hehe, comfy

Sweltering.

Ha yeah, I've forgot to ask about this one :
How do we know that this monstrous nightmare is a female (it 's the one of the movie right?) ?

hehe well stands to reason some of the dragons there would be female as well

Yup, it's the one in the movie, since she already has a "history" with Hiccup. Though I've debated doing other work with them.

In the books, Snotlout's dragon was also a Monstrous Nightmare.
His Monstrous Nightmare's name was "Fireworm", and she was a female.

So mostly, I figured, "Why not!?". It was fun to use different pronouns in my fiction, if nothing else.

So given that in the books, Hiccup has a small dragon (more a Toothless Daydream (i.e. Common and Garden/Terrible Terror)) named Toothless that's accepted as a male, I just decided to follow that trend.

By this logic, you could argue that Fishlegs' dragon is female and named Horrorcow, even though he also has a different species than he did in the books. (Though I think I personally would probably write the Gronckle as male...)

Astrid has a parallel character in the books, but their dragons are pretty much nothing alike, so I don't generally use the same "method". In the books, Camicazi has a female Mood Dragon called Stormfly. I jokingly call Astrid's Nadder (assumed female) "Nadine", most of the time. XD

It makes sences. I had some difficulties to see who is who cause names are totally differents in the french vesion. XP
The deadly nadler become the viper dragon (dragon vipère) , Monstrous nightmare , terrible terror and night fury have there name translated, the zippleback is the bragetor , The gronckle is the gronk, Toothless is called Croquemou (soft bite).
Now for humans:
Snotlout is called Rustik, Fishleg is called Varek (?), Hiccup is called Harold and Astrid ...still Astrid (phew!)

Hahaha, it's really strange to me that the French names are changed so much. Like, I'm pretty familiar with the Spanish version, and all the names are extremely literal translations, since all the names, really, are puns. In Spanish, Hipo= literally, means Hiccup, Patapez= Fishleg(s), Chimeulo= Toothless (affectionately, "gummy"). I mean, even the pun, Gobber, is preserved (Bocon, based on "boco", which like the English "gob", means mouth).

(The translation of the movie is a bit different from the book's, too... The Spanish book preserves the British slang- "Berk" is a word for idiot. In the Spanish translation, it's called (Isla de) Mema, which means about the same thing.)

Why the hell is Hiccup... Harold? What the hell? That makes no sense. XP What would be his literal name?

Is "bragetor" some kind of quirky name with another connotation, like the "Zippleback" is in English? "Zippleback" kind of evokes "zipper", such as the pattern of its spines, especially when the two necks are "knitted" together (like in its "training video").

Hiccup in litteral french would have been "hoquet" (like ok), What might have sounded really weird, like toothless that would have been "édenté".
Gobber is called Geulfort (yell loud).
Yeah, bragetor has the same meaning than zippleback.
And berk still berk, except that it is pronounced "beurk", which in french is an expression of disgust like "yuck!"

Hahaha, that's awesome.

These funny names are so much fun in translation... XD

Lookin good there :)

:D Thankies. It still needs some work, of course, but it's on its way. XD

Can't wait to see it :)

heh, excellent quality as always Crownflame
<3 your work and i wish i was in there

I dunno, it'd be pretty swelteringly hot. XD


Thanks. :D

ehhh...whats a little heat against another dragon's scales? xP
heh, no problem

Lovely lighting!

Thanks! It was soooo much fun. :D

nice lighting effects in this. i wonder what stomach flesh would look like with a powerful light shining threw it.

Thank you! :)

Um, probably similar to this, as the crop's made of the same stuff... Unless you're talking about real life. I have no idea. XD

yeah, i'm talking about real life.^^ i'm such a curious person i'll try anything at least once. looks like i'm going to have to get eaten by something now.^^;

Yeah.... :)

Toothless is a small enough dragon that perhaps you'd be able to see the sun shine through him, dark red... if he had white scales instead of black...

interesting. this just gave me the thought of comparing seeing light through my eyelid when it's shut. it's thin and fleshy and looks read but kinda with veins. but if the light is too bright it just looks like a red flair going off.

Yeah, I think it would be sort of similar to that. Have you ever held a really bright flashlight up to your hand? Sometimes you can see sort of through that, too.

oh yeah. i have done that. thanks for reminding me,^^