Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25097457-20140701225048/@comment-64.231.139.165-20140810233150

Ruaraidh.tamkin wrote: "Oh hey, I may not bully you but I nonetheless ignore you and consider you a liability, oh you're one upping me, you can't do that you're a wierdo/failiure/idiot, oh you tamed a dragon and took me on a non consensual ride on it, I am instantly in love with you now"

Please don't misconstrue this as me saying Astrid herself is a bad character or that this somehow makes Mericcup a better ship I'm just trying to point out in a very sardonic way that Hiccstrid in the first movie was rushed and forced.

Heck in the second movie their relationship feels natural and mutually loving and if I hadn't seen the bizaarre illogical way they'd been pushed together I might buy it but the facts remain, there was no emotional reason for her to fall in love with him in the first movie, her kissing him just because she rode on a dragon, the thing she's been trained to kill! (you'd think she'd be more conflicted) makes her seem superficial and belies her intrinsic baddassery.

I ship Mericcup in case you couldn't tell. Somehow the relationship didn't feel rushed to me, but maybe it was because this was how I thought of it:

Astrid never really bothered in paying attention to those around her because she is dead serious in achieving her goals so she could finally prove herself to everyone, something Hiccup was sort of like when he tried to shoot down Toothless. She could have had an interest in Hiccup but didn't consider romance to be a priority at the time and therefore, never paid much attention to those feelings. Those feelings were then shadowed by her jealously and competitiveness. Then she realized what those feelings were even though she initially got annoyed with him like everyone else. So I like to describe her romantic feelings for him like a mosquito bite that she doesn't even realize she has until it starts to itch.