#night fury subspecies

[sokodraws]

AQUATIC SNEGLE FURY

(OPEN SPECIES BY SOKODRAWS/SOKOISTRYING)

Aquatic Snegle Fury is a Night Fury subspecies that evolved to live almost 100% of their life in the ocean.

This species evolved from Night Furies that lived at ocean shores and ate huge amounts of sea slugs that infested that part of the ocean.

They started mutating and incorporating some of the sea slug attributes into their bodies.

Aquatic Snegle Furies cannot breath underwater, but (similarly to sperm whales) can hold their breath up to 90 minutes.

They live their entire lives under water, only coming to shore to lay and look after their eggs. As soon as the eggs hatch they follow their mother to the ocean.

Aquatic Snegle Furies have quite a big variation in body shape, color, and size. While their main body shape resembles that of a typical Night Fury, their wings, tails and fins can have any shape. Some of their body parts can be partially translucent.

The often bright colors of these reef-dwelling species imply that these animals are under constant threat of predators. Because of their small size they are subject to getting eaten by bigger dragons. Still, the color can warn other animals of the fury's toxic stinging cells (nematocysts) or offensive taste.

All Aquatic Snegle Furies have razor-sharp teeth, and a pair of rhinophores—sensory primary antennas used mostly for the sense of smell — on their head. They can have any number of secondary antennas, but those only help with the feeling of ocean currents and the movement around them.

Their main source of food is small species of fish, jellyfish, bryozoans, and sea anemones.

AQUATIC SNEGLE FURY VISUAL GUIDE:

Many specimen can have the same mutation but there will never be two AS Furies with identical markings/attributes, even if they mutated from the same sea slug.

These furies are almost completely covered in scales, since they did mutate from Night Furies. Though, their bellies, throats, and the under side of their tail (closest to the belly) are only covered in thin slimy skin (similar to a frog in texture). That skin is made of toxic stinging cells.

Aquatic Snegle Fury saliva contains a batrachotoxin, which can cause reactions like swelling, nausea, and muscle paralysis, when exposed to in big quantities.

The paw pad trait will appear in all 4 limbs. The pads are sticky and help the Fury grab onto the environment when the ocean current is too strong.

Aquatic Snegle Furies don't use plasma blasts often. For one, it uses precious oxygen, but they usually don't have a need for it. They're quite a docile species.

There's no size difference based on gender. Actually — similarly to sea slugs — Aquatic Snegle Furies don't have any traits specific to gender, since the vast majority of them are hermaphrodites. Some AF Furies will be born as one specific sex (either male or female), but are capable of changing it later in their life.

THIS IS AN OPEN SPECIES, FEEL FREE TO MAKE A ASF CHARACTER BUT PLEASE FOLLOW THE SPECIES RULES

PLEASE DON'T MAKE ASF ADOPTS TO SELL FOR PROFIT

HAVE FUN :D

(if you need a resource to look for sea slug species, i highly recommend en.seaslug.world for inspo)

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[kittanimo]

Some art for my best customer on Instagram! 💕

They've bought so many things for me oh my god

And they currectly own the most expensive design I've ever made

Also, very sorry for not posting for some time, I've been highly disassociating myself from the online world, plenty of real life stuff happened, I wanna play games more etc

Or maybe it's just art block, who knows

[mothscotch]

Sea Wraith

hi httyd fandom

[clobertina]

They all may have forgotten you… But I haven’t.

It would be cool if they brought these back as subspecies… but with a fresh coat of paint ofc

[bug-abortion]

Wastes Furies, a httyd subspecies for my Hollow Knight au. Base by @corgoship

Ft my OC Oren

[angstandhappiness]

Pretty baby

ghostmaw painting bc u know i love her

[otiksimr]

More biblically accurate Thunder redesign.

He's not a night fury. He's part of a Light Fury subspecies that adapted to the deeper, darker parts of the Hidden World, thus the darker/black-ish coloration. Some parts of the great-something-grandparents generations probably cross bred with Light Furies. Thus the white patterning and. Freckles.

Thunder was flying so close to the surface (the fissure) because the Fault Ripper was causing problems, effectively driving Thunder out of the caves and closer to the surface. So yada yada. Child and dragon meet. You get the idea.

[spiribia]

yes the light fury is not a 'girl night fury' it is a subspecies closely related to the night fury but its own separate thing however that does not change the fact that the designers constructed her (and subsequently her entire species) to be a female counterpart to toothless and so instead of spiky dark and scaly shes pale smooth and glittery and finned and she has petite little feet and long legs and long slender neck and pink eyeshadow and more cat coded while they increasingly dogcoded toothless because hes a boy I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU what was that lol. well anyway

[kawaiiblue18]

Something I’ve been working on in between lab, classes, and homework

I wanted to distinguish the two different Fury subspecies and the Nightlights

Lore yapping under the cut

✨Headcanons✨

Night Furies are known for their dark complexion. These striker class dragons are normally seen in dense forest or high mountains. They are extremely fast and agile in the air, often seen flying through thunderstorms since they have the unique ability to harness stray lightning and momentarily ‘disappear’. Night Furies are opportunistic hunters. They have high adaptability and will migrate where the food is. They are generally more muscular with females being larger than males.

Light Furies are cousins of Night Furies adapted to cold climates. Their snow white scales blend in with icy surroundings with their inner fire keeping them warm. They are semi-aquatic, evolving extra membranes that help them move quickly through the water. Their scales are very reflective making it very easy to camouflage if they fly through a fire ball. They mainly prey on fish, squid, or seals, but will eat other animals if no other food source is available. Light Furies are slimmer and not as fast flyers as Night Furies are, with males being larger than females.

Both species are very social, forming family units until their offspring are old enough to start their own family.

Night Furies, however, are more aggressive. Night Fury courting consists of females fighting each other in aerial combat to see who is stronger. The winner will then pick what male she wants. Usually, females will pick males that have shown good hunting skills prior to mating season.

Light Furies are rarely aggressive unless backed into a corner or have a developed distrust. In the face of danger, they would prefer to flee or camouflage rather than fight. Light Fury courting consists of females going up to a male she is interested in and preforming a dance. If he can respond back with a dance that she approves of, she will accept him. Otherwise, she will find another male.

When it comes to Nightlights, I imagine them a lot like ligers or tigons (lion-tiger hybrid). Night Furies and Light Furies are close enough to produce successful offspring, but not without complications due to the amount of chromosomes the Nightlights get from each parent.

Dart inherited more Night Fury chromosomes from Toothless, making her appear more like a female Night Fury with some white spots and Light Fury blue eyes. Like female ligers, Dart can produce offspring with a Night Fury or a Light Fury, but not with other Nightlights.

Pouncer inherited more chromosomes from Luna (what I call the Light Fury from HTTYD 3), making him appear more like a male Light Fury with black spots, longer ear nubs, a shorter Light Fury sail, Night Fury spines, lacking Light Fury leg membranes, and Night Fury yellow eyes. Normally male ligers are infertile, but I figured since Pouncer has enough Light Fury DNA, he can theoretically produce offspring with a Light Fury, but not with Night Furies or other Nightlights. He has low fertility though.

Unlike Dart or Pouncer, Ruffrunner inherited a more even amount of chromosomes from both Toothless and Luna, making him appear like a male Night Fury with Light Fury legs and sail. The end of his ear nubs are also more rounded like a Light Fury. Due to his chromosome imbalance, he is infertile and would not be able to reproduce naturally at all.

In the wild, Nightlights are a rare occurrence, but not impossible. It typically happens when a Night Fury migrates to a region where Light Furies reside and most of them are pairing between a female Light Fury and a male Night Fury. Female Night Furies are generally too aggressive for male Light Furies to attempt courting.

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[Mist Fury]

Habitat:

Mist forests

Raised moors

Coastal cliffs with dense clouds

Appearance:

dark gray or ash-colored scales with spots to imitate moving fog when they fly

eyes are always a light, pastel like color and even lighter pupils

wings have a special structure that allows them to glide silently through the air and stirs up the fog so that it can make them invisible

Abilities:

stealth hunters: They are experts at making themselves invisible and use their surroundings to sneak up on their prey silently

Temperament:

reserved

cautious

extremely cunning

rarely fight directly, but wear down their opponents with patience and stealth

Other features:

can communicate almost silently by creating swirls of mist that act like Morse code

avoid sunlight because their light-sensitive eyes do not tolerate bright light well

sleep in caves or some other dark areas during the day because of their light-sensitive eyes

more active from sunset to sunrise

there is a rare "twilight variant" with darker patterns that is perfectly camouflaged at dusk.

[useless-moss]

New httyd headcanon!

You know the thing that's been observed where big cats will pretend to not know their cubs are sneaking up on them to build hunting/stalking confidence?

Dragons do that with their hatchlings as well. It's especially prevalent with Night Fury's and their subspecies.

[nightfury-2001]

Been thinking about my antarctic Northern NF subspecies idea again and honestly??? I think it'd make more sense if that chonk subspecies/population was migratory or something like that instead of living in Antarctica year round.

........Also,, like if I ever end up writing a fanfic or whatever, how would Hiccup and Toothless and the rest of the gang ever meet Little Moon if she and her family lived on the literal opposite side of the planet lmaoooo

[xxtc-96xx]

Hey hopping on the HTTYD convo, thoughts on the Light Fury?

(Also your take sums up my opinion on the 3rd movie to a T lmao)

I'm not against the idea of a Light Fury since it appears to be a subspecies of night furies and we saw other light furies in the hidden world, that being said she was very obviously designed to be Girl™

I'm not against a love interest for toothless either but it needed to be handled a lot differently (and better)

[arobberry]

idk which hc i like more

the night and light furies being ambiental variations/subspecies

or the "light fury" from the httyd3 movie being an albino night fury

i really like both

for the first it'd be cool if there were more

and i like to think of each variation being inspired from the panthera genus

like

night fury -> leopards (black panther)

light fury -> snow leopards

x fury -> tiger

y fury -> lion

etcetera

(and obviously know thet the animals from the panther genus arent subspecies, is justt inspiration lol, but on the furys case would be subspecies (or close enought species that can reproduce))

i'm almost sure that it wouldn't be viable on the real world but we're talking about dragons lmao

[thecosmicmap]

Strap in folks this is gonna be a long one.

So as we know Dean Deblois is the writer of HTTYD2 and 3. As a writer you have a list of rules you should follow. One such rule is “show don’t tell.”

Dean disregarded this rule and we mainly see it with Grimmel and the Night Fury genocide. In the movie he tells us “I hunted every last night fury except yours” yet Grimmel has nothing to show for it. No trophies, no night fury hide cloak, not even a claw. The most we get is a few “facts” about Night Furies that aren’t even true, or can’t be proven to be true because we’ve only ever seen one Night Fury.

“Night Furies can’t survive the cold.” Yet Hiccup tells us (in GOTNF which is canon) that winter in Berk lasts for most of the year.

“Night Furies can’t fly long distances” Yet Toothless’ wings are large and wide, which allows him to glide for long periods of time.

“Furies mate for life.” We would never know because we only see one Night Fury in the entire franchise. And if we take a look at other dragons, it seems they only see their mate during mating season.

And why would Grimmel know that if he’s trying to kill off the Night Furies forever? What’s the point in knowing their mating habits if there’s never going to be any Night Furies again? Did he just look at a Fury pair and go “yeup. They mate for life.”

Now another thing about Grimmel is that his hunting method is unreliable. One, he left his bait without any restraints. Imagine if the Light Fury woke up minutes before and just left? Boom! No more bait. What if Toothless wasn’t horny and was mad at the Light Fury for trying to kill Hiccup multiple times? Boom. He wouldn’t be trying to deal with her and the plan is ruined because the bait isn’t appealing to the target. What if Toothless didn’t smell her and never showed up?

Lots of plot conveniences. It happens in the entire movie. Dean also had to confirm that yes, Grimmel did kill all the Night Furies in an INTERVIEW because people didn’t believe that Grimmel genocide the Night Furies. And Dean only did this because he thinks Toothless is special because he’s the last Night Fury.

Now we could be here forever talking about how stupid grimmel is as a villain and how stupid it is to even entertain the thought that ONE man and his six, drugged dragons were able to commit genocide to a species of intelligent, elusive and fast dragons, but let’s just continue.

Another rule Dean disregarded is having good characterization. Or ANY characterization!

The Light Fury immediately comes to mind. Name one personality trait she has that we actually see in the movie. You can’t, can you? Because Dean actively wrote that out. There was a deleted scene of Light Fury and Toothless’ romantic flight which gave her much more personality, yet Dean wrote it out and gave us the boring one we have now.

Also, can we just talk about how she doesn’t have a name? Her name is literally “The Light Fury.” Which is the same as naming a Golden Retriever Golden Retriever.

I know Hiccup would’ve named her. Hell, anybody would’ve named her! But no, Dean decided that she didn’t need one because “how else would she be wild”?

Dean says this in an interview, “We intentionally try to keep her [The Light Fury] wild and elusive, to kind of represent something that is pure dragon, that hasn't been tainted by human beings by domestication.” Which just goes to show that Dean doesn’t know what domestication is.

(Dean also doesn’t know what a subspecies is because if he did, then he would know a Light Fury can’t possibly be a Night Fury subspecies because they have too many differences).

1. this means that Dean thinks all of the dragons that have benefited from human companionship (Toothless, Cloudjumper, Meatlug, Stormfly, etc) are tainted.

And 2, there is nothing “dragon” about the Light Fury. She has small feet (Hiccup’s head is literally bigger than her feet), small claws, a small mouth, her wings are weirdly shaped, she’s curved, she has no protective scales and her tailfin is in the shape of a heart, which would actually mess up her flight.

Many people have said this is because she’s semi-aquatic. But this is disproven by the fact that we’ve never seen her in the water and the art book.

Here’s two direct quotes: “We had to explore how the Light Fury would walk and make her feel like a female.” “We had to control all the shapes while keeping her both powerful and graceful so she didn’t fall too much into the reptilian category.”

The Light Fury is a plot device, a “agent of change” in Dean’s words.

Now while we’re on the topic of characterization, let’s talk about our main cast. We’ll start with Toothless.

Toothless is Hiccup’s best friend, who will do anything to protect him no matter the costs. He’s sassy, intelligent, curious, loyal, protective and playful.

Now take all of this, and throw it in the trash because this isn’t the toothless you’re going to see in THW. In THW Toothless’ playfulness is shot to the max, making him more like a slobbery puppy than the lethal panther he was in HTTYD1.

Toothless isn’t protective of Hiccup at all, his intelligence is below hell itself and we don’t see a lick of sass. Httyd3 Toothless is physically incapable of looking scary because his face has been deformed to to look blocky and smushed together. He lacks any aerodynamics and we can even see it in his flying. He looks like he’s struggling.

Toothless and Hiccup’s friendship is so watered down in this movie, just for the sake of romance. That’s not how it should be. Romance and friendship go hand in hand, one is not more valuable than the other.

Astrid is nothing but Hiccup’s emotional support, yet she also puts him down. “you gave him [Toothless] his freedom, what were you expecting?” This implies that the dragons are being held captive and Toothless doesn’t want to be with Hiccup.

Which he does, as we see in GOTNF. Toothless only left to get Hiccup’s helmet, then he broke the auto-tail. But why would Astrid even say that? Thats so insensitive 😭.

The twins are dumbed down (despite proving to actually being intelligent), Snotlout is flirting with a woman who’s 20 years older than him (and might be his aunt, depending if you see Hiccup and Snotlout as cousins) and Valka outright tells Hiccup that they can’t hide away from the world.

Which is true, they can’t. Because eventually they will be found. Now remember this, it’ll come back later.

Now, when writing a story it’s important to move the plot along in a way that doesn’t seemed forced. When I think of this, I think of Trollhunters: tales of Arcadia.

The protagonist (Jim) goes into the villain’s home in order to rescue his friend’s baby brother, yet he gets trapped there. His friends have to get him out of there, which allows the villain to be freed from the Darklands. This happening allows the story to move forward in a way that makes sense and isn’t forced.

Now back to HTTYD3. Let’s look at the scene where Toothless and the LF get captured. The Light Fury smells grimmel, she calls to toothless, runs towards Grimmel and gets shot.

Toothless runs over (ignoring Hiccup’s warnings) approaches Grimmel, takes forever loading a plasma blast while sloooowly walking towards Grimmel, allowing the man to shoot him and make him go night-night.

Hiccup runs over, also taking forever. And the next time we see grimmel he’s already tied up two dragons (BY HIMSELF) in these complicated straight jackets. The other dragons come around (finally) ready to attack, yet Grimmel threatens the light fury and tells Toothless to call of the dragons.

“But isn’t Toothless asleep?” I hear you ask, and to that I respond with “no, he’s not. He miraculously woke up in time to call the dragons off, despite the light fury still being knocked out cold.”

The dragons are called off and grimmel leaves on his quad-copter. The dragons follow them, even though Grimmel didn’t tell toothless to make them follow.

Do you see how forced this is? There’s many more forced plot points, but we’ll be here forever talking about it and this post is long enough already.

Next up on the broken rule list, Dean let the antagonist win. Now it’s okay for an antagonist to win, but never in the third act.

Grimmel’s ultimate goal was for dragons to disappear. Dean himself says “he does not want a world in which dragons roam free.” And what do we see at the end of HTTYD3?

The dragons disappearing into the Hidden World forever. Exactly what Grimmel wanted.

Finally, the last rule Dean broke is having a consistent plot. Now the plot of each movie is a bit different. Httyd1: Hiccup shows Vikings that while dangerous, dragons aren’t monsters. And it’s better to work together than working apart.

Httyd2: Dragons are being captured and enslaved, we need to save them and fight for our friends.

Httyd3: toothless needs to get a girlfriend. He HAS to, despite not ever showing to want one, but he’s horny right now so YES, he HAS to.

But the franchise has an overarching narrative about humans and dragons coming together. That no matter what, they will prevail because they’re working together.

Well in HTTYD3 yes, they prevail. But the dragons leave. Why, you may ask? Because no matter what they’ll always be bad humans so there’s no point fighting.

Hiccup sends the dragons to an underground glittery cave that doubles as a prison, and six years of friendship is thrown down the drain for a female Toothless met three days prior. Hiccup tells the audience that dragons will hide until humans learn how to get along (despite the many humans that already get along with them).

And that’s it. The end. No more.

“But wait!” I hear you ask, “Won’t the dragons eventually be found again?” And to that I say, “Oh, you remember!”

Because yes, the dragons will eventually be found out again. And because Hiccup gave up on fighting for change, these humans think dragons are dangerous monsters and will undoubtedly enslave/kill them.

We even see this with his own kids! Zephyr thought dragons were monsters and was ready to hurt them in order to “protect her family”. Humans of the future will no doubt act like this as well.

Humans and dragons will never learn to get along if they are never around each other. Change won’t just happen, you have to fight for it. Like the end of slavery, or the Women’s Rights Movement. Those things didn’t just happen, people had to fight for change and they had to keep fighting because if they gave up then nothing would change.

And when the dragons are inevitably found once again, it will be Hiccup’s fault when they’re either killed or enslaved.