clumsy nerd;

look to my left ? "this song is about.. not loving somebody."

these options make me contemplate suicide.

🫩🫩🫩 i don’t even know

Stoick was a Viking's Viking, strong and fierce and proud, and he fell hard for a woman who was peaceful and quirky and equally as proud. When he married her, he married without thinking about his future as chief but only the life he hoped to spend with her. Only once he did ascend did he realize how ill-suited Valka was to the role, how much his new subjects openly didn't care for her. Without the youthful blindness of love, he realized that strategically, Valka wasn't made to be a Chieftess, to lead a island at war.

When their first and only child was born, too small, too weak, the village's scorn towards Valka transferred to her runt of a son. Only Stoick's status kept Hiccup from being sent to sea. But now he had a weird wife and strange child he adored with all his heart all the while serving a village who hated anyone weird or strange. Then Valka was gone and all Stoick had was a boy too much like her. Suddenly he was afraid Valka's unpopular opinions and manner would follow his son, doom him before he'd even taken his first steps.

As Hiccup grew into himself, Stoick started trying to adjust his mannerisms, make him more like into a Viking. If they had been born as fishermen with no titles, Stoick would have gladly supported his boy and his oddities. But Hiccup was to be chief, be a warrior, he HAD to be if Berk (and Hiccup) were to survive. The more he tried to shape Hiccup into something he wasn't, the more Hiccup pulled back and the more they misunderstood each other. This continued on for years, each essentially talking in a different language to the other. Until Stoick was forced to see his son in all his glory.

Stoick wept at Hiccup's recovery bed after the Red Death. He wept for Valka, for her presence surely would have prevented father and son from becoming so estranged. He wept for himself, for not realizing Hiccup was an artist and in love with Astrid and still believed in trolls and a hundred other quirks he had missed in his singleminded focus to make Hiccup one of them. He wept for Hiccup who had to break free from the tribe's traditions, fight a monster, lose his leg and nearly die all the while thinking his father didn't love him.

percy is not an unreliable narrator, he just hates himself.

thats it. thats literally the only thing that makes him unreliable. youre calling him 'slow' or 'oblivious' because he didnt realize nico, annabeth, rachel etc. were in love with him? no he just didnt realize that anyone could loev him. because he sure didnt.

percy also always underplayed his own abilities, because he hates himself. he has shitty self esteem, of course hes going to mention only the basics, he thinks hes fucking sucks at everything.

“…but i’m afraid that someone else will hear me”