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You guys ever think about how this was the first time Toothless truly got to be back at “top speed” after being shot down? Like when he was attacking Berk in the beginning.. but now his best friend is helping him.

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mild warning for violence.

thinking about a really self indulgent au where hiccup is captured by the dragon hunters in their base, and a small group of them take the opportunity to get some payback. toothless can hear the sounds of violence from the other side of the camp, and starts thrashing against the chains.

viggo and ryker, who were in the vicinity of the night fury, see this and are a bit confused. viggo realizes quickly that the only reason toothless would act like that is if hiccup's in danger, and internally he just groans and curses because by thor can't anyone here follow simple orders??

the three hunters who beat hiccup up are gone by the time viggo and his men get there, and though hiccup luckily isn't too injured, they did bruise his ribs and caused some injuries to the face. ryker asks if viggo wants to put a search party on the deserting hunters, which could take a while, but viggo has a better idea. one of the hunters left their weapon behind, splatters of hiccup's blood still on it, and viggo takes it with him.

ryker is confused, and even more so when viggo goes to the night fury and holds up the weapon in front of it. the night fury's pupils draw to slits when it smells the blood, before it scents the hilt where the hunter held it. viggo just smiles, and says he expects the dragon knows what to do. then he orders ryker to have the night fury be released.

for a moment, ryker considers mutiny as well, but whatever, whatever, if this is what viggo wants then he guesses this is what they're gonna do, just don't start crying when the night fury kills them all! the hunters undo the chains, and the night fury just stands there for a few, achingly long seconds, before it sprints off into the forest, tearing away from the camp at break neck speeds.

"well," ryker says, "guess it's gonna take us an entire day to get that dragon back."

viggo just smiles and tells him to be patient.

they wait in silence, and wait and wait. minutes go by, but just as ryker is about to ask what the hell they're waiting for, there's a chorus of blood curdling screams from the forest, followed by the unholy shriek of an angry night fury. there's a blast that lights up the trees, followed by more screams. then, it goes silent.

a little later, the night fury reappears from the forest. there's blood dripping from its maw, a fierce look in its eyes. it walks right up to viggo, and spits out a dismembered hand onto the ground in front of him.

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ive been thinking about this againnn, and i love imagining ryker having that conversation with viggo. for convenience, i imagine viggo has come to the island as well, already holding back going off on his brother for this idiotic idea, and then ryker tells him the hunters killed the most valuable source of information they could have had?? oh, viggo is pissed.

viggo would ask for proof of death, like a body, or if ryker saw the killing. ryker says of course he didn't see it, he wouldn't have let them kill hiccup if he got to the boy first (bc he knows how much viggo wants him), but he didn't see the body either. and also, the ring leader said they dumped hiccup in the woods. viggo just stares flatly at ryker for a moment, then gets up and says hiccup isn't dead. if there is no body, hiccup is still alive.

meanwhile, i imagine toothless is going wild in the arena. he can smell hiccup's blood from when the hunters hurt him, but he can't see hiccup, and he can't hear hiccup, and all these people keep yelling at him and making all that noise and it's really disorienting. the hunters try to put a muzzle on him and toothless just blasts him to hellheim. he's furious. the hunters get their first good look at what a raging night fury looks like, because it's tearing through their ranks like paper ragdolls. they'd probably have to sedate toothless with dragon root to stop him.

i also love the idea of viggo using toothless to track down hiccup. if anyone is determined enough to find hiccup, its his dragon, and if toothless doesn't have the saddle and tailfin, they can't fly away.

meanwhile, hiccup is walking through the forest trying to get back to the arena bc the hunters left him in a gronckle nest and honestly hiccup has no idea what ecactly they were expecting from that. the gronckles just used him as a baby sitter for the afternoon.

Ryker immediately freaking out about Toothless being in the fight because "we need that dragon alive" and "WHERE'S THE BOY?"

Someone's gonna get in trouble with Viggo, hmm?

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hiccup expression exploration! really did a lot of work trying to get his & jack's faces down the way i wanted!

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You don’t want to know what I’ve said about this man and what I’d do for him.

(No one loves RTTE Hiccup more than I love RTTE Hiccup 🙏)

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silence hd remake. original media was talking

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viggo lives AU where he’s the nicest person to the dragon riders plus heather. he ADORES them and entertains all of their antics.

and then he’s still a fucking asshole to everyone else

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all my haters become tomaters in my lovely summer garden

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You have to get up pretty early in the morning to lead your gift horse across that burnt bridge but you can’t make a watched horse eat all your cans of worms in one basket

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Another random ATLA screenshot redraw ft. Lee Junior 🌾⚔️

I like this shot alot because he looks constipated (reposted to correct something)

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This post by @kisskissboxinggloves pulled me out of my artblock. Enjoy

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ohhhhhhh i missed this so much!!!!

(^^ me pulling up wine glass in hand to enjoy the show but then also screaming on the inside)

smolcup my baby</3 hes such a cutiepatootie!! and i looooove protective dagur, when his crazy obsession goes all the way around to affection and protectiveness, delicious, especially when hiccup doesn't realize/understand it.

absolutely amazing<3333

hiccup and stabbed <3 @mr-business-whump

ohh im gonna stab the hell outta smolcup...

"Look, I don't want to fight!" Hiccup cried. That was entirely true. Not least because he was unarmed, but also because the man advancing on him with sword drawn was at least twice his height and three times his weight.

"Don't care," the man growled. He tossed a dull sword at Hiccup. "Fight or die."

Probably more of an AND than an OR, Hiccup thought. He picked up the sword. It was spotted with rust and the leather wrapping the hilt was coming loose. It wouldn't have made much of a difference if it was razor-sharp and gleaming.

For once in his life, Hiccup was sorely disappointed that Dagur had left him alone to see to some task or other. He'd assigned this guard to get Hiccup to a cell after capturing him, but the man had other plans. And a grudge, evidently.

"What did I even do to you?" Hiccup asked. He reached out behind him to feel for the wall; it was closer than he'd expected.

"That Night Fury killed my brother," the man snarled. "And you tell it what to do."

Hiccup's heart plummeted. He knew, logically, that most people would not survive a direct hit from Toothless. That was easier to ignore in the heat of battle, but the fact still tormented him occasionally. Astrid, ever the warrior, tried to reason with him and remind him that these men had no qualms in trying to murder him, so he shouldn't afford them mercy.

It was much harder to confront the reality of it when the man in front of him was poised to extract revenge as immediately as possible.

"Why even give me a sword?" Hiccup asked. "It's not like I could beat you, right?" He backed up right into the wall as the man advanced, fast.

"I'm giving you the chance you didn't give my brother," the man said. He raised the sword and swung.

By some miracle, Hiccup got his own sword up in time to deflect, but the force of the impact sent pain radiating up his arm. He threw the sword (now notched significantly) aside and dove away from the swordsman, who was swinging back for another strike.

"Dagur doesn't want me hurt!" he cried. For whatever reason, Dagur was adamant about it. Hiccup had seen him attack his own men who'd tried to take down Toothless.

"Too bad!" his attacker shouted. The next swing whipped past Hiccup's face so closely he could've sworn it trimmed his bangs. "You're paying for my brother's murder!"

Hiccup ducked the backswing and rolled across the hall, but came up against the stone of the wall. He scrambled upright but the man was too fast.

With one hand, the swordsman caught hold of Hiccup's shoulder, and with the other he drove the sword into Hiccup's stomach.

He'd expected to scream in pain, but all that left his lips was a choked gasp. The impact of the blade drove the wind from him. Then, a split second that lasted a year later, the pain began.

Fire spread from his core. It was worse than getting struck by lightning, worse than the Red Death. The agony gripped him so tightly that he couldn't draw breath to scream.

The man dropped him to the floor and gripped the hilt of the sword. The slight jolt from his hand added enough pain that Hiccup managed a whine. The man above laughed.

"No monster to save you here," he said smugly. "I hope you meet my brother in Hel."

"Go see him yourself."

An arrow bloomed from the man's eye, point-first. He looked shocked, one hand going up to touch the arrow before he crumpled. Dagur stood where he had, one hand still holding the crossbow he'd just shot.

Hiccup decided that the blood loss and shock was making him see things. There was no other reason Dagur would fall to his knees and gather Hiccup into his arms. There was no other reason that would explain tears that weren't his falling on his face.

There was no other reason to explain why Dagur was sobbing.

It had to be shock.

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Hi, just checking in! I haven’t seen your beautiful presence on my dash lately and I’m just hoping everything is okay!

hiiiii that's so sweet of you<3

i'm very well! it's been a crazy hectic few weeks, and they rushed by so quickly i didn't even realize so much time had passed without me opening tumblr.

i did get hit with some ao3 curse (or the comic con curse?) because school dropped a load of work on our plate, gave us three separate projects which included multiple youtuber style vlog videos of ourselves (they want to make sure students actually Do Work because of ppl abusing chatgpt, yay...), and THEN, when i went to comic con last weekend, i had a run in with another cyclist and got wrecked. every time i go to comic con something happens. i lose pieces of my cosplay, get a stomach flu, or get run over i suppose???

it's honestly a straight miracle i was both not seriously harmed and my bicycle is still in one piece, because that collusion was intense. i'm covered in big yellow-blue bruises now tho, and got a few scrapes on my jaw because of course i crashed down head first and clocked my jaw on the road😭 i don't have a concussion! luckily!! and comic con was pretty fun! tho i do notice that every time i go they keep selling the exact same things, and so much of it is aliexpress or temu stuff :/

i'll probably be in and out a few more times in the uncoming weeks, but i'll always return<3

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i like tumblr bc you don’t make friends by being cool you make friends by going RRRARRHGGHGHFHGEFGFHHGGHH (positive) in the tags