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the_measurers) wrote2010-04-14 10:55 pm
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Whichever application you're posting, please put the character's name, if they're an OC, and their fandom (if any) in the subject line.
Note again that you are allowed to use musebox posts and posts on
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hiccup horrendous haddock iii ✈ 1/4? LET'S POST THIS WITH THE RIGHT JOURNAL THIS TIME.
Your Name: Juli
Your Journal:
Your Email: wire.bird.cage@gmail.com
Your AIM: wirebirdcage
Character:
Character's Name: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Character's Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon (Mostly Film; some random Book Knowledge for extra fleshing.)
Character's Home Universe: "This is Berk. It's twelve days north of hopeless and a few degress south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the veridian of misery. My village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new. We have fishing, hunting, and a charming view of the sunsets. The only problems are the pests. You see most places have mice or mosquitoes, we have... dragons."
Which is to say, tiny little rock in the middle of a freezing cold ocean that is apparently somewhere near someplace where the Northern Lights are visible, despite the fact that Vikings were Scandanavian and the music in the movie sounds considerably more Scottish. Fantasy worlds yay! The books describe the Barbaric Archipelago pretty much the same as the movie describes Berk, cold and unpleasant and kind of wet all the time, lots of tough and tasteless food, heather everywhere, mud... Throughout most of the books it is commonly mentioned that the people in Berk are never entirely dry due to the weather; it's just a difference between being cold and wet and being warm and wet. So one can assume it rains a lot ("It snows nine months out of the year and hails the other three,") and is always cold and not a lot of interest or deliciousness grows there ("any food that grows here is tough and tasteless,"). The terrain is largely mountainous, foresty and very green. They have villages, obviously which are almost entirely treeless and barren, though that's likely due to the fact that trees are an additional fire hazard. When you're constantly being attacked by dragons, you don't want to put yourself in a position to be any more flammable, trust me. But otherwise, lots of rocks, lots of trees, lots of grass and underbrush... A very wild terrain, given most of the island is uninhabited from the looks of it.
hiccup horrendous haddock iii ✈ 2/...maybe 3!
Method of Arrival on Station: I'm gonna go with option four, cryogenic sleep pod! Mostly because the other options don't really... work for HTTYDverse. XD
Physical Appearance: Hiccup! Is kind of hilariously scrawny and tiny and vaguely adorable and probably has the most retarded smile you've ever seen on a teenage boy. Okay maybe not, most teenage boys have pretty retarded smiles. Anyway! The kid's maybe 5'2" at best, probably weighs eighty pounds, and from the way he struggles to operate the equipment in the smithy, one can assume he has absolutely no muscle mass. He's rail-thin, has sort of noodly arms and legs, big hands that might suggest he'll eventually grow into how long his limbs are, and derpishly huge feet somewhat reminiscent of the Kingdom Hearts franchise (though I'm fairly certain that's just the art style Dreamworks adopted). He has an unruly mop of brownish red hair, vivid green eyes and is covered in freckles. It's repeatedly stated in the books that he's extremely ordinary and easy to overlook, and the movie kept that mostly true with the exception of giving him a particular nose, something vaguely resembling buck-teeth and a scar on his chin. But yeah, he's kind of extremely ordinary, if extremely adorable somehow.
Personality: Hiccup is kind of a snark fairy. He's sarcastic and has a sense of humor drier than the Sahara, though it's largely in his own defense. Y'see, Hiccup has spent the better part of his life as an annoyance and a failure to the entirety of his village. His family, what would be his friends, even the sheep probably rolled their eyes at him fairly regularly. But he's okay with that, for the most part-- he'll just roll his eyes back and spat some sort of sardonic reply and wander off to doodle trees in charcoal so that when someone loses their way he can give them a map the next time they go adventuring. Inwardly, Hiccup hates being a burden, but given his physical strength (or... very stark lack thereof) and less-than-retarded mentality, he's sort of resigned himself to his fate of being the Worst Viking Ever. Despite his resignation, he spends tireless hours and days and years of his life trying to prove himself to the village-- more than anything else, he wants to be accepted. He hides it pretty well, for a kid severely lacking in affection and attention, but he does have a habit of acting out.
...and by acting out, I mean he regularly (accidentally!) sets the village on fire trying to show his dad he can be awesome.
That said, the kid does have a fuse. It's a very slow burn, but he does get frustrated and he will snap at people, it just takes the better part of forever for it to actually happen. He's very loyal, despite the cold shoulder he receives in return for his loyalty, and he'd never hesitate to help someone out if he thought he actually could. Given most Vikings don't need help unless they're being chased by an army of angry Gronkles, Hiccup rarely has the chance to help his fellows out. He puts in a good amount of help working at the blacksmith shop in the village, though-- he's been an assistant to Gobber the Belch since he was little (littler), and while most of the tools the Vikings in the village use are easily bigger and heavier than Hiccup himself, he's a pretty good hand at the smithy.
hiccup horrendous haddock iii ✈ 3/no I lied, 4.
Abilities and Skills: Hiccup is a Blacksmith's apprentice, so he's pretty good with his hands. He's not very strong at all, and tends to have to throw the whole of his bodyweight into any and all of the equipment, but he knows how to work it all and with his curiously analytical mind has actually managed to create a handful of devices in the smithy in hopes of making himself a better Viking. ...Those rarely worked like they should have, but minor calibration issues seem to plague the poor kid.
Hiccup is also extremely sarcastic, and it serves as a near-infallible defense mechanism. He rarely gets upset or angry about anything, instead choosing to make dry, sardonic comments in regard of anything that should or would bother him under other circumstances. He takes criticism fairly well (though reacts with a heavy dose of his ever-present sarcasm) unless it's from people he cares about (see: his father). Hiccup is also extremely smart, which is highly uncharacteristic for a Viking. They're not all completely retarded meatheads, but for the most part their thought processes consist of "Hulk Smash" and "Om Nom Nom". He's very analytical and very observant, and given he's an artist he's usually pretty good at looking at something and recreating it on paper with a charcoal pencil. He's good at (albeit doodly) maps, anatomy, and creating blueprints for creations Moreover, he's very good at turning those blueprints into creations. He's skilled at coming up with spontaneous inventions, mostly to aid himself in Viking demeanor since he is so lacking in fighting abilities on his own.
Hiccup is also a relatively open kid-- he has a tendency to say it as it is, albeit with a heavy dose of sarcasm to hide anything that might be construed as emotional (which for the record, he is a vaguely emotional kid-- he has his moments, but really the only time that he openly expresses things outside of sarcasm is when he gets frustrated enough to be angry). Despite appearances, Hiccup actually is somewhat decent with a sword-- in the books he writes and draws left-handed, but in Gobber's swordsmanship classes he aims to use a sword with his right hand like everyone else. He sucks at it, but this doesn't strike him or anyone else as unusual. When he severely injures his right arm but continues to go to swordfighting class, he realizes he's actually pretty good with his left hand. My assumption is that Vikings just don't consider lefthandedness to be normal, so despite the fact that no one ever taught him to write and draw with his right hand, Hiccup has never really considered his left his "dominant" hand prior to the swordfighting thing. This may or may not come into play, and while movie-canon never shows him with a sword but the game has him wield it right-handed, I figured I would make mention of the tidbit of knowledge allowing him to know he's left-handed. I might just go with the assumption of he has enough of a brain to assume his left hand is his dominant hand with everything as opposed to just writing and drawing, if that's all fine with you lovely people. :o
hiccup horrendous haddock iii ✈ 4/4
Well, actually, that explained quite a bit. Clearly, he was dead. It was really the only logical explanation for ...anything, really. He had died, and apparently Valhalla's Initiation Program involved waking up in a funny little pod of Thor-Only-Knew-What partially frozen.
And, as the Viking teenager realized as he tried to step out of the pod and onto the odd metallic floor outside of it, lacking in particular bodyparts. With a horrified yelp and a comical flailing of all of his other limbs, Hiccup crashed to the floor and landed with a crash and an oomph and a handful of colorful words that a boy his age really shouldn't know. He shoved himself up onto his elbows and frowned backward, alarmed by the stump of wood and metal where he distinctly recalled there having been a leg at one point. He boggled.
He had lost his leg to the Green Death. And then apparently died.
...Lame!
Shifting, he eventually sat Indian-style on the floor, ignoring the pod behind him, and hunched over to inspect the leg. Funny, it looked rather distinctly like Gobber's handiwork. If he had died, why had Gobber had the chance to give him a pegleg? He shifted the leg this way and that, wincing periodically when he was a little too rough with himself. Huh.
He leaned back on his hands, prosthetic hefted slightly into the air. He had no idea how long it would take him to be able to walk like less than an absolutely retarded excuse for a human being, but there was really only one way to find out. He hefted himself back to his feet, leaning almost exclusively on his good food with use of the pod behind him.
And after a long handful of seconds of steeling himself for the amount of failure he knew was going to come in the future, he took a step forward.
Re: hiccup horrendous haddock iii ✈ also addendum because I'm slightly retarded
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_train_your_dragon) on the How to Train Your Dragon book series by Cressida Cowell, the series the movie was originally based off of.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_%28film%29) again, on the Film Adaptation.
How to Train Your Dragon (http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_Train_your_Dragon_Wiki) Wikia page. :D;;
Keeping in mind that I'm using mostly Film knowledge because the books are so drastically different and I prefer the film anyway, the universe is sort of an interesting take on historical Vikings with a lot of fantastical flair thrown in. It's centered entirely around this island called Berk, where there is a village of Vikings that have warred with dragons for years ("300 years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon,"). Now, in the books Vikings and Dragons kinda sorta get along, but the move adaptation changed this drastically to give Hiccup more of an edge as a character. Now the Vikings are at war with the dragons because the dragons raid their supplies and destroy their houses and run away with their sheep. And that is terrible like Lex Luthor stealing forty cakes.
And Hiccup happens to be the first Viking, as stated, in 300 years, who wouldn't kill a dragon. He shoots one down, but nobody believes him because he's spent so much of his time trying to convince people that he's cool and crying wolf that when he actually shot down a Night Fury everybody just kinda rolled their eyes. So he went to go find the thing and kill it and bring its heart back to his father to prove he actually did shoot it down, and he makes the mistake of looking at the poor beast's face like people tell you to not do when you're about to gut a fish. Never look at it's eyes, you won't be able to kill it. And lo and behold, Hiccup couldn't kill him! Enter Toothless, the ever-adorable.
So over the course of the movie Hiccup befriends this dragon he shot down but couldn't kill, he learns all sorts of things about dragons, namely that the Viking view on them that they had to be killed because they raided their villages was all sorts of wrong. He eventually finds out that they only raid the village to feed this crazy monster of a dragon with a name nobody can quite keep straight-- in the books, there are two of these enormous beasties, called the Green Death and the Purple Death. In the movie's soundtrack, the thing is called the Green Death, but in the art book and various other official movie merchandise and things, it's called the Red Death. I go with Green because it's really neither red nor green, but I prefer the color Green so there you go. Anyway! Dragons steal food from Vikings to feed Giant Dragon Whose Name Is Arguably a Color-Death.
Well things get kind of horrible and to avoid spoiling the entirety of the movie for you (not that I haven't already done that in the rest of the app, uh... .__.) let's just say Hiccup has to teach the other kids in the village how to ride dragons so they can save their bullheaded parents from Giant Dragon Whose Name Is Arguably a Color-Death. They succeed! After a lot of jumping through flaming hoops and crazed badassery and almost drowning after almost burning to death. And in the end the Vikings are living peacefully with the dragons and all is well! Because this is a children's movie and we can't ever have things be something other than a happy ending, don't you know that?
...Also I'm sorry for the rambly nature of this addendum I was trying to be vague and informative at the same time and that really never works. .__.;;;
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