#Trigger happy Berkians

[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.

[fanaticdragonrider]

chapter 3 of “Snoggletog”

Chapter 3: Berk

Summary:

After the dragons left- grimmel took over berk. Hiccup died- and berk died with him (**TRIGGER WARNING: DEAD INFANT MENTIONED** Set 3 years after the hidden world)

Snotlout stared at the dead infant beside the great hall doors with tears in his eyes.. when did berk become like this? It’s children were it’s pride and joy but now they’re quiet- dead or alive.

He wanted to cry to Hiccup about everything but knew his old chief was gone, replaced by an old man named grimmel who was operating behind the scenes quietly, probably for his own benefit. Snotlout couldn’t muster a sliver of hope.

despite it being Snoggletog, Everyone didn’t think about decorating the tree with shields, too scared to even come out and show their berkian pride.

The snow was falling and the great hall was dark and certainly not as warm as Snotlout remembers it. once he stepped inside. He felt his arms shiver- but maybe it wasn’t from the cold.

Berk was destroyed and he was only 24.

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Eret drank his distasteful sour mead to distract himself from the state of the village.

He didn’t know if it was Snoggletog yet or not, since it sure didn’t feel very happy or festive.

Snotlout wasn’t around either.. not that he wanted Snotlout to be near him, it still felt lonely without that short viking.

His voice reminded Eret that he still had some sort of human contact.

But there’s one thing for sure- Eret wasn’t going to lose himself here.

He exited the great hall and prepared a boat.. got his stash that would last him a long time and spare clothes and goods to start a fire later on and get himself some meat, he would start a new life.

But he felt like Something was missing.

Eret let out a sigh, he wanted to get out of berk yet there was a nagging feeling stopping him from untying that stupid sailors knot and boarding the ship and leaving his old hut to whoever needs it.

The snow crunched behind the taller man.

Snotlout cried to Eret about the baby and berk.. Eret couldn’t call him whiny, because lout was really just saying everything Eret wanted to say.

“I don’t know what happened!” He choked out through his stream of sobs as he tried to tell Eret was he was feeling, but he never knew how to. He wanted to weave this feeling into words so bad, but he couldn’t, he never could.

“I dont know either..” Eret replied.

“I wanna leave” Snotlout whispered with a faint shake of anger to the tall sailor.

“If you wanna get off berk I’m the man for the job, I know every good area to get to, my only question is, do you.. do you want me to come with you?”

Eret begged with his heart for Snotlout to say yes, despite not feeling worried if he says no.

He will give him the boat to leave anyway.

“Want you to come with me?”

“Yes lad- don’t worry, you’ll be safe with me, I’ll protect you”

Snotlout blinked at the mention of protection and nodded.. he couldn’t bring himself to say he didn’t need protection, he was too tired. Eret gave him his hand to board the boat.

Eret felt that nagging feeling fade away. Snotlout made the stash of food and supplies complete.