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Hi I’m Raine!! Here’s my main -> @rainecats

I use they/xe/it/he pronouns, I’m 19, I’m a lesbian, and I really really like How To Train Your Dragon

My favourite dragon is a Stormcutter and my favourite characters are Dagur, Viggo, and Valka

I love Race To The Edge and the second movie

For my The Nine Realms Rewrite - #tnr reimagined

Not sure what else to put here!

Enjoy!

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something I have said many a time before, I think it would make more sense for tnr to feature prehistoric dragons rather than the evolved ones (IE the speedstingers, scuttleclaw, and Timberjack), as evolution just does not happen over a thousand years, plus it could be explained that these prehistoric dragons just hid out in the hidden world.

This is true! However I do think hybridisation is very likely, so that’s the route i’m going with. Most new dragons are simply slightly evolved hybrids. The show’s evolution is actually ridiculous, though I will say the dragons all being trapped in the hidden world together is a bit out of the ordinary and could probably lead to some weirder hybridisation

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an idea for the mist twister is maybe to replace the goofy eyebrows and goatee with fins and the mustache with those danglies you see on scauldrons, snaptrappers, and changewings.

the wing situation is just a mess with the mist twister though cause in httyd, dragons can't fly without wings but real life chinese dragons can fly without them, so it's all sorts of confusing.

Maybe! I already have a pretty solid idea for the Mist Twister but I appreciate the input :3

My deadly spinner redesign!! Not specifically Web Master but ngl I might use this specific bluer design for him anyway. My version of the deadly spinner is a hybrid between a monstrous nightmare and a silkspanner that has evolved into its own dragon, like most of my The Nine Realms rewritten dragons.

The fire resembles a mix between monstrous nightmare gel and silkspanner webs, and is a gooey gel-like substance that comes out of the Deadly Spinner’s mouth and hardens into a strong silk once it cools. Feel free to ask other questions!

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is there anything you have to say about the other four rider dragons in the nine realms when you may redesign them?

Yes! I have a lot of thoughts about them actually- I started with Thunder because he specifically offends me especially but I am not a big fan of the other dragons at all either. All the Nine Realms dragons just genuinely look so awkward and I want to redesign all the species from the show. Here are some design notes I have for the other main dragons:

Featherhide/Feathers - I want her to have more of a beak, similar to a deadly nadder. I’m considering making a lot of these dragons make more sense evolutionary- specifically making a lot of them hybrids who have features from different dragons but have inbred enough to be considered their own species. I think featherhides are most definitely a hybird of dramillions and deadly nadders, with maybe some woolly howl mixed in? They still look very similar to a Quetzalcoatl, they have similar body language to deadly nadders and dramillions, with the beak and head fan of deadly nadders, but they have the scale patterns/texture and cloaking abilities of dramillions. The dramillion fire mimicry I feel is also slightly present in featherhides.

Gembreaker/Plowhorn - gronckle hybrid of some kind! Likely gronckle and groncicle? Some sort of hybird of gronckles and groncicles, gembreakers are one of the worst designs in my opinion, they’re so awkward looking, I want to keep a bit of the beetle imagery but make it more dynamic and chill out with the horn size, it all just looks so awkward.

Mist Twister/Wu and Wei - fuck this dragon is so weird looking. I need those jaws to look more narrow and less awkward. These are definitely related to the Hideous Zippleback, probably a more eastern variant? I would like to give them more deer-like horns to look more similar to eastern dragons, and they need proper little ears, maybe a hybrid between Hideous Zipplebacks and Death Songs? I’d like to make their fire more amber-like in that case, and make their colours less… ugly. I’m going to change their colours to more mimic the moon and sun, a white/blue and yellow/orange. If that makes sense?

Deadly Spinner/Webmaster - deadly spinners are so dumb looking sorry. I still need this dragon to have 8 limbs, I fear it would be stupid without it, but the legs look really… clumsy? I’m giving him little forearms, two other legs, and the “middle” “legs” will be clawed wings, like a monstrous nightmare’s wings, definitely related to a monstrous nightmare, maybe mixed with a Silkspanner? I’m so disappointed they made so many more spider-like dragons instead of using the cool-ass one they already had (silkspanner). I need the body to be lower to the ground and the colours to be less… dull?? Not sure, I’ll mess around with that. The spines need to be less uniform too sighs. I want it to scuttle like a spider.

I hope this was interesting!! I’m gonna be working on these more between bits of uni work in the next few weeks :3

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sternkhan

I present to you: Thunder the Nightlight!

My more fleshed-out redesign of Thunder has been finished!! I was a little sad to get rid of all his frills but his more skrill-like spines and lightfury tail make up for it I think! Feel free to ask any questions you want :3

(Original redesign under the cut)

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myuniverseinabox

Toothless (and night fury's in general), re-imagined! Making him look more in line with the other dragons for my au. Also made this to highlight differences with my albino night fury oc, Ghostwaker.

She'll be getting a new reference soon. Stay tuned!