#httyd book 11

[potatodragon132]

Day 11…

I’m going to make myself cry😭😭😭

Hope you like it

[jackshiccup]

fishlegs' reaction to hiccup wanting to rescue snotlout in book 11 makes me laugh whenever i think about it the deadpan expression and the fingercounting oh he was tiredddd 😭

[pinocthepiccolo]

A Hero is Forever.

[maitbh]

Im LOSING IT over book 11 rn what EVEN

I thought people HAD to be exaggerating about the tonal shift in the last books but. Wow. No. Im feeling so many things again

The whole trapdoor scene?? Snotlout?? I am not normal about this, what even

[the-halfling-prince]

im crying guys I can't even

[its-raining-tonight]

I started httyd book 11 on the December 5st and finished on the 7th! (Info for me to get track of time)

Comments containing MAJOR SPOILERS after the break!!

I'm so DEVASTATEEEED AAAAA

When I was writing the post about book 10 I was going to comment about Gobber giving Snotlout what he deserved back there on the Amber Slavelands, but I had already read book 11 so I just couldn't 😭 I knew sooner or later that Snotlout would have a redemption moment, but this was too sad

All the conversation between Hiccup and Snotlout was so heartbreaking and so painfully and beautifully written

We got to learn how Snotlout really felt, and who he really was. Him demanding Hiccup to hate him? Cries. The reason he calls Hiccup Useless? Cries even more. The fact that he turned his back to himself? Cries an whole ocean

But then they had an absolutely beautiful made up moment, Hiccup still didn't hate him after the fight and understood why Snotlout hated him and Snotlout even forgave himself and regained hope that he could still fix what he did wrong

BUT THEN HE DIES 😭

The book comparing him to a falling star.. Sobs

I really wanted to see the others unturning their backs to him..

Why did he have to die right after his redemption 😭😭 Tell me he's going to come BACK 🥲

On another note we have Hiccup that was put in freezing water for minutes, my anxiety was screaming but that was really impressive I have to say

There's this illustration where Hiccup says "I will never give up fighting you, witch!" and I cannot help but read it as "I will never give up fighting you, bitch!", it would be very fitting

I don't even know how he's alive, his left side is going to fall off at this rate 😭

Anyway I hope there's no more deaths, and I'm so sad there's only one book left 😭 I don't want it to end

[7greentears]

"I should warn you, Boy-Who-Has-A-Name-I-Once-Loved, that not a speck of that love remains. Not a jot. Not a whisper. One hundred years of captivity has drained every last drop of that love from me, and I am cured forever."

-"How to Break a Dragon's Heart" by Cressida Cowell

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I've been reading the OG How To Train Your Dragon books and oh boy does it wreck you. I took some artistic liberties in drawing him. I think he'd do well with whiskers like a catfish and great fin-like spines.

[agood-omen]

This part always kills me everytime I read it, just everything about snotlout culminates in this moment, 11 books worth of resentment of corrupting hatred of hiccup and himself god....

(full quote under cut)

[reluctantlyanimating]

First day of doomsday!!

A lot of the stuff I'll be posting for doomsday is kind of old 😭 but i wanna use the pieces I have that ARE themed around a certain book on whichever days I can, so this one is an oldish piece of Hiccup and Merciless :]

[one-httyd-a-day]

Hai i saw this and knew what I had to do, have you ever heard of the Silver Phantom? Its in School of Dragons from the books, and its such a pretty dragon!

I remember when the Silver Phantom came out in SoD and I kept seeing them everywhere! It IS a very pretty dragon, I love the unique wing silhouette so much

Dragon #9 - Silver Phantom

[wickedcriminal]

yo!

First of all, I love your art and the half-brothers AU is Absolutely Phenomenal

Second of all, I understand if you're still kind of on break from it so take this question at your own pace. Or don't answer it at all. You don't owe me anything.

And thirdly, I'm curious how book 2 might play out in the half-brothers au. Book Alvin is pretty fixated on Grimbeard the Ghastly's heir ("an heir for a hand", and all that). Would he be able to identify Younger Hiccup as Grimbeard's heir, or would he just kind of figure since there are two Hiccups who are both descendants of Grimbeard (and who both have a dragon named "Toothless") he should kill them both just to be safe? (and in that case, how would he end up with a vendetta against Younger Hiccup specifically?)

at any rate, thank you for reading and I hope you have an awesome day!

Thank you so much for your kind words!! I was having a hard time for a while, but I'm feeling much better recently <3 This is an excellent ask!!

Stoick being the connecting figure between Elder and Younger, that does indeed make them both candidates to be Grimbeard's heir! (Same goes for Snotlout and Adelaide, who are also part Chucklehead's line through Baggybum the Beerbelly!)

As Stoick's firstborn and the official heir to Berk, Alvin has his eyes set on Elder in the beginning as The Guy he needs to Eliminate, and since Snotlout is the one who will become heir to Berk if Elder dies, Minicup is barely even on the table. The idea that it's actually Minicup who is his proper rival isn't even considered until they end up in the underwater cavern together and Baby Tooth is the one who sniffs out Grimbeard's real treasure.

The events of How to be a Pirate carry out as usual, with Snotlout finding the chest, though neither brother gets the chance to declare themselves heir when Alvin asks. Minicup and Little Fish end up in Grimbeard's cavern with Alvin, where Alvin comes to the conclusion that this Hiccup is the one who's going to prove a problem to him.

In the stories that come after, Elder is more of an afterthought, and Alvin will only think to get rid of him if he starts asserting his place in the Arm's Race for the Crown. (Same goes for the Jorgensens!)

Elder doesn't even want to be heir of Berk, let alone Grimbeard! Younger doesn't exactly have a choice in the matter since Fate Itself is the one dumping Lost Things into his hands 😔 As long as Elder doesn't start gunning to be king, Alvin will leave him alone.

For the time being.

(Spoilers for the last book below vv)

Poor Fishlegs

[jackshiccup]

despite knowing what was going to happen, snotlout's redemption and eventual downfall was so so heartbreaking to me. we spend the past 10 books witnessing how much he's tormented and bullied hiccup that we all feel the same anger and frustration and resentment as fishlegs does in the beginning of 11. i was, maybe, even rooting for something a little bad to happen to him so that he can feel even a fraction of the humiliation that he put hiccup through. but time and time again hiccup, with his inherent goodness and wonderful capacity to always try and see the best in people, reminds us that people need and deserve second chances. even third, fourth and fifth chances. even when hiccup was faced with the certainty that snotlout was set on betraying him from the start.

that's why it was so satisfying to get to the emotional catharsis of the swordfight. snotlout practically begging for hiccup to hate him and hiccup genuinely not having it in him to be able to. and even after that, even after he disarms hiccup and is seconds from killing him - he doesn't. and then hiccup comforts snotlout through it. he tells him words that snotlout didn't know he's been desperate to hear. he tells him he's being too hard on himself. he tells him he's a hero. he opens a door inside snotlout's life for the first time in a long time. despite everything, he offers him another choice to join the dragonmarkers. and snotlout accepts. he bows to hiccup, he calls him king, pledges his sword to his service forever, shakes his hand and chooses to bear the dragonmark.

and it's this moment we finally seeing the seeds of change planted in snotlout sprout - instigated by gobber teaching him a lesson in the amber slavelands and reminding him what the black star represents: pride, honour, bravery. all the times we see snotlout give in to vulnerability and ponder on his choices, he's always holding onto it. which makes it all the more symbolic when he hangs it around hiccup's neck during his last act of valour.

just like how the book tells us that the tides can change so fast, through hiccup, my heart was able to give snotlout another chance too. and it's because of hiccup's belief in snotlout's potential for more that makes you feel so strongly about his death. snotlout's excitement at finally being on hiccup's side, at doing what's right, at having the opportunity to actually be a hero - we can't help but feel that burst of pride, we can't help but root for him. and so we feel the loss, as hiccup did. and it's a point driven home when hiccup ends the epilogue with how he’s carried snotlout and his sacrifice with him all throughout his life. and how time has rubbed away at the black star.

that now the star doesn't look black at all. just gold.

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Important Reminder

He small

[asphodeline-lutea]

I've been thinking about book 11 for a bit too much lately

Is PAIN😟😟😟

[the-halfling-prince]

(book 11, pg 88)

obsessed with both Hiccup and Fishlegs' bunk bed and also toothless and wodensfang's tiny little dragon beds oh my gosh

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Hiccup tricking Norbert into telling him about the Vegetable-That-No-One-Dares-Name by pretending to be a flat-earther. The world can only be round if the potato exists, proving that America exists.

Which pisses Norbert off, who declares Hiccup must be killed.

No, wait.

Educated and then killed!