What are we crying about today in the Httyd fandom? How about Hiccup and Toothless in Httyd 1 and if Toothless realizes how much he matters to Hiccup in the first movie!
Because here you have this boy, this Viking boy, who doesnât fit in and actually refuses to fit in. Because he doesnât want to change, he wants to be accepted for who he is because he knows he can never fit in the way they want him to.
Stoick has certainly tried to make him fit in, but he does so by attempting to steer Hiccup away from what he wants to do in order to prove himself. A.k.a no dragon training, no coming out during raids, etc.
Then there is Gobber, who also wants Hiccup to fit in the Viking way, but he does it by having Hiccup do exactly what he wants to do, but in the Viking way. A.k.a convince Stoick to let Hiccup join dragon training so he can train together with the other Viking kids, do his job at the forge, etc.
But Hiccup knows that he canât lift a hammer, that he canât swing an axe, that he canât even use a couple of bolas. So he tries and tries to prove himself as a dragon killer with his inventions, saying that itâs for popularityâs sake, that his life will be better, that he might even have a shot with Astrid.
And then Option C comes along and that is Toothless.
Toothless, who accepts Hiccup for who he is when he knows these few things about him:
Heâs actually a friendly.
Tries to fix his mistakes.
And Hiccupâs attempts to fit in on Berk stop immediately. Because one person accepting him for who he is was enough to Hiccup. Just one.
I could go on and on about how sad it is that Hiccupâs attempts were big enough for an entire village to notice, (Like, he couldâve gone after any dragon, but he decides to go after a Night Fury of all things?)Â when apparently one person looking at him and going âyeah, youâre allowed to exist the way you are right nowâ was enough to stop any and all further attempts to fit in.
But instead I want to consider this and focus on how much Toothless mustâve meant to Hiccup in Httyd 1 specifically.
Because Hiccup did gain popularity, he did get friends, he did "fit in", he did make his father proud, he made his entire village proud. And yet, what does he do?
He makes class end quicker to see Toothless quicker. Time spend at the forge is time spend on Toothless. If heâs not drawing blueprints for Toothless, heâs drawing Toothless, etc⌠And then he becomes the champion of his dragon killing training class and what is his first instinct?
Itâs to leave. Itâs to take Toothless and leave.
Because he knows explaining he canât kill a Monstrous Nightmare means exposing his âtricks and liesâ, it means exposing Toothless, the one person who truly accepts him for who he is. And Hiccup is willing to leave his village, his newfound friends, Astrid, Gobber, his own father, his âacceptanceâ just to keep Toothless safe.
And that while Gift of the Night Fury possibly implies that Hiccup didnât even believe Toothless was there to stay. He was willing to do all of that for just the one person who accepted him, who he thought was a very temporary thing.
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