Trollhunters Fic - Tumblr Posts
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.