#im SORRY i saw a gifset of one of hiccups scenes with her in httyd2 and it gave me feelings

[toasterdrake]

do you ever think about hiccup not being able to find valka for a bit and having an initial burst of fear that she's left him again even though he knows, really, that's an irrational conclusion to come to so quickly, but a little voice in the back of his mind is yelling that it's not impossible

do you ever think about valka feeling stifled and uncomfortable being among people again so, overwhelmed, she allows cloudjumper to take her to peaceful respite in the sky, too desperate and too urgent to tell anyone. do you ever think about it weighing on valka -- after the first time, after thinking she'll 'only be a moment, he won't even notice' -- that it isn't right to do that to hiccup, but she has to juggle a burning need to take herself away before it all gets worse or a fear that can be soothed later

do you ever think about valka's autism and hiccup's abandonment issues clashing

[softdragon]

1, 3 and 14 for the ask thingamabob!

1: favourite movie?

first. nothing is ever going to beat the first movie for me, it’s just iconic. it’s such a perfect sweet story. there’s no villain, there’s no black and white, it’s just a story about people realising they can change their ways for the better and they don’t have to be cruel and its just.......... perfect. how to train your dragon will always be my favourite movie, ever

however, in the httyd series............... the hidden world is very very close. i walked out the first two times almost convinced it had been bumped up to number 1. but, no, after a lot of thought i know nothing is ever going to beat the first one (even tho i do think the hidden world is absolutely perfect and beautiful and i have never been in love with a movie as much as i am now)

i know that D2 is my least favourite. i do still love it. especially the soundtrack (which i used to listen to religiously, a lot more than i did with the first one), but i’ve never thought it was as perfect as the first one was. i’d be a lot quicker to point out nitpick things about it that don’t fit, or i dislike, or just... i dunno, i do love it, it has a lot of BEAUTIFUL moments, the ‘battle of the bewilderbeast’ scene is literally the greatest and well-choreographed thing on the planet, the scenery and worldbuilding is incredible, i just never felt as connected to it as i did with the first one. and now, the third one.

honestly i think it’s just a personal thing bc when D2 was out, i was going through a phase of not caring about animation and definitely not caring about httyd anymore. i specifically thought ‘oh, theyre making a sequel to my favourite movie? are u serious? this is obviously just a money grab, the story was perfect on its own’ and i never saw it in cinema so i don’t have a good memory of seeing it for the first time. i watched it alone one day bc it just... came on tv, and i was mainly using it as background noise while i was cleaning the house lmao??? so i wasn’t paying proper attention??? and i was annoyed bc i had seen gifsets and trailers and i was expecting more hiccstrid, HA, and then i was more annoyed bc they ‘killed off stoick oh my god this is just like a typical disney kill-off-the-parents trope im so done with this’ so uhhh........... yeah i just completely forgot about the movie then. both the second and first

and then in 2017 i saw burdge’s chasing thunderstorms fanart pop up on tumblr and i’d never seen it before but i recognised who the characters were instantly and i started reading chasing thunderstorms and found some other fics and my mind exploded bc i realised holy shit there’s a fandom for this?? i’m finding so many people who love httyd???? and then i started watching clips on youtube from the first and second and i was getting hit with so much nostalgi at once and i stayed up til 5am reading some completely fandom ff.net fic and i cannot stress this enough, i had never ever bothered reading fic before, i actually hated fic until suddenly i was immersed in this hiccstrid one, and then the next morning as soon as i woke up i binge watched both of the movies and it was such!!!! and experience!!!!!!!! i loved httyd2 so much i was so shocked that i loved it, and then i spent the day listening to the soundtracks and getting invested in httyd and. um. ever since then i’ve been in love with httyd. like i loved it when i was 11/12 and used to watch it religiously, but there was a blip in my teens and honestly, that was probably just typical teen behaviour, pretending not to care about animation bc its typically for kids. now i’m the opposite

sorry for that tangent but i had to explain why D2 never meant as much to me as the first one. and then i kept rambling and wanted to explain how i got into httyd this much in the first place. so actually, im not sorry lol

3: favourite dragon character?

TOOTHLESS how could i not!!!! he is my favourite puppy! he’s the cutest! i want to cuddle him!!!!!!!!!

14: favourite moment from the second movie?

the scene where hiccup is flying away on toothless after arguing with his dad, and he’s lying on toothless’s back and saying ‘i won’t ever let anything happen to you bud, i promise’, and the clouds around him are soft and pink and orange and its so. pretty. and then cloudjumper and valka come out of nowhere, so eerie and majestic, the music building up dramtically as toothless and hiccup panic and take in theis massive four-winged dragon in front of them, and vala’s covered in her dragon costume looking like some sort of creepy dragon demon.... and there’s that one particular shot with her staff pointed at hiccup, and the staff feels like its right in your face, and i love it. 

thats definitely my favourite part of the whole movie. its pure gorgeous

httyd q&a! these are so fun to answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!