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sco07ut · 2 years

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i’ve got rtte on the mind so rvb race to the edge au but i mostly ignore canon and also pick and choose lore from the movies and book series at will (also largely ignored). as always i didn’t do any worldbuilding and all the “””plot”” is about grimmons so keep that in mind when nothing makes sense

ok just learnt how to make a cut so adding that now x sorry

the reds n blues are the dragon riders but don’t ask me how they all ended up as the dragon riders bc i only have ideas for grif n simmons (who knows maybe i’ll have thought of something while writing thi s up)

hiccup as church, idk they’re both main characters with sucky ‘dads’(creators?)

toothless as a dramillion called switcheroo. ik it’s like the whole point of the series but church n switcheroo don’t have the whole prosthetic leg/prosthetic tail going on i just didn’t think it fit very well? i didn’t want his dragon to be a nightfury bc imo it doesn’t really fit his vibes. switch is a dramillion bc of their multi-shot fire type, i was kinda hoping it’d be reminiscent of the different ai

astrid as texas, love interest moment😟 but ya both are badass blondes who everyone is scared of and they only have romantic feelings for their pathetic little boyfriends

stormfly as a deathgripper called grimsting. those things are fucking terrifying !! they have the black colour scheme n their weird little front legs remind me of mantis legs and as we all know, mantis ladies rip off their mans head & i think tex would do that to church if given the opportunity

ok quick note for tuffnut and ruffnut befor i get into it. we’re disregarding all the lore outside of rtte idk who ruffnut marries or whatever in the movies and idc at this point . so, donut and caboose are like, interchangeably ruff n tuff (but like donut is Mostly ruff n caboose is Mostly tuff, it’s just not set in stone) but they’re not related ! they’re just friends

tuffnut as caboose (most of the time), they’re really stupid that’s pretty much it. idk just in rtte tuffnut really gives me caboose vibes and and his pet chicken, chicken can be freckles :))

belch as a gronckle called bait, gronckles are basically like cute little puppies and also i think the size difference of caboose’s massive frame on a tiny gronckle is funny. dw about the name

ruffnut as donut (most of the time), again it’s mostly just vibes. when ow as rewatching rtte i could just see him as ruffnut aslo! the weird little fling between throck (who is wash in this au) and ruff reminded me of their season 16/17 relationship i can’t remember which one but uh the one where they fix time together and lowkey flirt

barf as a hobblegrunt called awe, it’s a dragon moodring, enough said

snotlout as tucker, i don’t even need to explain this one c’mon. womaniser meet womaniser, yes ik tucker has development or whatever but a key part of his character is that he can’t get any woman to sleep with him and a key part of snotlout’s character is that he can’t get any woman to sleep with him. they’re also both over-confident and kind of annoying (sorry this feels a bit mean idk why i’m tearing these guys a new one i actually really like snotlout my stupid little glup shitto)

hookfang as a razorwhip called dreadbeast, i did initially consider giving him that dragon that wears metal and tools as armour but changed my mind bc i think razorwhips are a bit cooler and tucker with a razorwhip-spike sword is a cool concept yk

oohoo now we’re gettin to the good stuff

fishlegs as simmons, come on!! it’s a perfect match!! nerdy little men who are the smartest idiot in a group of idiots, they both feel under appreciated in their leadership roles and get bullied by snotlout and tucker respectively for not being able to pick up women. i think the friendship between fishlegs and hiccup could be reflected nicely onto simmons and church but that’s probably just bc i’m dying for content of them together. i’m plucking that one bit of book lore that says fishlegs is of berserker descent (but was raised on berk by adoptive hooligan parents) bc i think the connection to the skrill is cool, it explains his very red hair and also taps into knife!simmons energy. it also becomes a relevant plot point in the au!

ok i’m so mad a massive block of text was just deleted abt simmons and his dragon and i cba rewriting so this is the abridged version. meatlug as a skrill called stormwrought, simmons stumbles across a singetail, singetail tries to eat him, random skrill on the hunt for a meal spots the singetail and tries to eat it- effectively saving simmons from the singetail. simmons loses an eye, arm and leg but survives and becomes a hermit studying dragons all day. by chance, he comes across the same skrill that saved him and studies it for a while until the skrill faces off against a much bigger singetail that nearly kills it, simmons is like oh shit and helps the skrill kill the singetail for good, gaining the skrill’s respect and it allows simmons to become its rider. (revelant info: simmons being a berserker knows their methods on how to reel skrills in by using metal and since half his body is partially metal the skrill takes a liking to him)

heather as grif, i initially jusg made grif heather bc of the fishlegs/heather relationship thing but then i was like wait this kinda works bc kai can be dagur since she’s literally batshit insane. oh and also heather is canonically the best chef out of the dragon riders and i feel like that’s reflective of grif’s entire personality x

windshear as a rumblehorn called slobgobbler, i absolutely love this pair, rumblehorns are the best trackers out of all the dragon species, and yes that’s probably so that they can follow objects or people or whatever but the prospect of grif making his dragon sniff out delicious food for them is something that tickles me. plus it’s very fitting of grif’s character since the madman managed to sniff out genkin’s pizza

dagur as kai, so this is another fun one, i think kai being a villain is a very under-utilised concept bc who doesn’t love sexy female villains?? so in this au, grif n kai’s mother takes the place of heather and dagur’s father (oswald the agreeable), however, instead of travelling alone prior to the shipwreck on vanaheim, she’s with kai, and an accidental fire is what causes the boat to capsize. kai manages to escape however, and returns back to their tribe (in this au they aren’t berserkers bc i wanted simmons to be a berserker, they’re just some unnamed tribe idk . ) grif doesn’t handle his grief well and leaves the tribe, blaming kai for their mother’s supposed death. kai also doesn’t handle her grief well but she channels it through her new position as the tribe’s chief. after that her story basically follows dagur’s in the sense that she eventually has her redemption

i’ve decided that shattermaster can stay as shattermaster and sleuther is still sleuther except i’ve changed his name to ravenous. i didnt see the point in changing that, instead of fishlegs/simmons training her to ride a gronckle caboose can do it instead. like in rtte canon, she has shattermaster first while learning to ride dragons and then bonds with ravenous after shattermaster dies

ok cool bit over now we’re just going back to listing

throck as washington, as afore mentioned, donut and wash’s relationship in season 17(?) reminded me of throck’s wee crush on ruffnut, and also throck’s whole ass personality just reminds me of wash minus the whole ‘graarr i’m evil’ moment w/ the meta

mala as carolina, i debated over this one a bit bc i think kimball would fit mala’s personality a little bit better but having mara!lina means there can be a kai x carolina wedding <3 plus it allows us to have the carwash duo as super cool ninjas

atali as kimball, so after i concluded that kimball wouldn’t be mala i was like who’s the next coolest woman, ah yes, the one who flies. kimball and the other (female) lieutenants (basically just simmons’ squad) are the wingmaidens w/ jensen being minden

ok i only just thought of this one but jensen got me thinking abt the other lieutenants and uhh palomo is gustav. that’s all + grey is gothi

alright villain time ! rubs my hands together like an evil little fly

johann as felix, now ik felix wouldn’t be betraying kimball in this situation, but i really liked the ‘pretending to help but was secretly a traitor the whole time’ parallel going on between them, plus they’re both good with throwing knives !! and were both foiled by their desire to gloat and hear themselves talk

viggo as locus, redemption arc redemption arc redemp . ok but in all seriousness both viggo and locus treat their respective wars as just a job instead of getting emotionally invested in it like johann and felix. viggo has his weird little obsession with hiccup, locus has his weird little obsession with wash . ultimately they both realise that their actions were wrong and try to make things better

krogan as sharkface, idk tbh. they’re kinda just there?? as the muscle of the team??

um anyway! i think that’s it for the characters ik i haven’t covered anyone but this post is getting too long anyway and i’m too tired to think of any more. i’ll just add in the extra ones if they come to me x

next post is more rtte!grimmons <3

#rvb!rtte au

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deathsmallcaps · 5 years

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A talk about Haru

I know a bit about cattle (I live next door to a farm), and the lovely Kayla and Ellen’s @staytogetherpodcast often talks about how the characters resemble their animals in personality and such. So I just thought of some stuff that might interest them and other Fruits Basket fans. This is a bit spoilery (and maybe a little biased) so watch out.

The animal spirit is called an ox. An ox is a male who had finished growing and puberty before being neutered. (A steer is different - it’s done slightly before or during puberty, and they are more even tempered for males. Some people do use the terms interchangeably). That means yes, they do get a little more agreeable, and easier to manage, but they also were pumped full of testosterone once upon a time. So they are actually a bit more stronger (which is why they are used for plowing, etc.), harder to handle, and darker in color.

Darker because testosterone makes their fur turn dark brown/black in most if not all types of cows. Cows can be black but males are darker in breeds that aren’t always completely black. Haru turns into a Holstein (the basic black and white type), so it isn’t as apparent.

The darker the bull is, the more virile and attractive. Which may explain Dark Haru’s more open sexuality.

So I think it’s interesting that his more basic personality, Light Haru, acts more like his animal spirit than Dark Haru does. Light’s more gentle,etc. Was Dark originally developed as his more human side, and then maybe Takaya refitted it into the story in a different way? Idk.

Cattle can be extremely dangerous. The only animal more involved in human death (in America. Mosquitoes are even bigger problems in places with malaria) is the deer. True, we as a country interact with deer and cows more than, say, an anteater, but it doesn’t change the fact that cows are dangerous animals.

The mothers are fiercely protective. I think they beat bears in that sense (though bears can kill cows irl). Depending on the type of farm you live on (factory vs homestead etc) a cow may attack you if you even touch her baby. Assuming she gets to keep the calf, of course. (Dairy farms often take the baby away as soon as it is born so they can milk the mother and make sure there is no bond. This leads to socialization issues for the calves).

Bulls are more easily provoked, due to their testosterone running their brains. But in my inexpert opinion, you’d have better luck with some bulls than a lot of mom cows.

Cattle have hard heads that weigh at the very least fifty pounds. They also have horns. You can get impales and whacked out of the way at the same time. The average small cow weighs more than 500 pounds. They can easily crush your bones. The round bellies are more from their four stomachs than obesity, though they do have a good layer of fat. Possibly worst of all, they can kick their back legs in almost any direction. Horses pretty much just go straight back, but a cow can kick you sideways. And while they only have one row of teeth in the front, their back munchers could bite your fingers off.

So Haru should probably be broader, but his height makes sense. I do think he’s taller and less skinny than the other characters. I realize it was Takaya’s Art style, and all of the male characters eventually become long bois and do fill out near the end.

He is also really good at fighting so there’s that.

Cattle give off a lot of heat - even when they aren’t all fuzzy and long haired like those highland cattle, they are often (not all breeds) comfortable in 40F (five-ish Celsius) and often stand outside in the snow. That doesn’t mean you should leave them in the elements, of course, but they’re tough animals.

Which kind of makes me laugh because Haru is always wearing a jacket and he should be over-heating.

Cattle drink a shit ton of water. One gulp is probably about 2-3 liters. Haru should be chugging all day.

Cattle are like the opposite of horses, with wide barrel bellies, narrow-ish shoulders and hips and butt that slants like a roof in New England. They are hard to ride bareback. They must’ve put a lot of effort in keeping Yuki on top of Haru lol.

Cattle are also very curious, intelligent, mischievous and playful. Even the mamas, when they are heavily pregnant, will still kick around some. Anything they can lift with their horns/head? It goes flying. The steer next door likes to drink half his water (his tub holds about a hundred gallons so it’s huge) and then flip it over to dump out the rest, just so he can knock it around his field. Then he complains very loudly about dying of thirst. he understands consequences, just doesn’t care about them.

His mother was very tricky. But that’s another story.

The steer (his name is Moo, used to be little moo when he was a calf) has horns, and likes to go around to plant life (mostly weeds, because that’s what his owners allow him to play with) and just rip that shit up. He swings his big head around when he gets excited, and when he’s very excited/surprised he bucks around in a circle, just like his mother did. he likes to sneak up to windows when its dark outside and press his nose against it, so when you look out the previously unoccupied space to see a large face smearing itself against the window (cow noses are often wet because they lick themselves and eat their own boogers) at 11:00 at night. just to see you scream and act all surprised about it.

(some friendly cows like to pretend to be scared)

When a cow encounters something new that isnt easily identified a s a threat, they circle it and snuff it and its very cute.

So Haru trying to get a rise out of people just for kicks is very true to cow behavior and I love it.

Cattle are also extremely loving and bond easily. When Moo was born, the only other cow he’d ever seen was his mother, and he was surrounded by miniature goats. So for the first year and a half of his life (he’s 2.5 now) he genuinely thought he was a goat and tried to play with them, even acting like he didn’t enjoy the rain to fit in. Unfortunately for Moo, goats are extremely family based and exclusive of other beings who aren’t related to them/bring them food, so he wasn’t accepted by the goats. (Female Goats are basically a clique - if you try to introduce a doe they don’t know, that doe is shunned most of the time [and often the loners do not band together] but they try to stay with the herd.)

This may be why Haru is so protective of others, like Yuki and Rin, etc.

Unless you anger a cow, they will probably not hurt you on purpose. Cruelty is really only a human/maybe cat thing and sometimes, your foot was just in the way and they didn’t see it. A lot of them don understand how truly large they are.

Cattle have rough tongues like cats and use them to groom themselves and each other. Moo loves almost everyone he meets, and gives them hugs with his neck (if you stand at his shoulder he’ll curl his neck around you, which is great because then you an hug him back) and stinky, slobbery tongue baths.

When a cow is grooming you, their already large, round eyes get really wide and they look very sweet and blissed out.

I bet Haru likes to groom people.

Anyways, thanks for reading! I think a good amount of this kind of explains Haru, Also, if for some reason you read this without ever hearing of the Stay Together Podcast, you should check it out! It’s funny and well-thought-out and you can really tell that the hosts are re-enjoying the story.

If you have any questions about cows, goats, chickens or horses (though I am the least knowledgable about those) let me know!

#fruits basket #furuba #hatsuharu #cows #fun facts

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ononaono-blog1 · 5 years

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Tekstualni rezultati ankete

U ovom postu se nalaze rezultati moje ankete. Kao što se može iz njih zaključiti, korisnici su primarno vođeni osobnim znanjem (dobivenog iz srednje škole ili nekog drugog izvora), osobnim iskustvom (posebice naglašeno za transrodne osobe) ili osobnog mišljenja (to vrijedi i za korisnike koji su stavili da su rod i spol jednaki).

Od 160 ispitanika, njih 120 je dalo tekstualne odgovore na neobavezno pitanje, što nije loši broj. Neki ispitanici su također napisali i veće paragrafe, što je pohvalno, a jedan ispitanik je čak stavio link u kojem se spol i rod i njihove razlike objašnjavaju.

U svakom slučaju, nastavak je dolje!

Because sex is assigned at birth, while gender is a social construct.

Sex is biological, gender is a social construct!

Sex are what genitals you have, while gender is how you Express yourself

I'm thinking of gender as identity and sex as medical term.

Sex is biological, gender is cultural.

Gender isn't defined by genitals

Gender can differ from sex. Gender is social where sex is physical

I'm not sure why, always thought the two words in this context where interchangeable.

I don't

Gender is your brain, sex is things like genitals and chromosomes

Sex refers to biological sex while gender is a social construct in which certain traits are attributed to a certain gender.

However you define sex, the way people experience their gender will differ in some cases

Sex is biological, while gender is determined by how you feel about yourself.

sex consists of biological traits, while gender is a broader spectrum

Sex is whether your a male or female. Gender is who you like to fuck

sex = assigned at birth gender = what u id as

There are only 2 biological sexes therefore 2 genders

Experience tells me that they are different!

Gender is between the ears and sex is between the legs.

They can be expressed differently

It's always been, it's only recently that snowflakes try to bend it.

Sex is biologically based and gender is a social construct.

Took a class on it in high school

Because my lived experience as a trans woman shows me how different they are.

They don't differ independently from each other, since most peoples gender actually do corresponds with their sex. So that would be an absurd statement. If they don't correspond there's sadly just something wrong: gender dysphoria, which is a mental disorder

Sex it's something assigned at birth based on some biological traits, while gender it's fluid and cannot be assigned by others since it entirely depends upon the self determination of some"ne, upon the say someone "feels"

"Biology and science“

Because I (and, I believe,the majority of other people) will have the same answer if asked what their sex was AND what their gender was.

"gender is a social construct boiiiii. sex is biological"

Experience

Sex is genitals you currently have (changed thru surgery), gender can be literally anything (changed if you feel like changing it)

I believe you can identify as whichever gender you please. But for me, gender relates to the sex you were born as.

People can change their gender

Sex: biological, gender: neurological

on a physical / genetic spectrum {xy;xyy;xx;...} and the other is a socially construct spectrum {cis/het/bi/a/.....}

I am transgender and know other transgender people. I believe my and their experiences to be valid, which requires me to believe that sex can be different from gender.

Sec is biological - gender is mental

Gender is a social structure imposed by society.

Sex is biological. Gender is mental

Because sex is what parts you are born with, gender is what you feel like you are

Because it’s a scientific fact.

bio sex and gender are different because people can have valid gender identities different from their biological sex.

Both are biologically based

Sex refers to your sex organs so female or male while gender is more of a personal identity.

Biology

Because it’s a different word

I'm transgender

Sex is biological but gender is social.

you're male or female, otherwise is a mental thing

Gender is more of a mental state

Sex is physical, gender is emotional

Sex is biology, gender is a social construct and culturally guided rules placed upon people based on their seks

They have different definitions

Biology

Gender is what you feel like and act like. Sex is biology.

I've heard many unfamiliar things about gender so I'm just gonna assume it's not the same as sex even though I can't even imagine any of the descriptions people give, regardless of the excessive imagery they put into it

I like girls, but I also am a girl.

Sex is physical whole gender is a mental choice.

Idk the difference

Because sex to me is more sexually orientation and gender

Sex is specifically sex organs; it's sometimes important as sexual orientation usually refers to sexual organs rather than anything else easily definable. Gender can be fluid and how a person identifies can and will change throughout their life. However, sexual encounters are the one and only case where sex is important, and it is unreasonable to force people to do things a certain way because they have certain genitalia. (Medically, it can be important to know what a person's hormone balance is, and what hormone balance the person was born with, but generally "biological sex" is useless and a term used to erase transgender people.)

Yes is the better of the two options. I think there is a spectrum mostl likely that probably overlaps but on average sex is the same as gender.

Gender is a set of socially constructed roles based around the biological reality of sex. Transgender people are mentally ill in that their condition brings them stress and pain and is only treatable through social acceptance and physical injections and mutilations to align their appearance with their preferred gender. You can choose your gender in that, as gender is by definition a performance, you can perform as the opposite gender (even if you do not internally identify with that gender).

They’re both different constructs with different understandings.

Sex is physical, gender is mental

Sex is biological and gender isn’t.

I don't literally think they're the same, but the distinction is meaningless and people usually only care about seks

Sex is biological; what you’re assigned at birth whereas gender is who you really are; in your heart & mind

Sex is biological,gender is social

sex is genitalia, gender is societies stereotypes/views on seks

It isn’t true

Biology

because brains are not always matched with bodies

Because I'm not a fucking moron

Sex biological, gender construct

Exceptions prove the rule

for what I've learned

Cause sex is what your biological body is but gender is what you want

They are both social constructions, gender is more cultural and sex is more physical/biological (https://medium.com/@ES_4P/biological-sex-as-a-social-construct-b2583c222737)

Cuz it is

Sex concerns biology, gender concerns identity and expression.

I've never known anything different but I'm honestly unsure in what I believe

It is the same word to me.

Sex is physical, gender is mental

I think your brain can mismatch your private parts

Sex is biological, gender is not

sex is purely biological; gender is a hypothetical idea not tied to fact

I believe that sex is based on having XX/XY chromosomes, while gender is how you identify and wish for other people to refer to you. Based on friend relationships

Cuz it ain’t

Gender is how you feel/identify personally, while sex is who you prefer

Because my sex isn't the same as my gender, so it's true for at least one person!

cuz it is

You cannot choose to be something you are biologically not.

Gender is how you personally identify, and sexuality describes what you’re sexually or romantically attracted to.

One is determined the other is always in flux

Sex is what you have down there and gender is what you identify as

I use sex to describe someone’s body and gender for their identity.

Why wouldn't I?

Because it's not, by definition

I honestly don’t know the difference in definition.

Some aspects of gender are culturally determined and have no basis in biology (e.g. boys wearing blue, girls wearing pink). Some traits obviously do (like reproductive organs), but there's more to the social categories than can be explained by features of the reproductive system or evolutionary development, especially since extreme cognitive flexibility is a hallmark of human behavior, as opposed to other animals.

They are similar and mostly interchangeable but sex is biological and gender is more mental and how you identify.

Cause there different words

I believe gender is more of a personal thing or at least it has become that, I dont have a strong opinion on people choosing their own gender positive or negative but i still dont think sex and Gender are the same.

Gender is in your head, sex is in your pants.

Gender dysphoria (sex ≠ gender) is a mental illness.

There is only one word for it in any language, except modern English.

Reality

Sex is the reproductive system, gender is the stuff going on in the brain.

Maybe. It depends on what you mean by "gender".

Sex is a biological classification, while gender is a cultural classification

i believe sex is the medical term, like what genital part you have, and gender is what you believe yourself to be personality or looks wise

Don’t know anything about it

Because transgender people have a gender that's doesn't match their sex so there has to be a difference in the way they're determined otherwise there wouldn't be cases of people whose gender and sex don't match

Not sure

Sex is biological, gender is how you feel

Gender is a personal experience and can change and be hard to define. Sex can almost always be physically defined

Sex is a biological term for specific aspects of the body, gender is a social construct.

you can feel a gender and not have the physical traits

Sex=Physical, born-with traits (genitals, hormones, etc), gender=“social construct” one feels most comfortable living

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