#and the rat! you've seen rat before 😂

[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.

[friendrat]

Okay what exactly is the Redamian Chronicles? I've seen you posting about it and I'm most curious!

I'm so happy you asked!

It is a Christian fantasy series that is super obscure, and it is delightful! I was initially introduced to it by my husband, who had been given the first book before he met me, and on learning of my love of fantasy, lent it to me. And I just fell in love with it! (It very quickly became *my* copy when he didn't accept it back. I think he had already decided he wanted to marry me and figured he would get it back eventually. 😂)

I've only ever read the first book, due to the series being out of print by the time I discovered it, and also due to some weirdness where book two was only ever published in a special edition of book one. But it is available now in ebook format! I had purchased the ebook awhile back, but hadn't been able to verify if it was just the original text or if it was the extended version with book two for a long time because I was moving. I recently came across my hard copy, though, and was able to verify that it does indeed have the second part! That was the push I needed to finally reread it, and I am *loving* it all over again! The dialog is so great.

I still haven't been able to acquire book 3... 😢 but hopefully someday! For now, I'm really enjoying rereading the first part and looking forward to the second part, which is all new territory for me! I am really hoping that my ship sails in the second part, because there's a pair that would be great together, and it just wasn't far enough into the story for it to happen where part one cuts off.

Anyway, as you may have guessed since you've been seeing my posts, it is also where my url came from. 😁 Friend Rat is just... he's Friend Rat. I love him. He's loyal. He loves debate. He's occasionally oblivious... oh, and he's a bit clumsy. I love him so so much! I just want to hug him!

[southern-belle-outcasts]

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@dilffactory

Ahahahahahaha so since I don’t get along with the rat, and his attempting to take away my extended universe, and feed me characterization death…Ben, ilu, there’s some tolerated exceptions, but everything not original S.tar W.ars saga. If it’s not the OG six, it doesn’t exist to me. But especially A.hsoka, I have her name blocked every way possible cuz that was the stupidest part of that cartoon imo 😬😂

Anything with A.B.O. is blacklisted. No. Absolutely not. Nope. Y’all can have your happy fun times- over there. Where I can’t see.

A.valance…the people that ship that ship are so bi/panphobic it’s unreal.

Anything with ‘reader x’ is blacklisted but there’s no consistency there so posts slip through the cracks all the time 🙄

That’s p much it. I’ll blacklist a show or movie I’m trying to see before it gets spoiled all to hell less than twelve hours after dropping, but then once I’ve seen it, it gets unblocked.