Now that I start my third year of sports right after I've watched a *certain movie* (if you follow this blog you definitely know which one 😆) I'm motivated to add functional training with an army vibe to my regular training routine.
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I Cannot Say This On Twitter bc it'll immediately get my account blown up, but I have to say. this is the year I need to either: officially find a therapist, OR the year that I finally jump in front of a train.
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Been relistening to How to Train Your Dragon, and something I’ve noticed is:
Hiccup chooses his fate.
Like, I absolutely love the whole fate is ruling Hiccup’s life - playing games with him - I mean he is a walking “lost things magnet” to quote the witch. He seems destined to be king because there are so many signs - the blue snow, the swimming race, speaking dragonese, the dragon mark, the list goes on.
But. (And I only spotted this now) In the very beginning, when Gobber sends the boys in to steal a baby hunting dragon, the first dragon Hiccup ever has to train, he picks out one. He gets a nice easy basic brown (Horracow) and he probably would have been very happy with her. She’s obedient, holds similar non-violent beliefs as him, and would have been easy to train. He could have had a fairly ordinary life with her, nothing impressive but he’d have lived.
But Fishlegs didn’t get a dragon.
Fishlegs would have been banished from the tribe had Hiccup not decided to disobey the ‘only the strong can belong’ mentality and given up his dragon. Because he gives Fishlegs his dragon, Hiccup chooses Toothless. And Toothless. Toothless is the key to everything. Literally. *Looks hard at the lobster claw*
The point is, that because Hiccup chooses compassion over self preservation, he chooses to become king the wilderwest. He would rather do a hard thing, like find another dragon, than let his friend suffer. He would rather pick a dangerous adventure over those he’s responsible for, who he cares about, getting hurt. And that’s why, again and again, he always pick the path toward being king.
It’s the same when he saves Fishlegs by claiming he wrote the letter to Tantrum, and in the quest for the potato, and, finally, in how he defeats his father in the flashburn duel. Because dragons are people he cares about.
Yes, Fate chooses Hiccup, but only because Hiccup chose Fate first.
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i've been having many thoughts on damen's thought process lately and like. damen's perspective of their relationship is actually so interesting bc it's not as if he doubts laurent has feelings for him at any point after ravenel. seeing it as he opens with "the night we made love" not fucked, not had sex, made love. he knows laurent loves him in a way. what he doesn't know at one point is that laurent has feelings for Damen, the whole person, and not this slave damen persona he created & that's why he's in such a melancholic pining state even when sticking it in. and then he is momentarily so happy when he finds out laurent knew who damen truly was when he slept with him bc in damen’s mind laurent Acts Like That with him → obviously reciprocates damen's feelings → they "make love" + laurent knows the full extent of his identity and still made that choice = happy ending. but their reality is a lot messier than that and yes damen is aware of it on some level (even when he makes the terrible faux pass of mentioning auguste when laurent is already stressed and volatile).
however his mind still operates on simple basic tangible logic. either it is or it's not. so this thing where laurent loves him and laurent hates him and is hurt and is hurting damen and there's politics over the feelings and laurent knew but was in denial and this and that and but and but and. it's all too layered and conceptual and confusing for him. he does understand the complexities bc he's not stupid but he doesn't respect them. and so he pines about it.
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