#cavern crasher

Can believe it took me so long until a rewatch in literally 2025 to notice this damn card, but that's a Cavern Crasher!

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smaugust day seventeen—cavern crasher

"Despite their propensity for leaving hard-to-clean trails in their wake, these Dweller class dragons are not particularly threatening to any viking. No; their buggy look and spider-like method of moving serves only to help them in navigating dark cave systems in order to find their favoured prey; eggs that can't fight back.",

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Fury Family Comic Page 12

It's time to go!

On the eighth day of Snoggletog my true love gave to me, eight Moldruffles a-milking

Seven Skrills a-swimming

Six Gronckles a-laying

Five Grim Gnashers

Four Cavern Crashers

Three Flightmares

Two Terrible Terrors

And a Prickleboggle in a pear tree

Snotlout named her spitfire cause she definitely has an attitude (she’s perfect for him and hooky)

He got hiccup to make him some kind of gloves so he can hold her without getting burnt (he still gets burnt she climbs all over him like a monkey)

She’s always on his shoulders or in his lap

At first he tried to not bring her on missions but she snuck onto hookfang before they left and he eventually gave up

She has set multiple things on fire and cannot be left alone without something burning

Snotlout and hookfang are also the only ones she likes, but she tolerates the others (this becomes a problem when they don’t think Snotlout can raise a literal princess dragon [he totally can])

She and hookfang take naps together

The twins try to steal her for pranks

She helps heather cook (only with supervision tho)

She hates Chicken but loves her chicks

Toothless and stormfly try to play with her but she’s too small ( Snotlout also worries they’ll be too rough)

Anyways this is just a small au I’ve been thinking abt cuz I think Snotlout is actually one of the best riders when it comes to baby dragons and I’m currently obsessed with fireworms

Edit: I’m writing this now lmk if you wanna tagged in it :)

Day 2: Weird Colours

a sleepy cavern crasher

So there is a problem with the Deathgripper than many people aren't really aware of, but was the intentions of the creators of the third film. And it's that they were meant to be evil.

Now you may be questioning why would this be the case. Well…. On page 109 of The Art of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, we get this description for the Deathgrippers. "This is the first movie where we got to think about creating 'bad' dragons….." "But when a bad human comes into the picture someone like Grimmel he can turn evil dragons into something worse. The Deathgrippers are being controlled, but they were not very nice to start with. It was an interesting opportunity to dig into an evil-looking dragon and so much fun to see them evolve."

Sssoooo…. They not only designed the Deathgrippers to like evil, but also intended for them to be evil dragons who aren't nice. So, if you at all have seen my paleo media blog, I have post on there talk about how Jurassic World introduce a thing called breedism through the Indominus Rex. I use breedism as the term because it's the closest thing to what I'm talking about.

The Deathgrippers as evil dragons is playing essentialist thinking, and plays into by have them as just inherently evil by what they are. With Grimmel calling them dragon killers seeming to play into the inherently evil dragons bit.

Aside, from playing with some dangerous ideas this idea of evil dragons is just wrong in the httyd series, and goes against it's themes.

First off we have seen many dragon killers before as several dragons we have seen are willingly to hunt and eat other dragons, they are all just animals. The Scauldron and Death Song are both dragons that will hunt and eat other dragons. Meanwhile ones like the Cavern Crasher will eat the combs of Fireworms bringing about harm on the Fireworms. Even the the Red Death eats other dragons, and while it had to be dealt with it was never called evil. The Red Death was just doing what it normally does. Heck, even Drago's Bewilderbeast wasn't evil but was just doing bad things under Drago's command.

By extension the first film was all about the idea of the dragons no being evil, and that they were all misunderstood. With the second film making it clear the dragons aren't evil as Valka says. "Good dragons under the control of bad people, do bad things."

What should have been done was that while they look evil, and that they dragons that will hunt other dragons. None of this evil dragons stuff. Overall, the Deathgrippers were done dirty. Written by Eris