#Piglard’s main crew manages to survive the war; but he lost his first ball turret gunner on one of his first few missions
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So my brother and I have a sort of HTTYD World War II AU (it’s mainly our original characters, but Hiccup, Tuffnut, and Skulder are in there), and I just had to share a snippet we came up with tonight; we made the comment of how Hiccup and the Joneses wouldn’t smoke, but Stoick would, and Gobber? Well, he’d smoke like a fiend! He’d never be seen without a cigarette in his mouth:
Hiccup one day (sometime after the war ended), staring at Gobber:
Gobber: “What?”
Hiccup: “… how do you still have teeth? And lungs?”
Gobber: “Smokin’s good for the lungs! You know what I say: a pack a day keeps the doctor away!”
Hiccup, scoffing: “More like a pack a day calls the doctor…”
Gobber: “Oh, you’ve been spending too much time around those Jones boys.”
Stoick: “Their uncle was always the same way. Why, in the Great War-“
Hiccup, softly: “World War I…”
Stoick: “GREAT WAR, we were in the trenches one day, and every time I broke out a smoke, I’d feel his eyes on me. And sure enough, I look over and there he is. Staring at me, and I say ah! What’s it to you? And he says ‘you keep smoking them and it ain’t gonna be Germans that kill ya.’ So I told him it’s gonna be ripe old age! You know what he did? *clutches his chest and gasps* and then says ‘gonna be them smokes!”
#I might write up some oneshots for this AU. I don’t have the commitment to write a whole story#but oneshots? Ohhh yeaaahhh#so Hiccup and Skulder are plane mechanics. If you’ve seen Masters of the Air Hiccup has the same job as Kenny Lemmons#Piglard (one of the Jones boys; if you’ve read Journey to the Archipelago you know him) is a pilot; Major Colby Jones#his older brother Norbutt is a captain in the army; Captain Egan Jones#Piglard and Norbutt both have tragic stories#Piglard’s main crew manages to survive the war; but he lost his first ball turret gunner on one of his first few missions#he felt guilty that he couldn’t save him#then in 1943 his plane is shot down on his last mission before his two week leave to visit his due-any-day pregnant wife#where he’s captured and placed in a POW camp; so he misses the birth and first two years of his first daughter’s life🥺#(but he later escapes with Gale🤭)#as for Norbutt… well… let’s just say that he was in The Battle of the Bulge…#and their uncle is Norbert Jones (Norbert the Nutjob from the books; we’ve kinda made him a lot less nutty though😂😂)#random#writing#Michaiah’s Headcanons#how to train your dragon#httyd#hiccup haddock#stoick the vast#gobber the belch#httyd gobber#Michaiah’s Writing Thoughts
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