On the one hand the latter, maybe add loose teeth, on the other hand maybe a child-friendly background like a wildflower meadow, or maybe a playground for children that your troll is trying to cross without destroying the climbing frame, the slide, the sandboxes, like an obstacle course, similar to the German saying “like a stork in a salad”¹, meaning being careful not to step on things on the floor with every step, like walking barefoot through a room full of Lego bricks scattered all over the carpet.
So all in all, things that children can smile about because they know the things, because they’ve seen their parents jump around squealing because they’ve stepped on a Lego brick and then jump around in pain and hit the next bricks and jump even higher and squeal even louder.
Michelist
¹ Anyone who has ever seen a stork hunting in a field of lettuce in the early hours of the morning knows what I’m talking about. Because a stork always steps between the lettuce plants as long as this is possible, and they are not too close together.
