I just adore this scene. It’s so… prophetic. I mean, even after creating an artificial tailfin for Toothless, Hiccup wasn’t thinking about riding him. Yet, as soon as the thing is in place, the dragon spreads his wings in that slow, freaking amazing motion… And it looks like the wings are a part of Hiccup as well.
Better hold on, young man… You’re gonna experience flying on a Night Fury. You’re gonna help him regain his flight. And you’re not only gonna love it… You’re gonna make it the very essence of your life.
I just adore this scene. It’s so… prophetic. I mean, even after creating an artificial tailfin for Toothless, Hiccup wasn’t thinking about riding him. Yet, as soon as the thing is in place, the dragon spreads his wings in that slow, freaking amazing motion… And it looks like the wings are a part of Hiccup as well.
Better hold on, young man… You’re gonna experience flying on a Night Fury. You’re gonna help him regain his flight. And you’re not only gonna love it… You’re gonna make it the very essence of your life.
Since it was me, LuxBlackArts, who edited and timidly uploaded this gif in the first place, since I was apperently the first one who noticed how damn awesome this scene is, and since this gif has unexpectedly become fucking viral, I thought about a brighter self-reblog :)
“We had to create believable creatures that you could connect with emotionally. I wanted the audience to believe Toothless is a real creature that someone could fall in love with, the way people may fall in love with their horse, dog, or cat. In the first film, when Hiccup reaches out to touch Toothless, the audience had to believe that he is real. If the audience is not in love with Toothless as much as Hiccup is and if you don’t get lost in his eyes, the movie won’t work.” - Simon Otto, head of character animation
omg thank you for coming to us first about this!!!!!
I’m kind of like…wondering if maybe this means that the night furies live in caves? Like big, big, underground caves like bats would? WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN how Toothless had a run-in with a Whispering Death that was such a big deal. In fact, what if the fight with the Whispering Death was the reason Toothless got separated from his family?
I’ve heard lots of good ideas from a few different people about how night furies naturally live further south (or further north) and Toothless was displaced by a storm, or maybe was captured by a small group of hunters but got free before they could tell anybody they’d captured him in the first place.
BUT. What if the other night furies weren’t all that far away at all, they were just waaaaay underground in a huge cave system? We’ve already seen the franchise use big underground caverns to great effect as a bit of a motif–the caverns under Berk, the connecting caves under the Edge, the network of caves within the Defenders of the Wing volcano, the nest of the Fireworm Queen–and, of course, our generic vision of a European fairytale dragon is that it lives in a big cave with a big pile of treasure.
Not only that, but what if we look at how adapted Toothless is to flying in caves? He can use echolocation to see in the dark and navigate complex and narrow tunnels. He hangs upside down like a bat quite a lot. The way he uses plasma blasts to light up stalactites in caves is very cool and seems like something he maybe already knew how to do because…maybe…he was hatched in a cave.
I like this theory. Makes sense, everything is connected to the possible hints given during the series. And Night Furies. I want more Night Furies. ESPECIALLY A FEMALE FOR TOOTHLESS.
I feel pretty sad that this series has come to an end, but we must admit that our beloved Dragon’s Edge was always meant to be an entertaining parenthesis between the two HTTYD movies rather than an actual bridge to the 5-year gap between HTTYD and HTTYD 2.
In fact, while Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk can be seen as a continuation of HTTYD, RTTE came out one year after the second movie was released but it takes place before it, so it was bound to introduce the events of HTTYD 2, which we all knew already.
And it did! :D
Seeing Valka gave me the feels :’) But my favorite episode was the 10th, “Darkest Night”: it was such a touching ‘what if’ to the first movie! Even if Hiccup hadn’t shot Toothless down, they would’ve met and become besties anyway, as if it was written in their destiny; I was also deeply moved by the fact that both eventually lost their left foot/tailfin anyway, like it was a character trademark, like there can’t be a Hiccup with both feet and a Toothless with both tailfins… Just see how damn sweet even such a horrible thing as a mutilation becomes with these two! ^^
There were, of course, some inconsistencies between the whole RTTE storyline and the events of the second movie. In RTTE, Hiccup and Toothless, along with the gang and their dragons, live countless adventures, travel to a generous bunch of islands, meet new dragon riders, dragon lovers and dragon traders, face a lot of dangerous, sly and evil enemies, discover an amazing bunch of dragon species and learn the whole encyclopedia about the dragon world. But, if you remember, in HTTYD 2… they act almost as if they’ve never left Berk not even for half an hour! Hiccup is eager to explore and map the world outside Berk (he’s already done it in RTTE), he doesn’t even want to hear the word ‘chief’ (he acts as chief on the Edge), he doesn’t know anything about the existence of other dragon riders/protectors (uuuhh… the Wingmaidens? Heather? Dagur? Mala?) and he doesn’t seem to recall the tiny little detail of discovering the King of Dragons (okay, in RTTE they purposely prevent Hiccup from seeing the Bewilderbeast with his own eyes, but he does see that the creature blasts ice: I really don’t think he would’ve forgotten about that when Eret mentioned an ‘ice-spitting dragon’!). Our dear Night Fury rider leaves the Edge as an experienced explorer, warrior and strategist, a trustworthy chief-to-be, and one hell of a dragon lord: at 19, he has seen almost everything he wanted to see and he has met pretty much of good, bad, and complex people; yet, in HTTYD 2, he’s as naive as insisting in having a friendly chat with Drago Bludvist!
Alright, now I’m being a friggin’ critic XD One thing is for sure: I love this universe, I love the movies and the series, and who knows? Maybe after the third movie, they might come up with a brand new tv series! Hope is the last to die :D
PS. Did this make your heart skip a beat? XD
I absolutely loved this one too
… because I love the Skrill. I even have a drawing of it that’s waiting to be colored ;)
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