#though let's be honest Hiccup the Sickly is not out of the cards either

[anhttydbookfan]

#i know parents naming their children isnt how things went#but i also don't believe that Termagant would have just left his name as the 'runt' name he was given#httyd books#httyd#httyd book spoilers#book fishlegs

I was gonna do a bit of talking in the tags but then it got a bit long so I decided to add my two cents up here:

Hiccup is either a hooligan-exclusive Runt Name, or the Murderous Tribe's Naming Dame also gave him the name Hiccup but without the Horrendous Haddock part, as Horrendous Haddock is implied to be a Family Name for the children of Hooligan Chiefs/Wilderwest Kings.

There's a Non-Zero chance that Fishlegs' original name could have been Hiccup The Murderous, which for a kid who named his dragon Horrorcow would have been very fitting I think.

But there's also a non-zero chance his name could have been Hiccup the Peaceable, which he would probably have very much wanted to live up to.

Either way in this hypothetical universe where Termagant survives and raises her kid in secret and her kid may or may not also be named Hiccup, I feel like the two of them would have met during Hero's guide to deadly Dragons, probably because of Camicazi stealing the stealth dragon while he was still on it. Except for instead of the stealth dragon, it would probably have been the Deadly Shadow, which would have made Hiccup's 12th/3rd birthday real interesting.

They called him Fishlegs because he came from the sea.