#alex gonzalez

[local-dragon-haunt]

I sure do love my strong women and pathetic men

[zoomzooml]

Redesign concepts of Webmaster and Feathers

After a year

WEBMASTER

My biggest problem with the Webmaster design is how cluttered it seems; there's just a lot going on here. So I tried to calm it down a bit; I took away one pair of legs to make him less cluttered but keep (more or less) original body lenght. And I know that in his episode Jun says “if something has eight legs, she doesn't like it,” refering to spiders, but I think eight limbs works too.

I also played around a bit with his colors and markings. As well as body structure and proportions, noting this dragon's show-off skill - spinning webs.

When he puffs up his “cheeks” just before he spits, you can hear a sticky, mushy sound - you know that something is going on inside. The muscles are moving and pushing something with a sticky, gluey consistency. I would like it to be somewhat repulsive.

When he spits silk in attack it does not come out as big ball of burning web. It's more like net in "V" shape, in form of many separate threads of silk shooted at the same time. Similar to actual spiders, but on the bigger scale. His webs also don't burn; I feel like it's an overkill.

I changed the arrangement of his forelegs slightly. I know it's not quite in line with the style of HTTYD (see Speed Spingers' front limbs) but in his case I think arranging his hands in a similar way to therizinosaurus gives him a more menacing look.

Deadly Spinners are dragons that give a very unpleasant first impression. They are not the most beautiful dragons around (at least not by the standard) and their behavior can be repulsive to some. The type of dragon that people are willing to pin an unfriendly, sometimes unfair patch on more easily than on other dragons - as many people do with spiders or snakes and other similiar animals.

Deadly Spinners don't live in large groups - either small groups or solo. But when they are in a group they have very close bonds and spend a lot of time socializing among themselves.

FEATHERS

She is a challenge to me, not gonna lie. She definitely is the most changed among my redesigns so far. She just seems very basic to me.

The most bothering thing to me about her are those "feathers". Because, Alex in s1ep3 calls these "feathers", as well as Olivia in s5ep2, wiki calls these "feathers-like scales", but they can move and are thick what implies they are more like Furies'/Night Light's head numbs? I absolutely can pass the crowns as feathers, but Queen's horns and holes in her meaty tail were here the last straw to not to

And yes, I made a shitty video because I'm really confused and wanted that confusion express lmao. I hope Tumblr won't take it down.

So idk, I wanted to clarify what the frick those things are and go from there. I had two main ideas - either give her actual feathers or quills similiar to those of Bewilderbeast. When drawning I wasn't sure about either idea but finally decided for the latter one. Feels more HTTYD-like I think? And very flammable feathers don't seem like the best survival choice when almost every other animal around can spit fire.

I reimagine Featherhides as way more nervous and skittish dragons. Changewings were mysterious but usually seemed calm and strategical. Featherhides' nature is more in type of "flee" than "fight" (tho they can get so smoke when needed, they are not defensless or smth). They are very easy to spook and sometimes will flee in panic from something very trival just to return seconds later when they realise there was no danger at all, or are curious of whatever scared them. They often make rapid little movements, much like birds - especially if something catches their eye and they are not sure what it is.

Featherhides also live in large flocks without a complex hierarchy. If they can - they run, if any of them can't - at least some of them also stay behind.

Once Feathers bonds with Alex she would be very protective of her little human.

When Featherhides mimic sounds they do not do weird things with their faces like in the show. It looks much more like like some birds do that. But that's just a sidenote.

[butheavenisnotfar]

[ellulemmu]

Ooo aah nin relms

[cirrusskyanimations]

Httyd Nine realms rewrite

inspired by @mythical-fangirls

I have been working on designs for the rewrite and decided to start with Feathers.

I like feathers, but wanted to lean into more chameleon like features and actual feathers; so I added a feather crest on her head as well and horns on the nose resembling that of a three horned chameleon.

Featherhides are Mystery class dragons with their abilities ranging from going invisible to mimicking sounds similar to a parrot. They are arboreal dragons, living in lush jungles where that spend most of their lives climbing with their strong wings in the treetops. They are omnivorous, and their diet consists of fruits containing high sugar, as well as birds or smaller dragons.

In the rewrite, Tom and the others ( who have all met their dragons already; the order of them finding the dragons is

Tom, D'Angelo, Jun, Alex, Eugene.

Suspect that a dragon has made its way into Icarus, based on what they're hearing from the other people, who think it's just some raccoons. While the gangs try locating the dragon without looking too suspicious, Alex keeps getting the feeling she's being followed, and one night stumbles into her kitchen after being awoken by loud noises, only to discover a real dragon devouring all of the food from the fridge, specifically the cookies her mom made her.

Alex is reasonably frightened, and runs to her room, the plot from here continues like Canon, with Tom coming in to comfort her and etc. Alex ends up befriending the dragon, and naming her Azúcar, after the dragon's love for sweets.

[beebooca]

I completely forgot to share this screenshot redraw I did of TNR! featuring my redesigns for them <3

The original screencap is under the cut!

[f-angy77]

Current state of the Nine Realms fandom.

I need to draw this meme 😂😂

[azulso]

[razangy]

I really like Jun's character and I'm sorry that the series didn't know how to handle her starring episodes well, given that her only good episodes are "Ride or Die" and "Journey to the Snowcano" , but she did a great job in a supporting role, having a great background related to her family and the Kullersens, really having many characteristics as a character that could have been developed very well, but the script always did the same with her.

Mainly and something that I like to change in my headcanon is the need for her to be a calm character, being that she likes to read books and draw, being calm and smart suits her very well, making decisions like her mother sometimes does or learning from all those stories that her father, grandparents, uncles probably told her. The script tried to make her a second Astrid and that didn't fit at all with Jun. it's noticeable that the intelligent side goes with her because she was able to learn Viking runes right away and after a while naturally read a book with Viking text without using a dictionary or anything, with her only being 14, learning an ancient language is not as easy as it seems and indicates that Jun is really very good when it comes to researching ancient civilizations (which also goes very well with Tom's exploratory side). why not make episodes centered on that? no, let's make episodes so she is capricious, something opposite to what she tries to prove.

Something that is rarely mentioned but is important is that the Wongs are a pretty broken family, there are small hints that Jun has divorced parents, and she is probably forced to be with May, at her request, and little time with her father whom she really loves. The opposite is the case with Eugene, he mentioned not having a good relationship with his father but does with his mother. Both children are forced to be with parents with whom they do not have a good relationship. May continually tries to make Jun be someone like her and that he can inherit the job she has, probably despising everything Jun loves that comes from his father.

Another thing that could have been addressed and made into a pretty touching episode of Jun talking about her dad but instead of having that we just got a poorly done episode of Jun being like her mom when really she wants to be her own person, I feel like this show did a better job of having D'Angelo proving to his dad that he doesn't want to be like him but it didn't do a good job with Jun because she could never really face her mom properly and tell her that she doesn't want to be like her. I feel like that topic was normalized for her and that wasn't right.

We lost a good story for an episode, and to show a real weakness in a teenager, which is: that your parents often have control over you, and it's something real.

We also missed the opportunity to address issues like divorced parents or a father abandoning his son, cases that Jun, Eugene and Tom went through because they were the 3 characters with broken families and it was never properly addressed.

We only had one episode dedicated to Jun, Wu, and Wei. "Journey to the Snowcano" I really like but it also makes me really angry, why do all the other characters listen to their dragons and it's okay but when Jun does it it's wrong? the same dragon wanted to go up the mountain and Jun was just trying to interpret it based on stories she grew up with but the script decided that now she was wrong, when all the other characters always listen to their dragons but it was easier to ignore the dragon that instinctively tried to go up the mountain.

Wu and Wei are very good dragons, instinctively protective of their rider, as shown in Hearts of Heroes by responding to Jun's pain at being verbally hurt by Tom.

Jun believes in creatures that others think are fictional. She should be the rider with the closest bond with her dragon (after Tom), but we haven't had any more episodes centered around her and Wu Wei. We haven't had anything solely about Wu Wei, either.

Team moment: I think the team of 4 was very good until season 3, there were well-defined friendships and they didn't need a Eugene to divide the team. D'Angelo and Tom seemed to get along and when they argued, they made up. Alex and Jun also got along very well, they had several moments where it seemed like they could become best friends, Jun managed several times to make Alex not be so closed off, I really enjoyed when Jun hugged her several times. I feel like all this was ruined when Eugene entered the team and changed all the relationships. Even making Tom and Jun a couple because of Eugene's push was pretty bad. The team of 4 was good and balanced, each character had their good and bad moments but nothing really serious like we got in season 7.

A small aside from the above: Jun and Alex's relationship, although they were both different I really felt that they complemented each other very well, I really liked Alex's character before she started befriending Eugene, she really would have been a great best friend for Jun. Alex also calmly helped her deal with her phobia of spiders, and Jun encouraged Alex to stop being so closed off. I feel sorry for what the script did to their friendship.

Eugene case: I don't dislike Eugene's character as much as it seems, but I would have liked that since he was the oldest of the group, he would have behaved as such, a little more mature than the others and more protective of who is supposed to be his younger sister. I won't talk much about Eugene but it is noticeable that he has a certain imbalance, probably due to his parents, just like Jun. He could have been a weak character at the beginning but mature at the end, and show, unlike Jun, that he was like his mother, even show that he was fit to follow in his mother's footsteps. But the script did its thing, again.

And finally, the cherry on the cake: Tom, the most important person for Jun. I always saw this relationship as very nice, mainly because they are characters who have known each other since their childhood and people ignore that for some reason, they probably had a difficult childhood in which they relied on each other a lot. When Jun seemed to be sad, it was Tom who noticed and knew the reason for that, meaning he knows perfectly well the parental problems Jun went through, considering that they hadn't seen each other since they were 6 years old.

They both know each other, Jun knew every single thing that Tom couldn't do right, probably because he used to get into trouble. Tom also expressed that he loves Jun's stories which would indicate that they probably read them together since they were 6 years old, another thing that people ignore. There really was a lot to explore here: Tom wasn't much of a bookish person but he started reading them after Jun told him that the hidden world is based on the Nine Realms, activating Tom's exploratory side. They both have shown that they would probably work very well together making discoveries. Jun seems to be passionate about it and it feels like with Tom she would be able to explore that new passion, she doesn't want to be like her mother, she would probably make a good explorer like Tom. While Tom prefers more of an adventurer, she would go more for the investigation.

I don't want to make a fight about characters and couples but most fans underestimate this relationship because of their hatred towards Jun and claim that they like another couple more because they have more "chemistry" completely ignoring all the background that these characters have and why they are together.

Yes, I'm not happy either with how this relationship started, how they made Jun look like the problem with everything, maybe that fueled more of the excessive hate that the couple and the characters had, but even so, it shouldn't be a justification to take away credit from all the bond they had, even long before the first episode of this series. Yes, they had a lot better material to make the characters be together or at least develop their bond, but the script never knew what to do with them after they became a couple. Instead of improving as individual characters, it seemed like the characters were getting worse, even Tom returned to one of his behaviors that he was supposed to have abandoned several seasons ago.

The solution to this wasn't "he'd better stay with the other girl," it was to develop the characters properly; many characters here have gotten worse. I don't hate any of them; I love the entire crew. Even Eugene finds good things about him amidst all the nonsense. But what the script did to Jun still bothers me, because it's clear they never knew what to do with her. So far, her best episode will be "Ride or Die."

Anyway, I hope the Httyd fandom in general will stop throwing so much hate at her, when the problem here was the poor development and characterization. If you're only capable of hating something because you find it annoying, maybe you can't see beyond that.

I hope I can continue drawing my 20 year old versions of the characters and change several bad traits they had in their 14-15 years (17 Eugene). I also want to draw more of Jun with his dad, I feel like it's something I've wanted to see since season 2 and never got. I won't be joining the collective hate of any character, they all have good and bad things, the end.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

A Night At The Museum AU for The Nine Realms. In which Hiccup's (and Toothless' and maybe even the other Dragon Riders') body is found and some magical artifact resurrects him at night, allowing Tom and the other Dragon Flight Club Members to interact with the person who has lowkey been the closest thing they had to a mentor in the show.

[itsangelic1411]

Just my take in an older Alex redesign!!

I feel like she actually have a little bit of development at the end of s8 so I thought she could be dressing a bit more confident!!

Little headcanons:

-she’s 19

-still into tech

-idk she looks like she moderates a discord server

-while more confident she still a bit awkward sometimes

-she totally has a crush on tom !!

Not more to add tbh, bye~

[wankyartist18]

A couple that could have saved "The Nine Realms!"😎😅

[demhen]

What´s the best about Dragons the nine realms?

Alexandra Gonzales

All Hail Queen Alexandra of Sassingtion

Hail

[nosuda-cringe]

Buzzsaw made his apparition on the zombie au!! He seems a little bit more unhinged than what I remember....

Chars- @rainbowaudi

[msnewobsessioneveryweek]

Wonder what the fuck they’ll do now that their ‘plot’ point is gone. Please let this be the last season. Give us more Alex scenes.

[f-angy77]

Adult dragon riders 🐉

JW Chaos Theory inspired me to make a better version of the dragon riders and fix their ages.

Tom, Jun and D'Angelo 19 y.o. , Alex 20 y.o. and Eugene 22 y.o.