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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HICCUP

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Working on some httyd books stuff

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I don't know if the HTTYD books ever tell us why the Windwalker remains unnamed, but I like to think it's because Hiccup is leaving the decision up to them.

Many of the dragons in the books don't have names. It's more of a human thing, and the dragons who do have names typically have them because of humans.* Toothless is named by Hiccup (the only dragon named by Hiccup III in the books, as far as I'm aware - let me know if I'm mistaken). The Deadly Shadow, like the Windwalker, is most often referred to by their species name, but the three heads were named individually, probably by Termagant. Stormfly, Horrorcow, Bullheart, Hookfang, One Eye, and many other dragons were named by the humans who kept them. They don't seem to have or seek other names because, well, why would they? Names are a human thing. Most dragons never saw a need for them in the first place.

The Windwalker has an intensely negative history with humans when Hiccup finds them. And so it makes sense that although Hiccup claims them as his riding dragon, he doesn't take ownership of them or force a connection with them or impose human customs on them by naming them. If the Windwalker wants a name, they can choose one for themself or ask Hiccup to give them one. If they don't want a name, they don't have to have one.

It's also possible Hiccup is taking a cue from his mother here - Valhallarama has a close bond with her riding dragon, an entirely unnamed Silver Phantom. He might've learned from her that names aren't necessary for friendship.

*(Exceptions do apply - the Green Death (who went by Merciless in the time of Hiccup I), the Purple Death (appears briefly in book 1), and Luna (the second in command of the dragon rebellion), all have names but don't have significant connections to humans, and all are members of the species Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus. I think it's likely that Furious chose his own name, but with the Wodensfang it's hard to tell - it's possible he was given the name by Hiccup I, but it's just as likely he picked it himself, or grew into the title as he aged. There definitely seems to be a custom of names/titles that's unique to this dragon species, though.)

Anyways. Thanks for reading!

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Have some Pride Flag Stormflys

#ahhhh!

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hiccup :)

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tbh i don't think there has ever been a single character more Trapped by The Narrative than Hiccup in the httyd books. Like, he KNOWS what he's doing is dangerous, he doesn't WANT to be some great hero, but he never actually considers doing anything differently. Completely and utterly bound by obligation to help, burdened by the fact that he's the only one who knows to act or how to act in times of crisis, forced into impossible choices where there was no real second option for him to take, not him. Trapped by his character and the people around him, and the ever cyclical nature of fate and human nature that in the end he chooses to break. Again and again, he picks the smallest dragon of the group, he sticks up for the underdog, he frees the trapped dragons, in the cage and in chains on the forest floor, even when it becomes his own undoing. Self aware of the way fate plays with him, and powerless to try and go against it.

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OBSCURE HTTYD CHARACTER BATTLE!

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YEAH

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#books

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translation: hi there! im hiccup horrendous haddock iii!

#himmmmmm!

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yo httyd books gang, happy doomsday of yule!! i didn’t have time to make something for all twelve days but i couldnt resist drawing my boys before the year ended

#this looks so good! #something about the way you draw toothless is just *chef’s kiss* #books

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#movies

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Literally everyone on Berk: Hiccup why the hell would you do something so monumentally stupid

Hiccup:

#<3 #can’t tell if this is about movie!hiccup or book!hiccup but it works either way 10/10 op

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when disney made hiccup from httyd they like forgot to make him gay..

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Happy Birthday to Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III!