Hooold on a second.

There’s a common trope in ToA that if a background character is unimportant or a one-time-only deal, they’ll re-use a character model or recolor an existing character.

H o w e v e r

I don’t recognize this lady at all. She’s not someone who’s seen in crowd shots. She doesn’t share her model or design with any other characters. Yet she’s only on screen for a couple of seconds.

Why would they go through the effort of completely designing and rigging a unique character - especially one who stands out a bit from the typical ToA character design - and just use her on screen for a few seconds?

I think this lady is a witch. I think we’ll see her in ‘Wizards’.

ALSO YAY. A SHORT ADULT FOR ONCE

Wait a second.

How did she get out of the museum in time to not get eaten? How did she not notice all the strange stuff going on with the changelings and magical artifacts?

Actually, she can be seen multiple times with Seamus’ dad. Here in ‘So I’m dating a Sorceress’  and later in the episode with the flour sack babies. They can even be seen together in 3Below a few times. I headcannon her to be Seamus’s Grandma.

Good eyes! I don’t know if she’d be the kind of person to be married to/know Seamus’ dad, since I think they just needed some crowd fillers.

Also, poor Claire lol

She and Seamus’ dad are also the old couple seen in a picture on the wall of Barbara and Jim’s house. Maybe she’s Jim’s grandmother? 

And if she’s his paternal grandmother, maybe that ties into how she’s the Lady of the Lake?

Me: “I’ll bet the Lady Lake is an older character, someone who might’ve been hiding in plain sight!”

Old Curator in Museum: [appears]

Me: O.O

More thoughts on Feral Nimue -

Nimue [holding a goose up to Merlin’s face]: “BEHOLD YOUR SON.”

She’s actually perfectly sane and capable, she just doesn’t feel like showing it. Being a completely wild bog witch is fun.

Merlin: “When was the last time you bathed!?”

Nimue: “….”

Nimue: “What year is it?”

——-

Nimue: “NASTY LITTLE HOBBITSES.”

Merlin: “The hell is wrong with you, woman!?”

Blinky: “You two are perfect for each other.”

Nobody:

Nimue in Wizards:

I hope so lmao

There’s so many tropes I’d love to see in “Wizards” but the combo hit of “Merlin is a lovesick weenie” as he was in the myths, combined with “Nimue is Feral AF” would be a wild combination and the mental image of an ego-centric maniac doing the every whim and bid of a near-rabid geriatric Mermaid is fucking hilarious.

Some headcanons regarding the “Lady in the Lake“

- She started out as an alien who crash-landed on earth and took the form of a water-breathing sorceress chick who just wants to be left alone.

- She originally intended to kill Merlin brutally after stealing his power, she ended up with Feels™ and couldn’t bring herself to do it.

- So she magically bound herself to him instead, and since she was still alive when he was struck down by Morgana during their battle, he lived. Barely. But Vivianne/Nimue was put into an Odin-Sleep as well.

- Their connection however, kept their minds connected. She was the force that let Merlin know of a Heartstone in New Jersey.

- There’s no heartstone, however.

- It’s her. She wants Merlin back under her thumb. She realized that he was lovesick enough to do anything she wanted him to, and that she didn’t need to kill the wizard to control his powers. She just had to win his heart.

- By the time they find her, Nimue is running around the streets of New Jersey barefoot, chasing pigeons, and fighting crime with her ocean-powers and strange predisposition for just completetly going bonkers.

- Local Law Enforcement just kind of ignores her now. They think she’s a harmless old gal who’s just a bit confused.

- Merlin, however, is slightly horrified at the state to which is wife has stooped. She smells like low-tide on the fish warf in the middle of summer. As if someone had left a tuna sandwhich on sourdough bread in a hot car for two weeks. She smells bad. 

- “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU BATHED?”

- “I COULD SAY THE SAME THING TO YOU.”

- Nimue loves Merlin like a dragon loves it’s golden horde.

A thought plot-wise regarding Barbara as the Lady of the Lake.

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I can easily see Nimue/The Lady Lake being another badass sorceress, but I can suggest an even funnier trope.

Nagging wife.

Anyone who’s read the myths knows that Merlin was a lovesick nincompoop who’s do anything for The Lady Lake, even though he fully knew she was gonna kill him through some means.

And to be honest, seeing that douchebag get taken down a notch or five by his own wife? That would be funny.

Not even through magical warfare. She just goes on about the “Honey-Do” list until the wizard wishes he was still in his Odin-Sleep.

“You forgot our anniversary!”

“I was literally in a coma.”

few things i want in wizards 😳

DID YOU SAY

GINGER MORGANA

This post implies Argh and Blinky aren’t married

nono!!! i meant like it shows them getting married via human ceremonies if that makes sense bMJJFKFJ??? i just want,, argh in fancy suit ble ase,,,,

What I’m hearing is Blinky in suspenders and a bow tie

Because bow ties are cool.

Nomura

Nomura, Lady in Waiting to Queen Lake

As a personal attendant to the Queen, Nomura has her hands full with more than just Court intrigue. A member of the Order of Janus, she places her duty to her Ladyship above all else and her training has made her a formidable bodyguard. She’s spent her entire life fighting to gain status in the Darklands. No one is going to take that away from her. No one. 

If Barbara turns out to be the Lady of the Lake I want Walter to be like “Okay.” and just… roll with it.

“Here! Have a seat in my undersea palace!”

“Okay.”

“Walter I built an ice castle.”

“It looks lovely, dear.”

Because at this point I feel like Walter has seen So Much™ that he can pretty much handle everything at this point.

A ‘Wizards’ thought

The Lady in the Lake.

Either Barbara is the Lady in the Lake, or she’ll be an entirely new player.

If she is new, I kinda want an older character.

We have a lot of pretty young women in the serious, but what about a silver fox? An older gal with goddess powers who’s probably 10000% with everyone’s BS.

What about an old hippie grandma who lives in an old van full of pigeons in it @garbage-boy-sass-man and I have talked about this.

Yes.

Feisty grandma who loves her critters and crafts, and pretty much nothing else.

Is either bitter exes with Merlin or still dragging him out.

Either would be hilarious to see.

She also has that really good strawberry candy. And helps Jim turn back into a human just to piss Merlin off.

“I can’t decide if I should run Merlin over with my van or drawn him….. Maybe both.”

she also ALWAYS has wethers candy on hand. she lives in a broken down van with a super old magicy wizard mystic paint job that’s pretty faded now next to a lake. she plays acoustic guitar under a weeping willow. she wears somewhat old moth bitten faded tie dye shirts. she loves to sing and talk but is GOD AWFUL AT PLAYING AND SINGING. she makes nails on a chalkboard seem like poetry. she has a bunch of birds around her as her pets/just out in nature, so almost EVERYTHING’S covered in bird poop. shes super chill and laid back without a care in the world. shes the type of old lady who will let you get away with anything, ESPECIALLY to piss off your parent’s if they’re being too strict. you can just show up to her out of the blue, eat with her and crash in her van if you need a place to stay for a while. everyone is a free spirit and she approves. WELP that’s the lady of the lake i want

Completely feral and down to fight.

will sing soft rock as she beats you over the head with her guitar

“KILLING ME SOFTLY!”

*whack*

“WITH HIS SONG!!”

*whack*

“TELLING MY WHOLE LIFE-”

*whack*

I love this 

but also 

have an alternate idea: 

What if NANCY DOMZALSKI is Nimue?

So I got a song by the Dropkick Murphys stuck in my head, and it reminded me of a certain pink-haired music store worker whom I headcanon to be Nimue. It was only after I was almost done with the lineart for this piece and was trying to figure out how to draw her hair that I realized that the girl who works at the music store doesn’t have a rose tattoo. I can’t quite make it out, though.

I think it’s a skull with curlicues around it; maybe flames or spirit-wisps.

Or, if that’s a third circle tucked behind the two that might be skull eyes, it’s a nest with three eggs in some plants.

Here’s probably the best look at the background paintings so far.

The guy with the crown, cup, and sword has got to be Arthur. Because that sword looks an awful lot like

Excalibur.

Also the crown and the shield of the crusades helps things a bit.

But why does the red haired lady in the painting remind me of barbara?

Because her hair is the wrong color to be Morgana/The Tapestry Woman who is more of a ginger.

I wonder if Barbara actually is the Lady of the Lake.

Fun fact!

In the French dub, Jim’s name was changed to

“Du Lac” being the name of

… as in the son of the Lady of the Lake.

This also means that, in the French dub, Barbara’s name literally means Barbara “of the Lake”.

UH OH SISTERS

LOOK WHAT i JUST FOUND ON PINTEREST

Trollhunters Concept Art, please compare with the tapestry of the knight on the far right. Same colours? No coincidence! That seals it, Jim is Lancelot.

But. Something else.

Wa-wa-wa-wait…”RAISED BY”???

LEGEND SAYS JIM’S ADOPTED???

He DOES have BLACK hair while his mother has RED hair…!!!

Have we clarified who the Lady in pink is yet? The one on Ginger’s second picture? Because she has black hair too!

So if Morgana is the ginger

and Barb is the lady lake

Who the heck is the dark haired lady? Did Morgana dye her hair? Is there a third player we haven’t thought of yet? What about the relationship the Lady of the Lake had with Merlin? She pretended to be his lover to gain power. Where does that fit into all this?

But this leaves more questions. Like, who is Jim’s dad for real?

…

oh no.

james lake sr. is a dead son of a bitch i tell you that

“He ran away to a farm” is usually what you say about like… a dog going missing.

Not a dad.

Barbara/Lake: “UM. HE RAN AWAY. YES. HE RAN AWAY. TOTALLY”

*whispers* what if Merlin wasn’t kidding guys

Merlin and the Lady of the Lake

I had a thought. Also @corona-the-nightcutter helped.

Who the heck told Merlin about a heartstone in New Jersey? I mean, as far as we know Merlin wasn’t just conversing with every other character and just happened to run into some rando troll who just happened to know about a heartstone in New Jersey.

No.

In the myths, Vivian/Nimue/The Lady of the Lake pretended to be Merlin’s lover and confidante in order to get close to him and take his power. How close can two people be?

Remember how Barbara and Walter were connected by that curse?

I believe Merlin and the Lady of the Lake are connected. Literally. While Merlin was in his coma the Lady of the Lake was in a similar plight. This would explain why she wasn’t out and about in the world. When Merlin was knocked out, so was she.

But Merlin woke up, so did the LoTL. My theory is that she was the one who told him about the Heartstone in new jersey.

Here’s something funnier.

“… she refuses to give Merlin her love until he has taught her all his secrets, after which she uses her power to trap him forever, originally either in the trunk of a hawthorn tree or beneath a stone.Though Merlin knows beforehand that this will happen due to his power of foresight, he is unable to counteract Viviane because of the ‘truth’ this ability of foresight holds. He decides to do nothing for his situation other than to continue to teach her his secrets until she takes the opportunity to entrap and entomb him (within a tree, underneath a large stone, inside a cave, or in an invisible tower, depending on the version of this story).“ - wikipedia

I think, at this point in the story, Merlin is walking straight into Nimue’s arms.

  He apparently has his future sight in the series, so is this a case of “He knows he’s going to die” or “he doesn’t think it’ll happen like that” or “he’s just stupid”?

I really, highly doubt there’s a heartstone in New Jersey. Otherwise wouldn’t the trolls have found it in the first comics? When they sailed to the new world? They literally landed in Plymouth. That’s not far from New Jersey.

Yet the Trolls of Trollmarket walked thousands of miles and ended up in Southern California. If they were able to find a heartstone over that distance surely they would have found one in New Jersey?

Something fishy is going on.

Plot twist! The ‘Heartstone’ is the rock Merlin gets trapped in or under.

oh

OH

OOOOOOOHHHH!!!!

PLOT TWIST

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW POETIC THAT WOULD BE BECAUSE

It would be very poetic :)

That’s actually one of the ideas I’m considering for my ‘Becoming the Mask’ spinoff where Changeling!Jim ends up in the show - he suggests trapping Merlin inside the Heartstone so he can imbue it with power like Morgana did.

I figured it was that last one. Morgana’s at her base or in her study or wherever, doing whatever it is she does in her downtime, and Merlin zapped her to him in hopes of catching her off-guard - therefore more vulnerable - for their Climactic Final Showdown. He could have even woken her up. Maybe portal-to-portal combat was a thing that happened between them.

My other theory is that the carving actually pictures him calling on Nimue, but it’s been a while since I’ve watched that episode, so I don’t recall offhand if that idea makes sense in context the way “similar armour = is Morgana!” does.