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She never came back
#how to train your dragon#httyd#httyd toothless#toothless#traditional art#watercolor#httyd the red death#who I once was#two Queens
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Girlboss
#demon whispers about nonsense#demon's drawings#httyd#the red death httyd#httyd the red death#how to train your dragon#how to train your dragon the red death#the red death how to train your dragon
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Hot take
Night furies are actually perfectly evolved for hunting and killing other dragons and the only reason they aren't a dragon-hunting species like the death song or deathgrippers are is because DreamWorks couldn't have their adorable main character dragon be a "cannibal"
(below I'm gonna try to summarize what we've figured out in a convo with friends on discord)
(also tw animal death via predator)
First of all yes I'm aware that pretty much every decision made about their design was with consideration of the effect it would make on human audiences but hear me out
Night furies are most iconically known as dive-bombers. They are built for speed, high maneuverability, night-time camouflage and for striking targets from above. If we remove human settlements out of the equation (which would not have existed long enough to actually influence night fury evolution, come on), what does that leave us with?
They aren't built for catching fish for sure, they aren't very hydrodynamic and their head is round, wide, and their teeth are dull. Honestly, the monstrous nightmare is much better suited for catching fish, with its long neck, almost pelican-like jaw and rhamphorhynchus teeth
Compare to
Yeah the jaws look kinda like a porpoise of some sort but for that the whole body would have to be a lot more aquatic imo. The light fury looks a lot closer to an aquatic diver, it has a sleeker body, rounded fins instead of spikes, and a long neck.
I don't really see them hunting land animals either, they just don't look like they're adapted for that minus the resemblance with large felines and even then, they're too large to effectively hunt in forests.
The one thing I can kinda imagine them hunting is large mainland megafauna, but we're working with a setting that takes place pretty much exclusively on islands. And overall, dragons are the only abundant species there with the exception of fish and human-bred sheep and chickens.
In general, night furies have duller teeth, smaller claws and are smaller than most dragons. Disregarding the movies making Toothless weirdly OP, a night fury would be disadvantaged against most dragons in a 1v1 fight and besides, it has four huge weak spots that would highly discourage it from a direct physical fight - the primary and secondary tail fins. One unlucky rip in the membrane and the night fury is fucked.
The night fury however noticeably resembles falcons, given their dive-bombing ability and high maneuverability.
Falcons too have smaller beaks and weaker claws compared to most birds of prey, and for that they compensate by simply picking up speed, balling up their talons and Punching. Really. Hard.
And they use that ability to kill other birds, even much larger ones, by knocking them right from the sky.
Here, the night fury's plasma blast works the same way as a falcon's punch. Dragons are fire-resistant, so what the plasma blast does is really just a densely packed bolt of energy that has the effect of either stunning or outright killing prey by damaging its spine. And what the plasma bolt doesn't do, rapid contact with the ground would finish. And if even that doesn't do it, the night fury's wide jaws and dull teeth are just fine for simply clamping around the unlucky dragon's neck and strangling it, like a lion or a pitbull.
The night-time camouflage allows the night fury to soar for extended periods of time perfectly unnoticed in the night sky, and by the time it strikes, the dragon wouldn't even know what's coming.
Unless
Say the hunting night fury is aware of other dragons sleeping under the trees, as most dragons probably would at night (village raids aside, most dragons seem to be diurnal), so how does the night fury get them in position where it can use its signature attack? Well, there's That Iconic Screech Of Death. Since in the movies it tends to appear not just during dive-bombings but also when charging up a blast, I imagine it's something the night fury is able to control to some degree. So by simply fake-diving in close proximity to sleeping dragons, it can effectively terrify them into leaving their hideout and fly out into the open where it can easily take them out.
I dunno, the possibility of night furies as predators to other dragons just makes so much sense to me, I really don't know what other reasons there would be for them to evolve these particular adaptations.
And one more little headcanon to add to this whole rant - since night furies are significantly smaller and less equipped for dragon vs dragon fights and are primarily speed-based predators, I imagine there is this very likely scenario:
There is one dragon who resembles a hyena, a lil bit
Ok, rant over
#httyd#how to train your dragon#night fury#spec bio#spec evo#as for why Toothless isn't hunting other dragons and lives in the hive with all the rest#this is a pretty funny possibility to think about but perhaps in the past -1000-ish years humans have simply become#such a massive nuisance to the dragons that some of their species abandoned their natural behavior in exchange for kicking humans asses#yes i know the movies were all about ''dragons are actually perfectly fine and innocent and it was just the Red Death''#but also human effect on the environment and encroaching on natural dragon hunting grounds and fucking up the ecosystem#anyway there
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On my recent discovery of my love for drawing the red death, I couldn’t help myself in wanting to draw something proper of her :3
#and hicctooth being cool ofc#art#my artwork#artist#original art#my art#digital art#artwork#artists on tumblr#httyd#how to train your dragon#httyd1#httyd 1#httyd 2010#how to train your dragon 2010#the red death#httyd red death#hiccup#hiccup haddock#toothless#toothless httyd#httyd toothless#hiccup httyd#httyd hiccup#hiccup and toothless#digital painting#art rendering#red death httyd#red death dragon#red death
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Toothless vs Red death
(idk how to draw hiccup sorry)
#my art#digital art#httyd#red death#toothless#how to train your dragon#digital illustration#illustration#artists on tumblr
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httyd screen cap studies!
sometimes I forget that I can’t just draw silly characters all day and have art assignments to do 😔 have the warmups!
(Also I BEG you to open the full image for closeups tumblr likes to mess with the quality of many things 🤭)
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HTTYD Flocking
today on Paleostream we drew HTTYD dragons!!!!
closeups and design explanations/descriptions below:
terrible terror and monstrous nightmare: you'll notice all the dragons arent hexapods, deliberate choice on my end, not much has changed about the terrible terror tbh, it just only has four limbs now, less spikes, longer feet, and a more crown-like horn arrangement.
but ooh the monstrous nightmare lmao, i decided to shrink it down and remove a lot of its spikes, i wanted to make it a sorta chihuahua of dragons, small and feels like it can pick on everything. but relies on its projectile venom to save it. instead of lighting on fire, it lights its enemies eyes on fire by spraying venom from venom glands along its neck, back, and tail at the enemy
for the hideous zippleback, i decided to give them beaks (cause i felt like it) and make it so the double head is an illusion caused by the smaller sessile male who's constantly attached to the female, the female has a smaller crest and horns which makes the male's smaller head but larger features balance out the silhouettes. the male rides on the female's back everywhere being held in place by his claws and her wingtips, i also made the female cursorial because i felt like it again
the rumblehorn, i went for beetle-like wings and elytra-like display feathers, and for the funny i gave it a rhinoceras beetle head, and two toes on each foot
the razorwhip is a really cool design, but i was thinking that it would be a sleek and efficient killer, so i gave it smooth and dark scales that are incredibly reflective, and a parankylosaur macuahuitl. i also gave it bottom tooth-like projections on its bottom jaw
for the whispering death, i made it a derived ray-finned fish because dragons are anything you want them to be (also inspired by Wyatt Andrews' Rodan design). i replaced its eyes with two white bioluminescent display features, and put its eyes where its nostrils usually are and gave it a gulper eel mouth with a loooot of gill rakers to replace the rows of teeth
the red death, i decided to keep its size large, i took a lot of sauropod inspiration from this one. airsacs replaced the posterior two eyes, and i gave it a tail club and tooth-like keratin projections on the lower jaw
we ended with the shellfire, even as a kid i hated the design, at this point i was on four hours of sleep and had been awake for about 12 hours, so i just made an over-sized placoderm with spurs on the side of its head, cause dragons are anything you want them to be
#httyd#how to train your dragon#httyd redesign#terrible terror#monstrous nightmare#hideous zippleback#rumblehorn#razorwhip#whispering death#red death#shellfire#redesign#character redesign#Paleostream
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Decided to go ahead and make the Decepticons as Dragons
Autobot Dragons
#Transformers Prime#How to Train your Dragon#TFP#HTTYD#Crossover#Transformers Prime Megatron#Transformers Prime Starscream#Transformers Prime Knockout#Transformers Prime Breakdown#Transformers Prime Soundwave#Transformers Prime Shockwave#Transformers Prime Airachnid#Transformers Prime Dreadwing#HTTYD Red Death#HTTYD Hobblegrunt#HTTYD Timberjack#HTTYD Cavern Crusher#HTTYD Skrill#HTTYD Purple Death#HTTYD Death Gripper#HTTYD Thunderclaw#Megatron#Starscream#Knockout#Breakdown#Soundwave#Shockwave#Airachnid#Dreadwing#Red Death
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Httyd inktober day 31: The Red Death
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Drawtober Day 24- Queen
#httyd#how to train your dragon#httyd toothless#httyd hiccup#night fury#httyd red death#httyd fanart#drawtober#drawtober 2023#cryptiddraws
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Why I love how the first movie dealt with Hiccstrid
Early on in the first movie, it becomes clear that Hiccup has feelings for Astrid, although he never directly says so. His actions and the way he looks at her speaks for itself.
Hiccup also says that he hopes that by hunting dragons, he might find himself a girlfriend, but he never specifies that it is Astrid he’s interested in.
Still, Hiccup's crush on Astrid is not the main focus of the story, in fact, romance is brought up very little. While he attempts to impress her and the others during training and flirts with her once, he never becomes blinded by his feelings for her, not even after their romantic flight which leads to his feelings for her being requited.
He doesn’t do this
This
Or even this
To impress her.
Even though Hiccup initially had a crush on Astrid and later developed deep feelings for her, his motivation to become a hero was never driven by his feelings for her, and that’s not something you can say about all protagonist in movies.
#one too many times have I watched movies or shows where the hero only becomes the hero to get the girl#httyd#how to train your dragon#httyd 1#analysis#commentary#screen caps#Hiccstrid#hiccup#Astrid#toothless#red death#1k notes
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Outshine the Sun
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In honor of me finally having a job and being miserable that it’s food service, the boy goes to work too
And a little bonus
“Chef burnt your food and won’t remake it.”
#I’ve never drawn the red death before…#but she’s there#I apologize to the boys for this#but they’re my emotional comfort at work#hiccup#hiccup haddock#hiccup horrendous haddock iii#toothless#red death#httyd#how to train your dragon#doodle
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Was practicing for a painting I have to do for school, also just how massive the Red death was is a pretty cool thing
#hiccup how to train your dragon#how to train your dragon fanart#how to train your dragon#httyd toothless#hiccup httyd#httyd#httyd fanart#httyd hiccup#httyd red death#red death
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Hiccup is such a dramatic person like hey DAD remember how you said I need to kill like a singular dragon to be cool well what if I killed the biggest fuck off mountain sized dragon and ended a three hundred year war that will stop about 76% of your current problems AND get permenant life insurance in the form of an extremely angry night fury. What if huh??? What if?????
#He's so over the top I love him#He meant it when he said dramatic flare#httyd1#httyd#how to train your dragon#hiccup haddock#httyd hiccup#httyd stoick#red death#toothless#stoick haddock#stoick the vast#hiccup
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Httyd dragons part 2
Part 1 |
#dreamworks animation#how to train your dragon#httyd#red death#terrible terror#boneknapper#changewing#scauldron#skrill#snaptrapper#thunderdrum#thornado#timberjack#whispering death
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