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( PLAYER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Alyssa
- ★ AGE: 20
- ★ TIMEZONE: -7 GMT
- ★ CONTACT: notcrazyokay, greynaess@gmail.com
- ★ LATEST AC: n/a

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
- ★ AGE: 14
- ★ CANON POINT: End of movie.
- ★ CANON INFORMATION:
* Movie wiki page
* Hiccup in the movie wiki article

- ★ PERSONALITY:

The first thing one tends to notice when encountering Hiccup is that he's pretty awkward. He can get flustered quite easily, stammering and at a loss for words, and sometimes he fails to put things as delicately as he should due to rushing to explain. But he's a scrawny teenager, so awkwardness isn't something that should be all that unexpected. Growing up as sort of the village disappointment does that to a guy, too. Although, it's also given him a very dry, sarcastic sense of humour. He'll often make a dry or exasperated comment when things don't go quite right, or someone ignores him in some capacity. As well, he doesn't always focus on the most important thing in a situation--in the middle of dragon training, while they're supposed to be defending themselves from the dragon in the arena with them, Hiccup spends most of his time distracted trying to ask questions about Night Furies.

Despite all the sarcasm and the awkwardness though, he's actually a good person. He got a good heart, one that's in the right place, even though he makes mistakes. Though he grew up in a village where killing dragons was just what they did, one of the most common things, something even the children aspired to do, he finds that it's not something he's capable of doing. Not only because he's not particularly strong or good at fighting, but because he's a compassionate person. When he has a dragon that he took down out of the sky laying on the ground before him, expecting to be killed, he tries, but just can't bring himself to do it. He sees how scared it is, and he empathizes with that, opting to let the dragon go. In the end, he even feels so bad about what he's done that he takes to feeding the dragon and befriending it.

As well, he can be a little headstrong. Even when he's warned against doing something, he often does it anyway. Sometimes it's to be looked upon better by the people in his village, to prove himself to them, and other times it's to protect someone/something. This gets him into trouble a lot of the time, or causes problems for others, depending on the situation. When it comes to being protective, he usually ends up doing a good job and going against orders or advice works out for the better, but when it comes to trying to prove himself...sometimes he gets carried away. He thinks he can tackle more than he really can, and it has put him in dangerous situations.

All that said though, he's a really smart kid. He discovers new things about the dragons everyone's so afraid of, picking up easily on little things such as their distaste for eels or the way they'll become fixated on a moving point of light. He's also quite the inventor, putting to use his intelligence and the skills he's built up as a blacksmith's apprentice to create new, useful things, such as Toothless's new tail flap which he can control with a mechanism built into a stirrup, as well as Berk's first dragon saddle. He's also good at coming up with plans of action, when they involve dragons in particular--he sort of comes into his own once they're involved, and shows some strong leadership qualities.

He's strongly motivated by his compassion. He does what he can to help those he cares about when they're in trouble, at whatever cost. He even risks his life to save everyone in his tribe from the Red Death, the giant mountain dwelling dragon that was awoken. As well, when in the arena, supposed to be killing his first dragon, Hiccup refuses to do so, even though he's sure it's going to anger his father, the chief. Then, when Toothless comes to his rescue, he nearly gets himself hurt trying to break up the dragon fight, and then trying to stop the other Vikings from capturing and hurting Toothless. He's brave, in that sense, even if he can appear quite chicken most other times.

His closest friend and the one he cares for most is most definitely Toothless. The two have a bond, one that began the moment Hiccup cut the dragon loose and let him grow free. And now, they actually depend on each other. Without Hiccup, Toothless can't fly, and without Toothless, Hiccup would have never found his purpose, his place in the tribe. And now that Hiccup lost his foot in the battle with the Red Death, like Toothless lost his one tail flap, they're very much the same. They have a symmetry.

Hiccup is also quite affected by his relationship with his father, Stoic. He's always wanted to impress his father, to prove himself to him, to show that he's a real Viking like the rest of the tribe, not the nuisance they all used to think he was. It hurts him deeply, more than he even really lets on, when it seems like he can do nothing but disappoint his dad. However, even once he earns the pride after Stoic hears about how he's been doing so well in dragon training, Hiccup doesn't feel good about it at all because it feels like a lie. Because he's not actually doing what everyone thinks he is and, of course, he's hiding Toothless from them all. It makes the situation with his father quite awkward, and has him sort of trying to avoid him so he doesn't have to lie, and also so he can avoid having to explain how he's suddenly doing so well at something he's never been able to do before, as the truth is his methods wouldn't be approved of by any of the other Vikings.
When everything ends up revealed though, it's all out in the open that he's become friendly with a dragon and even trained it, Stoic feels betrayed and lied to, and even more ashamed of Hiccup than ever before. With everything blowing up so horribly, and his father even disowning him for trying to protect Toothless, Hiccup feels worse than ever about the whole thing. Like he really will never belong. It doesn't stop him from coming up with a plan to go after the tribe, to save Toothless, and to save them all from what they'll find at the dragon's nest.
In the end, after the battle with the Red Death, proving himself and that the dragons really aren't they're enemies, he earns his dad's respect and pride for real. This, the fact that Toothless and everyone are still okay, and the fact that dragons are accepted, all make him incredibly happy. And finally, he'll be able to have a good relationship with his dad, no longer a disappointing son.

Then there's Astrid. Hiccup's crush. She's the best of the teenage Vikings, way out of his league. In fact, in the beginning, she thinks he's nothing but annoying and not up to fighting dragons. She's the best, she knows it, so when Hiccup is suddenly showing her and everyone else up in training, she starts to get mad. She's the only one who tries to find out where exactly it is that he goes when there's no training to attend. She's the only one actually suspicious of his sudden dragon conquering abilities. It's that fact that leads her to be the first one to discover Toothless.
Thankfully, with a bit of work and a lot of anger on Astrid's side, Hiccup gets to show her the big secret he's discovered--that dragons aren't what the Vikings think they are. After that night, she accepts his ideas. They even become friends, and she keeps his secret for him. She trusts him, too, when it comes time for them to go rescue Toothless and all the Vikings that set off to the dragon nest. She helps enforce that his plan is a good one to the other teens, who seem entirely unsure because they wouldn't necessarily believe that Hiccup, of all people, is right. Much less that he'll make a good leader. They work together well during the final fight, and afterwards, once Hiccup wakes up back home, she's so relieved that he's okay and even kisses him.

Overall, having to hide such a big thing as a dragon from his entire tribe is stressful for Hiccup. Even more so once he uses his training skills in the arena and they start seeing him as an expert blooming dragon slayer. Suddenly he's not the fuckup of the village and he's under all sorts of attention that he doesn't really know how to deal with. It's overwhelming, and actually something he tries to avoid, all of the attention. He was worried he might slip where he learned his tricks, or mention something about Toothless. Thankfully, he always managed to sneak away, often under weak excuses for having to be somewhere else, and get back to Toothless. The others noticed his absences, but didn't really question them, with the exception of Astrid.

Though he begins as the boy who can seem to do no right, an outcast in his own village and a joke, he grows into something much more. He changes life as the Vikings know it, creates peace between them and the dragons so they can all live and work together. It even makes him something of a hero, and it gives him a place, one that he finally fits into. It changes his life for the better, gives him friends, brings him closer to his father, and just generally makes things better for everyone.

Again, Hiccup finds himself thrust into the spotlight, but this time, it's honest. It's his real accomplishments that have brought him here, and he doesn't have to lie anymore. It's a weight off his shoulders, he no longer has to hide anything, and he can just be himself without that being disappointing. It gives him more confidence about everything, in himself, and in everything he does. He's still modest and humble, still Hiccup, just...happier. He finally fits in, he finally has friends, and it's all even given him more courage. If he can take on the Red Death on his own and survive, then he should be able to tackle anything else that comes his way.

- ★ ABILITIES:

For the record, Hiccup has no supernatural or magical abilities, but that doesn't mean he hasn't got any abilities at all!

For one, he's a fairly talented artist--a talent that gets better through the course of the film. He draws accurate depictions of Toothless that, after the movie, are presumably put into the book of dragons as references for Night Furies.
As well, he's a very talented inventor and blacksmith. Having apprenticed as a blacksmith since he was much younger, he knows how to make weapons of all kinds, and he moves on to using these skills for his own inventions. He creates Toothless' saddle and tail rig on his own, after a number of different prototypes, and ends up very successful in the end.
And, of course, he has a great ability with dragon training, which...unfortunately seems unlikely to be useful in Dabwurld, but it's still a talent he possesses. As the first Viking to train a dragon, he's gotten to know the best ways to do so, and even taught the other teens how to do it.

- ★ INVENTORY:

Just the clothes on his back and his prosthetic foot

( SAMPLES )

- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:

[The video feed clicks on, and instantly the video is blurry and shaking, and there's nothing but the muffled noise of someone's hand shifting against the locket. Even with the thing explained to him, Hiccup's at a bit of a loss. He'd spoken 'video' to it, purely out of curiosity because it's the one supposed function he doesn't understand. He isn't from a place that has technology of any kind, okay.

It takes him a few minutes, but eventually his face flashes across the screen, though it's shaking while his hand is clearly not being held still. Then, suddenly, he seems to finally catch on to what it's doing and blinks in surprise.]

Oh, woah-- I guess that means this thing's on...? [Excuse his face getting a little closer there, he's really interested and confused by this thing.] That's kind of cool, actually. How does it work?

[Squinting now. Green eyes flit around as he surveys the locket, but then he practically starts as he remembers other people will be seeing this.]

Oh, uh. Right. There should actually be a point to this whole thing, right? Not just that I was curious and tried it out for no reason. Because, uh. That's. Not what this is.

[It kind of is. And he's a bad liar.]

Uhm, okay. Hi, mysterious strangers I know nothing about. I'm Hiccup, and I guess I was kind of wondering if there are any dragons here...? If anyone's seen any, particularly a black one with green eyes and missing part of his tail? I'd really appreciate hearing about it.

[A pause, and again he's fussing with the locket.]

...Okay, how do I turn this thing o-- [And just like that, the feed cuts out.]

- ★ LOG SAMPLE:

Test drive sample!
And a second one because I'm a worrywart.