Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25097457-20140701225048/@comment-121.54.54.60-20140920035611

64.231.138.169 wrote: Ugh. Seriously? People actually ship Hiccstrid because of looks?

I ship Hiccstrid because of their chemistry, their personalities, and because I can see them cutely bickering about things. Not because of looks.

And Merida is not the prettiest character I've seen in animation, but that's one of the reasons why I love her! She doesn't have to be beautiful to be strong, smart, and totally awesome. Umm... That's actually a response to #31 and yes, I have met people shallow enough, in real life and in the net, to ship Hiccstrid based on looks alone.

It did say in 2.) she does need to be prettier and her current look suits her. You could easily say the same thing to Astrid back in HTTYD 1. She doesn't need to be the prettiest, she just needs to have a canon 20 year old self because there are plenty of people that try to compare Merida's and Astrid's looks, with Astrid on her HTTYD 2 attire, which feels one-sided.