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I've been bit by something. Tell me, is the Big Four / Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom in any way viral or infectious? Because I'm pretty sure that's the only reason I'm doing these things.

I actually rather like the Big Four as seasons idea, though I made a couple of minor tweaks for personal preference. I'll explain everything one by one here:

Hiccup, Spirit of Autumn and Change. He actually made it to old age before he became a spirit, and is a bit unusual in that he can appear to be any age at any time. He can control the changes if he wants, but when he lets go of said control it tends to sort of drift slowly and randomly back and forth. This can make conversations with him rather interesting, as in the course of one he may morph from a young teen to an old man or vice versa, all with the gradual speed of a minute hand inching along around a clock's face. Toothless has joined him in spirithood, and they have retained their prosthetics as well. Also, the cane depicted there is one Hiccup crafted for himself upon reaching late middle age, and it serves him a dual purpose: one, keeping his balance and easing the weight on his bad legs as he aged...and two, with a twist of a hidden mechanism to unlock it, a slender blade can be drawn from the cane's housing, rendering him capable of defending himself, often to the absolute shock of any enemy who looked at him and made the mistake of seeing a feeble, crippled old man.

Hiccup puts trees to sleep in preparation for winter, among other things. His is a role of ushering in change for the good of everything; after all, if certain things didn't hibernate or migrate or have warning of the winter to come, they could die.

It's a bit of a toss-up right now whether he or Merida are the oldest of the Seasonal spirits. One way or another, he's eventually adopted some slightly more modern clothing (okay, so the sweatervest and scarf and stuff are a bit dated, but hey, after almost one thousand years keeping up with changing fashions just isn't one's concern) as has she. Speaking of whom...

Merida, Spirit of Summer and Freedom. Yes, I know most people put "courage" there, but really, I think what drove Merida the most in her film was the idea of Freedom. She wanted it for herself and wound up giving it to her peers and even to her parents as well. She wasn't the only one being pressed into the marriage thing, after all, and her Mother was bound by her own uptight personality and views, while her Father was bound by his obsession with killing Mor'du. Merida also freed her Mother from the curse she made the mistake of putting on her, freeing Mor'du from his own curse indirectly and inadvertently as she did so.

Besides, Freedom takes Courage to find and to fight for.

Merida brings not only summer warmth but also summer storms...though sometimes not even she can coax up a little rainfall due to the heat.

At any rate, blue duster, gradiated dress, a cloak pin which was hers way back in the living day as well. I expect she shoots fire arrows and travels through flame as well. She died as a young woman, younger than any save Jack and in circumstances just as tragic.

Rapunzel, Spirit of Spring and Life. Again, I know the general consensus is Creativity. I gave Rapunzel Life not only because of her healing hair, but because, again, it was a longing for life - real, actual, bursting-at-the-seams LIFE - that drove her goals and her story. She dreamed, not in the sense of Sandman and what he protects, but in the sense of one who dreams of the future, of where one wants their life to go, what one wishes to become and grow into. THAT is what I see Rapunzel protecting, as she spurred the people of the Ugly Duckling to admit to (and go out and discover) what they wanted most in life - their "dreams."

I'm not yet sure how she died, but I do know it was somewhere in the middle of life, after she had become Queen of Corona and ruled the kingdom for a good while. When she became a spirit her age was reverted back to that of the film and her long, magical hair was returned to her.

While Hiccup puts things to sleep and sends them away in preparation for winter, Rapunzel wakes them up, calls them back, and watches over their new branches, saplings, and families.

I'm the least certain of her outfit, being pretty sure she's got all kinds of plantlife wound up in her hair and absolutely sure she got a frying pan from somewhere in the interest of self-defense and quite certain she's still running around in long skirts and bare feet, but not knowing anything else. Right now it looks rather drab and I've no idea how to fix it within the constraints of at least quasi-modern fashion, since I'd like all of them to have made wardrobe adjustments of some kind. Jack certainly did within those three hundred years, and this lot are far older than he.

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Yes, I'm obsessed enough to be writing fanfic one-shots. There'll be one for each of these three detailing their death and subsequent rise to spirithood; each one has a different story and a different manner of falling. I'll be uploading these to FF.N under the appropriate crossover archives, each being a single cross with RotG. My problem then is the planned one-shot where Jack meets each of these characters for the first time and perhaps interacts with them a bit beyond then, because that's a crossover between RotG and all three of these at once. FF.N only allows you to pick two archives in a crossover. Four is out of the question. So then, do I just pick one at random? Or do I split Jack's one-shot into three sections, one for each character, and upload these as much shorter second chapters attached to each initial oneshot?

Must get back to work; too much to write, too little time, too many shiny distractions.

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Hiccup's story: www.fanfiction.net/s/9211155/1…
Merida's story: www.fanfiction.net/s/9498074/1…
Rapunzel's story: www.fanfiction.net/s/11025467/…

Description
I've been bit by something. Tell me, is the Big Four / Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom in any way viral or infectious? Because I'm pretty sure that's the only reason I'm doing these things.

I actually rather like the Big Four as seasons idea, though I made a couple of minor tweaks for personal preference. I'll explain everything one by one here:

Hiccup, Spirit of Autumn and Change. He actually made it to old age before he became a spirit, and is a bit unusual in that he can appear to be any age at any time. He can control the changes if he wants, but when he lets go of said control it tends to sort of drift slowly and randomly back and forth. This can make conversations with him rather interesting, as in the course of one he may morph from a young teen to an old man or vice versa, all with the gradual speed of a minute hand inching along around a clock's face. Toothless has joined him in spirithood, and they have retained their prosthetics as well. Also, the cane depicted there is one Hiccup crafted for himself upon reaching late middle age, and it serves him a dual purpose: one, keeping his balance and easing the weight on his bad legs as he aged...and two, with a twist of a hidden mechanism to unlock it, a slender blade can be drawn from the cane's housing, rendering him capable of defending himself, often to the absolute shock of any enemy who looked at him and made the mistake of seeing a feeble, crippled old man.

Hiccup puts trees to sleep in preparation for winter, among other things. His is a role of ushering in change for the good of everything; after all, if certain things didn't hibernate or migrate or have warning of the winter to come, they could die.

It's a bit of a toss-up right now whether he or Merida are the oldest of the Seasonal spirits. One way or another, he's eventually adopted some slightly more modern clothing (okay, so the sweatervest and scarf and stuff are a bit dated, but hey, after almost one thousand years keeping up with changing fashions just isn't one's concern) as has she. Speaking of whom...

Merida, Spirit of Summer and Freedom. Yes, I know most people put "courage" there, but really, I think what drove Merida the most in her film was the idea of Freedom. She wanted it for herself and wound up giving it to her peers and even to her parents as well. She wasn't the only one being pressed into the marriage thing, after all, and her Mother was bound by her own uptight personality and views, while her Father was bound by his obsession with killing Mor'du. Merida also freed her Mother from the curse she made the mistake of putting on her, freeing Mor'du from his own curse indirectly and inadvertently as she did so.

Besides, Freedom takes Courage to find and to fight for.

Merida brings not only summer warmth but also summer storms...though sometimes not even she can coax up a little rainfall due to the heat.

At any rate, blue duster, gradiated dress, a cloak pin which was hers way back in the living day as well. I expect she shoots fire arrows and travels through flame as well. She died as a young woman, younger than any save Jack and in circumstances just as tragic.

Rapunzel, Spirit of Spring and Life. Again, I know the general consensus is Creativity. I gave Rapunzel Life not only because of her healing hair, but because, again, it was a longing for life - real, actual, bursting-at-the-seams LIFE - that drove her goals and her story. She dreamed, not in the sense of Sandman and what he protects, but in the sense of one who dreams of the future, of where one wants their life to go, what one wishes to become and grow into. THAT is what I see Rapunzel protecting, as she spurred the people of the Ugly Duckling to admit to (and go out and discover) what they wanted most in life - their "dreams."

I'm not yet sure how she died, but I do know it was somewhere in the middle of life, after she had become Queen of Corona and ruled the kingdom for a good while. When she became a spirit her age was reverted back to that of the film and her long, magical hair was returned to her.

While Hiccup puts things to sleep and sends them away in preparation for winter, Rapunzel wakes them up, calls them back, and watches over their new branches, saplings, and families.

I'm the least certain of her outfit, being pretty sure she's got all kinds of plantlife wound up in her hair and absolutely sure she got a frying pan from somewhere in the interest of self-defense and quite certain she's still running around in long skirts and bare feet, but not knowing anything else. Right now it looks rather drab and I've no idea how to fix it within the constraints of at least quasi-modern fashion, since I'd like all of them to have made wardrobe adjustments of some kind. Jack certainly did within those three hundred years, and this lot are far older than he.

---

Yes, I'm obsessed enough to be writing fanfic one-shots. There'll be one for each of these three detailing their death and subsequent rise to spirithood; each one has a different story and a different manner of falling. I'll be uploading these to FF.N under the appropriate crossover archives, each being a single cross with RotG. My problem then is the planned one-shot where Jack meets each of these characters for the first time and perhaps interacts with them a bit beyond then, because that's a crossover between RotG and all three of these at once. FF.N only allows you to pick two archives in a crossover. Four is out of the question. So then, do I just pick one at random? Or do I split Jack's one-shot into three sections, one for each character, and upload these as much shorter second chapters attached to each initial oneshot?

Must get back to work; too much to write, too little time, too many shiny distractions.

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Hiccup's story: www.fanfiction.net/s/9211155/1…
Merida's story: www.fanfiction.net/s/9498074/1…
Rapunzel's story: www.fanfiction.net/s/11025467/…