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Hiccup/Hiro/Varian OT3 Pokemon Headcanons

Okay, so. I’m working on the next chapter of Chemistry in Motion, but it’s taking a bit longer than I thought it would. Mainly becasue we’re at a section of the movie I haven’t thought about much. So, I thought I’d have a little fun and give you guys something else to chew on. 

I assure you, I’m working on the chapter in tandem to this - 

Pokemon Sword and Shield’s expansion, Isle of Armor, released recently.  So let’s have some pokemon headcanons with my newly-discovered OT3. I went kinda ham with this one so have a read more line.  

Let’s talk about the bois’ home regions

 Corona, I feel, is a lot like Kalos or Galar. Its power is primarily centered around a royal family, but a league was created that came to power. Eventually, though, the royal family and the league came to work together of sorts. Though, the king being the Champion helps that. It kind of blends Corona and the Dark Kingdom.

Berk and the archipelago aren’t necessarily a region. They don’t have a league, or a gym system. Sort of like Alola. However, they just live in tandom with pokemon, especially dragon, steel, and ice types, without any sort of training challenges. They just look out for their own. 

I’m borrowing the name “Yuushima” from my People Like Us oneshot for Hiro’s home region. It’s a more standard fare region. Your usual Leauge, Elite 4, Gyms. No royal power like Corona - the professor and League are the major powers. 

Varian is the son of Quirin, ground-type specialist and one of the region of Corona’s elite four, and Ulla, a prominent researcher who disappeared while she was exploring the regions to further her research in hopes of becoming a Professor.

Hiccup is the son of Berk’s chief. One of the many communities in his archipeligo. He wants to become an expert breeder and caretaker, and loves his dragon types so very much. 

Hiro is from a fairly average family. The main thing being that his brother, Tadashi, is the assistant to Professor Granville - Yuushima’s leading pokemon professor who took over for Professor Callaghan after he retired. He, himself, loves researching pokemon. However, battling is certainly more his forte. He has a talent for it, and wants to become a gym leader or even champion some day.

Okay, so what are their teams like?

Varian’s team consists of: A Zigzagoon, Shinx, Growlithe, Absol, Cubone, and Bannette.

Shinx and Growlithe are his lab assistants. When he’s tinkering with inventions or chemicals, you can expect Shinx to provide electricity or Growlithe to be heating the chemicals. Zigzagoon is something of a loyal pet and friend. Cubone was his first pokemon, a gift from Quirin (and yes, considering his mother when missing when he was young and what happens to Quirin in canon I’m well aware of the irony. it’s intentional. I regret nothing). 

Absol and Bannette are misunderstood babeys that Varian loves. Probably part of the reason he’s so misunderstood himself in Old Corona before his travels with Rapunzel and her friends. (also bannette is a vengeful spirit that tied itself to an abandoned doll so like - paralels?) 

Hiccup’s team consists of: A Goodra, Noivyrn, Flygon, Altaria, Flapple, and a Dragonite. Yes, they’re all dragon types. What did you expect? I considered a steel or ice type for balance’s sake, but let’s face it. This boi loves dragons. 

Goodra was his first pokemon. He found it injured as a Goomy and started caring for it. They became fst friends. Flygon was abandoned as a Trapinch by some senseless viking who didn’t know what it evolved into. Hiccup took it in and raised it well. 

Many of the others were hatched from eggs he found, or ones he got from other breeders just as they’d hatched. 

Hiro’s team consists of: A Magneton, Alolan Raichu, Klinklang, Rotom, Bisharp, and Glavantula

Magneton is his partner pokemon. He’s had it since it was a magnemite, and it’s been with him for many an underground pokemon battle (which Tadashi hates that he does, by the way).  He found Bisharp in one of those battles. Won him away from a trainer that was... unpleasant, to say the least.

He didn’t realize he had an Alolan Pikachu until he evolved it! It was a pretty wild realization. He just kind of found it and took it in. 

Klinklang, Magneton, and Galvantula are his lab buddies whenever he’s up to scientific shenanigans. He works pretty closely with them in a lot of his magnetism and robotics experiments. 

So how do they meet?

Through Varian! After traveling with Rapunzel and her gang, he decides to go on an adventure of his own through the kingdoms, hoping to further his knowledge of pokemon. His goal is to learn more about his missing mother’s research, and has plans to become a pokemon professor one day.

He travels to different regions to study the relationship of the people and pokemon of those regions and how they differ. In the process he meets these two and they go off on a cross-region adventure together. 

He comes across Yuushima first. Meets Hiro, the scrappy boy who loves pokemon battles and electric-types. Sees how his pokemon help him in his lab, and their similarities cause a quick friendship between the two of them. Before aunt Cass and Tadashi realize it, Hiro’s hugging them goodbye and heading off on a journey

They catch a ride on a ferry and at some point in their journey wind up realizing they’re low on supplies. They stop at the first place available - Berk. It does wonders for Varian’s research - a place that doesn’t rely on the league or a system of battling to dictate their relationship with pokemon. They meet the chief’s son, Hiccup, and again form a fast friendship. So Hiccup joins them on their journey. 

Cue a trio of sixteen-to-eighteen year-old boys on a roadtrip across the many regions of the world researching pokemon, and getting a few good battles in along the way for Hiro. 

Have a few other ideas

So Hiro and his team love pokemon battles, and are always willing to pick fights! They’re usually the ones dealing with any pokemon thieves or the like. Hiccup’s not against pokemon battling if push comes to shove. With a team full of dragons, he can handle himself. Varian battles the least. He prefers to just enjoy time with his pokemon. 

Hiro’s pokemon are generally fine travelling in their pokeballs. Hiccup’s Goodra is outside of its pokeball a lot, but most of his others are pretty chill. NONE OF VARIAN’S POKEMON WILL STAY PUT. They either break out of their pokeballs on a whim, or just refuse to stay in their pokeballs at all. 

Specifically, Zigzagoon is always out and about on Varian’s shoulders or scurrying between his feet. Bannette refuses to stay in its pokeball and Varian has to carry it to keep it satiated. Cubone has a habit of breaking out of its ball from time to time when it’s lonely. Absol is INCREDIBLY protective and will bust out of his pokeball on a whim to make sure no one’s trying to hurt Varian. His pokemon just don’t like pokeballs. 

Hiro joked at one point that Varian carrying around Bannette is kind of spooky, and reminds him of horror movies. He talks about how it’s like some ghost kidd and his possessed pokedoll or something. So naturally Varian loves to tell ghost stories about times Bannette has spooked him in the lab. 

Hiccup does not like said stories. Like, at all. He jumps and reacts every time and it makes Varian and Hiro keel over with laughter. Then soothe him saying it was only bannette and it’s okay. 

Hiro and Rotom DO NOT HELP Hiccup’s ghost spooks. Like. At all. There are two ghost types on this team and Hiccup has had it up to here with their mischief. Because oh boy, to his boyfriends constantly play spooky pranks (good-natured, but still) on him with their ghost types.

They all love cuddling Goodra though. He’s soft and sweet, and a bit mischievous but still. He’s just so huggable, they can’t help it. They have fallen asleep just snuggled around Goodra before. 

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Do you have enough ships to form an armada?

Is this enough ships to fill an armada?

✪ = my OTP; ✧ = biggest ship in fandom; cross-out = I don’t EXACTLY ship it, but I noticed I positively prefer it over other ships on my dash

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Kataang (Katara x Aang)

Sukka (Sokka x Suki) ✧

AVATAR: THE LEGEND OF KORRA

Bopal (Bolin x Opal)

Kainora (Kai x Jinora)

Korrasami (Korra x Asami)

Zhurrick (Varrick x Zhu Li) ✧

DEPONIA

Bozo x Bambi

Cletus x Goal

Rufus x Goal ✪✧

Toni x Goal

DOCTOR WHO

Madame Vastra x Jenny ✧

Amy x Rory

DRAGON AGE (I’ve only played DA:O)

Alistair x Warden ✧

Zevran x Warden

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Al x Elena

Almei (Al x Mei)

Ed x Noah

Edwin (Ed x Winry)

Edling (Ed x Ling)

Havolina (Havoc x Rebecca)

Lustai (Lust x Riza)

Oliviza (Olivier x Riza)

Royai (Roy x Riza) ✪✧

Royvoc (Roy x Havoc)

GRAVITY FALLS

Blubland (Blubs x Durland)

Dipcifica (Dipper x Pacifica)

Fiddauthor (Fiddleford x Stanford) ✪✧

Robbry (Robbie x Tambry)

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Dagcup (Dagger x Hiccup)

Heatcup (Hiccup x Heather)

Heatstrid (Heather x Astrid)

Hiccstrid (Hiccup x Astrid)

Snotcrusher (Snotlout x Thor Bonecrusher)

Stalka (Stoick x Valka)✧

Stoick x Valhallarama 

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Clint Barton x Natasha Romanova✧

Pepperony (Pepper x Tony)

Stucky (Steve x Bucky)

MASS EFFECT

Bakara x Wrex

EDI x Joker

fem!Ryder x Suvi ✪✧

fem!Ryder x Vetra

fem!Shepard x Kaidan ✪✧

fem!Shepard x Kelly

fem!Shepard x Traynor

male!Ryder x Gil

Ryder x Reyes Vidal

MIDDLE EARTH

Arawen (Aragorn x Arwen)

Farawyn (Faramir x Eowyn) ✧

Bagginshield (Bilbo x Thorin)

Legimli (Legolas x Gimli) ✧

MIRACULOUS LADYBUG

I personally don’t think about the dynamics of the full square; I just think Adrien/Chat Noir x Marinette/Ladybug ✧

PACIFIC RIM

Newmann (Newt x Hermann) ✧

THE OFFICE (USA)

Andy x Erin

Angela x Dwight

Holly x Michael

PB&J (Jim x Pam) ✪✧

SHE-RA

Catradora ✧

Scorptra

STAR TREK

AOS!Sulu x husband ✧ (yeah I don’t really have any for this fandom)

STAR WARS

Anidala (Anakin x Padmé)

Kylux / Huxlo (Kylo Ren x Hux) ✪✧

Scoundress (Han x Leia)

Stormpilot (Poe x Finn)

TALES OF ARCADIA

Jim x Claire

Staja (Steve x Aja) ✧

Varvatos x Nancy

UNDERTALE

01 x 02

Alphyne (Alphys x Undyne)

Asgoriel (Asgore x Toriel)

Nicepants (Ice Cream Guy x Burgerpants)

Sansby (Sans x Grillby) ✪✧

Soriby (Sans x Grillby x Toriel)

Soriel (Sans x Toriel)

VOLTRON

Kallura (Keith x Allura)

Klance (Keith x Lance)

Hunay (Hunk x Shay)

Shadam (Shiro x Adam)

Shatt (Shiro x Matt)

Sheith (Shiro x Keith) ✧

Shendak (Shiro x Sendak)

Shurtis (Shiro x Curtis)

THE WHEEL OF TIME

Faile x Perrin

Lan x Nynaeve

Lanfear x Rand

Mat x Tuon ✧

Siuan Sanche x Gareth Bryne

CROSSOVER SHIPS

Hijack (Hiccup HTTYD x Jack Frost ROTG)

Hirocup (Hiccup HTTYD x Hiro Hamada BH6)

Renegade fem!Shepard (ME) x Roy Mustang (FMAB)

Storiel (Stoick HTTYD x Toriel UT)

I’ve TRIED to be comprehensive in my list, but I’m sure I’ve still forgotten things, and might have to add on more later as I remember shtuff.

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Flight Broooos

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Guess what? Another WIP, YAY! Anyway, these are two of my fave characters and I love how they are so alike yet so, soooooo different. I love them, they are my babies :’(

This is my brOTP, I’m dead

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Some Hiccup/Hiro/Varian OT3 Hogwarts Heacanons

I’ve just been having fun throwing some ideas around in my head. I don’t know when my Variro OTP turned into this trio but uh. Let’s appreciate the dynamic! I might make a short chapter covering each of their 7 years at hogwarts at some point, probably between TISE and my next big project if I do, but for now. 

Yo, a few basics - They’re all in the same year. They met on the Express and were FAST friends  - by the end of second year they are all SO. DONE. with being asked “why aren’t you a ravenclaw?” - Hiro is a muggleborn. The wizarding insanity in his family started with Tadashi getting his letter. Aunt Cass is at her wit’s last end dealing with two wizarding boys. - Hiccup is a half-blod. His dad (Stoick) is a muggle, and his mom (Valka) is a witch. We’ll get to this later, it’ll be fun! - Varian is a pure-blood. Still trying to decide if Ulla teaches potions or not. Either Ulla teaches potions or Quirin teaches DADA. One or the other.  So. Houses!  - now I say that none of the trio are Ravencalws, but the hat actually did consider Ravenclaw for ALL of them, to varying degrees.  - Tadashi is a Ravenclaw. Hiro wanted to be in the same house, but. Obviously, if you've been reading this post. He ain’t. - the hat took a while sorting Hiro. Not a full hatstall, but took about 2-3 minutes to be sorted. Ultimately though, his strongwilled nature and moral compass got him sorted into Gryffindor.  - the hat DID consider Ravenclaw for Hiccup, but not for long. He was sorted into Hufflepuff almost instantly.  - now, Varian. Varian WAS a legitimate hatstall. The hat just could not decide where to put him. One of the houses it was trying to decide between was Ravenclaw. But when a student said it was taking forever, and the hat should just put him in Hufflepuff because “that’s where people who don’t have enough traits to be sorted into any of the more prominent houses go”, and Varian shot back “then I guess you’re in Gryffindor because that’s where all the thick-headed people go”, he was sorted into Slytherin (naturally, Hiro, a Gryffindor, incessantly teases him about this line later. Varian just responds with “I responded to a stereotype with a stereotype”). 

How about their friends from their respective series/movies/franchises?  - So the three of them stay good friends even after they’re all sorted. But there are still others they hang around - either people they meet at school or knew growing up for whatever reason  - Hiro was introduced to Tadashi’s friends due to being his little brother and whatnot. They’re all kind of rag-tag with heir houses - Honey Lemon’s a Ravenclaw, Wasabi is a Hufflepuff, Fred’s a Gryffindor. I’m torn between Gryffindor or Slytherin for Go-Go, but leaning Slytherin.  - Hiccup has a group he grew up around, knew from his mom’s side of the family or so. Most of them are Gryffindors - except Fishlegs, who’s a Ravenclaw. They (except Fishlegs) harrass him from time to time for bying a Hufflepuff, but he grows on them. As Hiccup’s prone to do.  - Varian’s group are folks he grew up around, similar to Hiccup. He met many of them through his parents’ connections. Like Hiro, though, many of his friends are scattered around the different houses. Rapunzel is a Huffleupff, Eugene and Lance are a Gryffindor troublemaking duo, Cass is a Slytherin. They all get on fairly well

These boys are competitive okay? - Hiro and Hiccup are natural fliers, and in second year both wind up on their respective quidditch teams.  - Either they’re both chasers, or Hiro’s a chaser and Hiccup’s the keeper. I dunno yet - They’re CONSTANTLY showing off in matches when Varian’s watching. While Varian’s usually supportive and happy to cheer them on, whenever Hufflepuff and Gryffindor play together he keeps his nose in a potions book because he’s so done with this guys - If Hiro and Hiccup are competitive at Quidditch. Varian and Hiro are competitive at grades.  - They’re always trying to see who can make the best grades, and intentionally took all the same electives just so they could say “I’m doing better in this class than you” as difinitively as possible. Once they start dating it literally becomes thier way of battling for dominance (until around 6th to 7th year when Hiro’s athleticism compared to Varian makes any attempts Varian might want to make at being the dom impossible) - Varian and Hiro have sass competitions. They’re constantly snarking back and forth. Hiccup tends to be a bit softer, but when he starts snarking it usually shuts the other two up almost instantly. 

They love each other though - I haven’t decided if it’s a mutual decision, or if one pair of them starts dating first and the other comes in later (due to my Variro bias, it would probably be Varian and Hiro if it’s the latter, but anyone who likes these headcanons can see it any way they want) - Hiro and Varian are protective of their hufflepuff best friend/boyfriend because he’s way too nice most of the time  - One time a slytherin student was harrassing Hiccup. Varian then proceeded to create an overly complex plan to keep the kid looking over their shoulders expecting retribution all year until he’d eventually mail them a jinxed item over summer.  - When Hiccup told him he didn’t have to go through all this trouble. He simply said “Hiccup. You will not hurt a fly, no matter how much its incessant buzzing might bother you. So, as your friend, it’s just my job to swat it. That’s all” Hiro was cackling all night.  - Hiro takes a more direct approach if Hiccup is getting messed with. He will jinx someone, and will not hesitate. That goes for if anyone messes with Varian too (though most people don’t, because they’ve seen what he does if anyone messes with Hiccup and don’t want to deal with it for getting to him as well) - Hiccup is no pushover, though. He lets it go if you’re messing with him, but mess with either of his boyfriends? Well, as many HP fans might know Badgers are known to bite back if you hurt any of their loved ones. 

What about classes? - Hiro’s favorite class is DADA. He probably plans to be an auror or teach DADA post-graduation. He admires Tadashi’s goal of wanting to work in St. Mungos, but wants to take a more direct aprroach to help others instead.   - Hiccups favorite class (and nobody is surprised) is care of magical creatures. The trio spends a summer at his house at some point and learns his mom has a liscence to handle dragons. Hiccup wants to follow her footsteps and be a dragon handler/conservationist.  - Varian’s favorite class is potions. He’s like, Half-blood prince level and is constantly scribbling little potions improvements in his books. Probably starts an apothecary after graduating. 

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Hiccup/Hiro/Varian OT3 FFXIV Headcanons

Stuck on my next fanfiction update? Time to bust out one of my OT3 headcanon posts again! The next chapter of Chemistry in Motion IS on the way, I promise you. But for the time being I’m a bit braindead - and being obsessed with playing Final Fantasy XIV with my friends isn’t helping. Instead of Variro and Varian & Honey Lemon sibling fluff, my brain has thought, “Okay, but what if the OT3 either played FFXIV or just existed in Eorzea?” and hasn’t stopped. 

So, instead of the Camp Halfbood concepts I was planning on doing next, you get this. 

Let’s start with easy mode: races

This part was simple. The only one that really gave me any trouble was Varian, really. I have certain things I associate each of the boys with - and two of those things just so happen to have races in Final Fantasy, so let’s go!

Hiccup is an Au Ra. They’re half-dragon, all-awesome, and Au Ra males are some of the tallest characters in the game!!! Second only to Roegadyn, I think. So Hiccup is TOL. If this is a concept of an AU where they exist in Eorzea as Warriors of Light - I feel like Hiccup’s the type that seems intimidating at first, the tall half-dragon man - but is actually just a soft cinnamon roll who’s hopelessly in love with his two boyfriends, but we’ll get to that part, eventually.

Hiro is a Mi’qote! Maybe because of Mochi, but I just can’t stop associating him with cats. So, naturally, I’m just going to keep doing it. Mi’qote are a moderate, slightly below-average height race. Also cat ears and tails, and the “mission complete” screen after dungeons has male mi’qote do a little happy ear wriggle, and it’s cute. I feel like Hiccup and Varian play with his ears a lot - like, a lot of scratching behind them or rubbing them for cute, fluffy, affectionate moments. He’s small, sassy, and about to get some world-saving s*** done, okay?

Varian. Varian was difficult. On one end I considered Hyur - just a simple smol human (though you can’t really make Male Hyur that short in-game, closer to average height really). But then I thought maybe Lalafell, make him super smol and cute. But actually, I’m going with my favorite race in the game: Varian’s an Elezen. For two reasons. 1) if this is a matter of them playing the game - Varian’s the type I could see wanting to play a character taller than he is, and Elezen are pretty darn tall. 2) As for if they exist in Eorzea, we’ve seen through the examples of Alphinaud and Alisaie that young Elezen can be quite small!!! Varian with pointy elf ears is also adorable fight me. Anyway. I feel like he’d definitely be a “runt of the litter” Elezen. Taller than Hiro, but still on the short side. Maybe it comes from Ulla (if you include 7k in this) being an Elezen, but Quirin being a Hyur or another shorter race that kind of dwarfs his growth a bit? 

Okay, so let’s talk roles

Note: roles. Not classes. For the FFXIV uninitiated, one of the coolest things about this MMO is that you’re not tied down to one class. There are several classes within certain roles - Healer, Tank, Melee DPS, Ranged DPS, Magical DPS - and you can swap between those classes freely. There’s even disciple of the hand - crafting classes. And disciple of the land - gathering classes. We won’t talk about those as rolls, but I’ll bring them up when I talk about the squad’s main classes later. For now, let’s talk about the roles they prefer for adventuring, dungeons, raids, etc. 

Hiccup is a tank! Tank classes are his first choice, without a doubt. He’s kind of the leader of the squad without meaning to be. He protects Hiro and Varian, and kind of keeps the other two in line and out of trouble with the rest of the party (because these two are SASSY and will cause trouble, trust me), whether it’s only one other person just running a dungeon or a whole raid alliance. In large parties, he’s quick to defer to someone else if they want to be the main tank. He’s not the ‘fighting for dominance’ type. Other than tanking, he enjoys melee DPS and healing, and uses magic DPS the least.

Hiro usually plays ranged DPS! Honestly, his central roles are basically all the DPS roles, but he likes Ranged most because of mobility, and ability to take things out from afar without worrying about his DPS dropping too much from dodging big attacks. Other than that, he enjoys magical DPS for range and Melee for mobility. His least-used role is healing, because caretaker he is NOT. Some of his ranged DPS classes have utility, and that’s good enough for him. 

Then, for a well-rounded team, Varian’s main role is Healer. This comes mostly from his tendency to be “support” in most situations. He is, overall, a sweet boy who wants to look out for and help his friends (even if he can be self-centered). He’s definitely the sassy healer that will get passive aggressive with bad tanks in big parties or if Hiccup isn’t tanking. “I couldn’t keep up. So sorry, I’ll try harder next time if you try harder not to over-extend. Okay, thanks”, “The Dragoon is floor tanking? Guess who’s going back to the start of the dungeon because I’m not ressurecting them”, “Hiro, for the last time. We DODGE attacks first, shoot later. If you get hit for extensive damage because of a dumb mistake again I am NOT healing you”. THAT Healer. He’s also the best technical player of the three though (if this is the ‘they’re just playing the game’ situation), so he has the skill to back up the sass. Also, he flirts with Hiccup whenever he clutch heals him, or whenever Hiccup thanks him for heals, and it breaks Hiccup’s brain. Outside of healing, I think he’d like magical DPS and ranged DPS, and tanks the least.

On to actual classes/jobs now!

So here’s how this is going to work. We’ll be talking about the classes in their primary roles. What’s their main class, and ranking the classes within their main role in order of most to least used. After that, we’ll talk about some outlier classes. Classes from other roles they enjoy playing that they might play often or that I think suit them(A note: we’ll only be going over a couple, and no matter what outliers I mention, the role rankings from the previous section are the priority in knowing what and how they play). Then we’ll talk about their crafting/gathering classes of choice. 

Hiccup

 So, we mostly see Hiccup with a sword and shield, so naturally his main job is Paladin. It was what stuck out in my head, especially since I wanted him to main tank. It’s the balanced, all-rounder tank as well - which I think suits Hiccup. After that, there’s Warrior. Our big, brutal axe swingers. This one’s focused more on his viking heritage. Battle Axes run in that blood, don’t they? Then, there’s Dark Knight. The enormous sword is cool, but Hiccup isn’t really the ‘dark, brooding, edgy’ type. So I don’t think DK would really be his style aesthetically. Gunbreaker is the one he’d use least. It’s a cool class, but the more modern gunblade just doesn’t scream “Hiccup” to me. I think he’d enjoy the damage output, but feels better with normal weapons like swords and axes in his hands. 

So the first outlier for Hiccup is something FFXIV fans might see coming. Dragoon. Hiccup with a spear is cool, but this is mostly for the lore. For those who don’t know - Dragoon’s lore is all about dragon slaying. They’re spearmen trained in Ishgard as part of the Dragonsong war - valiant defender of the city and slayers of dragons. Sound familiar? Similar to his actual story, I love Hiccup picking up the spear and being ready to fight dragons - but he’s a sweet bean and still tries his best to broker a peace when he learns how intelligent dragons are. 

The other outlier I’d like to discuss for Hiccup is White Mage. The ‘taking from the spirits and nature’ vibe I think really suits his personality. He loves his island, and the dragons that live there, and everything around him. Not QUITE a tree hugger or anything, but preserving nature and caring for its creatures would definitely be important to him. It’s probably his main healer role.  

As for crafting and gathering. Blacksmithing and Armorsmithing are probably his central crafts, so he probably does a lot of mining as his gathering class. He spends a lot of time in the forge, after all! I could also see him delving into a little carpentry, what with all the tinkering and mechanics he works with. 

Hiro

When I thought about Hiro, my first thought was “machinist”. The steampunk vibe it has fits Hiro being the most modern of the three boys, I think. Also, a robotic/automaton partner/minion? YES. After that is Dancer. He probably picked it up for a laugh, not expecting much, then wound up hooked. He enjoys making either Hiccup or Varian his dance partner and flirting with whoever it is incessantly. With Varian, it’s just a back-and-forth of witty flirting and laughing. With Hiccup, he actively takes up a two-sided flirting front with Varian and well... if Hiccup breaks with just Varian flirting, adding Hiro makes it worse. He plays Bard the least, but still enjoys it. “He’s not much of a singer”, he often jokes whenever he stretches his Bard muscles. In the ‘they’re just playing the game’ universe, I feel like he forgets his song utility a lot and just focuses on doing as much damage as possible. Because that’s kind of his schtick. 

An outlier for him would be Red Mage. I think he’d like the quick, easy casting with Dualcast, and the fun melee rotation. He’d be the type that enjoys using Displacement just for the flair - and always gets a talking to from Varian whenever he accidentally flips off the edge of a platform. So, you’re not allowed to play Dragoon, Hiro (he plays it anyway).

And the other outlier is Gunbreaker. Again with giving the guns to the more modern member of the squad. However (and I’ve hardly touched my tank  classes so I can’t say anything here), it’s a running joke that Gunbreaker is for “people who want to try tank, but still kind of want to be DPS”, and I love that. It’s kind of perfect for Hiro. 

So for crafting and gathering. Hiro would probably be a Goldsmith and Leatherworker. Leatherworker for practicality - because I think Hiro’s definitely the most practical  of the three. Goldsmith because he likes to tinker with things and I can definitely see the precision work of accessory making suiting him. Now, normally that would probably mean he’d spend most of his time mining - but there are exactly three gathering classes in the game, so I like to think they’d try to round each other out. So, Hiro’s going to spend most of his time fishing. One, because cats and fish jokes. Two, because it’s just kind of chill and less work (or at least labor) and knowing Hiro I could see him going for that.

Varian

Varian’s main class would most DEFINITELY be scholar. He just seems to gravitate toward my favorite things. I think of all the magic-based classes. The arcanist set would be his favorite since it focuses more on logic and strategy. Scholar, especially, deals with hunting down a centuries-old plague on an ancient civilization and a lot of things I can very easily equate to the black rocks and dark kingdom. Also, he gets to summon a fairy and COME ON. That’s adorable. He probably talks to the fairy (usually Eos), because that’s just him. Second main healing class is White Mage, similar to Hiccup. The nature vibe just seems to suit him. He seems good with animals and the whole natural element just works since he seems to enjoy the outdoors and comes from a farming family/village, let’s not forget! Then Astrologian would be last. He wouldn’t really be into the astrology/future sight but I think he would have fun with the star vibes and (in Eorzea universe) would learn the uses of the future reading and get more invested in it, eventually. 

An outlier of mention for Varian is Summoner. I mentioned before that he enjoys arcanima for its focus on logic, strategy, and value of intelligence, so, naturally, Scholar’s opposite would work well with him too. Also the carbuncles make me think of Ruddiger for whatever reason. Look at him! I love the concept of him summoning his carbuncle and it just crawling up his back and wrapping around his shoulders. He summons the Egis too! He knows how to play his job! He just really loves the carbuncles. 

The other outlier for him of special mention is Bard. I think he’d like it, because he can be DPS but still give the party utility. Also. Come on, this boy can SING and he’s going to take advantage of it. God-tier bard for his singing voice alone, right here. Hiccup and Hiro low-key get excited whenever he pulls out the bow, because it means they get to hear their boy sing (because even in the universe where it’s just a game, Varian totally sings on whatever method of call they use for a lot of the dungeon whenever he plays bard). 

Crafting classes. It surprises no one. He’s an Alchemist. Possibly a culinarian. His gathering class is botanist, the only one left. He spends a lot of time with plants, natural elements, and alchemy to make potions and all that jazz. He is very passionate about his crafting job and is probably the biggest crafter of the group. ALCHEMY!

And now for some miscellaneous headcanons

So, if it’s just the OT3 playing the game - Varian is the biggest roleplayer, no question. He slips into character ALL the time and it makes Hiro and Hiccup chuckle a little, but they always play along. He got the two of them to enjoy the roleplaying aspect, even. 

They each have their own squads/groups they play/adventure with, and they almost always change up their roles with those groups. 

For Hiccup - he’s basically in a group full of people who want to be tanks. It’s a constant battle for dominance (that Astrid almost always wins, unless she gives a pity win to Snotlout occasionally or lets Hiccup take out of respect for his tanking ability). Most of the time, Hiccup just shrugs it off and goes DPS or healer depending on if Fishlegs is there to heal or not.

Hiro usually tanks for his team. Mostly because Gogo refuses to level anything but DPS, Wasabi suffers from tanxiety and usually either heals or goes ranged, Honey Lemon does whatever Wasabi isn’t doing, and Fred is... Fred. 

Varian’s group is well-balanced, but they each have their preferences. Cass or Lance are usually the tank, Eugene’s usually a melee DPS (probably ninja), and Rapunzel is almost always the squad healer (tho she defers to Varian for that role occasionally). So he’s usually DPS in that group. 

Still, they work best together in their main roles. Their favorite times are when they’re adventuring together, as much as they love their friends. 

Hiccup and Varian occasionally tease Hiro for being the shortest of the group - to which he usually groans and complains. But they use their tank/healer status to prevent him from messing with them because “I can always turn off my tank stance you know”, or “I mean if you don’t want healing, by all means”. He hates it when they do that.

They usually make up for it by giving him a TON of presents, though. They’re both frugal with gil compared to him, so if there’s some new shiny, expensive thing on the market he wants and doesn’t have the money for, Varian or Hiccup can usually swing it for him.

Hiccup likes to surprise Varian with gifts too. It’s the one one time he can make Varian flustered, and he quite enjoys it. 

If any Elezen bully Varian for being a runt (in the setting where they’re adventurers in Eorzea), they can expect to meet with the business end of Hiccup or Hiro’s weapons. They won’t hesitate.