#Adelaide my beloved

[wickedcriminal]

HELLO AGAIN I'm glad to see you got my ask (it was important to me that you knew how much I ADORE this au) but now I've just gone back through the tag, I have some questions, if you don't mind! There's a good chance you've answered some of them before but I wanted to ask anyway:

First of all: with both Snotlout's being one character, and in Elder's age group, how does that work with some of the book specific scenes where Snotlout is being cruel to Hiccup during training (as the older ones have already gone through pirate training)?

Also slightly related: are either Adelaide or Gustav in Younger's pirate training programme or is it just the book people we hear about?

Also also slightly related (and you can tell I have a bit of a theme to my questions): what is Adelaide and Snotlout's relationship like? And what is Adelaide like full stop since she's barely mentioned in the books after all, so if you do have anything characterisation wise, that would be quite cool?

AHHH THANK YOU 😭😭 ALSO I LOVE THESE QUESTIONS SO MUCH BECAUSE I GET TO DRAW ADELAIDEEE WHOO

So Snotlout basically did all the book bullying to Elder back when they were both in the Pirate Training Program, (including the sabatoge and attempted parricide,) and he continued to do it through the Dragon Training Program and up until Elder saved everyone from the Red Death. Ever since starting the Dragon Academy, Elder has been receiving much more respect from his peers, and Snotlout has been having to draw back on the bullying to save face. Elder and he still have that chief-heir rivalry, of course, and it becomes a gag that Snotlout casually tries to kill him and Elder rolls his eyes like "oh, you" and then everyone laughs it off. Through RTTE he'll mellow out, and by the time of HTTYD 2, the murder theme will pretty much be gone with Snotlout having begrudgingly become real friends with Elder.

As for Adelaide!! I made a post about her a few years ago, but I decided I wanted to give her a bit of an update since I found a better slot for her in the larger story! (And also because I wanted to redesign her agahagah)

Adelaide is indeed in the Pirate Training Program! She pretty much becomes Younger's book!Snotlout, sans the murderous tendencies. Unlike Snotlout, Adelaide has nothing to gain from killing her Hiccup, but she has seen Snotlout heckle Elder enough times for her to mirror that onto Younger. Taking book!Snotlout's place also gives her all of his book lackies, like Dogsbreath! (Gustav is also a Pirate and one of her lackies, though he's less of a bully to Minicup and Fish and moreso just a mild annoyance 😂)

Adelaide and her friends' usual up-tos around Berk include sailboat racing, hunting rats and fish with their hunting dragons, basheyball, and other mischievous preteen activities (though never quite as destructive as what the Thorston twins get up to.)

Adelaide's relationship with Snotlout is amicable enough, though they probably bicker thrice as much as the Hiccups normally would. Snotlout likes to embarass Adelaide around the other Pirates and it annoys her to no end, but despite this (and she'd never say it to his face) she's often heard praising Snotlout up and down for being the coolest person ever. She likes to taunt Younger about how her cool and awesome big brother is gonna clobber his wimpy crybaby big brother. Even after Elder defeats the Red Death, she still has a habit of talking him down in favor of Snotlout, and continues to do so even through Race to the Edge and HTTYD 2.

She'd get some skull tattoos in RTTE, and her riding dragon would be the Devilish Dervish that Snot had in the books! I also wanted to give her a unique weapon, so she uses a flail mace!

Her role gets bigger from book 9 onward, as she and Snotlout's relationship with each other as well as their differing thoughts about who deserves to be King become extremely relevant.

Let's just say she's got a good throwing arm.

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Self Portrait at an Easel - Sofonisba Anguissola // Self Portrait - Mary Cassatt // Self Portrait with Two Pupils - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard // Self Portrait - Gwen John // Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Artemisia Gentileschi // Self Portrait in a Straw Hat - Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun // The Man - Taylor Swift

[scilou-mdr]

Characters that I love in my style:

It's midnight and I draw because I am: an artist🎇

Good night!

[acid-harbringer]

Some Silly Oc valentines cards.

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-17

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

[locustandwildhoney]

We've had the important discussion of which Seed gives the worst head, but which of the Deputy Squad gives the Best Head?

[sallysellsseashellssundays]

The Waters of Mars Rewatch

I've already ranted about this to @witchofthemidlands but just need to write down my thoughts after rewatching The Waters of Mars yesterday

When you write this episode, Rose, The Parting of the Ways/Bad Wolf, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Smith and Jones, Partners in Crime, Midnight, the entire S4 ending, THE END OF TIME you can have as many Slitheen fart jokes as you'd like Mr. RTD *bravo*

Also, I'm losing my mind as to why Ten went to Mars specifically, could it have been b/c Jackie and Donna always said he was from Mars?? And he really was making an effort to leave initially and not affect history...it's fascinating to see his final response as more and more people die compared to, for example, Voyage of the Damned. He's really at a point in his life where he's been broken down enough that he loses it completely

This SHOULD have been a two-parter episode there is so much to explore with the Mars crew and I even see parallels between them and the crew from the Impossible Planet two-parter it would have been wild to see the end of this episode paralleled with that storyline. Roman is like Toby, Yuri and Mia maybe like Danny, Ed definitely like Jefferson, Scheffi is like Scooti?, Adelaide like Zach etc. idk but I see a lot of parallels

My absolute favorite tiny detail is Ten expressing dislike for the robot but as soon as Roman talks about robot dogs he goes "actually hold up a moment" lol he will be loyal to K9

Adelaide is a badass I love her so much and I find the contrast between her and Lady Christina just one episode prior to be fascinating, I think Adelaide is exactly the type of person that Ten needed in his life at that exact moment

The Doctor speaking Martian...it's crazy how easily it could have turned into a Midnight 2.0 situation for him, I think Adelaide is the difference here she exudes so much authority

The fact that they took the time to focus the camera on Mia and Yuri holding hands, like 1 second only, but I go insane for that recurring theme in RTD's era especially considering how much that relates to timepetals and how distraught Ten is after losing Rose again and Donna

Speaking of Donna I love the Pompeii reference I could write essays about that as well as the mention of the Journey's End storyline with Adelaide as a child, RTD isn't hitting you over the head with it but you can definitely see all these links between what Ten lost in that episode and the Pompeii situation and his mental state in this episode aaahhhh what a masterpiece!!!

DT's acting in the final scene gives me CHILLS, he literally feels like an entirely different character as soon as he steps off the TARDIS, I feel the hairs on my body stand with the look in his eye. I am not a huge fan of Joan in the Human Nature two-parter but I think that was an interesting set of episodes and I also think it works solely b/c DT can very convincingly make you feel that John Smith is different from the Doctor even though there are some remnants there, same here in this episode. It's the Doctor but there's something there that is very un-Doctor.

[rypnami]

Hi Char! Happy Star Wars Day! I just saw and reblogged your post about how the characters would enjoy SW! How do you think Adelaide would enjoy Star Wars?

I CANT BELIVE I FORGOT HER I SWORE I GOT EVERYONE AAAAA

i think she’s the kind of person who’s pretty easy- she’ll like most things she watches, as long as it’s done well.

she strikes me as someone who would like both star trek AND star wars, but would lean to slightly preferring star wars 😊

[thedragonagelesbian]

I need to make a revised d&d character sheet for divine!adelaide (city cleric + divine soul sorcerer) and a luc d&d sheet (?????????? I have a lot of different routes i think it could go but its hard to map da's magic system onto d&d........... probably at least a two level necro wizard dip with a char caster base but.......................)

[ghosteel]

nine times out of ten, if you walk into ballonlea’s gym unannounced you’re just going to see opal standing in front of a whole queue of fairy pokemon, waiting for their turn to be hugged like this

[jjacqualope]

wanted to draw Adelaide in Yor’s outfit from spy x family uwu ♥

[skelesheeps]

I miss my passion for drawing 😔 there was a good like 6 months where I couldn't stop drawing I was having so much fun!!! Then I got burnt out for another 6 months and I thiiiink my motivation to draw is slowly creeping back, but I want it back in full so bad!!!! I miss it I wanna draw the fellas in my brain space!!!!

[moonknightlover33]

My new book for Daemon Targaryen please check it out!!

It’s got smut in it 😵‍💫

The OC is a hightower

Daemon Targaryen and Verena Hightower always find their way back to each other.

[scilou-mdr]

Fanarts on paper that I made (Eddsworld + Ocs + sunshine day)

[drivemysoul]

i cannot even load pictures on my dash jfc

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-2017/03-05

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois