warning for horror? (scars, blood, bruises???, eyes, and mouth gore? lack of a mouth???? all are fictional and drawn + not very realistic)
i redrew some lomando/fancy island girls cuz.. idk? i wanted to!!!
(top to bottom: kuroageha, franjyou, dai-kuchisake onna, 404 san)
crazy how my like top favorite character (kuro) took the least amount of time cuz shes one of the simplest humanoid designs 😭 in fact i even added slightly more detail than her canon design
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have you ever held a snake? its cool how their bodies work. anyways this isnt good but i was losing my mind over not writing anything this summer so approx 850wds of hiccup and toothless (mostly hiccup) trying to figure out how a body works prior to a prosthetic.
The first thing Hiccup learns about the body is that you don't notice how it all works until you're already looking for it.
The second thing Hiccup learns about the body is that it is immaculately designed.
Oh, sure, there are flaws. On humans, this includes soft skin that can easily break, teeth that can rot and corrupt the mind with them, and an infuriating lack of natural weaponry compared to most other animals. Narrowing it down further, Hiccup can point to a few personal flaws, size and stature chief among them.
But, on an architectural level - and Hiccup, who is, among other things, something of a self-taught engineer - he can appreciate the thought Odin must've put into it.
Bones that feed in together, muscle stretching and compressing without even having to think about it, organs packed together but hardly straining, joints swinging on their axels - it's interesting, what you can feel if you pay attention to it.
Only, he's not trying to get a feel for his human body. There are a lot of things he can notice about it, a lot less he can fix. No, it's on his mind because he's paying heed to something much more important than his own body: Toothless' body.
It's all well and good to design a tailfin based on sheer observation, prior knowledge of aerodynamics, and sheer stubbornness, but if you want a prosthetic to work, you have to pay attention not only to the look of the lost limb, you have to watch for the way that limb was supposed to work with the rest of the body surrounding it.
After the first failed flying attempt - only half-failed, Hiccup reminds himself, trying not to get overwhelmed before he's even truly begun - Hiccup spends more time watching and feeling than designing. It's hard for any Viking to sit back and wait rather than brute force his plans, but in the same way they only half-failed, Hiccup feels like at this point he's only half-Viking, and he has to adapt to a strangely dragon-like patience if he wants to get anywhere.
He still brings Toothless fish, and they start to play with more abandon now that they've reached a middle ground, which helps put him in frequent physical contact with the dragon. Seeing the way a muscle moves and feeling the way a muscle moves under his hands as Toothless swings his tail is just as different as watching from a distant cliffside and watching from right next to him.
Toothless grumbles when he puts his hands on him, but Hiccup just grumbles back, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, turn over. I want to see how the muscles on your underside tense when you do that." If Toothless doesn't want Hiccup prodding, he's a giant firebreathing lizard who can damn well get the boy to leave him alone if he tries. Still, fair's fair, and in return, even though Hiccup has a reason and Toothless very much does not, he lets the dragon prod at his body too, via snout and paws.
Between the two of them, the pair quickly learns where the other is ticklish, where there are complete no-go spots, where it really hurts to receive deliberate pressure, and where it really doesn't. Additional lessons include the staying power of dragon spit (much to Hiccup's displeasure and Toothless' amusement, it does not wash out), the power of opposable thumbs in satisfying itches (much, much better than Toothless' clumsy claws), and the different ways they keep warm (he can produce fire, but Toothless is cold-blooded at the end of the day and Hiccup is not, so they each bask in each other's warmth as necessary).
It's more information than Hiccup could've ever dreamed about when he went looking for Night Furys in the Book of Dragons, nearly overwhelmingly so, and the only thing that doesn't make him start babbling from insanity is that he's fairly sure it's just as strange to Toothless, too. Who knows when the last time a human and a dragon both got to examine a living specimen was? Hiccup has half a mind to believe they're the first, and it only makes him more excited to throw himself into his work.
Eventually, he thinks he's got the right details, pretty sure he knows the way Toothless' fin tail positions itself more accurately than even the dragon knows by instinct. It reminds him of when he was five and held a snake for the first time - smaller than the dragon but reptilian all the same - and felt the way it tensed its joints and muscle so deliberately to inch across his arm. He'll have to keep tweaking, considering the movement as he flies won't be the same as he's learned on land, but it's enough, it has to be enough.
It's crazy, but Hiccup thinks he knows enough about dragon anatomy to make this tail thing work.
Months later, he thanks Odin that when Toothless helps bite off the damaged half of his left leg, the dragon knows just as much about human anatomy in return to leave him his knee.
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