Eighth Viking Charge [Video]

[punchandkiss]

[Astrid is in Ecruteak, and she looks...puzzled. She's frowning at her gear absently as she starts to talk.]

Okay. So, I've learned to deal with a lot here, really. Riding on the back of a giant bird, eggs that hatch into dogs, animals that get 'knocked out' instead of killed.

Ghost masks that make you think you're other people and no I am never going to talk about that.

Ghosts in general. I caught a ghost! He looks like a furry floating dark thing that grins. Which is weird. It's all weird.

But I think...this sort of wins.

[She turns the camera away now, to where her Wailmer is sitting on the ground looking gigantic and very happy. He sort of wiggles at the camera in what might be an attempt at a tail wag.]

He hatched from an egg that I could hold in my hands. Egg to that. He's HUGE. [And back to Astrid.] The 'Ball Whale Pokemon.' Seriously? And the strangest thing? Someone mailed me the egg. Anonymously. Someone looked at this and thought 'I'm going to give this whale thing to the viking girl.'

[She just shakes her head.]

I think I'm gonna name him 'Ball.'

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[punchandkiss]

[She thinks about it. What's as interesting as that.]

Well, we have a lot of dragons?

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[punchandkiss]

Unless he can and just no one has figured out how then.

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[newberktown]

[Well, that was true...]

She doesn't always like to battle, but she's not too bad. Zippleback's an electric type like Crackletail.

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[gochuugoku]

[And cue the deep intake of breath.]

L-Lóng--I mean--Dragons?!

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[punchandkiss]

Yeah.

We were always fighting them, as long as I can remember, as long as anybody can remember. But Hiccup figured out how to...befriend them? [Tame wasn't really the right word.] So now they live in Berk with us.

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[punchandkiss]

[Huh.]

You really did name most of your pokemon after things back home, didn't you.

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[newberktown]

Huh. I guess I did. [When he thinks about, it does seem like quite a few are...] It just sort of happened that way.

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[gochuugoku]

I'm not too surprised that your friend learned how befriend them. In my culture, dragons are benevolent and we see them as beings right below the gods.

We believe they live in palaces under the sea, as well as in the heavens. And just out of curiosity, the dragons you have... do any of them have serpentine bodies?

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[punchandkiss]

Hey, it's nice. Sort of. Everyone hates the names I come up with, anyway.

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[punchandkiss]

In ours it was mostly fighting, but they weren't doing it to hurt us, they were being forced by an even bigger dragon.

[Man, she did not like remembering that.]

Uhm. Like a snake? Not...really. Some of them have very long necks?

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[newberktown]

...A girl named Fluttershy hasn't talked about them to you, has she?

[Because however unusual they would be to most people, the names she'd given her pokemon weren't on the same level as Albert's.]

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[punchandkiss]

I'm not sure, I don't...think so?

One girl said they were boring. And somebody else kinda hinted they were mean.

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[gochuugoku]

Ah, I see. Where I come from, dragons have long bodies, whiskers, and some even have antlers.

[As he's talking, he grabs a piece of paper and a pencil so he can make a quick drawing of an Asian dragon, which he shows to Astrid once it's finished.]

Like this.

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[punchandkiss]

[Astrid looks at the offered drawing and shakes her head.]

Oh, no. Ours have wings usually, some bigger than others, and big solid bodies and long necks...usually...and four feet and a tail...

[She frowns.]

They all look pretty different but none like that.

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[newberktown]

Okay--just checking. [Because obligation dictates that he would have to side with Astrid, but Fluttershy was... Well, Fluttershy. Hard to go against someone like that.] Personally, I like the names you've given them.

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[gochuugoku]

I suppose dragons are diverse as people are, though I did not know that until I traveled to the Western Hemisphere of my world.

Ah, my name is Wang Yao, by the way. [He bows his head. Talking about dragons gets him so excited he often forgets to introduce himself.]

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[punchandkiss]

There are a lot of different dragons back home, yeah.

Oh, I'm Astrid. Hey.

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[punchandkiss]

Thanks. They're descriptive anyway.

[Slightly defensively, and not really directed at him. And Meatball is a perfectly fine name for a pudgy bird.

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[newberktown]

Hey, no argument here!

[Especially after Fishlegs named his dragon 'Meatlug'.]

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[gochuugoku]

You mentioned in your broadcast that you were a viking?

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[punchandkiss]

Yup. Born and raised.

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[gochuugoku]

That is impressive.

If only the people from my world could meet you, I wonder what they would think since some of them used to be vikings.

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[punchandkiss]

Used to be?

How do you stop being a viking?

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[gochuugoku]

Well, in our world, times changed and they had to adapt or else it would have been the end of them, aru. Of course they never truly stopped being Vikings, but they certainly do not ride on large boats, or fight, as much as they used to.