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No one: “Do you have any headcanons about the Gumm-Gumms?” Me: “Why yes, as a matter of fact I do.”

Sure, their primary reputation is as warriors/raiders/murderers, but they’ve also got some really top-notch smiths. Somebody’s got to craft and maintain the armour and weapons. 

(Yes, we see one troll get their armour conjured when mind-controlled, but we also later saw mind-controlled trolls being given helmets, so presumably the armour isn’t all conjured by the Decimaar Blade.) 

Non-Gumm-Gumm trolls are seen wielding Parlok spears, too, but Parlok was the name of the Gumm-Gumm smith who first designed that style of spear. It’s designed to be used against a sword (like when Jim used a fork to catch Strickler’s butterknife in Recipe For Disaster). The dual-pronged head also allows extra damage when stabbed into a target and twisted, without the risk of getting stuck that a serrated spearhead would present.

Gumm-Gumm craftsworkers are also amazing at imbuing artifacts with magical power. Looking at the properties of the Grit-Shaka and the Decimaar Blade, Gumm-Gumm sorcerers appear to have an aptitude for mind-influencing magic. 

Speaking of the Grit-Shaka, the saying that “the brave are often the first to die” was originally a Gumm-Gumm saying, “the fearless are often the first to die.” 

It was meant as strategic advice that the use of Grit-Shakas should be a last resort, not an opening tactic. It has since evolved to mean something more like “don’t try to be a hero,” and spread among non-Gumm-Gumms who heard it used as a taunt - the audience first hears the line from Angor Rot.

The Decimaar Blade is passed down from one warlord to the next, and enchanted so only a Gumm-Gumm can wield it. An acceptable means of claiming power in their society is to steal the Decimaar Blade and use it to kill the previous warlord. If the warlord is killed by a non-Gumm-Gumm, whichever troll can summon Decimaar next is accepted as the new warlord. 

Merlin based part of the enchantment woven into the sword of Daylight, which can only be wielded by the Trollhunter, on this established structure of spellwork. Trolls as a whole were pretty freaked out by the first Trollhunter because the conjurable sword and armour were so Gumm-Gumm-esque.

Decimaar is an archaic trollish word meaning ‘control’ or ‘authority’, referring to how the sword belongs to the tribe leader and to its mind-control powers. In English it would translate as something like ‘the sword of power’. Its similarity to ‘decimate’ (killing every tenth individual) is a false cognate. Due to association with the Gumm-Gumms, trolls don’t tend to say decimaar in conversation anymore, but the word still comes up in formal and/or legal contexts.

According to the spinoff novel of the same name, The Book Of Ga-Huel was written by the Dishonorable Bodus, not a scholar named Ga-Huel as I had previously assumed. Bodus says it was commissioned by Orlagk, the warlord before Gunmar, so Ga-Huel wasn’t the commissioner’s name either. If one chooses to accept this as canon, it raises the question of where the book’s title came from. 

I posit that ‘Ga-Huel’ was actually the tribe’s original name, and ‘Gumm-Gumm’ began as something their enemies called them, which they adopted out of pride at how intimidating ‘bringer of horrible, slow, painful, and thoroughly-calculated death’ sounds.

You too can spend so long fighting Indesign that you have to belatedly grab some boards for the week. ANYWAY how about a few panels from the Trollhunters episode, Recipe for Disaster?

If anybody is understandably wondering, Nastaha (Now Natasha Presler-Wicke) with a single exception does not have any of her work public. These are all we have from this episode at this time :)

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Httyd au in which Hiccup gets to be the feral dragon boy he was destined to be.

Basically, what if the underwater scene in the first movie when Stoick frees Toothless from his chains during the fight with Red death didn't happen? (Im talking about that scene before Stoick tells Hiccup that he's proud to call him his son)

I think there was some form of understanding between Toothless and Stoick in that scene. When Stoick pulled Hiccup out the water and broke Toothless free he showed Toothless, for the first time, that he wasn't the enemy here. Not anymore.

What if that had never happened?

What if Toothless managed to break the chains, all by himself, fuelled by his panic when he saw Hiccup drowning? What if Hiccup managed to cook up a last minute plan to free him, using all those sharp bits of metal and debri to do the job quicker, before he lost breath?

In both cases the fight would probably go like how it did in canon, minus the heartfelt moment Hiccup shared with Stoick before the battle.

Hiccup would still get knocked off by the Red Death's tail, and Toothless would undoubtedly go after him, having to bite his leg off in process, etc etc.

But,,,,when Stoick finally finds them after the battle, worried out of his mind, thoughts consumed by the fact that the last thing Hiccup might've heard from him was him declaring that he wasn't his son, he does not encounter a trusting night fury. Toothless does not unfurl his wings to show him his son.

Instead, he glimpses his son under it's wings as it shifts, standing with no little difficulty, with Hiccup's limp form between it's forelegs as it growls and hisses at him.

Toothless absolutely mauls anyone daring to approach them, and it eventually has to be subdued by the entire gang + their dragons. It isn't an easy feat, despite Toothless also being injured and drained by the battle.

In the end, they manage to get Hiccup the medical care he needs, the dragons ferry the vikings back to Berk, and it's all a very slow process, especially with the feral protective Night Fury stubbornly guarding Hiccup. Astrid is the only one able to approach them.

And that trend continues,,,even long after Hiccup has recovered. Toothless makes every effort to drag him away from people, and on the rare occasion he isn't successful, he just spends the whole time threatening the poor sods foolish enough to come too close.

As a result, Hiccup spends much of his time away from people, except for Astrid and the gang and most of his time is spent around dragons, learning about them and just being Hiccup being feral.

He goes of flights further and further away from Berk, trips lasting longer and longer, and Stoick fears one day he might never come back. He talks to the beasts in their own language, with hisses and clicks and chirps, the draconic sounds bleeding into his Norse. The Night Fury follows him like his own shadow, protecting him far better than Stoick ever could.

He rues the day he disowned his son.

For it seemed as if the Night Fury knew what he had done, and took Hiccup as it's own hatchling.

you should explode. this isnt a hate anon i just think you would benefit from the enrichment

this is single handedly the funniest ask ive ever gotten

I think we should talk more about the bond between TFP Miko and Bulkhead, because if you think about it, even though Miko, though never as helpful as Jack and Rafael for most of the show, could have been the best thing that ever happened to Bulkhead.

Before meeting her, Bulkhead was simply the muscle of the team, that was all. Ratchet and others had made a great point that Bulkhead could be the least intelligent of them all, and later in the show, when Bulkhead became wounded, we can see just how devastated he was that he couldn’t be the muscle anymore, as though he died completely and was merely a ghost now. This clearly shows that, to Bulkhead, his only useful quality is his muscle. There was nothing more to his own sense of identity. Just strong, and stupid. Furthermore, before the humans came, Bulkhead was the biggest troublemaker on the team. We’ve all seen how he’s been destroying everything he touched, and maybe, in his own eyes, his strength was the only reason why the team even kept him.

But when he’s with Miko, it’s different. To Miko, he’s a superstar, he’s the greatest of them all. He is strong, magnificent, a superhero, everything that Bulkhead probably had only ever dreamed to be. And he didn’t even need to do anything. He could just be himself, and Miko would already love him.

Not only that, Miko is also so reckless sometimes that she made Bulkhead reasonable and considerate in comparison, and Bulkhead actually sometimes became the one to have to do the guiding. Not only would this be refreshing for Bulkhead to finally be able to try out the leadership and guidance role himself, he got to also got to see, with his own eyes, how team still loved Miko despite all her mistakes and how she barely contributed anything directly. Thus, this could really reassured himself that, the team also genuinely loved him too, despite all his mistakes. Even if he didn’t have the strength he did strength.

Furthermore, Miko also paralleled Wheeljack, in more levels than one. But unlike Wheeljack, Miko would never judge Bulkhead in any life decisions he makes. And while Miko does sometimes judge and criticize him, it’s almost always only for the little things, that she only did because she was immature, and she would get over quick enough. And in no way will she ever leave him for it like Wheeljack did. I also headcanon that Miko, in a way, portrayed how Bulkhead wished Wheeljack would be.

And I think, though they ended up separating, Miko’s presence still left a long lasting influence on Bulkhead. Primarily because we see how, in the Predakons Rising epilogue, Bulkhead was seen instructing the Vehicons to rebuild some buildings. That scene really hit me with surprise because this showed how Optimus, and Bulkhead himself, had began to trust Bulkhead with leadership works. I mean we remembered from episode one that Bulkhead said Optimus never left him in command, right? Well now Optimus was. And I think this could be either because Optimus remembered how Bulkhead was able to lead Miko sometimes, the most troublesome soul ever, and Bulkhead himself probably also learned from those experience and had confidence in himself doing things he had never done before.

And that’s why he loved Miko so much, even if Miko was, for a while, just a troublemaker. And, I think, Bulkhead actually wouldn’t bond so well with her if she wasn’t as much of a troublemaker.

also I just got diagnosed with autism.

The people who police your gender will police your gender even if you're cis.

Eat them.

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