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Itâs that time of the month where I miss Technoblade, so here are some old drawings I made
#art#technoblade#technoblade fanart#mcyt#mcyt fanart#he used to be my inspiration for drawing ngl#his support for his fanartists motivated me so much#heâs so cool#heâs so Technoblade
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This is almost never an issue with Tumblr but itâs popped up recently on Twitter and therefore I want to make a disclaimer here as well:
If the only takeaway you get from my art is a character think piece on how much you donât like them, Iâm blocking you. Whether itâs well-meaning or not, Iâm an artist who puts hours of time and effort into each piece. To see you commenting âwell hereâs how this character fucked up everythingâ on my post and not liking, sharing, or any other thing that supports my art is insulting. Maybe not every artist sees it that way, but Iâm putting it out here that I see it that way. It hurts when Iâve put out a piece Iâve slaved away at and it only motivates you to write a comment about how much this character sucks. You can not like a character, but if you hate a character so much that you canât even bring yourself to like my art bc they feature in it, then please just ignore it. I donât need your comment. I canât tell Egg that his house fell and descendants died bc he fucked his wife. Iâm a fanartist. Please just be nice Iâm surprised I even need to clarify this but Twitter always blows me away.
Thanks and double thank you for Tumblr for not having the sort of mindset that every fanart post is the perfect place for meta discussions about characters you hate.
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That is who you are: Chapter 12
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âWe're no longer safe hereâ ~ âWe have to fight for their freedomâ
Okay guys, here we go, hereâs my theory for HTTYD3 end I made 3 years ago...Â
Now the trailer came, Iâve seen a LOT OF SIMILARITIES with this fic so thatâs why I want to share this chapter with you now. So please Guys, read it even if you donât read the rest of my story. This chapter is really important to me and I want to know your opinion on it.
This will be my birthday gift to Mr. Dean DeBlois because this man inspires me so much...
I want to thanks my bestfriend because youâll see his art in this chapter and also because this fiction is dedicated to him because like Toothless for Hiccup, heâs my bestfriend. I also want to thank all the HTTYD fanartists who illustrated this fiction @leffie-draws-fanart, @winxrus and also @raidesart ;) Thank you a lot guys! I also want to thanks all the people who helped me corrected it @wolfie-dragon-rider, @JoyOfBerK and @chiefhiccstrid who always supported me in this fic as well as @poppys-fanworld. A big thank you to my french friend @megtoons who helped me translate it! <3 And above all, a big thank you to my previous translators and to my dear translator @whosthatgal! Thank you so much girl <3
Now, enjoy it.
âAstrid, wake up!â I screamed, shaking her to force her to open her eyes.
She woke up, confused, and rubbed her eyes before the sound of the horns registered.
âOh noâŠâ she whispered.
She got up quickly and threw herself into my arms. We held each other tightly. I pushed her away gently and caressed her cheek with my thumb. I smiled bitterly to her. She held back a tear.
âWe have to do it...â
âNo, no! I donât want us to be apart! Not againâŠâ she cried while holding me really tight.
I rubbed her back to reassure her as best as I could, when my mom came in suddenly.
âHiccupâŠâ my mom began, but she faltered.
âAstrid, Astrid⊠Calm down,â I begged her. âEverything is gonna be okayâŠâ
My words didnât seem to comfort her much, and with regrets, I left her in my momâs arms. I kissed her on the cheek.
âI love you, Astrid.â
âMe too, Hiccup,â she said sadly.
I addressed a grateful smile to my mother and got out of the house, taking Inferno with me. Toothless was not far behind. I had never seen the village so prepared; every person found their place and knew what they had to do. I ran to Heatherâs hut and once there, I found her at Fishlegsâ side.
âOh Hiccup, finally!â she exclaimed.
âWe were waiting for you,â Fishlegs added.
âSorry, I was with Astrid andââ
âItâs okay,â Heather said while putting her hand on my shoulder, understanding.
Snotlout and the twins joined us not too long after, coming from next door.
âSo, howâs the situation?â I asked.
âEret is leading the ships with his men, there are already a lot of casualties⊠and Dragoâs army is almost at the villageâs doors⊠Gobber and Erik are trying to slow them down as long as they can, but Drago will be here soon.â
âThank you Fishlegs; weâll be ready in time.â âOkay, so Iâm going back now!â
Heather walked close to him and kissed him passionatelyâ then Fishlegs climbed on Meatlug with clumsiness. He was a bit shook, poor guy.
âFollow me!â Heather ordered.
We moved towards the village square, very closely followed by our respective dragons. Hundred of vikings, men and women, were waiting for us.
âYour army,â she declared with a smirk.
âHeather, Iââ
âCome on chief, go on nowâŠâ
I was afraid. Afraid of taking the floor, afraid for all these people who were ready to give their lives for Berk and were counting on me, afraid of taking my responsibilities. Then, I thought about Astrid; she would have wanted me to be strong and to take it. So I did it:
âNorthern peoples, vikings, men and women, the fight weâre going to lead will be difficult, there will be blood, there will be tears but donât forget the reason of this fight and remind yourself of Drago Bludvistâs acts⊠Donât forget who you fight for and above all, donât forget what we fight for! We fight for peace! For giving a better place to our children! So fight for peace! Fight for Berk!â
I had grown in strength over my speech and I had yelled my last sentences. I never thought Iâd be able to be so confident. The crowd answered me with war cries and swinging of weapons. Heather, Snotlout and the twins started it too, they motivated the troops even more. And they all cried my name⊠It was a strange feeling.
Once this fuss ended, everyone took their positions, and I found myself at the helm of a whole army with Heather as my right-hand.
âForm ranks and get ready!â I ordered.
I turned and found myself facing Heather who was looking at me with a shifty look.
âWhat is it?â I asked.
âSeems like youâre enjoying it.â
âEnjoying what?â
âLeading armies, of course!â she exclaimed like it was obvious. âThatâs not my thing HeatherâŠâ
âOh come on Hiccup, admit thatâs exciting!â
âI donât see whatâs exciting about leading a war, Heather. This is very serious.â She pouted and lowered her head then she turned around and put a hand on my shoulder.
âYou donât look well.â
I answered nothing, on the spot. Of course I didnât look well! With all this pressure that was on my shoulders, I had a hard time to think straight. Plus, I was very worried about Astrid. I hoped above all that nothing happened to her. So yes, I was totally stressed and I obviously didnât feel right. I ended shaking my head.
âHiccup, you know, I can understand why youâre worried, but you have to ignore it during battle, for your men and for Berkâs sake.â
âNo, Heather, you canât understand. Astrid means everything to me, sheâs the love of my life, donât you see? And weâre going to be parents⊠so no, I canât ignore it because if I do, Iâm forgetting what Iâm fighting for, HeatherâŠâ
âExcuse me⊠I shouldnât have said that⊠I know Astrid and you are having a really hard time and Iâsorry.â
This time, I was the one to put my hands on her shoulders.
âHeather, itâs okay. Itâs me, Iâm easy to tease these daysâŠâ
She smiled.
âEven worse than AstridâŠâ
Now, we just had to wait.
Valka led me with the other women and the children to the Great Hall. We were walking fast and agitation was at its peak; children were scared and wouldnât let go of their mothersâ hands. We crossed the village which was outfitting the warriors with weapons, we saw the troops get co-ordinated and the dragons get prepared to fight. How I longed to be with them⊠We finally reached the Great Hall. Valka pulled me in a remote corner of the hall and asked me to sit down.
âThanks but Iâd rather stand,â I replied abruptly.
I already had a hard time dealing with staying behindâshe wouldnât force me to sit down either. I didnât belong here with all those poor people. I was supposed to protect us and I couldnât do it by staying here⊠I was suddenly reminded of Hiccupâs words:
âAstrid, please, for once in your life, be reasonable⊠If you wonât do it for me, then do it for the baby.â
And he had put his hands on my belly. I instinctively put mine on it. Hiccup was right, it was unreasonableâbut at the same time, staying here to do nothing but wait was eating away at me. I walked between the villagersâ little groups; some women were singing hopeful songs while others were telling old heroic legends to children. I stopped sometimes to listen to the fables too. I was talking with people and trying to reassure them and give them hope. I continued strolling into the Great Hall until I returned to Valka.
âYou really have the making of a chiefâs wife,â she said.
I smiled at her and came sit next to her to hug her.
âThank you ValkaâŠâ I whispered.
But we were interrupted by the sound of horns. Drago had just penetrated Berkâs compound.
âToothless, are you okay bud?â I worried.
âWhat is it?â Heather asked.
âHe felt somethingâŠâ
âDRAGONS!â the troops shouted.
Heather and I raised our heads simultaneously. Armoured dragons were populating the sky. Gobber and Erik came running, followed by their men, yelling that Drago was coming. Heather and I reacted right away by commanding the dragon riders and managing the air attack. Snotlout and the twins did the same. Gobber and Erik took the lead of the land forces. Dragoâs men moved by the hundreds towards the center of the village while destroying everything in their path. The fight had just begun.
Iâve never seen a war before and even less participated in one. The concept of battle was all new for me, so when I saw the thirty armoured dragons comingâthat I had trained in Göteborgâit took me time before I gave my orders. I examined them for a moment and thatâs when I knew something was wrong.
âWait!â I cried, stopping my men with a hand signal.
âWhat? What is it again?â Snotlout grumbled.
âTheir eyes⊠Look at their eyes! Theyâve been conditioned!â I exclaimed.
âYou meanââ
âYes⊠Theyâve been programmed to kill usâŠâ I whispered.
I addressed all the dragon riders out loud. âRemember what we told you in training? Well⊠Itâs is all the more true now! These dragons are fearsome so be even more vigilant!â
âCharge!â Heather finished.
And we leapt to the attack. We killed dragons. I followed Toothless in each of his movements, fighting against dragons deprived of soul and much stronger than I have imagined. However, I didnât feel to be actor of the battle, Toothless was the one to fight to protect me. I was just a spectator of all this killing, it was all going so fast⊠I couldnât analyse the situation anymore⊠until I fell.
Toothless and I fell down in the middle of the one-on-one skirmishes that separated our army from Dragoâs. I was blown away by the violence I was seeingâIâd never seen men fighting like that before. A warrior didnât hesitate to stab a sword into his opponentâs back or separate him from one of his limbs. Dragoâs men and mine were killing each other in front of me. The smell of blood was everywhere and the warriorsâ cries blended into those of their victims; the noise reverberated across the battlefield.
One of my enemies speed up to me, and dismounted me swiftly from my dragon. I could only count on myself to cope. He hit my arm with his arm, the shot was straight and so was the pain.
Thankfully, he had only slightly hit me thanks to my shoulder protection, which had cushioned the blow. I drew my sword in the second that followed, I needed to retaliate quickly before he could gain the upper hand. I struck at his arm and successfully freed myself from his grip. I ran through the fray, not without difficulty. I used my sword to push through the crowd and took a look to the right, to the left, looking for Toothless, but I didnât see him anywhere. In my frantic sprint through the battlefieldâinevitablyâI fell. I really blamed my prosthetic leg at times. I started to get trampled when I felt a hand pulling my collarâthis is it, this is the end.
âWhat are you doing here, Hiccup?!â
âGobber?â I asked, opening my eyes.
He put me on the ground.
âSo?â he insisted.
âYeah⊠uh⊠I fell down andâToothless he⊠I donât know where he isâŠâ
âWell then, letâs get some altitude, and we can find him, canât we?â
I clambered onto Grump behind him, and we flew over Berk to find my dragon. The battle raged on, but from the air we could see that Berk was resisting well. However, the enemy troops werenât backing down in the slightestâand I still couldnât see Drago. But where was he hiding for Thorâ sake? I couldnât have the time to think about this question, Toothless was there, right below us, and he was about to be shot down by Dragoâs trappers.
âRight there!â I shouted while pointing the finger at him.
Grump steered us down to him right away. I stopped an arrow from hitting its target and shooting him in the heart. I ran to him to jump on his back and pat him affectionately on the head.
âItâs gonna be okay bud, Iâm here⊠Come on, taking off!â I screamed.
Gobber did the same and we dodged a final barrage of arrows. He addressed me with a nod and went back with Toothless to the other riders. I examined my dragon on the way and didnât find anything alarming, only a small notch on his left ear and some other scratches. He saved himself but for how long again? If we hadnât arrived in time, he could have been dead by now⊠If I couldnât protect my own dragon, how could I protect all the others from Drago? In all the commotion, I almost forgot the reason why he was fighting this war: he was attempting to cast the dragons from the surface of the Earth! So I noticed the battlefield where the men were blustering was covered by an infinite number of dead dragonsâ carcasses. The battle had just begun.
It had been more than five hours since the battle began outside. My patience had its limits, and this situation was really pushing them. I stopped bouncing my leg and stood up and began walking round and round in the big room with my arms crossed.
âAstrid, please, sit downâŠâ
âNo, I donât want to sit! Itâs unbearable, I canât take it anymore not knowing what is going on! I wanna know!â I said, fed up.
âAstrid⊠Calm down⊠you said you had cramps at the bottom of your belly, are they gone?â
âNo⊠itâs still hurting⊠and the baby doesnât want to stop kicking, itâs really annoyingâŠâ
âThatâs because it can feel that youâre stressed⊠One more reason to sit down.â
âNo! I donât feel comfortable when Iâm sitting⊠OuchâŠâ
I gritted my teeth, I didnât want to be weak, I couldnât be.
âAstridâŠâ
âItâs okay. Iâm fine,â I said, catching my breath. âIâm gonna ask the men if they have more information outside.â âAstrid, you already asked them less than a hour ago and they told you they didnât have any informationâŠâ âBut maybe now they do?â I said, a little upset. I went in the direction of the middle of the Great Hall but before even walking two steps, I had a sudden wave of nausea due to the cramps getting closer and closer to each other. Adding to this, the kicking didnât stop. I held my belly with one hand and leaned against a pillar with the other. My head started to spin, and I heard Valkaâs voice calling me as she rushed to my side.
âAstrid! Whatâs wrong?â asked Valka, apparently really worried.
âMy⊠my head hurts⊠the cramps are getting worse and worse,â I whimpered.
Valka took me by a shoulder and forced me to sit when we got close to a bench. She put her hand on my forehead and wiped it with a handkerchief.
âYou are burning up and covered with sweat⊠maybe youâreââ
She didnât have the time to finish that I screamed while holding onto her shoulders. It was like the pain was penetrating my stomach. I felt a hot fluid pouring down and wetting my legging.
âOh my gods!â Valka cried, smiling. âAstrid! The baby is coming!â
I was hit by confusion.
âWhat? Now? Like right now?â I sobbed.
âIâm gonna bring Gothi!â
âNo, no stay with me, Valka! Iâm so sorry for earlier⊠stay!â
She stayed by my side and ordered someone else to bring Gothi.
âYouâll see, everything will be fine â, she said with a calm voice. Only, I was more afraid than anything. I didnât understand what was happening to me⊠I wasnât usually that emotional. âBut itâs too early! Iâm not readyâand Hiccup should be here! Oh my gods, I wonât be able to do this without him⊠Valka, please, go bring Hiccup!â I sobbed.
âAstrid, calm down. Iâm gonna go, okay?â
I nodded and Gothi arrived with two other women, healers maybe. Valka left me alone with them and went to find Hiccup.
âIâll be back in no time! â she said.
I stood not without difficulty and went to a corner of the hall, safe from any nosy looks. They put me on one of the hallâs tables where they had many layers of sheets.
âAnd now, breathe!â
âSnotlout!â I screamed.
I couldnât see him through the flames that were eating the stables. Catapult attacks had set the stables on fire and we were trying to save trapped baby dragons inside who were too young to fly. Everybody got out with babies in their arms except Snotlout, who was still inside. I screamed his name againâno answer.
âHiccup, we still need to evacuate all these dragonsâŠâ reminded Heather. âBut we canât just leave him!â
âHiccup...â
Just then we saw a shape emerging in the midst of the flamesâit was Snotlout, not without burns, but alive. âSnotlout! Oi, oi⊠oi!â he chanted, punctuating each word with a cough.
âSnotlout! I thought you wereâŠâ âDead? Oh come on HiccupâŠâ he said dryly.
I was relievedâSnotlout was safe and we could continue our improvised rescue. We were making our way as fast as we could from the stables to the Dragon Academy, when suddenly I saw my mom riding Cloudjumper towards us at full speed.
âHiccup!â she yelled.
She finally drew up by my side.
âMom? What are you doing here?â
âHiccup, you need to come. Itâs urgentâŠâ she began.
âBut I canât leave the battle! Iâm commanding an army, andâŠâ
âAstrid is giving birth!â
âUh...what?â
âYouâre gonna be a dad!â she smiled.
âWhat, now? But IâŠâ
âGo, Hiccup!â Heather reassured me. âIâll take the lead, donât worry. Go!â I let my friends go under Heatherâs command and I joined my mom. We headed in Astridâs direction, flying once more over the battle that was under us. We finally arrived behind the Great Hall; my mom invited me inside and kept our dragons outside, not without Toothlessâ disagreement. Dodging our way through the crowd of elders and children, we made our way to the back corners of the hall where curtains, made out of two sheets, were standing. I stopped before going in.
âGo on, go, sheâs waiting for you,â said my mom before pushing me in.
Astrid was lying on a table, legs spread and her back raised; she was in pain. I ran to join her by her side. When she saw me, she let out her tears. I held her tightly against me.
âHiccup⊠I was so scared for you⊠Iâm sorryâŠâ
âShhh⊠Iâm here now,â I whispered while caressing her face.
âOkay Astrid, let's go again,â ordered one of the women who were assisting Gothi. âOne, two, three⊠push!â
Astridâs face twitched when she did what the healers told her to do, but she shook her head left to right, completely helpless.
âI canât!â she moaned.
I didnât know what to do to help her, so I took her hand and I sustained her back to support her.
âCome on babe, you can do it!â I cheered.
So she pushed once again while tightening her hold on my hands, letting out a long painful scream before taking a breath again. âWe can see its head!â said Valka.
Astrid turned her head to me with a smile, and I smiled back to her.
âJust a little more AstridâŠâ I said rubbing her back.
âOne more time, push!â
Astrid pushed with all the strength she had, she yelled in pain and soon, her screams were joined by other, smaller criesâthose of a baby, our baby.
âItâs a girl, congratulations!â said one of the women.
Gothi cut the last thing that linked our daughter to her mother and showed us a little newborn, dirty and covered in blood. Astrid didnât even have time to catch her breath before Gothi put the little girl in her arms. Astrid took her carefully and held the child gently against her chest. A big smile drew on her lips, she was filled with joy.
âHiccup⊠we made thisâŠâ she sighed, happy.
(art by @winxrus)
I caressed her hair and I kissed her cheek, I was the happiest man in the world.
âIâm so proud of you Astrid⊠you fought till the end.â
âThank you Hiccup, thank you.â
I was about to answer when a massive sound echoed in the roomâit was an explosion.
âIâm gonna see what that was.â
âHiccup!â yelled Astrid. I got out and saw men trying to reinforce the main door which had just been damaged.
âHiccup! What are you doing?â my mother exclaimed.
âI need to see what happened outside!â
I went out from the Great Hall and hurried to go before it. When I finally reached it, Heather was there with a few men to protect the Great Hallâs doors from⊠Dragoâs attacks. He was on a huge dragon and was laughing out loud about my menâs fate. I joined them to help and Drago addressed me.
âEh! Finally, hereâs the Dragon Master! I thought youâd never come out of your holeâŠâ he said.
âDragoâŠâ
âNow, letâs finish it!â
He had yelled the last words. He started to shoot at anything that moved but his true target was me. I turned my head to see where Heather was when I heard her screaming:
âHiccup! Watch out!â
She stood in front of me before I took Dragoâs shot. The violence of the impact drove me about ten meters away, I searched to scout the area but I could barely see and then there was nothing.
It was dark, I hated the dark. I was afraid of the dark because I couldnât see anything and it made me nervous so I lit a candle. I was alone at home. Daddy wasnât home yet. So I waited for him while drawing. And one hour later, I heard the houseâs heavy door opened, I hurried in the direction of the door to see Daddy.
âDaddy!â I yelled.
He took me in his arms and hugged me tightly. I loved when Daddy held me like that.
âI came to say goodbye, Son. Daddyâs leaving for a very long trip, okay?â
I sulked, I didnât like when he was leaving for a long amounts of time.
âWhy are you always leaving for a long time Daddy?â
âHiccup, you know itâs to find the Dragonsâ Nest. I have to go for a long time, thatâs how it is. But Gobber will be here.â
âBut I want you to stay with me!â
âSonâŠâ
I didnât want to listen to him anymore, I went back to my room to lock myself in it. I sat down on my bed, brought my legs against me and started to cry. I was sad Daddy left, he never listened to meâŠ
After a while, I heard big footsteps on the stairs, Daddy was climbing. Quickly, I dried my tears with my arm and I put myself under the heavy blankets. Daddy entered with a candle in his hands. He knew I was afraid of the dark. He put it on the bedside table next to me. He leaned next to me and kissed my forehead. I took him in my little arms and held him very tight.
âGood night Daddy.â
âGood night Son.â
I put my head on the pillow and he tucked me in. Then he bounced back and left in the doorâs direction but before he got outside, I addressed him one last time before he got away.
âI love you Daddy.â
I heard the door shut.
âMe too Hiccup, me too.â
I felt my eyes about to open but I fell into nothingness again.
Toothless was slowly moving towards me with those terrifying eyes. I begged him to stop but he kept going.
âStop!â
Thatâs when my dad came out of nowhere.
âSon!â he cried out.
âDad! No!â I screamed.
My dad jumped in front of me and took Toothlessâ kill shot.
My dad had saved my life, and Heather had exactly done the same thing.
I opened my eyes. Toothless was over me and protecting me with his wings. I looked around me and saw Heather down, a few meters away. I stood up quickly and ran to her. I took her in my arms, she was still breathing but her face was pale and her eyes almost closed.
âHeather! Please, stay with me, Heather!â I shouted.
âHiccupâŠâ she whispered.
âYes?â I sobbed.
âThank youâŠâ she said, closing her eyes.
âNo! No, Heather! Donât leave me! Heather!â
Heather was dead in my arms. No words could define my pain. She was like a sister to me. I cried while holding her her cold, dead body against me, inconsolable.
I was tired of always being protected, my dad, Heather, Gobber, Toothless, Astrid⊠I couldnât let anything like that happen again, it was out of the question. I was going to put an end to this, once and for all.
Fishlegs and the other riders came shortly after the incident, he was distraught. Enough people were taking care of Heather now, so I could go. Some people tried to stop me, but I was more determined than ever. I mounted Toothless and took off at full speed. My goal: find Drago.Â
Toothless and I looked around us, but Drago was not hard to find. He was nested on the edge of the island with his gigantic dragon. Once I was close enough to him, I asked Toothless to fire his most powerful plasma blast, and it made him fall from his dragon.
Toothless landed only few feet away from him. I climbed down and threw my fire sword on his cutting pike. I didnât miss my target, I took his stake, got my sword back and threatened him with both, making him recoil. He raised his hands while laughing unrestrained, insanely.
âSo? Whatâs the Dragon Master is gonna do now that he has weapons in his possession?â he sneered.
He could laugh as much as he wanted, but he didnât scare me anymore. I moved towards him, more intimidating this time.
âYou had no right! She didnât do anything!â I shouted. âShe was innocent!â I called out.
The rage tensed my words up.
âYou will pay for what youâve done Drago⊠For everything youâve doneâŠâ
I rushed over to him and stabbed his stake right in his heart. He instinctively reached down to weapon that had sealed his fate, and staggered back. He fell down from the bank and sank into the ocean.
I had done it in anger, but part of me was still celebrating. I just put an end to the war.
I flew away on my dragonâs back to the Great Hall, where the doors were standing open. I rushed inside to meet Astrid, who was waiting for me in tears. We held each other tightly.
âHiccup⊠Whatâve you done?â she sobbed.
I put my head on her shoulder, powerless and lost, on the verge of tears.
âI killed DragoâŠâ I confessed with an inaudible voice.
She slightly moved away from me to put her hands on my shoulders and read my face.
âHiccupâŠâ
âI know, I know⊠It wasnât how I wanted it to end! But Astrid, Iâm tired of being protected⊠Iâm the one that has to protect you! A chief protects his ownâŠâ
She brought me back into her arms to hold me tight against her once again.
âWhat are you going to do now?â she asked after a while.
âI need to see our daughter first, then Iâll tell you.â
She took my hand and I followed her to the other side of the hall, my mother was waiting for us, our baby in her arms. She gave the baby to Astrid, who then gave her to me. I held her carefully, rocking her gently.
âHello, youâŠâ I said, gently whispering.
My nerves disappeared and a tear rolled down my cheek, I was so happy. âMy little dragonâŠâ I smiled. âI already love you so much if you only knew⊠Daddy will always be with you⊠alwaysâŠâ I said, leaving a small kiss on the top of her head.
âHeather. Her name is Heather,â Astrid inquired, bending over me while putting her head on my shoulder by holding me against her.
âHeatherâŠâ I smiled, moved.
âŠ
âAre you sure about it?â she asked.
âYeah, Iâm sure Astrid. I will not go back on my decision.â
âAll right, then.â
âLetâs go.â
I grasped her waist and we moved outside, hand in hand, to the village center. Astrid let me take the place on the small platform before the other villagers gathered around me. I waited for silence and I began.
âPeople of Berk, today is a day of mourning for all of us here. Weâve won the war against Drago, but the sadness and pain he brought us will be with us for a long time. A chief protects his own, and today, I failed to protect you. Iâve been told often that I was a peaceful man, but I killed a man today. I was supposed to bring our worlds together, but look at this mess! Hundreds dragons and men died today! This kind of bloodshed will never happen again, because I can still make one decision to protect us all.â
I paused.
âI declare dragons exiled.â Disagreements erupted immediately among the villagers, but I kept going, raising my voice.
âThere have always been men like Drago and there always will be. If heâs not the one to exterminate the dragons, somebody else will! As long as dragons live with us, they wonât be safe and neither will we. Thatâs why Iâm asking for this exile, for the common good. I know itâs hard for youâitâs hard for me tooâbut itâs for the best, believe-me.â
A deafening silence started to fall when, suddenly, they began to make a sign I easily recognized. It was my fatherâs sign, a fist raised to the top. Soon, the whole village made the Vikingâ salute. They just approved my decision.
Farewells were extremely difficult to make. Every vikings and their dragons had met on the middle of the village to say goodbye one last time. It was very emotional to see the love we had for them expressed like that. I wasnât exiling them for nothing, and my people knew it. If we wanted to save them from extinction, that was the right thing to do.
I arrived at Toothlessâ side. Astrid and Stormfly were close to him, their arms full. I caressed the head of my dragon while looking straight in the eye, I smiled faintly at him. I presented him the auto-tail I made for him and Astrid had remade. He started to step back, I held him back.
âHey⊠Toothless⊠I know you donât like what is going on. But Iâm doing this for your sake and you know it,â I sniffed.
He approached and rubbed up against me, then he licked my head. I slightly laughed and hugged him once again.
âThanks Bud.â
I installed his new tail and made sure it was working before standing in front of him. âHere you go. Itâll serve you more than meâŠâ I said, joking.
Astrid came behind me and moved towards Toothless, wrapping her arms around him.
âGoodbye Toothless, thank you for everything youâve done for usâŠâ she murmured.
She relaxed her grip and put her hand on my shoulder before stepping behind me again. I took Toothless in my arms one last time.
âI will never forget you, Bud. Youâre my best friend⊠Iâll see you in ValhallaâŠâ
He seemed to begrudge and made a sad noise. I finally released him and stepped back to find Astridâs embrace. She grabbed my waist while holding me tight against her, supporting me as best she could.
Every dragon gathered around Toothless, who gave me a last look before flying away. All the others followed him and few wingbeats later, all the vikings were already at the islandâs borders, calling to their dragons one last time while waving goodbye. Two tears rolled down my cheeks as I watched the dragons flying away forever.
...
Four years laterâŠ
âDaddy! Tell me more about dragons!â Heather exclaimed.
âHeather, itâs getting lateâŠâ
âPlease!â insisted the brown-haired and blue-eyed girl.
Astrid came inside the room and sat down on the bed, next to her daughter.
âCome on Hiccup, if it makes her happy!â Astrid added.
I sighed. I couldnât refuse anything to the two greatest women of my life.
âFine, what do you want to know?â
âTell me how you became friend with Toothle!â
I laughed heartily.
âAh sweet heart, itâs ToothlessâŠâ
âOops⊠Sorry,â she apologized while smiling.
I came closer to Astrid and her and started my tale.
âThere were dragons when I was a boyâŠâ
#httyd3 spoilers#httyd3#hiccstrid#hiccup#astrid#toothless#heather#pregant astrid#pregstrid#preg!astrid#that is who you are#voilĂ qui tu es#httyd theories#httyd theory#httyd 3 end#httyd3 theory#my theory#thatiswhoyouare
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Forgive me if I've missed this, and I imagine I may know some of the answer, but why won't you watch BNHA? Also, hard as it may be to find, there are probably quite a few non-romance fics in the fandom, so you can get some character fix without necessarily watching it? I did that for supernatural, i couldn't be arsed to watch the damn thing, too many damn episodes for any man to understand
Oh! Okay so full disclosure I have actually watched season one of BNHA and it wasnât terrible or anything, Iâve watched far worse things (especially anime), and in fact, I really enjoyed at lot of it, primarily in the characters and concept (I really fucking love Ochako, Iida, Momo, and Izuku in particular), but there were just a couple of things that made me incapable of really enjoying the show as a whole and generally left me more annoyed than satisfied, so it just wasnât a fun experience as a whole, which is why I really wonât be continuing it despite the fact that the fandom has some amazingly talented writers/editors/fanartists and I really do love a lot of the characters, but I just⊠canât enjoy the series as a whole.
And the reasons Iâm really adamant about not continuing it arenât even for any social justice related (youâd think itâd be the sexualization of teen girls but unfortunately thatâs pretty much an anime staple and Iâve watched way, way worse, so you know), itâs just because I got two main problems with the series:
1. Bakugo. I know heâs very popular in the fandom and I can definitely see why; Explosion McAsshole is absolutely a compelling character from an objective viewpoint, but I just fucking hate him. I canât quite figure out why, exactly, but my best guess is that his motivation for being an asshole is too realistic. Thatâs the tl;dr and Iâll elaborate more under the cut (IâmâŠ. so fucking long-winded), but basically I just canât stand Sparky Sparky Boom Man.Â
But I could still probably stand to watch/read BNHA, if it wasnât for problem no. 2: Izuku having a quirk
Like. Holy shit. I actually damn near dropped the whole show at ep 3 when they introduced that neat little tidbit. The tl;dr on why I hate it so much is basically this: it ruins the worldbuilding and Izukuâs character AND Bakugoâs character in one fell swoop and I have no fucking clue who anyone could ever think this was good writing. Iâve elaborated on it here already but Iâll do it under the cut as well because holy fuck Iâm still mad about it.
And as for why I donât really read fanfic for BNHA without watching the show, well. I just donât like the fics. Every other fic is about Bakugo, whom I hate, and the other ones are all about Izuku either having a quirk, a romance, or some kind of tragic backstory that inevitably fridges his mom and turns him into a villain, and I donât care for that shit at all. On top of that, my absolute faves in the show are Ochako and Iida, who are pretty much never the center of a fic (youâd be lucky to find one where Iida is even a proper supporting character tbh). And also, I just think that a lot of the characterization in general suffers from what I call Large Fandom Syndrome, where a large quantity of people create an echo chamber of bad ideas that inevitably ends up making the characters into caricatures of their canon or even properly developed fanon self, and I just⊠donât care. Iâm not here for it. Give me 3D characters or give me death.Â
That said I have read some fic of it in the past, and there are even a couple I genuinely enjoyed despite them being centered around characters that I donât care for, and if anyone has good fic recs for the characters I like best and/or just good fics in general Iâm definitely here for it, but mostly, sifting through BNHAâs ao3 feels like all the work of slogging through a large fandom with none of the pay-off.Â
So yeah thatâs the abridged version, head on under the cut for The Full Salt on Why Tumblr User Arodumabass Refuses To Watch/Read BNHA, Despite Actually Liking The Characters and Concept A Lot.Â
So, about Bakugo. Like I said, my main problem is that his motive is too realistic; often, bully type characters are given some tragic backstory (usually an abusive family) for the reason they bully people in a bid to make them more sympathetic. While I despise this trope, I gotta admit that it kinda does work, since⊠well, I sure hate Bakugo more than any of those characters.
Unless I missed something important in canon, Bakugoâs main motivation for being a dick is that he was told throughout this childhood that, because of his strong quirk, he was superior to people, and heâs since internalized this mindset. This is definitely realistic, since the reason people get bullied irl isnât because all bullies are abused or some shit, but because society just likes to tell kids that âweirdâ people deserve to be bullied because ânormalâ people are superior. So, you know, kudos to whoever wrote the manga for getting that right.
Unfortunately, it doesnât make him any more likeable to me, and I know that heâs on the road for a redemption arc, but seeing him mad that Izuku is finally finding a place where he can feel safe just because Bakugoâs now not the Absolute Powerhouse he was in middle school anymore (yes, yes, I know itâs a little more complicated than that, but honestly, it doesnât fucking feel like it), and then seeing the fandom just absolutely loving him leaves a very, very bad taste in my mouth, to the point where he almost singlehandedly ruins the show for me.
Now, onto point no. 2: Izuku Not Having A Quirk Is The Worst.Â
Okay, so. BNHAâs world was basically introduced as a deeply flawed world right from the start. The opening episodes, Bakugoâs entire character, and even the way the entry exam/hero course is set up make it very clear that this world does not consider quirkless people to be at the same level as people who do have quirks. Izuku is repeatedly told that itâll be impossible for him to become a hero, despite the fact that he clearly has the strategical smarts and drive to be one and could at the very least be a background helper, and adults seem to completely ignore the fact that Bakugo and basically everyone else bullies him relentlessly for something that he canât help. The show makes it very, very clear that quirkless people, in the world of BNHA, are essentially disabled; they are locked out of certain job fields, bullied for something that manifests as a physical disability (basically), and the system as a whole just plain doesnât seem to care about them.Â
Literally any other piece of media with this kind of set-up would start deconstructing that entire idea, that what is essentially a genetic defect would automatically make you useless to society. But BNHA decides âeh, who needs useful worldbuilding, we can give Izuku a superpower and be done with it!â
Excuse me? The fuck, kind sir?
After Izuku gets a quirk, the whole âquirkless people are disadvantaged in society and canât be heroesâ is completely forgotten about. Iâve heard thereâs some minor quirkless character later on in the story, but for something that got such a huge set up, there just isnât any pay-off. This results in a story that doesnât challenge and even actively encourages an in-universe system that is absolutely awful and just plain bad (and also, you know, since quirkless people are definitely a disability metaphor, it has some very unintentional Implications that Iâm not fond of).Â
Not to mention that Izuku getting a quirk makes his character about 200% less interesting. Suddenly, heâs not the underdog anymore. He has something to prove, yes, but itâs primarily to himself and maybe Bakugo. Everyone else just knows him as âthat kid with the super strong quirk who goes way too fucking hardâ. They already respect him right of the bat, and Izuku doesnât have any real obstacle to fight against aside from the villain of the week and his own stupid recklessness, and that just isnât as compelling as a protag who fights against all that, and a broken system thatâs intent on keeping him from his dreams. He also becomes a lot less relatable since we, the audience, obviously donât have superpowers, so gaining one distances him from us.Â
Also itâs not like a powerless superhero would be a new idea. Fucking Batman exists. Green Arrow. Iron Man. Clint Barton. I could name a couple more. Thereâs a real precedent for heroes without superpowers, and the fact that BNHA instead decided to just say âwelp, you canât be a real hero without powersâ just⊠baffles me. ESPECIALLY when Izuku already had the perfect set-up for being a powerless hero: his analytical skills alone couldâve easily given him an advantage on the battle field, especially when coupled with the fact that villains would be frustrated trying to find his quirk. when it doesnât fucking exist. Hell, doesnât BNHA have a main baddie who can steal quirks? I mean???? Why the fuck does this kid have a quirk when his entire character would clearly work so much better without one?
And Bakugo. Like. I hate this bitch. But you know what wouldâve made his character arc of being jealous of Izuku better? Izuku actually being quirkless.Â
Bakugoâs whole entire deal is that heâs essentially the disillusioned gifted kid, who was constantly told throughout elementary and middle school that he was special, that he would go far, and then he actually got into a school with people who were just as smart as him and realized that he wasnât actually that special. Bakugo internalized the mindset that he was better than anyone else, and now that heâs slowly proven wrong with people who just donât take him serious because theyâre about as strong as he is infuriates him. Whatâs more, it gives him a giant inferiority complex, that says âif youâre not the best, youâre nothing at allâ, which he deals with by lashing out.
Izuku is basically the epitome of that whole predicament. A kid who Bakugo has bullied pretty much his entire life, held under his thumb by the notion that Bakugo was better than him and would always be better than him. The fact that Izuku not only got into the same school and track as Bakugo, but is also clearly better at this whole hero thing than he is makes him fucked up mad because Bakugo has always seen Izuku as inferior to him, so if even Deku is better than him now, where does that leave Bakugo? So he lashes out and is a giant dick about it.Â
Only. This doesnât really work, does it? Izuku has a quirk now. Bakugo doesnât know why (or I think heâs figured it out by now, but in the beginning he didnât at least), but itâs clear that Izuku has leveled up. And itâs a damn powerful quirk as well. Bakugoâs whole âeven fucking Deku is stronger than meâ anger issues and inferiority complex kind of falls apart when you realize that, to Bakugo, this isnât the same Izuku heâs known all his life. This is a new one, a better one, with a strong quirk. It really doesnât make much sense for Bakugo to be this affected by Izuku surpassing him, when itâs clear that the kid had a goddamn cheat code to do so.Â
His entire arc would be so much better if Izuku had stayed quirkless. Then we could actually have Bakugo unlearn his toxic internalized ideas of superiority, because as it stands now, the logical conclusion for his character arc would be âwell there are people with stronger quirks than I have, and I shouldnât have bullied Izuku because he had the potential to be powerful all alongâ, rather than âmy powerful quirk doesnât matter in the grand scheme of things, what matters is having a solid moral compass and hero instincts, and I shouldnât have bullied Izuku because that was immoralâ, which is what it should be. Itâs a slight difference, but itâs a difference between a character I can stand and a character I cannot.
(I mean, Iâm not saying BNHA is definitely not going with option 2 here, but Iâm saying that if they do, it would be unearned.)
Anyway thanks for reading my fucking essay but the tl;dr is that BNHAâs narrative was weakened by the fact that whoever wrote it was a fucking coward and took the easy way out by giving Izuku a quirk and I fucking hate it, so now every time I watch BNHA all I can think of is âman this would be so good if only the writer actually knew what he was doing. and also if bakugo would shut up for a hot secâ.Â
#bnha#my posts#sorry for once again churning out an essay#i promise im just as tired of it as all of you are#Anonymous#ask
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THE LAST JEDI SPOILERS!!!
I saw a lot of hate for The Last Jedi before I went to go see it. A lot directed at the misuse of Rose and sympathy for Kylo, but knowing tumblr I didnât take it to heart, and went to go see it. Coming out of the theater I loved it. Yeah sure it was different, surprising, and I guess there were a few moments that werenât my all time favorites, but i loved it (am I just blinded by my love for star wars so I canât see flaws? maybe...I mean I love the prequels, and apparently you arenât suppose to like those...) But when I came back and went on tumblr and twitter to see peoples responses now that I can look and not worry about spoilers, i still donât get it.
Star Wars isnât the pinnacle of Representation. Not by a long shot. But I think that it deserves more credit than the internet is giving it. So Iâm just going to give my personal opinion on some of the criticisms Iâve seen.
Rose is a Rey Replacement/Meant to break up Stormpilot, Finn/Rose/Poe are treated badly, Poe becomes an angry latinx sterotype, Tries to make us feel sympathy for Kylo:
First off, my personal motto is to not go into movies (especially big franchise films like marvel/star wars/dc/harry potter) with big expectations especially regarding ships. The filmmakers do not care what you ship, and itâs highly unlikely they will be canon. LGBTQ+ representation is something that is desperately needed especially in big blockbuster films, but with the current state of Hollywood, you are just setting yourself up for disappointment if you expect it to play out. Also if it isnât outright stated, I tend to try not to think of any relationship as romantic (Iâm not a big shipper anyways). Iâve just learned that if you want to come out of these movies happy, donât bring your ships/headcanons in the theater.
Rose is a strong character on her own. She has a lot of potential that they can cash in on with the next film. I would say that she may be a Rey replacement or treated terribly if she wouldâve actually died. Then she wouldâve just been a placeholder until Finn and Rey reunited. Then she wouldâve died with little growth (I say this because episode IX has (like I said) the potential to continue her character arc even more). Within this film she goes from being a maintenance worker, mourning her sister, looking up to the heroes, to becoming a hero herself. Sparking hope in the future of the resistance/jedi (you go Temiri). Infiltrating The First Order and sacrificing herself and delivering one of the most important lines in this trilogy imo âThatâs how weâre going to win. Not fighting what we hate. Saving what we love.âÂ
I personally feel that saying that all of that is undercut by the fact that her and Finn âfailâ or that she is made to kneel in front of a galaxy Nazi or that she got critically hurt at the end, is...saddening. She IS still a strong woc. The fact that she goes through that pain, or fails, shouldnât take away from the good she does. Same with Finn and Poe. They get thrown around and kicked through the dirt, but that doesnât make them any less of heroes. Like Yoda said âThe greatest teacher, failure is.â and that is what this movie is about. That hope isnât lost because you fail or make mistakes. That you get up and keep going, learn from what you did wrong and do better.
All writers know that the best way to find your characters true selves is to really push them. Right to the edge. Put them in the worse situations because then they really have to make honest decisions and show who they really are. It makes the audience feel bad, and sympathize for the heroes. Itâs the difference between a Superman âIâve never done bad in my lifeâ type of hero and a Batman/Captain America âIâve been to hell and back and Iâll fight for what I believeâ hero. How interesting would the story really be if the heroes always came out on top in everything they do? The heroes were really on their last leg throughout this entire movie. All of them. Forced to do what they needed to survive. And that makes it that much better when they do pull through. Yeah it sucks to see Finn get berated by Hux/Phasma, so when we see Phasma fall down into that pit of fire, Finn standing over her, You feel that gratification. In TFA when we see Kylo interrogate and manipulate Rey, it makes me feel sick, so when she absolutely destroys him in the battle on Starkiller, Iâm so proud and happy. Thats what its about. The triumph of good. But if there is no evil, if there is no bad guys, or no pain, what is there to overcome? What is the point? How do the characters grow?
That is on reason why I didnât see Poe as an angry latinx stereotype. Because despite some people having a somewhat calm demeanor, everyone else was in the same place as him. He just showed it. I didnât even seen him as angry/hotheaded. I saw him as frantic. He was scrambling to try and find a way to save everyone. He didnât want to back down. Holdo/Leia were just calm, and tried to think of other ways. He is standing up for what he believes. And people get angry/upset/loud sometimes. There isnât anything wrong with that. Not to go into it to much, but I think that is a problem with some people on the internet. They want representation, but get mad if the character isnât âperfectâ. But people are flawed. People get mad and loud, no matter what their race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/etc. I feel like he would fall into that stereotype if he had...i guess, refused to help Finn in TFA, or anytime throughout that film (where he seems to be smiling in every scene heâs in??)? If he had absolutely flipped on Leia for slapping him or demoting him (and I mean got more than a little loud). If he had been angry for Holdo/Leia for not doing his plan, not because he thought it was the right course of action, but because he wanted to do what he wanted to do and nobody was going to tell him he couldnât.
Going along with the, push characters to the edge to show the real them, thing... I am 100% not for a Kylo redemption. I can see them doing it, but I say he is a great villain so let him stay a villain. When they were teeing it up, with Rey and Snoke, I wasnât too happy (But the battle with the Praetorian guards was cool so I was okay for a bit) I did not want him to go to the light side. I was sort of relieved when it was revealed afterwards that he still just wants to rule the galaxy, but is still sort of set in the Sith way of âIâll have power, and Iâll get it however I can.â So not exactly âgoodâ in that classic sense. With all that being said, I donât see much wrong with how Kylo is shown in this film.
Rey is manipulated and obviously has her own conflict of light and dark (a bit) so her sympathizing with Kylo isnât exactly âgoodâ sympathizing with âbadâ (especially since this new trilogy seems to want to blur the lines between the two more so, (and hopefully give us a Grey jedi Rey)). And the audience doesnât have to feel bad for him. We were just given a bit more of his story, and like with the other characters having flaws, the villain is allowed to have nice qualities as well. A lot of popular villains are charismatic, and amazing people persons. They have an alluring nature. A lot do bad because of bad done to them, and are on the edge of being Robin Hood types. A lot of villains arenât textbook evil 24/7. When we feel bad for villains or antagonists, it adds to the story (i guess maybe just for some people). It causes us to talk and think about them and the story more because we can relate. It allows the messages to resonate deeper with us, and makes us look inside ourselves. In the case of TLJ, How would you let your or someone elseâs failure influence you? Would you be like Kylo and seek revenge, power? or would you be like the Resistance and let it motivate you to do better?
I very much agree with people online. The Star Wars franchise, and Hollywood in general can do so much better with Representation. There is many things they could fix. Add in more POC, LGBTQ+, especially main characters. Make them complex and realistic. I know it hurts to see the one character that you see yourself in go through pain, but (and I know iâm going to get hate for this) thats a part of life, and a big part of dramatic action movies like Star Wars. Star Wars isnât exactly a nice family sitcom. If you go into expecting no one to be hurt, then, youâre gonna have a bad time. I canât seem to find it but there was a nice post about how every piece of media that tries to have representation doesnât need to be âTHE ONEâ. Not every piece of media with a black man is going to have every single black man relate to it. Having more representation isnât about it being perfect, itâs just that, having more. A straight, white, man can sit down and start watching a film, and if they donât connect with the story they can turn around and go to something else. That is what we are trying to go to. Have so many different representations of LGBTQ+, or POC, or disabled, etc. communities, so we donât all have to hang on to the same one. So we can find something we personally connect to. Just because you donât connect or like the characters in SW, doesnât mean no one else does. There are soooo many little boys who look up to Finn and Poe and see them as a heroes. Or girls who look up to Rose. They donât see the negative bits that you might. Even if it is Rian Johnsonâs goal to slap around the POC characters as much as possible, a lot of people, outside looking in, donât see that. If enough people are looking up to these characters as heroes, and more people (the actors, writers, fanartists, comic writers, etc.) get their hands on these characters, does that intention even matter anymore? If we create a supportive community, what does that matter? I know we want representation but to make that a reality people have to stop berating and negatively judging every single bit of representation we get. There is plenty we can attack.So we have to be supportive and critical. Say âIâm so glad that star wars introduced a WOC. Though I think in the next movie, I would love to see her hold her own a bit more.â instead of #star wars hates poc. Otherwise the only thing those big hollywood execâs are gonna see is negative backlash to their attempt at representation, and they will just crawl back to their straight, white, male, comfort zones. You know how many times hollywood has used the excuse of a film or show with a diverse casting not doing well so they wouldnât have to do it again. How many times they have manipulated it to be that way? (e.g. The Catwoman and Elektra movies did badly (also got bad advertising) so they avoided making another female led superhero film for a long time.) With overall negative reviews. Then there are things like Sabanâs Power Rangers in more recent years. Not the best of the best, but good and entertaining, with a diverse cast, but it did badly and you donât see marvel or dc picking up a superhero with autism. They look at each otherâs numbers, look online and see what kind of buzz it gets, and decide from there what things succeeded and what didnât and put the good bits in the pot for the next film. So when they see people trashing the representation, guess what part they arenât going to pick out and use again? Iâll stop now. Edit: I also want to add that I am completely open to talking about this. I do want to hear peopleâs opinions on why they might have felt uncomfortable with certain things, and what they think should be changed in future installments. Iâm open to civil discussions, with people who respect other points of view.
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You know what, I canât keep quiet about this. Whether Anon intended to or not, this ask comes across as extremely rude and entitled. I realize that, being the lucky writer than has seen more than one piece of art from @little-lynxâ based on my stories in the past month puts me in a pretty comfortable position, but seriously? Do you hear yourself, Anon?
A fanartist, like a fanfic writer, produces content for free, as a hobby in their spare time. And in the case of creating fanart for a fanfic, it helps to read the stories first. You come into the inbox of an artist producing not just fanfic inspired art but also multiple series/strings of fanart based on canon, to include several multi-panel full fledged comics, and you word your ask like this? SHall we count? Sheâs producing a series depicting Everlark outfits, she has her Instapanem series, her On the Bakery Porch series, and who knows what other ideas are brewing in her head! Who are you to police what someone else reads, creates, or how they dedicate their time? We talk about âdonât like, donât read,â or claim to have empathy for fanfic writers who donât read as much fanfiction as someone who is consuming and commenting on fic but not producing it, we claim to be an understanding fandom, and this is your question?
Scroll a little. Read a few of her posts, Anon. Sheâs said on several of them that sheâs new to fanfic and is trying to balance her time to read-enjoy-create while still living a full life apart from fandom. I mean I donât know about you, but I lurked for years before I felt comfortable posting my creations, so the fact that @little-lynx openly states sheâs just started reading fanfic and sheâs already posting fanart for it... that takes GUTS. Give the artist some room to freaking breathe, would you?
I cannot draw, but I write. I know how much time I put into my stories. I imagine that itâs a similar time and brain power commitment for the sheer volume of artwork that this particular artist has blessed our fandom with in recent months. Not to mention hoping that the magical trifecta of time-inspiration-motivation is actually in line when you sit down to create.
Honestly. SCROLL DOWN HER BLOG A MINUTE and think before you Anon. Sheâs been taking fic recommendations. Sheâs been building a to-read list. If youâre that keen to see art from your favorite fic or one of you own fics, then send a polite message. Iâll even give you a format:
Hi! Your art is stunning! I really like the piece you did depicting *insert something nice here*. I was wondering if youâve read *insert fic name here*. If not, I highly recommend it. Thank you so much for sharing your art with us.
And understand that just like with a fic writer, a fic artist is under no obligation to actually fill your requests/prompts.
Not only that, but the three writers sheâs drawn artwork for so far...NONE OF US APPEAR TO HAVE ASKED FOR IT. I know I didnât. Now, obviously weâre thrilled and grateful. Who wouldnât be? But the point is, sheâs creating as sheâs inspired to do so, not on our timelines but on HERS. We claim to support fanfic writers who do the same thing. So why treat an artist differently? Why?
Look, I get it. If youâre a writer, itâs sometimes hard to see other people receive artwork or recognition. Our writing is so often a labor of love and we put a lot of hard work into them, but SO DOES AN ARTIST who is drawing something. This passive aggressive SHAMING and messaging thatâs reeks of bitter entitlement is not acceptable. Itâs actually a lot worse if youâre a writer and are sending this, honestly. Because youâve probably had that moment of absolute dejection after a comment that reeks of âWhy didnât you write exactly what I want?â or âUpdate soon!â when you just freaking posted or someone who gets upset after you update because it wasnât the story THEY wanted to see an update from. Which means, you oughta know better.
And if your actual problem is that her two most recent fanfic based fanarts both happened to be MY stories sheâs drawn and there have been a few people recommending some of my other stories to her, and I happen to be that one writer you think is over-rated, gets way too much attention, annoys you because you donât like my writing, or whatever other stick is up your butt, then your problem is really with me. Not @little-lynx. Grow up and deal with it. Donât tear down a creator whose producing free content for the entire fandom, not just one fanfic writer, because youâre butthurt.
Will you be drawing anything from other stories too? Thereâs a lot of extremely talented authors in this fandom who also deserve some love. :)
Hi!
Ahem, why I feel so uncomfortable now? Like i did something bad?
You know I wrote A4 long answer for your question but decided not to publish it. Well, ok, long story short. Yes, Iâm planning to draw fanart for other fics. Iâve said it a million times before but again Iâm really new to THG fanfiction. Iâm thrilled to read all the fantastic stories from different authors (and I know how talented people are in this fandom!). But I donât know when this will happen.
Yes, there will be some more illustrations for @katnissdoesnotfollowback stories but that doesnât mean that other authors are not good enough, ok? I just havenât read much yet. Why do I have a feeling that Iâm making excuses for loving some particular stories? Maybe I got it wrong.
Look, Iâm not a fanfiction artist. âRead and sketchâ is a side series that I made just for fun and to say âthank youâ to fic writers I adore. So when I will read something (better to say when I will have time to read something) that I love I will draw fanart for it.
P.S. And maybe you can send me some ideas what to read next? :) I want to do a to-read list! Maybe there are some stories that just MUST be read? What I particularly love: growing together, no games au, RYE, Mellarks (and will be cool if Mrs Mellark is not a complete bitch please), not super depressing, no pregnancy and children (thanks, I have enough myself đ), everlark centred. Thanks!
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EXOârDIUM DOT experience!! Day 2 concert day, the final one.
As you guys can see from the title... I am starting to feel emotional T-T Yes, the very last concert of EXOârDIUM in Seoul, it is pretty sad to watch it end, but I am thankful to have ended this concert with EXO personally!Â
Day 2 started very early in the morning, we gather at 615am in the lobby and the staff brought us to COEX for EXOârDIUM surround viewing concert! Basically it is a theater that has large screens which surrounds the front part of the sides as well! Explains why it is called surround viewing!!Â
I sat relatively infront! I am guessing the row starts off with row A, I picked the ticket which settled me down at Row H and seat 22! Aisle seat again!! Basically it was a recorded version of EXOârDIUM in Seoul start, they had Baekhyun stripping (OMG!), I was pretty tired as the screening started at 7amkst... Can you imagine me watching this with my eyes half opened?? HAHAHA, my eyes only light up when I saw Baekhyunâs ABS LOLOL. (I actually almost fell asleep while watching it... It wasnât boring, I was just too tired from the previous day concert)
The screening started at 7amkst and lasted for 1hr 20minutes, so the entire show ended at about 930amkst. We were let off from there to go tour around Artium ourselves and of course, SHOPPING!Â
As we stepped out off the theater, we were instructed to drop our letter for exo in this big box. I was rather disappointed that we couldnât leave it at backstage for them or something??? I heard from the previous time fans left it at backstage, but I am assuming because Jamsil stadium is a bit inconvenient so they told us to drop in a box instead.Â
My letters to Baekhyun and Chanyeol!! Baekhyunâs letter was really long and sincere, something that was really close to my heart. I told him my life wish list!Â
For Baekhyun to be healthy and happy.Â
For Baekhyunâs love ones to be healthy and happy too! including Myeongrong-ie!
To go to Baekhyun Oppa fansign! (when is this ever going to happen lol)
To do well in University and meet exo proudly again (I think!!)Â
I also told Baekhyun that I am thankful for him, and that he was the one who gave me lots of strength and motivation when bad things happen to me. I was able to pull through so many difficulties thanks to him, and of course quoted âLife is only a path full of effortsâ and signed off with my name and where I was from!
As for Letter to Chanyeollie, I decided to be funny and wrote,Â
âChanyeol Oppa, Toben-ie is so cute!â and signed off with my name and where I was from as well too~Â
After that, I headed off to Artium to do some shopping, as you know, Baekhyun stuff always get sold out (ugh this is annoying ya know sobs), so I decided to get a Lay keychain!!! I know itâs quite surprising, but I cannot help but appreciate Lay more these days. I really love the way he expresses himself, I was yearning for his appearance at EXOârDIUM DOT even more...Â
This Keychain is 23,000won, approx $28.50sgd (ignore the receipt behind lol, 22,000won is something else which I will mention in a while) Itâs so pretty and its actually the same colour as Baekhyunâs keychain!! Sadly I couldnât get Baek or Chanâs keychain...Â
After that, I headed off the SUM market to get some sweets! Well as mentioned, I am a chanbaek trash... so you can expect the photo below~
Each container of sweet costs 11,000won each (approx. $13.60sgd SO EX BUT I STILL GOT IT), so the picture above with the receipt 22,000won is actually for this HAHAHA!!Â
And if anyone is curious about the price of the band, it is actually 13,000won each (approx. $16sgd) It fits perfectly for the bottle produced, but not any other bottles, so if you bought it like me without the bottle, you can just simply clip it onto your bag as display~~ or around your wrist like me during concert!!Â
After purchasing all the items, I mingled around and waited for time to pass. The staff instructed us to meet outside COEX ARTIUM to bring us for lunch event that was included in the package as well!Â
We were served with Bibimbap!!! yum yum in the tum! There was even EXO Mat at the bottom! If you look closely, do you see the soup at the left? The soup was so hot it condensed at the bottom and on Chanyeolâs face OTL.. I was so sad, but I requested for a brand new mat before I left the restaurant so I could get to keep it. It was just normal paper quality~Â
ahhhh~ our Hyunnie~~ *-*
After lunch, I told our guide that we will leave on our own as we didnât want to wait till 3pmkst to head to the concert venue. So I just left and took the train to Sports complex station where Jamsil stadium is located (FYI it is not located at Jamsil station guys)Â
Upon reaching Jamsil stadium, I headed off to where Cookie-nim gave out her fansupport in hoping to receive it!!! Great news is! I got it!!! Super cute transparent fan by cookie-nim! I really love her fanart!! Super love! (if you know me well enough, you should know I really like her fanart that I even bought her photocards when she sold it)
Ribbon Baek!!! One of my favourite style of B! I am so thankful that stylist-nim gave him this image! If you want Ribbon B photos, please check here!
Chanbaek fan that I ran for from the other side of the Stadium just to get it... Thankfully I got it :â)!!
My second favourtie fanartist!!! 5g__5g-nim!Â
So now lets talk about the postcard set that I got from the Merchandise booth!! Actually... just look at them, I donât even need to say anything. It is just pure beauty!!! If you want scanned version please let me know, I can scan it~
After collecting all the fansupport, I decided to enter the concert venue and get settled down!Â
Day 2âČs fansupport!!Â
Last recognition photo for EXOârDIUM DOT T-T
I was much closer to the stage!!! I was able to see all of them clearly!!!
ah.. too bright whoops... I donât have much photos tbh, please check out fansite HD photos instead of mine HAHAHA But can you see the hanged up posters shining? It was so beautiful~
Day 2 concert started as usual with Monster! Fanchants for every song was so loud and clear, I am indeed honoured to be part of this!Â
(I donât have any photos of the performance so donât expect more haha)Â
The last concert went really well without any injuries, I sincerely watched every performance with care and make sure I remember them clearly. I had my reasons of not recording, although some might think that it is a pity that I did not record since I was already there. But, honestly, I wanted to watch their performance with my eyes, not watching them through my camera... It might be a pity I did not record to rewatch it again, but fully experiencing it with my own eyes it way better than staring at my phone throughout the entire concert right?Â
Towards the end, EXO came out with surprise again, this time asking us for a date!
Letâs go on a summer date!
Sweetest angels that brought me to tears...Â
Through the last EXOârDIUM concert, I experienced so much emotional breakdowns, I watch how Baekhyun stripped, become a hot guy, picking up bad boy concept and then suddenly turning into the sweetest angel that looks at fans sincerely~Â
The concert ended with the boys walking towards the backstage, I left Jamsil stadium with watery eyes and a heavy heart, not knowing when I will be able to see them again as I am an I-fan. But it came across my mind that I am actually very blessed to be able to even meet exo in real life, and that I will cherish this wonderful memory created with exo in Seoul. Experiencing EXOârDIUM DOT concert in Seoul at Jamsil stadium is really one life goal that I was lucky enough to experience. It was definitely a once in a life time experience, I am thankful and thankful again, no matter what... I wouldnât change my love for them, letâs run this journey together EXO...Â
As EXOârDIUM comes to an end, if you guys really want me to talk about how it felt. Honestly, there are no words to describe how I felt... It was a really breath-taking concert, seeing how exo members are able to play freely with fans as there was absolutely no language barrier and korean fans here really give their best to exo. Astonishing fanchants and cheers just for the one and only exo... No wonder the boys always enjoy Seoul concert so much!Â
I watched the boys let loose of themselves and always thanking fans for giving them so much love and support, and that without fans, they wonât be able to hold a concert at Jamsil.Â
Baekhyun mentioned: âEXO is like a book that Lee Soo Man created, EXO-L is the key pen that writes history with exo, without a pen, a book would never write itâs history, and because of EXO-L, EXO can proudly perform in Jamsil stadiumâÂ
Baekhyun really brings out the best words for EXO-Ls, other members has also poured out their sincere thoughts for exo-Ls. When I saw Chanyeol from afar wiping his tears, I broke a little, to know how tiring it was for all of them, and that they have endured so much just to give us the best stage. What broke me further was when the screen filmed Baekhyun looking at fans sincerely through the confetti... I was quietly holding back my tears. I normally only look at previews and be like,âawww Baekhyun so sweetâ, but when I personally experienced looking at him like that, it was really emotional, looking at him quietly looking at fans made me want to protect and hug him tightly.Â
EXO really gave it their all for the last concert of EXOârDIUM, longer chats, super power showcase with lightsticks, support cards for EXO-Ls, not forgetting how Suho conveyed to us that Yixing missed us a lot.Â
I hope every I-fan actually experience an EXO concert in Seoul yourself, you will then fully understand how it truly feels and why Kfans are so so so so loyal and dedicated to EXO. I felt like I wasnât a good enough fan, and that I didnât love EXO enough with all my heart. After experiencing the concert, I finally knew why, it is an indescribable feeling. You just have to experience it yourself to understand. Â
To every fan reading this, it is ok if EXO never really looked into your eyes and know your existence, they know we are there for them in their hearts. They have worked half of their youth to achieve their dreams, fulfill our desires and wishes, I believe they love every single one of us even though they cannot reach out to all of us. Please continue to support EXO in their future comebacks and schedules, letâs continue to love them even more!Â
Thank you all for waiting for this patiently! Thank you for constantly cheering on me as well, I am happy to share this emotion and experience here. To end off, thank you again.Â
exo planet 3
exordium dot .Â
thank you exo
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Hello! I just have one question about Ouma. What was his reason for auditioning for the killing game? I heard from others that it was something to do with charity, but are there any other details? (Love your metas btw ^^)
These questions mightseem a little bit unrelated at first, but I feel like they both deal with thesame question at heart, so I decided to answer them together!
Iâll try going as in-depth as I can with an explanation, butjust know that much of this is theory-making and speculation. What I can sayfor a fact however, is this: the charitything is a false rumor. Iâve seen this one going around for a while eversince the game launched, and having played through the entire game myself, Ican confirm that thereâs not a single mention at all of Ouma ever havingauditioned to raise money for charity causes or donate money, or anything likethat.
Iâm pretty sure this rumor was one of the first to arisewhen the game launched precisely because there was no real way at the time ofdifferentiating fake information from real (which is pretty hilarious, giventhe actual themes of ndrv3âs last chapterâŠ). So there were a lot of rumorsfloating around simultaneously about âOuma being the worst human being who everlived and a horrible villain who killed Miu and Gonta for no reason at all,âand then a lot of rumors in response to that about âOuma being a precious cinnamonroll who did nothing wrong at all ever, in his entire life.â Unsurprisingly, both of these sets of rumors are false.Yet again, everything with Ouma comes back to a middle ground.
We donât see much of his pre-game self; even in the prologuehe has almost no speaking lines whatsoever. What we can surmise about him isthat he definitely seems more timid and reserved than his in-game counterpart.However, considering how playing pranks and tricking people is such a core part of his personality almostunrelated to any of his assigned talents (be it SHSL Supreme Leader, âSHSLDespair,â or my theory, SHSL Chessmaker), I think that mischievous, tricksteraspect of him was always there, even pre-game. Kodaka even made it a point inhis interview question to confirm that being a fun-loving trickster is anessential part of Oumaâs character.
Oumaâs reason for auditioning onto the killing game is, fornow at least, a matter of speculation. Tsumugi avoids talking about him verynoticeably in the latter half of the Chapter 6 trial. Once the accusation abouthim being a Remnant of Despair is cleared up, in fact, she rather avoids talkingabout him at all. When she showsaudition tapes for the game, she only provides three: ones for Saihara, Kaede,and Momota respectively, and the segments she shows from Kaedeâs and Momotaâsare noticeably shorter than the oneshe shows from Saiharaâs.
Even when she provides her âflashbackâ (and I provideflashback in quotation marks specifically because she tells the group âhow theyreactedâ when they learned they were selected to participate in the killinggame show, but she does it without proof. Itâs literally all her say-so viaword-of-mouth, with no videos or even remember lights to back it up), Ouma getsno speaking lines or focus at all.
She avoids talking about him so thoroughly in the last partsof the trial that I canât help but think that itâs on purpose: after all, afterhaving spent so much of Chapter 5 and 6 trying to build him up into the worstvillain of all time, I canât help but think if sheâd had hard, concreteevidence to present that he had gone onto the game because he wanted to killpeople or because he wanted something like cash, fame, or power, she wouldâve shownthat evidence to everyone.
She loved tryingto make Ouma into a pawn, precisely because he was such a terrific actor and heâfitâ for being the villain so perfectly.Itâs not something she ever once shied away from. So the mysterious lack ofhard information on Ouma in Chapter 6 is, I think, something that speaks veryloudly on its own. If she canât present âproof,â it means she didnât have any.
This brings me to the second question, about ending thekilling game. I feel as though there is a lot of evidence suggesting that thismight very well be the case. Itâs still speculation, of course, but I have seena considerable amount of fanart and doujinsfrom Japanese Pixiv artists who all seem to agree on one fact after playing thegame for themselves: not wanting to kill people was an inherent, deeply importantpart of Oumaâs personality, hence the emphasis placed on it in his in-gamemotive video. This is so deeply essential and vital to understanding his entirecharacter that I myself am firmly of the belief that he was like this evenpre-game; after all, giving him the personality trait of ânot wanting to killpeopleâ does absolutely nothing for Tsumugi, moreso when she so clearly wantedto twist him and watch him play the villain.
If itâs true that Ouma has always wanted to play tricks andmake mischief but without hurting or killing people, then that is very interesting in the ndrv3 universe,where everyone else is absolutely obsessed with Danganronpa. In ndrv3, DRitself is a franchise absolutely based around the idea that suffering and painand âdespairâ are necessary in orderto lead to excitement and entertainment and âhope.â People in the ndrv3universe think absolutely nothing about loss of life, even the loss of theirown lives, if it means they can be a part of that âexcitingâ game.
To Ouma, who is always seeking a distraction from theroutine and the boring and the predictable, this game isnât exciting at all.Even when heâs on the verge of death, he calls the game boring. The idea ofslaughtering people, the idea of lives being lost that will never come back, isliterally the opposite of fun to him.This isnât my personal opinion as someone who likes him as a character: itâs afact, supported by all the evidence from his actions to his whiteboard to hismotive video.
There is a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that Oumamight very well have hated DR and hated the killing game even beforeauditioning to be on it. None of it meshes up with his interests, after all.Thereâs no reason to surmise that he wanted to be on the show âbecause he was ahuge fanââand again, if he ever had mentioned being a fan of DR or loving tosee people die, I honestly feel like Tsumugi would not have wasted an opportunityto show a video like that. It would have solidly backed up her claims about allof them being horrible people, and considering how undeniably pissed she was atOuma for getting in the way of her plans, she would have probably loved to takea shot back at him by badmouthing him further.
Itâs very likely then that he did audition with theintention of ending the game for good. After all, itâs not unheard of: afterparticipating in his first killing game, Amami reached the exact sameconclusion that the killing game was horrible and that it needed to end, and hetried to achieve the exact same result as Ouma but by different means. It wouldmake perfect sense if Ouma had hated the game even from the start and onlyauditioned specifically because he wanted to put an end to it. As he says inhis FTEs to Saihara: âYou can win a game without playing it.â And Ouma wasdefinitely playing to win, but on his own terms and by his own rules.
Anyway, this is the most I can say judging by theinformation we have. But I think even though itâs speculation, itâs prettysolid. After all, many Japanesefanartists who have played the game for themselves and understood it in fullwith no need for translation or misinformation have theorized about the samething. Pretty much every Japanese fanartist Iâve seen who has gone back andreplayed the game for a second time already has mentioned noticing a lot moredetails and hints about Oumaâs mindset on a second time than they did the firsttime around, and I think that speaks quite a lot for itself.
I hope this clears things up, and Iâm glad if I could dispelthe charity rumor! I know a lot of people were tempted to believe the ândrv3charactersâ personalities were flipped 180 degrees for the killing gameâ rumor,but thereâs not really any basis to it, and a lot of the charity rumor stemmedfrom that larger rumor in particular, I think. Ouma is definitely no angel andthereâs nothing to suggest he wasnât still mischievous and a bit of a bratbefore the gameâbut heâs also decidedlynot evil, as his hatred for killing and murder can attest. Â Thank you both for asking!
#ndrv3#drv3#new danganronpa v3#kokichi ouma#ouma kokichi#ndrv3 spoilers //#my meta#okay to reblog#i'm so glad i could actually talk a little bit more about this in-depth#it's fun to be able to theorize and i'm glad if i can clear up misinformation at the same time#otpsforlife#anonymous
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