ruffnut/fishlegs headcanon -- sometimes when fishlegs is mid-excited rant, he gets embarrassed and asks ruffnut if he's boring her because he's been speaking so long without her responding (im imagining them sitting or laying down with ruff's head on his shoulder or chest) and ruffnut replies that she doesn't mind. She doesn't always get what he's saying to be honest, but she likes the sound of his voice and he's cute when he's excited. And then she asks him a question about the thing he was talking about so he'll share more things with her
Lycanwing Fishlegs fic is postponed. I love Fishlegs, but this concept is a lot for a character like him. It’s hard to come up with proper ideas for him when he’s the straight man of the group. But I will be writing a Fishlegs fic soon enough
Im a little late with the next chapter of my au, so Im going to provide a little bit more info about the characters.
Fishlegs's Family
He is an only kid; his family is a big mix of different magical backgrounds.
On his mother Inga's side, they have blood mostly from Jotunns and a very far dragon ancestor; Inga Ingerman is a tall and strong woman who might look like a slightly menacing, but that's only on the outside; she is a shy, sweet and caring person who loves to cook and do crafting hobbies, like crochet and hand-stitch. (She made the best he is wearing)
On his father Isak Ingerman's side, there is ancestry of Nisse and Fossegrim; he is a bit short, but has a jolly personality.
They met at school when Inga stood up for him when he was being bullied by other kids. Since then, Isak began to court her. Inga was at first unsure of his intentions because she usually scared boys away.
They met at school when Inga stood up for him when he was being bullied by other kids. Since then, Isak began to court her. Inga was at first unsure of his intensions because she usually scared boys away.
They got married after high school and opened a restaurant by the beach, but had issues conceiving a child. They finally had Fishlegs after 11 years of marriage; he is the apple of their eye.
Fishlegs was very small as a kid, so his folks believed he was going to take after his father more. Since he was little, he has been a huge nerd and was friends with Hiccup. It was a surprise when, at 12, he began to grow as big as his mom and developed dragon powers.
His parents were able to get him into dragon training. They don't expect him to become the dragon protector; mostly, they don't want him to hurt himself or others as a dragon since he has been a little clumsy—especially expelling fire at dinner. Luckily, his mother was able to control the situation at the table.
Since he got his powers, he slowly began to drift apart from Hiccup and hang out more with the other dragons, mostly due to Snotlout's influence.
I've been thinking about how I noticed Snotlout seems to have a very particularly strong vitriol for Camicazi despite not knowing her that well and barely interacting with her and her being four years younger. Like he utterly detests her, it's very noticeable. He taunts Hiccup and Fishlegs by telling them how he's hoping they'll finding her corpse in the water, and in Betray he can't mention her without describing how awful she is (the "she's just a bog-burglar" was to try to push Hiccup and Fishlegs away, what I'm referring to is the "and even rescue that horrible little bog-burglar Camicazi" when he was trying to convince them to trust him). I was thinking there are several reasons:
The first is obvious, although they don't interact with each other often, all their interactions are negative, and Camicazi is annoying in general. The first time they met (at least on page) was when Camicazi told FISHLEGS to push Snotlout into the ocean while everyone was cheering for Snotlout. Snotlout craves the attention and love he was given by the tribe when he was the only heir as a toddler (I think they seriously thought Snotlout would be the heir at the time, the phrase "they so wanted a child" makes me think Valhallarama and Stoick were having fertility issues so I think everyone treated Snotlout as heir), and he was enjoying being cheered for. Camicazi utterly ruined this moment for him, by getting Fishlegs of all people to push him. Additionally the dragons awaking at the beginning of Betray was fully Camicazi's fault for refusing to speak quietly, he was justified in being angry at her there. It's just that his anger becomes hypocritical when he hands her over to her enemies despite her helping to save him.
The second reason is what Camicazi represents. Camicazi is the heir of another tribe and she absolutely ADORES Hiccup. Snotlout wants everyone to see how weak and ridiculous Hiccup is, and how Snotlout should obviously be the heir. The future Chieftan of a nearby highly renowned tribe thinking Hiccup is the coolest thing in the world and following him around everywhere like a love sick puppy-dog is like a death knell in Hiccup being further cemented as the Heir of the Hairy Hooligans (Thuggery's similar treatment of Hiccup being another similar death knell which I think made the Camicazi thing feel even WORSE, I bet Snotlout hated Thuggary tons too). Camicazi even treats Hiccup as her superior or liege in many ways (not as in she thinks he's better than her, she obviously thinks she's the best, but there is a pretty clear leader-follower relationship between them) which I always think would've had interesting implications for future politics lol (if like everything after book 5 didn't happen so Hiccup didn't end up as her legal liege).
Camicazi also represents the CHANGE that Snotlout hates so much, and it is change brought about by Hiccup in addition. The Bog-burglars and Hooligans have been enemies for over a century, and the phrase "The only good bog-burglar/hooligan is a dead bog-burglar/hooligan" was a common saying and taught to their children. But Hiccup and Camicazi changed that in the blink of an eye and now the two tribes have this Gondor-Rohan like allyship/friendship. Snotlout gives this as his reason for hoping Camicazi would turn up dead in book 8, so this one is definitely canon.
I saw a post recently about the original httyd storyboards from when they followed the books more closely and thought I'd compile a list of the ones I know of in case anyone wants to see them or add to the list!
Forgive me, it is still 4 days before the official release and my brain is soup from being burnt out at work but I'm bursting to talk with anybody about the setup done in this book!!
My takeaways are the last few paragraphs (minus the very last long one under the ~squigglys~ which is sort of semi-unrelated babbling), as this is written reminiscent of a live read? And if you haven't already read this book yet,
DO NOT KEEP READING!! MAJOR SPOILERS
otherwise please come overanalyze this book with me!
First off, and extremely average day at school unfortunately for our boys. And the much anticipated boarding of spooky ship that I've been wondering about since I preordered this book in January.
I will tell you what though, Hiccup's previously unseen and never-before-mentioned Aunt Gladioli handcuffed to a small nervous man was not on my bingo card 🤣 and she is a BEAST.
'I LOVE her,' whispered Camicazi, with bright eyes, doing a little dance of delight... 'I love her, I love her, I LOVE her!'
I love her too, and I love how much Camicazi immediately loves and looks up to her 🥹🥹🥹
Stoick leaving a "gon fishin" note 😂💀 And another glimpse at the Haddock family tree! Since I think both books have had the family tree for us to reference i'm wondering if it will continue to be pretty prominent
Not much on King Thundermore. He is a King of the East, and I feel like that could be prominent based on that one short story
Hmmm another seemingly random assortment of specific and possibly destiny significant items you say? And Hiccups sword is made of the same metal you say? Hmmmmmmm
Hiccup hiding his library books on dragons from stoick under the bed 🥹 I'm glad he's using the library they worked so hard to have open, and I love that he's smuggling books on dragons into the house under stoicks nose
Fishlegs!! Fishlegs!! FISHLEGS!! We finally get to see Fishleg's home!! (I always thought it was strange that fishlegs was apparently literally raised by a dragon and it was only mentioned a couple times and never again?? And he doesn't speak dragonese either?) OH my gosh this is so cute, I love Mogger, I love all the babies rushing to hug Uncle Fishuggs, I love this snippet of his life coming home and hugging his family and preparing for the next adventure. This was too cute and I'm freaking out
The adventure was pretty bland? It's not the highlight of this book and I don't think it's meant to be. Weird windwalker fake out death tho?? It just sort of happened and then he was fine? It's sort of like, 'And then windwalker fell! Oh no! But then he was okay, and everyone was happy!' There is a big beautiful drawing of Camicazi catching hiccup by the hand, maybe the importance of this is to show she has his back or something? This book sort of feels like its written more like a kids book then usual somehow.
'Now that's true love, right there. One lettuce meets another lettuce, and what do you get? ...SALAD.' -Aunt Gladioli
Also Hiccup makes a promise to the flamestrike and my instant thought "a little early to start making kingly promises?" And now I'm wondering if that is the point? Hiccup gets into shenanigans and makes promises that he will fix it, and he fully intends to, but what happens when he makes promises he can't keep? How many promises will he make?
She's so iconic, I love her.
Aunt Gladioli, eyes twinkling, put her hand on Camicazi's shoulder. 'Take some advice from me, Camicazi. If you want to be a Woman of the Wind, it's a grand old life... But everyone isn't always going to like you for it. And that's just fine, as long as you follow your heart.'
First of all, based. Second, it seems this scene is the setup. We have King Thundermore and Petal, who are very in love and a salad, and we have Gladioli, an adventurous solitary 'Woman of the Wind'. And the prominence of "love is a bad business" returning as well at the ending toast "to love!" I feel cements it to me that this is going to be the arc of the story. We have two very different life tracks seemingly for Camicazi, and which will she choose?
Camicazi seems to really look up to Aunt Gladioli, and she took what Gladioli said to heart and is aspiring to be a future Woman of the Wind, even doing the last mission alone. If she does develop a crush at the end of book 12, would that make Hiccup her "enemy" to her self image of being a Woman of the Winds? And how would she react and how would she handle it?
If I'm being honest I've really been hoping my theory that "she will be your enemy one day" from the last book was just something cheeky. Like they aren't literally enemies, but "shell be your enemy one day...she will always leave her socks on the bathroom floor" type stuff. I'm still hoping for it.
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I'm not sure if anyone else feels this also, but I feel this book was written more like a childrens book then usual. I'm also an adult reading a childrens book so take that with an actual single grain of salt. I'm not entirely sure how to articulate what I'm saying, it just reads a lot more for young-uns then usual, where the writing is very simple and straight forward. There is not as much detail or depth. And our gang sort of feels like caricatures of themselves. Even in the og httyd book one I feel like there was more depth, like how real the bullying felt, how my heart sank to my shoes when the test goes horribly wrong and everyone is exiled, how real and relatable the feelings were when hiccup is walking to talk to the dragon for the first time and he's terrified but its somehow easier when you have no choice, etc. This series in general is more art heavy and the books themselves are works of art. I love how much artwork we get now, and we are spoiled rotten. We get so much detail and shading too. I love it so much, her artwork is a big part of what makes these books so special and its so peak in this one. I have been feeling though that these books 'need more WORDS'. I wish these books were longer, I know they are kids books and probably just the right size, but I wish I had more 😭😭 i want both worlds!!
** one afterthought, I wonder if the books are written younger because camicazi is younger and this is a camicazi storyline and perspective? The og books are written by an older hiccup, and have his voice, but this series doesn't say its written by him, so it could be camicazis voice. Less detail-oriented and more big picture and to-the-point? With literal big pictures?
Anyway this is the end, thank you to any who stuck it out and read all of this! Please share your thoughts on the new book! 🙏
