#/ also he got ~royally fucked over~ by the aesir too so like... buds.

[missallanea-a]

@dragetunge : « i should've known better » [kicks this one at freya]

"Perhaps." It is not the encouragement she wishes she had to offer the boy, but it is honest : perhaps he should have known, but he was only a boy. Perhaps more mature than he should have been at his age, but a child nonetheless. Certainly by comparison to the ones he had come up against.

It seemed the Aesir would always fear that which they couldn't control, whether that was a people or a creature. Young Hiccup was simply unfortunate enough as to be a little bit of both.

"But I dislike whenever someone blames themself for a cruel trick being played upon them. It was not your place to have to know better : it was theirs not to show you such cruelty in the first place."

Her attention remains turned downward, to where she replaces the wrappings on Thrungva's grip. After years of allowing all pieces of her warrior past to fall into memory, the poor sword was finally receiving the attention it deserved. Eyes never once lifting, she feels a smile hinting across her expression, "Now. What is it you plan to do, now that you do know better?"

heartbreaking starters