eachdraidh | ( ✈ SEVENTH FLIGHT; video

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. ]

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Kid, I really appreciate this, but we can let it go. Why don't you tell me about the world you come from, huh? That's got to be interesting.

You're the one that was asking about marriage stuff! Why ask if you don't want to know?

[She gave an annoyed growl which sounded a bit odd coming from her human throat.]

My world's like that Station place. At least from what people have told me about it. I haven't been there yet. So, like modern and stuff. Just with supernatural kinds around that most humans didn't know existed until like the last few years or so.

Because you look twelve and you're talking about mating.

[ GURGLE ALL YOU WANT, KID, respect what people find a comfy topic around you!! Also who even growls, is that what that is. Uh. ]

So you're from some futuristic world with magic? Why have people only known about the supernatural for only a couple of years?

I'm thirteen, not twelve. [This is an important distinction to her. She's hit puberty, damnit.]

No, I'm from a modern world whereas everyone else seems stuck in the past, including this place. And there's magic, but it's tied to bloodlines and stuff. Like witches have their own magic, fae have theirs, vampires have their own and even werewolves have their own kinda magic.

And I guess humans on a whole only know about them all because it's only been recent that the wolves have come out to the humans. The fae have been out for a while now and have their own reservations and stuff like the Indians do.

[ Since she is, as she says, only all of thirteen, he isn't going to bother making an argument of it. ]

Wait, I don't understand. You live in a modern world but it doesn't exist for everyone else, who are stuck in the past? How does that work?

Ugh. I mean, you called my world futuristic. To me, it isn't. To me, it's modern and you're world - Mr. Viking - is like a thousand years or more in the past. Even this place seems to be that far in the past to me.

Get it now?

Oh, yeah. No, I'm used to that, sure. Thousand Year Old Guy, that's me.

That still doesn't really describe what your world is like with all those weird wolves and whatever else, though. What's going on with that?

I can't really say much about most of it since I've never met a vampire or fae until I ended up here. But I'm a werewolf. Most of us have packs and tend to be around bigger cities where there are a lot of people to hide among.

Unless you're in my pack which is in the middle of nowhere, but that's mostly for everyone else's protection. We have the misfits and the other really dangerous wolves. A lot of old wolves too. Really, really old.

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