#httyd 1 astrid

[dragonnnfly]

Why I love how the first movie dealt with Hiccstrid

Early on in the first movie, it becomes clear that Hiccup has feelings for Astrid, although he never directly says so. His actions and the way he looks at her speaks for itself.

Hiccup also says that he hopes that by hunting dragons, he might find himself a girlfriend, but he never specifies that it is Astrid he’s interested in.

Still, Hiccup's crush on Astrid is not the main focus of the story, in fact, romance is brought up very little. While he attempts to impress her and the others during training and flirts with her once, he never becomes blinded by his feelings for her, not even after their romantic flight which leads to his feelings for her being requited.

He doesn’t do this

This

Or even this

To impress her.

Even though Hiccup initially had a crush on Astrid and later developed deep feelings for her, his motivation to become a hero was never driven by his feelings for her, and that’s not something you can say about all protagonist in movies.

#one too many times have I watched movies or shows where the hero only becomes the hero to get the girl #httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd 1 #analysis #commentary #screen caps #Hiccstrid #hiccup #Astrid #toothless #red death #1k notes

[home-of-renn]

One thing that I wished they kept throughout the franchise was Hiccup being the smallest Viking. I wish they kept him scrawny and stringy and shorter than Astrid and the rest of the gang.

Hiccup was ostracised by his entire community for many reasons, one being his weak build and small stature.

Snotlout may be shorter than Hiccup in the movies, but he's got bigger muscles and puffs himself up. He makes up for it by acting like a proper Viking, being loud and obnoxious and always ready to start a fight - that and he can actually lift a weapon.

The name Hiccup is meant to mean small and frail - the runt of a litter or the black sheep. I want Hiccup to be the absolute epitome yet antithesis of his name. I want Hiccup to be small and unassuming and shorter than the rest. But I also want him to be Great. I want him to be brave and stubborn and hard to kill. Awkward and sarcastic at the worst of times but still kind and friendly and always dependable.

I want him to be everything a Viking is and isn't. I want him to be a peacekeeper and a warrior, an adventurer and an inventor, the son of the chief and the hiccup of his tribe. Someone who can't wield the same weapons as his tribesmen so he makes his own. Someone who wants to uphold the traditions and culture of his people yet always thinks outside of the box. The representation of this new age that's fast approaching, the line in the middle where old and new clash.

I want Hiccup to dress like a Viking, talk like a Viking, eat, sleep and walk like a Viking yet be the very last thing anyone ever thinks of when they think of a Viking. And most of all I want there to be absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I wish they hadn't made him tall and appealing in the end. I wish they'd kept him the way he was. A Viking born too early and too weak in the middle of one of the harshest winters ever experienced by the barbaric archipelago. A Viking who beat the odds and survived. He's braved every terrible winter since his birth and lives in a place where it snows nine months of the year and hails the other three. He can endure bone-freezing chills and frozen oceans but never fails to catch the common cold. He's always been a bit sickly, ever since he was a child, but he always bounces back. He's got scars and a missing leg and his hands are filled with callouses, cuts and burns, but he's soft-spoken and loves to read and never skips a meal yet can never seem to get any bigger.

I wish they could have kept Hiccup the way he was. I wish they didn't have to change him in order to have him become a worthy hero.

I wish the entire village could look at their little runt of a chief and still crack jokes about his long-overdue growth spurt. I want them to look at him and be filled with pride, cause despite the fact that he hasn't grown an inch since he was sixteen, there isn't a single person on Berk who can look at him without seeing just how far he's come.

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[ipop222]

Tuffnut: Yeah I’m sort of a chicken magnet

Hiccup: Don’t you mean chick magnet?

*Sounds of distant bawk-bawking*

Tuffnut: We have to go NOW

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[xsibs]

Christmas card I made for my mom

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[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Okay, HTTYD fandom I’m coming for you.

I want an au where the gang were always friends. Like, they grew up to be just as tight-nit as they are in RTTE, but because of reasons they hide the fact that they’re friends with Hiccup from the adults. Why do I think this could work?

Well:

Hiccup by nature is very forgiving, so when all his friends come to him and say they can’t be friends in public because of one reason or another, he sympathizes, as long as they’re still friends, he doesn’t really care.

Snotlout is the first in the group to start drifting away, and they all ask him why

Spitelout doesn’t like that his son is hanging around Hiccup when he’s so unviking-like

He pressures Snotlout to cut ties with his cousin and to start putting him down for not living up to “what he should”

This backfires

Baby-lout hasn’t yet had the time to really internalize his father’s teachings, so when his friends ask, he tearfully tells them

Most of the group is furious, but Hiccup understands

If it had just been up to him the group probably would’ve disbanded then and there

Lucky for him it wasn’t

They figure that if Spitelout doesn’t want them to friends then they won’t… in public

In private is a different story

In public they treat it like a game, to taunt each other and be as sarcastic as possible

But when they’re alone they let their guard down

The next one to go, surprisingly, is Astrid

After her uncle died her family’s reputation takes a dive

At first, the fact that she’s friends with the chief’s son is a good thing, but as time goes on and he doesn’t grow, her parents start getting pressure, and Astrid, not being as young anymore, feels it, too

Astrid’s extremely conflicted, because on the one hand she doesn’t want to abandon Hiccup, let alone insult him in front of the village like Snotlout

But on the other, she needs to restore her family’s honor

So they come up with Astrid’s cover: in public she’ll distance herself from all of them, working hard to be a shield-maiden, only being a part of the group in an orbit-sort of way

She grows into ignoring Hiccup in public because if she doesn’t she’s going to take the head off the next person who insults him

For Fishlegs and the Twins, there’s no specific moment that they start to distance themselves in public

Overtime, the twins become more destructive and so does Hiccup, so being seen together is a no-go

Fishlegs is growing evermore into the scholar and is completely uninterested in fighting, to the point where, if it wasn’t for his stature, he’d be in the same boat as Hiccup (if less magnified, because he’s not the Chief’s son)

So they all “grow apart” into the roles we see in the first movie, with some noticeable differences

They sit together in the great hall, but to anyone casually observing Hiccup’s excluded from the conversation

In actuality, Hiccup and Fishlegs came up with their own little version of sign language which Astrid forced everyone to learn, though some are more fluent than others (Tuffnut is surprising good at it, but Snotlout’s lucky to understand a full sentence)

Astrid still trains extra in the forest, but usually you can find the rest of the group somewhere nearby doing their own thing, if they’re not needed elsewhere

Similarly, because they hang out around her while she trains, she manages to bully at least Hiccup and Fishlegs into being at least passable with one weapon (sword and hammer)

Snotlout still flirts with Astrid, but it’s far more joking and well timed than in canon (of course he still has a crush on her, she’s Astrid, but he also flirts with her to escape that weird fluttery feeling he gets when Fishlegs gets excited about the book he’s reading)

The twins outward behavior doesn’t change as much as their friends’ perception of them

The group is very aware that the twins are far smarter and more capable than they let on, and are aware that a lot of their chaos is carefully planned and not just violent stupidity like the rest of the village might assume

The gang even joins in a lot, the twins made them far more mischievous than they let anyone know

Due to the closeness to Astrid, Ruffnut is far more willing to be serious about training and other things, even if she still tries to downplay it

In reverse, Astrid is far more willing to chill the fuck out and have some fun, let her creativity take the lead, even if she’s very strict about keeping a mask in public

This is getting really long and repetitive so I’m just going to leave a few more thoughts

Fishlegs is far more confident and courageous because of his friends, but he’s still skittish in public

Hiccup is far less he’ll-bent on proving himself, but he’s still a sarcastic insane inventor so the results are pretty much the same he’s just happier (less lonely and lacking self-esteem)

Snotlout and Astrid are more comfortable with their emotions

Snotlout has less self-image problems (still-there though, fuck Spitelout)

When Hiccup says he shot down a Night Fury, they can tell he’s telling the truth, but they don’t have time to search with him that day, so he still meets Toothless the same

They plan to work together come dragon training, but Toothless kinda throws a wrench in that plan

Hiccup tries to keep him secret, but they know him, so when the Zippleback thing happens, he stands no chance

I have a lot more ideas but this so long

Just. Let them be friends damn it

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[toothbrushfingers]

a collect of hiccup in life-threatening danger

it’s like he WANTS to die

#httyd #httyd meme #how to train your dragon #httyd rtte #httyd movies #httyd 1 #httyd rob #httyd dob #race to the edge #httyd fandom #hiccup haddock #httyd race to the edge #rtte #hiccup #astrid hofferson #stoick the vast #rtte viggo #viggo grimborn

[climbdraws]

after further review I have concluded that HTTYD 1 is actually the best out of the trilogy, not HTTYD 2

#httyd 1 has the best story httyd 2 has the best visuals httyd 3 exists I guess #my biggest issues with 2 is pacing copycat alpha dragon and the villain is 2 generic #3 has a better villain but I just didnt care by that point like you know they're gonna be fine idk you know he doesn't matter #but in 2 like...stoick reunites with valka and then dies 10min after there's 0 room to breathe #toothless in 2 is just reduced to transportation dog #3 had so much potential with the hidden world glowing stuff to only give us 5min of it...sad #the style from httyd 1 is so unique and ugly but charming and by 3 its smooth Disneyfied faces #Astrid turns into an Elsa knock-off #ok rant over good night #httyd

[royaltea000]

I finally watched Gift of the Night Fury and I gotta say this is my favorite characterization of Astrid ever. Like I have no hate against her she’s always just been a yeah she’s cool kinda character to me but her being so optimistic in gotnf bordering on manic is so good to me. Her trying her best to forcefully bring cheer during sad times is so entertaining and gives her the chaotic touch that I always felt her character was missing. And those moments when it’s apparent that she’s really bad at comforting people sometimes is so funny to me it makes her feel a little more real.

Also I think the art style really helped I don’t know how to explain it other than it feels like they syringe fed like two tiny droplets of Tim Burton into it - it gives all the characters a slightly insane look in their eyes favorite animation style for em yet <3

#no I don’t mean that it looks like a Tim burton animation I just have extremely specific ways of describing things #it’s a gut feeling okay leave me alone or2 #also did I ever mention that their kid versions are my favorite version designs of them #well I am now #there’s just a really gremliny touch that their adult versions are missing later on #they look feral (affectionate) #gift of the night fury #httyd 1 #httyd #how to train your dragon #one of my rare rambling posts #astrid hofferson #gotnf really fleshed out Astrid’s character to me #I wish she was like that all the time

[phishferno]

colored sketches of hiccup and astrid ^^

#httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd fanart #httyd 1 #hiccup haddock #astrid hofferson

[iam-tryingmybest]

Idk if this is just me but I actually really love episodes like the a team and mi amor wing because we get to see Astrid being objectively a little silly. Like she is always so smart and put together and I love seeing her like that too I just also enjoy her insecurities. She has spent her whole life being good in the eyes of what her society deems important that I like seeing her be a little uncertain or act like a silly teenager in her first relationship.

#how to train your dragon #httyd #rtte #astrid hofferson #httyd astrid #hiccstrid #Astrid is a former gifted kid prove me wrong #like hiccup is alway trying and failing in Httyd 1 but Astrid is trying and succeeding #but I love seeing her become more and more passionate and kinda let go and trust herself more as the series goes on

[thefanartisthoho]

FOR SUM REASON, MLP INFECTION IS TRENDING? AND SOMEONE MADE A HTTYD VERS 😭😭😭😭

#hiccup haddock #httyd #how to train your dragon #astrid hofferson #httyd 1 #httyd 2 #httyd hidden world #hiccup #astrid #her sckunly bf got infected

[dragonnnfly]

Httyd 1, Astrid: I HATE HICCUP

Hiccup: All I hear is rivals to lovers, slowburn, hurt/comfort, 50k+ words

#could also work with Tuff in place of Hiccup because he definitely shipped them #httyd #how to train your dragon #hiccup #httyd 1 #Astrid #Hiccstrid #incorrect httyd quotes #don’t worry more memes will be coming #I’m just taking an incorrect quote break

[spigobath]

"I was going to say that your father would be proud. I'm proud. And where you go, I go."

(Astrid, to Hiccup - RTTE s6 ep12)

AUGH I LOVE RTTE THIS IS A MASTERPIECE. I love that we get to see everything that leads up to httyd2. the development of that stupid flight suit and sweet sword. How we see Hiccup and Astrid's relationship grow to what it is in that movie. Seeing how much Stoick and Hiccup have become father and son, and understanding a bit more why Stoick brought up the chieftain to Hiccup, who led a war and won it.

We get to see all the ignored characters grow into slightly better people (looking at you snotty boy). We see Hiccup's rationale in the "I can show you," with Drago, because he has done it countless times before in this show. He has been betrayed and hurt and threatened and that has made him into the restless man we see in httyd2. It bridges the gap of an ignored, attention seeking Hiccup of 1 to the current Hiccup who doesn't want responsibility, because he is scared.

ugehrufief I could ramble on I love this show

#httyd franchise #httyd 1 #httyd 2 #httyd rtte #race to the edge #hiccup haddock #httyd hiccup #astrid hofferson #httyd astrid #stoick the vast #httyd stoick #httyd fandom #httyd #guys this show <3 #i love it so much #i love the context it gives and the growth it provides #i love that they are kids and they are maturing #and they are playing and fighting #making mistakes and learning

[radiantdanvers]

The one ship that I will never get tired of shipping.<333

#how to train your dragon #httyd 1 #httyd 2 #httyd3 #hiccstrid #hiccup #astrid #i love them so much #otp

[wickedcriminal]

They never deny it

Going off of this BRILLIANT addition from @readerofthewilderwest

#httyd #httyd au #half brothers au #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #astrid hofferson #this is pretty soon after httyd 1 that's why elder is leaning on big tooth and younger; hes still getting used to his leg here #yeah they start calling him 'astrids hiccup' REAL soon after httyd 1 because astrid would not shut UP about him while he was asleep #a lot of berk probably meant this in a 'friendship' way because likewise they might call younger 'fishleg's hiccup' #but some vikings know EXACTLY what they're doing JZFZJFZUFJZF #my art

[mynameispen]

So you're telling me I'm supposed to accept that Hiccup Haddock is a lil ADHD goblin who is my exact brand of acoustic, and he gets a dragon but I don't? Absolute scam.

And Astrid is just a kid with anger issues who matures beyond them and watching her grow up in the background of the movies is just actually beautiful. It goes from rage at everything that doesn't go her way to this terrifying protector energy, from throwing ratchets at trees angrily because she isn't cool anymore to slamming an axe into a table because people need to pay attention to Hiccup.

Also relating to Hiccup real hard in the latter scene, the not wanting to have the conflict but needing to say what you think even if it isn't perfect. And Astrid just immediately supporting him even though she disagrees is just... yes. This is why they are the best. Constantly supporting each other, and then discuss, but when stuff starts happening she recognizes he needs support and not constant criticism. AAAAAHHH

Anyway moral of the story Hiccup is a literally me character but for ADHD aspies, and the movies Rob us of seeing him support her enough but you can just taste the healthy relationship.

#httyd #hiccstrid #hiccup haddock #astrid hofferson #httyd thw #httyd 1 #sorry I haven't seen the shows #yes i will get to it but netflix is expensive #im not hyperfixating on httyd you are #couple goals