#the httyd fandom is so lucky i don’t have an art tablet and am in no position to even think about getting one because if i did

[nocturnasnadderaneas]

my opinion overall about this whole horrifically inbred nightlights situation is that it happened because they wanted nightlights so bad but they didn’t want night furies despite them being necessary in order to make the nightlights a species, because for some reason we have to keep toothless special.

if they want to say grimmel killed all the night furies, then fine. but if that’s gonna be the case then nightlights shouldn’t exist anymore. if there are no night furies, then as the centuries go by only the light furies should remain, with maybe a select few individuals displaying very rare, faint recessive traits that could easily be confused as species variation.

with all dragons across the world being forced into a hollow earth and turning it into nothing more than a giant glowing fight pit, this would have been the perfect opportunity to show us how the dragons species we know and love changed, adapted, or evolved, and even give those semi-canon hybrid dragons their on screen debuts!

we should’ve been shown what modern day monstrous nightmares, deadly nadders, gronckles, and hideous zipplebacks looked like. or what species of dragons have been so successful that they haven’t changed much if at all, like crocodiles. hybrid crosses like deathly galeslashes, abomibumbles, ghastly zapplejacks, voltknappers, and cyclarions getting on screen debuts would be incredibly fitting and can tell us much about their parent breeds like how common they are and if they interbreed often or not.

and on the flipside of that, they could show whether if those hybrids also had to change or evolve in some way, those same hybrids interbreeding with other species of dragons until centuries down the line we see entirely new species of dragons that have little traits and adaptations that we could point to and go, “you guys got that from this dragon species!”

just like what i think they should’ve done with the nightlights. the nightlights should’ve been the ancestors of an entirely new species of fury. i honestly don’t know why they wouldn’t do this in the first place, especially since they seem to be going all in with the lightning abilities with them. plausible or not, the idea that down the line, due to centuries of incidental intermingling with dragons like skrills, light furies, sand wraiths, shockjaws, and maybe seashockers, you very well could have a tidal class, cavern dwelling, lightning fury is infinitely more interesting than...well, literally everything that’s going on with the nightlights.

#the httyd fandom is so lucky i don’t have an art tablet and am in no position to even think about getting one because if i did #i would do nothing but constantly subject everyone to my idea of ‘flash furies’ #or should i call them ‘lightningweavers’? #nadder squawks #httyd #httyd: tnr #tnr salt #tw: incest