does toothless love hiccup?
Toothless loves Hiccup through and through and through. I feel like the entire franchise manifests this love in depth.
Toothless demonstrates clear affection, from his intentional, soft physical touches…
to trusting Hiccup…
to excitedly clambering toward Hiccup…
to teasing Hiccup…
to playing with Hiccup…
to protecting Hiccup in dangerous situations (such as saving Hiccup in Defenders of the Wing Part 1), even when it put him in danger, too, and he didn’t have to be there otherwise…
to imitating Hiccup…
to helping Hiccup walk…
to going out of his way to be kind to Hiccup (think about fishing in the ocean for days to retrieve Hiccup’s helmet in GOTNF)…
to even being willing to die for Hiccup.
Over. And over. And over again. Sacrificing himself for his beloved rider.
Toothless holds an utmost loyalty to Hiccup which is apparent in these actions, emotional expressions, and choices. Toothless wouldn’t intentionally break his tail in GOTNF unless he had a desire to continue flying with Hiccup and spend time with the human. He wants to be with Hiccup more than he wants to be able to do a basic dragon life function.
Toothless wouldn’t have been able to break out of the Bewilderbeast’s hive mind except that Toothless cared so much about Hiccup. His love broke mind control!
Toothless wouldn’t have broken out of the Bewilderbeast’s ice and started to fight the Bewilderbeast except that he cared so much about Hiccup. Toothless chose to fight a mountain sized dragon because of Hiccup.
Toothless doesn’t just love Hiccup.
His love for Hiccup, and Hiccup’s reciprocal love for him, is one of the greatest love stories ever told.
