#jock astrid is real btw...

[saturnniidae]

Rip Astrid Hofferson you would've loved rage rooms, planet fitness student discount, cheap spiked bracelets, aviaries and cat cafes

[daglout]

Me: I hate horror :( It’s so gory and scary and I dont like it when characters I grow attached to in 3 seconds die horribly :( :(

Also me: Time to make a slasher au with my favorite characters where they die horribly :)

Project for Halloween:  Common* character archetypes found in teen slasher movies with the RTTE characters!

*(Most of these were made up on the spot)

Costumes from x

Article used and referenced in my rambles: X

The Murdered:

I really love Ruff and I hope to God me placing her first on the kill-roster doesn’t come across any other way. 

Anyway, later on in this post I say that none of the dragon rider girls meet the “Cheerleader” (for horror movies) archetype, but Ruffnut might be the closest; even though she isn’t a jock like Astrid and “Cheerleader” are, she in this Au is the girl who closer meets the typical behavior of the Cheerleader characters. I decided against calling her “Cheerleader” since that would be misleading, and went with the classic “Party Girl”.

Since last year I’ve changed her costume - instead of a zombie fairy princess, she’s a neon zombie punk (or something). When this is colored, her face/bodypaint and hair-dyes are going to be very bright and pop-art-y!

Not written into this sketch: the “Aggressively Heterosexual (Hiding Something?)” trope.

Ah, the iconic boner-out-of-fear character.

Someday, I will write/produce my own horror film, and this echo of Snotlout will forever be..erected, into iconic horror movie moments. Sorry.

(Snotlout’s adorable teen-werewolf costume is my favorite btw I just... I want it for myself... I love Letterman jackets and . ..w,erewolves.. .. )

(It may be a pet-peeve for some, but I do like the stoner!Tuffnut trope; it’s fun when done well, and fucking hilariously awful when done badly.)

Don’t worry, Tuff still has all his smarts. He’s less like the the stereotypical stoner and more like stoners we might have met in high school (bright kids with high grades but keep a chill and nice attitude). A... realistic “stoner bro”? No, lol. There’s NOTHING realistic about being a stoner. Stay in school, kids. Be SOBER in school kids!!

Fishlegs is usually the hardest dragon rider for me to draw, but I’ve been working with him a lot recently so maybe by Halloween this will look a lot more like him! 

GOD, finally this pose came out. I had it in my head this whole time, the angle and his expression, but it never worked until TONIGHT[10.17us]! How exciting for me, and you, the viewer, because we both get a very in-character look and feel to this sketch. With color, his face will be lit by the phone screen, and he’ll look more like the classic Frankenstein monster in the dark.

I’m sorry he dies. He’s the guy who hides in the closet and thinks the killer can’t hear him even though he’s breathing heavy.

The Survivors:

Surprise! (Hiccup wasn’t in the Halloween pic last year.. because I forgot about him lol. He’s a skeleton! I never changed that, even though I never drew him lmfao What is the truth.) Hiccup the ‘ ‘  anatomically correct ‘ ‘ skeleton, emphasized air-quotes. Oh, I picked up references for Fishleg’s classic Frankenstein’s monster costume, but I took a hard pass on pulling up a gd skeleton picture. He’s a cartoon man, it doesn’t matter!

Honestly, between you and me, I wanted to give Hiccup the “Nice Guy” title (from X) and then kill him off. LOL! But he’s the hivemind-fandom’s favorite and I don’t know what the protocol is if you kill the main and favored character!? So on principle I couldn’t. Maybe someday...

[Disclaimer: I don’t hate Hiccup Haddock the Third.]

Now I KNOW there would be backlash if I killed Astrid, and it would be from me mostly. Astrid should never die, ever. Period. In anything. Originally I was going to name her “The Fighter”, or some jock-related name (because she is a jock in this. The closest thing was “Cheerleader” from the linked article, but even though I like that archetype, it doesn’t really fit with any of the rider-girls..) but I like “Last Girl” characters, and I think that was the closest to what I want from her character in this Au.

Update: The original sketch for Astrid she had a halo, as she does in my 2016 Halloween piece — but I decided last minute to instead give her a crown of thorns.

Fun Costume Fact: I was inspired to bloody her wing(s) [see:color] by this scene from one of my favorite childhood animes. Yeah, I watched that as a child. [CLIP TW: Body horror, blood, gore]

Went through different ideas for Heather, including calling her “Basketcase”, but I thought emphasizing her relationship to the Killer was important. She’s sort of a mix between Hiccup and Astrid’s archetypes. —  I was thinking of Laurie Strode (”Halloween 1&2″/”Halloween:H20″) specifically, and I feel Laurie falls between those two paths.

But I very likely will change my mind and kill everyone but Heather, haha.

Update: I think she looks a lot like Zooey Deschanel in the final lineart, haha. #FaceClaim

The Killer:

The real reason this Au has taken a whole fucking year is because I wanted a human killer, I wanted it to be a slasher, not a monster horror (though I was tempted) or psychological thriller (I dropped my online psych course, lmfao). But I was very, very hesitant about casting Dagur as the Killer because his character has gone through a redemption and I don’t.. want to take that away.

But it’s just an Au so today I decided to say “F*ck it!” (censored because I don’t ever cuss out loud..)

Update: Very important update: I gave him “bunny teeth” just like Tyler Hoechlin’s and now I can’t imagine Dagur without them. #Teethclaim (okay that’s horrifying lmfao)