#rtte essay

[violet-moonstone]

Heathers: On Heather the Unhinged and Potential Modifications to Her Backstory and Character Design.

An essay about Heather in Race to the Edge. Posted in separate parts otherwise my computer would explode.

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Warrior Heather

Part 3: Alchemist Heather

Part 4: Rogue Heather and Conclusion

[000marie198]

Hiccup is the Mom friend. send post.

[gracieelinn]

Hey! I'm issuing a challenge for my YouTube channel! If anyone wants to draw these characters as the corresponding meme, shoot me a line! Make sure to tag me in a post featuring your artwork, and I will include it in an upcoming video with credit given to your blog!

This is first come, first serve, so let me know as soon as you can!

Thanks for the help! I can't wait to see how it turns out! 🫶🏻

[madrone33]

Yeah this!

There are a few things that aren't really accurate reactions if we take Rtte into account (Hiccup and Astrid's confusion towards Eret being a dragon trapper when they should be very familiar with dragon hunters; Hiccup not recognising the ice spikes as similar to the home of the King of Dragons that lived under Berserker Island; their shock when Eret mentions another dragon rider - surprise at another unknown Rider is fair, but disbelief is a bit strange; Drago not using dragon proof metal in his traps and weapons; the complete lack of mentions of Dagur, Heather, Mala, and their other allies; don't even get me started on how they made the rest of the teens basically just the comedic relief) but Hiccup's mindset and motivation is pretty in line with the show!

Hiccup still gets a lot of criticism for his decisions in Httyd 2, but I feel like they make sense and it's because of the tv-shows.

He doesn't want to be chief?

Well, he just spent a whole year mapping the world outside of the Archipelago, that's a lot of freedom. So of course, he doesn't know who he is now and doesn't think his father's lifestyle fits with him.

And in that year, he almost did become chief when Stoick almost died. In that scene when Spitelout is sent out specifically to bring Hiccup home to succeed his dying father, they already call him chief! This, despite Hiccup's plea towards Spitelout to not say it.

Chiefdom for Hiccup means losing his father. (Which is exactly how he ended up becoming chief, too)

He thinks he can change Drago's Mind?

Of course, he does! Alvin switched sides, Dagur switched sides, Viggo saw dragons as something more. And let's not forget Stoick and his entire village, including Astrid and his friends.

In a way, he changed Mala's mind, too.

In a way, he changed the minds of the dragons about humans.

He tries to end a war by talking to a warmonger?

Again, of course, he does. He ended their war with the dragons, fought in a war with the Outcasts, then the Berserker, then the Hunters, then the Flyers.

Of course, he thinks he's just as capable of making the most responsible calls in war when he has fought in several ever since he was 15. This, although Stoick has decades more experience and actually met Drago before.

Not to mention that all of the bloodshed was on the side of the enemy, and RttE confirms this. Hunters and Flyers are dying in those battles.

If anything, Hiccup talking to Drago first is him giving Drago a chance to save himself and his men. Something Astrid pretty much confirms when she threatens Drago that he better not lay a hand on them or Hiccup and Toothless will blow his fleet to splinters.

Which, in the tv-shows, they do. And then Drago did end up dead at the end of the movie.

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

people always say that ruffnut is the smarter twin, but i personally believe that tuffnut is just more committed to the bit than her, as seen in season 2 ep 4 of rtte when tuff admits that he was just pretending to think he was changing to mess with the others. he literally ate RAW FISH out of the dragons feeding trough. in season 6 ep 2, tuff purposefully distracts the guards so the others can escape. when it comes down to it, tuff can be just as smart as ruff- he just prefers to play dumb and joke around. in this essay i will

[revive-the-fandom]

Hey! Saw your essay about the inconsistencies. Ah ye. When contrasting the Httyd movies with the shows, I like to not take it all that seriously. "But the shows are canon!!!!!" the shows are a beautiful and meaningful AU of the movies and vice versa; I've fared wonderfully treating them like that. Keeping the good parts for inspo and tossing the rest tbh.

E.g. I'm keeping Dagur and Viggo and the Fireworms for canon. Maybe there was an outpost called Dragon's Edge once, but I like to think to myself that Hiccup merely used it as a weekend base camp / storehouse for further explorations rather than actually living there for extended periods of time. He had to make all his Httyd2 improvements on Berk somehow within those five years lol. He would have had to abandon Dragon's Edge wayyy earlier to be able to have a constant presence on his home island that would earn him the village's support and Stoick's eye regarding Chieftainship. I'm definitely keeping the volcano eruption though. Also the Buffalord, the amazing Season 4 Hiccstrid kiss, the Night Terrors and Chicken. And of course the gang becoming better friends.

...On the other hand I'm definitely treating Heather, Mala, the Wingmaidens and all the dragons I don't personally like as vivid fever dreams lol. I'm also ignoring the comics. Had Hiccup truly encountered Viggo and gone through all of that Rtte character development canonically, he wouldn't have acted as naive as he did in Httyd2... Viggo already taught him better than that.

Those are just my two cents, they are also helping me embrace such things as Homecoming etc.

If you could build your canon however you liked, what would you keep? :)

I don't know if you meant it like this but I do want to clarify that I adore the first 2 movies, GotNF, LotB, RoB, DoB, and RttE. And I like elements of Httyd 3 and Homecoming, but not them in general.

(I have no intention of reading the comics - they don't interest me).

Criticising stuff I like, and pulling it apart to see how it ticks is literally my biggest hobby, so, no problems enjoying it there.

I would honestly keep most of it, so here's a list of some of what I'd remove instead:

The inconsistencies between httyd 1 ending and RoB opening - mostly to do with the dragons' integration into Berk and the new infrastructure for the dragons.

Stoick's inconsistent and easily swayed opinion on the dragons - he would never allow them to be banished from Berk unless he was physically forced to. They saved Hiccup's life, they pretty much are Hiccup's life, and he would never dishonour Valka's memory by going against her ideals (esp since her son basically redeemed her weirdness by proving her right 15 years later).

Gothi's role - she shouldn't be the only healer on Berk, she shouldn't even be a healer. They made new characters for Mulch, Bucket, Mildew, Johann, Silent Sven, Alvin, Savage, Dagur and Heather (and most of those are males) so just kick one of those out and build a new healer for Berk (bonus points if its a relation of one of the Riders e.g. a Thorston).

Johann's villain arc - I've talked about this a lot already so I won't repeat myself but this was an atrocious direction to take.

Viggo's redemption happening off screen

Dagur's redemption happening off screen

the Hunters having exactly the same ships as Drago (who comes from outside the archipelago & is designed with a different aesthetic than the vikings)

inconsistencies with the Hunter's Lore

Ryker being forgotten - the brother of ur main villain???? hello?

Krogan being so inconsistent...

Where are the women warriors???

Defenders of the Wing Lore Inconsistencies

Mala's whole personality - during the trial episode and marriage episodes especially

nearly every woman has a love interest

Dagur x Mala (not necessarily the ship - fandom adds depth to it tbh - but just how the show itself handles it)

Throk x Ruffnut (it's fine its just boring and doesn't add anything)

Gruffnut. the man annoys me - his design is lazy, his voice is annoying, he has an intruiging opportunity to add depth to the thorstons but is never utilised

Agnut. same as above

Astrid being in love with Hiccup but only in a conventional "im a woman and I will get jealous at any opportunity" kind of way

Gustav's lack of character development

the A team should not include those characters. Bucket and Mulch are farmers WHAT are they doing here. Gothi is old as fuck and she's got important shit to be doing (like apparently being the ONLY healer on Berk - srsly what r u gonna do when she dies?). Spitelout is on the Berk Council and is one of the main leaders of their military, why would he want to be bossed around by a 19 yro. the only one who makes sense is Gustav.

why does Astrid have to build the A team at all?? shouldn't Stoick or the entire military force of Berk teach themselves to use dragons to fight off invaders????

Astrid being so inconsistent with her suspicions and cautions.

Astrid randomly deciding to be Mother to dragons like Garf and throwing away all her military training and paranoia to bring said dragons on actual military operations??? like just say you needed a conflict and picked The Woman to throw under the bus.

Heather's (and Oswald's) mild backstory inconsistency.

Heather being a femme fatale.

Posing for the camera

The Wingmaidens - they're an obvious scramble to add female characters but they fall short on believability and worldbuilding.

The Bewilderbeast beneath Beserker Island. I don't like how... fucky.. this makes the plot. We didn't need this, we could have just ended on Johann & Krogan heading towards Valka's mountain, which could explain why Hiccup was still exploring the archipelago in httyd 2. then we could have done a post-credits-esque scene with Valka decimating Johann and Krogan. boom, vibes preserved, plotholes kind of prevented.

ok theres probably a lot more but this was all i could think of. Ik it looks like a lot but most of it is just tweaking canon. the majority of RoB, DoB, and RttE are wonderful. otherwise I wouldn't give half of a shit about them.

[bees-fandom-hive]

if I knew how to make them I'd do a video essay on why rtte is my favorite httyd media ... I mean I could write one too (the httyd brain worms are taking over)

[thorfishcrusher]

first httyd rant of many!!! yahoo!!!

this is kinda just me nonsensically talking about the alphabet(s) used in httyd because theyre kind of inconsistent?? to put it simply

insert menacing dot dot dot here

googling "httyd alphabet" lowkey made me sob cuz there were so many different variations of the symbols they used, from somewhat official sources to definitely not official ones.

they all do share elements from the futhark runic alphabet used during, or around the time period viking were in their golden age. more or less; i honestly dont know too much about runes so i apologize in advance for anything im wrong about

runes used in that time period weren't very specific, they were designed to easily carve into the materials they were using and mostly relied on just sounding things out. like lets bring that back that sounds WAY easier than learning 20 different variations of spelling the same word

younger futhark(which was more popular during the viking age,) for example, only had 16 characters, in contrast to the 24 characters in the modern english alphabet. more often than not, translated runes are littered with spelling mistakes.

that doesn't mean the vikings weren't less intelligent than people today, spelling and writing just wasn't a necessity as it commonly is in current times.

but anyway, the alphabet systems used in the books, movies, and tv shows can be directly translated into modern english, long as you ignore all the stupid ass inconsistencies (this is directed at the films, not the books)

both the movies and tv shows have similarities to futhark runes, though the movies appear to be inspired by anglo saxon runes, and the tv shows do have similar characters used in elder futhark. neither can be 100% translated to any sort of alphabetical system used at the time, and i believe berk has developed their own writing system over the centuries.

in the movies (at least from what i know) the way words were spelt were influenced on how they were sounded out, while the tv shows were slightly more correct for the future day standards. so congratulations, you can most likely spell better than hiccup in the movies. the punctuation system isn't really clear, and in futhark variations words were primarily just separated by dots. though, according to that one episode in rtte that i totally remember completely watching where snotlout shat on his dads grammar, i imagine people in berk have a more complex grammar system.

on top of that, quite a lot of people in berk seem to have the ability to read and write, more than the average viking tribes of the time. id like to assume they put more emphasis on learning to read efficiently because of the dragon book. information regarding dragons was important, and so id imagine being able to to proficiently record said information was important, too. thus the berkians (and perhaps surrounding tribes, outcasts, etc) adapted to better suit their priorities

ummm yeah idk thats kinda it

i say as if i havent put more thought and time into this dopey ass fictional thing than i have with actual beneficiary stuff

tl, dr; did you seriously scroll all this way to see if there was a summary? youll be disappointed because i am the master yapper and i am unable to be quick with my words

but basically just me talking abt the differentiating runes used in httyd, and how they connect to real world languages at the time, wnd um er um yo MOTHER

ive literally had this account for a day and ive written a 10 paragraph essay on silly little symbols

ill probably be using rtte's alphabet cuz it seems relatively easy for my little pea brain

[sarnai4]

A Quest

I hereby propose a quest for all Dagur fans. It begins with watching every episode of Rob/Dob and then RTTE. During this time, you pay an unhealthy amount of attention to every Dagur scene, probably memorizing a few too many lines along the way that you will inevitably think throughout daily life, thinking them only so that no one gives you weird looks.

Next, once all canon material is consumed, you look up his voice actor, David Faustino, and watch Married...With Children. Doing so will let you know how little Dagur would actually sound in the fanfics when he is a child. You will also have a very happy moment since the Bud Bundy character has a scene with knife early on and you'll only be able to imagine him in Viking attire and with red hair since this is clearly Dagur in real life form.

The Faustino exploration doesn't end there because phase 3 involves thinking about what Dagur would do in real life, including what music he would enjoy. After listening to David's "I Told Ya," you'll be able to hear Dagur rapping which is just as odd yet fun as it sounds.

You're getting closer to the end of your journey, so you begin reading and writing Dagur fanfics that explore his psyche and relationships. You probably also begin making some posts here on Tumblr to bring more love his way. Yes, you're overthinking just about everything you've ever seen or heard that involves him, but this can be practice for writing essays and creating debates backed with evidence.

Afterwards, you begin making fanart that is surprisingly more difficult to do than expected, but the time is worth it. Even if trying to figure out how to draw him in different stages of his life make you a little deranged too, the finished result still makes you pretty happy.

The last step...finding a Dagur in your life. Probably don't do this since I didn't specify good or bad and the latter would be very dangerous. If you can find a good one, well done. I'm both happy for and jealous of you. I'm stuck at phase 5, so please share your secrets.

[mrmllde]

My tiny-weeny humble opinion after reading too much essays about THW (that is canon) and RTTE (that is, unfortunately, considered not-canon)

[violet-moonstone]

Heathers Part 4: Rogue Heather and Conclusion

Part 3

This is my favourite option, which is why I saved it for last. This route focuses on skills Heather could much more believably pick up on her own—in fact, these are skills we already see her exhibiting in RoB. This version of Heather is very much like Arya Stark—minus the combat training—specifically, Arya when she’s in Braavos. She’s good at hiding, sneaking around, pickpocketing, etc. She would rely on changing her behaviour and appearance to fit the situation and slowly build her arsenal of disguises as she improves her skill and has more resources at her disposal. One day, she might appear as a raggedy street urchin; the next, a bawdy barmaid; then, a haughty noblewoman or cunning hunter.

Her primary use of this skill would be survival—blending into the background or standing out without people knowing her true identity—but this would also be strategic. She could get information either from being a fly on the wall no one considers being cautious around, or by being charismatic and charming people into trusting her. In more extreme situations, she could slip poison into the drink of a bar patron, set fire to the room of someone who thinks she’s their servant, or (in a version of RTTE with a more mature rating) stab someone once they’re in her bed. (I’ve written a fic about this)

I think this option makes the most sense, because it requires no retconning of her backstory and includes the most believable skillset for someone without any training. I also think that with a heavy focus on stealth, it wouldn’t make sense for her to have a large, armoured dragon with reflective scales (once again, sorry Windshear). Instead she could have a small dragon that could help her with fetching things, being on watch for danger, and shooting fire at close range. I’m thinking a Terrible Terror or something similar. Although a small dragon with similar traits to a Changewing would be really cool, like a winged chameleon of sorts—but maybe instead of becoming invisible, it just mimics different colours and textures.

In terms of costumes for Rogue Heather, it can really be anything. She’d probably need a base outfit for when she’s not in disguise, in which case, I’d go for something like the redesigns all the dragon riders except Hiccup got, which was basically putting them in the same clothes as in RoB/DoB but with different colours. I think the outfit Heather’s wearing in RoB is pretty good for a rogue type character already—just use a slightly different colour scheme that’s still faded, and keep the hood from her current design. Her disguises could be much more dramatic and could include wigs and makeup as well.

I have a headcanon that she has a favourite disguise though. Due to all the danger and insecurity she’s faced, she’s become ruthlessly ambitious—not just for revenge, but for wealth and power. She never wants to have to worry about being unsafe or scrounging around to survive. I think her favourite roles to play are rich and powerful women. In these roles, she gets to wear something beautiful—I’m thinking a deep green gown that brings out her eyes. It could also be a reference to serpents and envy, which goes hand in hand with her use of poison and her desire for the finer things in life.

I love this version of Heather. I’m currently in the early stages of writing a very long fic (that will probably just include regular Heather because the story already has a lot of OCs and moving parts), however, if I get enough inspiration, I might write some one-shots here and there about her.

Some ideas for her more fancy/aspirational disguises:

From left to right: Labyrinth (2012), BBC’s Merlin (I always thought Katie McGrath would be a great grown-up Heather)

(Some more historical Norse looks)

And a more everyday look:

(From Voriagh)...tell me this model isn't LITERALLY HEATHER. I think it's the murder in her eyes.

(Arya in Game of Thrones, tunics from Dark Knight Armoury)

Conclusion...After a Note About Combat and Women in Fantasy

Before I finish, I want to briefly touch upon another issue I have with Heather’s character. You may have noticed that the latter two options I gave have a much stronger emphasis on her intelligence and/or social skills than her physical prowess – I did this intentionally because I find that RTTE lacks characters who are not combat focused (Even Johann turned out to be a skilled knife-thrower. I miss when he was just a friendly and knowledgable—though talkative—merchant). While I appreciate that the female characters in the show are shown to be capable fighters, they don’t all need to be. I think fantasy and sci-fi writers tend to forget that making women into combatants is not the only way to make them strong, empowered, or interesting. There are so many ways that characters, regardless of gender, can have agency and be integral to a plot; these ways don’t have to include putting a heavy weapon in their hands. I’ve briefly discussed this in another post, but I think the dynamic between Viggo and Ryker would be much more interesting if Viggo were not physically strong and had to depend on Ryker’s strength just as much as Ryker depended on Viggo’s wits. And while Hiccup’s sword fighting abilities are commendable, let’s not forget that his first great achievement would never have been possible without curiosity, intelligence and empathy—the three things required to befriend Toothless—not physical strength. I love Race to the Edge, and I understand the combat-heavy focus (because “Vikings”) but I do wish there was just a bit more variety when it comes to the way characters navigate dangerous situations.

Alright, so there you have it: My 3 Heathers. I’m very tempted to draw all three of them, to get a clearer image of what their designs would look like. Which one do you prefer the most? The revenge-fuelled warrior, the unhinged alchemist, or the ambitious assassin? Let me know, and thanks for reading!

[ambersky0319]

When I was browsing free steam games bc I was bored I stumbled across a chill/focus kinda thing that piqued my interest

I have 2 essays and 1 more essay on the way (my professor still hasn't posted our essay exam question 🙃) that I need to get done by Thursday

And I'm thinking of trying out that game

Not tonight tho

Tonight I'm continuing my rtte rewatch

[000marie198]

All of these! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Learn Grammer and keep a consistency with tenses, seriously. It's not just there as a technicality or formality, it is a crucial part of making a passage actually understandable.

And please please, DO NOT use the characters' dialogues and internal monologues to rant your personal opinions about something, not only does it turn the readers away, it also makes the character ooc and it diverts from the story. It's quite honestly mind grating.

I also remember coming across a quiz once years ago and it was so intricate and lengthy and detailed with tons and tons of length classic vocab describing a beauty and the gist of it was that the character entered a garden and it had pretty pillars with classy engravings. Whole essays just to describe that. I got so annoyed I skimmed through every question afterwards. Make sure to keep your text engaging without getting over flowery.

Oh! And this one that I don't find much mention but I kept finding in one of my favorite stories and it kept bothering me, don't make named references to something obscure!

References and call backs are fun. But make sure it makes sense and are popular enough to be widely known. Very widely known. Not everyone has watched the same anime or Netflix series you have, not everyone has read the book you have or know the plot twist from that episode of season 7. Not everyone knows the name of the characters. Also, not everyone knows USA's political history so please, put yourself in the shoes of those who don't know and think if it will get the joke across. You make a reference to classical fairytale or known folklore or Godzilla or Snowwhite etc, I'll get it, you make a callback to trader Johann from rtte? I will get it but literally everyone else won't. Luke, I am your father. That's something everyone will get. But everyone will not get a dialogue from random media. Keep your references for jokes or other parallels and relatability understandable.

Oh! And adding to the character distinction part. This is also very important. I have seen some fic writers do this where they use a set single narration and voice style for every character. It is very good for 3rd person non character point of views or a single character point of views. But it is very very bad for dialogues and internal monologues of different characters. Now a genius character would have technical vast vocabulary but a cheerful, average child won't. Children don't think like scholars. Similarly, characters which don't care about intricate wording won't think or say phrases which have that. Also, make sure to keep it diverse. A character from Asia would think up idioms and phrasal verbs which pertain to Asian culture and folklore, not English. And vice versa. Character originating in Japan would refer to the giant lizards monster as Gojira while one from anywhere else would say Godzilla.

Adding to what I wrote above, please please please when it comes to characters praying or cursing or whatever, don't name drop the name of whatever religious figure or diety you believe in if the fictional world your characters belong to or the franchise they are part have its own different ones. An example of this here: Sonic universe has Chaos, Gaia, Solaris etc. So it just feels wrong hearing the characters say "Jesus!". Neither does it feel right in Httyd fics when they got Thor and Odin etc.

And OPs last point is the most important. Give some love to your story, 'kay. If you drop in the summary and the tags and author notes of how horrible it is etcetra, long words of self discouragement, I'd be turned away a bit from the story before I even start. Don't treat it as something you're just throwing away. It's your story, it matters like any other.

Basic Tips to Improve Your Writing

I used to read a lot of unprofessional writing online, and through that endeavor, I started mentally compiling different qualities that turned me off to people's work right away. I'm sharing some of my thoughts about ways to improve your writing so others don't click off your work right away!

-Change paragraphs when different characters are speaking.

-In that same thread, remember to make new paragraphs and not have one giant block of text. This isn't only discouraging for some readers, but actually physically impossible to read for those who are visually impaired.

-Learn grammar. Sorry, but there is no way around this one. For example, commas aren't just for aesthetic appeal or your personal choice, and it will turn some readers away if your writing is littered with grammatical errors. You can't break the rules for creative purposes if you don't even know them, and the difference is generally apparent.

-Remember the narration style you've chosen. For example, if you're writing in third person limited, you can't think outside the mind of your main character. Don't jump suddenly to the thoughts of other characters or an all-knowing, omniscient voice.

-Slow down. Each word matters, so try not to think of writing as "I must get from Point A to Point B," but "I must get from Point A to Point B beautifully."

-Avoid repeating the same word or phrase too much, especially within the same paragraph. There are exceptions in dialogue, of course. (It's sweet when writers acquire their own personalized phrasings that mark their voice, but I have turned away from works where the exact same line just kept coming up again and again).

-Don't forget about setting. You might be able to imagine where your characters are, but no one else can if you don't let them know.

-Use a consistent verb tense.

-Your characters are not you and generally shouldn't always be mouthpieces for you to share your own values and thoughts.

-Your characters should sound distinctly different from each other, including their talking styles.

-Don't bog the reader down with too much description, and make sure the description you do have is realistic. Think about it. In the morning, do you wake up, go to the mirror, and think to yourself, "I looked at my shaggy dark hair and emerald green eyes"? Nobody thinks that way about their own appearance, and it feels like a forced way to let the reader know what the main character looks like.

-There's no need to start tossing out every character trait if it's not relevant to the story.

-Last, show some passion and excitement for your own work. Make sure the language embodies that passion because if you don't even care about your writing, who will?

[reallyprofoundkryptonite]

I’ve seen it said on here that we can hear Krogan’s head hitting the wood floor of the deck in the last scene I’m in- thereby stating that he’s dead. And I am here to disprove this, with a little research I have done about this.

For my first point, I’m going to state that the thump we heard- obviously what I’m going to talk about- was merely background noise. Not someone being executed. The reason being, according to the general area surrounding this location- it’s a public place. And there is no actual equipment to preform a beheading around this area, as it seems to just be a dock. Why would someone keep equipment to execute someone on a dock, first of all, where it has the potential to be messed with, or it has the potential to simply be stolen or whatnot.

And as this is a public place, with wooden floors, mind you, wood is absorbent to all liquids. If you are consistently executing people in a public place- even with proper cleaning up afterwards- severing someone’s head severs their jugular, blood is going to be spraying absolutely everywhere. You are going to be missing places where blood has pooled, and as such, that blood is going to sink into the wooden floors, and start to rot. Which is going to stink. Like death.

Most people do not have the guts to handle going near a place that constantly stinks like death, so therefore, public executions of the time were done elsewhere, however I doubt that Drago would publicly execute people unless they were actual traitors.

So I hear you saying, “He was executed somewhere private.” And while that could have happened, without the watchful gaze of Drago, and as soon as he’s out of eyesight and far enough away where he can cause a commotion and get away with with his life, Krogan 100% would. He is in survival mode, and he is running on his instincts, which are telling him to be patient and wait for when the time would be correct for him to run.

And while there were still not many people, there were enough in the compound that one would not that clearly hear a head hitting the floor from that far away.

What I’m saying is: Krogan hasn’t been proven to be dead. In fact, he most likely isn’t dead.

These few things didn’t add up to me, so I’m just saying. Krogan’s death isn’t a confirmation at any point in the matter, since we did not see nor “hear” it happen. That thud (that I’ve while I have heard, and it just doesn’t line up with the sound a 10+ pound head would make hitting the ground) was most likely background noise or Maybe even Krogan fighting with his guards. Because he was doing that too. That’s probably the more likely scenario of him struggling.

[thelastifntdragonrider]

some random Race To The Edge edits 

[violet-moonstone]

oh my god yeah the "native women" comment confused the hell out of me. not only is the cannibal stereotype fucked up, but calling them "native" doesnt even make sense...like how are they more native to the archipelago than the other characters? i feel like whoever wrote that episode just hears "native" and thinks exotic and mysterious, which is uh...very concerning. i really felt like i was watching one of those old offensive bugs bunny episodes

i still love rtte but i have to admit its many many flaws (i literally wrote a whole essay just on heather's characterization)

creating ocs and writing fanfiction helps me to channel that frustration into creating the improvements i wish were already there, and im trying to write something now that will address so so many problems i have with the franchise. i really want to give astrid time to shine (rtte often lets her down, but let's not forget how much the main franchise does as well: much of the second and third movies and especially the last holiday special essentially treat her as an accessory at worst and hiccup's life coach at best)

havent completely worked out the merchant character for my fic yet, but a large part of why i wanted to write her was out of frustration with the way johann was written.

i also found it disheartening that the ONLY person of colour in the franchise who doesnt start out as an antagonist (bayana) is in one of the comics, which are even less of a focus in the franchise than the tv shows. apparently he was specifically created to have more diversity in the franchise, and it really feels like an afterthought. (he and his family are also going to be important characters in my fic)

Ngl the more I rewatch race to the edge the more I fall out of love with it.

Trader Johann is just a blatant antisemitic stereotype, Astrid has literally no episodes that aren't also centered around Hiccup in some way (misogynistic writing), the Wing Maidens being a cannibalistic tribe that are referred to as 'native women' more than once, that episode where Dagur literally says a slur (esk*mo), which I've never seen anyone talk about??? And more honestly.

It's really disheartening considering httyd is my special interest and rtte offers some really great worldbuilding and development, but then again it's to be expected. After all if you're not white you can't ever fully enjoy anything without looking the other way on racist some kind aspects whether it be the story's harmful writing or actions of people involved in its making, there's always something.