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Yipiiii more messy thingies for me to get used to

So far I prefer my brushes at csp tho ngl, but I’ll try to find some harmony to work in here peacefully

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it’s funny cos there are two Hiccups and neither of them should be chief but for opposite reasons. Movie!Hiccup shouldn’t be chief because he’s a well intentioned idiot who shouldn’t be trusted with all that responsibility because he can’t even work out his own issues let alone other peoples. He should have just gone off with Valka to explore and vibe with dragons and do a little inventing.

And show!Hiccup shouldn’t be chief because he’s a feral strategic genius who needs enrichment and being chief wouldn’t be stimulating enough. Getting stuck in one place dealing with domestic disputes would be like putting him in a cage. He’d be climbing up the fucking walls. Tl;dr movie!Hiccup shouldn’t be chief cos it would be too much for him and show!Hiccup shouldn’t be chief cos it wouldn’t be enough for him. That’s all thank you for coming to my TED Talk

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I can never think too much about Httyd 1 Astrid before I get too emotional.

At 15, this girl was so bitter and harsh and kept everyone at a distance and hard on everyone, including herself, and she didn't allow any emotions of hers to shine through beyond anger and its varying shades. I mean, how could she?

She grew up around blood and death, destined to inherit the same war her parents and grandparents did, stuck in an endless cycle of violence no one truly knew how it got started in the first place other than the very plausible reason that their enemy was simply cruel, unreasonable and would never stop coming. Not until one side finally eradicated the other, never knowing that the annihilation of one side would without a doubt automatically mean the destruction of the other before the unknown third party in this war, the Red Death, inevitably moved on to rinse and repeat elsewhere.

Astrid had no prospects for the future and she knew it. She would live out her life as a warrior, fight and get injured until the day she would inevitably die, probably in battle. Except maybe she would get to see her parents die a brutal death before she goes. Maybe even her future husband. Maybe even her future kids. That is, if she even got that far in life.

So no wonder she just stood by and watched with a vaguely sad look as Hiccup was bullied. No wonder her best pieces of advice were "he's never where he should be" and "pick which side you're on." No wonder she got pissed as hell at Hiccup when she fought to get just the littlest bit of an edge in a cruel and unjust world only to have it stolen right out from under her by the chief's son, who basically breezed his way through dragon training thanks to Toothless. No wonder she was ready to tell on Hiccup's ass when she found out he was making friends with the enemy, the same one who would come at night and steal their food and destroy their homes, leaving them to starve exposed to the elements.

And no wonder, when Hiccup shows her that a bleak future of endless cruelty isn't the only option for her anymore, she blooms open like the most beautiful goddamn flower in the entire north. She loves Snoggletog, experimenting with cooking, pranks, big romantic gestures. She gets truly in touch with her emotions and finds it important to build up the guy who literally gave her a future.

Astrid makes me so emotional, guys...

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Doodly dwagons playing + Monstrous Flightmare Sketch for fun

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Da Big List

Alright, Smiergels, Smörpls, Flubbawabbas and everyone in between, here we go

Non-comprehensive bullet point list of things I want H🐸 to include incoming (for now without context)

Neurodivergence assigned at Me, gonna look to fandom a lot for this one too

Hiccup on the Spectrum

Astrid beefy, Astrid eventually Chief by Hiccup inventing democracy lol

Polycules

Light Fury is the semi-aquatic, cave-dwelling fury we all know she is, reclassed to tidal class with some funky little extra bits and bobs I'm excited about

Light Fury actually gets to have a personality! Based on the few moments in the movie where she gets to be more than just the concept of nature and beauty plus some personal takes and cute quirks

Dynamic between Toothless and the Light Fury actually fleshed out, dragon slow burn lol

Toothless protects Hiccup at all cost, even if the one attacking Hiccup is the Light Fury. They're best friends.

There's more night furies! They're a major plotpoint when Grimmel returns

Yes, Grimmel returns, we're switching around some movie stuff. First we do Grimmel being a threat, then comes Drago, then in the final parts we have Grimmel again but worse. Drago comes after OG-ish Grimmel due to being way more scary/resourceful and after that and RttE we have Grimmel come back for a second attempt, this time a lot scarier and with a lot more bad stuff to actually pose a threat

They. Do not. Separate. They are best friends.

In that same vein we're gonna change up a lot of the messages from the third movie to be a lot more positive and hopeful and encouraging

OCs! Some more peeps riding cool af non Standard dragons like a Changewing or a Snafflefang, if you feel throwing some at me please go right ahead!

Self Indulgence. A lot. Brain needs little snackies to keep being interested and I'm an RPer at heart so we're gonna have an oc who gets a bit more script time, they're gonna mirror hiccup's dynamic with toothless with the light fury, but the other way around. Gonna have a lot of fun playing around with a dragon that doesn't trust vikings and a viking that doesn't trust dragons having to build a bond

That's all from the top of my head, also I should really go to sleep

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Yeah, I just pointed to all of you

I rambled too much in the other one, time to get serious!

First of all, the star of the show, the man himself, the goober, raw vikingsness contained in just one- Oh wait that last part was Astrid-

Anyway, Hiccup. We stan an uncomfy king.

Autism. Not extremely super much is gonna change, but due to incredibly self-indulgent reasons, my mans is gonna get another scoop of the tism ice creme. I really wanna dig into the alienation and isolation that's going to linger in his bones still, really shovel into that sense of self, how he fears he'll return to who he used to be without Toothless, coming to accept and embrace that version of himself, that his deeds don't determine his worth. The fear of not being useful enough after only getting praise after doing something grand, learning how to just be and finding out who he really wants to be, how to carve his own space somewhere

Leading Berk, look, mans loves Berk and he does a very good job, but in this version we're gonna let him explore what it is he actually wants to do, having Hiccup make space for himself as the scrunkly dragon boy or the genuis engineer instead of just Hiccup the Son of the Chief and Future Chief himself. Lots of finding yourself, trying things and noticing maybe they're not right for you or maybe they are and you just needed to look at other things to be sure. (I'm fairly certain he does a lot of finding himself in RttE, but we're currently only at Season 1 and I need that series to shovel coal into my hyperfixation train when the fuel gets low ok, so we're just gonna have to deal)

This is getting too long again, this was supposed to be a list of bullet points, frigglesnaggle, ok Hiccup centric post and cut and dry bullet points next and I'll just slowly elaborate over time

People are gonna be a bit nicer..? Talking about Movie 3 specifically. I mean we're gonna try and dig into those relationships a bit more anyway, though mostly the series I've seen so far have done a pretty funky job of making the characters bond and I'd like to have that reflected in the story. Gimme group hug friends who geniuenly like each other and work together like a well oiled machine heck yeee

How do we handle dragons? That's a topic I find really interesting for Hiccup, especially faced with Drago and Grimmel. There's definitely gonna be some 'trust vs control', and I really want us to dig into the topic of dragon trappers. Mans has his work cut out for him. But looking at how he could attempt to mediate and educate others and how to deal with those refusing to play nice is gonna be interesting to look at at more than surface level

I'm starting to lose sight of what I actually wanted to talk about, so here's some funny Hiccups to distract you, while I comply to the whims of fate my brain and write a cut and dry bullet point list

Ah yes. And he gets ear piercings because I'm a hoe, k bye

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It's official government assigned-

~*~Goober Time~*~

So here we are. Made it to day two. I'm sitting in bed, I have my favourite coffee,there's HttyD Ost playing, so let's go

I decided to name this story "How to train an old Dragon", I named it that way because I wanted to revisit this franchise that has been so so close to my heart for so long and look at it through a dedicated neurodivergent lense. With which I don't mean Thomas Jefferson Miku Binder, but just that I'd like to take traits and things characters already show and make them stronger, deal with more issues, get into the nitty gritty of things that were a little glossed over (like the third movie not dealing with Stoic's death, as someone whose lost a family member, that shit hurts like hell, the only thing time did was elongate the time span I have before I break down crying, especially if you can't leave the place you associate with them.

But yeah, getting ahead of myself. Oh true, I was at why I decided on HttaoD. Basically putting new stuff rarely shown in media back then into a very old fandom. Cool? Cool. Also because I can't read and I really thought How to train an old Dragon would spell out

~HttoaD~

like Toad? Which it doesn't. I can't read. Will that stop me from abreviating it H🐸? No. No, it won't.

That sign can't stop me, because I can't read. And if we read it as HFrog then so be it.

This got longer than anticipated, but that's the general gist, time to make a very nice bullet pointed list of the things specifically that irk me in a different post, because this one got too long for what it was supposed to be

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Hi

Welcome to what is basically my Accountability Blog where I can be publicly shamed if I fall off the face of the earth while trying to write this story

I have never finished writing a long story that wasn't an RP. I've tried so many productivity methods and anti procrastinating hacks but I always ended up feeling like garbage for not being to pull through, I felt lazy and bad and not enough. I was sitting with that goddamn frog for such a long time, it introduced me to its grandkids!

But! Lately I've started incorporating strategies for ADHD people and I've been able to concentrate again for more than 2 minutes at a time. So here's another one: Accountability. I wanna write a cool big HttyD story and I'm gonna try and throw all my doodles, notes, character stuff etc here

I'm honestly kinda scared I won't pull through and my brain will keep piloting me like remi hat rat except it's not a rat but a toddler who wants dopamine and they want it now

But yeah. Lots to learn, lots to try and use to keep being creative

I'm hoping HttyD will pull me through because those movies and series are a big part of my childhood and my now-hood and I always end up returning to it one way or another

So this is my attempt of writing an extremely self-indulgent HttyD story spanning multiple movies, switching things around etc

When I watched the third movie for the first time I felt extremely bad. It made me sad. I recognised that the message for me was 'Give up. No matter how many fearsome foes you battle you'll end up being overwhelmed and you'll have to give up what you love, your wonder and magic'

I didn't realize just how many things sat wrong with me before I stumbled across stuff in the fandom

So two birds with one very soft, non-bird-harming stone. Try and write a big whambam story, change around the messages of the third movie (as well as many other things) and play with the franchise in general a little bit

Stay tuned for a general overview of what I'd like to accomplish with the story, what themes I want to explore and what might be funky to change

So uh.. let's try and tame that old dragon together, huh?