"...I won't be satisfied with just his death. Not until I kill everyone he cares for, steal everything he has, and destroy everything he's built with my own two hands."
more fanart for my favorite fanfic „reconcile“
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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.
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A very late chubbybunny halloween comic! Fatgum misunderstood what Mirko meant when she said she was going as a bubble head nurse also idc hwat society says fatgum says junk like gee whizz
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"I remember you."
Finally brought my BotW anniversary drawing outside to get some photos in natural lighting, since the original scan's colors ended up a bit off. After that small visit to the wild, it's been safely returned to a place of honor on my LoZ memorabilia shelf. :)
Dropping the flower symbolism here, because I thought way too hard about it:
Left side of drawing - Lupine/Cool Safflina (lust for life, refreshment), Silent Princess (return from extinction, quiet love, freedom, flourishing in the wild)
Center of drawing - Forget-me-not (true love, chivalry, light, remembrance; there are exactly 17 of them :)
Right side of drawing - Dandelion (resilience, youthful joy), Daffodil/Jonquil (self-love, desire for love, rebirth, new beginnings), Hyrule Herb (heartiness)
Border of both drawing and reality - Ivy (endurance, friendship, faithfulness in love, eternal life)
(Drawing started March 3, 2024 - finished June 1, 2024)
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Fem!Kuro art for Tunafishprincess's Silent Shadow AU
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