Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11462509-20130929214446/@comment-25097457-20140817215537

Timidly raising my hand in the back of the room. I hope you don't mind but umm I have a few things that I ship and I hope that nobody minds if I talk about them. The only reason I am a little timid about sharing my views is because I don't feel like my argument or reasoning behind my choices are all that clearly thought out.

Before I go through them just let me say that one of the main reasons I support the ships I do is because I love to write and I really love to mix romance with conflict and adventure in my stories and characters that start out with some great adversity or something holding them back have a special place in my heart because it is always interesting to explore those areas. Basically I love drama and passion that a character has to deal with because in my opinion it helps to solidify the relationship because you never know who would actually be there for you when everything is crumbling around you. I'm sorry if anyone finds that weird but that's just how my mind works.

Anyway getting back to the actual subject at hand I mainly like to ship a romance that involves Hiccup because he is one of my favorite characters and I feel that he has a great amount of either character development or a wide range of experience on the social ladder. For that reason I have recently begun to ship Hiccelsa and Hiccstrid. I do have a great love and respect for all of the other shippings but these two are my favorites and I'll get into the reasons in just a moment.

First off is Hiccelsa and this is the one I just started to come around to through reading some fanfictions. The idea that I've played around with the most is the isolation that both of them have had to go through whether it was voluntary or involuntary and their role in the community as upincoming leaders. But that is just the start of how I relate the two, from there I use their world experience and personal experiences to bring them together. I'm sorry if it sounds strange but what I am trying to say is that because of how they are so important to their people and have a pull in the world I feel that they could connect through that and bond over the realizations they must go through when dealing with their people and other nations. Mainly I use this because in Hiccup's second movie he tried desperately to reason with Drago believing that everyone can be reasoned with but as we saw from the movie that didn't happen. While Elsa has isolated herself and even though she is a smart woman she does not have real world experience. So from that I think they would be able to bond and become more than friends while dealing with exploring the world around him and managing their people. I'm sorry if that doesn't exactly make sense.

As for Hiccstrid the main reason I ship this is because I like to stick to the original lore of a film. I know that it may be a dumb way to pick something to ship but aside from that I love the potential that was there in the first movie. Astrid is a hardworking girl who will do anything to protect her village while Hiccup, who is supposed to lead the village one day, is out trying to be excepted by his people. What pulled me into this shipping was how Hiccup was kind of lost trying to figure out how to be excepted or evenmore so just trying to find his path. Astrid on the otherhand knows what she has to be and how to do it and does it without asking a question. I feel that they balance eachother out and still puch one another out of their comfort zones (possibly the same thing could be applied with Hiccelsa).

Anyway I'm sorry if all of this sounds confusing but I'm not the greatest at explaining my shippings I usually just let my writing explain it through plot and character development. The other thing is that I love to go to those dark places at the pinnacle parts of the characters story. So I'm sorry that I couldn't fully explain this but these are what I ship.