Hey, for the Canon meme? Hiccup. Astrid. And the two together. (take your time sir no rush)
Canon: Astrid can do handsprings and flips on the back of a flying dragon. She can do gymnastics stunts on the back of a flying dragon.
Headcanon: Astrid started training to fight dragons at a young age. We know, from a deleted scene, that the axe she wields in the first movie was once her mother’s. She takes great pride in wielding her mother’s axe, understands that the war between humans and dragons will soon become her war to fight, and does her best to become an adept fighter. As a child, she is very ferocious and understand moreso than others her age how important it is to fight dragons. This knowledge was instilled to her because her uncle Fearless Finn Hofferson was frozen by the Flightmare. Upon seeing her family’s name disgraced because they didn’t fight dragons “well enough,” she became serious very young about fighting dragons. She was already ready to fight them before Finn Hofferson was frozen… but after that, she really worked the axe. The tumbling stunts she can do (handsprings, etc.) are mostly skills she picked up and learned on her own… her mother and father didn’t do things like that in battle.
Heartcanon: My heart says that Astrid’s feelings for Hiccup developed more gradually over time than the first movie leads us to believe. We see her go from antagonistic to timidly interested in Hiccup over the course of one “Romantic Flight” evening. I think that, even though she started giving Hiccup those sudden, spurious kisses in HTTYD, it was only through more time that she really started to love him. The flighty, unpredictable, impulsive teenage love was what we first saw. But as she and Hiccup came to know one another well, came to befriend one another well, and came to spend so much time with one another… that early teenage “crush” morphed into real, solid, and deep feelings for Hiccup. What she felt for Hiccup at the end of HTTYD was simple attraction and interest, but it was only later that the love became deep and Really Really Real.
Soulcanon: Hiccup was Astrid’s first and only crush. And Astrid was Hiccup’s first and only major crush, too.
HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK THE THIRD
Canon: Hiccup takes on an enormous, four hundred foot long dragon by himself and Toothless. He fights the Red Death by himself and Toothless in the skies. And he wins. When he’s fourteen years old. Damn.
Headcanon: Like many other Viking chiefs we have seen (ex: Stoick, Dagur), Hiccup grows his hair out long and has it braided in one thick braid. Oh. And there’s a beard. Definitely adult Beardcup.
Heartcanon: It takes a long time for Hiccup to be able to walk on his new prosthetic. He might be able to stagger out the door with Toothless’ support upon waking up, but he is in excruciating pain. It is quite a long and tedious ordeal for him to learn how to walk, then run, on his own. Even by the time of Gift of the Night Fury, he’s still more prone to slips and falls (regardless of the presence of ice) than he was before the amputation.
Soulcanon: No one’s telling me that Hiccup is ambidextrious. He’s a natural lefty. He is.
Canon: Hiccup and Astrid have a great relationship that is more than physical attraction. They have a strong, deep relationship that allows them to have romantic times together, serious times together, silly times together - anything. They can laugh with one another over silly nothings or speak heart-to-heart about things that bother them. We see this occur, for instance, at the start of HTTYD 2.
Headcanon: Hiccup and Astrid aren’t betrothed by HTTYD 2 times. Hiccup is still struggling about who he is, who he should become, and many other concerns that plague people as they are entering adulthood. Hiccup isn’t mentally comfortable in the world of being an adult yet, so he has not yet made the very adult step of becoming engaged with Astrid.
Heartcanon: Astrid saves Hiccup’s butt far more times than Hiccup saves Astrid’s butt. Although Hiccup is typically strategic with his choices in dangerous situations, Astrid is the one with the greatest amount of formal combat training. She’s talented, dexterous, and always able to save her boyfriend in time. Way before the events of How to Train Your Dragon 2, Astrid has saved Hiccup’s life triple the times that he has caught her, say, falling from her dragon. Toothless of course saves Hiccup his fair share of times, too, but he’s getting very sick of his rider being in dangerous circumstances. Astrid and Toothless working together to keep this daredevil dragon rider’s heart beating is one reason that Toothless adores Astrid by HTTYD 2 times.
Soulcanon: Hiccup and Astrid marry and live long, happy lives together as a couple. They have a decently large family, probably about four kids. Astrid doesn’t let Hiccup name the kids. Because here’s the thing: if Hiccup named the kids, he’d probably ask Toothless for advice. But “Slobbering Tongue” is not an appropriate name for a Viking girl. True, the hideous name would scare off the gnomes and trolls, but “Slobbering Tongue” is STILL not an appropriate name for a Viking girl.