#I hope you don’t mind my overly long answer FKSHFKSHFKFH

[1000dactyls]

I really really love all your httyd hcs!! It's amazing! But I wanted to ask, have you read the books? Their quite different from the films but on one of your notes you emphasise how hiccup is well a hiccup and therefore even when he's grown past teenage years he still should be slim, willowy and tiny and in the books they do this!! They're always emphasize how hiccup and fishlegs (kinda the same as show kinda different) are the runt of the tribe even though Hiccup constantly running around getting into adventures and riding dragons won't do much for him psychically he's not weak but he's a hiccup even when he's king of the wilderwest he's still him and I really love your hcs writing about that!! Anyway, if you have read them, ignore this but can't wait to see more :^)

:D it makes me really happy to receive this ask — though i’ve only been fortunate enough to read the very first book in the series, it always stuck out to me how atypical he was to the rest of Viking society (the squiggly ass drawings of him also helped to cement this impression). I love the movies a LOT but a core part of hiccup’s character for me is how different he is from everyone else — he’s never going to be able to just “power through” something, he has to think of a different way to solve his problems. and I think we lose a little bit of that Difference in the later movies. which is lowkey why i don’t acknowledge thw, but that’s a different post.

though httyd isn’t a bastion of perfect representation, i think hiccup’s story and the world he lives in offers a lot to think about when it comes to disability narratives. there’s other readings of the narrative too that extend to queerness, race, etc. but hiccup immediately being identified as different, as Other, because of his scrawny stature and lack of “proper Viking mindset” is very striking to me, and though at the end of the first film he gains his village’s respect, i wanted to maintain that initial social construction that defines his character. in the same way book!hiccup never bulks up, i feel like movie!hiccup also shouldn’t. :B hence the scrawniness of my hiccup interpretation