You know who doesn't get enough credit in Buffalord Soldier?

Snotlout.

He:

(and Hookfang) fly to Berk and back to get Gothi's notes on the Scourge.

He asks Hiccup how she is when Hiccup comes back to the Clubhouse.

He (and Hookfang) goes to get Astrid (and Stormfly) when the Buffalord refuses to leave the island they're on.

He (and Hookfang) immediately rushes to Hiccup's side and prepares to fight when Viggo comes to ruin everything.

Astrid's been benched by this illness and he steps up to the plate to be Hiccup's second in command.

Just thinking about how in Not Lout, he indicates to Hiccup he wants to lead the Riders and also, how in literally the episode before BS (Turn and Burn), Hiccup concludes that Snotlout is trying to prove himself to Hiccup!

LOOK

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i can't imagine a world without you in it either

Just thinking about how dark of an episode “Buffalord Soldier” is. Like, wow. They really did that.

Still waiting for the day where Netflix fixes the issue where Crash Course and Buffalord Soldier both no longer have the latter’s thumbnails.

RTTE Fanfic?…

Should I make a Tuffcup (Tuffnut x Hiccup) fanfic version of the RTTE EP - Buffalord Soldier???

Also don’t be free to PM me your ideas for the fanfic but also tell me your ideas in the comments if you want

if so who should get the scourge of Odin Hiccup or Tuffnut if I do write it??

AAAAAAAH

Does anyone have any Hiccstrid fics about the Odin's scourge episode????????? I'm dying to read some :0

I’d love to know more about the httyd watt au if you don’t mind! I haven’t watched everything in the whole franchise, but this au sounds really cool

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH HELL YES

okay so this au is based mostly off of race to the edge, which is a tv show on netflix that takes place right before httyd 2, because that's my favorite part of the franchise. if you don't know what that one is, it's six seasons, and it covers the last year or so before httyd 2, and most of it revolves around one artifact called the dragon eye, which the dragon riders discover hidden in an abandoned ship, and which contains an unbelievable amount of secret dragon knowledge. it also has a map that extends far past the archipelago, so the riders decide to explore it, and they establish a base called dragon's edge, which is in the name, and it's where they live for the entire series before eventually going back home to berk. so, in the au:

eva - hiccup

kate - astrid

clark - fishlegs

farrah - snotlout

annleigh - heather

cairo - dagur

chess - mala

mattie - gustav

riley - trader johann

reese - atali

eva, kate, clark, and farrah are all probably pretty obvious, because they're also from the movie franchise (i tried to figure out a ruff and tuff but there's honestly no replacing those two), but: cairo is the chief of the berserkers, a neighboring viking tribe, and she's an antagonist for the first two seasons before switching sides and allying herself with the dragon riders, even gaining two dragons of her own: a gronckle named shattermaster, but after shattermaster is injured in a fight, she starts riding a triple stryke named sleuther. annleigh is her half sister, who is... a complicated character, who has a love-hate relationship with the dragon riders for a while but eventually becomes an ally, and she and kate are besties - her dragon is a razorwhip named windshear, who she rescued as a baby. chess is the queen of a different nearby tribe, the defenders of the wing, and she and cairo meet at a peace summit and initially hate each other, but then they fall in love and get married in the finale!! and chess doesn't have her own dragon, but she always rides behind cairo on sleuther. mattie is a teenager from berk a few years younger than the dragon riders, and she rides a monstrous nightmare named fanghook and wears some of the riders' gear from the first movie, obviously trying to be like them, but she tends to accidentally cause chaos so they won't let her join the riders, but eventually, kate trains an auxiliary riders team to defend berk, and mattie is their leader. reese was... honestly kinda hard to find someone for, because i just ran out of side characters, but atali is the leader of the wingmaidens, a tribe of women that protect baby razorwhips and are important allies of the dragon riders, so i thought she could work for that!!! and riley....... well, riley is top 10 anime plot twists of all time, she pretends to be the dragon riders' ally for five seasons (and another show before rtte!!!!) before finally revealing herself to be the Ultimate Bad Guy who's been behind everything!!!!!!!!

anyways, now that i've explained it: kateva is my Utmost Beloved (i have so many aus with them haha) and i am in LOVE with the hiccstrid!kateva dynamic!!!!!!!! i love kate being suspicious of eva's sudden success in dragon training in the first movie, love them going on that romantic flight together, love kate giving eva that "so what are you going to do about it?" pep talk after stoick captures toothless, love the "that's for scaring me" *punch* "what, is-is it always going to be this way with you?! because-" *kiss* "... i could get used to it" at the end of the first movie. i love that scene in the beginning of httyd 2 at the itchy armpit, eva telling kate about her conversation with her father and kate mocking her, and then seeing smoke in the distance and they go check it out and stormfly gets knocked out of the sky and eva and toothless catch kate before she hits the water, i love eva deciding to go after drago after stoick orders all dragons grounded and kate goes after her, i love kate shouting "TAKE HIM DOWN, BABE!" when eva and toothless are fighting drago and the bewilderbeast, love the "oh, we're still doing that one, huh? that's hilarious. c'mere, you" kiss at the end. httyd 3 is.......... not my favorite of the trilogy, but i love the "maybe we should take gobber's advice and tie the knot. that should fix everything! but hey, if you're having doubts about yours truly, i'm pretty sure farrah's available" "she only has eyes for your mom" "ohhhh, playing dirty now, huh?" "you asked for it! looks like there might be a wedding after all" "oh, how dare you! that is a low blow- no, no, you are not getting away! OWW, okay, okay, you win, you always win!" "you knew what you were getting into" "uh huh, sure" scene, kate finding eva working on toothless's new tail and saying "look at you, embracing change! i am proud of you", i love kate taking eva to find toothless in the hidden world, i love kate and eva taking out bad guys to save each other and then causing an explosion while smiling at each other with romantic flight playing in the background, i love kate helping eva stand after she lets her fake leg fall into the sea with grimmel, and then them getting married??????? and having zephyr and nuffink????? AND TAKING ZEPHYR AND NUFFINK FLYING TEN YEARS LATER????????????????????????????????

speaking of flying, i just have to say: eva and toothless, kate and stormfly, clark and meatlug, and farrah and hookfang.

also, astrid!kate is my favorite fucking thing, like c'mon???? maybe it's just because i'm kind of in love with both of them but like,,,,,,, c'mon, kate and stormfly and the "stormfly, drop it. good girl! stormfly, fetch. works every time" scene in httyd 2??????????? kate and "never take a toy from a dragon"??????? kate doing the speech about eva that goes "she's only the daughter of stoick the vast, his heir to the throne of berk, and the greatest dragon master this world has ever seen! and unless you let us go, right now, she is going to blast through here on her night fury and blow your entire fleet of ships to splinters"???????????

this has been an incoherent ramble which i will conclude with: hiccstrid!kateva and astrid!kate thank you for your time

Ok I'm sure someone has pointed this out before but

You know the episode when Hiccup hyperfixated on upping their defense and being really determined to catch up to and get ahead of Viggo for once?

That episode came after Buffalord Soldier...

"I've truly missed our time together, Hiccup."

You met him ONCE. Cool your heels, man.

I don't talk about Viggo as much as I should, but I definitely think about him pretty frequently, and I just feel like we don't talk about what he does in Buffalord Soldier as much as we should.

Aside from the obvious insane moral implications of what he did (probably the darkest thing in RTTE imo), it's a really good demonstration of how committed he is to his goals.

He is willing to take some pretty insane risks and handle some pretty serious hits. If there hadn't been a living Buffalord dragon he could have had a serious problem on his hands. (Honestly he really could've either way, but yk)

For money he was willing to set a deadly plague on the archipelago, and he was also willing to do that before he had confirmation that there were any buffalords left,,, like,,, it's just insane to me lol

I cry every day knowing Viggo didn’t get his own theme in the RTTE music.

Buffalord soldier AU where the fishermen inside Viggo's ship just gave Astrid a grimace shake

again from s3e13 Viggo's deal is really interesting. Viggo knows that Hiccup stays true to his word (as seen in buffalord soldier), so it seems like he's just trying to get him to agree not to fight him so that he can do whatever with no repercussions.

later on the gang figures that the stuff Viggo is interested in on his side of the line is the defenders of the wing island- my question is why? the first thing that comes to mind is that he wants to eliminate the village for some reason or another, probably to avoid giving the riders allies.