Off-topic? Ha! No such thing! :)

[krissielee]

So this is sort of an overall off-topic post for all other random things that don't quite fit the purpose of the request post.

You know, questions you'd like answered, random other bits of fluff, discussions about how thus-and-such pairing rocks way hardcore ...

So ... *claps* Get to it! Post to your Disney-loving heart's content! ♥

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Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[afterandalasia]

Fuck post length limits. :p

Terrible Terrors don't even seem to be smart enough to remember their own mating season, considering there's an egg that hatches in Animal House which is several months before Snoggletog. Which... again doesn't really surprise me, knowing Terrible Terrors.

Getting back to the topic of dragon sex... as you do. Apparently komodo dragon eggs incubate for 8-9 months and it looks as if some snakes can clock in at 6-7 months as well. So considering the eggs looked to hatch in about three days, my guess would be that the dragons incubate the eggs internally for... however long it takes. With their size, maybe anything up to a year? Thus explaining why there hadn't been the, "What do you want me to do?! Tell them to stop having such loud dragon sex right overhead?!" around Berk. But I'm not a reptiles expert. But maybe Terrors don't have the same mating pattern as everyone else.

I did spend a fair bit of Terrible Twos going, "What's that, Lassie? Timmy fell down a well?" because I am a terrible person.

Oh man, I was rewatching Thawfest today and Hiccup going, "Yeah, baby!" cracks me up every time. Because just for that moment, Hiccup is a headstrong 15/16 year old kid. But yes, you're right, he and Toothless did kill a dragon. So he only killed half a dragon, but it was a very big dragon. So it still totally counts.

The more that I watch, the more that I lean towards the headcanon that it's actually set in a post-apocalyptic universe. Like, they know about typhoons and boomerangs and magnesium and everything. And even the fact that Gobber chucks away the glass in The Iron Gronckle - Vikings loved glass! Then there's the "yak butter parfait" (parfait didn't exist until 1894). Just... yes. *clings to headcanon*

Dagur is probably exaggerating, because... well, Dagur. There was another comment somewhere about him having a hundred ships, and even that sounds huge, but there's no way that he's getting 500 men on each ship. Dagur, your bullshit is showing. Also, he must get through a lot of ships with the number that get set on fire or destroyed by Smokebreaths when he's nearby. *snorts*

And you're right there, Hiccup (and the others) would defend her. Or she'd just claim to be Tuffnut, in order to confuse him. She does seem to have a bit more in the brains department than he does. I heard that the reason her hair went back was all animation costs - check out the complex way that her short hair moves at the end of that episode, compared to the simpler way of moving that two long, heavy braids have. They get away with a lot of animation re-use, but even Astrid's hair can look chunky at times. Hiccup is about the only one who really keeps the hair movement.

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[ashleybenlove]

And that egg was so big compared to actual Terrors too. Of course, it was as big as a chicken. It's a bit concerning. But then again, it had to have been a dud or something because there's no baby Terror (or it froze to death because of the terrible weather).

That certainly would make sense for them to incubate internally for a period of time and then lay their eggs like three days before the little ones are to be born. And up to a year certainly would make sense. Elephants take like 2 years, but elephants are mammals and not reptiles.

Perhaps, the four main dragon species of Berk (Nadders, Zipplebacks, Nightmares, and Gronckles) have the same mating pattern of being right around Snoggletogg and then the Terrible Terror are just sort of whenever it feels like it??

One of the things I noticed in Thawfest is that the roof of the arena can basically move upwards and off, and like, that's the only time that happens. You think they would use that more often. It seems pretty odd to keep the roof on when it'd probably be so much easier to fly upwards than through that rather small doorway. But then again, the teenagers probably aren't thinking about that?

And the fact that they say modern-ish terms sometimes, like "awesome" (which according to Merriam Webster, the first known use of that word was 1598), too. Post-apocalyptic universe is certainly reasonable, considering all the weird anachronisms.

They all seem to through a lot of ships, in general. Berk, the Outcasts, Dagur. The Red Death practically destroys all of the Berk fleet. Tuff blows one up in Heather Report. And Hiccup spends some of Defenders of Berk blowing up enemy ships whenever he gets the chance. Gobber fucks up a ship with iron in Viking For Hire. Destroying Ships: The Franchise.

Oh Ruff, pretending to be your brother. Tuff does claim that he impersonates both of them in Heather Report.

I wouldn't be surprised if it had been because of the animation costs. In general, they only ever really have complex hair movement in the show with Hiccup, everybody else is just sort of ignored. It's kind of a bummer, I suppose, but it's understandable: this isn't a big budget animated film, it's a tv show with a smaller budget.