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    In canon, Branch lives alone well into adulthood, surrounded by people who can't understand why he is the way he is and unwilling to try to understand until decades later.

    In this universe, Branch is found by people who didn't understand, but learned to. And despite the fact those people are supposed to be far too different from him, he feels more like them than he has anyone else.

     

    A 'Branch gets adopted by the Rock Trolls' fic because I fell into a Trolls rabbit hole and I have to be the entertainment I want to see.

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    He was powerless, completely and utterly powerless, and it was the one goddamn time in his life he tried to actually reach out and help… He tried to speak, tried to move, and it hurt. He tried to do anything, and it hurt. He was powerless, and it hurt…

    He prayed to that damned dead pixel, to the stars beyond them, to anything or anyone who’d listen…

    Please. Please let me have a chance. One more chance to fix this…

    Curly woke up, gasping for air, eyes wide. One last chance to make things right.

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    Curly finds himself back in the past and with what he knows of the possibilities the future holds, he takes off his rose-tinted glasses and actually takes action to protect his crew from the man he once called a friend

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    Surviving in the wilderness really isn't all it's cracked up to be.

    After being gone for a year, John Dory returns to the Troll Tree to find it completely empty. Save for one troll: His baby brother, Branch. Thinking the trolls and the rest of his family dead, he sets off once again to the Neverglade Trail, this time, with his baby brother in tow. Fueled by fear, guilt, and voices from the past he just can't seem to escape, he wonders if he made the right decision.

    But he promised his brother he would never leave him again. So he wouldn't.

    Besides, he was never known for his great decisions anyways.

    (Based on the song "Great Decisions" by Judah & the Lion)

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    Or... I needed to write more John Dory and Branch ANGST, so here's my rewrite of canon, where John Dory goes back and raises Branch out in the wilderness, and other subsequent shenanigans. Let's see how this goes, shall we?

    Chpt 1-27: The Wilderness
    Chpt 28-55: Pop Village
    Chpt 56-75: Trolls
    Chpt 76-85: The JD Depression Arc (Trolls Epilogue)
    Chpt 86-102: TWT
    Chpt 103-113: The JD Band-Aid Arc (TWT Epilogue)
    Chpt 114-?: TBT
    Chpt ?: The Final Arc
    Chpt ?: Epilogue

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