#how to train a dragon

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[spnczr]

Tuffnut, to Snotlout: You have room temperature IQ.

Snotlout: What the fuck does that mean?!

[latuarts]

i've rewatched the show for the fourth time already

[genderlessjacky]

i like women who can snap me in half like a twig if they wish to do so

[pierreyboi]

Since watching Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, it hit me. Why not another Disney x Dreamworks crackship?

We got Elsa (Frozen) x Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians)

Merida (Brave) x Hiccup (How to Train Your Dragon)

Now presenting Ariel (The Little Mermaid) x Chelsea (Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken). Not gonna lie Cheriel is like Jelsa 2.0 but in stead of hetero ice powered spirits, they're lesbo redheaded mermaids.

Like my previous post, I have a mental illness called fanshipping.

[ya-batonio]

[httydragon-fan]

This is Beurk.

[x-aefx]

PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE SEE'S THE SIMILARITIES.

THEY'RE PRACTICALLY THE SAME PERSON (looks wise ofc) BUT WHENEVER I TELL SOMEONE THEY LOOK IDENTICAL, NO ONE AGREES WITH ME.

[akkustos]

original: frederick leighton "acme and septimus"

but Acme, bending back her head lightly,

and having kissed the drunken eyes

of the sweet boy with a purple mouth

happy valentine's day!

[nefril-blog]

ни разу не рисовала фурий и за фд не шарю, но решила попробовать

[virgil-is-a-cutie]

Have we thought of How to Train Your Dragon x House of the Dragon crossover???

Bc I'm shipping Hiccup and Rheanyra now

Just...just imagine it...

I love the idea

[flame-face-off]

Flame Face-off Round 1 - Second Half

[spnczr]

welcome to my collection of toothless reaction pictures

[hollowwhisperings]

Controversial Song Takes: the idea that ONLY someone with Targaryen blood can bond with a dragon is false.

The whole "you need Targaryen blood" to ride a dragon very much seems to be a deliberate misconception, propagated by House Targaryen after The Doom and believed thereafter both in-world & in-fandom.

"Blood of the Dragon"

It makes sense that those with Targaryen blooded humans can encourage dragon eggs to hatch, sharing a magical kinship through fire & blood. With this ability, Targaryens cement their monopoly on dragons & dragon eggs in Westeros. It is also canon, however, that most dragons hatch/ed independently (the historic & continued existence of dragonsboth before & after Valyria canonizes that Valyrian-bred dragons are not the ONLY dragons: the Age of Heroes featured multiple dragons & dragonslayers, wild dragons fly over Asshai).

The Hiccup Method & Inheritance

Historically, Valyria and House Targaryen had the wealth to spend time breeding, raising, taming, riding, and otherwise commanding dragons. They had pyromancers, blood rites, dragon horns & conquered peoples to refine their methods on in horrific experiments. Targaryens inherited the resources & experience needed to house, feed and outfit dragons (& would-be riders). The living, "tame" dragons of Westeros grew up alongside Targaryens and found them familiar: a stable environment makes for a less cautious predator. Even with all these resources at their disposal, these "tame" dragons still defaulted to hostility and violence.

Evidence against Targaryen Exceptionaliam

During the Targaryen Monarchy, royal dragons would tolerate being ridden by non-Targaryen passengers &, very probably, bonded with persons not-at-all Valyrian: during the Sowing Of The Seeds, wannabe-riders were quick to name themselves "dragonseeds" and the successful ones were likely "given" Targaryen heritage after-the-fact).

It is also the case that even the "purest", most incestuously-bred Targaryen/Velaryon Valyrians have been unable to hatch nor bond to a dragon, even with all the resources available to them: I assume that the Maesters had great incentive to note which Targaryens were & were not dragonriders and so assume that, unless outright stated, the only historic Targaryens who rode dragons are those stated within F&B (give or take a forgotten woman or short-lived child). Thusly, the majority of Targaryens who lived alongside dragons were not dragonriders.

The Dragon Monopoly

Without hatchlings, no other families in Westeros could do their own experiments in dragon-rearing.

The first dragon tamers of Valyria were, allegedly, common shepards: it is almost certain that they employed the Hiccup Method, likely over several generations (domesticating dragons as farmers domesticated dogs and oxen).

Since House Targaryen was the sole surviving family of dragonlord, after The Doom, it is THEIR method of dragon taming that is used in-series. Any other methods died with Valyria, during the Century of Blood, or have been kept/destroyed by the descendants of those conquered & enslaved by the Valyrian Freehold. them… not all Targaryens succeed in becoming riders.

Conclusion

If, however, a person had access to a dragon, was resourceful in approaching it, spent time to let they & the dragon become familiar to each other… the "Hiccup" Method of dragontaming would be effective even without being literally dragon-blooded. The correlation of dragonriders being Targaryen does not mean ONLY someone with Targaryen genes in their family tree can be a dragonrider. There is non-Valyrian fire magic, non-Valyrian dragons (both entirely preceding and far removed from Valyria), and at least 2 forms of magical bonding that could be used as an icebreaker between a human & a dragon.

Future of this Theory

I very much hope that HotD goes with the Hiccup Methodology of dragontamimg rather than GoT's "born special" route: it would complement themes explored in the series & continue the theme of unreliable historiography (& its effects on those guided by such histories). The ASOIAF fandom sorely needs Targaryen Exceptionalism to be critiqued and actively challenged, especially given GRRM's overall message of "war is terrible and everyone suffers for it" being in opposition to House Targaryen's basis in conquest and indiscriminating destruction.

Should GRRM advocate & show that the beliefs of House Targaryen are "beliefs", not "fact", the fandom as a whole would have fresh reason to question the need for "secret Targaryens" and that whole fantasy-eugenics thing. Even the fictional promotion & endoresement of eugenics is harmful: individual fantasy is one thing but collective belief is another. The celebration or normalization of the MEANS used for characters to be "secret Targaryens" are seldom wholesome but the belief of Targaryen Exceptionalism redacts the violence, painting it romantically despite all evidence contrary: the entirety of Fire & Blood, everything we know & can infer on Queen Rhaella, R+L=J, the framing of Craster's Keep and Lannister Twincest versus that used for the Targaryen Family "Phone Pole".

[pierreyboi]

A How to Train Your Dragon nendo of Toothless? A Dreamworks nendo? Good Smile, I'm gonna wait for a certain frost boi nendo that can be with his snow kween nendo. Fingers crossed! ❄️💙

[genetello]

And Rusty and Luke hiking on Toothless and day Fury