Post by Shade on Jul 16, 2012 12:47:05 GMT -5
Hello there. My name is Shade the Night Fury. I've known of this site for a couple years now, but I never actually thought about joining until today. I'm not really sure why. I kinda decided on a whim to join this, so I don't know how this is going to work out, but I hope it will turn out well.
I have different names on different forums. I have gone under the names Graystripe (I used to be a huge Warriors fan, not so much anymore though, I kinda lost interest) and Blackheart, and even as Toothless once. But for this, I decided to do something different. At first, I wanted to use the name Toothless, because I have based my name on my favorite characters before. But that only lasted about a second, because on an HTTYD forum this active that's been around for two years, that name's bound to have been taken in at least twenty different ways. So I decided to go with Shade, which is the name of a Night Fury I invented.
I am a HUGE fan of How to Train Your Dragon. I'm completely obsessed with it. The movie, that is. I haven't read the books, because to be honest they don't really interest me. From what I hear, the things I loved about the movie either aren't in the book, or aren't done as well, and besides, I prefer books for higher age groups. When the movie first came out, I didn't really know much about it except that it was Dreamworks, and I was still in that phase where I thought that Dreamworks + animated = complete garbage. That, and I wasn't quite in my all-consuming dragon obsession that started summer 2011. My friend didn't think it was going to be that good either, but said he wanted to see it anyway because it involved dragons.
Turned out we were both very wrong. It became his favorite movie, and to this day he still likes it a little more than even I do. He pushed me to go with him to see it again, and I gave in. Of all the decisions I've made in my life, that is one of the ones I regret least.
So after that, I fell in love with the movie. Especially Toothless, and the Night Fury dragon design in general. I own the movie on Blu-Ray, and two of the three shorts (I haven't been able to get my hands on my own copy of The Book of Dragons, but I want to), and a physical copy of the soundtrack (best film score ever? I think so). As far as the shorts go, I wasn't a huge fan of the Boneknapper one, because I thought it was too light-hearted. It didn't really fit the spirit of the movie to me, and it only had about two seconds of Toothless. But the boneknapper was AWESOME. Gift of the Night Fury was great though, and the Book of Dragons was pretty cool.
As I said before, I love Toothless. He has become my favorite character of all time (not just this franchise). He is my favorite dragon (well, all dragons are awesome simply for the fact that they are dragons). The Night Fury just might be my favorite dragon type ever (other dragons from the movie I loved were the Monstrous Nightmare, the Deadly Nadder, the Boneknapper, and pretty much anything but the Gronckle, which I'm not a huge fan of). I own a Toothless figure and plush, and actually went as Toothless for Halloween using my own homemade costume that my friend helped me make. My point is, I'm a MASSIVE Toothless fanboy (which is why I'm posing as a Night Fury).
I also saw the Arena Spectacular last Thursday. While it was a little cheesy at times (I could've done without the dance sequences), some scenes were very well done, and the visuals and dragons were AMAZING. I recommend it to any HTTYD fan. I also got a shirt there that showed a picture of Toothless and said "Certified Dragon Trainer."
As for the upcoming TV series, I cannot wait. When I first heard of it, I was mad, because I was almost certain that it was going to ruin the movie's good name. Honestly I can't think of a good TV show based off of a DreamWorks animated movie. But after watching Gift of the Night Fury, I began to hope. And after seeing all of that Comic Con footage... My God, I can't wait. I'm not going to go into all my thoughts on the new information they gave us, because it would take WAYYYYY too long, but it sounds amazing! I will say, however, that I love that they seem to be doing a little bit from Toothless's perspective at times. At least, that's what I'm getting from it. I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not. I would love that.
So yeah, that's pretty much it for my thoughts on the actual franchise. As I mentioned before, however, I invented my own Night Fury character named Shade. I've used him with two things. On an RP forum me and my friends made a while back, I created a How to Train Your Dragon RP in which I used him. In the RP, he was Toothless's son. I love RPing, and I'm very proud of the concept I came up for that particular one. But Shade's genesis was really in a story I started writing in the beginning of last November, and am still working on it today (35 chapters, 462 pages, and 178,196 words and counting). The plot was entirely my own creation, but some of its elements were borrowed from other things, be it real life or something like HTTYD. I'm writing it purely for fun. Anyway, Shade, one of the main characters, is a Night Fury (as is another, Ashmore, that my friend invented). Me being me, and having a bias towards dragons over humans, I have made him one of the most developed characters in the entire story (if not THE most developed).
Well, that's about all for HTTYD-related stuff. I also enjoy writing, listening to music (mostly rock/metal, I'm a huge metalhead), watching movies and tv shows (I aspire to one day become a director), playing video games (although not as much right now), drawing (dragons and Pokemon, mostly), reading, skiing, hanging out with friends, daydreaming, and other stuff that I can't think of right now because my brain is starting to go on overload because of how much stuff I've put in this post. Yeah, as you can see, I have a lot to say when it comes to HTTYD. So, yeah. That's all. This place seems nice, and I hope to have a good time here.
This post was WAYYYY too long. I'm sorry.
I have different names on different forums. I have gone under the names Graystripe (I used to be a huge Warriors fan, not so much anymore though, I kinda lost interest) and Blackheart, and even as Toothless once. But for this, I decided to do something different. At first, I wanted to use the name Toothless, because I have based my name on my favorite characters before. But that only lasted about a second, because on an HTTYD forum this active that's been around for two years, that name's bound to have been taken in at least twenty different ways. So I decided to go with Shade, which is the name of a Night Fury I invented.
I am a HUGE fan of How to Train Your Dragon. I'm completely obsessed with it. The movie, that is. I haven't read the books, because to be honest they don't really interest me. From what I hear, the things I loved about the movie either aren't in the book, or aren't done as well, and besides, I prefer books for higher age groups. When the movie first came out, I didn't really know much about it except that it was Dreamworks, and I was still in that phase where I thought that Dreamworks + animated = complete garbage. That, and I wasn't quite in my all-consuming dragon obsession that started summer 2011. My friend didn't think it was going to be that good either, but said he wanted to see it anyway because it involved dragons.
Turned out we were both very wrong. It became his favorite movie, and to this day he still likes it a little more than even I do. He pushed me to go with him to see it again, and I gave in. Of all the decisions I've made in my life, that is one of the ones I regret least.
So after that, I fell in love with the movie. Especially Toothless, and the Night Fury dragon design in general. I own the movie on Blu-Ray, and two of the three shorts (I haven't been able to get my hands on my own copy of The Book of Dragons, but I want to), and a physical copy of the soundtrack (best film score ever? I think so). As far as the shorts go, I wasn't a huge fan of the Boneknapper one, because I thought it was too light-hearted. It didn't really fit the spirit of the movie to me, and it only had about two seconds of Toothless. But the boneknapper was AWESOME. Gift of the Night Fury was great though, and the Book of Dragons was pretty cool.
As I said before, I love Toothless. He has become my favorite character of all time (not just this franchise). He is my favorite dragon (well, all dragons are awesome simply for the fact that they are dragons). The Night Fury just might be my favorite dragon type ever (other dragons from the movie I loved were the Monstrous Nightmare, the Deadly Nadder, the Boneknapper, and pretty much anything but the Gronckle, which I'm not a huge fan of). I own a Toothless figure and plush, and actually went as Toothless for Halloween using my own homemade costume that my friend helped me make. My point is, I'm a MASSIVE Toothless fanboy (which is why I'm posing as a Night Fury).
I also saw the Arena Spectacular last Thursday. While it was a little cheesy at times (I could've done without the dance sequences), some scenes were very well done, and the visuals and dragons were AMAZING. I recommend it to any HTTYD fan. I also got a shirt there that showed a picture of Toothless and said "Certified Dragon Trainer."
As for the upcoming TV series, I cannot wait. When I first heard of it, I was mad, because I was almost certain that it was going to ruin the movie's good name. Honestly I can't think of a good TV show based off of a DreamWorks animated movie. But after watching Gift of the Night Fury, I began to hope. And after seeing all of that Comic Con footage... My God, I can't wait. I'm not going to go into all my thoughts on the new information they gave us, because it would take WAYYYYY too long, but it sounds amazing! I will say, however, that I love that they seem to be doing a little bit from Toothless's perspective at times. At least, that's what I'm getting from it. I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not. I would love that.
So yeah, that's pretty much it for my thoughts on the actual franchise. As I mentioned before, however, I invented my own Night Fury character named Shade. I've used him with two things. On an RP forum me and my friends made a while back, I created a How to Train Your Dragon RP in which I used him. In the RP, he was Toothless's son. I love RPing, and I'm very proud of the concept I came up for that particular one. But Shade's genesis was really in a story I started writing in the beginning of last November, and am still working on it today (35 chapters, 462 pages, and 178,196 words and counting). The plot was entirely my own creation, but some of its elements were borrowed from other things, be it real life or something like HTTYD. I'm writing it purely for fun. Anyway, Shade, one of the main characters, is a Night Fury (as is another, Ashmore, that my friend invented). Me being me, and having a bias towards dragons over humans, I have made him one of the most developed characters in the entire story (if not THE most developed).
Well, that's about all for HTTYD-related stuff. I also enjoy writing, listening to music (mostly rock/metal, I'm a huge metalhead), watching movies and tv shows (I aspire to one day become a director), playing video games (although not as much right now), drawing (dragons and Pokemon, mostly), reading, skiing, hanging out with friends, daydreaming, and other stuff that I can't think of right now because my brain is starting to go on overload because of how much stuff I've put in this post. Yeah, as you can see, I have a lot to say when it comes to HTTYD. So, yeah. That's all. This place seems nice, and I hope to have a good time here.
This post was WAYYYY too long. I'm sorry.