THE DEVIANTART CHAPTER! AHHHHHH!
They had convened in the library earlier that day when they heard a strange term from the record-keeper. "DeviantART. It's pictures they drew about you. Some are really beautiful…" then he blushed, because Vikings only occasionally think beautiful and do not say it often. They immediately tore into the bags.
There were all kinds of drawings, all in different styles and colors: some sketches, some watercolors, some scary-look-alike, black and white, and some with big-eyed little people. Some fascinated Hiccup as he wondered how they were achieved…. what looked like frozen images of time, no drawing lines to be seen. How?
Hiccup found himself making very unmanly noises and showing Toothless all the pictures of them. They were SO CUTE! Toothless liked them too, and kept nosing at them and chuckling deep in his chest. "Aw! You're holding a flower!" he cooed at one point. 'Oh Odin, did I do it again?" he chided himself.
Astrid was hugely pleased when she saw a wonderful sketch of her Nadder Stormfly. The twins squealed in their scary twin-unison at a gorgeous pencil drawing of them together, and all the other twin pictures after that. Snoutlout laughed out loud at one and handed it to Hiccup. It showed Stoick slipping food to Toothless while Hiccup complained he was going to get fat. "Would you believe he really does this?" Hiccup asked. "I've caught him at it. Yet he still calls Toothless my overgrown lizard. Go figure."
Of course, no pleasure could be properly enjoyed without some crap slipping in. "Am I a girl or a guy in this?" Hiccup asked about one, and no one could give him a definite answer. One they really liked though didn't quite understand was a drawing of them gathered together in dark robes like they had never seen in Berk. Hiccup was reminded of tales his father had brought back from an expedition to the south of a wizard named Merlin.
For some reason some kid with spiky hair in an orange outfit kept popping up, and a yellow dragon. No one recognized him. In fact by the end it was really frustrating poor Fishlegs. "This kid! He is not in this!"
Of course, sometimes the images were massively off, especially where Hiccup and Toothless were concerned. "Geez," Astrid commented. "You're bony, but you're nowhere near THAT bony." Hiccup critiqued a lot of pictures of Toothless. "His face looks nothing like this!"
Toothcup penetrated even DA. Hiccup flung away more than one paper in disgust. Seeing it was even worse than reading it. He saw one with Toothless's little Night Fury baby. He hoped that person just had Toothless fathering the dragon. He was MALE! He did see two frozen shots of a girl that looked like Astrid, with the icy eyes and pale hair, and guy with floppy hair similar to himself. It made him smile. He found some pictures to take with him of him and Toothless and Astrid together. One of his favorites was one of Toothless pushing him with his snout to Astrid. He loved any he found of him and Astrid. He was such a girl. Oh well.
All their dragons made appearances, even some of Terrible Terrors. There were sketches of a Thunder Drum, a Whispering Death, aTimberjack, a scrill, and a Changewing.
Toothless was highly offended when someone took him and remodeled him into a horse. Hiccup found it amusing because Toothless had a sound hatred and derision for the creatures, as he had found out when he tried to ride one and his Night Fury did not like it.
There were, like with fanfic, a lot of future drawings. Hiccup was mildly surprised by how many people drew him looking much more like his father than HE ever thought he would.
Ruffnut whistled as she found one entitled. 'Adult Ruffnut.' "Now, I am sexy. Look how sexy, Lout."
"Truly sexy," he replied, going closer.
"Not an invitation, Lout, just a statement."
"Oh, one day…you will be BEGGING."
"What…are those puppies we're flying on?" No lie. They were puppies.
"I am not blond!" Hiccup complained, smoothing his hand over his (not blond) hair.
"Wow," Astrid said. "This is such a good picture of me! 'Viking Hall of Fame'….Look Hiccup, here's one of you!"
"Wow!" He agreed.
"Ruffnut, you too!" She replied with the "Wow!" too.
Hiccup died laughing at a picture of Toothless hugging him with the caption, "My Human. Get your own." And again at Toothless growling at his now girlfriend, "You touch the boy, I rip your face." Were you really thinking that? He wondered at his dragon. "Rule number one—do NOT steal the fish." And, "You did not just step on my picture." "New hairdo—is it permanent?" "Toothless…is not so toothless." (Not the point!)
And his feeling were summed up with, "Toothcup: What has been seen cannot be unseen."
Astrid does not wear the pants! He protested silently at a picture captioned so. A small voice in his head wondered, "Does she?" Oh, Gods, that was a real question.
They took the picture of a yellow sign, "Warning! Dragon Training Arena" and hung it up at the training center.
All mentioned pictures exist! Go check them out, they were so good! (Except...the Toothcup. Shudder.) I made it through pages and paes, but there were over 31,000. This is a snapshot. And I recommend going to DA and searching "Hiccup demotivational poster". A picture will pop up called, "Fanfiction. Guess who just discovered it?" with Hiccup's face after the fish-incident.
Fit with this story pretty well, no?
Thanks to Anon for the whole idea of using DeviantART.
Send me the ideas for next chapter! I have a simply awful one I'll have to go off on* mysterious smile*.
