this comment is literally like my plot bunny/motivation/brain’s summary of this fic
that’s one of my biggest motivations for having Hiccup not run away or take off with Toothless now, as things start getting really complicated and dangerous the longer he tries to keep up two lives. when he would’ve had to kill a dragon, yes, he would’ve fled, but now…
as long as he can keep things under control and keep up the secret, he can stay on Berk, with his DAD and Gobber and maybe even Astrid.
hell, even the villagers. they’re his village, his people, and he’s spent his life trying to make them proud. that’s never changed, and even if he’s too busy to try publicly winning their attention anymore, he still couldn’t make himself leave
and who would Stoick have then? Hiccup knows that being chief isn’t easy, knows Stoick’s stress, anxiety, fear, for the village and the dragons and the winters, the burden on his shoulders, his need for ice blocks and mead. nor (even if Hiccup would only know this subconsciously) is it easy without a chieftess, or a partner in parenting, especially when you have such a complicated son
Hiccup knows Stoick loves him, but not the degree to which. for Hiccup, he sees Stoick’s love more of the way he might love Snotlout right now: the cousin you hate but you guess you’d be upset if they were gone because you have to be, since family or whatever. he has no comprehension of how all that fear and stress an anxiety is what Stoick feels for him first and foremost, that his son lives in this village he’s worried he can’t protect, that he might lose him the way he lost Valka. and while Stoick might be too blinded by those terrors to see his son, it’s only because he does love his son terribly that he can be blinded thus. and for Hiccup, Stoick is like the sun, like a god
sorry ranting JUST HSKSKSKSKAKSJSJ my beloved haddocks😭🥺🤢
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