Jay Ferin Hours Who's Up

From an official poster. Way to go, Dreamworks. THIS is the level of quality we're dealing with for this live action slop. This is how much they care

Full poster under the cut

I love cracking my bones. I'm like a fidget toy but more emotionally complex

Hot take

Night furies are actually perfectly evolved for hunting and killing other dragons and the only reason they aren't a dragon-hunting species like the death song or deathgrippers are is because DreamWorks couldn't have their adorable main character dragon be a "cannibal"

(below I'm gonna try to summarize what we've figured out in a convo with friends on discord)

(also tw animal death via predator)

First of all yes I'm aware that pretty much every decision made about their design was with consideration of the effect it would make on human audiences but hear me out

Night furies are most iconically known as dive-bombers. They are built for speed, high maneuverability, night-time camouflage and for striking targets from above. If we remove human settlements out of the equation (which would not have existed long enough to actually influence night fury evolution, come on), what does that leave us with?

They aren't built for catching fish for sure, they aren't very hydrodynamic and their head is round, wide, and their teeth are dull. Honestly, the monstrous nightmare is much better suited for catching fish, with its long neck, almost pelican-like jaw and rhamphorhynchus teeth

Compare to

Yeah the jaws look kinda like a porpoise of some sort but for that the whole body would have to be a lot more aquatic imo. The light fury looks a lot closer to an aquatic diver, it has a sleeker body, rounded fins instead of spikes, and a long neck.

I don't really see them hunting land animals either, they just don't look like they're adapted for that minus the resemblance with large felines and even then, they're too large to effectively hunt in forests.

The one thing I can kinda imagine them hunting is large mainland megafauna, but we're working with a setting that takes place pretty much exclusively on islands. And overall, dragons are the only abundant species there with the exception of fish and human-bred sheep and chickens.

In general, night furies have duller teeth, smaller claws and are smaller than most dragons. Disregarding the movies making Toothless weirdly OP, a night fury would be disadvantaged against most dragons in a 1v1 fight and besides, it has four huge weak spots that would highly discourage it from a direct physical fight - the primary and secondary tail fins. One unlucky rip in the membrane and the night fury is fucked.

The night fury however noticeably resembles falcons, given their dive-bombing ability and high maneuverability.

Falcons too have smaller beaks and weaker claws compared to most birds of prey, and for that they compensate by simply picking up speed, balling up their talons and Punching. Really. Hard.

And they use that ability to kill other birds, even much larger ones, by knocking them right from the sky.

Here, the night fury's plasma blast works the same way as a falcon's punch. Dragons are fire-resistant, so what the plasma blast does is really just a densely packed bolt of energy that has the effect of either stunning or outright killing prey by damaging its spine. And what the plasma bolt doesn't do, rapid contact with the ground would finish. And if even that doesn't do it, the night fury's wide jaws and dull teeth are just fine for simply clamping around the unlucky dragon's neck and strangling it, like a lion or a pitbull.

The night-time camouflage allows the night fury to soar for extended periods of time perfectly unnoticed in the night sky, and by the time it strikes, the dragon wouldn't even know what's coming.

Unless

Say the hunting night fury is aware of other dragons sleeping under the trees, as most dragons probably would at night (village raids aside, most dragons seem to be diurnal), so how does the night fury get them in position where it can use its signature attack? Well, there's That Iconic Screech Of Death. Since in the movies it tends to appear not just during dive-bombings but also when charging up a blast, I imagine it's something the night fury is able to control to some degree. So by simply fake-diving in close proximity to sleeping dragons, it can effectively terrify them into leaving their hideout and fly out into the open where it can easily take them out.

I dunno, the possibility of night furies as predators to other dragons just makes so much sense to me, I really don't know what other reasons there would be for them to evolve these particular adaptations.

And one more little headcanon to add to this whole rant - since night furies are significantly smaller and less equipped for dragon vs dragon fights and are primarily speed-based predators, I imagine there is this very likely scenario:

There is one dragon who resembles a hyena, a lil bit

Ok, rant over

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

Still laughing at the mental image of blink singing tequila while runt coughs up a lung and Troy is laying on the ground dead and on fire

talking about how gillion could live over 100 years longer than chip or jay and.

imagine gill caring for chip in his old age.

gill has only just started to feel the creaking in his bones that his friends complained of when they turned 30, but chip cant get out of bed without help anymore, and even his cane hardly helps him keep his balance. hes just about blind and nearly deaf and his breaths are that old man rattling wheeze.

and gill knows chips running out of time. he knows its a miracle that chip even still wakes up every morning. and he maybe gently offers one afternoon to go out and get the ingredients for chips favorite soup and theyll have that for lunch. and chip just wheezes out a half-there mumbled agreement. and gill sadly squeezes his hand. and gets up to go into town.

and hes gone just an hour or so, but he comes back and chips still laying in bed asleep. and gill sets the groceries down to check on him and let him know hes back. and chip,, doesnt respond.

gill squeezes his hand and repeats that he brought back stuff for soup, and theres nothing. he shakes chips shoulder and says itll be ready in just an hour, and nothing. and with shaking hand he feels for chips pulse. and nothing.

and gill knew this was coming, he did, he really did. but now hes sitting next to his best friend on the edge of the bed, surrounded by fresh ingredients he didnt get to cook, and he cries. he sniffles, brushes a hand through whats left of chips white hair, and breaks down crying with his face in his hands.

How To Train Your Dragon doodles

It’s been really cool seeing other people’s interpretations lately and it’s inspired me to try a few!

jay canon design masterpost

again, going under the cut o7 let me know if i missed anything!

EPISODE 1:

Hair up in ponytail

Bangs and hair on sides

Ferin pin in hair

Blue jacket, white shirt, multitudes of belts

LOFFINLOT ARC:

Hair on one side gets cut by bald men

Cuts hair on other side

DESIRE ISLAND ARC:

Gold and turquoise necklace from Aslana

BLOCK ARC:

Ring to control BLOCK (never mentioned again)

ALLPORT ARC 1:

Feather tattoo (chip made her get it while drunk)

NOCTIS ARC:

Loses a few teeth (blood orchid fight)

POST-FEYWILD TRAVELLING ARC:

Niklaus deal tattoo (middle of her back)

Magical friendship bracelets

REDESIGN (87)

Hair down

Gold hoop earrings

White tank top

More necklaces

Corset

Brown pants

Old blue jacket around waist

Black fingerless gloves

ALLPORT ARC 2:

Magical wing tattoo on back

BLACK SEA ARC:

One orange eye

Her leg literally melts and it's been mentioned several times but she's just? Powering through it?

Hair up in braids

take a wild guess who my favorite character is

anyways here are the full/alt images for the last two! and im dropping some doodles from twitter

additional tweet to the hc, this is the only way i could actually get behind white eyed yoichi

now im contemplating wether to post the kdch fam au or kdch stuff next (since both sides got alot of content that i didnt post here yet)

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