#plainly

Rhen is bisexual with a preference for men, although he didn't realize it until well into adulthood and after he was forced to leave his home.

This was mostly due to the fact that the only other male, Viera or other, he interacted with for extended periods of time before that was his mentor Firn, who he considered a father figure and did not harbor any sort of attraction towards.

Additionally, Rhen's understanding of sex and romantic relationships has always been one tied to duty. It's not that he doesn't enjoy the aspects that come with both, he just always considered them part of his tasks as a wood warden; a duty to perform.

To protect the village and ensure his tribe's survival in all ways deemed necessary by the women of the village was the entire purpose of his life for a long time. Seeking connections, sexual, or other, with the females of the tribe upon his rare returning to his home every few years was merely a part of that. (This is not to say there never were any deeper or lasting romantic attachments, but that is a story for another day.)

Nowadays, removed from the village and from the mutual understanding for the necessity of coupling between him and someone else, Rhen, most of the time, is not inclined to actively seek out someone to have sex with. He is also not particularly used to being flirted with and many subtle verbal displays of interest will simply go over his head.

the whole "dragon eye" part of Race to the Edge was a little unnecessary. i think a better way to have RTTE handled the plot is to:

involve oswald's adventures a little bit more, therefore more grey morality on dagur's part

have not a dragon's eye in the ship graveyard but a book of new dragons not yet listed: and an indecipherable code left scattered in the book

so the reason dagur chases them is because he wants that fucking book that might be connected to his dad somehow

viggo just wants to sell some dragon parts in peace but also is very VERY interested in the new book hiccup has

like literally every episode that involved the dragon eye is easily swappable with any other object that can offer dragon knowledge --

DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT BEWILDERBEAST SKELETON IN VANAHEIM

yeah that didn't go fucking anywhere

if the "dragon's eye" wasnt a thing i bet my ass hiccup would have been all over that goddamn thing the second time he sees it during dagur's life field trip.

i dont know how johann's betrayal would have come around...bc its either he's an actual traitor or he's not

like seriously the dragon eye, as cool as it was (i totally want one), was unnecessary

THEY DESTROYED IT ANYWAY

THEY ALSO WOULD HAVE DISCOVERED THE BEWILDERBEASTS

just

WHAT WAS THE FUKCING POINT

just make it a fucking book inscribed with puzzles and codes, god, even puzzles scattered around the archipelago would have been nice

that would have totally been a "race to the edge"

bc the canon race to the edge was less race and more capture the flag and hot potato

im serious

did you guys notice there wasnt any actual racing around

legit when i first saw the title i was expecting hiccup and the rest to go running around looking for clues and shit

nope

i love the dragon's edge, that one totally made sense

but like,,, all they did was sit around,,, bitch where was the racing there

and the dragons,,,, kind of barely got agency...mostly i just felt they were extensions of their riders. my favorite episodes were mostly stryke out and no dragon left behind because it showed dragons who thought for themselves (toothless in the arena) and dragon's inner turmoil (stormfly going through the five stages of grief.) other than that, though, there are like, brief instances of dragon's actually BEING their own character instead of just being attached at their rider's hip.

but!! notable episodes are midnight scrum, dire straits, longest day, and sandbuster (barely)

have you fucking seen longest day? dragons being so done with their riders is such a fucking mood oh my god

anyway my point is i always felt it was more the riders more than the dragons, which kind of made me...ih???

anyway,rtte is great but it wasn't perfect.