So, this is the dragon Furious PMV that I have been working on for quite sometime!! Finally finished!!!!
(Actually I have finished this almost a week ago, but for some reasons, mostly the song copyright or something, I had a long time figuering out how to share it XD)
MAJOR SPOILERS for books 8 and 12!!!
(The description of this video on YT, partly because I'm too lazy to write a new description XDD)
It's finished!! Finally!!! The Furious PMV that I've been working on since July!!!
(Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS for books 8 and 12, so don't watch it if you haven't finished the series yet!)
This is my first time doing something as long as this, three minutes and 2174 frames, and I used Flipaclip which I'm still quite new to, so there might be a few things that don't seem right (face palm)
I spent a long time on it, a bit too long, so that my art and some animation skills have improved over this time XDD Which means that the first part is not actually done very well, but gets better in the later parts, I'd say it starts to improve from about 00:50 and after XDD
Overall I'm quite satisfied with this, although I might redraw it some time later, if I have the time XD
All characters and story belong to Cressida Cowell
Some of the most grown up, bravest things book Hiccup has ever done that I think about often;
(Spoilers)
Unarmed and staring down a sword, a deadly dragon, and an erupting volcano, and still managing to sing in the face of death
Freeing the Wanderers on the American Dream 2
Freeing a gigantic terrifying dragon just because he couldn't stand to see it so sad and trapped in chains
Defeating his own father in a duel for the crown, even though he didn't want it, just so that he could free the dragons and hopefully end the war peacefully
Being a branded Outcast and still having the compassion to free and disarm dragon traps, even when both humans and dragons were trying to kill him
Willingly entering Prison Darkheart to look for his best friend
Willingly staying in Prison Darkheart to look for his best friend even when staying was extremely dangerous for him specifically, and even when given ample opportunity to escape, instead giving up that opportunity to a little girl who couldn't even remember her mother. He even redid all the buttons on her bear suit so that she would look her best when she went back to her family that is the sweetest thing--
Waiting patiently for the perfect moment to kill a dragon even when he was literally being digested alive by it
Saving Snotlout even though doing so would literally put him and all of his friends at risk of being brutally killed by dragons and even though Snotlout himself wasn't above killing him
Realizing Snotlout had led him into a trap, coming to that realization, and, this is extremely important-- ultimately decided to let himself be led into the trap on the off-chance they might let slip where the lost things and Camicazi were. He actually made a choice in his head, and then steeled himself, and willingly walked into Alvin and the Witch's trap on the off chance he could find the lost things. That's ballsy for a fourteen year old kid
ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING HE WAS TORTURED
Speaking of that-- ENDURING WATER TORTURE. His dragons managed to keep him from drowning and getting torn to bits by pirhanna dragons, but that water was freezing and clearly did a number on him mentally. And he never broke. That was so brave of him and I'm never getting over it.
Not to mention that moment where he looked Snotlout in the eye, even after everything he did, and told him he never gave up on him-- and he still isn't giving up on him-- before jumping back into the freezing water to escape. Nerves of steel.
Then he woke up from a shipwreck with amnesia to a little dragon telling him "Hey good morning. You're the top most wanted enemy in the archipelago. Dragons and humans think you're dead but they'll definitely kill you on sight if they find out you're not. You're being hunted by dragons right now actually. Also you need to get to this island full of dragons (that kill you by launching you into the sun the second you step on it), because your arch-nemesis is there and he's about to become king of the archipelago. You need to not only stop him from becoming king, you yourself need to become king of the archipelago, and then you need to face this BIG GIANT HUMAN HATING ISLAND BURNING DRAGON in SINGLE COMBAT to determine the ultimate fate of human and dragon kind."
And Hiccup said, "okay."
AND DID IT
That kid managed to get to that island JUST IN TIME, with AMNESIA, and interrupted Alvin's coronation even though he was black and blue and torn to shreds and limping and crying and couldn't even remember his own name and STILL told them all that he was willing to become King of the Wilderwest.
What a kid
Not to mention he faced that human hating island burning dragon with the courage of an entire army's worth of heroes.
AND ENDED THE WAR PEACEFULLY!! BY BEING KIND AND COMPASSIONATE AND WILLING TO WORK WITH FURIOUS TO MAKE A BETTER WORLD FOR BOTH SPECIES AND IM SOBBING HE IS SUCH A GOOD BOY HE IS SUCH A GOOD KID
Even when Furious dies he promises to the end of his life to try to make the world better for dragons and he DID to his dying breath he tried
He tried and it mattered
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is quite possibly, in my opinion, one of the coolest protagonists ever
Thinking about using Woodwork by Sleeping At Last to make an animatic for Cats in the City of Plague some time later
Putting the lyrics here bc they fit quite well and I also really like them(?)
I hear your heart
As it beats beneath
The sound of crashing cars
As the sirens pour
Into every street surrounding us
Our world caves in on us
And makes us new
All our love came out of the woodwork
All our strength came out of the woodwork
We only notice light
When darkness crashes against it
We only notice light
Deep in the woodwork
I still hear the song
As it rings beneath
The sound of shattered glass
In the aftermath
The melody, it carries on
While we come undone
And makes us new
All our love came out of the woodwork
All our strength came out of the woodwork
We only notice light
When darkness crashes against it
We only notice light
Deep in the woodwork
It's a cruel, cruel trick
How we find ourselves
When we lose everything else.
Like a train wreck
The sound of your breathing hits my ears
Our world reappears
And it breaks us new
All our love came out of the woodwork
All our strength came out of the woodwork
All our trust came out of the woodwork
We only notice light deep in the woodwork
Book Hiccup my darling, kind lovely sweet intelligent clever child, you act so bravely in spite of your fears... you are such a gentle spirit but have a passion for what's right... ue ue ue
‘Sometimes time cannot tick backwards. Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.’
Bookmark 11~ Windwalker saved Hiccup from drowing and flew Snotlout to his doom, so I wanted to have all three on this bookmark.
listen i know we all love the httyd movies but y’all need to know that in the book series there was a clan of viking women warriors and their leader was named big-boobied bertha
Po-ta-toes. Boil em, mash em, shoot your friend in the toe with an arrow that's been soaking in the juices of one for about 15 years to cure him of vorpentitis, stick em in a stew
They are, despite being a children’s book, one of the most amazing, well written, world building books I have ever read.
They follow another and even more unlikely Viking Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, in a different, more harsher, more ferocious world than the Hiccup of the movies ever faced, learning to become a hero the hard way.
PLEASE GO READ THEM
You can find the audio books online and even on YouTube. It’s even read by none other than DAVID TENNANT, who is far more extraordinary with his voice acting skills than you think.
PLEASE GO READ THEM
And then feel free to watch the next series by the author, the Wizard of Once, which is despite being new, another fantastic series about wizards and warriors and magic, about a time when there was once magic in the world. It is rumoured that it is the next series Cressida Cowell and Dean Deblois is making in the future with Dreamworks! So check it out while it’s still fresh and new!
Read them, share them, and support the author. Because if not for Cressida Cowell, we wouldn’t have the beloved movies we hold dear to us today.
And after you do, feel free to let me know how you feel about my most treasure book series of all time.
#httyd books#how to betray a dragon's hero#Sleeping At Last#basically it was playing in my head when I was re-reading book 11 for something like the seventh time#I almost cried#and that was when I wasn't even actually listening to it#Sleeping At Last's songs are also so emotional#feel it. what do you get when you combine two very emotional things together#*cries*#and a lot of the songs somehow always reminds me of the httyd books#I know the songs are really slow and quiet and calm#not like the overall feel of these books#but somehow I just feel they go so well together#*continues crying*#(posting this with my side blog because it prabably needs to be used more often)
actually i will never not be emotional about hiccup learning he’s left handed. It’s fuckin like. He’s not inherently irreparably inferior to all the other boys. There’s not something about him whether it be will or talent or something else entirely that makes him unteachable. he was just taught wrong. in a way that was so unforgiving to an immutable aspect of him. And everybody had so little faith in him that they jumped to the conclusion that he must be doing something wrong, or eventually that it was just him. And after being beat down he started to believe that about himself. But it’s not true. And he swings a sword with his left hand for the first time and he feels in control and capable and like he can actually influence what happens to him for the first time instead of just failure after failure despite his best efforts. He feels real in his body like walking on his feet after trying to on his hands his whole life. and like. obviously he’s not like amazing right away. He manages to do some pretty impressive things and he’s clearly got a knack for it but he’s still behind. But it doesn’t even matter because for the first time he’s making headway, and enjoying himself and he can choose to get better. what he wants and what he does matters and the world is just a little lighter and more manageable because he’s allowed to feel at home and comfortable even if that looks different for him. and like. fuck
