#thunder the dragon

[demhen]

when it comes to the flaws of TNR's designs, I feel like these are the main flaws. Thunder's anatomy is just... weird and I feel like he should be more like a light fury. Feathers needs actual feathers. those are scale-sausages, not plumage. Wu and Wei need knees, less bulbous snouts, and for their yellow scales to be made purple, I feel like the gold works better as an accent color. Plowhorn needs an ocular transplant because why does the dragon have human eyes. and Webmaster... his. his everything. his legs look so clunky and just kinda squished together.

So this is gonna be a long rant...

Thunder is a mess. He is probarbly the worst dragon from this show. I wouldnt even say because he has too much black because we are shown that the Hidden World is big in Dragons the Nine realms, now if you want to belive them or not is your decision seen as their are so many realms but they also are all near that one place in scandanavia (or north america... thats where the meteor seems to land in the opening sence.) So I can belive that their are more nightfuries in their. But if we go down the route of their arnt anymore... either nightfuries live long lives or the gene is just that dominate, or its really an inbreeding thing (which is canon John tellegren confirmed it)

To go more into it his entire body is a mess.

His head?! Weird, its a deformed nose. He always looks this smug even in the last shot that we see of him in the end credits of the last episode.

Why does this face move like that?! Its too much. And Thunder always looks like this. He is having too much facial expressions.

His neck? Its so... horse neck? Idk how else to descibe it. Seeing Thunder fly? It doesnt look good. Same thing with his wings. Why do they look like this. Also a cool thing on Toothless and the light fury was the aquatic thin after the wings, because it looked like toothless evolved from being a water dragon. But here? It too is weird. Thunders tail thin?... is that a trident? Thunder flying is also a nightmare.

One of the cool things about toothless was that it was really plausible that he could fly, at least he looked like he could. Thunder? He looks horrible and I am 100% sure that he couldnt fly if real.

Feather while she is the stead of the Queen has too few feathers I agree.

She also needs more colours! More feathers and more colours. With the rest of it I am actully fine.

Wu and Wei are a mess and when I am gonna redesign this I fear I will have to come up with an entire new dragon. I just dont like them.

The Colour scheme just isnt good. Also their mouths are too big and round. Also the wings look to be more of a water dragon and it doesnt look to be great at flying, but I can excuse that since other dragons that arnt nightfuries had this too. But why does this need to be a 2 headed dragon? I get that its to mirror barth and belch but why do that. One head that does fire and the other does water/ice?! I just dont like it very much.

Plowhorn also is a mess.

I like the bug wings and shell, what i cant get behind is the gems? That giant gem stucking out of her head... how does that grow? Httyd dragons were always great when they made sense in the real world (yes i know they are dragons) but that belivablity is what got me into the franchise. And a gem growing from her forhead? I just dont see how that can happen.

Webmaster.

He is also a mess. From the wings to the main body, the legs and the tail. I love the spider idea. I also have to assume that they used the silkspanners (a dragon form the comics) desigin. And put some wings on it and make the neck longer. (this graph is form the dragons rise of berk game.)

And while I get that the Dragon needs wings, because of all the exploration they do in the show. But why not just use another dragon all together?

What they tried to do i think is to base the dragons off the once form the HTTYD gang.

Thunder being Toothless

Feather being Stormfly

Wu and Wei being Barth and Belch

Plowhorn being Meatlug

And Webmaster... being...

I guess Hookfang doesnt have a counterpart.

TLDR: They are all horrible and I will redesign all of them for my TNR rewrite.

[dengekiboys]

Dragons: The Nine Realms - season 8, episode 6

the finale features a little throwback shock moment <3

[askfordoodles]

Mages when they run out of mana 🤣

[starbluethunder]

tunder with water again.....last time i posted a pic like this everyone thought he was toothless . he is not toothless. e is my fursona

[kindaorangey]

dads will literally have a revelation about how poorly they've treated you and then die in a magical act of self-sacrifice just to give themselves the most complicated legacy and you the most inscrutable daddy issues in the world

[otiksimr]

This is by far the most unfaithful 'redesign' I've done so far. But that being said, I don't call myself a butcher for no reason.

I don't enjoy how TNR brings back dragons from the original series, as it's set far, far into the future the fact that those species still exist and are practically unchanged is well, weird to me. The fact that NIGHTLIGHTS still exist is also extremely odd to me, as they are a hybrid species they should be long gone due to the fact that Nightfuries have been long extinct (Toothless is an outlier).

This redesign is mainly just me having fun tbh. That's what most of my redesigns are. it's less what the og could've done better and more what I would find more interesting as a concept. There's quite a few tidal class dragons in the HTTYD franchise, yet there's not really any that are a 'main rider dragon.' This is one part appreciating Tidal class dragons and one part an ode to the book series.

[hallowshumour]

When it rains 🌩🌧🌙

[cinnamon-flame]

Wof oc doodles!

[thereweredragonshere]

Pleeeease redesign the other fucks from the nine realms.

Oooo this was such a fun little project! Not a fan of the nine realms which is pretty standard within this fandom, but I do like the uh. Vibe. Of some dragons. The designs are always a miss apart from like. One or two.

Starting off with Thunder - species Night light:

Thunder being so night furyish makes little sense if we’re taking Toothless being the last night fury as canon. Either that mother fucker had the strongest genetics known to man, or dragons live for hundreds and hundreds of years, which considering httyd likes its realism(sometimes), I doubt is the case for a species like the night or light fury. So, I made his design lean way way more into being a light fury, but still making it clear that he is actually a night light.

Also, didn’t include any of the weird fucked up ‘evolution’ to the tail/wings/earnubs, because little short from it being a birth defect or cross breeding with a non-fury dragon (Which genetically speaking is 99.99% impossible) is absolutely NOT possible at all. 1000 years is fucking NOTHING for evolution. Maybe you’d get a slight gene change or something but you are not getting anatomical shifts that fucking visible in only 1000 years.

And anyway, the evolution Thunder supposedly went through is so stupid?? What’s the point of his wings’ surface area being decreased?? He can catch marginally less draft with those shit fuck wings??? And his PROPORTIONS OH MY LORDDD. He’s just inbred I have no other explanation. And his stupid fucking snout. Pugification of the night light. And I’m not even going to comment on the stupid ass tail there is literally no point. Why did they give him an aeroplane tail. They took one of the most recognisable features of the fury species and just fucked it. He can’t fucking shift air flow and change direction with that shit oml😭

Anyway moving on before this post just turns into a tnr night-light rant,

Feathers!!! - Species Featherhide (how creative)

Feathers is probably my favourite design from the canonical tnr dragons. I’m a massive fan of the parrot theme they went with!!! But one gripe I have is that she does seem just a bit too generic. She has pretty colours and some feathers on her head and tail. But like. That’s it. They didn’t really do anything else with the chameleon crap she’s got going on (for those who don’t know, her species has the same camouflaging ability as the changewings).

So, I went a lot more traditional reptile looking with her, and added way more feathers and general details to her design. I did consider making her eyes chameleon like, but it ended up looking a bit off. I like to think she scampers around and constantly licks her eyes, even though she’s perfectly capable of blinking.

Next up, Plowhorn - Species Gembreaker

I love love LOVE the beetle thing going on with her wings!!. It’s just incorporated into the design in such an awkward way😭 There’s so much space Beneath the beetle shell and her back, which makes them look glued on.

Anyway for the redesign I leaned more into the rhino theme they got going on, tough skin and big chunky face horns. (By the way- the placement of the horn on her face is SO off putting and I can’t quite explain why. It’s just. ????. Why is she an extremely scaly unicorn that got the pug treatment???) and I gave her ears cuz her canon design looks insanely bald.

I also attempted to un-derp her a bit. Cuz. I mean fucking look at her bro that shit is NOT scary😭

Neeeeeext is Wu & Wei - Species Mist Twister

The eastern zippleback

I really like the idea of half blue half red on this guy (I think it’s a he?), it makes for a cool Fire and Water theme.

My main problem with the canon design is how forced the colours kinda feel. Hard red to yellow to blue with a slight fade transition. Come on guys, incorporate your colours into the design!

Their heads as well. They’re just. Not nice to look at. The ends of their noses are making me incredibly uncomfortable. They look like spoon billed borzois

Anywho, I really enjoyed designing those guys!! Maybe I’ll do some of the other tnr dragons in the future lol

[incorrectdragonage]

Nightmare: You have no real family. You're on the wrong side of 40. You're childless and alone. Somebody close to you said "One more flop and it's over." Hawke: Hawke: Somebody said they were close to me?

[m4rs-ex3]

1x01 // 7x01

you ready? uhh, i’m gonna have to say no. great. let’s do this.

[demhen]

So the dragons behaviour, in the nine realms

They do not behave like animals; they understand English after like one episode that they are “tamed”. In the previous shows, it was shown that those things need time. However, in the nine realms dragons evolved to be geniuses, well no, have you met thunder? He is many things but not intelligent.

[xuyanzheng]

[wrestling AU] LAUGHIN STRAIGHT TO THE BANK, I’M TONY KHAN

[misterrttegrimborn]

[starbluethunder]

most blue animal ever gets sopping fucking wet

[infinite-eternity]

Spreading my JayVik jayce suffering agenda by recommending you fanfiction. (all on ao3)

Metal and Magic by @dodecadragon - Explicit, Violence. Fae AU, 100k + words. absolutely stunning making me insane

Good Luck, Babe by Kosmos_Relic - Explicit, Violence. Post Canon fix it. I cant elaborate more bc spoilers but oh my god. holy fuckin shit. 100k + words but no set chap limit so might be wayy over.

and this pounding in my heart just wont die by Kookimunjoo - Explicit. This is ABO so be warned if youre not into that. stunning, we are making him suffer so much. 25k words, complete

Also MAYBE he can be a BIT happy sometimes so Paradox of the Heap (Sorites Paradox) by StarSparrow84 - Mature, 40k+ words. Holy fuckin shit absolutely stunning. About classism and is so beautifully written. Also Jayce and Viktor wear sparkly outfits.

Anyway add more if you have recs i want to read them