Board Thread:Alternate Universes/@comment-16059609-20140314000433

This is just my headcanon. There is no need for you to agree with me or bash me, this is just my opinion.

So this started a while back when I headcanoned that Hiccup and Merida are paternal cousins, as their dads look a lot alike. I haven't really expanded on this idea, but here is where to start.

Just today I was talking with my little sister about Frozen, and we were looking at pictures of Anna. And we say this one here:

And I said to her, "Hey, she kindof looks like Hiccup."

She looked at me like I was nuts and said, "What?"

So I pulled up a picture of Hiccup and compared the two:

I caught that they both had similar smiles, and their hair parts almost the same way, though it is hard to tell because Hiccup's hair is darker that Anna's and is a little windblown.

So my sister says, "Well, it's not like they're related."

But the wheels in my head where already turning, and a Headcanon was about to be born.

So I pulled up a picture of Valka from the upcoming sequel to HTTYD, and put it next to a picture of Anna's mother, the queen of Corona. They actually didn't look muc alike, but when I compared Valka to a picture of the Queen of Corona – Rapunzel's mother and canonly Anna's maternal aunt– I had more luck.

If you look, they almost have the same cheekbones, and the same nose, and the same color hair– gray and all– and the same shaped eyes, though Valka's bulge out a little more, but perhaps that's because her hair isn't done as fully over her forehead as the Queen of Corona's is.

My headcanon? Well, people already think the queens of Corona and Arendelle are sisters. Why couldn't they have an older sister, too?

They come from all different kingdoms. That is an issue. What if, to make peace with Arendelle and Corona, a Viking tribe married off two of the chief's daughters– who later became queens of their respective kingdoms. We never knew the names of Rapunzel's and Anna's mothers, though one of them was Primrose. What is they had norse names, like Valka? What's to stop a Viking naming their daughter Primrose? Rapunzel, Anna, and Elsa are more Germanic names, suggesting that they came from that area anyway. The Viking women would eventually conform to the customs of Arendelle and Corona, maybe loosing their accents. Perhaps they didn't have accents to begin with, as we've seen with Hiccup and the other teenagers on Berk.

Or maybe it's the other way around– one of the kingdoms married off their eldest to a Viking tribe– who were settled on Berk. This princess would adopt the customs and eventually the accent of her new tribe, and later have a son: Hiccup. It would explain why Valka began rescuing dragons: she was taught to be a princess, to love and take care of her people, so she would have a heart toward the creatures. And Hiccup would have gotten his big heart from his mother.

This would make Anna, Rapunzel, Elsa, and Hiccup, all cousins though their mothers!

BUT THERE'S MORE.

Back to how I think Hiccup and Merida are paternal cousins. I have two theories on how Stoick and Fergus came to be in such rival cultures.

One is that Stoick and Fergus were born Scots– hence the accents– but Stoick struck out on his own and eventually won the respect of a Viking tribe, who made him their chief. This would explain why Stoick always wants Hiccup to prove himself; he had to fight to make his way, and he expects his son to as well, as seen in How to Train Your Dragon.

Another is that they were born Vikings– hence the build– but Fergus left Berk and won the respect of the Scots, who made him their king, as Merida stated in Brave. He is so carefree because life in DunBroch is so easy compared to the dragon-fighting back on Berk. And he fights bears because he's a man and has to be able to kill something, and bears are the biggest thing around. Merida takes after her father's family in her wild spirit, as seen in Brave.

So, to summarize, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, and Hiccup are all maternalt cousins, and Merida is Hiccup's paternal cousin and the other princesses' second cousin.

BUT I'VE GOT MORE.

What about Jack? This is Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons, not Frozen Tangled Brave Dragons. Am I leaving him out? NO, BY THE MOONS OF PYRRHIA, NO I WILL NOT. So I have one more theory. It explains Elsa's magic, Jack's powers, and their family ties. The stuff about magic and powers is all just theory.

Elsa's power was part of her family; the trolls described it as an "ancient power," meaning that she wasn't the first to have control over ice and snow, and would probably not be the last. I'm thinking that the reason behind this power could be an immunity to her Frozen Heart, which she got somehow. Perhaps the same way Kai did in the original Snow Queen story– a shard of an ice-mirrior pierced his heart– or maybe she was just born with it. This immunity gives her control over her powers, but a side effect is her trademarked white hair and icy-blue eyes.

Anna, though the immunity trait is herititary, does not share this trait, thus is vulnerable to Elsa's ice powers, as seen in Frozen.

As this trait is herititary, it would be passed down the family line– through either Anna or Elsa– all the way down to an American Pioneer boy with a younger sister. That's right, Jack is farthest down in our family tree: a descendant of Hiccup, Rapunzel, and Merida's cousin.

But he had brown hair! How could he have the same ice powers as Elsa if he was born with natural brown hair? Well, I have an answer for that one too.

Jack was born with the immuntiy, like Elsa, but he did not have a Frozen Heart. So as a boy, he had natural brown hair and no powers. The change took place when he fell in the lake. The icy water froze him to the core, and, as seen in Rise of the Guardians, he died. In ROTG is was stated that the Man in the Moon revived Jack, but here is how:

The ice-cold water did freeze his heart, but the litteral kind, not the magical kind as seen in Frozen. So Manny changed the rules a little bit. With a sudden burst of magic, Jack's heart was iced over with the fantastical crystalization that took place in Elsa's and Anna's hearts before him. That sudden burst of magic flodded his system and his heart started to beat once more. Due to his Frozen Heart, his hair turned white and his eyes ice-blue.

But there were also side-effects to the amount of magic that revived him. He did not have full control of his powers and had to channel them through his staff, as seen in Rise of the Guardians.

In this universe it has already been established that there are celestial bodies with the power to heal: the "drop of sunlight" that created the "magic golden flower" as seen in Tangled. So the idea that the moon can do healing magic too is not out of the question. This is the kind of magic that healed Jack and Froze his heart, the kind of magic holding him together. This leads to another side-effect of his narrow escape with Death: since the very thing keeping him alive, well, and immortal is magic, that makes him a magical creature. Jack has gained the status of Spirit, and, as we know, Spirits are invisible to the mortal eye.

And why did he loose his memories? Well, my theory on that is that his brain did a reboot when he was revived and he remembered nothing. How did I guet this idea? Oh you know I can bring this all back to Artemis Fowl, baby!! But to do that I would have to give you MAJOR spoilers for that, so I won't. Suffice it to say that Jack escaped Death, but he paid with his memory. Though that was later restored to him by Toothiana, so I guess he escaped scotch-free.

There you have it! My theory about how all four of the Big Four are related, plus the beloved sisters from Frozen. Thoughts? 