#dragonwalker au

[sezija]

Ok i think i’m actually going insane not talking abt this so fuck it

Dragonwalker Hiccup AU

My fic of it, set during HTTYD1; basically just a prologue

Ramblings underneath (like, a lot. i’m warning you.)

So basically, Dragonwalkers are humans who, when they fall asleep, turn into dragons. Just go watch Wolfwalkers actually it’s a very good movie and the concept is very hard to put into words, i’ve found.

Anyway; thoughts. Many MANY of them. :)

Valka’s had her dragon form (a night fury) her whole life, and lived on an island w her family AND a family of Night Furies. (Night Furies live in family packs, w the parents leading/raising/teaching their children (they only have 1 egg at a time, and only lay up to 3 in their whole life) until they’re old enough to get their own mate and start their own pack. (When a Night Fury pair’s children all have left and started their own families, they will sometimes join their children’s packs since they can’t hunt and fight on their own that well as they get older.))

And bc thw sucks and Grimmel, a man who is still alive, somehow killing off an entire species of dragons is stupid, i’m using my sibling’s idea, which is that Grimmel’s family has been hunting Night Furies for generations. It’s a family tradition basically, tracking and killing them until none are left. (And every person in his family has been killed by Night Furies, further motivating them.)

So Valka’s family (dragon&dragonwalker) were all killed, and only she escaped, ending up on Berk. Fell in love w Stoick, tried to make the vikings stop killing the dragons, was taken by Cloudjumper, the usual. She reunites with Hiccup early, during RTTE, just bc i want them to kick dragon hunter ass together. The war w Drago happens later.

Also i’m completely discarding the whole “king of all dragons” thing, it doesn’t fit w how i want this world to feel. Also toothless sucked as Alpha, i dont want that. And what i’ve always liked abt the HTTYD dragons is that they’re animals. The whole “king of all dragons” kinda,,, ruins that. So that’s also gone now.

I’ve been having a lot of thoughts abt how dragon flocks/packs/pods work, and these are my current ideas;

A “Flock” is a group of dragons of different species, under the control/protection of an Alpha (the Red Death’s flock, (Valka’s) Bewilderbeast’s flock, that one flock of dragons in RTTE s2e8-9 “Edge of Disaster”)

A “Pack” is a group of dragons of the same species, under the control/protection of a leader/queen/etc. etc. (speed stingers, fire worms, terrible terrors, (night furies in this AU))

A “Pod” is the same as a Pack, except for Tidal-class dragons specifically (a pod of seashockers, scauldrons, etc.)

The whole franchise is very inconsistent abt this so i’m working w what i have ok

The “Great Beyond” was separated from Berk/Berserkers/etc. by a heavy wall of fog all around them. There were some spots you could cross, used by traders and such, but the rest of the world has stayed pretty separated from this one corner of the world that experiences Dragon Raids.

However, after the Red Death’s demise, the fog has been slowly dissipating, allowing more to cross over; this way, the riders taking hours and hours of exhausting flight to reach “the great beyond” AND Gobber somehow making his way to Dragon’s Edge on a small, rickety boat both make sense; the more time passes, the easier it is to cross.

A lot of the conflict in the series comes from the human characters not understanding why the dragons are doing something, so giving Hiccup the ability to communicate with them takes away a lot of it, which i’m not happy abt bc it means i need to come up w my own stuff >:( (communicating w the dragons is actually kinda difficult in human form, since his hearing isn’t good enough to hear a fair amount of their vocalizations, and his throat isn’t made for producing those sounds.)

Anyway, my thoughts have been specifically focused on one episode of RTTE, my favourite one since i first saw it, up there w Dire Straits and Enemy of my Enemy; s3e8 “Stryke Out”.

In this AU, hiccup is taken by dragon hunters in his dragon form, taken to a dragon fighting ring. He’s worth a lot to them, being a Night Fury (this is what the art at the top of the post is depicting). He’s caged up for a few weeks until the news of a Night Fury in the ring spread enough, and he has to start fighting. The Riders figure out where he is due to these rumours, and interrupt his fight with the Triple Stryke 3 days into him being forced to fight the other dragons, the same day Ryker came to collect his cut of the money again.

Anyway, that’s all i rly wanted to get out rn. Just. Obsessed. Hiccup becoming crueler and much less forgiving towards dragon hunters after this experience. He’s seen their cruelty many times before, but being caged and muzzled and forced to hurt other dragons if he wants to live, dependant on them for food, even for the capability to eat it, bc of the hook they put in his mouth, really just... changes him. God i love torturing my faves <3

He would take the Dragon Fliers&their Singetails so personally here.

anyway, art;

(i forgot to add his chin scar in many of these oof)

[seafoamdew]

Hello, I don't know when this will reach you, but I would like to say that I've been following your artwork for a couple years now and everything you make is absolutely marvelous (your Dragonwalker AU & Hijack content stands out for me) Happy belated birthday Sea; can't wait for more content in the future.

I am wondering, though, is it possible that I can make a playlist based on 3 of your Hijack AUs (Seasons, Childhood Friends, & Arranged Marriage)? I won't do it if you feel uneasy about the idea.

Aww thank you so much! Yes, you absolutely can! Id love to have a listen when its done if thats okay with you!

[howtodrawyourdragon]

What is, Astrid like in your Dragonwalkers AU? Is she prejudiced with Hiccup?

Unfortunately, I don't have a Httyd Dragonwalkers AU, but if I did, then yes, that is how she would start out. Kind of like she does in Httyd 1 and like how Robyn does in Wolfwalkers.

[collector-noceda-clawthorne]

Dragonwalkers AU

Might i request some baby toothless & young hiccup shenanigans?

their curiosity knows no bounds

[crunchy-pavement]

I just rewatched how to train your dragon 1 and 2. Then I thought of wolf walkers. Someone’s definitely already fucking done this. But I’m going to give it my own special twist.

[gamerbearmira]

How about some angst for that httyd au?

A rogue bewilderbeast somehow find its way to the Encanto, and keeps itself hidden but uses powers to start calling to dragons to it.

Everyone’s panicking trying to figure out what’s happening to the dragons, both companions and wild, and alma is especially worried

By now they do know about miras dragonwalker thing, but at the moment it’s not given much thought due to the dragons disappearing

Unfortunately they should’ve thought about it because turns out she can hear the bewilderbeast

Every day

Every night

And it’s getting harder to ignore it, to not leave with the other dragons

NAURRRR DON’T DO IT

[collector-noceda-clawthorne]

Dragonwalkers Au

they soothe my soul

[baisleyarts]

But Maaaaaaaaaaa!

[baisleyarts]

in the au, they saved the lightfury a bit earlier. She joined their pack and is quite smitten with Hiccup.

[baisleyarts]

The silent stalkers

[collector-noceda-clawthorne]

Dragonwalkers AU

Cocooned in the Nest

[baisleyarts]

”The forest is ours at night, wait till you see.”

[baisleyarts]

Thank you very much! As for Stoick, I've decided long ago that he's not a dragonwalker, just a plain old viking with a loving dragon wife. He left his dragon killing life behind after finding out the love of his life was a dragonwalker and had begun building a life for themself in some nowhere island far from the village when Grimmel caught wind of a nightfury sighting on their island. He had died defending his wife and newborn son. His sacrifice was not in vain as Valka and Hiccup fled and survived.

[baisleyarts]

very smol boy. do not recommend riding, lest he suffers long term back problems. but what he lacks in strength, he makes up in speed and manoeuvrability.

[baisleyarts]

Deep in the woods, a young dragonwalker catches himself a new friend.

[baisleyarts]

i honestly dunno what kinda dragon would fit Dagur. But as a dragonwalker i'd imagine him just tryna be top dog in the dragon food chain. Maybe a dragon hunter (as in dragons are his main dish), he'd fight any dragon big or small. A sorta 'i'd defeat you, your dad, your grandad AND your great grandaddy' type of character.