Astrid’s Importance In Hiccup’s Life Is Often Questioned, I've Seen Posts On How She Has Schemingly

Something I like specifically about Hiccup’s ‘being different’ story is that it actually makes sense.

There’s the cliche of ‘I’m not like everyone else and I get bullied for it’ trope where the character tries to ‘be like everyone else.’ Than discovers that no matter what anyone thinks, they should anyways be themselves. And while that is a good message, it’s not very applicable to certain situations.

Hiccups story is a bit different and I think it works and hit harder than any of those stories.

And it’s for a specific reason.

They don’t take into account the culture of a place.

The reason hiccup is ostracized is not because he’s ’quirky and weird’ (mostly) but because he doesn’t fit the societal beauty standards of his culture. Hiccup is very much culturally a Viking. He’s just tiny. And because of that he doesn’t fit into the mold.

But he doesn’t try to fit in by becoming the strongest or by being an axe wielding master. Hiccup never tries not to be true to himself.

Hiccup never needed to fit in, the village needed to fit him if that makes sense.

Hiccups a Viking in the sense that he’s socially and culturally like them but isn’t able to follow that culture because of his stature.

The outlier of this is the fact is that Hiccup will never have the guts to kill a dragon. This is evident in the first movie as well.

His story is very similar to Luz’s from The Owl House in the sense that they never tried to be something that they weren’t. (They’re also both neurodivergent coded but most characters in both shows are so it’s less about being different because of that)

Not my best analysis but it’s very late and I’m sleep deprived.

I’m going to say this on tumblr because I KNOW the author is on here but there’s this certain she ra fanfic I’ve been following literally since the start and it’s at almost 500k (congrats abt that by the way) and Catra and Adora have had a SINGLE interaction. A SINGLE ONE. And that’s through magic, they were thousands of miles away.

This author is so good at the long game with this slow burn that I can feel my sanity slipping away from me. Every week when they update I’ll stay up and wait for the chapter being like “they won’t interact, this is only act 2 but maybe they’ll mention each other.”

I feel like a little mouse that’s being slowly fed cheese so I can be lured to a mouse trap. Me going insane going i probably have like 3 more months before they even have ANY kind of interaction that isn’t them thinking about each other.

This is NOT a criticism, I hold this in such high regard because I AM GOING INSANE

Httyd dragon names would go so hard as shots. Pull up to the bar and ask for a shot of Deadly Nadder? A glass of Red death? Pint of Triple stryke?

There’s this art I found on Pinterest by mdoodlerfandomart and it’s so funny because it basically went like this.

Hiccup: is tied up and being held hostage in Viggo’s ship.

Viggo: pacing around a white board with a model of the earth in hand.

Viggo: “ You see dear Hiccup! This proves the earth is round. It’s a circle! Look! It rotates! It’s not flat! Its r.o.u.n.d!

Hiccup: who is trying to figure out if this is a ploy to make him let his guard down or if Viggo actually thinks the world is a sphere.

"No one gets to kill you but me"

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Katniss's Narration vs Haymitch's Narration

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office,”

KYSSSS 😭

Idea: rather than project all his childhood insecurities on his children, Hiccup holds Zephyr (or Tiny 👀) for the first time and he cries for himself as well because he holds this newborn, his first, and he can't ever imagine casting this child out like he was once casted out for so long that acceptance from the enemy was enough for him.