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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝔾𝕒𝕟𝕘!

You may know me as Helfaerie (Hel or Fae for short), and I am a freelance performing artist with a deep love for HTTYD.

When I'm not on set and/or tryna' figure my life out I am writing this behemoth of a project called Path of Alfheim which you can find on the coveted AO3.

ℙ𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕠𝕗 𝔸𝕝𝕗𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕞 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞 ℍ𝕚𝕔𝕔𝕦𝕡 𝕏 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟.

It features a compelling story deeply inspired by Norse Religion and Lore, where Hiccup Haddock, following two years after the death of his father, is forced to cross paths with the elusive and deadly FMC (You!)

This fanfiction is highly explicit: violence, horror, gore, tragedy, sex, death, the likes.

𝕀𝕟 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤, 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕄𝔻ℕ𝕀.

I respectfully ask that you do not interact with me if you're under eighteen. I don't feel comfortable discussing my work with you.

𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕚𝕟 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖.

-> As of now due to the size of this project (with Fic 2 already in the works) Path of Alfheim is my only fanfiction. This blog features additional content based around the storyline, as well as general HTTYD whimsy!

Hashtag guide:

(All tags listed here are also featured in the Search Bar)

1. #PoA Art -> Features Artworks created by Readers for Readers! By far my favourite branch of this page. Thank you to everyone who has contributed!

2. #FMC Art -> Features Artworks depicting the elusive protagonist, yourself!

3. #PoA Audio -> Immersive sound bites that feature either voice acting or other types of auditory content.

4. #HTTYD Whimsy -> Memes and whimsy in relation to PoA and/or general HTTYD content.

5. #HTTYD General -> Pretty self-explanatory <3

6. #Progress Update -> Features posts about recent edits, announcements, and updates.

7. #Music -> Features songs I have accumulated for Path of Alfheim. Alternatively now you can go listen to the Path of Alfheim Playlist!

8. #Concept Art -> Think of this as a compilation of visuals I've used for inspiration while writing. Or any art I've come across that is reminiscent of the universe in some way. A Pinterest Board is in the works! (You may find additional visuals in the End Notes under each Chapter.)

9. #PoA Asks -> Features any Terror Mail you've sent me (and I encourage you to do so btw).

10. #Poll -> This is where post general discussions and interesting questions for you to ponder on. You can also greatly help me with writing the fic by answering these polls!

11. #Writing Prompt -> Think of this as a sneak peak into my notes! I have far too many and there is no guarantee which bits will actually make it in the fic.

12. #Resources -> Here's one for my fellow HTTYD fanfic writers! This tag features things like an interactive version of Hiccup's Map, Viking History Facts, and Nordic Folklore.

13. Finally we have the off tags like #General Fanfiction (Fanfic stuff unrelated to PoA), #Rant (where I complain), and #Personal (which is a rare sighting but still present none the less).

Thank you for the love and support you've shown to my work!

#hiccup x reader #path of alfheim #httyd fanfiction #httyd

I would like to announce that this sad loser lesbian (bisexual in theory, Hiccup exists) is feeling very sapphic and it might bleed into some things in the fic... Heather, I'm looking at you, sweet cheeks.

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I've had to do this timeline way too many times...

A.k.a. However-many-days-before-Snoggletog at the start of the Chapter.

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Hey babies, I'm alive ❤️

Still affording all the time I can while packing up. As of now, I'm almost ready to move out, but I've had to give up nearly all of my attention to legalities. It's why I've struggled to maintain the daily updates.

I'm dropping in to say I have not forgotten about you and I love you all very much.

I wish I had more to say in regards to the update — I've really had to focus on the packing-up-my-life-and-leaving. Yours Truly is flying out of the country and has no clue whether she'll be flying back anytime soon. I've bought a one-way ticket... This is, somehow, not the first time I've just upended my entire life. But it's no less horrifying for it.

I'm not moving to a new household, frankly I don't know if I want to. I'm going traveling for a little bit, perhaps for the rest of the year. So, in truth I haven't just been packing. I've been fully stripping off the things that no longer serve me, either by selling them, donating them or simply giving them away.

I've decided I want to pursue making art while on the go, while somehow making it work with no money. I have no clue how that's gonna work. But I think I'm supposed to discover that. I did this once already when I came to study in a foreign country, when it comes to packing up and simply leaving, I know I'm starting from experience.

I'm Eastern European. I've been in the UK for the last 6 years and I'm simply not happy here. I started writing Path of Alfheim on a whim and it ultimately helped me realize I crave so much more out of life. For a very long time I've felt anchored to a piece of land that no longer aligns with what I want.

A. K. A. I've been subconsciously pouring myself into Hiccup for the last two years without even realizing.

It should not have come as a surprise — it still did.

I've been wracking my brain with questions like "What am I meant to do with my life?" and "Where to now?" when in reality the answer's simple.

The happiest I've felt these past 2 years is when I've been writing, when I've had the chance to be on stage, when I've snuck away to simply make things... When I've had the freedom to explore. And I need to know what that feels like at its fullest.

I'm going on a journey that is uncertain and a little scary. But I'm taking you with me. And though I don't have an update on the fic itself today, I wanted to come in and share that one little piece of me with those of you who felt connected to the silly little world I created on a random sleepless night after I had cried my eyes out.

I struggle with deadlines.

I can't stick to a schedule.

But I've always been an intuitive writer — I don't force the words. I simply let them flow when they come out.

So, I'm choosing a life where I dedicate myself to that purpose. Where I get to write Path of Alfheim whenever I want, without worrying if I'll make rent next month, where I can make art as I please and still have energy left because I'm not destroying my body at some minimum wage ungrateful job. I've had a portion of time these past few days where I haven't been able to dedicate as much time as I'd like to writing, but the fic itself is about to expand in ways even I haven't discovered.

It's been ages since I've had a chance to post a new chapter and I feel horrible for making you wait so long.

So, I hope that with these words of mine you can feel how devoted I am to this project. How much it's helped me find myself, and how much it ain't going anywhere.

If you remember one thing from reading my post today, let me leave you with this... Should you not create, you will deteriorate.

You owe it to yourself to live your truth.

I'm going traveling for a while to find mine. And I know that my art, and Path of Alfheim as a whole, will reflect that truth in ways I can't wait to share with you.

I love you all. Stay safe. And I shall post again soon. ❤️

#progress update #personal

Daily dose of content until I've released Chapter 10 <3

Today on the menu we have "Viewer discretion is advised" (a.k.a. the Score for Chapter 10) Yes, you should be looking at the title. Yes, you should be worried.

I'm sorry in advance. There will be blood. And a beloved character will get very, very hurt.

Faceless Beast | Epic, Intense, Horror Music

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Babygirls, I am grinding. My keyboard is steaming. I have hermited myself.

As much as I hate admitting to it, I was, indeed, in denial. I did go through a crippling period of writer's block. And now that I've shifted to writing daily again, I want to apologize. Sincerely. I've made you wait too long. Not to mention that I've missed the deadline.

I am giving you a big meaty chapter when I'm done.

It has become a priority. Though I have juggled some harrowing things this past year, I am now actively pouring my energy into this. I'm supposed to be moving out...

I haven't even started packing. Because screw packing. It can wait.

Writing is all I'm doing right now. I am posting this after just having pulled an all-nighter.

I realize it sounds a bit extreme but I have made a commitment to myself, but more so to you to deliver this as soon as possible. I thought I would be done by the 10th but unfortunately I overestimated the amount of content I wanted to deliver with this chapter. At the same time, I don't want to rush. I don't want to give you a butchered Chapter 10.

Somehow, somewhen, I am getting this done.

And please, I do not want you to think I am brute forcing my way into this. It's quite the opposite.

I'm buzzing!!

I can't write fast enough for the way the story is flowing through my brain right now, the way dialogue and visuals emerge by themselves.

While I'm still working on it, I will be posting daily (or if not daily a lot more frequently) to keep you updated on the process or to share with you any interesting things I might have encountered while doing research. ❤️

Again, I am so genuinely sorry.

Getting this out ASAP is my priority. I'm too scared to say with certainty how long it will take — I failed to stick to my original deadline. But I am doing this with so much dedication and love.

Keep your eyes on the blog for the daily updates and hopefully I'll be able to give you chapter 10 in the next few days. ❤️ I love you all very much.

As always, thank you... For your support and your patience, and for simply enjoying this world I've created.

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ITS ME! The roommate. Living with the legend herself. I’m your direct line to author herself! I’m calling for all the starved, thirsty, borderline-DEMONIC hiccup lovers to come together, around the stone table upon which we will place her on trial. Watching the hour glass empty until she has for-filled her prophecy of a new chapter.

Come forth. And let the trial begin.

#submission

HI- roomate hacking

Yo peeps, this is h3lfaerie's roomate.

I'm here to call the massess to force her to realse the next chapter. pls ignore the spelling mistakes, I'm dyslexic

rosetta46

he’s never looked more like his rtte self than in this picture. the hottest man in the archipelago

h3lfaerie

WHO GAVE HIM THE RIGHT TO BE THIS PRETTY??

I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER.

#how to train your dragon #httyd #hiccup haddock #httyd general

I don't normally do this. But I've made a horrifying realization.

In a month it will be A YEAR since I last updated Path of Alfheim. As I've had to deal with life, money, writer's block and general imposter syndrome also known as the "You can't write for shit" bitch harping in my frontal lobe.

So that won't do.

I have a world to build.

A fandom to feed.

And a book to publish in the future.

I work TERRIBLY with deadlines as my brain is far too neurotic to stick to a schedule. But I hereby revoke my own privileges.

Change of plans. We're now peer pressuring the Autism into writing by giving myself a deadline.

I know damn well what I need to write. I've just thought myself incapable of writing it.

New chapter drops on June 10th.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

This is a goal. You're allowed to be mean to me.

Tell me all the ways I'm depriving you of food. If you don't sound like a 5-week-old kitten that hasn't had a second breakfast in the last ten seconds then you're not doing it right.

I love you.

Mama's back.

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MF solved my issue in 0.5 seconds...

Yes, it's you V.

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"Screw your dragon. Fight me like a proper man."

You mean Hiccup “War Crimes” Haddock? The 6'2 Viking CEO of Psychological Warfare™ in prime physical condition with a sword that catches fire, a metal leg that doubles as a tool box, and no will to live? Buddy. The dragon’s the nice part.

(Also known as Dragon Master "Catch These Hands".)

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Guys, the Hiccup TikTok Cult is sending me, please send help-

I'm crying on the toilet. I wish I was joking.

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I was asked by a friend last night, whether Hiccup's tattoo on his breast (Astrid's name in Runic Scripture) which is confirmed to be Canon in the OG Movies and Comics will be Canon in Path of Alfheim (which is, as we all know very well, a Hiccup X Reader Fic).

My answer?

UH, IT IS, NOW.

You think I'm going to miss out on prime angst material?! Think again.

You think I’m not going to exploit this perfectly tragic storytelling device, a literal mark of devotion inked over the heart, symbolizing a love that's both platonic and romantic, as their relationship unravels, not from betrayal or scandal, but simply because Astrid’s moral compass is unshakable while Hiccup is steadily slipping into madness and near-tyranny?

PUH-LEASE.

I want to do these guys justice. Astrid is inarguably the most important person in Hiccup's life. I am not straying from Canon when it comes to their relationship. They're betrothed, for crying out loud.

When I started writing Path of Alfheim, I knew right away that I didn’t want to rewrite the depth of their relationship just for the sake of the Reader. Let alone create some narrative where Hiccup leaves Astrid for her, or antagonize either woman...

No. No. N̫͙̪ͣ͊ͪ̾ͮ̽̏͌͠͡_̸̢̨͚͙̪̫̣̼͎̓̓͗̾͑̆ͪͦ͂ͨ̄͑̆̃̽͠͠O̶̸̧̢̡̡̖͎̜̻̖̝͉̞̗͕͗͌̑́̎̔̅ͭͬ̊̀ͧͨ̊͋ͤ͌ͬ͑͘͢͞

That's NOT the story I'm telling.

It was AND STILL IS crucial to me that their split stems entirely from their fundamental differences, not because of the Reader.

(FMC is out there just minding her business, trying not to die. She is not even present. 😂)

You add a tattoo over the heart to this escalating tragedy, as both their flaws rise to the surface. Oh... This is going to hurt.

I cannot begin to describe to you the dichotomy of those two. The way it smacks me upside the head whenever I'm writing.

Hiccup is being consumed. Slowly, quietly, and then all at once, by something that looks like anger but feels more like exhaustion. It’s the kind of resentment that only festers in people who once cared too deeply. He’s given and given and given—his body, his future, his peace of mind—and the world just keeps asking for more. There’s no end to it. No moment of rest. And the more he tries to hold onto what little he has left, the more it slips through his fingers. He’s tired of being the better man. Tired of compromise. Tired of carrying the weight of everyone’s hopes on shoulders that were never meant to bear this much. So, piece by piece, the boy who tried to change the world becomes the man who wants to own it—because maybe then, finally, he won’t have to lose anything else.

Whereas Astrid feels flayed to the bone by the helplessness of it all (and certain things I haven't revealed yet). Watching the person she loves slip further and further from the path she once believed unshakable. There’s nothing she can do to stop it, no battle she can fight to bring him back. He is still Hiccup, but only in shape and memory. The man before her is becoming someone she can’t follow, someone she can’t even recognize. And that knowing, that quiet ache of witnessing love rot from the inside out, cuts deeper than any wound she’s ever taken in battle.

My personal take on Astrid, the reason I love her so damn much, is that yes, she can come across as rigid, even ruthless. She’s every bit the wildfire people fear her to be. But that fire? It comes from feeling more than anyone else around her. It’s not a lack of emotion, it’s too much of it. She burns with it, and the only way she knows how to survive is to lock it behind steel. A wall. A desperate defense against being overwhelmed by how deeply she cares. We saw that wall breaking down briefly in Chapter 8.

At her core Astrid Hofferson is pure unfettered vulnerability, devotion, helpless in the fact that she is incapable of NOT giving her all to those she cares about. This is why she guards it so fiercely.

She will never love freely, never gift it to everyone who crosses her path. But the few she does care for… Astrid would shred the world apart for them and then shred herself apart for them.

Losing Hiccup to the corrupted version of himself, all while knowing there was once a time when he etched her name above his heart with ink that would never fade...

While Hiccup, throughout the story, is forced to carry a constant reminder of this epic, tragic love...

SOMEBODY SEDATE ME.

And let me say this right now, no amount of hatred or grief or heartache would ever make him remove that tattoo.

Not because he still longs for "what was", or because he "doesn't get over her and wants to get together with her again", NO, certain things are forever severed after they separate. BUT I want to portray the fact that love doesn’t always have to vanish to transform. Astrid Hofferson is a chapter etched into the very skin of Hiccup's story, one that shaped him, built him, taught him.

It’s no longer romantic—and never will be again—but it remains undeniably real.

"Astrid, you and I have been through everything together. You don't think we can handle this? Astrid, you have me, no matter what. Okay, whatever that means, whatever you want it to mean. I am with you. There will always be a Hiccup and Astrid. Always." - A quote from RTTE that is CARVED into my frontal lobe.

Which leads me to my final point. This isn’t merely “his ex’s name” inked onto his skin, it’s a permanent mark honoring someone who played a pivotal role in shaping who he is, emotionally, physically, and mentally. It speaks more to his journey than to any lingering attachment.

So after they both survive the grief, after the FMC becomes romantically involved with Hiccup, he will carry that tattoo like a scar that doesn't ache anymore. Because I firmly believe you can hold space in your heart for both past and future loves—honoring what built you, without betraying what’s to come.

In short, that tattoo is a symbol of YEARNING and LOVE and LOSS and LIKE FUCK am I missing out on it.

I am going to destroy ya'll.

And myself, don't fret, I'm right there with you, I know I'm evil.😭

Okay, byeeee~

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