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I am loving this fic of yours @pinkytoothlesso11 so I doodled something of it 🤭

Halfway shading this when I just remembered that his clothes were something of a grey vest and a tracksuit I think? 🤔 This is how I imagine him tho 😔

Also when you wrote about Angor adjusting to being a human, I just imagine Claire helping in by showing him around

Local news; Single ahh troll deciding to stay in a household where everyone openly shows their love for their partners.

Walter Strickler-the Man of Two Masks

From the very beginning of the show Walter Strickler seems to be a man of two radically different faces, the kind understanding teacher and the ruthless power hungry changeling. But I think both are facades Strickler puts on to protects himself and try to carry out what has been expected of him from his creation. There are cornels of himself within each mask he puts on. The true Walter Strickler is someone in the middle. The façade doesn’t start slipping until late season 1 and seems to be abandoned almost entirely in season 3. Both facades play a key role in the central conflict of his character in the first season, his struggle between the troll and human sides of himself. The troll side, which is associated with his ruthlessness, lust for power, and self interest, comes into conflict with his growing humanity from his interactions with both Jim and Barbara. At the beginning of the season he has no problem with letting Bular snack on a human and actively fights for control with Bular. Once Bular is gone and Strickler is out for the changeling agenda we start to see cracks in his resolve to continue down his path. This is a mission he has trained for and taught that he needs to complete, but he starts to have doubts about the means he has to use to go about his mission. He is trying to do the best he can in the situation he is forced into and he is struggling to hold onto any semblance of control. His mission also changes from Bular and Gunmar’s vision of world domination to world domination with the changelings on top to creating a place where changelings don’t have to live in fear or slavery to wanting to do what he believes he needs to do. His mission gradually becomes more personal, it grows from working to carry out someone else’s plan to doing what he wants and what he wants becomes less selfish as time progresses.

Stickler’s actions and outlook can be traced back to the social workings of the troll world. In the second half of the first season it is shown that Strickler is doing the best he can in the circumstances he was forced into. He had to grapple with Bular for control and forgoes any outward signs of weakness around him because weakness would mean he outlive his usefulness. Changelings are considered disposable by gumm-gumm’s and trolls alike. They are raised to be pawns and there isn’t much community or comradery within the troll culture as a whole. The trollhunters of past insist on working alone, trolls turn their back on Draal right after he loses to Jim, Blinky and Argh are treated relatively poorly because they are different all of this was at the beginning of season 1. The lack of comradery and insistence on strength and power can lead to loneliness and overcompensation of the respected parts of life within certain individuals as well as working for one’s own self interest. Strickler was partially a victim of the toxic community and upbringing he was subject to. Because of the solitude an environment like that can create when he is shown genuine care by Jim and Barbara he can’t help but soften towards them and for probably the first time in his life start acting less in his own interest. He tries to cover this up to his superiors and when he is given the task of killing Jim by Bular and Gunmar he doesn’t. He instead alerts Jim that Bular is now actively trying to kill him and that Jim doesn’t have an upper hand with his knowledge all while keeping up his guise of the enemy to Jim. He goes for the amulet instead of Jim himself and gives himself less of an advantage through the reveals. If he truly wanted Jim dead he could have waited until Jim tried to make a move with the knowledge Bular gave him and surprised him. In the episode unbecoming he is the only one who believes Jim’s story and fights both Bular and Gunmar to give Jim a chance to get away and change their fate. When Bular is killed he is forced into another tough situation with the Janus order. He tries to convince himself that this is still what he wants, but his goal has already started to slowly shift. It goes from obtaining world domination for the changelings to making it so changelings can hide in plain sight among humans. His goal for changeling domination stemmed from changelings being put upon by troll kind and being disposable pawns. If the changelings controlled the world they wouldn’t have to live under the thumb of other species and be considered less and fear for their lives.  Eventually world domination became more of a background goal that the Janus order wanted to accomplish, but he didn’t. The later in the season it got the less he talked about wanting power. It only came up when he was around members of the Janus order and he questioned the means he had to take to achieve the goals the longer he stayed with Barbara. Once he was abandoned by the Janus order he turned to Jim for help and Jim ended up helping him. Because of Jim’s inherent kindness Strickler’s first real acts of selflessness come about. He willingly breaks the binding spell even with how much pain it puts him through without complaining, helps Jim cut Angor Rot’s eye, gives Jim the last triumbric stone, and chooses to leave Barbara because, although she doesn’t remember, it was her last wish. His humanity finally won over his troll side. The masks are gone and the Walter Strickler that has been struggling to break free has finally surfaced.

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