may i offer pre-movie broppy angst in these trying times 🤲🏼
all i can think about is how may times poppy reached out to branch , trying to show how much she cared and wanted to include him , and how everytime he dismissed her. i like to think that branch, despite feeling guilty for hurting her, felt like he was protecting her in the long run. not to get too philosophical but “i bite” is literally how branch sees himself , an uncontrollable bad omen who is destined to destroy all things good in his life. by rejecting poppy and her optimism he is subconsciously saving her from what he believes is a cruel fate for all the people close to him.
I have been thinking about making an AU, but I'm not sure if it would be a good idea. I already have an idea and some drawings, but I'm afraid they are not good enough. However, I still want to show them. I only have John Dory, Bruce (Spruce), and Floyd.
And neither have a name, im really bad at it.
Anyway, I'm going to leave this drawing here for you.
Saw @grapejuicecarton go through and make a John Dory BAB and it inspired me to try and work towards making my own from scratch ! I had a Poppy Build a Bear so I decided to steal her pattern and work from there! (Your JD looks great btw grapejuicecarton I love it to death!)
Putting it all under a readmore so it doesn't clog up the dash! Big post :)
Now I'm not necessarily a pro at plush making and this is the first time I've snatched a pattern off of a plush like this, so I wanted to test it out before going out and getting all the material I'd need to make my own John Dory. However, I DID have the material on hand from previous projects to make a grey Branch >:)
And so he became my test dummy! Lemme tell you, this part of the whole thing was the fastest. The longest part was the hand embroidery I had to do for the face LMFAO
I do think the embroidery turned out good, especially since I don't have much experience in it at all!
Here he is all put together!! I still need to make his clothes, but it turns out baby clothes fit him just fine for now. I plan on stealing the patterns from those as well >:3
All in all, I'm pretty happy with how he's turned out. I'm gonna have to do some fiddling with the pattern around the head since I'm not the happiest with it, and if possible I'd love to try for machine embroidery. Once I get his clothes made (eventually), I'll make sure to share an update about that too :D
Enjoy my random doodle of human-ish branch and starry eyes poppy from school yall, idk wtf I'm doing lol
Yes ik it's sideways, no idk how to fix it lmao. This is based on an idea where branch being grey also meant that his hair no longer stuck up like a normal trolls, but it Instead got rllly wild and he can't cut it so he just lives w/ it. Also the vest became a cloak bcs I'm a sucker for cloaks.
All of troll village is half in live w/ this man because of his fashion I don't make the rules ;)
If yall wanna hear more abt this au feel free to ask lmao, for now I'm calling it grey mane branch