#literary posts

If you love the adventures of Hiccup in HTTYD,

PLEASE PLEASE

GO READ THE BOOKS

They are, despite being a children's book, one of the most amazing, well written, world building books I have ever read.

They follow another and even more unlikely Viking Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, in a different, more harsher, more ferocious world than the Hiccup of the movies ever faced, learning to become a hero the hard way.

PLEASE GO READ THEM

You can find the audio books online and even on YouTube. It's even read by none other than DAVID TENNANT, who is far more extraordinary with his voice acting skills than you think.

PLEASE GO READ THEM

And then feel free to watch the next series by the author, the Wizard of Once, which is despite being new, another fantastic series about wizards and warriors and magic, about a time when there was once magic in the world. It is rumoured that it is the next series Cressida Cowell and Dean Deblois is making in the future with Dreamworks! So check it out while it's still fresh and new!

Read them, share them, and support the author. Because if not for Cressida Cowell, we wouldn't have the beloved movies we hold dear to us today.

Grimmel the Grisly is not the scariest villain in the HTTYD movie series, but he is the last villian for Hiccup to fight for a very good reason.

Because Grimmel is Hiccup, an alternate future that might have become true, if he had killed Toothless many years ago.

Grimmel, like Hiccup, is not a big booming Viking but instead skinny and lanky, just like Hiccup. Instead of brawn, he is highly intelligent and hunts dragons using smarts and wits. It was no mistake that Grimmel and Hiccup came up with the exact same plan to capture each other. He is even shown doing chemistry, and inventing weapons to control the dragons. It was just like Hiccup did, when he builds a new wing for Toothless and contraptions for the village, only for evil, and for himself.

But unlike Hiccup, who is surrounded by people who love him, Grimmel is alone, surrounded by either those that hate him (the army belonged to the warlords), or dragons who only does his bidding because he forces them to with straps and poison.

Even Drago had dragon hunters on his side, and had dragons tamed with his authority, Grimmel never had anyone on his side to begin with, not even the dragons he uses.

Grimmel is the last villian because he is what Hiccup could have been. He became a hero in his own village when killed a night fury, but blinded by the feeling of fame and acceptance, he searches and killed more night furies, until it became fun, a sort of joy to him. And yet, he works and is alone.

It was poetic how easily Grimmel lost to Hiccup, because despite his hatred for dragons, Grimmel relied on dragons for fame and power, while Hiccup loved dragons, yey fought without relying on dragons and won, because it was not the dragons themselves that made him a hero.

Hiccup must learn in this movie that he can still be a hero even without his dragon. As he fights Grimmel, he is fighting his past without dragons, his present saving dragons, and the future of what might have been him in that villan's shoes and killed his very own dragon.

Grimmel is the last villian but he is not a villian made for us, he was a villian made for Hiccup. Isn't fate artistic?

Contrary to popular belief, the Light Fury in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World was not made up to just be a girlfriend to Toothless.

The Light Fury is based on a character from the book series, a seadragon called Luna, who as quoted from the book is "glowed with the light like the moon." In the books, Luna was the 2nd in command to the dragon army of the alpha dragon, a giant seadragon named Furious (who is one of 3 dragons Toothless was based on, the other two being Hiccup's hunting dragon Toothless and his riding dragon Windwalker). She was a smart, capable wild dragon who at the end of the books became the next alpha after the death of Furious, to lead the dragons and work with the humans to create a world where dragons and humans could live in peace.

Like Luna, the Light Fury was to represent the call of the dragons side of the story. And to Toothless, who is the movie's dragon alpha, she was there to remind him of who he really was, and his job as king of the dragons.

You see, in the beginning of the film, Toothless, despite being king of the dragons, did not behave like how a king should be. He spent most of his life before Hiccup's running from hunters and alone without a herd, and when he met Hiccup, he spent the rest of his days along humans, relying on them for food, shelter and the ability to fly. He had forgotten that it was like to be a dragon, and even after becoming king, he still needed to ask Hiccup for everything from how to court with females, needing to be reminded to restrain his subjects, even wanting the permission of Hiccup to leave his master's side to visit the Light Fury.

He knows he was king but with his exposure to dragons only as big as the ones he took care of in Berk, he did not behave like a king.

The Light Fury is a reminder to him that he wasn't just some cool dragon that lived with Vikings, it was to remind him that he was now the alpha of dragons, in charge of ALL DRAGONS. And he had to fufill that role just like how Hiccup had to fufill his role as a chief to a scale far bigger than the little isle he lived at since the start of the movie.

Hiccup and Toothless both expanded each other's horizons, but they also held each other back. Hiccup was so engrossed in saving dragons he forgot he was a chief to humans more than to dragons, and Toothless relied on Hiccup so much that he forgot his role as king of dragons. It is when they both left go of each other that they fulfilled each other's destinies.

The big question of why did Hiccup let Toothless leave with all the dragons to go to the hidden world? It was because as Gobber said in the movie, one day, Hiccup was going to face an enemy even he couldn't win, and that will spell the end of the dragons. It didn't have to be in the age when Hiccup was alive. The world moves on even after one grows old and dies, but dragons are ageless, and Hiccup realised that he couldn't always be there to protect the creatures he loved forever. Just like in the books, one small force of evil, one human who did not share the same love for dragons as Hiccup did, could destroy everything the people and dragons of peace had built over generations and generations.

That is why we saw so little of the hidden world in the movie, it was a world that isn't meant for human eyes.

Hiccup and Astrid were the only ones to find and see the hidden world. The berkians never saw it, Hiccup's own team never saw it, even Valka Hiccup's mother and Grimmel himself never saw this world. When Hiccup was there, watching Toothless take his rightful role as king, he realised that this was the only place left that was safe for the dragons, and to follow his original plan and bring his village there would be a risk for the future he could no longer take, because one mistake, one "oops I didn't look back to check if I'm being followed", would destroy that utopia for millions and millions of dragons forever.

Hiccup needed to change the human race, and make sure that even after his death, when the dragons return they would be able to live in peace.

Toothless on the other hand knew he had to leave with the dragons and protect them until the time comes. Looking at the millions of dragons in the hidden world that were now under his protection, he had to take his role as alpha seriously. His world for so long was held back by his tail and Hiccup. The Light Fury was the final push he needed to remember what he really was, and what he needed to do.

Together Hiccup and Toothless are working to achieve the same goal, a world that will bring peace to both dragons and humans but this new problem was something they could not do together. For years they worked together to solve problems and save lives but this new problem was far bigger than the both of them combined.

In the end maybe Hiccup going to search for Toothless with his family is a sign that maybe the day humans and dragons could live together again came faster than they both imagined.

A small side note: Hiccup and Astrid daughter and son were based on early concepts of the original design of their own characters, who are closer to the original characters of the books. Also, Hiccup's son Nuffink is eerily reminiscent of book Hiccup's ancestor Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Second, who had blond hair as well. He was also a dragon lover who wanted to bring peace to both vikings and dragons but was killed in battle after his brother betrayed him.

To those who wonder why on earth did Hiccup and Astrid name their son Nuffink and their daughter Zephyr? Well, most likely they didn't, as according to the books the names of the children were given by a name teller of the tribe, and that scarier, uglier names were usually given to the males of the tribe as a superstition that terrible names will keep away trolls and monsters and other supernatural beings who would kidnap or hurt children. The females usually are luckier and get better names since they need to be wed off and stuff, but there are exceptions.

Nuffink is a pretty reasonable name if you considered the other names that Vikings called themselves, like Snotface Snotlout, Baggybum, Ug, Big Boobied Bertha, Madguts the Murderous, Nobber Nobrains, Norbert the Nutjob, Wartihog and more.

Most of everyone here would be excited to see our silly old bear again interacting with his now grown-up friend in the upcoming Disney movie Christopher Robin. Knowing Disney it'll surely be a heart warming nostalgia filling wholesome and loving movie. However, only just a few months back, there was another movie about Christopher Robin that not many people knew about.

The movie was called Goodbye Christopher Robin.

Despite revolving around Christopher Robin, there was no heart warming nostalgia filling wholesomeness. It was a documentary about Christopher Robin coming to hate the fame that his father made using his childhood, getting bullied in school and disowning the stories and money that made him who he was today. A dark turn to what is suppose to be happy stories about him and Pooh.

Unfortunately, this sad depressing film about how fame can ruin the relationship between your loves ones is more truth then fiction. Because the real Christopher Robin did end up disowning Winnie the Pooh.

You don't need to look far to find the truth, just googling his name you can read about how Christopher Robin's life was actually like. It is sad, and depressing and really kicks you in the shins with a dose of cruel reality.

But back to why I want to watch Disney's Christopher Robin. Of course being a kids movie it'll never go down the road Goodbye Christopher Robin did, it'll probably be made up and far from the truth. But honestly, despite me knowing it'll all be a lie, I'm actually really happy they did it that way.

Because I kinda want to imagine that maybe in some other universe, Christopher Robin did find his heart with Winnie the Pooh again.

That he remembered all the time he had with Winnie the Pooh again.

That he started loving Winnie the Pooh again

That he didn't leave Pooh and his friends in a museum and never wanted to speak about them again.

I want to imagine that what happened in the movie was what really happened to Christopher Robin when he grew up. Because his sadness gave so many people, children and adults alike, so much happiness. And in a weird way, even if it's all just a movie and everything is a lie, I want him to be happy too.

It's because it behaves organically!

As quoted by Dia:

"It's so squishy!"

They're all stones, so squishing, stretching and other organic motions don't exist to them! They don't have cheeks to squish, meat to press, which is also why Phos' doesn't understand boobs, cos them bouncy things don't exist on their literal rock solid bodies either.

And now here is Phos with arms that stretch and change form, flow like liquid, and can move in ways that they have never seen before.

No wonder they all went chasing after Phos.