Knife Family

Knife Family is the familyship ship between Jim Lake Jr. and Walter Strickler from the Tales of Arcadia fandom.

Canon
For a long time Jim only knew Walter Strickler as his history teacher who has taken a shine to him and has given Jim the nickname, "Young Atlas". Since Jim has taken it upon himself to help his hard working mother, trying to do well in school and is having trouble approaching the girl he fancies, Strickler feels that like the cursed Greek titan Jim bares the weight of the world on his shoulders. This is why he offers Jim his help. As for Jim, his father left him and his mother when he was young and his history teacher showing him kindness has gotten Jim to view him as a father-like. After Jim found the Amulet of Daylight, Strickler saw it peeking out of Jim's bag and new right away that one of his students has been chosen to become the next Trollhunters; and how it now makes him and Jim enemies. The weight of the world was truly placed on Jim's shoulders as he is tasked to protect both his world and the hidden world of trolls, that Strickler is apart of but is on the opposite side. Strickler is a changeling (an impure troll that able to transform into a human) who is trying to free Gunmar while serving under Bular. Jim had no idea that Strickler is a changeling and when Toby subjected that he could be one, Jim found it hard to believe.

Fanon
Due to the fact that Strickler is a family-like figure to Jim, has formed a soft part for him and is in a relationship with Jim's mother, fans view Strickler as Jim's future step-father and only ship them as a family. Some of the ship's fanwork include Barbara in them, due to her being Jim's mother and Walter's lover, and that is why she is sometimes included in the familyship; evn though it is mostly focused on Jim and Strickler. In some AUs that have Jim as a half-human Changeling, Strickler uncovers ChangelingJim and takes him under his wing. During the time of their antagonist relationship, however, fans prefer to have Blinky as Jim's father figure. Despite the age gap between them it hasn't stopped fans from shipping them romantically, while many others prefer to ship them as friends or family-like figures to one another.

After Wizards ended with a cliff-hanger, as well as the fact that the amulet's destruction and Jim not being able to pull Excalibur from the ground has shattered slightly his confidents, some fanfics have Jim turning to Strickler for help and advice with the things that are worrying him. Those fanfics also have Strickler helping Jim to except his new siblings and struggle of what the Green Knight and the Arcane Order had formed Jim to do.

On AO3, the ship has 41 gen fanfics and 16 romantic fanfics, while FanFiction.net has 39 with only 1 placed under pairing in its Trollhunters category.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Jim/Stricklander tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jim/Stricklander tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jim/Stricklander tag on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * The ship's name comes from the fact that both Jim and Strickler are skilled with an knife and have used some to fight one another during dinner.
 * Whenever Jim talks about Strickler, most of those moments have Jim.