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wildflowers-of-trolberg · 2 years

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So, I've talked extensively about Novel Johanna on here; about how I believe she's a bad mother, and how I would genuinely call her abusive. I think she's harsh to the point of cruelty more than once, refuses to understand her daughter, and, the thing that really makes her abusive, consistently manipulates Hilda and makes things about herself. So now, with the release of the audiobooks, I'm putting my money where my mouth is:

I've compiled every clip I think proves that she's abusive from the first five novels. I didn't include Hilda and the White Woff; in print, I thought Novel Johanna was surprisingly reasonable in that book, and although some of her voiced lines have been less kind than I was expecting in the audiobooks, I don't think there's any moment where she could really be called abusive in those. Obviously, I have also excluded any purely positive or neutral moments, but these are in the minority (off the top of my head, four interactions across the first three books are completely excluded, and one in Book 5, but I might be forgetting one or two.)

I'm open to doing more compilations like this, if anyone's interested (Hilda's bad friends is one I've been considering) - please let me know!

As for the clips I've included:

Hilda and the Hidden People:

00:00-01:30 - Johanna finds out Hilda went near a troll rock.

I wasn't originally going to include this moment, because Johanna's not completely unjustified here and her dialogue read as quite fond to me (I thought the "I'll tell you exactly what happened" bit was meant to come across as lighthearted). Her tone in the audiobook makes it very clear this isn't the case, and while she's not completely wrong to worry, she's very harsh and this establishes she doesn't really support Hilda's adventures (she does flip back and forth on that, though).

01:30-01:51 - Johanna firsts suggests moving.

Johanna had definitely been thinking about moving before this in both the show and the novels (she comes up with Trolberg quickly in both), but the way she brings it up here sounds to me like she's trying to hide that (more on that later). More importantly, she ignores Hilda's concerns completely, and sends her to bed to avoid talking about it, despite how much Hilda's upset.

01:51-02:48 - The next morning.

I wanted to include this one mainly just to prove that Johanna had no intention of discussing the move in the morning, although it does also have a bit of her being dismissive of Hilda's adventures (I have no problem with her telling Hilda to eat less peanut butter though).

02:48-03:18 - Johanna brings up the visit to Trolberg.

Johanna clearly lies directly to Hilda here about why they're going; she's already committed, and once again refuses to be honest with her daughter or show any understanding. Instead she resorts to being manipulative for the first of several times.

03:18-03:48 - Hilda struggles to sleep.

This is a direct continuation of the previous section, just with some intervening stuff with Alfur cut out; Hilda sees right through her mother's facade, and is deeply hurt by the possibility being forced onto her.

03:48-08:06 - The visit.

I did try and cut this up, but I ended up including so much of it that I decided to just feature the whole thing. This confirms that Hilda was right, and that her mother was lying and has fully committed to moving behind her back, and when Hilda gets upset about it, Johanna immediately makes it about herself ("please don't be difficult today, Hilda"). Hilda is kicking off a bit, but she has a very good reason to be upset, and she's not wrong about the city's founding; instead of understanding, or trying to reassure her and asking her to keep an open mind like her show counterpart, Johanna tries to guilt her. By the end, Hilda seems to genuinely be suffering a sensory overload, and again isn't unjustified when she gets upset, even if she isn't being kind; she directly calls her mother out, and Johanna's reaction proves that she was right.

08:06-09:30 - Hilda finds Johanna packing.

This is a moment I've previously overlooked, but it's a moment that doesn't happen in the show; Hilda comes home to find her mother in her room, going through her things without her and packing up. There still hasn't been a proper discussion of the move, and once again, Hilda's concerns are ignored; this is the closest Johanna ever comes to apologising for the whole thing in this book. I've also included the end of this scene just to show how much Hilda is hurt by this (compare the show, where she only cries once during the whole of the first two episodes).

09:30-09:58 - Hilda thinks she's about to die.

This moment really hurt me; Hilda genuinely believes she's about to die, and her last thoughts are about how awful she thinks she's been to Johanna. She doesn't think at all about how much her mother has hurt her, because Johanna has successfully manipulated her into thinking she's completely in the wrong, and that she's a bad person.

Hilda and the Great Parade:

09:58-13:03 - Hilda comes home after her friends abandoned her.

This is another moment where I wasn't originally planning on including the whole thing; I thought Johanna was supposed to be fond during the edelweiss exchange, but her tone is genuinely a little unkind. She does soften when Hilda breaks down, but she doesn't actually say anything reassuring, she just insults Hilda's friends (admittedly, they are terrible friends in this book, but throwing petty insults at eleven-year-olds is not really a good thing to do). The really important thing here is the ending; Johanna learns that she's been lied to and tricked into giving the raven away to someone Hilda hates and thinks is cruel, but she just doesn't care. Hilda's thoughts are excessive, but Johanna should care enough to try and fix things, like she does in the show (where she's even less culpable).

13:03-14:05 - Ms. Hallgrim berates Hilda in front of the parents.

Johanna isn't prominent in this, but I've included it for two reasons. Firstly, Johanna's immediate reaction is to blame Hilda the same way Ms. Hallgrim does, and glare at her across the room. Secondly, it's important context for the next scene, which is the first conversation Johanna has with Hilda after her daughter has been berated to the point of tears in front of mocking, jeering adults. I want that to be kept in mind.

14:05-14:55 - Johanna thinks Hilda is sick.

Johanna has just seen her daughter cry in front of everyone, and her immediate response is harsh; she knows full well that this situation is partially her fault, and she could resolve this by just talking to Ms. Hallgrim, but she doesn't, and the implication is that she cares more about her reputation than her child. Even when she is persuaded to help, it's reluctant, and seems more like she's just doing this to get Hilda to stop pestering her.

Hilda and the Nowhere Space:

14:55-15:22 - Why Hilda was signed up for Sparrow Scouts.

Johanna has always been excited for Hilda to follow her lead, in all versions of canon, but here that seems to be the only reason Hilda's been signed up. It was Johanna's idea, purely so that she could make her daughter more like her, and it seems Hilda wasn't given a choice in the matter. Moreover, all Johanna cares about is Hilda's attainment, to the point where that comes before asking how Hilda's day was or how she's feeling, every time; if she actually listened, she'd realise Hilda isn't actually enjoying Sparrow Scouts at all.

15:22-15:51 - Hilda's afraid of disappointing her mum.

Hilda genuinely thinks she's useless because she hasn't won any scouting badges; she's tying her self-worth to something that should be fun (and that's reinforced later) and she's acutely aware of how much pressure Johanna is putting her under. She isn't doing any of this because she wants to; it's all about what her mother wants her to be.

15:51-16:23 - Hilda is allowed to go on the trip.

This is right after Hilda invites Tontu in and the house gets trashed by the nisse; it starts with Johanna punishing Hilda for something that isn't her fault, which isn't great, but then the only reason she changes her mind is so that Hilda can earn a badge. That pretty much confirms that the pressure she's putting Hilda under is deliberate, and that all she cares about is her daughter being like her. She even explicitly states that she doesn't want Hilda befriending creatures, which is tantamount to saying she doesn't like who her daughter is and actually wants her to be 'normal' (in direct contrast to Show Johanna in both The Bird Parade and the ending of The Stone Forest).

16:23-16:43 - Hilda dreads the badge ceremony.

This just reinforces how bad Johanna has made Hilda feel, and how Hilda is measuring her self-worth by Sparrow Scout Badges.

16:43-17:19 - Johanna berates Hilda at the ceremony.

This is the moment that's normally cited as Novel Johanna's worst incident, and while I think the move as a whole is worse, she's outright cruel here, in public. She has already seen how upset Hilda is (Hilda's whispered an apology already), but she comes over, during the event itself, and insults her daughter for who she is and for not being good enough until she cries. She genuinely makes her own daughter cry over badges, knowingly, and leaves Hilda feeling worthless and alone over something that should have just been childish fun.

17:19-17:56 - Johanna's "apology".

What Johanna says here just isn't good enough; "please forgive me" puts the onus on Hilda to forgive, not on Johanna to make it right. It's an admission of guilt, but it isn't a proper apology, and it doesn't make up for what she said. I didn't trust her tone when I read the novels, and I don't trust it now; it feels more like she's saying this to assuage her own guilt (and stay on Hilda's good side) than actually because she wants to make right her daughter's hurt. Moreover, she doesn't actually apologise for everything; she doesn't mention the pressure she put Hilda under at all (even though her show counterpart did, and all she did was get a bit carried away in her excitement), and this doesn't come up in the ending scene with the handmade badge, either. I haven't included that because this is the only apology we get; Johanna does say that Hilda is the best daughter she could ask for, but she doesn't make any more apologies or promises to be better.

Hilda and the Time Worm:

17:56-18:44 - Hilda gets grounded.

I don't think Johanna is fair in the show version of this moment, and there she's far less harsh. Johanna actually has more cause to be upset here (her daughter has committed an actual crime), but she falls right back into genuinely manipulative behaviour by accusing her daughter of doing what she did (in this case, sabotaging the mechanical bellringers and then lying about it) just to hurt her mother; she makes it about herself, again, and only sounds tearful when she's trying to make her daughter feel guilty.

18:44-19:10 - Johanna talks to David and Frida about Hilda.

This is the second time Johanna outright says that she doesn't like the way Hilda is. She talks about her child caring so much as a bad thing, and once again effectively admits that she wants Hilda to be normal; she knows Hilda was trying to do the right thing, and she resents that. To his credit, David does actually defend Hilda right after the section I've clipped, and I think it's the only time in the entire series that Johanna's treatment is actually addressed; however, it's not acknowledged beyond that, and Johanna doesn't actually get to respond to her missteps being pointed out.

19:10-19:26 - Johanna refuses to unground Hilda.

This is just pursuant to above; David's words didn't stick, and Johanna still thinks she was completely justified. Her show counterpart effectively lifted Hilda's punishment before the day was even up, but Novel Johanna wants it to last up to a fortnight over Hilda caring too much. This is also how the book ends, and the first time Hilda and Johanna talk since the grounding scene (Hilda gives Johanna her Sonstansil present, Johanna says she loves her, and then we get this.)

Hilda and the Ghost Ship:

19:29-19:47 - Johanna talks about her parents.

I just wanted to include this because it's the only mention of Johanna's parents directly in the whole franchise, as far as I know, and basically confirms that they weren't kind either (and again, that Johanna doesn't like Hilda adventuring at all). It's basically a veiled threat.

Huge thanks to @sarasplenda and @stargazer-sappho for helping me get the books to compile this thing - if anyone has any thoughts, questions, or comments, please let me know! :))

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ninebaalart · 4 months

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Hilda Creatures

some of the cool creatures from the show hilda which has made me cry way too many times

#hilda #hilda netflix #walking land creature #rock eating slug #franken-nisse #white woff #woff #art #fanart #creature

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helgafolk618 · 3 months

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Hilda and Jo: Together Again

(aka another fanfic idea i had even though i should be working on erikafolk)

"Everything's changed, hasn't it?"

"Yes. But it's the way of the world for things to change. It wasn't for nothing. We'll always have our memories of this place."

"But that's all it is! Memories. Our house is gone. The mountain's gone. Our life here's gone. And now... Now you're gone too."

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Rewatching the episode "Together Again" in Adventure Time: Distant Lands and finding out about the scrapped storyline for Hilda E2E8 "The Fifty-Year Night," I had a tearjerking idea for a Hilda fanfic.

Johanna dies during Hilda's late teens. What caused her death? Who knows! One thing is certain though: Hilda will never see life the same way again.

Sure, she still was the same fearless, adventure-loving girl; but her motivations for her love for adventures changed. She kept adventuring more than ever in order to distract herself from having the time to even think about Johanna. She still had David, Frida, Alfur, Twig, and all of her wonderful friends, but often she wonders how long will she live for until she dies and gets to join her mother.

It didn't help that Johanna's body disappeared. Her own daughter couldn't even meet her as a ghost.

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In her adult life, Hilda became a naturalist and explorer, authoring several books about her exploits around the world. She's becoming to come to terms with her mother's death. She thought, this is what Johanna would want her to do.

Until one day, she discovered strange, magical creatures, "Skuggers" she called them. Bearing a striking resemblance to a certain fae entity, these creatures have immensely powerful illusion magic. Also a very peculiar oddity with them: they're always sighted with seemingly random individuals who just died. Hilda found out the pattern: Skuggers always look for the remains of fairy-human hybrids. Just when Hilda was getting over Johanna, she saw this as an opportunity to finally get closure about her mother's whereabouts.

She said goodbye to her friends and acquiantances back in Trolberg, only bringing Twig along for her quest to find out more about Skuggers. Although, all her attempts failed because, well, hard to fool a being capable of supernaturally fooling your very senses. After weeks of failure, she was gonna head back to Trolberg when she finally spotted a Skugger, not too far from the wall, bringing a bag of bones; it seemed like it was going somewhere. Hilda and Twig followed it discreetly and discovered a fairy circle in the mountains that was hidden by the Skuggers' magic. Unfortunately, at this point, they were found out and the Skugger sprinted along the mountainside, with Hilda and Twig chasing it. Who did those bones belong to? It seemed like she was finally gonna figure out where they stash all those fairy-hybrid remains. She's gonna see her mother again.

And then she fell.

Very high.

She landed with a thud.

And then she died.

In her final moments, she saw shadowy silhouttes, and then a very strange, colorful, yet familiar environment, before blacking out.

Years has passed. Hilda rose up from the ground and saw that she was transparent and skeletal. She was a ghost! Her tombstone was even there! She thought she was buried at St. Guglows, but a quick turnaround revealed gigantic mushrooms, jade-colored rocks, and a flock of white woffs in the air. She was in Fairy Country!

Turns out, Phinium and Lydia saw Hilda dying and "abducted" her with the watchtower, but it was too late to save her. They hid her body in a very remote place in the isle, where no one but them could find it.

Hilda saw that the entire island is in darkness. Shouldn't the sun never set in Fairy Country? To be honest, she also didn't expect a lot of jury-rigged radiotowers, skyscrapers, and roads. What happened to the fairies?

Yeah, Fairy Country as we know it has been transformed by years of mad science and old magic, thanks to Victoria Van Gale. She assumes de facto control over all of Fairy Country and dubbed them the territory of the "Republic of Van Galea". The Skuggers were her personal inventions, meant to exploit the island's properties where what you see is what people want to believe they are.

Those remains? Skuggers use the ghostly forms of fairy-human hybrids in order to power their illusion magic. They're locked up somewhere in the watchtowers.

Try guessing who else is a certain half-fairy ghost there... ;)

And you know how Hilda reacted to all of this? The fact she died prematurely, the fact that her friends thought of her as missing for years, the fact that Victoria Van Gale has messed up the Fairy Isles beyond belief?

She simply lit up with joy and thought, "I get to see Mum again!"

(The burden of those questions will come to her later).

#hilda #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda fanart #hilda fanfic #hilda au #hilda johanna #helgafolk fanart #helgafolk fanfic #hilda together again

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autumnalfallingleaves · 14 days

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Was thinking about my Mando Hilda AU that has Lydia and Phinium (because I like them), but then got to thinking more about the AU I came up with a little bit after s3 dropped where Johanna never got sick as an infant, so Lydia and Phinium never had to leave for Fairy Country, so Jo grows up with her entire family and without having to get her memory wiped.

Growing up, Johanna does not know she is part-fairy. Lydia and Phinium want to raise her as a "normal" kid and planned to tell her when she turned thirteen-- but that plan was derailed when the spider-frog creature from the lake attacked the family on an outing, and Astrid was forced to protect them, revealing her-- and Phinim's-- true nature in the process. They tell Jo she's half-fairy when she's nine, instead. So Johanna grows up with her entire family, knowing she's half-fairy. Phinium and Astrid teach Jo how to use her magic.

Later, Johanna goes off to college in Trolberg. She meets Anders there, and her ensuing relationship with him is her version of a late-teenage (she's in her early 20s) rebellion. Predictably, none of her family back home likes him. Jo thinks she likes him, but he dips, and we get the attitude toward him that Jo has in canon. Hilda comes along soon after. Anders is whatever, but Hilda? Jo loves her so, so much. Luckily, her parents and aunt do, too. I feel like Astrid would make a comment like "So, that's where Phin's blue hair went!"

(Continued under the cut)

Side note: I feel like Phinium would be thee dorkiest grandfather. He'd probably be Hilda's favorite grandparent tbh.

Anyway. Jo does what her parents did and decides to raise Hilda as normally and as humanly as possible. She moves out of Trolberg and out to her family's house in the Wilderness. Hilda grows up similarly to canon, but with the added bonus of grandparents :)

(I was thinking about the elves, and have decided that they still don't find out about them until the same point in canon. Even fairies aren't exempt from the elves' paperwork and rules.)

Canon continues largely the same from there. The most major difference I can think of until the end of s2 is just Lydia, Phinium, and Astrid helping Jo, Hilda, Twig, and Alfur get settled in Trolberg after Jorgen steps on the house.

However, Stone Forest is where things get different. Like Jo, circumstances force Johanna to tell Hilda about her fey heritage earlier than thirteen. At the end of SF, instead of Hilda being saved by the white woff, Johanna, in a panic, jumps out of the balloon to use her abilities of flight to catch Hilda. She doesn't answer any questions until she and Hilda are back home, at which point she says something along the lines of "This is something your grandparents should be here for." So, she calls them, and they and Astrid agree to come over the next day. However, events continue as normal and Hilda swaps with Baba that night. Jo is then left with a newly-human troll baby and her parents and aunt arriving soon.

They, of course, help with the search. Lydia elects to stay back with Tontu and Baba, and Jo, Phinium, Astrid, and Alfur go up to the mountains to search for Hilda, since they (excluding the resident elf) have magic and can possibly pinpoint Hilda. (They can't; the trolls' magic is too concentrated to find Hilda.)

I have more thoughts than what can fit in here right now, but a big part of this version of MK is Gerda working with the fairies and getting her mind opened to even more magical beings who are just people, same as anyone. Hilda also learns about her fey heritage and is, of course, ecstatic. Frida and David think Hilda's grandparents are wicked cool. Lydia and Phinium are delighted to have even more grandchildren (Tontu and Baba). I have no idea what s3 would be lmao.

#ive been thinking about this for a while tbh #only really got about to writing it down now #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda #hilda season 3 #Astrid hilda #Lydia hilda #phinium hilda #johanna hilda #hilda (hilda)#beans rambles

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magnus-rhymes-with-swagness · 5 months

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hilda s3e8 thoughts :’)

• last episode here we gooo

• if we don’t see kaisa again i am taking to the town square with pitchforks and torches. btw

• ngl i don’t really like the way david’s character is being handled this season

• the pictures of baby hilda and johanna in astrid’s house!

• the “david, i need you” moment is so sweet 🥺

• HILDA NO DON’T BREAK THE CHARM

• welp

• “i thought making up spells was a reckless and dangerous practice rule breach” “it is” YEAH GO FRIDA!!!

• WHITE WOFFS OMG

• it’s so interesting how the fairy country makes people forget why they want to leave! hilda went there because all she wanted was to save her parents, yet she keeps forgetting that’s why she’s there

• the visuals of fairy country are stunninggg

• holy fuck

• HOLY FUCK

• okay i am crying 👍

• became riveted and forgot to write down my thoughts and now it’s over oops but Y’ALL THAT WAS SO GOOD!!!

#hilda #hilda netflix #hilda season 3 #hilda s3 #hilda spoilers #hilda s3 spoilers #my words

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relatablepicturesofhilda · 4 years

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is white woff

#woff hilda #white woff hilda #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda season 2

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the-deerfox-whisperer · 3 years

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The show: White Woffs are very rare n’ special, like they’re so rare man :) Me, who wants to make another Hilda oc and really likes Woffs:

#hilda #hilda season 2 spoilers #season 2 spoilers #spoilers #hilda oc #LOOK #THEY'RE VERY CUTE #AND WHITE WOFFS ARE AN AESTHETIC #SO FUCK IT #im in the httyd fandom anyways #Dreamworks told us: There is ONE night fury #and we said #'actually there's many #look dreamworks #we made MORE'#so im gonna make my damn white woff >:(#hilda the series

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mandareeboo · 3 years

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Unfinished Work #44: “Untitled”

Title: Untitled

Summary: Hilda wages war to protect the Lost Clan

The other from my patreon! Here's a Hilda oneshot I still love the idea of; Hilda staging a public protest against the Safety Patrol to protect the Lost Clan, trying to find a way to cement them as long-term residents, and Ahlberg involving Johanna to try and keep Hilda out of his hair. I've wanted to write some Hilda and Johanna since season 2.

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"Of course I've seen them," said Hilda, brow furrowing, as she tapped her pencil on her desk. Science homework was so unnecessarily complicated sometimes. Who cared how hot the center of the planet was? It wasn't like she was allowed to go into it. "Baby woffs aren't half as cute as you'd think. All hairless and squinty."

David hummed thoughtfully. He'd taken refuge on what was, technically, Hilda's bed, propping his work up on an errant book. "Like regular babies, then."

"Regular babies don't fly, David."

"Woff babies don't either."

"He's got you there," Frida supplied. She'd long-finished her school homework, taking to drawing various spell circles in chalk on a tiny blackboard Tildy had given her. "Scientists think their flying is kept in the fur... somehow? Woffs are weird."

David raised his hand. "If white woffs are so lucky to magic, wouldn't a white woff familiar be, like, cheating it's so lucky?"

"Actually, it's the opposite. Woffs are revered for being all free and floaty. 'S considered bad to tie one down like that." Hilda caught the two staring and flushed. "I, uh, I asked Kaisa."

"Hilda, were you going to bring me a white woff?" Frida asked, eyebrows raising.

"Not as a familiar! That's my job. But I thought that maybe helping raise one might make you super magic lucky."

"Do you know how to raise a woff?"

She considered it, then shrugged. "Can't be much harder than human babies."

"I don't think that's how it works," David replied, "but I don't know enough about woffs to dispute it."

The air shatters with a gentle pecking on the window. David immediately went to the sill, face relaxing at the familiar visage of a pigeon. Then he saw the inhabitants. He unlocked the window and pulled it open without permission, letting them inside. "Bartell! Agnes! You look awful!"

Agnes snarled at him, but didn't have the energy to spit. Bartell smiled weakly, using his shoulder to support the elf. "Few extra battle scars never hurt anyone, lad. Wouldja mind if we took a quick rest here, Hilda? It's a long flight back to the others."

"Mind?" Hilda blurted out. She held her hands out for them to climb on, holding them close to her chest with a frown. "I only wish I could do more. I'm afraid I don't have any elf-sized plasters."

"I can help with that." Frida pointedly waggled her wand. David quickly dug through the bedside table, pulling out a pack with little weather patterns on them.

Once they're sufficiently shrunken, Bartell gladly receives them. "Thank ye, lass. Yer a lifesaver." He opened a plaster and stuck it to a cut on Agnes' arm. The woman shrieked. "Keep the language to a minimum, Agnes! There's kids about."

"I heard unfortunate langua-" Alfur started to say, opening the door to his little home. He saw the situation and paled, ears falling. "Oh. Oh, my. Are you all alright?"

Hilda held her hand up, and Alfur gladly crawled on, getting set on her bed. Hilda quickly bunkered down on her knees, resting her chin on the blankets. "What happened, Bartell?"

"Ah, the usual bad bit of combat." Bartell lowered his voice. "I fell to the ground. Got swatted away and couldn't hold onto my bird- and poor Agnes was hit by a bug zapper."

Alfur gasped, hands to his face. "Not a bug zapper!"

He nodded soulfully. "Aye. It'd be lethal to the average elf."

"Truly, Agnes is a being beyond our simple comprehension." The elf did a polite bow to the old elf. "You will go down in history for all of elfkind to know, my friend."

Agnes slowly nodded her head. She looked pleased.

"But what were you fighting?" Frida pressed. "If this was normal elf-on-elf combat, you would have never gotten near any bug zapper, let alone be swatted."

"Who else?" Bartell asked. "Those blasted humans. The one with the gloves."

#Unfinished Work #Fanfic #Fanfiction #Hilda Fanfic #Hilda Fanfiction #Hilda the Series #Hilda #Frida #David #Agnes #Bartell #Alfur

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peppercorn-4-president · 3 years

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I headcanon that Hilda occasionally visits the Bell Keeper at his post to chat with him in-between the season 2 episodes. They talk about their shared interests in trolls and woffs, and their shared dislike of Erik Ahlburg. I also like to think that the Bell Keeper is Johanna's cousin (and therefore Hilda's uncle).

I like to imagine that Hilda and the Bell Keeper gossip about different creatures, especially the Vitra. They've both had run ins with the Vitra with varying levels of success. The Bell Keeper upset them 10 years ago and has been trying to win them over ever since. The Vitra actually quite like him at this stage but they don't want to admit to it. Hilda and her friends showing up and messing up their hibernation gave them the perfect excuse to start targetting some one else. But of course with the tunnels being filled in by safety patrol the Vitra have a new enemy that they share with both Hilda and the Bell Keeper.

Aside from Vitra, Hilda and the Bell Keeper also like to talk about Trolls, with both of them having lot of fear and respect for them. The Bell Keeper doesn't want to reveal the true extent of troll activity to Hilda because he doesn't want her to put herself in danger.

Their favourite topic of conversation though is Woffs. The Bell Keeper is an expert on Woffs and knows more about them than probably anyone else. Hilda has loved them since she was little because she's had a stuffed toy Woff for years (she doesn't know that it was the Bell Keeper who sent it to her for her sixth birthday, she just knows some unknown uncle sent it). She is especially interested in White Woffs since she learned that Frida is a witch, and that they carry special meaning for them.

The Bell Keeper is Johanna's cousin but she has no brothers so she calls him Hilda's uncle. He is one of the only family members she still has semi regular contact with. He has sent Hilda gifts for years but Hilda has never (to her knowledge) met him.

One thing Hilda does know however is that both her and the Bell Keeper think that Erik Ahlberg is a complete idiot. They love exchanging stories of his incompetence and often share a cup of peppermint tea over such stories.

#i love the idea of johanna and the Bell keeper being related #with them either being brother and sister or cousins #i especially love the idea of hilda helping them to reunite #my cuties #hilda #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda headcanon #hilda hc #hilda ask

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afriendlyirin · 3 years

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I saw season 2 of Hilda. It was just as delightful as the first. Everything continues to be adorable, especially the woffs (so round! so fluffy!), and I continue to love the utter mundanity of the supernatural and how people adapt to making it a normal part of life. I also appreciated the dark-skinned elves.

Boy, the time worm episode was dark, though!

Spoilery thoughts below the cut.

I’m really enjoying the relationship between Hilda and Johanna. Usually parent/child relationships in cartoons are so black-and-white, with the child always portrayed as sympathetic and the adults always portrayed as comically unreasonable tyrants. But here, we have a lot more nuance that’s very true to life. Hilda really does do wrong sometimes, and Johanna’s behavior is completely reasonable given what she knows. From Hilda’s perspective, she needs the freedom to go on adventures because she is actually literally saving peoples’ lives, but Johanna doesn’t know that because Hilda won’t tell her anything, because Hilda’s afraid she’ll say no when it matters the most! It’s a shockingly realistic and reasonable depiction of a spunky kid with a single mom, especially with the implication that time is passing and Hilda is becoming a teenager. (The tea bag argument, in particular, made me wince with how relatable it was. Although ironically, I’m more often on Johanna’s side of the argument.)

The cliffhanger at the end has me bouncing with anticipation. My current theory is that the troll mom did it to get Hilda to help them; even if it were malicious, the troll seems to genuinely love its baby, so it doesn’t make sense that it would give it up just to eat Hilda or whatever. I’m really curious where they’re going with the trolls in general -- it’s very strange that the bully troll is just hoarding tons of stuff it can’t use, and its behavior is clearly aberrant and maladaptive. Something is definitely going on with them.

I also wonder if we’ll revisit Victoria. Did the void take her to another place on Earth, or a completely other dimension? Elsewhere Space, perhaps? I’d also like to see her motivation properly addressed -- while colonizing Nowhere Space wasn’t a good solution, the pressure of human expansion is still a problem. Hilda can’t keep patching the problem forever; sooner or later, something’s gotta give.

#hilda #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda meta #meta #my posts

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remked · 6 months

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OH NO!!!

IT'S COMPLETE!

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wildflowers-of-trolberg · 2 years

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#pikablob meme industries #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda novels #hilda n1 #hilda n2 #hilda n3 #hilda n4 #hilda n5 #hilda n6 #hilda and the hidden people #hilda and the great parade #hilda and the nowhere space #hilda and the time worm #hilda and the ghost ship #hilda and the white woff

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snellyboi · 5 years

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Pictures of the Past

I mentioned I’d be making a Hilda one shot, and this is what came out. I figure I ought to start writing for more shows and such so I don’t get totally burnt!

words:1865 Summary: Hilda meets an old friend of her mother, Rolf Sigmundson, who holds some strange revelations about her past... warnings: Sort of a cliff hanger to a one shot I might get around to writing? Also involves an OC, and a bit of headcanon on my end (of course!)

By all accounts, Rolf Sigmundson was a good man. He mostly made a living for himself making nature shows, and indeed, few people were as qualified as he was to do this sort of thing. He spent time with Woffs in his university days, and also spent plenty of time studying trolls, giant birds, and all sorts of flora and fauna. He was mostly known for his show ‘Troll Hunter’, sort of a spiritual successor to Steve Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter.

He was a tall man, with a large, dark beard and short brown hair, with big brown eyes framed by large round glasses. He was popular, that’s for sure...and he was making an appearance for the sparrow scouts in Trolberg today.

“He’s such a sweet man, you’ll like him.” Johanna smiled as she spoke to Hilda, giving her some sandwiches to take to the meeting, as she knew it’d run until at least noon. “If you get the chance, tell him I said hello!”

Hilda took the sandwiches and hopped out the door, Alfur in tow. “I’ll see you mum, thanks for the food!” She was really excited to meet this guy! Not only was he kind of a big deal, but her mother knew him! And not a simple ‘saw him once at a zoo’ sort of thing, either, those two, according to Johanna at least, were really good friends in their youth. Not that Hilda would brag about such a thing...but it was a nice feeling.

“Hello, sparrow scouts!” Raven Leader spoke loudly from the front gate to the Huldrawood. “I’m excited you’re all here, and I’m sure you’re all incredibly glad to welcome today’s guest!” It was a simple idea, drummed up by Rolf himself. What better place to talk about nature than...well, nature? Sure, Huldrawood wasn’t the unforgiving, harsh wilderness, but it was still pretty natural, and had plenty to offer. “Our guest doesn’t really need an introduction, but he’s not here to hunt trolls or teach us how to do it. He’s here to talk about one of the most important parts of our lives...the great outdoors.” It had clearly been prepared, but would you wanna introduce someone without preparing yourself first?

“Let’s all give a warm, Sparrow scout welcome to Rolf Sigmundson!” The kids hooted and hollered, and Rolf stepped out, wearing a black ball cap, vest, beige button up shirt, and khakis, with heavy looking hiking boots.

“Hey, kids!” He smiled brightly and opened the gates, walking in. “We’re gonna hang by the front for a minute, just stick around there and pick a place to sit down.” Lucky them, it had been clear all week...the ground wasn’t too muddy. Hilda, David, and Frida all found each other and sat together.

“Are you excited?” Frida asked. Hilda nodded. “My mum loves his show...I watch it when it’s on.” She shrugged. “He does sound really interesting, though, the way my mum tells it.” Frida looked over at David. “Maybe he can find out why you’re teeming with bugs, eh?” David, at the moment, had a beetle crawling around on him. He looked spaced out.

“...sorry, could you say that again?”

Rolf rubbed his hands together and sat on the ground with them. “Yikes...kids, don’t get old, your knees start to ache and it hurts to sit down.” Some of the children laughed. “So! The woods...we sort of take it for granted, don’t we?” He looked around. “We play in them, camp in them, go on walks in them...without even thinking about what’s here. What sort of things live underground? What worlds go left unseen by most humans?” He looked over at Hilda, Frida, and David. “What if I told you that it’s not just giant things, but little ones as well? Like that...bug...on your shirt...do...do you know that’s there?”

David didn’t really say anything in response, he just sorta...pointed at it. Frida looked over. “He’s always got a bug on him.”

“Bugs tend to pick favorites, I find.” He giggled a little to himself. “Of course, the small world isn’t just made up of bugs. There’s even elves!” Some kids furrowed their brows. “Yep. Seen ‘em. I had to sign paperwork, though, these elves are obsessed with documentation, let me tell you.” He stood. “Of course, we won’t be seeing those today, you have to have permission from the elves themselves, and it’s a lot of papers to sign…”

“It isn’t THAT much paperwork!” Alfur whispered. Hilda whispered right back. “It is for this many kids!”

“Kids love paperwork!”

“Not the human ones.” Hilda whispered back. The group started to move through the woods, as he pointed out birds nests, ant hills, rabbit holes, and even a hole for a good sized bug, which he stopped around. “Phew...now, kids, most of these small guys are actually pretty safe, but this one’s not quite healthy to hang around too long.” he tapped the ground around the hole for a moment. “Hmm...must be empty. Can anyone guess what I’m looking for?”

“A snake?” One child asked.

“No, not quite...I wouldn’t be so close to it if it were a snake hole, those have a bit more...length than what should be in here.” He said. “Although, I have been bitten by my fair share of snakes. Most of the ones around here are pretty harmless.” He knelt down and tapped again. “Anyone?”

Frida jumped at the chance. “A spider? I read that some make trap doors, and sneak out to catch their prey.” Rolf smiled. “That’s an awful lot closer, it’s a sort of spider! Those spiders tend to be in other, warmer places...this is a sort of wolf spider dwelling.” He said. “They aren’t deadly, but I’ve managed to get a bite from one, and it’s bad. Opens up a sore about this big on the bite, and...it’s messy.” He said. The group kept going.

“Here’s another, much larger hole, it looks like it was dug by a-”

“Vittra!” Hilda pointed. “I’ve been in those tunnels...well, not...not those ones.” Rolf and the others looked over, and Rolf crossed his arms. “You’ve been IN a…” He looked at her for a moment. She looked...familiar.

“...how’d you get in? Why’d you go in?”

“We had to rescue some from becoming mulch, but we sort of got them angry.” Rolf nodded. “Huh...they do like their privacy. Kids, these holes can be real deep, and falling into them can lead to some embarrassing injuries. It’s good to look at the forest floor while you walk around.” The group kept going, stopping for lunch, learning how to spot different types of bee hives and wasps nests, avoiding snakes, and even learning a bit about fishing...though, that was anecdotal, and mostly about Rolf’s bad run in with a rather large catfish in the states. They were back at the front gate. “So, scouts, it’s important to remember that the world isn’t just what’s easy to see...there’s little cities, families, and houses all around us! We just have to look.” The scouts all got pictures, some got stuff signed, and they were on their way out. Hilda couldn’t wait to tell her mother abou-

“Hilda!” Raven Leader went over to her. “It appears Rolf would like a word with you.” Hilda furrowed a brow. “Me?”

“He wants to know more about that vittra hole I think.” Hilda walked over to him. He was sitting near his car, an old beat up jeep he’d driven to the front gate. “Hilda! Hey! She wouldn’t believe that I knew your mother so I had to give her the Vittra hole line...I knew you looked familiar!” Hilda looked up at him. “You knew me?”

“Oh, you were tiny tiny before I got the show and got too busy…” He knelt down. “Agh...gotta get that knee checked on. Hey, listen, I don’t wanna hold the van up, but…” He went into his car and got a box of polaroids. “I was real good friends with your mother, and I liked to take pictures of stuff. I took a lot of pictures of her, she didn’t really own a camera until after I left that neck of the woods. Years ago she got rid of these...I won’t say why.” It was photos of her mother doing...not ‘Johanna-ish’ things; rock climbing, swimming in the middle of a lake, waving from the top of a tree.

“I think it’s time she gets these back.” Hilda nodded. “She was quite the adventurer, huh?”

“Oh, are you kidding me? She was shredded! I bet she could have benched ME back then.” He patted Hilda’s shoulder. “Tell her I said hello, yeah?”

“Of course.” She nodded with determination.

“Thanks so much, I’d stop by but I gotta split...also, Mr. Elf,” he pointed to her ear, and Alfur popped up from behind it, “You look good in red.”

Alfur blushed. “Oh, stop, you’re flattering me…”

“Heh, alright...you run along now, enjoy yourself!”

“Likewise!” Hilda got back into the van they’d used to get there, and got home, just before dark. Dinner was almost ready, and Johanna sighed with relief when she heard the front door open. “Hilda, you’re back...how was it? How do you like Rolf?”

“He’s nice...he gave me these.” She put the photos on the table. Johanna looked flustered. “...I’d been looking for those.” She went through a few of them, sitting on the couch. “That’s...well, I was quite the adventurous type.”

“Got it form somewhere, right?” Hilda winked. Johanna...sighed, and lowered her shoulders. “Well...had to come from somewhere.” They came across one of a tiny, baby Hilda, with a woman with purple hair playing with her. “Oh, look at you! So cute back then!” Hilda thought nothing of who that woman was, probably just some aunt she’d never met...but then she popped up in another photo of them at a campfire. And another of them holding hands. And another of them in flower crowns and soft looking white dresses, kissing under a flower archway somewhere in the woods. “Mum...who’s that woman? The one with the long purple hair?”

Johanna tensed up a bit. She sighed. “...well, she and I were lovers...that was our wedding. Well, it was just a ceremony, it wasn’t legal at the time…” She sighed. Hilda looked up.

“What happened to her?”

“She...went missing.” She said. “After a troll attack. I never saw her again after that.” She rubbed her eyes. “I’m...I got rid of these to cope with the loss, I suppose.” Hilda hugged her tightly. “Sorry I brought it up, mum, I-”

“No, Hilda, it’s alright.” Johanna kissed Hilda’s forehead. “I...needed to see them again. It’s just a bit of closure.” She took the one of the wedding ceremony and placed it on her desk. She went to the kitchen. “...looks like dinner’s ready. Go wash up and get ready to eat, alright?”

“Okay, mum!” Hilda went to look at the woman in the photo again.

She looked familiar.

#hilda the series #johanna hilda #alfur hilda #david hilda #frida hilda #fanfic

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autumnalfallingleaves · 3 years

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i will take it all in one breath (and hold it down) Chapter Two: Dinner and a Discussion of Danger

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“Mum! We’re home!” Hilda barges through the door, Twig at her heels. They may or may not have run the entire way home and are covered in sweat.

“Hi, sweetie. How was the count?” Mum pushes her chair back from her drawing desk. It looks like she’s working on another commission. Something for the high school Hilda attends, it looks like.

“Good. I counted about thirty-four Woffs, maybe? That’s more than last year. Didn’t see a white one, though. Frida was disappointed.”

Where this statement might have elicited a confused look from her mother a couple years ago, it just produces a nod now. After the whole being-turned-into-a-Troll thing, Hilda had resolved to tell her mother about her escapades. It had been hard, hearing from Tontu and Alfur how badly Mum had reacted to her disappearance.

None of it- getting thrown into the Stone Forest, running from Two-Heads, getting turned into a Changeling- would have happened if Hilda had just told Mum what was going on with her and her friends. If she had just told Mum that Frida was a witch and needed that dust for a spell, they wouldn’t have gotten sucked into the void between Nowhere Space and the real world.

But it’s different now. Mum knows that Frida is a witch, knows that Hilda is her Familiar. She doesn’t keep secrets anymore. Well, secrets that could hurt Mum. That’s already happened, and Hilda regrets all of it.

(Getting weird feelings for her best friend, though? That’s definitely staying a secret.)

“I know you’ve talked about it before, but why are white Woffs important?” Mum starts cleaning up her workstation, shuffling papers together and putting pencils back in their holders.

“Apparently, they’re signs that lunar magic is particularly strong this season. Witch stuff, I guess.” Hilda shrugs and tugs off her beret and bandana. “Anyway, when’s Gerda getting here? I want to clean up before she does.”

“About six-thirty, she said. And,” here, she brushes a bit of dust off from Hilda’s forehead, “cleaning up might be a good idea. What were you even doing during your training, today?”

Hilda grins, brushing her bangs back from her eyes. “Running around the Witch’s Tower.”

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#hilda the series #hilda netflix #beans writing #beans art #I will take it all in one breath (and hold it down)#lotta technical difficulties with this one rip 😓

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humanoid-lovers · 7 years

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The "Empire Strikes Back" of the Hilda series As with Hildafolk and Hilda & the Bird Parade, this book is a funny and sweet tale of young Hilda's adventures. Hilda is a brave, curious, and compassionate girl who would makes a great role model for children. She's plucky and sometimes overdramatic, but she's also observant and determined. Go to Amazon

Lovely story This is a lovely story, beautifully told. The graphics are amazing. The characters are brilliant and fresh. Go to Amazon

Extraordinary all ages comics!!! Luke Pearson's "Hilda" is one of the best comics I have read in the last several years. As an adult reading this work, I am enthralled by Pearson's art style, the printing quality, the color design, the gorgeous binding and spine, all "printed in Belgium on FSC assured paper." Pearson's drawing and creativity are fantastic. Hilda is a fairly realistic human girl who lives in a slightly magical version of our world. The tiny people and giants who she tries to help are introduced with much build-up and exposition, but many other elements such as the "Woffs" (large-eyed bear heads with tails who fly), her "dog" (a white raccoon-looking thing with antlers), and a very unusual looking librarian (who appears to be some manner of tree) come and go without making much of a fuss. This book would be a wonderful gift for any young woman or an art book or comics aficionado of any age. Go to Amazon

Love Hilda! We love the whole series and this book is no different. Great book for read aloud and a story she can grow with. Go to Amazon

Wonderful and Weird! Really well written and illustrated. A beautifully bizarre story for any child. I loved it. Go to Amazon

Unexpected gem. This is a wonderful story. First came across from the library. A little dark. A little different. Sweet underlying love story. Great pictures. Not a story for someone looking for Disney princess and glitz. However, I have two girls (4 and 7) and they both loved it as well. Go to Amazon

You'll love Hilda This is one of the best contemporary all-ages comics I've found. Equally as pleasurable for adults as for kids. Full of cleverness and humor and originality. I rank it up there with Tintin. Go to Amazon

Great story My daughter loved this comic...great way to get your children more interested in reading. Go to Amazon

Beautiful Illustrations, Fast-Paced Bedtime Story Excellent storytelling! Wonderful for 8 and 9 year olds Hilda and The Midnight Giant is such a cute story. I'm a Hilda fan Deeper dive Hilda Has a Talent A great read Love! (Said with a singing voice of admiration) but he liked the pictures and followed along

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