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HICCUP HADDOCK
Canon: How to Train Your Dragon.
Character: Hiccup Haddock III.
Timeline: Post-movie.
Personality: Hiccup is a born and bred Viking, but one wouldn't get that impression at first glance - or even necessarily after a long conversation with him. He has always valued the brawn and brute strength that most other Vikings exhibit, but sorely lacks them himself; instead, Hiccup has always sought mental rather than physical challenges. He has an incredibly sharp mind and a creative and inventive knack.
(Don't let the intelligence be misleading, however; as book-smart as he can be, he is still very much a teenage boy, and as concerned about impressing girls and his peers as the next. "Maybe I'll even get a date," he lamented, when begging his boss in the blacksmith to let him go out and take on a dragon.)
Despite the fact that he's a little scrawny (he defined himself once, scathingly, as a "talking fishbone"), Hiccup doesn't lack for other traditional Viking qualities: he is brave almost to a fault, willing to go to great distances to sate his curiosity or the desire to be a good Viking. (Example: When preparing to fight an enormous beast of a dragon at the end of the film, he doesn't balk, hesitate, or deliberate when he climbs atop Toothless and gets ready to go. It is something that needs to be done, despite the risk, and as he told his father: an “occupational hazard” as a Viking.) Willing to do his duty, but that isn't to say he isn't compassionate. Part of the rite of passage into adulthood in his village was killing a dragon; however, when faced with the opportunity to slay a downed dragon – an act that would have highly elevated his status in the village and earned him the respect of his father – he instead let it go, recognizing and empathizing with the fear on the creature's face.
Hiccup is also insatiably curious. Instead of just freeing the dragon and thanking the gods that he made it out alive, he instead went to where the dragon had settled against its will and befriended it, eventually creating a prosthetic tailfin for the creature to replace one that had been ripped off... and then proceeded to study the hell out of it.
His own convictions sometimes get in the way of his relationships with other people, and though he eventually befriended most of the cast from his canon, it wasn't easy – being openly interested in scholastic pursuits and the whys of things didn't win a lot of friends in a Viking village at war. His persistance and curiosity did, however, win him the friendship of the dragon that he had almost killed, and while almost tempted at times, he was never able to justify compromising himself (by killing a dragon) just to fit in with the village's ideals of how a boy should be.
Hiccup also has an incredibly dry and occasionally subtle sense of humor. He is often sarcastic and flatly self-deprecating, but it's all mostly in good humor.
Background: Hiccup was born the only son of Stoick the Vast in the Viking Village of Berk, a place where the people are "tough and tasteless." His mother died in childbirth, leaving Stoick to raise a son who never quite lived up to the viking ideal. Hiccup was a small, scrawny child and never really grew out of that as he got older. While his father loved him very much, he was often lost at how to communicate with or even just hold a conversation with his unusual son.
Hiccup never really helped him much. He discovered a fascination in himself with the way things work, and had always been good at piecing together puzzles and contraptions. His mind was sharp, and while he cherished his own knack for invention, his clumsiness often got in the way. Hiccup always stood out above his peers in both the categories 'creativity' and 'utter disaster.'
At the beginning of his canon, his village is in the middle of a generations'-long war with dragons, flying pests who attack his home and tend to steal food. Hiccup more than anything seeks acceptance from his peers and village (and, ultimately, respect from his father), and believes that the only way to really achieve this is to down and kill a dragon. Despite the fact that he's too disaster-prone to even be allowed outside when dragon attacks occur, using a contraption that he's built, he is able to down a dragon into a nearby forest.
Unfortunately, no one believes him. He sets off to find and slay the beast, and instead just finds an injured, pitiful dragon. Realizing that he can't actually kill the creature, he releases him with the newfound knowledge that he won't, in fact, ever be a dragon killer - he just doesn't have it in him. Disaster strikes again when he gets home just in time for his father to tell him that he's been signed up for dragon combat training.
Hiccup's heart is not in the training, and he fails miserably in the first few exercises that he participates in. Meanwhile, curious, he returns to the forest where he found the dragon that he had downed, and discovers that the beast is trapped in a deep valley; his tail is injured, and he can no longer fly high enough to actually escape. Very carefully, Hiccup befriends the dragon (naming him Toothless) and realizes that they're not monsters afterall, and instead just intelligent, friendly creatures that only fight back when attacked. He also fashions a prosthetic tail for Toothless, which he is able to control with a complicated stirrup and saddle system. Toothless is again able to fly, but only with Hiccup on his back.
Using knowledge that he gains from befriending Toothless, Hiccup is eventually able to breeze his way through the dragon training exercises that he had mucked up so horribly before, and, as the new star pupil, is awarded the "prize" of getting to kill his first dragon in front of the entire village. He decides that night to run away with Toothless and is discovered by one of the girls in his training group, Astrid. Though she is initially terrified, Hiccup and Toothless are eventually (and through the magic power of flight) able to convince her that dragons aren't so bad. They also discover the Island of the Dragons, home of the Red Death, which is a giant dragon who lives deep in the heart of the volcano there, and that demands food tribute from the other dragons.
Hiccup returns to Berk and enters the ring to fight the dragon that he is supposed to kill, a Monstrous Nightmare, with the intention of proving to everyone watching that dragons aren't evil or inherently dangerous. The dragon he is fighting becomes spooked, however, and attacks. Toothless, still in the valley, hears Hiccup's yell and manages to escape from it, attacking the Nightmare in Hiccup's defense. Stoick becomes enraged, capturing Toothless and using him to guide the vikings of the village to the dragon's island with the intent of destroying the island and making sure that the dragons never return to Berk.
Hiccup and Astrid rally the rest of the students in their group and travel to the dragon's isle, just in time to see Stoick anger the Red Death. He and the Vikings are incredibly out-matched, but Hiccup and Toothless are able to coax the giant dragon from its lair and into the atmosphere. They repeatedly attack its wings, causing it eventually plummet hard to the ground and explode. Hiccup and Toothless are caught in the explosion, though Toothless -- being a dragon and fireproof -- is able to shield Hiccup from the heat. Well, most of Hiccup.
Hiccup wakes up much later back at home in Berk. Hiccup has lost his leg -- the left one from just below the knee and down -- and has been fitted with a prosthetic by the village blacksmith. While he was sleeping, Berk has accepted dragons and now keeps them as pets of sorts. The movie ends with Hiccup climbing onto Toothless and flying off to race Astrid. Aaand that's the canon point I'm taking him from --- post film, sans leg.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Hiccup worked for the blacksmith back in Berk, and is pretty good at both drawing things and doing the inventy-thing.
Sample Journal Post: [video]
[Hiccup looks more than a little perplexed as he studies the PCD, leaning in close to it and putting his mouth maybe too close to the mic.]
HELLO? UM, THIS IS HICCUP. HAS ANYONE SEEN A BIG BLACK DRAGON AROUND HERE?
[He pauses and leans back, wondering for a second if he's doing this right. He continues, though it's quieter, and more to himself.]
Answers to the name 'Toothless.' Has teeth. Missing half a tail fin. Kiiind of hard to miss.
Sample RP: If it was a dream, then it was certainly doing a good job of pretending to be real, he thought as he wiped at the sheen of sweat on his forehead and began walking, taking careful, measured steps. He still hadn't really gotten the hang of this metal foot replacement, kept catching himself and overbalancing, expecting to feel something more than just resistance at the knee when he took a step.
He pressed a hand to the side of one of the ruined buildings, mouth set into a thin line. Sort of a big change from the thatched-roof buildings at home. He wasn't there, he knew that for sure; the real question was, where was he?
“Hello?”
He paused, waited for a response, and heard only his own echo. It was more unsettling than he wanted to admit.
“Dad? Toothless?”
His voice rose a little bit; he was trying not to panic, was refusing to panic. Vikings didn't panic over problems, they fixed them. Or punched things. Both were equally viable.
“Astrid? Anyone?”
He drew his dagger, though held it loosely in his fingers as his hand dangled at his side, and kept walking, eyes peeled for something, anything, to provide him with a clue as to where he was.
Character: Hiccup Haddock III.
Timeline: Post-movie.
Personality: Hiccup is a born and bred Viking, but one wouldn't get that impression at first glance - or even necessarily after a long conversation with him. He has always valued the brawn and brute strength that most other Vikings exhibit, but sorely lacks them himself; instead, Hiccup has always sought mental rather than physical challenges. He has an incredibly sharp mind and a creative and inventive knack.
(Don't let the intelligence be misleading, however; as book-smart as he can be, he is still very much a teenage boy, and as concerned about impressing girls and his peers as the next. "Maybe I'll even get a date," he lamented, when begging his boss in the blacksmith to let him go out and take on a dragon.)
Despite the fact that he's a little scrawny (he defined himself once, scathingly, as a "talking fishbone"), Hiccup doesn't lack for other traditional Viking qualities: he is brave almost to a fault, willing to go to great distances to sate his curiosity or the desire to be a good Viking. (Example: When preparing to fight an enormous beast of a dragon at the end of the film, he doesn't balk, hesitate, or deliberate when he climbs atop Toothless and gets ready to go. It is something that needs to be done, despite the risk, and as he told his father: an “occupational hazard” as a Viking.) Willing to do his duty, but that isn't to say he isn't compassionate. Part of the rite of passage into adulthood in his village was killing a dragon; however, when faced with the opportunity to slay a downed dragon – an act that would have highly elevated his status in the village and earned him the respect of his father – he instead let it go, recognizing and empathizing with the fear on the creature's face.
Hiccup is also insatiably curious. Instead of just freeing the dragon and thanking the gods that he made it out alive, he instead went to where the dragon had settled against its will and befriended it, eventually creating a prosthetic tailfin for the creature to replace one that had been ripped off... and then proceeded to study the hell out of it.
His own convictions sometimes get in the way of his relationships with other people, and though he eventually befriended most of the cast from his canon, it wasn't easy – being openly interested in scholastic pursuits and the whys of things didn't win a lot of friends in a Viking village at war. His persistance and curiosity did, however, win him the friendship of the dragon that he had almost killed, and while almost tempted at times, he was never able to justify compromising himself (by killing a dragon) just to fit in with the village's ideals of how a boy should be.
Hiccup also has an incredibly dry and occasionally subtle sense of humor. He is often sarcastic and flatly self-deprecating, but it's all mostly in good humor.
Background: Hiccup was born the only son of Stoick the Vast in the Viking Village of Berk, a place where the people are "tough and tasteless." His mother died in childbirth, leaving Stoick to raise a son who never quite lived up to the viking ideal. Hiccup was a small, scrawny child and never really grew out of that as he got older. While his father loved him very much, he was often lost at how to communicate with or even just hold a conversation with his unusual son.
Hiccup never really helped him much. He discovered a fascination in himself with the way things work, and had always been good at piecing together puzzles and contraptions. His mind was sharp, and while he cherished his own knack for invention, his clumsiness often got in the way. Hiccup always stood out above his peers in both the categories 'creativity' and 'utter disaster.'
At the beginning of his canon, his village is in the middle of a generations'-long war with dragons, flying pests who attack his home and tend to steal food. Hiccup more than anything seeks acceptance from his peers and village (and, ultimately, respect from his father), and believes that the only way to really achieve this is to down and kill a dragon. Despite the fact that he's too disaster-prone to even be allowed outside when dragon attacks occur, using a contraption that he's built, he is able to down a dragon into a nearby forest.
Unfortunately, no one believes him. He sets off to find and slay the beast, and instead just finds an injured, pitiful dragon. Realizing that he can't actually kill the creature, he releases him with the newfound knowledge that he won't, in fact, ever be a dragon killer - he just doesn't have it in him. Disaster strikes again when he gets home just in time for his father to tell him that he's been signed up for dragon combat training.
Hiccup's heart is not in the training, and he fails miserably in the first few exercises that he participates in. Meanwhile, curious, he returns to the forest where he found the dragon that he had downed, and discovers that the beast is trapped in a deep valley; his tail is injured, and he can no longer fly high enough to actually escape. Very carefully, Hiccup befriends the dragon (naming him Toothless) and realizes that they're not monsters afterall, and instead just intelligent, friendly creatures that only fight back when attacked. He also fashions a prosthetic tail for Toothless, which he is able to control with a complicated stirrup and saddle system. Toothless is again able to fly, but only with Hiccup on his back.
Using knowledge that he gains from befriending Toothless, Hiccup is eventually able to breeze his way through the dragon training exercises that he had mucked up so horribly before, and, as the new star pupil, is awarded the "prize" of getting to kill his first dragon in front of the entire village. He decides that night to run away with Toothless and is discovered by one of the girls in his training group, Astrid. Though she is initially terrified, Hiccup and Toothless are eventually (and through the magic power of flight) able to convince her that dragons aren't so bad. They also discover the Island of the Dragons, home of the Red Death, which is a giant dragon who lives deep in the heart of the volcano there, and that demands food tribute from the other dragons.
Hiccup returns to Berk and enters the ring to fight the dragon that he is supposed to kill, a Monstrous Nightmare, with the intention of proving to everyone watching that dragons aren't evil or inherently dangerous. The dragon he is fighting becomes spooked, however, and attacks. Toothless, still in the valley, hears Hiccup's yell and manages to escape from it, attacking the Nightmare in Hiccup's defense. Stoick becomes enraged, capturing Toothless and using him to guide the vikings of the village to the dragon's island with the intent of destroying the island and making sure that the dragons never return to Berk.
Hiccup and Astrid rally the rest of the students in their group and travel to the dragon's isle, just in time to see Stoick anger the Red Death. He and the Vikings are incredibly out-matched, but Hiccup and Toothless are able to coax the giant dragon from its lair and into the atmosphere. They repeatedly attack its wings, causing it eventually plummet hard to the ground and explode. Hiccup and Toothless are caught in the explosion, though Toothless -- being a dragon and fireproof -- is able to shield Hiccup from the heat. Well, most of Hiccup.
Hiccup wakes up much later back at home in Berk. Hiccup has lost his leg -- the left one from just below the knee and down -- and has been fitted with a prosthetic by the village blacksmith. While he was sleeping, Berk has accepted dragons and now keeps them as pets of sorts. The movie ends with Hiccup climbing onto Toothless and flying off to race Astrid. Aaand that's the canon point I'm taking him from --- post film, sans leg.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Hiccup worked for the blacksmith back in Berk, and is pretty good at both drawing things and doing the inventy-thing.
Sample Journal Post: [video]
[Hiccup looks more than a little perplexed as he studies the PCD, leaning in close to it and putting his mouth maybe too close to the mic.]
HELLO? UM, THIS IS HICCUP. HAS ANYONE SEEN A BIG BLACK DRAGON AROUND HERE?
[He pauses and leans back, wondering for a second if he's doing this right. He continues, though it's quieter, and more to himself.]
Answers to the name 'Toothless.' Has teeth. Missing half a tail fin. Kiiind of hard to miss.
Sample RP: If it was a dream, then it was certainly doing a good job of pretending to be real, he thought as he wiped at the sheen of sweat on his forehead and began walking, taking careful, measured steps. He still hadn't really gotten the hang of this metal foot replacement, kept catching himself and overbalancing, expecting to feel something more than just resistance at the knee when he took a step.
He pressed a hand to the side of one of the ruined buildings, mouth set into a thin line. Sort of a big change from the thatched-roof buildings at home. He wasn't there, he knew that for sure; the real question was, where was he?
“Hello?”
He paused, waited for a response, and heard only his own echo. It was more unsettling than he wanted to admit.
“Dad? Toothless?”
His voice rose a little bit; he was trying not to panic, was refusing to panic. Vikings didn't panic over problems, they fixed them. Or punched things. Both were equally viable.
“Astrid? Anyone?”
He drew his dagger, though held it loosely in his fingers as his hand dangled at his side, and kept walking, eyes peeled for something, anything, to provide him with a clue as to where he was.