Cloudjumper, disinterested, turns aside, leaving Toothless disappointed and alone. Toothless even sticks his head amiably under Cloudjumper’s left wing, but this does not garner an appropriately friendly response. What we notice, though, is that the interaction is not so smooth. He thus purposefully approaches Cloudjumper - with some opening warmness - hoping for positive reciprocation. He intentionally initiates an interaction by coming straight up to the Stormcutter’s side. He’s no longer reacting by his instinctive wariness of encountering suspicious strangers and opens a new side to Cloudjumper. Toothless is bubbly, bouncing around, in the dragon sanctuary. Though the meeting is accidental and surprising, they regard one another with a wariness, almost an expectation the other is an enemy.īy the second time Toothless and Cloudjumper interact, it’s already markedly different in nature than their first interaction. There is no trust between Cloudjumper and Toothless, nor Hiccup and Valka. Hiccup, like Cloudjumper, is startled and nervous, staring at the dragon/rider duo in wide-eyed surprise. She stands, boldly, imposingly, in a way threateningly, and even dares to kidnap Hiccup straight from the sky. It would not be beyond Toothless to even fire a warning plasma blast. Rather, the two dragons face one another almost as though in opposition Cloudjumper seems alarmed and wary of the Night Fury, while Toothless glares up at the Stormcutter with his trademark first-meeting hostility. When Cloudjumper and Toothless first meet, it is not an extroverted, friendly encounter. And fascinatingly, it directly mirrors the growth Valka and Hiccup experience with one another, too. It begins with mutual hostility, or at the very least, mutual suspicion, yet it grows into something warm and friendly… then lastly supportive and respectful. These dragons progress through multiple dispositions of one another as they interact. Cloudjumper and Toothless have such an endearing relationship in HTTYD 2, and intricate, now that I can think about it.

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