FIFTH ROLESWAP AU PITCH:

Rest Stops (or Rest Stoppers)

Several humans and dragons from both the HTTYD movieverse and bookverse end up transported to the opposite realities thanks to several mysterious dragons that seem to rip holes in space. Shenanigans ensue as the mixed-up casts attempt to get back home and stop several villains from using the mysterious dragons for their own gain. Things get even more hectic when characters thought to be long-dead appear, though they have certain…. differences that nobody seems to remember.

Rest Stoppers AU love it. Who are all these strangers and why are they looking at Snotlout like they're seeing a ghost? Stoick doesn't notice he's in another world for hours until someone confronts him about his recent... lack of being alive. Some of the Berkians think Stoick's a revenant at first, come to take revenge against the dragon that killed him. Most of the former Alvinsmen and Dragonmarkers are convinced that Snotlout's a revenant come to avenge his death. Especially the former Alvinsmen who shot the arrows that killed him. Everyone gives Fishlegs Ingerman funny looks when he introduces himself. Their king straight up tells him "no you're not" when he introduces himself as Fishlegs from Berk. A giant three-headed Dragon was about two seconds from eating him, it was terrifying but also what kind of Dragon is that he's never seen anything like it before it's beautiful. Camicazi finds herself in a strange new world and immediately starts committing crimes with her Amazing Talking Dragon. The King of the Wilderwest has to enlist the help of the Hysterics to help out a mute Dragon with a really ingenious prosthetic tailfin whose only drawback is that someone needs to be on his back in order for it to work. Berk's Chief has to help a fuzzy black dragon with a limp through a panic attack. Everyone Fishlegs No-Name introduces himself to asks if he's lost weight recently, even the tribe's chief, and it's really starting to get annoying. Astrid is apparently the only displaced person in either universe who actually tries to stay on the task of trying to get back home.

Chief Hiccup of Berk introduces himself to a newcomer, and they immediately laugh in his face. The next newcomer he introduces himself to asks him "are you sure?" and his own resurrected father doesn't recognize him.

King Hiccup of the Wilderwest isn't faring any better. He introduces himself to the newcomers and they're all in various states of "you're Hiccup." (said in the most sarcastic, skeptical tone possible) "What are you, eight? Where're your parents?" (said in the most dismissive tone possible) and "What's the Wilderwest?" (said in the most has-somehow-missed-the-last-three-ish-years tone possible)

i love this thank you

so after all the antics that the Rest Stoppers go through, the Bookverse manages to attach a message to the Spaceripper (working on some classifications for it) and explain to the movieverse what is going on.

After that, well… two mysterious hooded figures with strange glowing appendages and oddly familiar voices appear on both Movie!Berk and Tommorow respectively, selling some very peculiar maps.

They’re not very useful without an Air-Stick to open the Which Ways, but they do show where the Spacerippers will be moving next… maybe they’ll even be able to follow them through if they time it right.

The maps show the Which Ways mysteriously converging on Dragon Island on one end, and Death’s Head Headland on the other. After all,“In my beginning is my end”.

But who are those mysterious figures? Bounty hunters? Pirates who stole the maps? Or perhaps… they are the creators of the maps?

i am extremely invested thank you for this

Rest Stop: Good lord get this boy some comfort.

Stop Resting: Take his comfort. NOW!

Stopping Rest: Wow, he’s in a really bad position right now. Let’s make it worse.

Resting Stop: lol who does this guy think he is????

Rest stoppers: Hi! Fate here! I wonder what will happen if i put these worlds in a jar and shake them all together?

oh and in rest stoppers How To Speak Dragonese, A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons, and The Book of Dragons get world-swapped as well.

Another detail is that Fishlegs No-Name, while he was awake during his abduction, noticed that his allergies weren’t flaring up… wonder why.

Now i am wondering why too...

Wait, so do these Which Ways do time travel as well?

btw i know i was just talking about Rest Stoppers but i’m also gonna take a quick detour to mention Stopping Rest. basically i had the idea but i kept forgetting it. essentially Alvin betrays Drago during the final barrage on the Bewilderbeast and slits his throat before offering the dragons protection from his wrath if they join him now. because Dragonese is a long-forgotten and barely remembered language here, even Alvin’s broken dragonese makes him sound like a poet (which he hates).

LOL i love it thank you