Based off of an ask I got on tumblr. I don't own Trollhunters.
If someone had told Barbara that she'd be curled up on the couch watching a trashy historical romance movie while eating popcorn in her pajamas a year ago, she'd have believed them. That was how she had spent many nights after late shifts in the past, and despite everything else that had changed in her life this wasn't one of them.
However, she would have raised an eyebrow if someone had told her that she would be curled up on the couch eating a bowl of popcorn watching a trashy "historical" romance with her son's former history teacher, who was contesting the accuracy of the film.
She would have started checking for a concussion if someone had told her in utter seriousness that she would be curled up on the couch eating a bowl of popcorn watching a trashy "historical" romance with a centuries-old winged changeling, who was contesting the accuracy of the film because he had lived through it. Or at least, he had lived in the time the "sensational romance between a Christian princess and a Pagan warrior" took place in.
"Those tattoos are a combination of cultural practices that took place centuries before either of them would have been born, and yet they still aren't nearly as intricate!" he ranted.
"Walt, they also have a low budget."
"I've seen more historical accuracy in Wikipedia articles. No, bad comparison, Wikipedia articles aren't that bad these days. I saw more historical accuracy in one of my student's essays comparing the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty to the Empire in Star Wars, and they mixed half the details of the Han Dynasty up with the Roman Empire."
"I'm surprised you aren't complaining about the fact that everyone's arms and legs are shaved," Barbara teased.
"Humanity has it's trends in what they think to be fashionable. At least they're consistent. But the lack of intricacy in Sveinn's - at least they got the name right - tattoos are rather frustrating, especially when you had to get the intricate, relatively painful due to the method used, historically accurate because they were real, ones yourself."
Barbara turned to him. "Did you seriously get a tattoo?"
"Several, actually. It was to blend in with the local human population."
"That's odd. I know my memory got messed up from when the binding spell was broken, but I saw enough of your body and people with 'removed' tattoos to say I wouldn't have guessed that you had any before."
Walt turned away from her, and Barbara got the feeling that if he physiology was closer to a human's he would be blushing. "Yes, well, the Janus Order had ways of removing them, and it was so long ago that you wouldn't have seen them back when I still had my human form."