Strange Friendship is an ongoing series of fanfics that retell the Trolls franchise and features DJ Suki having a bigger role through her strange friendship with Branch. It is written by Archive of Our Own user AnimationFan2006.
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Strange Friendship provides examples of:
In General
- Actionized Adaptation: Has more action scenes here than in the movies. For example, in True Colours, when the Chef attacks Pop Village, she is met with heavy resistance by the Deputies, the village law enforcement. While they're unable to stop her, they manage to deal some damage along with Poppy and Branch.
- Adaptation Amalgamation: The series contains elements from all three Trolls movies, Trolls: The Beat Goes On! and unused ones in the franchise overall.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: BroZone, Kismet and CJ Suki, just to name a few, make earlier appearances here than in canon.
- Adaptational Expansion: Besides amalgamating, the series also expands upon the overall Trolls universe by further detailing Pop Troll society and the backstory behind the Ancestors, the Strings, the creation of music and adding more tribes to build up the world.
- Adaptation Name Change: Cuddle-Pup adults are known as Spike-Tails in this universe as mentioned in the first story.
- Adaptational Timespan Change: While the time between Trolls and World Tour is unexplained, it's explicitly mentioned that here a year takes place between the two movies.
- Canon Welding: The fanfic takes elements from both 3D and 2D media and has them exist in the same universe albeit with some differences.
- Odd Friendship: The main point of the series, which sees DJ Suki form one with Branch in a break from the usual canon.
- Ruder and Cruder: A lot of swearing happens here with Branch being the biggest offender so far.
