You are the cause of my Euphoria⁷

She outshone every single one of her costars by a mile. The rest of the cast is lucky her character didn’t have more screen time, because she would have completely devoured them and left them fighting for scraps.

I’m an AuDHD Hiccup fan, but I also feel like he has combined type ADHD, but the inattentive type is more dominant for him.

I feel like Fishlegs has Inattentive ADHD, and so does Astrid.

Snotlout and the twins have hyperactive ADHD, it’s kinda obvious why. Like the twins are those weird kids with ADHD in school who get mildly bullied but most of it goes over their heads and doesn’t bother them. They’re just off putting enough that most people wouldn’t want to hang out with them and find them weird. Snotlout would be a popular kid.

But not in romantic ship kinda way

In a "Hiccup and the gang" kinda way

Listen, I am delighted with Buffstrid, and I am absolutely sure that her body would look simply stunning if it were muscular and pumped up. But there are two reasons why I would never prefer big muscles to Astrid’s angular and wiry physique.

1. Meaning for personality 

We’ve seen Astrid masterfully handle heavy weapons. We have seen how Astrid could easily put adult men of different weight categories on the shoulder blades – from Hiccup to Fishlegs. We saw how Astrid easily lifted heavy things (for example, she carried long logs alone, which the twins could only pull together). All these amazing things were done by a girl with a skinny build. Isn’t that cool?

Would we admire Astrid’s strength if she was pumped up? Absolutely! However, it is natural for a muscular person to be strong. The fact that Astrid was thin, much better emphasizes her endurance, perseverance, physical strength and agility acquired over years of training.

2. Meaning for the film

Once upon a time there was an opinion among httyd fans that Hiccup was not like all Vikings, mainly because he was a skinny little man, and they were meaty. But the very presence of Astrid in the film – with her elongated, bony limbs and sharp elbows – proves the opposite.

Astrid’s thinness shows that Hiccup could have won the favor of the tribe, despite his physique. Astrid’s thinness shows that Hiccup’s appearance did not matter – Hiccup’s main conflict with the tribe was not in the external, but in the internal (worldview) difference.

In addition, thinness does not make Astrid “the perfect love interest of the main character.” On the contrary, it makes her imperfect - she could have been big, like all normal Vikings, but she wasn’t like that. And that’s fine.

This time i want to talk about how Hiccup changing Berks view of dragons isn't nearly the only thing he changed and how his influence on this village and his friends especially is so much greater then people realize.

In the beginning of the first movie we see that Hiccup is alone and outcasted from the rest of his peers but while the other kids stuck together, calling them friends would be a stretch.

Astrid didn't like anybody there, she was respected but she didn't respect anyone else and therefore she kept to herself.

Snotlout was mean and self-centered, he only saw Astrid as the pretty girl in the village that he is obviously entitled to because he is the best (no i srs don't think he actually had a crush on her, his flirting seemed so performative, like he only did it because he thinks that's what he is supposed to do, he literally got scared in that one episode of rob when she started flirting back) and he didn't seem to care about anyone there much. In riders of berk we see that everybody kinda disliked him (the thawfest episode) because they think he is arrogant. I mean he couldn't even tell the twins apart at some point (I know this seems like i'm bashing him but i swear guys he is my favorite character just bear with me)

Fishlegs was laying low because he was the closest to being outcasted after Hiccup. In riders of berk we see Snotlout being so mean to him at times. Nobody there really liked him or respected him either.

The twins obviously loved each other, i mean, obviously, they are siblings even though their relationship was not the best (as we see in twinsanity) but other than that, they didn't particularly like Astrid or Fishlegs and while they did hang out with Snotlout i wouldn't call that a healthy friendship (again, he couldn't even tell them apart)

So now that we got that out of the way, let's compare it to how their friendship is in rtte.

They all work together in perfect harmony. They all get concerned immediately when one of them isn't acting as usual (they literally created a whole training exercise where they put Snotlout in charge just to bring his confidence up cause he was having a bad day). They lived together. They all risked their lives for each other so many times without thinking. They all know each other so well.

Astrid learned to respect hear team and trust them instead of doing everything alone.

Snotlout learned that not everything is a competition and that not everyone is against him and that he doesn't have to prove himself for people to care about him.

Fishlegs found his passion and earned the teams respect and they are treating him like an equal now.

The twins repaired their relationship and are now closer than ever and yet two different people with their own personalities who care about their friends a lot and can put their mischief into something useful.

This is the influence Hiccup brought to the team. He didn't just change their minds about dragons, he changed them completely.

He made that team into what it is, his presence brought them all closer with each other.

Without Hiccup Astrid would never learn to let her guard down. Without Hiccup Snotlout would never learn to stand up to his dad. Without Hiccup the twins would never learn that they don't have to hate each other to prove that they are different people. Without Hiccup Fishlegs would never gain his confidence.

It's so sad how these kids didn't even know what friendship truly was due to their upbringing. They only new competition and violence. "Be a real viking, no your feelings aren't important, in fact we are VIKINGS, we don't have feelings!" This is probably how an average dinner conversation sounded like at Berk before.

So i hate when people are like "The gang were all friends before Hiccup joined the group" They were NOT. There was ZERO affection in this group before Hiccup got there. These kids did not like each other, it was all so fake and competitive.

Hiccup - Hephaestus (The god of blacksmithing and fire c'mon now)

Astrid - Ares (people love to say Athena because they compare hiccstrid and percabeth but no, infact Hiccup is more likely to be an Athena kid than she is)

Snotlout - Apollo (he thought he would get Ares but that was not the case. He was upset for a while, then the theater kid in him broke free and now he loves it there)

Ruff and Tuff - Hermes (duhh if the Stoll brothers are there so would these two. I know the prank wars are going insane)

Fishlegs - either Athena or Apollo (I'm leaning towards Apollo because i feel he would be good at medicine but that would mean he and Snotlout were brothers and idk how to feel about that)

Heather - Nemesis (self explainetory)

Additionally:

(spoilers for rtte)

actually being able to see characters deaths and wounds

more depth into snotlout and spitelouts relationship- it’s clearly not a healthy one

more depth into hiccstrid and other couples

specifically, queer couples and characters- we know gobber and snotlout are gay/bi respectively, but we never get more info on that subject

actual blood and wounds

let!!! them!!! say!!!!! fuck!!!!!

more clarification on which dragon fire hurts which dragons, and which ones don’t

blood!!

ruff and tuff clearly have things to say that are not age appropriate, let them say it

could go more in depth with the scarier side of the dragons

show the effects of characters getting wounded!!!!

just. everything about dagur.

could go more in depth with fishlegs’s anxiety?

on that note, all of the gang’s mental health- hiccup clearly overworks and blames himself for everything, astrid has obvious anger issues and pent up rage, snotlout pretends to think he’s better than everyone else to mask his cripplingly low self esteem, fishlegs 100% has anxiety or some kind of panic disorder, ruff is already canonically frustrated with being “a woman in a man’s world” and doesn’t feel appreciated enough, and tuff doesn’t seem to value his own well being very much- not to mention that he literally has hallucinations sometimes

and dagur definitely has something that causes him to be in a constant state of mania

gustav and his parents- he said his mother only notices he’s gone after the third day????

at least one person on berk has (consensually) fucked a dragon. give me some background on that.

at least half of the riders cursing like sailors

being able to show sicknesses better- the time astrid caught the scourge of odin, the time astrid got deathly poisoned, plus the time astrid went blind (astrid sure does get beat up a lot damn)

just give me all the things we couldn’t have as kids!!!! blood!!! gore!!!!!!! death!!!!!!! cursing!!!!!! gays!!!!!!!!! abusive relationships!!!!!!!!! kissing that doesn’t look awkward and forced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! monster fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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