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And then I got to thinking and here are some ideas.

Human modern Toothless is a foster kid. His foster parent? The Red Death. Either he was raised by her along with the other dragons (Stormfly, Hookfang, Meatlug, Barf and Belch) or she ran like an orphanage where they all grew up. Obviously she's abusive as shit.

Idk how yet but Toothless loses his leg. Maybe it happened alongside Hiccup, in an accident or something, maybe it was caused by the Red Death? Toothless and Hiccup meet and become bffs. At some point, the Red Death gets arrested at some point for abusing the kids in her care, maybe Hiccup had something to do with it? There is potential to dive into prejudices etc about orphaned kids with Stoick, if you want to. You can make the situation of the orphanage/foster kids as realistically complicated as you want to, or not at all. I like to think that the core 6 get adopted into/fostered by the families of their riders. Hiccup becomes a bit cooler after hanging with the way scarier Toothless.

Of course you can also adapt the 2nd movie in a similar way. Valka returns, but she's made an enemy of Drago. Maybe she's an activist or something while Drago is an evil businessman (I know that's more Viggo's spiel, i cant think of anything better rn tho) Drago has connections and tries to get Toothless (and the others) away from their new families, and causes an accident that kills Stoick while putting the blame on Toothless. Of course Drago doesn't win, but Toothless is ✨️traumatized✨️ and Stoick is dead. If you want them to still be kids when this happens, Valka can get custody, but I like to think they're the same age as canon.

"at the same damn time"

If I wrote almost all of the lyrics or choreographed all the dances, I wouldn't wanna also have to do all of the probably insane amounts of voice training and upkeeping and stuff so I can be the centre of attention on stage.

And maybe the movie could’ve emphasized the work Zoey and Mira put in a little more, but like Rumi is clearly the main character.

Also, we have that scene where Rumi is bringing up her worries abt Takedown and we see how it affects Zoey and how it affects her far more than Mira. It's not a big dramatic moment but it does show how Zoey is the one who's the busiest with the lyrics and songwriting.

But I've already seen a lot of stuff abt the game, and I can't help but think,

It would have been so much more interesting if Waterboy and Invisigal had both been rookie heroes being taken under a more experienced hero's wing. They seem to be around the same age, but they have vastly different life experiences, but I feel like they might also have a lot in common. As far as I know, neither of their parents have been in the picture for a pretty long time for example. And obviously the big difference is that Invisigal ran with the wrong crowd and became a villain while Herman did not.

I just think it could've been very interesting if, instead of the whole romance thing, they framed it like that. Both of them could share Robert as a mentor, and I think they have really good potential to be like. Narrative parallels or whatever the fancy terms are.

Like I haven't read any comics or books or seen LoK, but from what I have seen:

Yangchen: trained by official teachers, fucked up the spiritual aspect (but great on the human aspect)

Kuruk: trained by official teachers, fucked up the human aspect (kind of fucked up the spiritual aspect as well but that wasn't really his fault, he did what he could)

Kyoshi: iirc she was mostly taught by a bunch of random people, outside of earthbending. Rangi (her gf) taught her most of her firebending, as opposed to Rangi's mother, the actual teacher. Idk who taught her water- and airbending, but wasn't it some of those people she joined who used to know or work with her parents? Might be wrong. Anyway from what I know she did a pretty good job at keeping the peace between humans themselves and between humans and spirits. She wasn't perfect but who is.

Roku: taught by official teachers, his ex-situationship became a dictator and bro didn't do shit to stop the fucker. Great job. Idk how he was with the spirits but they seem to be chill enough with him.

Aang: taught by his friends, stopped a 100-year war, basically achieved world peace, and also did a great job with the spirits.

Korra: taught mostly by official teachers and I adore her, but it's clear just how detrimental it was when we look at the way she couldn’t airbend or connect with the spirit world after what must've been 15 years of training. Those teachers fucked her upppp dude. She only got better after she got the fuck out of that culty compound and met some friends. And the Avatar connection was severed but not ruined cause there's still a next avatar so could be worse y'know.