#HTTYD Movies

[grayyylake99]

When it comes to how dragons communicate in fanfics, what’s the best way y’all like to read it? Telepathically? Body language? A mix of both? I always love reading how authors rationalize a dragon’s way of “talking”.

In RTTE, do the dragons know common phrases? Do they understand English (which is really old Norse but go on)? Again, for us audiences it’s easier for the dragons to just “listen” to whatever the characters say, but from an in-universe perspective, what can and can’t they understand?

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Rewatched the Test Drive scene and thought about how Toothless probably must've resigned himself to the possibility that he'll never fly like he used to, especially when there's a human boy on his back who needs a cheat sheet in order to slowly work his tailfin. He'll never be fast again, he'll always have to wait on Hiccup to figure out which is the right tail position, he has to be careful.

And then they fly through that maze of sea stacks and find out that flying is as natural to Hiccup as breathing, apparently.

[bluetodraw]

Dragon rider

Messing around with different pencil brushes for this one. Really like how it looks, especially how it gives the texture of the scales and leather.

This piece is up on my redbubble as prints, stickers and more. Search bluetodraw on redbubble to find my shop!

[dotcircledot]

i miss them

[yourl0calrayy]

Toothless with his markings💘

[toothbrushfingers]

pushing my big boobie dagur agenda

[thereweredragonshere]

I LOVEEE your httyd drawings sm omg!!! Can I maybe ask for some more Hiccup and Toothless drawings pleaseee?

Always extremely happy to draw these two idiots

[malice-kingdom]

A lil commission from July that I really enjoyed drawing

[000marie198]

The fact that the Httyd gang knows about the effect of dragon nip but they are never seen using it on any dragons throughout the franchise unless it's like a last resort or an emergency to stop extremely out of control, hostile dragons. They know that grass is like a drug for the dragons so they never use it against them even to try and train them. As if it is against their moral code to try the easiest way to tame any dragon.

Like, these kids know all these little perks about dragons that Hiccup learned in the first movie. The dragon nip, eels, moving spot of light, specific disabling scratch spots etc. And none of them uses these to befriend or train any dragons throughout the course of the franchise! Dragon nip is an emergency last resort for when they encounter a super aggressive dragon, eels are an absolute no, nobody used shiny laser light spot on any dragons post Httyd 1.

No, they befriend the dragons with trust. They'll only give a dragon scratches after asking permission that is telegraphed in their body language.

The riders respect dragons and there are so many little subtle things which show how they never treat these incredible amazing beings as if they are animals, they always treat them as individuals. As equals.

I love Httyd so much like you have no idea.

[misterrttegrimborn]

[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

You ever wonder what Httyd with a much higher rating would've been like? Not for realistic injuries and consequences and such, but for how sheer monstrous of a concept Hiccup is?

Super smart and creative? Does not know when or even how to stop? An unstoppable force of change? All of his enemies have either died or joined him with the sole exception being Savage? Who just kind of disappears?

The Dragon Master? Can "control" creatures small to huge who can fly, breathe fire, have large sharp teeth and claws, sometimes even rows of them, this one can bite through a metal cage, this one is metal, this one has rows and rows of teeth that can burrow through solid rock, this one has two or three different kinds of venom and one paralyzes you and the other can make you feel an excruciating kind of pain you will probably never feel in your life again, this one actively hunts humans and other dragons, and this one-

I'm just saying, in a higher rating, people would be way more thankful that Hiccup is as nice as he is.

[ems-art-box]

Meeting the Bewilderbeast

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Hiccup still gets a lot of criticism for his decisions in Httyd 2, but I feel like they make sense and it's because of the tv-shows.

He doesn't want to be chief?

Well, he just spent a whole year mapping the world outside of the Archipelago, that's a lot of freedom. So of course, he doesn't know who he is now and doesn't think his father's lifestyle fits with him.

And in that year, he almost did become chief when Stoick almost died. In that scene when Spitelout is sent out specifically to bring Hiccup home to succeed his dying father, they already call him chief! This, despite Hiccup's plea towards Spitelout to not say it.

Chiefdom for Hiccup means losing his father. (Which is exactly how he ended up becoming chief, too)

He thinks he can change Drago's Mind?

Of course, he does! Alvin switched sides, Dagur switched sides, Viggo saw dragons as something more. And let's not forget Stoick and his entire village, including Astrid and his friends.

In a way, he changed Mala's mind, too.

In a way, he changed the minds of the dragons about humans.

He tries to end a war by talking to a warmonger?

Again, of course, he does. He ended their war with the dragons, fought in a war with the Outcasts, then the Berserker, then the Hunters, then the Flyers.

Of course, he thinks he's just as capable of making the most responsible calls in war when he has fought in several ever since he was 15. This, although Stoick has decades more experience and actually met Drago before.

Not to mention that all of the bloodshed was on the side of the enemy, and RttE confirms this. Hunters and Flyers are dying in those battles.

If anything, Hiccup talking to Drago first is him giving Drago a chance to save himself and his men. Something Astrid pretty much confirms when she threatens Drago that he better not lay a hand on them or Hiccup and Toothless will blow his fleet to splinters.

Which, in the tv-shows, they do. And then Drago did end up dead at the end of the movie.

[home-of-renn]

One thing that I wished they kept throughout the franchise was Hiccup being the smallest Viking. I wish they kept him scrawny and stringy and shorter than Astrid and the rest of the gang.

Hiccup was ostracised by his entire community for many reasons, one being his weak build and small stature.

Snotlout may be shorter than Hiccup in the movies, but he's got bigger muscles and puffs himself up. He makes up for it by acting like a proper Viking, being loud and obnoxious and always ready to start a fight - that and he can actually lift a weapon.

The name Hiccup is meant to mean small and frail - the runt of a litter or the black sheep. I want Hiccup to be the absolute epitome yet antithesis of his name. I want Hiccup to be small and unassuming and shorter than the rest. But I also want him to be Great. I want him to be brave and stubborn and hard to kill. Awkward and sarcastic at the worst of times but still kind and friendly and always dependable.

I want him to be everything a Viking is and isn't. I want him to be a peacekeeper and a warrior, an adventurer and an inventor, the son of the chief and the hiccup of his tribe. Someone who can't wield the same weapons as his tribesmen so he makes his own. Someone who wants to uphold the traditions and culture of his people yet always thinks outside of the box. The representation of this new age that's fast approaching, the line in the middle where old and new clash.

I want Hiccup to dress like a Viking, talk like a Viking, eat, sleep and walk like a Viking yet be the very last thing anyone ever thinks of when they think of a Viking. And most of all I want there to be absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I wish they hadn't made him tall and appealing in the end. I wish they'd kept him the way he was. A Viking born too early and too weak in the middle of one of the harshest winters ever experienced by the barbaric archipelago. A Viking who beat the odds and survived. He's braved every terrible winter since his birth and lives in a place where it snows nine months of the year and hails the other three. He can endure bone-freezing chills and frozen oceans but never fails to catch the common cold. He's always been a bit sickly, ever since he was a child, but he always bounces back. He's got scars and a missing leg and his hands are filled with callouses, cuts and burns, but he's soft-spoken and loves to read and never skips a meal yet can never seem to get any bigger.

I wish they could have kept Hiccup the way he was. I wish they didn't have to change him in order to have him become a worthy hero.

I wish the entire village could look at their little runt of a chief and still crack jokes about his long-overdue growth spurt. I want them to look at him and be filled with pride, cause despite the fact that he hasn't grown an inch since he was sixteen, there isn't a single person on Berk who can look at him without seeing just how far he's come.

[yourl0calrayy]

First time posting here 🏃 nightfury oc and his rider!

[toothbrushfingers]

Hiccup, to Astrid: If you see Snotlout, give him this message *makes a neutral face*

Hiccup: He'll know what it means.

*later*

Astrid: Oh, and Hiccup said to give you a message.

Astrid: *makes a neutral face*

Snotlout: Oh no. The neutral face of displeasure.