Good news everyone! The first chapter of "When the Trigger Slips" is on Ao3. I hope you all enjoy it

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During a mission to try to recapture the Doom Raiders. Trigger Happy's recklessness causes Gill Grunt to get critically injured trying to protect the little gremlin. A frantic Spyro and Trigger Happy manage to bring the unconscious Skylander back to the academy so his wounds can be treated by Cali and the others. During the time of uncertainty whether or not Gill Grunt will make it. Trigger Happy reflects on his actions as the guilt of what happened eats away at him

Nothing Really Matters by Jaedynn Latter is a Redimus song and you can't convince me otherwise

I think I finally figured out why the new Star Fox designs feel so uncanny to me and many others

Up until this point, the characters have always had this very cartoony look with humanoid proportions since the very start of the series. Even when they did make the few tweaks for each game and style change. They always leaned more towards the cartoony human side of anthropomorphic designs. The characters looks were consistent in most of the games and even in The Mario Galaxy Movie

But in the newest game, they leaned far more to the animal, realistic side. The eyes are much smaller, their legs are more accurate to their respective animal, their colours aren't as bright, and they have a more gritty feel to them. The only one that doesn't that still keeps their somewhat cartoony design is Slippy, but it also kinda explains why he stands out so much compared to the others now

I think it didn't help that they played a clip from Fox' appearance in the Mario movie, who still keeps the more cartoony humanoid design in the previous games. Hence why the new designs felt even more jarring

Ok so after calming down and processing what the hell happened in that Direct, here are my thoughts on the new Star Fox game

Me after the Star Fox direct:

Skylanders fanfiction idea:

During a mission to stop the Doomraiders on their latest scheme. Trigger Happy's recklessness causes Gill Grunt to get critically injured trying to protect the little gremlin. A frantic Spyro and Trigger Happy manage to bring the unconscious Skylander back to the academy so his wounds can be treated by Cali and the others. During the time of uncertainty whether or not Gill Grunt will make it. Trigger Happy reflects on his actions as the guilt of what happened eats away at him

The Search for Wondla in a nutshell:

Ok put your tin-foil hats on because I have a bit of a game theory

I don't think Redimus was supposed to appear in the show at all. Instead, I think Besteel was meant to survive his attack by the Sandsnipers and undergo a redemption arc and reconciliation with Eva. This could just be me being sleep deprived but hear me out

One of the reasons I picked a leopard seal to base Amelia on is how often leopard seals get such a bad rap online. The number of people I've seen paint leopard seals as borderline serial killers makes me so sad. I can understand people being intimidated and even scared by them. But seeing some boil them down as just being evil and wishing for them to go extinct all because they're not as cute as other seals really hurts

And Amelia faces something similar. Due to her more threatening appearance, large size, and love for fighting. Many either think she's just a brute, or don't go anywhere near her due to being scared of her. Despite her being the complete opposite and most of her fights she's been in were just friendly sparring. And so, during her time traveling Orbona alone, she felt like she had to lean into the "scary brute" label she was given by others

It's why she was so taken aback by how friendly Huxley was when they first met. He was one of the first Orbonians who wasn't intimidated or scared of her. He actually wanted to know her and give her a chance as a Beamguide. He loves her for who she is as a person, and it is what allowed her to finally realize that she didn't have to be what people saw her as

I think one of the reasons why so many Spyro fans were so vitriolic towards Skylanders was due to the time when it was first revealed

Skylanders was released in 2011, 3 years after the Legend of Spyro trilogy concluded. Regardless of how you feel about the Legends trilogy nowadays. The games got a lot of mixed responses at the time of release, especially towards fans of the OG games. That's without mentioning the fact that all 3 games suffered from rushed development (especially DOTD), cut content, and just didn't sell well despite the push for it to succeed

For 3 years there was absolutely no news on whether we were getting a new Spyro game. When we finally did....it was another reboot of the franchise. Not only did the game require players to buy at least 5 additional figures of each element and their adventure packs if they wanted to complete the game. But despite having the subtitle "Spyro's Adventure" Spyro wasn't the main character. In fact, he wasn't really much of a character at all outside of supplemental material up until Skylanders Academy and Imaginators. And of course, the cherry on top of all of this was Spyro's redesign, which was universally hated

Now if you were someone like me whose first introduction to Spyro WAS both in the Legends trilogy and the Skylanders games, this wasn't much of a problem. But to some who grew up with the original trilogy, having to see one of your favorite franchises get rebooted not once, but twice, and the second reboot was basically using their name as a way to get more eyes on their franchise. While I don't think it justifies the Spyro fans who still shit on Skylanders even after we got the Reignited trilogy. I can understand why so many reacted the way they did when Skylanders was first announced

The silent princess

Huxley and Amelia headcanons

● Due to their size difference, Amelia can carry Huxley in her arms easily. Not that Huxley minds, he'd happily flop into her arms

● They have a variety of nicknames for one another. Aside from the usual "darling" or love" their favorites are making up new titles for one another. Like "Huxley the handsome" or "Amelia the divinely beautiful"

● Huxley usually calls Amelia "Mimi" for short. He is the ONLY one who is allowed to call her that

● After they first got acquainted, Huxley was able to convince Amelia to join the Royal Beamguide to better explore Orbona. It was what allowed both of them to spend more time together and eventually fall in love. Nowadays, Amelia spends most of her time helping around in their village, but does still occasionally go out scouting like she used to

● Amelia decided to reside in Huxley's village once they got married. Mainly because the harsher cold of her home would've been pretty hard for Huxley to live in. That and her village wasn't too happy that she decided to get married to someone that they saw as weak

● When the two got married, they gave each other one of their teeth as a charm. It's the Mirthian equivalent of a wedding ring. A sign no matter how far a couple may be apart, they'll always have a part of one another. Huxley calls it "his lucky charm"

● Because of how often Huxley needs to leave home. He regularly writes to Amelia while he's away about what he's found and when he will be coming home

● Hailey, Vanpa, and Gen were the first to find out about Amelia when Huxley casually brought her up while they were heading back to his village. Though he forgot to bring up the fact that she was a lot bigger and scarier looking than he, so the 3 got a big fright when they first saw Amelia in person

● When Huxley found out about Redimus's growing feelings towards Terradora, he happily offered to give the Dorcean advice about dating and romance, much to Reddie's annoyance

● Amelia and Huxley have 2 young kids of their own. Hugo and Axel. Both boys were around 5 and 2 respectively at the time Huxley went missing

I had a vision