#norbert the nutjob

[yv-sketches]

I just found out I have 999 followers? And holy vegetable-that-no-one-dares-name, that is insane.

My very first httyd book drawings were from How to cheat a dragon's curse, so here is another from book 4. It's a little messy because it took an hour, but I had to do something for the occasion.

[common-or-garden-blog]

Interesting how in the movies, Hiccup so inventive and produces all sorts of new technology.

Book Hiccup is not inventive in terms of technology (though there are other ways in which he is very inventive...)

But techonologically, it's the recurring villains who are inventive...

Norbert the Nutjob uses his inventions for exploration, and Alvin uses them to inflict pain and suffering (and to replace his body parts, of course.)

[thoughtsofananon]

Small animatic

[ebenelephant]

on the one hand it's sad the characters like nobert, eggingarde, camicazi, and the bog burglars didn't make it to screen when rtte expanded the worldbuilding, but on the other hand camicazi especially has a raw energy and cunty criminality that i don't think was destined for fandom at large.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Hiccup tricking Norbert into telling him about the Vegetable-That-No-One-Dares-Name by pretending to be a flat-earther. The world can only be round if the potato exists, proving that America exists.

Which pisses Norbert off, who declares Hiccup must be killed.

No, wait.

Educated and then killed!

[quiet-art-kid]

A short little bit of my httyd Frankenstein au, the beginning

“Destiny wait!” Norbert called out as the little viking child ran past him, giggling. Destiny did not have a habbit of waiting, or listening to her father. In all her 11 years of life she always did exactly what she wanted and didn’t pay attention to anyone telling her otherwise.

“Relax!” She called out with a soft laugh, as she jumped over the fence wire, which marked this area off limits, like a four foot ten spring and plopped herself down in Norbert’s newest invention. 

“Get down from there this instant young lady! I mean it!” Norbert boomed, trying to catch up to her. 

Destiny stuck her tongue out. Don’t touch this, dont mess with that. She had never gotten hurt before, a bit scraped up but nothing more serious than some burned hairs and blisters, why would today be any different? It was a beautiful sunny day. Destiny had a good feeling about this. Bad things just donen’t happen on beautiful days like this, so she ignored the warnings of her father, 

“Destemona Cora Nutjob I really mean it this time! My flying machine hasn’t been tested yet!” Norbert lumbered towards her. That girl was going to be grounded for so long she’d have grandchildren the time it was over. 

Destiny giggled, her eyes shining, “That’s why I’m going to be the first person to test it.” She placed her foot to the petal, making it turn round. Despite being only a quarter of Norbert’s size the stength of her legs was just enough to lift that rickety thing into the air. Higher and higher she soared, up into the heavens, no not quite there…not yet.

Norbert was trying hard not to tear the hair from his curled moustaches.

“Wooah hoo!” Destiny shouted from high in the crisp air. It was actually working, her father’s most brilliant invention yet was working. The salty wind of the bay was whipping in her face, making her curly blond ponytail fly back. It was incredible, exhilarating  and then….crack!

One of the smaller parts near the wing snapped. Destiny’s bright eyes widened in terror, as for a split second, she was perfectly still in the air. Then, the flying the was starting to plummet downwards at a terrifying rate, faster than lightning it seemed. It started to spin violently, heating up a little, and Destiny was tossed about inside. She felt sick from the motion and impact. “MAYDAY MAYDAY! SOMEONE HELP ME!” She called out. But there was nothing anyone could do, not even Norbert. She was falling far too fast for anything nearby to cushion her. Some things aren’t improbable, they’re just impossible. 

Norbert watched in absolute horror, as Destemona Cora Nutjob, his only child, his pride and joy, smashed into the ground, her fragile body scattered in as many pieces as the now broken flying machine.

[blep-23]

God, thinking about Norbert the Nutjob.

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Hiccup is a Tumblr, Instagram , and semi often Twitter user

Fishlegs is Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram

Cami is Tumblr and Tiktok

Toothless is Tiktok

Stormfly is Instagram

Horrorcows Pinterest

Alvin is a Twitter user, but has accounts just to stalk hiccups pages

Norbert is Tumblr

Norbert would thrive on tumblr

He's got 100 side accounts and every one has a different, custom theme

Stoick has Facebook and is the embodiment of Old People Facebook Videos

Valhallarama has LinkedIn only

Snotlout has every social media he can and is desperately trying to be as popular as possible, it works on Tiktok and Instagram, less so on Twitter, and he's absolutely shit at tumblr

He's got like 10 followers and half of em are alternate accounts he made

Meanwhile, Hiccup has like a Tree Facts of the Day blog with 200k followers and 1 mil + across his whole account

Old Wrinkly has Pinterest, Facebook and a very cryptic Tumblr

Excellinor doesn't have social media, she thinks social media is a waste of time and brainpower

[common-or-garden-blog]

same same

Norbert is my favorite villain

i would pay good money for a spin-off book series that focuses exclusively on what the hell happened to norbert the nutjob between books 7 and 12

[thewolfwarriors]

When I read Norbert the Nutjob, his voice is Dr.Doofenshmirtz's 😭

[common-or-garden-blog]

[fictional-at-heart]

So my brother and I have a sort of HTTYD World War II AU (it’s mainly our original characters, but Hiccup, Tuffnut, and Skulder are in there), and I just had to share a snippet we came up with tonight; we made the comment of how Hiccup and the Joneses wouldn’t smoke, but Stoick would, and Gobber? Well, he’d smoke like a fiend! He’d never be seen without a cigarette in his mouth:

Hiccup one day (sometime after the war ended), staring at Gobber:

Gobber: “What?”

Hiccup: “… how do you still have teeth? And lungs?”

Gobber: “Smokin’s good for the lungs! You know what I say: a pack a day keeps the doctor away!”

Hiccup, scoffing: “More like a pack a day calls the doctor…”

Gobber: “Oh, you’ve been spending too much time around those Jones boys.”

Stoick: “Their uncle was always the same way. Why, in the Great War-“

Hiccup, softly: “World War I…”

Stoick: “GREAT WAR, we were in the trenches one day, and every time I broke out a smoke, I’d feel his eyes on me. And sure enough, I look over and there he is. Staring at me, and I say ah! What’s it to you? And he says ‘you keep smoking them and it ain’t gonna be Germans that kill ya.’ So I told him it’s gonna be ripe old age! You know what he did? *clutches his chest and gasps* and then says ‘gonna be them smokes!”

[common-or-garden-blog]

agreed

For the Character Ask Meme: Camicazi, Norbert, Tantrum O'Ugerly, Norbert's Papa, Grimbeard the Ghastly

Character ask meme. Yas!

Camicazi: #2. Fan Over In my heart, Camicazi is the greatest female character in anything How to Train Your Dragon. She’s a unique, unforgettable personality - refreshing, new in the world of fiction. I especially love how much she gabs when she fights, how cocky confident she is, how adventurous she is, and how great her insults are. Camicazi is a stout friend at Hiccup’s side, but she’s also got some great depth to her, too, as seen when she struggles to accept Hiccup’s own weaknesses. 

Norbert #2. Fan Over Norbert’s my favorite villain in the HTTYD books. He’s charming, amusing, quirky, inventive, and bold. You never know exactly what he’s going to do, except he’s probably going to be angry about it, and he’s going to do something simultaneously creative and quirky. I’m glad that he appeared in several books of the franchise. That fight in How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm? Iconic. One of the scenes in the books that will forever stick clear in my mind.

Norbert’s Papa #4. Meh Norbert’s Papa to me is a good device showcasing Norbert… as versus me paying attention to his papa himself

Tantrum #4. Meh Tantrum’s not my type of personality, I suppose. I don’t go looking for her in scenes. I do enjoy Fishlegs pining over her, though!

Grimbeard #2. Fan Over The historicity of Grimbeard the Ghastly does nothing to diminish his character. In fact, the way he’s written, he’s more interesting in the narrative as a historical character. We slowly uncover facts about him. First, we know the main historical stuff: he was an intimidating and powerful king. Then we learn increasingly more about his treasure. Then we learn about the humanizing aspects of him, good and bad. He unfolds into a fascinating, deep, knowable, sympathetic character. 

[wickedcriminal]

Hey, again, wickedcriminal, I see that the half brother au posts have returned and I am so happy I was going through withdrawal I had to reread all my how to train your Dragon books in order to pass the time. I also wanted to thank you for inspiring me to reread them. The books were so much darker and better than the movies. I would be able to finish all of them if I had them ALL!?! Seriously I have books 1-8. I have trying to get the final ones but my local book stores never have them in stock! Though seriously, I wanted to thank you for posting such an amazing little alternate universe story, I cannot wait for your story to start getting some more attention, and your book based of it to start I will be their to start reading it as soon as it comes.

I would like to go onto my asks now, as with the new law that I’ve recently seen I’ve had a couple of questions that I now have, so if if the twins are keeping a score of how many times one the kids get kidnapped doesn’t that mean that all of them have been abducted at some point? Also what are those situations even like cause if the twins are keeping score than Elder and Youngers friends must have some pretty memorable abduction stories they have to talk about. Wonder who has it worse?

Hello again!! Omg thank you for all your kind words!!! I'm so happy to see you're still enjoying the au!! :DD

The Twins keeping score is hilarious, and I'm sure all of the Riders have gotten their fair share of snatching at some point, with the Twins keeping a nice little tally board on the wall of the clubhouse and the Hiccup brothers are in the lead by a LANDSLIDE 😂 what can they say, they're just very kidnappable ASDHKLSGK

As for who gets kidnapped more; that's a great question! They've both been kidnapped by plenty of people ever since they were kids and all through the canon. The Danger-Brutes, the Romans, the Hysterics, the Berserks (especially when Dagur became chief), and eventually the Dragon Hunters (who are the Lava Louts in this au) all capture and hold the boys prisoner/hostage/ransom multiple times. It's easy to say they probably lost count.

But when it comes to getting snatched by their personal enemies, there is a winner!

Hiccup E has a nice little group of people that want to snatch him and have snatched him multiple times, including Madguts the Murderous (taking the place of TV Alvin in R/DOB and snatching him and Toothless several times), Viggo and Ryker (both separately several times in RTTE), and Krogan (Midnight Scrum in RTTE).

Hiccup Y has a smaller roster by only one person, which includes Dagur (taking Younger instead of Gustav in RTTE), Alvin the Treacherous (the 2nd and 3rd books in R/DOB and the 8th book in RTTE), and Norbert the Nutjob (book 7 in in RTTE).

So its looking like the contest for the most kidnappings goes to Hiccup the Elder!!! 🎉🎉 Someone get that boy a prize!!

[tenebrius-excellium]

Httyd books in just a couple words...

Positives:

Entertaining. Creative. VIKINGS. DRAGONS. Swordfights, songs, libraries, challenges, quests, prison breaks, wisdom, arch-enemies. Great themes of love and friendship, endurance, bullying, and false appearances. "Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." In this case, the reader. The reader knows Hiccup's heart. How unfortunate that the reader can't advocate for him or help his cause!!! Hiccup must figure it out all on his own. Awesome horrors.

Negatives:

Too doomy and gloomy. The wins rarely make up for the losses, the beauty scarcely for everything which is nasty. The atmosphere is mostly depressing. In-universe logic isn't consistent and tends to get bended for the plot.

Overall:

Don't know. I likely won't re-read the books, because I enjoyed the movies and shows more. There were a few captivating creative ideas, and the books explain so wonderfully how the movie!verse came to be. But I have to say that the book!verse isn't among my favorite fictional universes - neither in setting nor in plot.

Favorite characters: One-Eye and Camicazi!!

Least favorite characters: Madguts The Murderous, Gumboil.

Favorite book: Book 4 - How To Cheat A Dragon's Curse. All of it.

Least favorite book: Book 5 - How To Twist A Dragon's Tale because what even was that.

Best scenes: Hiccup stealing the potato, Hiccup on Norbert the Nutjob's ship, Hiccup escaping the Sharkworms in Book 3, the cave behind the waterfall, the Meathead Public Library, pretty much every conversation with Old Wrinkly, Hiccup & Alvin in the underwater sea cave, meeting Excellinor, the prison revolt around the Slavemark, Bertha & Stoick bickering about that one dragon they stole from Madguts I think??, Eggingarde's arc, Hiccup discovering the crown.

Not doing worst scenes...

Favorite creative choices: The potato, THE FIANCES OH MY GOSH, the Romans being part of the universe, nano-dragons, Camicazi, Grimbeard's red herrings.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

For some reason Norbert shouting "MY VEGETABLE! THEY'VE GOT MY VEGETABLE!" is extremely funny to me.