#so we get irrationally incredibly anxious about the situation Hiccup

[yellow-faerie]

Update on the Hiccstrid Accidental Marriage AU - we are 3.5k words in and I have decided that Gobber is an ~ambiguous parent figure~ for Hiccup, although that has yet to come to play in the fic yet.

(Also I have yet to get to Astrid's POV although I feel I must have an Astrid POV because I need to put her family into fic, and also she is Bad At Feelings and being romantic and I need to contrast Hiccup's current depressed thought spiral with something else)

I'm putting a little snippet beneath the cut:

Here’s something interesting to know about Tuffnut Thorston: When he was fourteen, he trained under the Berk village officiator. He had been going through something at the time and had been really, really insistent on finishing the course despite the poor guy’s attempts to get him to stop pestering him. Eventually, through perseverance and a stubbornness rivalled only by the fiercest Gronckle, Tuffnut had an official certificate with the signatures of the officiator, the chief and Gothi herself to say that yes, he could officiate Viking union ceremonies. Tuffnut had promptly forgotten about this, shoving the certificate into the depths of his chest, because the new dragon training class had begun and the thing that he’d been going through had kinda fizzled out until it was as forgotten as the qualification. Forgotten, that was, until today. “We’re what?” Astrid asks, already reaching for her axe as Tuffnut recalled that little slip of paper and the despair on Halbjorn’s face. “Yeah, it’s all coming back to me now,” he says, apparently unfussed about his imminent demise at the edge of Astrid’s axe. “Yeah we had lessons for months. Halbjorn was weirdly opposed – I think he jumped off a cliff at one point – but I got that certificate anyway!” “Chief said we had to give him a sheep in recompense,” Ruffnut adds, nodding along to her brother’s story. Hiccup can already feel the despair setting in as Snotlout starts to laugh uncontrollably. He and Astrid were, by the law of Vikings and of Valhalla, married.

#I'm having a lot of fun with this #to no-one's surprise it's kinda got away from me and now I'm invested in the relationships both of them have with their parent figures #and general family nonsense #I should make a post about my headcanons for the gangs family situations at some point #I swear I can write romance lol but it's probably going to be another 1.5k until we even get there #also do I think that some of the characters are being more dramatic about this than they might otherwise be? #yes but if they reacted otherwise it wouldn't be an interesting fic #so we get irrationally incredibly anxious about the situation Hiccup #And Freaking Out because she Does Not Do Romance and certainly not Romance With Hiccup The Most Romantic with Astrid #also they have deep crippling fears of disappointing their families #for different reasons #Hiccstrid #HTTYD #RTTE #HTTYD Films #Hiccstrid Accidental Marriage AU #Snotlout Gets The Axe #Fae's Stuff