Video, after Babadon't

[wherenoonegoes]

Appearing onscreen is a tall, gangly man who already looks fed up with this entire situation. He's not happy, and for that matter neither is the dragon behind him.]

Hi. Figured this is as good a place to introduce myself as any. I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, Chief of Berk. The dragon behind me is my best friend, Toothless.

Just to get it out of the way, yes, I have heard every possible joke you could make about that. None of them are funny.

Normally this would be the part where I'd say I'm happy to meet all of you, but my wife gave birth to our daughter two days ago. So while I can certainly think of worse possible times for all this, this one is still pretty high up there.

[LOCKED]

If there are any Legionnaires here, however? Disregard that. I [Toothless nudges Hiccup] We actually are happy to see you.

Comments

[walkingballpit]

Every possible joke? Sounds like a challenge, Triple H.

Locked to Hiccup

Woah, mazel tov times two. What’s your wife’s name? Did you name the baby yet? Hey Toothless, they aren’t vegan here.

And yeah, glad to see you two. Brainy’s here too.

[wherenoonegoes]

And yet? Somehow they still won't be funny.

[Locked to Robbie]

My wife is Astrid, the baby's name is Zephyr, and Brainy's gotten in touch already.

Also? I hate to break it to you, but Toothless was eating fresh fish the entire time we were there.

[Toothless looks a little smug at this. As he probably should, considering he'd been eating better than anyone else on Legion World.]

[walkingballpit]

I have it on the best authority that I am hyperventilatingly hilarious.

Locked to Hiccup

Astrid and Zephyr. Man, they’ve got you beat in the name department.

[ He goes by Speedball and previously Penance. He has no room to talk. ]

Of course he did, I think he photosynthesizes Wifi.

And whatever keeps him from eating Niels.

[wherenoonegoes]

Claiming to be an authority doesn't actually make you one.

[Locked]

Terrible names supposedly ward off gnomes and trolls. Provided that there even are any on Berk and they're not just one of Gobber's increasing improbable stories, if Zephyr is anything like her mother they'll be too terrified to even think of trying anything.

[As for the cat accusation, Toothless actually looks offended. He knows better than to eat people's pets.

Even if he did eat cats, Niels would probably give him the worst case of indigestion of all time.]

[walkingballpit]

[ Robbie straight up giggles. ]

I was talking about Brainy. He’s what you’d call a renaissance man.

Locked to Hiccup
Speaking of, how are you handling the Legionnaire thing? They know we’re teammates, but it’s not like I gave them the entire roster, so if you’re plain old Hiccup, then I can do the whole nice to meetcha routine.

Also - dragon. Superpowers. Superpowered cat. I’m not about to stop suspending my disbelief now. Your name works, and you’ve never seen a gnome or troll. Makes perfect sense.

Locked

[wherenoonegoes]

Honestly, I'm probably going to slip up on being in the Legion sooner or later. I did tell them I helped save the multiverse. In my defense, they were shocking Toothless and I may have kind of snapped a little bit.

I mostly just kept things locked because I wasn't sure if anyone else was here and I didn't want to ruin anything by opening my big mouth more than I already had.

Also, you've never heard Gobber's stories. Even when he's telling the truth he's embellishing the hell out of it. So unless Thor started teaming up with a hammerhead whale-riding hammerhead yak that you forgot to tell me about, I think I'll keep my disbelief unsuspended.

[Locked to Robbie]
Speaking of superpowers? I still have my power, Jorgmund doesn't know about it, and I'd really appreciate it if you completely forget what it is and that I ever had it in the first place if anybody but Brainy asks.

Re: Locked

[walkingballpit]

I wish I could say I’m surprised. They shocked me over the stupidest stuff - they do not know how to read their lie detector test.

You don’t have to defend it. I think everyone’s a little cautious when it comes to these communicators. This is NOT an omnicomm.

I don’t really hang out with the whole god crew, but I don’t know if I’d put it past him, either. Whenever him or Hercules show up, there’s usually mead. Whale-riding is more of an Atlantean thing though.

Locked to Hiccup
I’ll add it to the never-set-to-paper list of stuff I’m taking to the grave.

I don’t tell them anything about anyone else. And I won’t.