I like to think that Hiccup would be more of an affectionate father because he somewhat wished that Stoick was. Hence the birth of this sketch. I also love the more domestic side of Hiccup and Astrid, and can’t resist drawing cute family moments lol.
I think Hiccup wasn’t thinking right in the third movie, he seems completely irrational and jumpy.
Look his dad died almost a year before, he’s stressed out trying to run berk, what does he do to avoid running berk? Save dragons, where do the dragons go? Berk. That starts an overpopulation on Berk that he refuses to deal with, until his best friend is threatened.
Desperate to save toothless, he runs away and takes berk with him because they’re his reponsibility.
Throughout the movie he is constantly trying to find something else to focus on, they find the lightfury and he puts all his effort into that, and getting toothless to fly so he can get a date, he’s realy just running from things instead of facing them head on, which is not the hiccup we’ve seen in the past whatsoever.