My Silly Little Httyd Headcanons!! (mostly The Rtte Gang)

my silly little httyd headcanons!! (mostly the rtte gang)

hiccup always has scrap metal on him to fiddle with.

the hierarchy of the dragon riders' cooking skills: 1) heather (obviously, it's practically canon), 2) snotlout (his mum taught him), 3) fishlegs (idk he seems like he'd stress bake), 4) hiccup (he was left alone often as a child. he had to fend for himself. we've seen him cook multiple times. it fits, for me), 5) tuff (he's not the best, but it's better than ruff's), 6) ruff (she refused to learn how to cook. she had to be practically held down in order to learn. she refuses to practice the skill), 7) astrid (you don't wanna eat it. seriously. just, don't.)

snotlout once caught fishlegs reading a book to his plants. he asked why, and fishlegs was like "bc it makes them grow faster". snotlout's reply was a snort. "no, you idiot. they grow faster if you sing to them!!" so snotlout taught fishlegs the best songs to sing to flowers, courtesy of mama snot.

spitelout gets NO BITCHES. the only reason mama snot is married to him is bc of arranged marriages.

astrid sleeps with a knife under her pillow. and an axe. oh, and a random piece of sharp scrap metal that hiccup gave to her as a birthday present. she hoards it like it's her greatest treasure.

on the edge, they 100% played a weird viking version of smash or pass with their enemies, both past and present. the arguments got very, very heated.

there is a swear jar. the main people who put money into it are hiccup, astrid, ruff (though she tries - and succeeds - to not get caught), and, on a rare occasion, fishlegs. mama snot didn't raise snotlout like that. tuff just prefers to say outlandish, completely random things in the place of swear words.

if they played genshin impact, their mains would be as follows: hiccup is a layla main. astrid is a kuki main. tuff is a hu tao main. ruff is a lisa main. fishlegs is a freminet main. snotlout is a ganyu main.

as an elaborate prank, no one in the gang tells fishlegs everything he did as thor bonecrusher. they leave out key details. they make up stories. the whole of berk is in on it. they watch on, amused, from the sidelines. a villain will mention something he did as thor and he'll be like, "um??? wdym???"

there was an argument over which grimborn brother would make a better partner. some (astrid, fishlegs) refused to participate. team viggo consisted of hiccup ("he's smart, he's attractive, and he'd keep me on my toes"), ruff ("what can i say? i like 'em pretty"), and heather ("idk he seems a little traumatised.. can relate"). team ryker consisted of snotlout ("he's a warrior!! also he wouldn't manipulate me like my dad"), and tuff ("i just want to spite ruff. also, he'd be pretty fun to annoy"). borders were drawn. essays were written, as were poems. speeches were made. dragon hunters were very confused when one of the grimborn's would do something, only for one of the dragon riders on their team to loudly exclaim, "SEE?!", and gesture exasperatedly at the non-believers.

spitelout once gave snotlout a "gift", which was massively hated by both him and the riders. they burned it, laughing all the while, as the twins proclaimed it as a sacrifice to loki.

tuff bites. hard.

when stressed, the riders will talk to chicken. but like, by force. you're sad? BAM. a chicken, right there. she will follow you. everywhere. and unless you want to reveal to your (very protective) friends that you are sad, you confess to the chicken. she doesn't tell anyone. she's essentially their therapist.

there is a shrine to chicken, which is annually moved. the first time the dragon hunters took over the edge, they jumped at the sight of it. rumours began that the riders were part of a cult. once, gobber screamed at the sight of the shrine in the spare room of the forge. when asked why, all the riders have a different response. it ranges from ominous (ruff, tuff, snotlout) to awkward (fishlegs) to downright gaslighting them into thinking it isn't real (astrid, hiccup). they only stop after gothi almost has a heart attack when she comes across it one day and stoick calls off their shenanigans. please hiccup. she's so old.

the dragon riders all share their things. the twins, however, often take things they shouldn't. they're the equivalent of the communist bugs bunny meme. they're not your socks, fishy, they're our socks!

they have days where they swap dragons. i know this happens in the show from time to time, but i mean like, an actual arranged date where they pull straws and see which dragon they get. astrid and windshear are known to be a dynamic duo, as are heather and stormfly. tuff works well with toothless. there has not yet been a dragon that hiccup has struggled to bond with. i doubt there will ever be one.

they have a chart of people, ranked by levels of seductiveness. ruff and tuff made it for laughs. they don't actually use it. it's funny when the dragon hunters discover it, though, and think "oh my gods, this is how they're gonna get info out of us!!" viggo knows it's a joke. he guessed ages ago. he thinks it's funny, though, so he tells no one.