Branch's Relationships With The Dnack Pack Are Some Of My Favorites Because If You Look At The First

Branch's relationships with the Dnack Pack are some of my favorites because if you look at the first movie, the holiday special, and TBGO, it really tells a story. Branch by nature is a very skittish and shy character with a lot of heavy trauma and abandonment issues who hides his insecurity and feelings by being standoffish, sarcastic and holding everyone at arms length and in the first movie the Snack Pack would jsut consider him a bummer and make fun of him for it until they realize during the events that Branch... really wasn't as much of a grump and a loner as he pretended to be. We see in the holiday special that he either let the Snack Pack into his bunker at some point or they all felt comfortable enough with him to sneak in because they jumpscared him and even though his attempts to smile freaked them out at first they weren't making fun of him. And in TBGO, the entire series feels like Branch learning to open up and let his happier, more goofy, and nerdy side show and the Snack Pack in turn learning to accept Branch, differences and peculiarities and all and AAAAGH I just adore these weird little toy things that used to freak me out when I was a little girl before they turned them into a movie okay!?

You never really know how a person until you spend time with them. The other trolls learn that Branch has layers to his personality, and Branch learns to rely on others that aren't critters. Then the Snack Pack realizes how cute and precious he is and decides to protect him at all costs