#dragons and the nine realms

[otiksimr]

I don't really have any strong feelings towards the Featherhides design, but I feel like they could've done a lot more with it.

[roadkill-creatures]

Some httyd fan designs

[ana-the-light-fury]

I've always praised the fact that Toothless' wings actually look large enough to carry his body:

I mean LOOK at that! I can easily imagine those allowing him to glide and flap hard enough to get him off the ground.

...

THUNDER'S wings, however...

They look so thin. And his body looks so HEAVY. How do those keep him up??!

[rosiethedragongeek]

HTTYD is so special, how often do you get to spend this much time with your main cast??? Watch them GROW UP???? Consume literal HOURS of material in the forms of movies, shows, comics, games, shorts, etc????? We're so SPOILED

[dragonnnfly]

The only way they could have made me watch httyd: the nine realms was if the creators brought back Ruffnut, confirming that she was immortal, and just let her wreck some shit

THE ONLY WAY

[local-dragon-haunt]

I have 11k words in the wip folder

[itsangelic1411]

I’m not the best at drawing dragons but I wanted to give my own touch to thunder too lol I also wanted to see how it would look if the light fury side was more predominant!!

[misterrttegrimborn]

[ellulemmu]

My take on a fully grown Jörmungandr

[zoomzooml]

Concept doodles of The Nine Realms dragons because I fell into spiral with those lmao. I have no idea what to do with Feather so I'm ruling her out for now lmao.

I feel that one of the main problems with D:TNR is that this original dragons are done in one style, dragons from previous series are done in another style and dragons from yet another (Bubblehorn is from some series for really young kids from what I know) are done in yet another style and the creators lump it all together.

And the fact that I'm not fond of The Nine Realms artstyle at all is a private opinion. Mine doesn't rally fit HTTYD universe either but I think it's not hard to translate these design so I hope it works anyway lol

Most important text from pics under the cut:

WU 'N' WEI

I feel like two heads don't work for that dragon but I tried to roll with that.

I give them spinosaurous-like snouts bcuz I wanted to keep it round but non-deformed lookin' (lmao).

Catfish-like whiskers on both jaws and in front of eyes.

Knee bends forwards now (why do they bend backwards in canon design??? I don't understand)

More Zippleback-like legs and body.

I hate their colors and tried to improve it but my brain can't do colors either ಥ_ಥ I feel like it all crashes together...

Personal note: I don't like designs of animals who have colors 50/50 at all but I want them to be recognizable. Color pattern like this feel super unnatural unless it's mutation. Like those birds or butterflies who are half male, half female. It's also my personal headcanon for these two lol

I don't like pattern of their wings bit idk what to give them. I just don't want wings to be solid but different than body color, it just looks kinda awkward??

PLOWHORN

In my opinion, because only her wings are covered in armor they look out of place. Rumblehorns' armor looked more conected to it, because head also looked hard/armored. So I tried to connect her armor to her body a bit more

Horn is no longer made of crystal.

She doesn't grow crystals. Crystals grow on her because of her natural habitat

I give her a bit smaller head

Details of her unique wings. They are still made of skin and bones but folds in more bug-like style

BUBBLEHORN

Bodytype similiar to Terrible Terrors, maybe a bit shorter.

Horns like those of Deadly Nadder.

Eyes like parrots'. Idk why lol

Spikes and scales on legs and tail similiar to those of Night Fury

[otiksimr]

Gembreakers but they’re nothing like canon.

[clivia-art]

NIGHT LIGHT - ALPHA

«Dragons the Nine Realms»

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[quillusquillus]

Just realising now that the ending to HTTYD: The Hidden World that I despise SO much (where they put all the dragons away in a hole because "humanity isn't ready" whatever the fuck that means, despite humanity NOW FINALLY starting to build bridges of inter-species cooperation after centuries of war and murder) actually makes sense as an ending if its purpose wasn't to be a conclusion to the two-series three-movie storyline of Hiccup and co., but rather as a clumsy lead-in to their stupid "dragons reemerge 1300 years later and it's our modern world for real now" Nine Realms tv show.

With this in mind, I feel much more justified in pretending the last 5 minutes of HTTYD 3 don't exist. In my mind, HTTYD continues to perpetuate in a world that is completely different to ours (WHICH ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO THEY EVEN HAVE MAPS THAT LOOK NOTHING LIKE ANYWHERE ON EARTH AA) and they never packed the dragons away in their dragon box because the naughty human children aren't allowed to play with them any more for unspecified reasons.

In my mind the next 1300 years follow a tumultuous but fascinating growth of cooperation and industry between dragons and humans, spreading from "viking" culture (who are also obviously not actual vikings come on dreamworks are you seriously going to pretend these are historical depictions please) to all over the globe, with conflicts and nuance of course but eventually growing into a fascinating parallel of our modern world but with dragons existing amongst all that Dinotopia style. Dragon island-to-island public transport! Symbolic dragon representatives in governmental bodies! Dragon long-range "riding" with headsets into areas that would be dangerous to humans! Dragon abilities allowing construction of materials and devices unknown to us! Dragons using touch tablets to communicate simple phrases! Absolutely wasted potential.

[f-angy77]

A chance to update my list of my favorite DreamWorks couples.

Original Reference by Soupery (Tumblr)

[nightskydragons]

The unholy offspring of lighting and death itself

[ana-the-light-fury]

Okay, you guys might think I'm an idiot for not knowing this very simple fact about Hiccup. But.

I didn't know that...a haddock was a kind of fish. I just thought that was his name. And up until I saw that one Nine Realms episode where Tom's all "Isn't that a kind of fish?" I HAD NO IDEA.

And let me tell you, I LAUGHED my little HEAD off about it for two minutes lollllllllll

*snort* Hiccup Haddock.