Okay Okay Sorusing you've got me intrigued: What is FLY?!!!!
thanks for asking @sanfangirl !!!
Itâs my favorite things ever: superheroes, secret identities, and Hiccstrid. and modern AU, of course.
(So, FLY was the title I picked after seeing one of those motivational posts of it being an acronym for âfirst love yourselfâ. In the original iteration of this AU, it used to be more important, but the actually flying is also important lol. Itâs not really that good of a title anymore but eh.)
This is my superhero AU (âreally, not much to knowâ is actually the AU of this AU) in which Astrid is training to be a superhero sidekick at school. Her family name is disgraced, so she cannot become a âsoloâ hero without lots of extra work in college. She has extremely good control over her water powers.
in this universe, everyone born in âThe Aboveâ (artificial flying islands above th earhipelago after a war) is born with something called a âkaryonâ: a mark/bead on the neck that grants them powers by using a particle called dust.
I have an entire 10 minute explanation on dust that is plot-relevant but Iâm skipping it right now for brevityâs sake
one day, she is confronted with an odd situation: a vigilante whoâs powers donât work how powers SHOULD work, fighting a new kind of villain that recently popped up. He doesnât have a karyon, and neither do these new villains who seem to permanently be beserk and incapable of human speech or thought.
after this odd meeting, she wakes up in the middle of the night, outside her house, after having an odd dream, and her powers areâŠoff. Instead of water manipulation, she can now fire off odd spikesâŠand why can she smell so well?!
She eventually discovers more about the situation: these new villains are people controlled by a villain that the vigilante - whom sheâs dubbed âblackâ - calls âThe Queenâ, and are being hypnotised to do her bidding.
she eventually agrees to help him out, and joins him in his fight against her, since the heroes arenât doing anything about the situation and she knows they wonât budge any time soon.
The vigilante calls himself âNight Furyâ which as her laughing at first: him? Name himself after the unholy offspring of lightning and death that all of the Seven Families boasted to have survived encounters with?
But then she realised that his powers fit the creature to a T: the lightning. The super speed. She invisibility.
and then, more puzzle pieces click. Sheâs somehow gotten the powers of a Nadder. All of these new villains are dragon themedâŠso the Queen must have some obsession with the ancestral dragons.
things spiral from there.
on hiccupâs side of things, life isnât looking great at all: the only person in the above who doesnât have a karyon.
he has three and they all donât work properly at all. They even cause him so much harm that he had to undergo surgery to get one removed.
His father is the shining beacon of his family, the leader of the Seven, superheroes of epic proportions who are gods among men, essentially.
his mother is Skullcrusherâs second in command who has control over the Alpha Matrix, a device that monitors all superpower usage. (And a certain kind of superhuman but shhh he doesnât know that)
and then, thereâs him, Hiccup. heâs just a screw-up. He is not worth of either family name and knows the other relatives in the council are dying to kick him out and leave him nameless. To make him a nobody.
So it doesnât surprise him in the slightest when his father sends him to live with his aunt to avoid the media.
hiccup knows itâs to hide the fact that his son is weak, or that he even HAS a son, but alas.
when hiccup was young, a supervillain did something to his karyons. Hiccup knows better than to ask which villain.
For whenever he asks; his father or mother just shake their head or freeze, clearly not wanting to talk about it.
he knows his karyon was messed up by a villain, and someday? Someday he WILL find out which villain and give him a piece of his mind.
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things donât exactly begin to look up once the dreams start.
dreams in which is body doesnât ache whenever he gets into contract with high concentrations of dust.
Dreams in which he can freely leap across rooftops, dreams in which he is fighting villains effortlessly from afar with his lightning powers - well not completely effortlessly, but still!! - and shows great mastery over his lightning and super speed-
powers which he doesnât have. At all.
things derail further once a certain blonde girl in blue begins to pop up in his dreams, stubborn, fierce, andâŠwait isnât that his classmate?!
also another fun fact: Gothi is a tattooist in this AU.
eventually, the other dragon riders would show upâŠbut Iâm not that far yet.
this is my oldest au and the one that has been reworked the most.
anyways I think I should stop here before I type an entire essay. Thanks for asking :D