it’s zach not zack btw! if you want reach on your posts
Im an idiot 🥲
What are all the ages for your wolfwalkers au? (for Jimmy ig it would be both the age he pretends to be and his real age?)
Jimmy pretends to be 18 but is really around 4,450 years old so pretty young by fae terms.
Martin is 16
Chris is 13
Koki is 17
Aviva is 16
And Zack is 15!
Bonus Chris's mom is like 90 but wolf walkers being similar to fae she looks early 40s at most.
Also also wolf walkers are not immortal like fae are but can get to around 500 years old give or take (this is not cannon to the real Wolf walkers lore or movie this is just for my au lol)
For context a wolf walker is similar to a werewolf except they look completely human till they fall asleep and their soul basically leaves their body and becomes a wolf but they can go back into their body whenever they want but they have to be near it, as in right in front of it. They can transform normal people by biting them, talk/communicate with normal wolves and a little with other animals ((but not in the "oh they're actually talking" kind of way in the mutual understanding kind of way)), they can see scent trails, and heal injuries.
So uh just spit balling here but,
Martins an orphan in this au (he and Chris aren't biologically related in this but we all know they're tied together by soul 😌) along with Koki Aviva and Jimmy and they all work together to provide for themselves and everyone else in their little dirty orphanage.
Martin does lots of things but usually gathers herbs and mushrooms (and consistently brings back injured animals that they all nurse back to health before returning them to the woods)
Jimmy is a cartographer which helps them all get out of the village without many problems
Aviva's an inventor and Koki's a blacksmith, a skill she got from one of her parents before they died 🤷, but they're both belittled and looked down upon because they're women and this takes place in ye olden days.
Chris is a wolf walker and his mom is/has been asleep for awhile cause her wolf self mysteriously hasn't returned. (For context look up the movie or watch it on daily motion!) He's of course a sassy little wild child with little to no concept of danger and while he enjoys the company of the wolves he gets cripplingly lonely.
Chris and Martin meet when Martin finds a wolf caught in a trap. It's dark brown with green eyes and snarling mad at him. Luckily Martin has no sense of danger either and pretty much jump scares the poor thing but jumping on it and wrapping his coat around it's head before prying off the trap and clambering up a tree to avoid losing a limb. It shakes off the coat and takes off. Martins happy with this outcome. A few days later however he gets caught in a rope trap. He's thinking "Dang this sucks 😑" when that same wolf shows up. Martin loves animals but he has enough common sense to realize this situation is not ideal. Especially when it starts jumping and snapping at him. He flails trying to get himself free and it bites him on accident and he accidentally kicks it. It jumps away with a whine before falling back and with one big jump manges to snap the rope and set him free. They're at a stand still for a moment before it runs away and Martin retreats back to the confines of the medieval town.
Imagine his shock when he wakes up in the middle of the night to a little boy howling over him, gold circling his arm. They stare at each other. The boy just looks wild in nature. Sticks and leaves in his hair, Martin's pretty sure there's some pebbles in there too. His hands and feet are dark brown, tough and calloused. His nails are sharp to match his canines, even in human shape he looks like a wolf. Martin isn't sure what to say so he looks at his healed arm and simply says thank you for healing his bite. The boy simply frowns and snarkily tells him to stay out of the woods if he doesn't like being bit and leaves. Of course he goes back to the woods the very next day and the boy is waiting for him.
I'll do a whole movie rewrite if anyone's interested 🤷
Martin forcing Chris to take a bath and Chris absolutely hating it, only to realize "hey, this feels kinda nice" but will never admit it. Ever. If anyone else tries to clean him he'll claw them, but with Martin he just kinda freezes. Like when a cat is so stunned at being picked up they can't react.
Just like a cat he only likes water when it's his choice to get in it. If you've ever read "Bad kitty gets a bath" That's Chris. The first bath Martin was the owner literally trying EVERYTHING to get him in the water. Afterwards, Chris is much more willing to get in the bath since he likes his head being scratched and the feeling of fingers in his hair. He also just trusts Martin a lot since bathing is naturally a very vulnerable thing and usually you gotta trust someone to watch for predators while you clean up.
Jimmy making his blankets in the orphanage into a nest and bringing all the other kids there to sleep. because what do you mean humans have beds? nests are superior duh.
He just has so much behavior that's very odd and most people brush it off as him being a weird kid. but also just giving him so much bird-coded behavior. like he likes shiny rocks.
Sometimes he forgets he has human legs and starts his bird hop until he remembers and starts walking "normal" again lol. He's also jumpy because as a little baby fae he got tackled by a Eurasian Lynx and he was fine because fae and because he was being watched obvi but it scared him half to death. He has a shiny things pile in the orphanage and ONLY the other orphans are allowed to even breathe near it. And all the orphans have a nest. Some of the other ones have solo nests but for the most part there's tons of group nests and everyone's allowed in Jimmys nest but no ones forced to be there.
This is an artist I LOVE they make AMAZING fanart and I adore their Ninjago x Wolf walker au. I went ahead and watermarked their stuff but you can see the unwatermarked version on their Instagram! Their art style is so unique and I NEED them to be more popular
My edit:
Hear me out: Green tree frog Chris and Zaire dwarf clawed frog for Martin (They look blue to me and are almost entirely aquatic!)
Kratt Brothers if they were Frogs in Amphibia
I have been hyperfixating on this crossover for DAYS NOW. Like imagining what if they were in episodes in Season 2 and 3.
Frog!bros are field researchers working for Newtopia. They have a lil research station (maybe somewhere on outskirts of Frog Valley) but travel regularly among the continent. They do the same thing the Kratts in the cartoon do, study creatures by getting up close and personal to discover their creature power- what makes them special and valuable to Amphibia’s ecosystems. Even the most dangerous, feared creatures, which the brothers are determined to show other amphibians why these creatures should be appreciated more.
On top of that, they do population surveys, discover new findings, behaviours and relationships between animals, and write up reports that are sent back to Newtopia.
They have significantly less of the cool tech they do in the show due to no Aviva (no creature powersuits), but have developed decent inventing skills themselves (better than the ones canonically do in the show, no where near Aviva-level) and are exceptional adventurers in general.
I imagine the first human the Frog bros would’ve met is Marcy and would’ve got along SUPER WELL WITH HER. Maybe Marcy was sent to deliver some equipment to the brother’s research station. Then they would’ve met Anne and maybe even Sasha through Marcy later on. Though preferably in two seperate episodes
These are just the colours I have available now, but I would adjust the colours to be a lil less saturated and lighter if I did this digitally. Also, I’d probably give them different clothing too more in style with Amphibia, instead of just using their outfits from the show.
Sketch versions:
Love imagining Jimmy in his fae form just kind. perching at the head of the others' beds. staring down at them and watching over them when they sleep. and one of the caretakers opens the door and just sees a silhouette of a giant, feathery humanoid with glowing eyes standing over Martin, Chris, Aviva, or Koki. But when they get a light he's just gone.
He's a freaky lil guy and i love him
He is and would he's THE village cryptid a traveler comes to town and goes out one night and sees a terrifying bird creature and tells everyone and they're just like "Yeah that was probably Jimmy we don't KNOW that he's magic but he definitely is. He's chill."
Jimmy headcanons because I can and some just plain facts because as much as I love Athena P I can't let her completely drag my boy.
Facts: He's the navigator and implied cook. Also, an extrovert which is important because, and I do not remember exactly which episode this happens in but I know it happens in a desert-themed episode, he and Koki do supply runs for the Tortuga.
Headcanons: He doesn't own a single pair of matching socks. They've been bought for him but something always happens. He also loves fun/colorful socks!
Jimmy's that one kid who wears shorts no matter what the weather and you can't change my mind even though in cannon he has snow gear.
He has a Roblox account.
One of his favorite games to play is actually Stardew Valley
He played FNAF religiously as a child and while he adores the games that is partially why he's so jumpy.
His favorite thing to make is chewy cookies because he can eat them while doing literally anything and they won't make too big a mess.
He has an ant farm or a plant no basis for this just pure vibes I think he'd like something laid back to take care of.
It's anyone's guess how much he knows about any given subject. Obviously, geography and piloting are his strongest subjects but he knows something about almost any given subject. Human body? Yeah, did you know you have a separate immune system for your eyes, and if your body's immune system found out it would theoretically melt your eyes out of your head because it would register them as a foreign object? Wood? Did you know you can use trees for a lot of different recipes? As in sawdust, bark, etc? (I follow a guy on YouTube who turns trees into ice cream) Medieval slang? Did you know the word hate was invented in 1175 and was a slang term?
Sometimes he actually gets jealous of the rest of the crew, hence his behavior in season one especially, but he's learned to deal with it in healthy ways like asking questions or asking to help so he can learn instead of just stewing!
This man uses SO many vine/meme references
His favorite animal is obviously otter's but sometimes he borrows a creature power suit and flies around as a bird of some kind because let's be so for real right now I can only imagine how freeing it would feel to fly.
That's all I got for now, I did not intend it to be that long but Jimmy deserves some love chat he's like me fr😞
fae jimmy doing that little roll that birds do.
that's it. that's all.
Cannon.