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httyManta anyone?

Little au I'm cooking up

(All of the art pre chapter seven has been missing for months now including our first looks at bb!jason and bb!tim and every day i cry)

Hi!

So I think the mers solidly see Clark as “one of the pod” and essentially part of their family. I don’t remember where I talked about mer social structure, but I believe I’ve said that male Mers tend to raise their children communally.

In the wild, mer pods generally take three forms: male familial pods, female temporal pods, or male-female coupling pods. Male familial pods are the most common and often have the most individuals together. They are formed of multiple males with their pups and are multi-generational. Male pods are very strongly bonded and male Mers are often born into a pod which they do not leave their entire life. Females of the species are usually raised in male familial pods but almost always leave to go solo.

Occasionally females form pairs or small pods called female temporal pods, but they tend to be more fleeting or made for a purpose, such as hunting large prey. As the name suggests, these pods are temporary and rarely get above five individuals due to the aggressive nature of females. There have been many documented cases of female temporal pods ending due to in-fighting or even killing of other pod members, an instance that is exceedingly rare in male familial pods.

Male-female coupling pods form when an adult male and adult female live together in a lone couple. These tend to be a forced arrangement by the female onto the male. They can arise through circumstance such as a sister and brother hunting together, but most likely it is a forced arrangement where a male was seperated from a familial pod to breed with a female and care solely for her pups. It is not particularly uncommon and often is the reason why new pods forms, though the male is often extremely distressed by the arrangement and may try to return to a familial pod.

Males instinctively form pods because it provides an advantage in raising children and protection against females who could try to come in and kill pups to make room for their own or steal a mate from the pod. With multiple adults in a pod, males can spread the duties of childcare and are well-documented to frequently pass their pups into the pouches of related and unrelated males. This is also a strategy against infanticide by females as instantly frees up a pouch without the death of a pup or can confuse a female regarding their relatedness to a pup. Females do not kill their own children and they are much less likely to kill any pups at all if they are not sure what male is currently pouching their young. Pod members also provide protection against separation or the killing of pups as they can gang up on a lone female.

So, this is a long way to say that Bruce is basically hardwired to form pods, especially in stressful situations because pod = safety in the mer brain. This is only heightened when he has multiple pups and there’s more paternal pressure on him with his limited pouch space. Even though Clark is a different species, Bruce was raised by humans and sees them as equals so he wouldn’t hesitate to apply pod status to one. If anything, he’s probably really pissed that Clark never puts the pups in his pouch and Bruce has to do all the work, like wth Clark is supposed to be helping him out here.

Chapters: 7/21 Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III & Toothless Characters: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon), Astrid Hofferson, Gobber the Belch, Stoick the Vast, Gothi (How to Train Your Dragon), Dagur the Deranged, Heather (How to Train Your Dragon), Eret (How to Train Your Dragon), Bork the Bold Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Hunger Games Setting, Canon-Typical Violence, and by canon i mean hunger games canon, you can read as hiccstrid if you want but that is not my intention, strap in folks this is my longest one yet Summary:

Hiccup, son of popular Victor Stoick "The Vast" Haddock, doesn't have a lot going for him in District Four, so it's an easy decision to volunteer to save Snotlout's life when he's reaped for the Hunger Games. He's accepted his death, and figures his best strategy is to make it as painless as possible. After all, there's no hope when he's going into the arena with Astrid Hofferson, who's hated him since childhood, and the two frightening siblings from District Two that seem intent on killing him the first chance they get.

And then he finds a mutt.

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I do! All of ‘em are on Ao3, but I do run a Tumblr for one of them, that being the @how-to-train-your-monster AU! All the titles below are links if you wanna read!

How to Train Your Monster- Crossover between SU and HTTYD. All the corrupted gems are dragons, and concentrate attacks on Beach City and nearby areas all the time. Because of this, the citizens are pretty good at building and at least defending themselves. The Maheswarans had heard of the rumors of the Dragons of Delmarva, but like most of the world, didn’t believe it until they moved there themselves. Then, a few days after moving, Connie meets Steven Universe, an oddball child who deals with real dragons all the time! They begin hanging out, and even become friends after a harrowing adventure with a dragon, but everything changes when Steven vanishes into the night a few months later, having been eaten by a dragon. People began calling it the Night Snatcher, and Connie is determined to catch it...

Stolen- A post-SUF fic that takes place while Steven is on his road trip. He’s had a bunch of good days in a row, life is pretty good, he has a nice outing with Connie, and things are great! ...That is, until he goes to sleep in a Macinac (Michigan) motel room, where he gets an unexpected visitor... (WARNING: some violence (though nothing too bad) and a character knocking on death’s door for a large portion of the fic!)

Broken- A completed fic I was writing while SUF was still airing. Taking place after Growing Pains, Steven realizes he’s becoming a danger to everyone around him and runs away into the forest to try and sort himself out. Things go downhill pretty quickly from there. (10 chapters, completed fic) ((Fun fact! I got this whole thing done and written in a week because I didn’t want the next episodes to influence my writing. I got it done and posted 15 minutes before Mr. Universe started airing!))

Bubbled- Based on @sutimetravelau, this one takes a look at what would happen if Twoie got himself blasted out into space with the Rubies instead of Steven. Written long before the original blog got there. Basically, the idea was that Twoie wanted to give resuming the Rubies another shot, and winds up grabbing all of them instead of just Eyeball... (Completed)

Plus a couple other fics as well. These are the big 4 I have besides Second Chance, though, as well as a Time Travel AU I want to write that takes a more Aftertale approach to Twoie’s character (older Steven- it’s “Steven Two,” or “Twoie” for short). The biggest of these fics is HTTYM, which you can probably guess what happens based on the title alone, but a fun little detail about that one is that it’s actually canon-divergent, just with a few rule changes! The war still happens, Pink is Rose, gems are gems, then when the gems get corrupted, Rose protects her friends with a shield. Though a few things go differently, and by a few, and mean a lot. Kinda. The Diamonds are kinda important, and a certain somebody got unbubbled before stuff happened! I’m really excited to keep working on it, and the support I’ve been getting is pretty great, but Second Chance is the biggest AU I have right now and I want to focus most of my energy on it.

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