Are you a fan of the How To Train your dragon movies?
Do you like tragedy, friendship, and crazy magical sub-plots??? Do you like seeing your favorite characters going through the horrors? (Highlights on the tragedy and horrors parts for now-)
Then you should tooootally read this fanfic I’ve been working on. Definitely. I mean, it’s only just getting started and the quality varies from chapter to chapter-
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
To put it simply without giving TOO much away- -Feel free to skip this part and read at least the first chapter before continuing if you want to go in without any forewarning-
It’s set at the beginning of the first movie- And Toothless’s injury from Hiccups bola trap was just… Far too debilitating to survive. Hiccup must live with the consequences of his actions, and we the reader are left to wonder just HOW FAR will this puny 14 year old go in order to fix the unfixable? To undo what has been done?
Enter, the as previously mentioned, crazy magical subplot… But it’s really NOT as simple of a solution as you may think…
After all, it takes more than a thought to make a wish come true.
And that’s the basic gist.
Listen, I’ve always been a sucker for the Hiccup and Toothless platonic soulbond fics, cuz found family is a very dear trope to me- Except in this case, I make it far more tragic and cheesy than it needs to be. FOR THOSE SENSITIVE TO GORE OR VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF DYING AND OVERALL UNPLEASANT THINGS- This may not be the fanfic for you. But I promise it’s gonna get better… Eventually. Anyhoo. Feel free to read and trust the process! It’s gonna be fun!
Okay, I've had this question that's been stewing in my mind for a while and I know a similar question has been asked, but I have to ask this. How would the events of the Defenders/Riders of Berk TV show played out if Hiccup and Toothless had died fighting the Red Death? Personally, I think Stoick would try a lot harder to ensure that the Dragon's stayed on Berk. Because, as he would see it, as long as a dragon was welcome in a Berkian home, Hiccup was still alive, in a sense. Any thoughts?
Okay, so Hiccup AND Toothless die? A combination of the single deviations, I would say.
Stoick’s shock is much the same as when only Hiccup dies. He has no mind for the devil—the dragon—not when his only son is limp in his arms. And that’s how he handles the aftermath. He isn’t thinking about dragons or their connection to Hiccup—not at first. He can’t think of anything but Hiccup. Of his loss.
Astrid’s horror and odd sense of loss is soothed by a new passion: relaying the lessons she learned from Hiccup and Toothless. She’s insistent, using their sacrifice to push the village into allowing dragons to live side-by-side. The Nadder has become a source of comfort—as has flying—and it’s already hard to imagine giving it all up.
The anger that took Hiccup’s heart in the Toothless-dies deviation seeds in Stoick’s. He’ll never have the passion and hope for his village as he had before. Self-loathing makes him sluggish, yet he’s sleepless in his abruptly empty house. He fights through it, but it rears up every now and again.
Thank the gods for Gobber. Thank the gods for Astrid. Given the way Hiccup died, the cause he died for, Astrid is suddenly the closest link to what Hiccup was about. All of Hiccup’s secrets—about dragons, about his learnings—went down with him save for whatever Astrid gleaned in the 48 hours before his death. It’s a burden she never thought she’d carry, but she does her best to rise to the occasion.
Integrating dragons is harder without Hiccup. And without Toothless. There are more accidents. More quarrels. Less dragons stay. She grows close to Fishlegs as they work through methods of reaching dragons without the natural empathy Hiccup seemed to have. Snotlout is subdued after the death of his cousin—he fights them far less than usual, but he’s also more withdrawn. The twins, on the other hand, act out more.
Overall, there’s a quiet effort to bond with their dragons, to become better examples to the Berkians, to help make Hiccup’s dreams come alive… but it’s a far slower, more awkward process without the Night Fury and his Rider. There’s no out-of-the-box thinking or state-of-the-art inventions to help the two formerly warring species merge. There’s no reaching out to spread peace or expand worldly awareness.
Stoick allows Astrid to integrate dragons into Berk in honor of his son (and the show would be about her struggle with that challenge), but she’s going to have to wait until Stoick hands over the mantle before they can really start pushing boundaries.
