This is based off of a silly fanfic AU of the octonauts, here's the link to it: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3874042
I will warn you. READ THE TAGS. They are there for a reason and are definitely aren't just there to make it seem spookier or angstier. It is there and will hit you like a fret train.
I searched up Octonauts on AO3 as a joke- I'VE BEEN MISSING OUT ON MY FAVOURITE COMFORT SHOWS FICS!!!! AHHHHHHH THIS FANART IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SO IS THE WRITING!
Me when I first started reading AO3: How do I filter stuff? Why are the letters so small? Oh well, at least it's better than Wattpad
Me now: *Filtering stuff like how I filter out onions in my food* *Made an entirely new skin JUST SO THE LETTERS ARE BIGGER BY LIKE- 100 OR 140* Definitely better than Wattpad.
So we know there’s the whole “You’re not a Viking. You’re not my son.” moment between Stoick and Hiccup, and we know this is fixed by the later “I’m proud to call you my son.” moment… but what if it wasn’t?
I mean like, everything in the first movie goes pretty much the same, but Stoick never tells Hiccup that he’s proud to call him his son before the battle
Imagine how that’ll leave Hiccup feeling. Because I mean, “you’re not my son” has got to have been basically a disownment, right? And the disownment was undone with Stoick calling him son again, but in a world where he doesn’t, does Hiccup still assume he’s disowned? Does he assume that Berk accepts him now that he’s, well, killed a dragon, and his dad is proud of the accomplishment but still not proud of him, not willing to fully let him be his son again? Does he walk on eggshells in his own house because he doesn’t actually feel like it’s his house anymore, and he’s just waiting to make a mistake and be tossed out?
Stoick, of course, doesn’t know Hiccup feels like he’s walking on eggshells and one wrong move will have him exiled. He loves his son and he felt awful about the disownment the moment it happened and he thought that since then he’s made it clear that the disownment was undone, but, well, we know he’s not the greatest at clear communication…
I'm going to be thinking about this and making fanfics in my head before I sleep again! Thanks 🙃
i really love the idea of ryker being a "neutral" antagonist, just a guy working in the family business, has a wife and kids at home, accepted that he wasn't the best choice to become the chief/leader of the hunters so let his younger brother handle that, a "just doing my job" kind of man, a "i don't get paid enough for this" type guy.
the dragon riders start ruining operations and he's at home setting the table for dinner while complaining to his wife about work. he sees the riders in person and he gets a headache from how young they all are, bunch of toddlers on dragons. insufferable.
dagur joins the crew and ryker wants to file a workplace harassment complaint. he just wants to catch some dragons, earn some money, but now he has to deal with dragon riders and some maniac who's obsessed with one of them. why is he involved in this again??? they manage to capture some of the riders, but now he has a bunch of teens in the cells, and no idea what to do with them. they escape, so whatever, not his problem anymore. wait, they have the artifact? dammit.
i especially love if he's the only "normal" one in the room, like yeah of course he's pissed about the riders attacking his business, and he'll try to stop them, but he's nowhere on the level of alvin, dagur or krogan. he has hiccup captured and hiccup is very cagey around him, extremely wary, double snarky but hunched shoulders like he's expecting a punch. ryker is a bit confused about that, but hey, hiccup is a prisoner so of course he's gonna be wary, but then dagur tells him stories of what he and alvin used to do and ok yeah, he'd be cagey too if he was hiccup, because what the fuck.
i can just imagine the conversations between these two so well,
ryker: about the prisoner, any ideas?
dagur: we can toss him overboard near an island and watch him struggle in the cold water as he tries to swim to shore before dragging him back up like we're hunting him for sport
ryker:
ryker: i meant whether we would put him in the cells or the chambers, what in gods name is wrong with you
it's just we already have so many insane violent villains i just want someone to be Normal and have a stunned reaction to the shit the other bad guys are getting up to, and i feel family man ryker would fit that job perfectly.
I feel bad for Elder Faerie × White Lily shippers. Your ship was overtaken by ElderSalt, but I just can't help but ignore the romantic implications that come with Elder Faerie × White Lily for some odd reason
Like- it's much more happy if White Lily was seen as his daughter figure but then again CANON- This is why we have canon divergence :'>
The urge to bother my mutuals
reblog if it’s okay for your mutuals to bother you <3
Thy moots can bother thine anytime thou wants <3
You see him at his worst. You know what happened to the others of his kind and how it changed them. You know that perhaps you should be cautious, especially when you have seen it yourself how he cut through the bodies, remnants of which now cover him. Yet you take a step towards him. Perhaps you just know it's him and not some monster wearing his face and voice. He's the one to disagree. The one to condemn himself. The one to assign the death sentence to himself. It's painful. To see him so hopeless. To see him so defeated. To see him still caring for the world around him and yet still thinking himself its damnation. To be chosen his executioner is both an honor for his infinite trust and yet a cruel curse for how insane it is, to cut the life of the one dearest to your heart, be that a freedom for him or not. You both know you will do anything you have to, for you also know that had the opposite happen - he would too. And yet the situation calls for something else and it's nothing good to be grateful for something like this but this little whisper in the back of your mind can't help but think about short moments with him this situation had won you.
You see, the difference between my obsession with Bagginsheild and ElderSalt is that whenever I read Bagginsheild stuff I see fix-its and fluff just bursting through my screen while ElderSalt is just pure mourning, angst, and depression on AO3
