#Wingmaidens

[howtodrawyourdragon]

I think the Wingmaidens are very underutilized in the Httyd fandom, like they could be so many things! A tribe of only women with a divine mission to take care of the Razorwhip population specifically with cool armor and bonded through some higher power to baby Razorwhips that can sense who the right person for them is and that have wings strong enough to carry a full-grown man?

They could be a safe haven, they could be a cult, they have a canonical connection to Valka, an accidental connection to Heather, there's an interesting aspect between them and the Dragon Riders as they're two groups with kind of the same goal, except the Dragon Riders fight for a wider range of dragons. Trans!Hiccup is a thing that I've been seeing (and exploring) a lot of as of late, what would the Wingmaidens view of him be? How do the Razorwhips know when their Wingmaiden wants to take flight and where? They can't even see and there is no obvious communication going on in the show itself, other than that whistling thing they do to call them.

So many possibilities!

[zorosnavigator]

Live action Httyd but make it the animated serie Riders of Berk, Defenders of Berk and Race to the edge omg. all the characters we didnt see in the main movie trilogy. i have the vision okay.

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

i am a devout tufflout shipper but i gotta say in rtte season 6 ep 13 (king of dragons pt 2) snotlout saying “that’s my girl!” when minden shows up and starts kicking ass was so fucking cute

[dynamiilk]

A bunch of Snotlouts

[And a pair of kisses]

[saturnniidae]

Dont get me wrong, I do love the twins but ngl it's kind of hard to like Tuff when he's got those rancid, unwashed white person dreads, and also when he's basically standing in the way of his sister getting virtually any development bc the constant prioritization of male characters and their inability to let women exist independently even for like one episode.

Like it's not as bad as some of the others, since they're siblings and are like a package deal, but it's weird to me how there's like several plotlines about how much Ruff loves her brother despite they say and such but all Tuff does is joke about how much he hates Ruff and it's weird there's never like an independent moment of him like actually reciprocating the care she has for him (no this isn't me saying they don't like each other, just that the writers are sexist).

Also rewatching rtte is so hard bc like the first episode Ruffnut has like no lines meanwhile Tuff is just cracking jokes every other minute and it's like rlly weird waiting for her to respond and like bounce off whatever he's just said but she's just silent like they fucking forgot she's there 😭

[westwiiind]

i love the Respect Women episode of race to the edge soooo much but WHY is atali australian

[autisticlittleman]

ONE of the Thorston twins is transgender and you cannot change my mind. Basically, there's a really common trope in Medias (especially animated ones) for there to be a set of twins who are incredibly similar in look, save for the fact that one is a girl and one is a boy. Ruff and Tuff fit this trope. every official source for HTTYD stuff refers to them as fraternal twins, but my brain refuses to see them as anything but identical.

however. identical twins are pretty much always the same sex. there are incredibly rare exceptions, but that's boring imo. so that brings up my point- in order for them to, realistically, exactly resemble one another and also be a girl and a boy, one of them is trans.

question is, which one? it could be either. my vote is for Ruff, but there's pretty much an equal amount of evidence for either. Ruff, at multiple points in RTTE gets mistaken for a man, which while that's not necessarily indicative of anything, it happens multiple times, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. in Tuff's case, throughout the latter two movies, he ties his hair in front of his face and insists that it's his beard, getting really upset when it's cut. damn near EVERY other viking man shown has some sort of facial hair, except for tuff. what're the odds that he just Happened not to inherit the gene?

anyways, I think it's Ruff for no reason other than that I don't usually headcanon many women as trans and I think they deserve this one.

[smallfrogpleasedtomeetyou]

So are razorwhips native to Australia orrrrrr

[letstalkaboutit100]

HELP!

I NEED MORE SNOTLOUT AND MINDEN INCORRECT QUOTES! I LOVE THEM!

[ashleybenlove]

Astrid, no, baby girl, don't tell Drago about Berk having lots of dragons. Baby girl.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

I wonder if the team behind RttE based the Wingmaidens on the Bog Burglars, considering the fact that they're both a tribe made-up entirely of women only and they both have quite a low view on men except for one man, that man being Hiccup. (Or Camicazi's sole exception is Hiccup)

[ashleybenlove]

For all the Riders: poly across the board.

Hiccup: bi. And while I mostly see him as cis, I love trans Hiccup headcanons.

Astrid: bi.

Tuffnut: I waffle with him, tbh. It honestly depends on if I'm shipping him or not. Aroace in general. Shipping: bi or pan, maybe demisexual.

Fishlegs: pan.

Snotlout: bi.

Ruffnut: bi or omnisexual.

Viggo: pan. sapiosexual. (Which is a problematic term, I know, but hey, he's a problematic dude.)

Dagur: bi or pan.

Heather: queer (Genuinely have no idea with her. She's not straight, that's all I know.)

Mala: bi.

It's pride month so i wanna know everyone's httyd headcanons <333

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

tw blood (it’s a drawing of a girl with blood all over her mouth and neck) (biblically accurate wingmaiden)

biblically accurate windmaiden

let’s not forget that when we first meet the wingmaidens they are 100% willing and looking forward to EATING SNOTLOUT.

go off???? i guess?????

[revive-the-fandom]

Me: narratively speaking it doesn’t make sense for the dragon hunters, outcasts or berserkers to be comprised entirely of men.

Berk clearly has women warriors and doesn’t discriminate or delegate them to safer roles such as home defence. Women seem to be encouraged to be warriors and be muscly. There is a lot of interesting backstory to delve into with this, either drawing inspiration from the irl female vikings, or the darker implications of a war torn Berk desperate for all the warriors it could get its hands on regardless of birth rates (a man can have a hundred children a year, but a woman is limited to 1).

There are other tribes who blatantly follow these same practices, in some cases to higher extremes than berk. The Wingmaidens value female warriors above males as they are unable to manage the razorwhip population due to the animals gender bias. The defenders of the wing have equal male:female ratios in their village and seem to have a mandatory military service for all citizens, including women as all are in armour. Not to mention that they have a queen rather than the stereotypical chief, possibly mimicking the dragon kingdom that they worship.

Dagur doesn’t take offence to heather being a warrior, and there seems to be warrior women on berserker island, but the armada is shockingly made up entirely of men. The outcasts and dragon hunters take it a step further and have no women visible at any point. Compared to berk, the wingmaidens and the defenders of the wing, this is a massive discrepancy.

The obvious answer is that the creators didn’t have the budget for multiple character models, and so they prioritised the male models to fit the audience expectations. The defenders of the wing only have 1:1 gender ratios because their models are reused hiccup and heather models. The wingmaidens are the only culture with consistent multiple female models because it came later in the series, when the creators realised they had an extreme male heavy cast.

This is incredibly gross and should be talked about more as most modern (5 years old is still modern) cartoons have a male heavy focus in both characters and viewerbase despite a great deal of people claiming that women are fairly represented in media, and that feminism is no longer needed.

Tumblr Guy: women weren’t included for historical accuracy.

The dragons: 👀

[lilliths-not-just-httyd-blog]

Weak: "There are other dragon riders?" is just a continuity error

Strong: "There are other dragon riders?" refers to the fact that Hiccup has never seen this kind of dragon attack before, so what he's actually thinking is "There are other dragon riders besides the ones we know of?"

Godly: "There are other dragon riders?" is Hiccup expressing interest in knowing who these mystery riders are while pretending like he doesn't know who Heather, Dagur, the Wingmaidens etc are (aka the first time Hiccup has ever convincingly lied to someone without someone else backing him up) in order to protect them because he recognises that Eret sells and profits from the dragon trade just like Viggo did, and he's thinking something reminiscent of that one line in RttE about "Eventually, he will set his sights on Berk, and on our dragons" in reference to Viggo, and about how if Eret knew about the other Riders he would absolutely go after them because that's exactly what Viggo did

[violet-moonstone]

highlights from "ruff transition"

fishlegs is adorable. we already knew this but here's an example

I LOVE when hiccup scolds snotlout lol

I loe this shot of krogan - he doesn't even look angry (yet) about the fact that the riders and wingmaidens have outsmarted him. he's just in awe

fishlegs and meatlug gleefully melting people

OUCH TUFFNUT

dear gods that was rough

also i am indeed planning to write fics where ruffnut has a horde of kids (3 is enough for a horde, right?) but ruffnut and tuffnut corrupt them...while fishlegs watches, horrified