Astrid: WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU CAN EITHER GIVE UP NOW, OR YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT. BECAUSE WE CERTAINLY CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU, AND WE KNOW YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT US.
Hiccup:
Hiccup: I appreciate it,
Hiccup: BUT LOOK WHAT WE’RE DEALING WITH-
Fishlegs: Hiccup-
Hiccup: YOU GOTTA DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE!
Heather: Hiccup, we gotta-
Hiccup: YOU GOTTA DRAW A FUCKING LINE IN THE SAND. YOU GOTTA MAKE A STATEMENT.
Hiccup: YOU GOTTA LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND SAY 'What am I willing to put up with today?'
Hiccup: *motioning towards the twins laughing manically as they drop Snotlout into an active volcano* NOT FUCKING THIS.
I can't help but realize that the gate to Jörmungandr's prison took a long time to make.
Like... look at this thing. Look at the tiny Dragon Club in the bottom right corner. Look at them compared to the gate Hiccup and the Dragon Riders put there!
This thing took weeks if not months to construct. Between engraving the warning into the wood, (just one rune is roughly the size of a person) finding the trees necessary for the wooden parts, transporting them this deeply into the Dark realm... And then finding plus melting and forging all the metal parts of this thing, (including giant nails to keep it together and whatnot) transporting all that metal deep within, actually constructing the gate then putting the entire thing together... And then there is the locking mechanism designed specifically for Night Furies to open. It had to be both human and dragon-proof... and they had to do all of this with the red dragonsite's gasses poisoning them with each trip there and back, tearing down their serotonin levels, causing depression and anger on top of the stress of knowing there's a dragon like Jörmungandr out there.
This thing had to have been made before he was caught and imprisoned. There would've been no time to build it after his defeat.
That has to mean that, first trouble had to be brewing enough for Hiccup to find out something was extremely wrong. Then he had to find out what was wrong. Then he had to come up with a plan and get his Dragon Riders involved. (No way he built this entire thing by himself, he would need heavy machinery/dragons and manpower as well as time.) And then they had to actually make that gate.
It probably took such a long time. Weeks if not months, like I said earlier.
Weeks if not months of this thing out there, doing whatever it did to make Hiccup, resident dragon protector, lock it away for the safety of all of dragon(and presumably human)kind for as long as he could be contained. This construction had to last.
The Dragon Riders probably worked tirelessly, they probably had to fend this thing off so many times to protect other dragons but also to protect themselves and each other, and it all led up to that one final battle that finally locked it away.
it's funny to me how Hiccup snapped at his dad (book 1), his mom (book 10), toothless (different books) and even the gods in book 4 but he never snapped at Snotlout (at least in my memory), the guy he had every reason to snap. He just answers sarcastically or ignores. And even on book 11 he doesnt scream at him. He is so patient. how is that possible the boy is teenager