Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25097457-20140701225048/@comment-14.2.4.236-20141103121339

TreepeltA113 wrote: @ Anon: It's not so much that I stopped shipping it as I stopped openly supporting it and reading fanfiction and doing fanart and whatnot, and once you stop doing that, well, the excitement goes with it. Shippers of other ships kind of smothered my enthusiasm for it and left the excited flame to die down. I stayed away from being an open Mericcup shipper to avoid the overly aggressive Hiccstrid shippers on a vendetta to erase every HiccupxNotAstrid pairing that ever existed. If you ran into them, you'd want to stay away from them, too.

@ Mr. Nightingale: No, no, you're free to disagree with whatever reasons I've given. Your first point is correct; Astrid changed her mind about dragons. But I still find it highly unlikely and unreasonable for her to suddenly start loving Hiccup. And yeah, I get what your second point means. We'll never really know the true canon interactions between the two, but we can guess at it and get as IC as possible. Well, apologies for people shipping Hiccstrid that seem to be zealots. But I have come a cross a few merricup shippers who are the same. Niethers perfect i guess... Anyway. Gotta ask. Why does everyone assume she's in "Love" At the end of the first movie. Their 14. It would reside in a crush. That would have developed over the years. And. I find it kind of realistic. It's not a massive sappy love story. And thats what I like about Hiccstrid. And quick note. Isn't the whole point of brave Merida not wanting to be with someone? (I guess, the mericcup fandom is all about that changing because of hiccup) But anyway. Just my opinions. In case you were wondering why people enjoy the whole instantaneous change. (What I find most flawed about the romantic flight is the lack of post truamatic stress disorder. Finding out your entire world is wrong does that. But. Family movie. A depressed and confused astrid is probably not something for the movie :P..)