Hilda Book 3 -The Bird Parade.

I'm just a little concerned about how these villagers might react to a small wooden man with a floating head.

Color Wheel Challenge - Instagram Edition!

With the 1st part of my Hilda spinoff comic Abby's finale coming up, we're headed back to the sea!

Making her debut in the upcoming chapter is Effie, a pompous draug with a flair for the dramatic. She's become one of my favorite side characters from this series 😅

Okay, so I've been thinking. Season 3 gave us so much in terms of magic and the origins of magic, specifically, which got me thinking-- it's stated that all magic originally came from Fairy Country, and, following that, all magical creatures came from there, which should include things like trolls and nisse, right? But young Johanna states that the sun never truly sets in Fairy Country, which wouldn't work for trolls, unless they were constantly in hiding. However, that wouldn't really seem good evolution-wise. Seems kind of weird, right? And nisse are another matter-- they are spirits, which suggests Wild Magic, but are primarily found in domestic spaces, thus suggesting a use of at least some Domestic Magic. Last I checked, Fairy Country doesn't seem to really have any houses (save for Phinium and Lydia's) or uses for house spirits. So what's the common denominator for two species that don't seem to have any common threads? And why do trolls and nisse seem to stand out in particular for being specifically not geared to Fairy Country, evolution notwithstanding?

One word: giants.

What about them? you ask. For that, we need to turn to the original Hilda: Hildafolk's Hilda and the Midnight Giant.

In the back of the graphic novel, we are presented with a visual guide to the mountain giants, which you can find me yelling about here. In that guide, we get this guy:

Who is named Björg, and, according to the book, was "the outcast of the group. He was fearful of the other giants and not well liked. When the others left he went into hiding. Trolls and nisse are descended from him." So this guy is the common link, giving trolls and nisse a common ancestor and a reason for why they may be the outliers in terms of magical beings. The mountain giants are now show canon, per the Faratok Tree episode, and seem to be lifted nearly 1:1 from the book.

From left to right are Halldór, Sigmund, Einarr, Valfreyja (who actually has a slightly different design from the graphic novels), Gertl, Aldinn, Bliða, Heimskr, and Jaðarrok. This basically confirms that all the giants listed in the graphic novel exist in the show, which means that we can extrapolate that Björg also exists, and seems to be in hiding, as the blurb suggests. I'm also thinking, based on the fact that the giants were on Earth really before humans were, that they left Fairy Country thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of years ago, shaping Earth to their liking through the years. This may mean that, while the other giants stayed together, Björg went off and did his own thing, which, I'm thinking, perhaps may have been creating the species that would go on to split and become trolls and nisse respectively.

With the two species being so well-suited to Earth, my guess, taking all of this, is that they were created and Earth and were never native to Fairy Country-- they've got ancestral roots there, but it was never their true home. That's how we get a species that can only live in the dark, and evolved to do so, and a species that has a symbiotic relationships with humans and their houses, which create Nowhere Space.

Now, to go further, my guess is that nisse evolved into their own species later than trolls, as trolls were likely present before humans. The nisse branched off as their own species likely when a particularly small, particularly hairy, and particularly magical troll managed to get into the newly-created Nowhere Space and made a home out of it, which then became the nisse as we know them now.

Anyway. This magic system. I've got Thoughts™️

Today I started flipping through "Hilda and the Troll" by Luke Pearson and felt like redrawing one of my favourite scenes from it🌟

Hilda 🌲🔔☀️

Reshare of this piece from 2021, originally for the release of the Hilda and the Mountain King movie ✨ Are you excited for season three?

--- That nisse over there stole my timer!--- Well, do you have anything to say for yourself?

Hilda 3.07 - Netlifx

sketches of the elf ever

Better Call Al‼️

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Did some vittra variants from that discontinued Hilda game-

PROOF THE JOHANNA IS JACKED.

MY BF SAID FOR JOHANNA TO BE ABLE TO HOLD HILDA OUT LIKE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG HE CAN'T EVEN DO THAT WITH A HEAVY WEIGHT FOR THAT LONG AND HE BODY BUILDS .

Made some holographic Johanna stickers on a whim. (Read: wanted one for my water bottle.) The extras are available on my storevny site, if folks are interested! -> comickergirl.storenvy.com

If you've read my Hilda comic please please tell me you noticed this

I've placed so many little references all through the series and this one was my favorite lmao