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sickorinsaneBorn to Stoick and Valhallarama Haddock in a little town called Berk located in nowhere, Canada, Hiccup was a rather odd boy from the very minute he was born. Many of the males in the Haddock family were broad, strong men, and here was this walking talking fishbone. It didn't get any easier as he got older, always expecting to compete with his cousin Snotlout in ways similar to how their fathers had when they were younger. Hiccup, however, being as small as he was, usually managed to escape any sort of family gathering to go and wander the woods behind his house.
It wasn't hard for people to notice that Hiccup was far from being anything like the son Stoick should have had. Being a village buried deep in viking tradition since their ancestor's days, this caused some distance to break the bond between him and his father as he didn't show any signs of getting bigger as he got older. Stoick started taking Hiccup fishing and other father-son bonding activities less and less, instead leaving him either in the hands of his wife or Gobber, his best friend and the owner of the mechanics shop in the village.
Hiccup's learning abilities flourished under Gobber's tutelage. With an overactive imagination and a desire to create, he soon became his apprentice after Gobber nagged Stoick to let the boy do what he wanted. He helped Gobber fix cars and other sorts of vehicles, even beginning a pet project of making his own motorcycle for when he was older. Unfortunately, being in the garage most of the time aside from school hours, he usually missed a majority of goings on.
It wasn't until he got home late one evening that he discovered his mother had vanished, having gone on a trip on her fishing trawler to gather for the village a good week or so before. Getting into an argument with his father about why he wasn't called drove them further apart, to the point where it started being like they were just roommates living in the same house but not speaking.
At this point, Hiccup began spending time by himself in the woods when he wasn't in the garage or at school. It was during one of these outings that he met a woman down by a cove hidden in the wilderness. A woman who proclaimed herself to be the Greek goddess Hera. Hiccup listened with half hearted interest, truly thinking that the woman had probably escaped from a mental institution, before he started getting flashes of his past life as Loki, the Norse god of mischief. With the offer of attending Camp Half-Blood to learn more about his apparent abilities and how to retrieve the rest of his soul pieces, even though he still thought the lady was crazy, Hiccup didn't hesitate.
He took it.
His first year at camp was daunting. Still regaining his memories of his pre-Ragnarok self, Hiccup had many...well, hiccups. It didn't take him long to start learning how to weave his way around the other campers, much like he did the other teenagers back home in Berk. It was during this first year that he discovered a dragon egg in the woods, far from its nest, and the birth of the dragon - now called Toothless - started his love of the not-so-mythical creature. Considering his first year is still going, there's still a lot to learn...
It wasn't hard for people to notice that Hiccup was far from being anything like the son Stoick should have had. Being a village buried deep in viking tradition since their ancestor's days, this caused some distance to break the bond between him and his father as he didn't show any signs of getting bigger as he got older. Stoick started taking Hiccup fishing and other father-son bonding activities less and less, instead leaving him either in the hands of his wife or Gobber, his best friend and the owner of the mechanics shop in the village.
Hiccup's learning abilities flourished under Gobber's tutelage. With an overactive imagination and a desire to create, he soon became his apprentice after Gobber nagged Stoick to let the boy do what he wanted. He helped Gobber fix cars and other sorts of vehicles, even beginning a pet project of making his own motorcycle for when he was older. Unfortunately, being in the garage most of the time aside from school hours, he usually missed a majority of goings on.
It wasn't until he got home late one evening that he discovered his mother had vanished, having gone on a trip on her fishing trawler to gather for the village a good week or so before. Getting into an argument with his father about why he wasn't called drove them further apart, to the point where it started being like they were just roommates living in the same house but not speaking.
At this point, Hiccup began spending time by himself in the woods when he wasn't in the garage or at school. It was during one of these outings that he met a woman down by a cove hidden in the wilderness. A woman who proclaimed herself to be the Greek goddess Hera. Hiccup listened with half hearted interest, truly thinking that the woman had probably escaped from a mental institution, before he started getting flashes of his past life as Loki, the Norse god of mischief. With the offer of attending Camp Half-Blood to learn more about his apparent abilities and how to retrieve the rest of his soul pieces, even though he still thought the lady was crazy, Hiccup didn't hesitate.
He took it.
His first year at camp was daunting. Still regaining his memories of his pre-Ragnarok self, Hiccup had many...well, hiccups. It didn't take him long to start learning how to weave his way around the other campers, much like he did the other teenagers back home in Berk. It was during this first year that he discovered a dragon egg in the woods, far from its nest, and the birth of the dragon - now called Toothless - started his love of the not-so-mythical creature. Considering his first year is still going, there's still a lot to learn...
