#how to train your dragon the nine realms

[otiksimr]

They kinda just look more basic tbh.

[electricfied-wolf]

Still on my Nine Realms shit btw and I will defend Thunder's family till the day I die. Specifically Cookie (aka the name me and some friends came up with for his mom) like look at these beautiful creetures. I wish they were featured in more eps than they were because I would've loved to see more of them.

[ph4nt0m-draws-stuff]

Tiny rant

okay so I just watched the newest season of the nine realms (I was dreading it cuz I lowkey didn't want to put myself through the cringiness of the show again but at the same time I wanted to laugh at it lmao) and oh boy I am just so mad. I already hated the show but like I guess for whatever reason this season just pushed me over the edge. Halfway through I was throwing up my hands in defeat and saying "THAT 'S IT I'M DONE" and walking away from my laptop (not because it was inherently 'bad', but it was just so boring I couldn't stand it). It wasn't from anything necessarily worse than the previous seasons, but rather than the fact that this series is still fucking greenlit. I mean it's just so bad- the character designs, the characters themselves, the story (which is okay at best), it's just bleh. anyway I had my own rewritten characters from when the show first came out (spite OCs, if you will), and I might bring these bad boys back. Idk but that's it haha

[blu3cl0v3rs]

all i'm trying to say is evolution takes time. in my opinion, it does make sense that they look more or less the same.

yes, it feels a bit lazy because the models are literal copies of previous dragons, but at least it's sort of understandable?

i haven't gotten a chance to watch more than the first episode and whatever clips have been released in people's reviews of it, but i think something we should be focusing more on is the characters and plot sucking-

SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY WE'RE BEING ASKED TO BELIEVE THAT THE SKRILL, RAZORWHIP, GRONCKLE, MONSTROUS NIGHTMARE, FIREWORM, AND HOBGOBBLER (?) HAVEN'T EVOLVED IN THIS NEW ENVIRONMENT AND SURROUNDED BY HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES THEY DON'T NORMALLY INTERACT WITH HAVEN'T EVOLVED OVER 1300 YEARS

[thereweredragonshere]

As much as The Nine Realms sucks absolute ass, I fucking love the snifflehide. The colours, the obnoxiously large nose. Ugh. Let me pet it

[ana-the-light-fury]

I've always praised the fact that Toothless' wings actually look large enough to carry his body:

I mean LOOK at that! I can easily imagine those allowing him to glide and flap hard enough to get him off the ground.

...

THUNDER'S wings, however...

They look so thin. And his body looks so HEAVY. How do those keep him up??!

[skyheachi]

Furys

[httyd-art-requests]

Hope your doing well, I love httyd and your art scratches an itch in my brain. I had a thought and figured you might know. Do any dragons have fur or feathers? If so, would you be willing to draw them? :]

Hope your doing well!

The only dragon I can think of right now is the Woolly Howl, but I've been informed that the fur is apparently just specialized scales. But I've drawn not one, not two, but THREE seperate Woolly Howls, so here's a little compilation of them :3

(Don't mind the old blog URL in the corners)

Hope you enjoy!

(I like how you can see me slowly putting more effort into the drawings lol)

[dragonnnfly]

The only way they could have made me watch httyd: the nine realms was if the creators brought back Ruffnut, confirming that she was immortal, and just let her wreck some shit

THE ONLY WAY

[zoomzooml]

Concept doodles of The Nine Realms dragons because I fell into spiral with those lmao. I have no idea what to do with Feather so I'm ruling her out for now lmao.

I feel that one of the main problems with D:TNR is that this original dragons are done in one style, dragons from previous series are done in another style and dragons from yet another (Bubblehorn is from some series for really young kids from what I know) are done in yet another style and the creators lump it all together.

And the fact that I'm not fond of The Nine Realms artstyle at all is a private opinion. Mine doesn't rally fit HTTYD universe either but I think it's not hard to translate these design so I hope it works anyway lol

Most important text from pics under the cut:

WU 'N' WEI

I feel like two heads don't work for that dragon but I tried to roll with that.

I give them spinosaurous-like snouts bcuz I wanted to keep it round but non-deformed lookin' (lmao).

Catfish-like whiskers on both jaws and in front of eyes.

Knee bends forwards now (why do they bend backwards in canon design??? I don't understand)

More Zippleback-like legs and body.

I hate their colors and tried to improve it but my brain can't do colors either ಥ_ಥ I feel like it all crashes together...

Personal note: I don't like designs of animals who have colors 50/50 at all but I want them to be recognizable. Color pattern like this feel super unnatural unless it's mutation. Like those birds or butterflies who are half male, half female. It's also my personal headcanon for these two lol

I don't like pattern of their wings bit idk what to give them. I just don't want wings to be solid but different than body color, it just looks kinda awkward??

PLOWHORN

In my opinion, because only her wings are covered in armor they look out of place. Rumblehorns' armor looked more conected to it, because head also looked hard/armored. So I tried to connect her armor to her body a bit more

Horn is no longer made of crystal.

She doesn't grow crystals. Crystals grow on her because of her natural habitat

I give her a bit smaller head

Details of her unique wings. They are still made of skin and bones but folds in more bug-like style

BUBBLEHORN

Bodytype similiar to Terrible Terrors, maybe a bit shorter.

Horns like those of Deadly Nadder.

Eyes like parrots'. Idk why lol

Spikes and scales on legs and tail similiar to those of Night Fury

[local-dragon-haunt]

I have 11k words in the wip folder

[otiksimr]

@goldenwolfmidna at your request :)

GIANT SERPENT SUPRREMENCY!!!

[electricfied-wolf]

Tnr spoilers if I have anyone here that actually likes the show (like I do) and hasn’t seen s4-

I don’t give a fuck WHAT people say about Thunder’s family. They are literally the cutest dragons in the world. “His mom’s face is so wide!” AND WHAT OF IT? She looks like a goofy frog and I love her for it. His siblings look really silly but they’re CUTE and they’re BABIES not all babies are pretty little angels.

[quillusquillus]

Just realising now that the ending to HTTYD: The Hidden World that I despise SO much (where they put all the dragons away in a hole because "humanity isn't ready" whatever the fuck that means, despite humanity NOW FINALLY starting to build bridges of inter-species cooperation after centuries of war and murder) actually makes sense as an ending if its purpose wasn't to be a conclusion to the two-series three-movie storyline of Hiccup and co., but rather as a clumsy lead-in to their stupid "dragons reemerge 1300 years later and it's our modern world for real now" Nine Realms tv show.

With this in mind, I feel much more justified in pretending the last 5 minutes of HTTYD 3 don't exist. In my mind, HTTYD continues to perpetuate in a world that is completely different to ours (WHICH ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO THEY EVEN HAVE MAPS THAT LOOK NOTHING LIKE ANYWHERE ON EARTH AA) and they never packed the dragons away in their dragon box because the naughty human children aren't allowed to play with them any more for unspecified reasons.

In my mind the next 1300 years follow a tumultuous but fascinating growth of cooperation and industry between dragons and humans, spreading from "viking" culture (who are also obviously not actual vikings come on dreamworks are you seriously going to pretend these are historical depictions please) to all over the globe, with conflicts and nuance of course but eventually growing into a fascinating parallel of our modern world but with dragons existing amongst all that Dinotopia style. Dragon island-to-island public transport! Symbolic dragon representatives in governmental bodies! Dragon long-range "riding" with headsets into areas that would be dangerous to humans! Dragon abilities allowing construction of materials and devices unknown to us! Dragons using touch tablets to communicate simple phrases! Absolutely wasted potential.

[mothmansbakery]

I saw this somewhere, don’t remember where, but it would have been SOOOO much better if the kids’ parents were archeologists instead of them researching a ravine for minerals so that it makes more sense that they’d be in a Viking village and researching it AND HAVING MORE CONVINCING TIES TO HICCUP AND THE GANG-

Okay so I'm thinking about The Nine Realms (for obvious reasons lol) and I think I heard or saw somewhere (this is totally not my original idea, but I don't remember where I got it) someone saying that it would make so much more sense and be so much better if TNR actuallyl took place ON New Berk years later and w the new kids discovering dragons and the hidden world due to their proximity w it.

I think this is SUCH an awesome idea and would honestly be so much better because it would give the show much stronger ties to the orginal series (imo) and open it up for a lot of cool references and callbacks that don't make sense. Why is there an arrowhead or wtv in the Hidden World w the strike class symbol on it? Why is Hiccup's diary in the Hidden World?? WTF?? They're not, they're hidden somewhere on New Berk.

That way it doesn't disrupt canon saying that they LEFT THE DRAGONS ALONE, and it feels less forced. The new kids could all be descendents of the gang, too. I know that having them be descendents w similar features or characteristics or wtv is REALLY far fetched after all of this time and I think that realistically it wouldn't be like that, but for a storytelling purpose I think it'd be okay.

And I think it's fine if Tom is a descendant of Hiccstrid, and all of the rest of the kids are somehow tied to other members of the gang, but I think it'd be REALLY funny if they all had different last names except whoever was related to the Jorgensons. Like the Jorgenson family pride in their name and their lineage just like,, transcended a thousand years and many many many many many generations. It just stuck bc they refused to give it up. (this is like actually the point of this post lol)

Anyway now I want to work on a proper TNR rewrite/reconceptualization with THIS premise and just see how it goes lol

[thereweredragonshere]

I pretended that The Nine Realms is canon for a bit and gave the inbred a re design

Thunder they did you so dirty you could have been so cool🙏

Also hey hi hi my hand is better I can draw again