#solid 6 thats finally happy after decades of suffering

[rainbowgod666]

Isnt that a given...?

(WARNING: the tags contain a MASSIVE FUCKING RANT about the shit trans people go thru, because transphobia wasnt enough apparently WHO DO I HAVE TO KILL-)

[akirameta84]

major spoilers for very future events of my httyd au fic in my answer to @crookedlyinnernightmare haha. i basically just spill a shit ton of the plot which will be written but not for a potentially very long ass time so this might be a good read if you like the au and are super impatient (like myself unfortunately)

they do fight in arc 2, but its hard to explain without ALL of the context. kuusuke...hates humans. and thats an understatement. his dad was killed by vikings before he hatched, and he watched his mom be killed in front of him, forcing him to raise his baby brother (who was so young at the time he barely remembers their parents) before he was so much as a teenager. and then, when kusuo was even younger than age he was when their mom died, kuusuke is captured by vikings and imprisoned, forced to fight and train their children.

he grew up in that cage. in my au dragons age the same as humans, and the general timeframe is: kusuo was 3 and kuusuke 7 when their mom died. kuusuke was captured at 10 when kusuo was 6. kuusuke escapes when hes 20, and kusuo is 16

thats half of his god damn life. unlike their mom who was much older raising her children, kuusuke didnt know what he was doing. kuusuke knew how to hunt and fly at close to an adult level by 7. kusuo was still iffy on both fronts by age 6 because kuusuke wasnt much more than a child himself.

their species is telepathic, but only for things that can be heard with regular ears at the same time (meaning a door can muffle it), so he was aware from hearing vikings talk when he was outside the cage that he was about to be given his final fight, made the prize match for the next group of trainees. he was going to let the kid kill him because he really didnt know what he was still living for

in his mind, kusuo had died not long after he was captured. either to humans or his own inexperience (in my own mind, young kusuo would probably have died of something like rabies if he never found young touma which is a whole different plotline im not rambling in this post. he really didnt know what he was doing)

so, when hes released into the arena with with a purple haired viking as his opponent, hes prepared to ruin the fun the vikings want to have and lie down to die instead of giving them the fight they want

but, in the massive amounts of verbal and mental noise, he can make out a vikings thoughts that gets his attention because he recognizes a name

"That dragon looks so much like Kusuo..."

kuusuke dispatches aren depressingly easily becauses hes 10 feet tall and pure muscle after all those years of fighting, struggling to fly due to not having done so in a decade but succeeding in clinging upside down on the upper chain net

he fits right through and escapes, jumping dangerously into the crowd and right on top of kaidou, the source of the thoughts he pinned down. he doesnt speak to kaidou or anything, he just sniffs until hes rewarded with the fact that kaidou actually DOES have aome of kusuos scent, rips off his jacket, and flies off with it to find his brother

their fight after a happy reunion a good bit after kuusuke escapes is when he figures out thats kusuos friend touma is a human. he feels almost betrayed and in his frustration tries to kill touma, and kusuo intervenes. thats when they start fighting. mikoto had to wrestle away touma who wanted to help his friend but would be mauled if he did, and reita was the one to separate them, as he was just barely able to overpower kuusuke when mikoto joined in, who flies off until later

kusuo suffers a broken rib and one of his wings being dislocated. the first one was from him getting in front of a charging kuusuke whod intended to slam touma against the solid stone behind him, who probably would have nearly died from the impact alone, but kusuo fares better being more on kuusukes size than a human. the wing was just from the direct fight itself.

and ill stop there because this is basically just plot events that im jumping around in time for <3 but i wanted to share because i love this au so dearly but i write so slowly that i cant publish it at a rate that will have things be shared in a timely manner. but i can ramble like this lol

i just realized, in my httyd au, kuusuke is 100% the stronger brother compared to canon.

hes significantly bigger and stronger than kusuo, he has a greater stamina because he has a slimmer coat of feathers as opposed to kusuos thick, heavy coat that gets exhausting in the heat, and hes been trained to fight by being used for viking training for years by the time they reunite. kusuo is the second smallest dragon of the main cast, Hii is the only one smaller

sizes of the main cast from smallest to largest: Hii, Kusuo, Mikoto, Kuusuke, Reita

so in a direct fight in this au, kuusuke has the advantage. if its a solo fight, he wins. hes the bigger and more powerful dragon with significantly more fighting skills than his brother.

his only major disadvantage as well is that hes half blind, but that happened years ago while he was still in the arena, and hes long adjusted. it doesnt disadvantage him in any significant way by the present au timeframe