#rtte s6 e5

[jackshiccup]

the slow-mo scene of the twins holding hands after tuffnut sets off the zippleback gas explosion made me so happy

[eli-371]

I wish RttE (and RoB and DoB) had a bigger fandom

Everyone writes about the movies, but I wanna see fun friendly shenanigans.

The movies remove a lot of Snotlout character development, for example, who has a lot insecurities that manifest as the braggart idiotic Snotlout seems to be.

Astrid and Hiccup take four years to get together!! Would you have guessed that from the first movie? I wouldn’t have!

Fishlegs has no character in any of the movies. In the series’ he’s a peaceful person wanting to know about dragons!

And the twins! Ruffnut cuts her hair to make a splint for a beached scauldron in DoB!! Tuffnut faked his death so Ruffnut can have the freedom to marry!! The Thorston Lore!! The twins care so much for each other!!

And Heather and Dagur and Mala and the Wingmaidens!!! Alvin even gets a redemption arc!!!

And there’s such a focus on Romance in the fandom, a focus that isn’t there in the series’. The series’ are about the team building, friendship, and occasionally, angst and war.

I wanna read about Hiccup realizing Snotlouts insecurities like he did in rtte s4 e4, “notlout”, and Snotlout later encouraging others, like in s6 e3, “chain of command”

Or the twins overwhelming love for each other and their dragon, like in s2 e6 “the zippleback experience”, s4 e10, “twintuition”.

I wanna see Hiccup’s relationship with Heather and Dagur, as he finally accepts Dagur’s brotherhood. “So, shall we go rescue our brother?” - s4 e5, “saving Shattermaster” (also in the same episode, within the first 5 minutes, Snotlout goes from wanting to get away from Mala and her trials, to wanting to partake in them, because the twins implied he was too weak. Snotlout feels the need to prove himself worthy, all the time.)

TLDR I love non romantic relationships and the series gave me life, but I want more. More brotherly bonding, platonic family.

[jackshiccup]

it's so funny to see how much the twins love hiccup to the point where tuff chose hiccup out of all the riders to be ruff's substitute twin brother in bad moon rising while ruffnut had no problems calling him tuffnut haddock when it came to the potential of tuff losing the thorston family name in a gruff separation. and even better because tuff is the one who brings up the adopting idea first by saying "ruffnut haddock does sound sort of good."