Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25097457-20140701225048/@comment-49.150.5.34-20150524150809

Well, I wanna put in what I think...

I just hate the fans (not necessarily Hiccstrid) who dislike Merida that say 'Mericcup was made to uplift Merida because Hiccup is hot). Lol. NO. Mericcup was there even BEFORE everyone else started shipping him with every other female lead after the second movie.

Hiccstrid was a neutral ship to me. (Mericcup is my OTP now) And I used to not ship Mericcup because I didn't get it.

Reasons why I DID NOT SHIP MERICCUP 2 YEARS AGO:

1. Merida is too harsh for Hiccup.

2. Hiccup has Astrid

3. Merida doesn't want a man.

And some others that I forgot...

Now I ship them, and I even call it my Mothership. (Lmao) If you're going to ask me why, it's because..

1. 'Never been the perfect heir' - Both of their parents didn't like what they are (Hiccup) and what they do (Merida). It was only after going through all the trouble of hiding the "enemy" (Toothless for Hiccup; Bear Elinor for Merida) that everything was accepted (Hiccup) and understood (Merida); They aren't the heirs their parents expected and wanted them to be (Merida cleared it up when she said "Wait for the day until I become like, well, my mother", and Hiccup also cleared it up when he talked about 'being chief' as not 'his thing'.)

2. 'Likes and Dislikes' - Both of them want and love freedom and adventure (Shown in Brave when Merida was riding Angus and when she climbed the Crone's Tooth; Solidified when she said 'I want my freedom'. Shown in HTTYD when Hiccup wasn't allowed to go out of the smithy, as everyone wanted; Also shown in HTTYD2 when he wasn't in the sheep-quidditch game and was out exploring).

They are rule breakers and are willful (Show in Brave when Merida shot for her own hand (and many more); and when she didn't get her way still, she went to the extent of changing her mother [without the knowledge of turning her mother into a bear]. Shown in HTTYD, again, when he was told to stay put but he didn't; Shown in HTTYD2 when Stoick said to not go but he did anyway).

3. 'Clashing Personalities' - This is rather personal for me. I adore how they have clashing personalities. Merida is quick-tempered, hasty and could be irrational at times while Hiccup is more temperate, think-before/while-acting, more rational. Applying my personal experience, people with different personalities learn from each other (In this case, Merida learning to think more before acting because of Hiccup).

Of course they will argue. Hiccup will try to reason with her (Just like how he tried to reason with everyone else in HTTYD), and Merida, having taught more, might listen to him, especially if he says something that is grave, like a life and death situation.

This isn't clashing, but I love how they're put together that Hiccup is sarcastic, and Merida is witty. He's a swordmaster and she's a bowmaster.

4. 'Give and Take' - Both of them have something to give one another. Since both of them love freedom and adventure, Hiccup can give that thrill to Merida. Because Hiccup want to see more of the world (and i believe Dunbroch has a map, as shown when Elinor explained to Merida that a Princess should be knowledgable about her kingdom), Merida can guide him-- Like he's the driver and she's his map holder. It would be no problem too, since both of them have knowledge about forests.

Shallow reasons:

1. If Hiccup likes the bad ass Astrid, why won't he like Merida? They're both tough and independent. The difference is that Merida breaks rules like him and would agree with him on anything about rule breaking (and coax him to do it) while Astrid follows rules most of the time (unless of course it's a dire situation where she needs to break the command).

2. 'Merida and Hiccup never actually had friends. 'Hiccup had bullies. If he had other choices for friends, it surely won't be that gang. The only friends they had were their family (also Gobber for Hiccup) and their animal friends.

Astrid is neutral to Hiccup in HTTYD. She doesn't care (initially) because she's concentrated on preparing to be like the adult Vikings and be one of them and join them in their battles and get a scar out of it.

3. '''Merida could like Hiccup. '''After all, Astrid was able to. Astrid had no time for infatuation because she was focused on being one of the adults. Merida had no time (and didn't want to because that frick frack's gonna take away her fun) for that too because she wanted to be free (Imagine if you were Merida and you found someone who essentially is the same with you and wouldn't take that freedom away from you because he knows what it's like and isn't also ready to be a leader. Win-win).

That's pretty much it.

My conclusion to this ship is that they're essentially the same, but lived in a different environment, different 'enemy', and took on their family challenges on different extremes. I said different enemy because Stoick didn't turn into a dragon.

So, that's basically why I ship Mericcup.

'''I TOTALLY RESPECT HICCSTRID SHIPPERS. It's just me about not seeing the chemistry as you do.. probably because I'm more of the 'extreme opposites but also the same like wtf it doesn't make sense' kind of shipper.'''

Sincerely,

XCS

P.S. I put that long explanation about Mericcup about why I love it because other shippers (not all) have the same view as I do, and I hope it lessened the confusion about why some people ship Mericcup more than Hiccstrid.