize this.

The poor guy is always on the verge of death and it's brushed off like it's nothing. The only time they acknowledge it it's at the very beginning, but then it's just... nothing.

Jim should have PTSD after so many times he almost died or saw loved ones die/almost die. Also becoming troll, learning to live like that, then consciencesless troll, and fighting against his friends, then human again????? Identity crisis at it's best.

((I don't even want to mention the movie's ending and Jim having to live knowing everything he knows, and having lost much, because his relationships will never be the same now that he's not the trollhunter))

[lavenoon]

Out of Time (~12K Words)

How the return of the Inferna Copula could have gone, if Jim had had some access to brain cells and that tidbit of information in season 3 had been integrated into the show. Or alternatively, if Angor Rot had been treated as the narrative foil to Jim that he actually was.

So I got into Trollhunters, and sure, I am biased, but I will die on the hill that Angor Rot's potential was wasted just to have an easy end of season villain. So I've put him in the soup, and 12K of this was born.

Tumblr exclusive note: Remember when I said I'm very normal about trollhunters? Yeah, this is what I've been up to since barely posting again for the past week <3

[tnt308]

I don't know where these ideas come from... it wasn't from a strange audio from ig... but I think it was from Pinterest.

[quartergremlin]

Have you seen Troll Hunters??? It's set in the same universe & town as 3 Below!!!

I have not 😔 i have a history of accidentally getting into side-series and not touching the main series with a ten foot pole until I have consumed everything else about it. (looking at you percy jackson + heroes of olyumpus)

i'm like. aware of trollhumters? I see fanart sometimes, and they were in 3 below! I get the jist. It may even (absolutely) be in my wheelhouse! however. this french guy with the omnitrix.... And I might watch the movie first because it has aja and krel in it..... And there's a rottmnt crossover with it I've been keeping my eye on......

[theraccoonsinyourbackyard]

Jim: is this all the canned food we have?

Draal: you need more?

Draal, about strickler: we should chop him into little pieces and can him right now.

Me: AWWWW HES SO CUTE

[allowaykirk]

Omg Pok Gukgak!!! Congrats on your guest appearance on Dreamworks Trollhunters

[earthspark-shockwaves-reduction]

maybe every Good New Cartoon has a requirement of Some Guy showing a Child Main Character a horrific vision of their loved ones being lost bc in a moment of really bad stress they voiced regret for doing something that gave them Otherworldly Burdens No Child Should Have or smth idk

[cacahuatlll]

Some Zoe Casperan She is filled with rage and angst!,,, and then young Zoe showing her powers to her little brother douxie. (Note; she didn’t get her powers at the age of the art, she got them way younger, I’ll expanded on this on another post someday lol) maybe one day you’ll get happy older Zoe 🥺❤️ I also have a small comic with them Asdfghjkl trying to finish it asap 🏃🏽‍♀️

[anindecisivespirit]

That feeling when your soul is bound by others and you have to obey them, you perform blood/dark magic, and also your curse is signified by a piece of jewelry

They’re friends!!

[honeyxmonkey]

would Nico and Harley get along well? Considering the fact that their both Underworld Kids lol

Anon, I would love to inform you that YES. Yes they DO.

After Something Wicked, Douxie asks Nico to come to Arcadia to help teach Harley how to use his powers. After that it's basically inevitable that Harley gets adopted by Nico and Hazel. He's smol and squishy! Just a baby!

[ebdaydreamer]

honestly I'm so annoyed about the events in the season I can't even be mad about the actual ending yet, and they literally pulled my least favourite trope ever