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.

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[wherenoonegoes]

[Hiccup flicks away some of the dragon drool.]

About seven years or so now? Seems longer, honestly, but it's been a really eventful seven years.

Re: [video, tinted slightly green]

[wheyoftheadept]

Oh, that's a mood. Last six months have felt like a decade, and that was before I washed up here.

My best friend, Maggie, I've known her all my life. The dragon thing is recent... it's complicated. But she always was one, just didn't know.

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[wherenoonegoes]

I'm guessing she didn't look like a dragon? Because you'd figure having wings and scales would be enough of a hint.

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[wheyoftheadept]

Nope. Spent nineteen years thinking she was just a regular person, then she died and came back to life with wings and firebreathing.

[Her tone is wry; she fully expects this explanation to only raise more questions.]

She has feathers, though. Well, scales too. Sort of a combination of all the other dragon types, doesn't seem to fully be any one of them. Apparently when dragons are raised by other dragons, they learn their form from their parents, but she didn't have dragon parents, so....

[An eloquent shrug]

I guess her dragony magical bits sort of improvised.

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[wherenoonegoes]

[Hiccup has questions. Hiccup always has questions. But on the other hand, someone died. They came back, sure, but it's still not something you just ask about without a good reason.]

Yeah, none of that's a thing where I'm from. Dragons being magic, at least. I can't exactly rule out the idea of feathered dragons, but I haven't run into any yet.

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[wheyoftheadept]

Ours can't even like, function unless there's alreadt enough . That didn't start happenin' again til about sixty years back. Big surprise when they showed back up wanting t'know what the hell we'd done to the place.

Feathered dragons are called, uh, quetzalcoatl. [She about breaks her jaw getting it out properly, but she does say it right. She'd better, after all those times Maggie drilled it into her] Or feathered serpents, if you really can't get it out. They're mostly from south america.