My Chieftess... ✨Scripted✨ version

Episode 5: A Gruff Separation

Ruffnut: Viewed as failures.

Hiccup: But...

Ruffnut: Ugh, Hiccup, it's so sweet and very Hiccup-like that you care, but relax. We've got something no other Thorston has ever had.

Hiccup: And that is?

(Ruffnut opens the door revealing Barf and Belch's heads)

Ruffnut: Barf and Belch.

(Gruffnut squeezes in and pushes Barf and Belch's heads out before closing the door)

Gruffnut: Uh, ooh. Sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but uh, you actually can't use your dragon.

Ruffnut: Hmm. Well, at least we have each other.

Gruffnut: Uh, and that's problemo número dos. You got to compete as individuals.

Ruffnut: What? What are you babbling on about, Gruffnut?

Gruffnut: There's only one spot available this year. Only one of you can become a full-fledged Thorston.

Hiccup: You have to be kidding me.

Tuffnut: What? But we're a package deal! You want Ruff, you get Tuff. Look, you can't have one without the other.

Gruffnut: I'm sorry. We've just never had to deal with the whole twin 'thang'. For this, we had to devise a whole new system.

(Ruffnut launches at Gruffnut but is held back by Tuffnut)

Ruffnut: I'll give you a new system!

Tuffnut: Ruff!

Ruffnut: (grunting) Let me go!

Tuffnut: Listen, Gruffnut, if that really is your name - I'm pretty sure it is because no one's referred to you as anything else - if we both can't become Thorstons, then count me out.

Ruffnut: Yeah! I'm not gonna leave my brother behind.

Tuffnut: Yes. Thank you, Ruffnut. You know, also, that being said, it's probably borne of insecurity knowing that, to be fair, I would win the Trials.

Ruffnut: Oh, really? You don't say.

Hiccup: Hey, uh, guys, let's not lose sight of the fact that you're both doing something really honorable.

Tuffnut: Our fellow non-Thorston is right. We've made our decision. I'm afraid we shall be Thorstons no more.

(The twins head-butt each other and grunt as they fall. Hiccup is quite taken aback by the act.)

(Scene changes to the morning where Ruffnut is walking around Dragon's Edge before being pulled aside by Gruffnut)

Ruffnut: What the - Gruff?

Gruffnut: Oh, so, I-I . . . (sighs) Look, I was wondering if you might reconsider taking the Trials.

Ruffnut: We said no, and we meant it.

Gruffnut: Which is so disappointing. I mean, it's clear you would've won.

Ruffnut: Pfft. Duh.

Gruffnut: I get it. A beauty like you will easily marry into another family. It's not as if you're going to become an old maid or, uh, you know, some elderly hen, a baby seal named Derriq, with a Q. But losing the Thorston name isn't such a big deal for you. But poor-poor Tuffnut - I mean, he's stuck.

Ruffnut: Huh, I never thought of it that way.

Gruffnut: Yep. An outcast forever. Sad and alone. (sighs) Unless . . .