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I know it’s never explained in the show, but how the hunters captured some dragons is unfathomable to me:

Seashockers

Catastrophic Quakens

Eruptadon

Submaripper

Shellfire

I recall in one episode it shows that one method to subduing a dragon is luring them into a trap with food then gassing them with dragon root.

I am not confident that would work with a Quaken given how incredibly powerful they are. But the gas method would not work on a tidal class dragon.

I am trying to fathom how dragon hunters found deep sea dragons. Let alone dragged and chained the submaripper, and got the shellfire under control enough to guide it and attach a base of operations to it.

However once they did, the submaripper has been shown to be sensitive to vibrations from daggers, likely hinting at a type of echo location to track their prey. So the key would be driving it up towards the surface at high tide to an area that takes longer for lowtide to come in. This happens a lot with beached whales were something brings them to the surface towards beaches and they don’t recognise their own size so beach themselves. Essentially what I’m saying the hunters likely did was make a pool with an open end, disrupt the environment to flush the submaripper towards it, then as the sea level fell it was unable to emerge.

I’d assume a similar method was used for the shellfire since they appear to be controlled through Ryker’s hammer thing.

For the eruptidon, it seems to be quite used to human company so the most likely thing is they got close enough to shoot it through the dragon not being startled by their presence. As shown by the arrows left there. Then rolled it away on a large wagon. Probably would have taken a lot longer than the show implies since it’s heavily implied it happened at the top of the island but Tv logic.

Seashockers are quite rare according to Fishlegs so its very possible they aren’t as hunted but just as a thought experiment, I’d say you’d probably do a similar method to what he did. Allow them to surface in a lagoon, block off the exit, and lure them to the surface with fish. It’d be difficult and you’d likely need the net to be a more conducive material like copper so their shocks are contained. As we can see from fishlegs that the shocks aren’t powerful enough to kill so can likely be withstood though likely with some side affects

And even though money is pretty tight for her, she told me I could name my price if I would help her, because it was so far away.

I told her she was a dummy for thinking i would take her money but that i would accept the traditional helping-a-friend-move price: a meal (i know she would feel wrong about herself if she didn’t do something for me in return, that’s just how she is) Tradition suggests pizza and beer, we opted for enchiladas and a margarita.

we crashed on the floor of the empty place and left back north in the morning - when we got back to the city three more friends met us at her storage place (the place she was moving into wouldn’t be vacant for a couple months) and we started to move all her stuff up to a storage room on the THIRD FLOOR (because large city storage places be like that)

we had just taken the first box out of the truck when the (only) lady working there walked by and told us they closed in an hour and twenty minutes, and she couldn’t stay even a little late because she had to get to her other job.

One hour twenty minutes. To completely un-jenga a large uhaul and re-tetris it back into a similar sized room on the third floor.

We all just, shared a look, took off hoodies, and got the fuck down to business. 

It was actually.. I still cherish look we passed around. The tiny eyebrow quirks and chin nods. The eye glints. The bigger breath we each took as we prepared to kick it up several gears. That moment of wordless connection, when we all just silently agreed that we were damn well going to do the impossible and didn’t even waste the time it would take to say anything, just got to it.

And we did it too. Finished with exactly two full minutes to spare. And then we all went for dinner and drinks to celebrate. And my friend’s friends that came to help? Two of them were acquaintances/friends of mine already. Like I lived with one for a year a decade ago sort of thing. But this experience? Brought us all closer. Made myself a new friend too.

And the friend i helped move? She and I are closer than ever because of it.

When i left our storage success diner to go home, she asked me again if I was sure i wouldn’t take any money.

I said “I ever tell you when I was 22 I went down to Hollywood to try that scene out? Anyway ten months later, when I just couldn’t do it anymore, and needed to come back, I called one of my best friends and said i can’t do this anymore i need to come back. You know what he said? He said: I’ll be there tomorrow. Not how much will you pay me, not what do i get out of it, not will you be able to cover my gas, just: I’ll be there tomorrow. Okay? You’re my friend. If you need help, I’m going to be there”

imagine being on your lunch break, and your supervisor comes over to your table, tells you to stand up in front of everyone. they draw everyone's attention to your thighs. they tell you that you have broken the dress code because of the length of your shorts. they tell you to go change (so you do not get the rest of your lunch break). they do this every single day at lunch. every day. so you read the whole dress code front and back, and you choose your clothing carefully to not break it. you bring a cloth tape measure with you to work because they will not believe you. this time when your supervisor tells you that you're breaking dress code, you pull out your tape measure and show that you are within the limit. your supervisor says "I bet you wouldn't want me to bring you to the boss and let him measure it, would you?" it's clearly a threat: if you don't obey then you will be put alone in a room with your boss and he will touch your thighs. you don't know how to respond. you're taken out of lunch again.