Talk:Hiccstrid/@comment-99.118.64.7-20140911050906/@comment-75.172.73.156-20150305020724


 * sigh* Anyone who says this ship was rushed, or it was insta-love, or something like that is someone who hasn't studied the relationship and both characters thoroughly. I have read or watched a LOT of fiction, freaking TONS of it, and I have to struggle to think of a ship that is as well executed as HIccstrid is. The super long essay already in this comments section sums it up pretty well, so I won't go over all that again. In any case, Hiccstrid is among the top ships/pairings I've ever seen, just in terms ofhow well the storytellers execute it, and how much sense it makes when you really break it down. Merricup on the other hand, well... frankly, there are all KINDS of things that could have caused Merida and Hiccup to not get along from the start. There are any number of ways in which circumstances could have made them enemies. Now if they had worked past those differences, would they make great friends? In all likelihood, yes. Great romantic partners even? Well, maybe not great, but certainly a decent pairing. It's just there are so many Merricup shipping stories out there, and I have yet to see one that can even compare to the tale told between Hiccup and Astrid. The experience that those two have shared is part of what makes the Hiccstrid ship so excellent, and without that experience, Merricup can never compare in my opinion. Maybe if someone actually wrote a decent Merricup story, rather than the same kind of rushed, 'insta-love' that the original commentor was complaining about, I might be persuaded to actually take Merricup seriously. The way I see it, Merricup has a lot of potential, but if it's ever going to beat Hiccstrid, someone is going to need to come up with an awesome tale between Hiccup and Merida to beat the nearly flawlessly executed saga between Hiccup and Astrid. It hasn't happened yet, and I don't think it ever will.