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[Character Name] Toothless
[Canon] How To Train Your Dragon
[Point Taken from Canon] Endgame!
[Age] ...Probably "teenage"? No clue what that equates in dragon.
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] ...he's a dragon. But I'm going to assume hetero, since I don't think Toothless has any inklings to go buttsexing anybody up.
[Eye Color] Green! Sort of a spooky acidic green; darker at the irises and then lightens to a chartreuse-ish limepeel kinda color.
[Hair Color] ...He has no hair! Just black and blue mottled scales. Shines blue, is more like a dark charcoal greyish.
[Height] Standing on all fours? Roughly 5'6". On his haunches/walking bipedal? Easily 7'.
[Other] The left half of his tail has been replaced with a prosthetic. Seen here.
[Clothing] No "clothing", specifically, though he's almost always wearing a harness and collection of wires and things that allows Hiccup to ride him without falling off.
[Background] A Night Fury is one of the rarest breeds of dragons in both the book series and the movie adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon. This is, purely and simply, because no Viking to date has seen one and lived to tell the tale (which is to say, no Viking to date has seen one at all). They are known to be very fast and very smart, never steal food, and never miss when they fire their white-hot lightning-like fire. This does nothing but add to the Vikings deeply-rooted fear of the mysterious beasts. They are elusive, they are dangerous, and...
The village outcast managed to shoot one down.
Toothless has very little background prior to being shot out of the sky on evening on an unsuspecting raid of a Viking village on Berk. It is assumed that he, like the other dragons shown in the movie, was along on a raid as a "job" of sorts to keep their hides safe from the Green Death to whom they answer. Unfortunately for him, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III escaped out the back door of the blacksmith shop where he works and is essentially babysat, and using one of his more creative inventions knocked the Night Fury right out of the night sky. In the fall, Toothless lost half of what I can only describe as a tailfin or a rudder-- a leathery flap of skin at the end of one half of his tail that cost him the ability to fly. Were Hiccup not Hiccup, the dragon likely would have died due to the injury.
Thankfully, Hiccup didn't have the heart to kill the felled dragon, and instead cut him free, earning the scare of his life. Curiosty then won the young Viking over and much to Toothless' irritable surprise, he was continually stalked by him. After fashioning a sort of prosthetic tailpiece for the dragon, Hiccup took Toothless for a sort of impromptu "test drive", and slowly they began to grow fond of one another. As time goes on, Hiccup's father decides he wants his unusual son to start Dragon Training, and Toothless helps Hiccup discover the secrets to training and taming dragons as opposed to hunting and killing them. This leads him to be a "master" in the ring, against all types of dragons. When Stoick and the other Vikings return from seeking out the dragon's nest to no avail, the Chief of Berk discovers his son had clearly been holding out all his life and was in fact a legendary dragonslayer.
Little did the village know, Hiccup was in fact using things like reflected light, eels and catnip-like grass to fend off the dragons as opposed to any sort of violence.
The day before Hiccup's "final test", where he is to go up against a Monstrous Nightmare before the entire village, Astrid (a pretty young female Viking with anger issues whom Hiccup is quite fond of) discovers Hiccup's little secret. As she heads off to tell the village that Hiccup has been training a Night Fury, Toothless rushes forward and, with Hiccup on his back to steer the prosthetic rudder for his tail that allows him flight, they take Astrid to the top of a tall tree in the forest. Here, Hiccup implores that if she won't listen, Astrid allow him to show her why he's chosen to train and befriend Toothless as opposed to slay him. When she consents on the stipulation that they simply get her down from the tree, Toothless chooses to be an unholy brat of a dragon and fly recklessly and without abandon in order to scare the wits out of the poor girl until she apologizes for being a haughty closed-minded brat about the entire situation. Toothless then calms down and flies calmly, showing Astrid that dragons are actually pretty darn cool.
After a long while of pleasant flying and bonding between the two teenage Vikings, Toothless suddenly becomes on edge and stops outrightly responding to Hiccup. The three soon find themselves in a sort of flock of hundreds of dragons and are lead back to the dragon's "nest", where they witness hundreds of the dragons the Vikings have spent years fighting away from their livestock and homes simply dropping the stolen goods into what looks like nothing more than a giant, horridly deep chasm. Unfortunately, when a Gronkle turns up with only a tiny, measley fish to offer, a much worse horror makes itself apparent-- a gargantuan dragon known as the Green Death rears its ugly head and swallows the entire Gronkle whole. The dragon then appears to smell Hiccup and Astrid's presence, and Hiccup spurs Toothless to get the hell out just as the dragon lunges for their hiding place. With this newfound information that the dragons raiding the villages are only behaving as such to keep the giant at bay, Hiccup decides he has to do something about the Viking's attitude toward them, deciding he will show them that dragons do not have to be feared in the ring with the Nightmare the following day.
So when things go awry in the ring Toothless scrambles his way, flightless, out of the basin he had taken residency in, into the ring to rescue his trainer and best friend (much to the horror of the other Vikings). Toothless is then captured by the Vikings, much to Hiccup (and Toothless' own) dismay, after he nearly attacks Hiccup's father. In a heated argument between father and son, Hiccup lets slip that they had seen the dragon's nest and that only a dragon could find it. Stoick then takes Toothless hostage with a fleet of Viking ships and heads out for the nest despite Hiccup's imploring he listen and think about what he's doing.
Well, lo and behold, the Vikings showing up to destroy the dragon's nest does little more than piss the Green Death off, and all Hell breaks loose. The giant dragon makes child's play of the fleet of Viking ships, and towers hundreds of feet above the helpless Vikings below. While they flounder and flail and attempt to not get killed, Hiccup shows the remaining teenagers left back on Berk how to properly handle dragons, and they set off to save their violent parents. After rescuing Toothless from a ship that was first on fire and then underwater, the pair take on the Final Boss.
And as is to be expected, they win! With some crafty ideas and some fancy flying, the Green Death's own firepower becomes its undoing, as Toothless lights up the gaseous fumes the giant expels to shoot fire with his own and causes a massive explosion. Unfortunately, as they had to lead the dragon straight toward the ground, they then had to fly up alongside it and were thrashed by the beast's giant club of a tail. Toothless dove into the flames after Hiccup who was thrown off his dragon's back and managed to shield the Viking from most of the harm that could have befallen him, but the teenager still lost the lower half of his left leg in the fall (which leads to a tragically adorable match between the two of them-- Hiccup has a gimp foot and Toothless has a gimp tail).
Though Hiccup's loss is hardly for naught; when he opens the door to his house and looks out upon Berk after the fact (after a minor heart attack over the fact that Toothless was in his house), he finds that Vikings and Dragons are living in harmony, and the rest of the village has learned from his example to train and befriend dragons as opposed to hunt and slay them.
[Personality] First and foremost, Toothless is a dragon. This results in him having no specific speech patterns, as he doesn't actually speak. He does, however, verymuch make up for his lack of ability to speak human languages in expression. One can assume that Toothless is a somewhat young dragon, in the scheme of things, as he behaves roughly like an overgrown, reptilian teenage boy crossed with a spoiled house cat and some kind of wild dog (as such, it was mentioned by the movie's production crew that Toothless is meant to be based off a cat/dog mix). He is very playful, and very energetic, and shares the same sort of dry sense of humor as Hiccup, his trainer and best friend. He is also very intelligent for a beast with no opposable thumbs or ability to vocalize in human tongues, and doesn't take kindly to being treated as anything different.
Despite being playful and overall relatively friendly, Toothless is still a wild animal (though as the movie progresses, it gets less and less noticeable). When his character is first introduced, he has been shot down by a homemade ballista of Hiccup's, and initially seems resigned to his fate of being killed by a Viking. However, when Hiccup chooses instead to cut him free, Toothless wastes no time in springing back to his feet and knocking the boy over to show him who is in control of the situation when he's not downed and tied up. Similarly, once Toothless has become fond of a person (ie, Hiccup) he is overprotective and fiercely loyal. When Hiccup is sent into the ring with a Monstrous Nightmare and things go bad, Toothless claws his way out of the grotto he has been more or less trapped in in order to rush to the young Viking's aid, despite the Nightmare being easily four times his size.
Similarly, as of the final battle in the movie, Hiccup and Toothless took on the Green Death (which is mentioned as the Red Death in most wikipedia entries, but was called the Green Death in both the books the movie was based on and the soundtrack), which is a god-awful freaking enormous dragon that Astrid at one point likens to a Queen Bee-- all the dragons in the movie harvest food from nearby villages (Berk included) and bring the food back to the Green Death to keep it at bay and prevent it from eating them. When Stoick takes the Vikings to siege what he assumes to be the dragon's nest, they essentially do nothing more than piss the Green Death off and send it on a rampage. Thankfully Hiccup has rallied the village teenagers and taught them how to ride and more or less control the group of dragons kept on Berk, and they rescue their closed-minded parents. In the midst of this, Hiccup and Toothless are thwomped by the massive tail of the dragon and Hiccup is thrown from Toothless' back. While Toothless may very well have been able to escape largely unscathed, he instead dives into the raging explosion below to shield Hiccup from the flames.
[Specialties/Abilities] Flight! Though this is extremely hindered without Hiccup. Toothless appears to overall be capable of basic flight with Hiccup on his back, regardless of the Viking actually controlling the position of the rudder-like tailpiece he affixed to him (My assumption is that if the tailpiece is in a flat outward position, Toothless has enough control for minor maneuverability without Hiccup shifting the flap's position. He likely cannot climb or make any fancy arobatic moves without Hiccup's direct control, however). The Night Fury is also capable of faster flight than any other breed of dragon, as well as a longer duration of flight, and is capable of vertical takeoff due to its huge wings and small body.
The Night Fury breed is also set apart among dragons due to the nature of its flame; they shoot some crazy combination of lightning and fire. It's blue-white, but explodes like any other ball of fire. They are notorious for their accuracy with it, and Toothless is hardly an exception. They do, however, make a high-pitched sort of shrieking sound prior to expelling one of these horrid balls of lightning-fire, so there is at least a brief moment of warning to get the hell away. Toothless is also less likely to use this ability unless very provoked or unless Hiccup is in danger. ...Astrid too, maybe.
Due to the nature of Toothless being a dragon, he... also obviously is scaly and mostly fireproof on the outside. If you somehow manage to spit/shoot/aim/etc fire into his mouth, he's just as vulnerable as anything else, but outwardly the critter can take one hell of a beating. Cases in point; when he leaps into the ring to protect Hiccup from the Monstrous Nightmare, aforementioned Nightmare knocks Toothless on his back and snaps at him a few times-- the amount of motion in the scene makes it difficult to tell for certain if the larger dragon actually bit Toothless or not, but it appears so and he didn't seem at all bothered or injured. He also fell and skidded along the ground quite a lot before Hiccup re-taught him how to fly with the harness and tailpiece, and didn't seem at all bothered. Finally, at the end of the final boss fight, as it were, he not only flew directly into flames from a giant explosion and came out unharmed, he likely hit the ground pretty hard with Hiccup encircled in his legs and wings, and apart from being groggy and of a general "ow" demeanor, was mostly okay thereafter.
Toothless also likes to partially regurgitate his food. It seems to be a sort of "sharing" technique-- like how mother birds eat and then hork some or all of the food back up for their young. He appears to be the only dragon amongst those introduced in the movie that does this, and in the movie he only ever spat anything back out to offer to Hiccup. However, one can assume that if he were to take a liking to anyone or anything else, he may attempt the same for them as a means to ensure they were fed. He doesn't seem to mind if the offered regurgitated fish bits are not eaten by those they are offered to, but more in a "your loss," sort of fashion.
[Affection] Toothless is technically a wild animal, but really? He's an overgrown reptilian cat. There are days where he FUCKING LOVES PETTINGS. There are other days where he's going to play hard to get, and other days still where he just doesn't want you to touch him. If you're Hiccup, chances are he'll always fucking want pettings. If you're Astrid, he'll probably walk the line between wanting pettings and playing hard to get. Anyone else will depend entirely on how he meets them and how well he takes to them. Someone like Stoick he would be more likely to be very wary around, simply because of previous experiences. He's like a feral cat brought inside, he's gonna tread lightly other than with His People.
[Fighting] Heeee's a dragon. So he shoots fire. Semi-solid, white-hot, lightning fire. It's pretty badass. However! He is still just as vulnerable as anything else if you can hit him in his open mouth, and without Hiccup he cannot fly very effectively at all to get away. His new prosthetic is metal and therefore harder to destroy, but it can be ripped from him and can render him completely flightless, as well. Apart from that, he has claws, retractable teeth, and the ability to be stupidly freaking adorable to disarm anyone with an "aww" meter. :|b
[Other Permissions] Telepathy, sure. Just please ask me first. Toothless doesn't speak human tongues, but he can certainly think them. If disjointedly. Fourth wallers, have at and do what you want. Toothless probably won't believe a word you say, but I'll get a kick out of it. For the most part, please contact me before doing anything intrusive, but chances are I'll be down with it. :D
[Other Facts] Have some adorable. ART IS NOT MINE. Only the coloring. :)
