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Hiccup is the type to imitate Toothless’s mannerisms (more specifically the noises) and the rest of the dragon riders are the type to have a competition to see who can catch him doing it the most

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honestly, as much as i love test drive and forbidden friendship so much, where no one goes is more deeply etched into my soul. this 2-min scene is such a huge part of why httyd2 means so much to me. just hiccup and toothless in the sky, exactly where they belong, with their trusted companion: the wind — flying as one, fully in sync and FREE — and it's ALSO what keeps pulling me back to the first movie 🥹 bcz every time i watch this scene, it instantly takes me back to how hiccup and toothless first formed their friendship . and esp this part… THIS specific part. it's during this exact moment that i feel an overwhelming wave of appreciation and love for the (two) movies, and Most Especially for hiccup and toothless' bond. it could even make me fucking tear up, dude. i really, really, REALLY just love them so much. their friendship is something i hold so close to my heart. best platonic soulmates EVER i tell u . and i feel that same emotional surge when listening/watching test drive and forbidden friendship .. BUT where no one goes is literally just More special to me ! it just hits a little harder bcz, again, it always takes me back to those two pivotal moments of their bond. it all comes rushing back through this one flight. that's why, every time i Rewatch httyd2, and i get to watch this scene Again, it makes me wanna Rewatch the first movie Again (even tho i literally just finished rewatching it) .

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do y'all ever think about what happened after the third movie.

i dont, often, because i dont like the third movie. ive only watched it once, so i could be wrong about some things, but i was just thinking today about how things would've gone on in the days and weeks and years after.

mostly, about hiccup, because all i ever think about these days are hiccup and toothless. i was thinking about how, for a large part of his life, everything about hiccup has revolved around toothless and dragons. how it was, really, the first thing he'd ever done that got more than a glance from someone else. more than a "get back inside before you mess everything up more" from his father, from anyone.

we see two of hiccup's inventions in the first movie: first, the mangler, which was built, designed, and operated with the intent to help his village, to hunt dragons, to be like everyone else. it is dismissed outright, he is dismissed outright, and later, it is crushed under the foot of a monstrous nightmare that intends to kill him. we don't ever see it again, it is never thought of or acknowledged again, and i can just picture the wood rotting apart, the metal sinking into the earth until no trace remains.

then we see toothless's tailfin. everything it represents is contrary to what the mangler was; it does not help the village, it does not hunt dragons, it makes hiccup even more of an outlier than he already was. it is the only of hiccup's inventions thus far to have been taken seriously, the only thing anyone else has ever put value in. we see gobber, at the end of the first movie, with a tailfin he constructed for hiccup, for toothless, from hiccup's destroyed design and what must have been his notes, because it is the only invention that they have ever cared about, the only one they have bothered to take a closer look at. it comes, in turn, with the arrival and acceptance of dragons.

following that, we see so many, countless, of hiccup's creations. i wont even delve into the shows, because i could be here for hours.

in the second movie, we see his glide suit, his sword, his leg. even little things, like where he stores his map, his little compass, and the tailfin, which carries over from the first movie, with improvements—every single one of these once again revolves around toothless and dragons. every one is important when it comes to saving berk and the dragons from drago's clutches.

his glide suit, we later see, is furthered in the third movie, and by then, each of the "main gang" has their own flight suit. it's vital in defeating drago and outsmarting/outmaneuvering him. it is something hiccup so clearly adores, something he needs toothless to use and something that furthers the connection between them. he uses it to fly alongside him, he uses it to soar the skies, he uses it like a pair of prosthetic wings.

his leg, too, is so entangled in what has become him-and-toothless, that it is specifically designed to be different to the walking attachment when he's flying with toothless. there was no need to make it different, and yet, flying and dragons and toothless are so important to him that they have their own spot, their own design, their own piece of themselves in something hiccup cannot live without. it's like a key in the lock that is toothless's tailfin; they cannot fly without this specific, unique design of hiccup's prosthetic leg. this specific, unique design of hiccup's prosthetic leg that serves no purpose other than flying with toothless.

this brings me to my original thought: his sword. Inferno.

It is a blade, yes, but like everything else hiccup has made since the first movie: it is so entangled in everything that makes dragons dragons that it is almost inseparable. Zippleback gas and Nightmare gel are what make it Inferno and not a mere skeleton of a sword. except it's not infinite, and it's not forever, and with no dragons around after the third movie, he will run out of gel, and he will run out of gas, and inferno will become a skeleton of itself. something that no longer works like it should, like hiccup designed and built it to.

what do you think happens, when that day comes?

hiccup is so entangled in everything that makes dragons dragons that they are almost inseparable. what do you think became of him, in those days and weeks and months and years after? do you think he broke down every time he had to give up one of his creations? do you think he became numb, despondent, as he watched so much of his hard work become unusable? useless, once more, like he had been? do you think he fell back into the boy he once was, before dragons? do you think he felt worthless? Hiccup, the dragon master, without dragons? do you think he struggled?

I do. I think it was horrific, and excruciating, and enough to break a lesser man.

i think he used that blade until the day he ran out of gas and gel. i think he couldn't bear to use it after, strong as it still may be, because it didn't work right. it didn't work like he intended it to. i think he hides it away, because he can't bear to look at it, but he keeps it close, under his bed, maybe, or in a chest that's always closed, because he can't bear to be apart from it, either.

I think he used his scale armour until it broke apart, reached for shedded scales to grind to paste and fix it and instead scraped fingernails against the bottom of an empty bucket.

i think he ran his fingers over his glide suit, over every one of toothless's prosthetic tailfins over and over and over again until he realized they were wearing beneath his touch and the oil from his hands, and then i think he hid them away, so he'd never be tempted to touch them again. so he could never lose them, so he could never ruin them. so they'd last forever, even though they'd never be used again. i think he can picture them, perfectly, in his mind, every single detail and every single second he spent making them, but he's terrified that if he touches them, if he ruins them, he'll forget, and he'll have nothing left.

i think he did the same with his notebooks and designs, filled to the brim with sketches of not only his inventions, but of dragons, of toothless, of his tailfin, of every gear and mechanism he used, because he's terrified of losing them. he's terrified of forgetting how he made it, of just how long each metal boning had been, of how he fastened the leather, the angle of the curve it needed to be to fit perfectly against toothless's tail without chafing or being too loose. i think that it stays in him, in his hands and in his bones and in his mind, instinctively, that even five or ten or one-hundred years later he could still make that tailfin with his eyes closed and his hands behind his back and i think that it would be perfect, but i also think that he is more terrified than anything that he will forget how to. i think his breath stutters when he works with pulleys, and i think he has trouble wrapping leather around metal for the rest of his life.

i think that one day, with the wear, and the tear, and the strain of use, that his leg breaks. i think it shatters apart as he gets out of bed one morning, because his hands shake when he tries to check on it, when he tries to maintain it, and he hasn't been able to do more than oil it in quite a while. i think it breaks apart like glass, with metal strained and torn and weak, and i think that he falls apart when it does. i think he doesn't move, for a long, long time, fallen to the floor without anyone to catch him like there used to be, and he holds the pieces in his hands like they're more precious than gold, than anything else, because to him, they are. i think he tries to piece it back together, but the important parts are shattered, and it keeps falling apart and he doesn't have enough hands or fingers to keep it from doing so. i think that he stays there until someone finds him, and i think it takes hours even then, while someone holds his hands in their own to stop them from shaking, until they get gobber, and I think gobber makes his new leg for him, because hiccup can't.

i think gobber makes his new leg with a flight attachment, i think he makes it exactly the same as the previous one, because he can't imagine anything different. i think he does it because he's scared of what it'll do to hiccup if he doesn't.

i think that at the end of the third movie, so much has been taken from the village, from the people of berk, and from the dragons, but i think it takes and takes and takes even more from hiccup. how many things, do you think, he has made, that he holds and sees and touches after, that are rendered useless? how many things was he working on? how many designs are in his notebooks that will never become real? that he will never get to test and try and experiment with? how many ideas do you think he had, waiting for the right moment, that he now can't even bring himself to write down?

how many ideas does he have, after? how many times do you think he starts reaching for his notebook, for a piece of metal in the forge, for a hammer, before he realizes, what for? What's the point?

how many times do you think he realizes that so many of his ideas are useless once more?

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My HTTYD Fic Wip List

A list of my current fics I am working on. Visit my ask box if you have any questions or wanna know more! Same goes for any work I've posted to AO3! Last updated: July 01, 2025

Outsider AU Series

Prophet, in Triplicate (Stranger Again) Summary: A part 2 to Do I Know You?

The Sky Summary: Chapter 2 to The Sky

The Northern Markets / Whispers of a Name Familiar Summary: another part connected to Do I Know You?

Who Dragon Call Home Summary: A multi-chap fic where the Berk Dragon Riders run into Hiccup, years later, in less than great circumstances

Once again, with feeling Series

Is it a lie, if no one has ever believed you? Summary: a retelling of when Hiccup found Toothless, wounded, and freed him

Other Fics

Missing Goodbye Summary: A post movie 2 fic focusing on Hiccup, Toothless, and Stoick

To Start Over Summary: A multi-chap time-travel fic because im a sucker

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it's still my favorite httyd1 detail how hiccup made toothless' tailfin using parts from tools that were originally meant to kill dragons. the very things used to fight dragons (sword and shield), he repurposed to help one.

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"thanks, bud."

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Hiccup’s httyd 2 design is still the bane of my existence

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never not going insane over this protective stance

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5 Times Toothless Behaved Like a Cat (+1 Time Hiccup Did)

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon Ratings: General audiences Warnings: N/A Relationships: Hiccup & Toothless, Hiccup & dragon riders, Hiccup & dragons Characters: Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut Word Count: 5,211

Toothless has many strange behaviours and habits. This is 5 times the other dragon riders see Toothless acting weird, and 1 time the other dragons see Hiccup acting weird. Hiccup and Toothless, on the other hand, are more than used to each other's shenanigans.

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Decisions

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon Rating: General Audiences Warnings: N/A Relationship(s): Hiccup & Toothless Characters: Hiccup Haddock III, Toothless, Stoick the Vast, Astrid Hofferson Word Count: 1,281

He catches Astrid’s eyes, in that moment, so far away, and still, he sees the fear there. It takes him a moment to remember how to breathe when he realizes he does not know who the fear is for: him, or everyone else. They will take him away, something screams again, in time with the shriek of building gas in Toothless’s throat. And then, another, second: They will kill him.

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Space Between Breaths

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon Rating: General Audiences Warnings: N/A Relationship(s): Hiccup & Stoick, Hiccup & Toothless Characters: Hiccup Haddock III, Stoick the Vast, Toothless Word Count: 2k

“He was just trying to protect me! He’s not dangerous—” The words repeat, over and over, like the beat of relentless war drums in a losing battle, until they can be heard over the pounding of his heart and heavy waves alike, over the panic and the fear and the terror, deafening him to all else: Protect me, protect me, protect me—! The question, then, comes like the howling of the wind, fierce and unstoppable, a force of nature: From what?

Part of the Outsider series!

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round one of redrawing screenshots from httyd til i know how to draw them in my sleep (AKA til i learn how to actually draw them)

its not great but it is something, that's for sure

my tablet threatened to explode if i kept going so. fuck background i guess

Original screenshot/ref below:

courtesy of @/httyd_frames on twitter!

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My HTTYD Fic Masterlist

A comprehensive list of all HTTYD fanfic I have written. Last updated: July 01, 2025

Outsider AU Series

Words: 11,149 Works: 5 Complete: No Summary: A bunch of oneshots that look into what could've been if Hiccup had left Berk with Toothless during/post the first movie Notes: Hiccup & Toothless centric. Can be viewed as unrelated or all taking place in the same timeline.

Beginning, Middle, and End 3.4k, complete

Decisions 1.3k, complete

Space Between Breaths 1.9k, complete

The Sky 1.9k, incomplete

Do I Know You? 2,6k, complete

Once again, with feeling Series

Words: 6,659 Works: 3 Complete: No Summary: I rewrite HTTYD scenes with my own weird take on it. AKA, I add feelings and angst

Beginning, Middle, and End 3.4k, complete

Decisions 1.3k, complete

Space Between Breaths 1.9k, complete

Miscellaneous Fics

5 Times Toothless Behaved Like a Cat (+1 Time Hiccup Did) 5.2k, complete

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Hiya, party people! It's intro time!

I'm Gali! I do a lot of writing, occasionally art (badly), and lots of other stuff. This is a sideblog for anything I do relating to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise & fandom! My main blog is @gali-la, where I post about whatever I want whenever I want.

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