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( ✈ SEVENTH FLIGHT; video — both courts )

Hi, everyone! Hiccup here, Unseelie Court if that ... matters to you. I was wondering if anybody else felt like getting to know each other. I'm That Guy With The Night Fury, also known as Why Are You Riding A Dragon and Is That Thing Going To Eat Me.

I'll start us off.

I've been talking to Jon about marriages and weddings, stuff like that. You can all settle down, me and Snow aren't getting hitched any time soon — I know you'll all be deeply disappointed to hear that — I'm just wondering how people do things in other lands.

When you're a Viking, you only ever get married if the other person proves their worth to you and it's unheard of for anyone to be pressured into it. You could be a guy or a girl, it doesn't matter. Women and men decide for themselves that that's it, they want to marry, do it, and then sometimes one of them might decide to divorce the other. Is that such a weird concept to a lot of people here? And, uh, on the subject of ... bastards — sorry about the language if that's also a thing for you, as well as the actual meaning — why is it that if one half of a married couple has another child with someone who isn't their spouse, everybody thinks said child is worth less? That seems insane.

[ Hiccup certainly looks confused, and a bit offended on behalf of said illegitimate children. ]

There are lots of cultures clashing in the Drabwurld and I'm finding out new things every day but this is fascinating to me, maybe because it's crazy and I've never explored anywhere far enough away to encounter such a weird way of thinking. Where I come from, no one gets to offer you a serious insult unless you yourself have done something to deserve it. You should be as brave as Thor himself and stand up for what you want, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Then there's this whole weird attitude about other people bothering to voice their opinions about who you sleep with, as if a guy choosing to bunk with another guy is a huge deal, or girls doing the same. Where does that entitled nosiness even come from? [ Hiccup snorts. ] Surely if you're not there getting down with them, it's not your place to even have an opinion on their bedroom shenanigans. My dad's friend Gobber would put his metal club-hand through the face of anyone who decided to get vocal about his private life.

Jon said that Berkians sound like the Free Folk where he comes from, because we do whatever we want and we keep our honour through our own actions, not the reputations other spin for us.

[ Sitting back against a snoozing Toothless, Hiccup toys with the strings on the neck of his green tunic, armour set aside. ]

Does anyone want to chat about their own lands, their people? I'm ... the only Viking in either court, I think, at least currently. A few of my gods are here — Sif, Loki, and I think Thor might be or was, and I'm still kind of thrilled that Elves and Dwarves and Trolls are real in the Drabwurld. The latter less so, maybe. If you want to ask me anything about my home or our customs, go right ahead! I'm probably going to be bugging people if they respond to this, so fair's fair. Sorry if I already managed to offend you somehow, I guess that's the sort of thing that happens regularly when lots of different people are stuffed into the same place.

I suppose I'm just homesick for that craggy, freezing, rain-soaked rock I call home. [ (Hiccup was always able to sit down and talk to Stoick at night about his day, or he was until this whole Chieftain Handover thing began to crop up.) He pauses as he remembers to ask one more thing before he closes the locket. ] Also, uh. Do you ever think about — about settling down here permanently? In the Drabwurld. With someone ... new? If we get three times our normal lifespan, it's worth it. Isn't it? Building a new life.

Anyway, thanks for listening. I know I go on. Feel free to talk to anyone else in this broadcast if they pique your interest, I don't mind.

[ Threadjack away, bruhs. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Wait, you don't even know where I am!

EXACTLY relax
why are you so desperate to keep me away

[Wait ...]

what
you naked or something

Yes, that's exactly it. I'm hanging around my Caer Glaem bedroom completely naked.

ugh it's like snow man all over again
what is it with you seelies and basking in nudity all the time

I'm a firebender, I get some of my power from the sun.

[ TECHNICALLY IT'S NOT A LIE... she can't exactly wear clothes as a chipmunk. ]

oh so you're tanning in your bedroom now?

[He's on to you.]

WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THIS CONVERSATION PLEASE CEASE AND DESIST THANK YOU

wow way to interrupt a private conversation with my wife

[NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS PRIVATE.]

WOW, PARDON ME, WHAT AM I DOING IN MY OWN BROADCAST, I AM SO OUT OF ORDER HERE.

yeah good think about what you've done

YOU stop reading!

AND DON'T THINK ABOUT ME NAKED.

[ COUGH ]

So what if I am? It's MY room.

[ actually, laying down in the sun right now sounds great, so korra-munk's gonna get up on a windowsill and stretch out ]

I'm just saying, tanning indoors seems a bit challenging.

Not if I'm near a window.

Why don't you just hop onto a roof instead of flashing yourself in front of a window? You're so weird.

Because I'm comfortable here!

you mean right where i can just easily fly by and catch a peek if i wanted to?

[Just saying. He has the power.]

Are you saying you couldn't if I was on the roof?

oh i could but that'd be way too easy

Uh huh.

So why are you so desperate to see me naked?

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