#and smth smth his singing sounding ''empty'' even when he hits every note perfectly bc. well. his body can't produce its own magic | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

razzle-zazzle · 3 months

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*looks at your tags* nice, nice—

PROSTETIC HEART?????

Sometimes you have an idea so so wild but with so much interesting thematic potential that you then have no choice but to try and figure out how to make it work 🤷‍♀️

Anyway 💅 still working on the how but basically the AU is as described: Branch's fleshy magic Troll heart is gone and in its place is a prosthetic one he made himself. Smth smth a Troll's music is their magic and their magic is their music and smth smth you can remove a Troll's magic by removing their heart (assuming they survive, which they normally wouldn't, but Branch is nice and insane and good at clinging onto life like that). So the AU focuses on the issues that arise from having a heart cobbled together from the materials he could find and the sort of disconnect from the world around him due to the loss of the heart he was born with. Again it doesn't make much sense but it's fun to think about so 🤷‍♀️

#ask zaz #beating heart au #??? maybe????#anyway. still working out details but branch having to put extra effort into learning notes and dance choreo compared to other trolls #bc that stuff no longer comes naturally to him #and smth smth his singing sounding ''empty'' even when he hits every note perfectly bc. well. his body can't produce its own magic #his music doesn't affect the world around him the way other trolls' music does. he can't summon backing tracks and backup singers #from the flora and fauna #does poppy care? no that's her boyfie #also smth smth emotional regulation and how having a prosthetic heart would affect branch in that regard #yes i know the heart doesn't do that kinda thing irl but like. these are trolls i can get funky with their biology if i wanna #current idea for how branch loses his heart does involve a degree of self harm tho :[[[ i still need to refine it tho so who knows #but also. the thematic potential of branch cutting out his own heart‚ regardless of the reason‚‚‚ oughhhhhhh #idk if this au is all that interesting to anyone but me but idk i think it could be neat

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