#Stoick the second

[garussy]

“I will take your leg/other leg” is the most common threat on dragons edge

It’s started with the death song episode when Snotlout yelled at Hiccup

Then Hiccup started saying it when he got upset

The twins took that as the green light to say it as well

Astrid said it next to Snotlout and Tuffnut

Fishlegs was the last to say it

Other merchants and dragon hunters hear them using it out in public and now it’s a common threat throughout the archipelago and beyond

[theforgottengreatpoem]

"Find them Skullcrusher. Find them."

[thereweredragonshere]

Dragon with a metal as fuck (literally) prosthetic wing!!

More Prosper content :D I feel an indescribable amount of love for this dragon. And the cool ass wing designs I can give her.

Even though the entire concept of this prosthetic functioning is quite literally impossible, I still put some actual thought into the design’s fictional functionality (hey that was alliteration).

The wing is piloted with a rod that is connected to her remaining organic wing that synchronises the movements (think Toothless’ automatic tailfin). The fingers of the wing are connected together at the top and don’t all independently move, it’s based on a rig that is controlled by the very outer finger. If that one is half folded in the other 5 fingers will correspond with that, if it is fully extended the other five will correspond with that etc etc. The fact that her wings have to by synchronised is by no means easy to operate. She cannot do most basic manoeuvres in the air, even turning to the left/right whilst in flight is extremely dependant on her secondary hip wings and her tail fins. It is nowhere near having a real, attached to her body wing, but it still gives her the ability to fly again. And long distance flying is still a pain in the ass because the massive scars all along the right side of her body get irritated after a while.

A lot of the thought behind the design came from how odd it felt that httyd 3 just… got rid of Toothless’ disability? Like yeah he was still missing a tail fin but it might as well just have grown back. He has a new, fully functional, doesn’t need to be taken off, apparently doesn’t even need maintenance, fire proof and extremely durable prosthetic that just allowed him to function as if he wasn’t disabled? In the Viking age as well?? Even in the modern day we don’t have prosthetics that can fully restore permanent, none skin irritating, doesn’t need to be fixed up ‘replacement’ limbs. Yes there are some very high quality prosthetic limbs that can restore a lot of functionality and give a very good quality of life, but it is not a new limb. It’s a prosthetic. It doesn’t change the fact that there is a missing body part. It doesn’t completely replace every single functionality of a real limb? The film just entirely disregarded that fact that Toothless had a disability. Just slap a technologically impossible bit of gear work on his tail and BOOM he’s fixed. No that’s not how that works you fucking idiot 😭 His skin would get irritated, the fin would eventually need to be repaired because again IT WAS THE MEDIEVAL ERA. I know Hiccup was smart but girl he was not smart enough to invent an indestructible replacement body part. We can’t do that in 2024, let alone 1000 or whenever the fuck httyd is set.

Anyway going off that rant, whilst Prosper does regain the ability to fly, it is very limited, not for long periods of time and kind of painful. Because that’s what happens when you get a whole ass limb torn from your body. It tends to hurt and not be ‘fixable.’

[moumouart]

I just barely found out Gobber is gay,, I had visions

[ana-the-light-fury]

You know that one episode of Riders of Berk, where Hiccup makes that joke to his father about them having roof shingles for dinner yesterday?? Yeah, well, I thought that was actually pretty hilarious. And I laughed at that.

And then Stoick pulls off his boots and goes, "It's boot night!"

And for a moment my brain was:

HE'S GOING TO MAKE HIS SON EAT HIS BOOTS??!

[lochee]

oh..........okay, yep yep i've realised it now. i've got an affinity for media which can lead to some reallllllly good parental figure & child fics man....... oh the whump.......

[sezija]

I just watched the Watching and the Dreaming scene of HTTYD2 fully without skipping any bits for the first time and

[sarnai4]

Hostile Peace

After seeing some posts here, I started to think more about "Twinsanity." There is something I noticed before and want to address. Stoick was extremely homicidal towards Dagur, but it really wasn't warranted (at the time at least).

The first time is just as Dagur disembarks. He asks to get the tour like the normal traditions are for the treaty signing. Stoick mentions that Oswald never did that and Dagur says he's not his father. Now, yes, Dagur was being rude with how he came across, but in a way, so was Stoick. Dagur's a new chief and trying to actually do things the way they're supposed to be done. If getting the tour is the official way treaty signings are supposed to go, then Oswald just didn't do it properly and cut to the chase by only signing and leaving. Dagur's not in the wrong to want to do it a different way. As he says, he's not his father and has the right to have a different method. He still was impolite with how he pointed this out...but was he rude enough to deserve getting killed in front of his Vikings😬? I dare to say, no, he wasn't. Even Gobber had to tell Stoick that killing Dagur with his Armada watching wasn't a great idea.

Next time was when Stoick and Gobber showed Dagur the armory. The Berserker was testing out one of the swords (in a moment I think is fun because he's twirling it like someone twirls a pencil in their hand, so I just can imagine the times of him as a kid practicing). He threw it between the Berkians after he was done. Again, I'll admit that this isn't great, but he also has insanely sharp aim and was still laughing about his pretend dragon he was fighting. So, I don't think he was actually trying to hurt them. Stoick on the other hand had murder on the brain. He took the sword and was about to kill Dagur AGAIN.

Last time was with Barf and Belch. Dagur was interrupted when he tried to behead them in the beginning, so he went to the former Dragon Killing Arena to do it. Of course, as we're on the side of the dragons, we're supposed to be against this and I am. Still, to Dagur's credit, they did agree, this was tradition, and Berk claimed that they were no friends of dragons. Therefore, Stoick going up to kill him for being ready to slay Barf and Belch is an overreaction, unfair, and honestly as cowardly as it is foolish. This last part probably seems strange, but I can explain. Stoick went to Dagur's back to kill him. Slaying someone from behind (someone who does not even know you're an enemy) isn't honorable in the slightest. On top of it, killing an ally chief for seemingly no reason at a PEACE TREATY SIGNING is a sure fired way to have an entire tribe ready to kill your people. Berk wouldn't have been prepared for 50,000 people coming after her. So, Stoick was about to kill someone who hadn't deserved such aggression yet and plunge Berk into a serious war.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Whatever you do, definitely don't think of the fact that Stoick's fate was completely at the mercy of Dragon Masters' (self-proclaimed or otherwise) several times in his life and the final time was fatal.

[countlessofvoids]

If they ever make a prequel about any of the HTTYD antagonists, it needs to have mature rating and soundtrack done by Heilung. I don't make the rules

[nexus-nebulae]

found my ancient mp3 player recently. finally found a charger for it and plugged it in. and remembered i found a yt playlist of the whole httyd movie chopped up into like 20 videos and i downloaded the mp3s of all of them to listen to on the school bus. which is why i can effortlessly quote the whole first movie now

[ashleybenlove]

Title: Brutal Finesse

Prompt: Public Execution/Torture

Summary: Viggo broadcasts the Dragon Riders’ execution.

Fandom: How To Train Your Dragon

Pairing: None

Word Count: 1269

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death, References to Factory Farms, Nonconsensual touching

Disclaimer: I don’t own the source material in this fanfic. That’s to whatever company or person owns it. I would never claim to own it.

Notes: There are probable influences from fandom and whatnot in this story. Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo @badthingshappenbingo​ for the space “Public Execution/Torture”. Modern AU.

AO3.

[frozentothetouch]

cant believe my httyd posts get traction how r y’all still here

[n1blakelover]

i forget how emotional rtte’s finale is

[neonsix67]

Me: I'm not really an emotional person

Also me: *sobbing whilst Stoicks Ship hits the climax of the song*

[splattacks]

its crazy how easy it is for me to get in a httyd mood. just listen to a few of the ost songs and bam i want to spend the rest of my day rewatching the trilogy