#Valhallarama

[aldoodles]

Hello! I really really love your art (and honestly your whole vibe is impeccable. You're my favourite person to see on my dash). I know you don't take requests or anything but I am so enamoured by your drawings of Stoik and Valhallarama and I was wondering if you ever wanted to draw them with baby Hiccup? Or maybe them reacting to the Naming Dame giving him the runt name if you want to add a bit of angst.

Anyway, have a wonderful day!!!

<3

Thank you so much for such a kind message!!

I adore drawing these two, even when they’ve just been handed some pretty stressful news.

[quiet-art-kid]

httyd more memes

[mrsnaildood]

A family can be mountain-sized warrior parents and their twiggy little scholar son

[m0uschi]

I just want someone who talks about me like stoick talks about Valhallarama :(

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

I was thinking about book 12 yesterday

Specifically the part where hiccups about to meet Furious and is talking to everyone and they're giving him advice and everything

And I realized something about the part with Valhallarama

Which is when they're talking she asks him if he remembers The Letter she once sent him

Not One Of the letters

The Letter

no elaboration on that

and hiccup lmmediately knows what shes talking about

no asking which letter, no confusion on what she meant

and she then quotes The Exact Letter

and so i dont know if Cressida meant to imply this, but like the way this is all set up implies that Val has only ever sent hiccup

One Single Letter

and that's it

Which is horribly depressing

Also bonus emphasis

He was so sad

[common-or-garden-blog]

click on it, it is small

[cami-whatsit]

Valhallarama

[misterrttegrimborn]

[cobaltqueen]

Valhallarama on the Silver Phantom at the beginning of book 10

I made a drawing for every book but this is one of the ones im still really proud of!

[berk-is-my-lobster]

[aldoodles]

More Val doodles

[feech-phylicia]

I wonder if Old Wrinkly set the impossible task for Humongous knowing that he wouldn't complete it? Giving him that specific task to deliberately interfere with fate? Maybe he didn't take up soothsaying in his old age? Maybe he always dabbled? Maybe he had seen what the Witch excellinor had seen and chose to try to change the outcomes?

[wickedcriminal]

Moms Moms Moms Moms Moms!!

And aaa I just really like the detail that in both the books and the movies, Valka and Valhallarama realized how much of their sons' lives they were missing, and they both tell their Hiccups that they want to be there for him from then on out. It's a really neat parallel that translates really well for this au.

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

I had wanted to make this post for a bit but I just never got around to it lol

So I know people have talked about about how Hiccup doesn't really fit into the typical gender roles of a Male Hero Character

He's quiet, polite, likes books, doesn't like fighting unless he has to, is generally just a softer hero than usual

And that's all true

But I haven't seen anyone mention how Stoick and Valhallarama also don't fit the typical Gender Roles of Mother and Father

Usually it's the mother that's kind and caring, takes care of the house and the kids

And the father is colder, more rough, distant

That's what the did in the Movies with Stoick and Valka

But Book Stoick and Valhallarama are the opposite of that

Stoick is the one who stays home and takes care of Hiccup, is openly affectionate towards him, is much more parental

And Valhallarama is more reserved, often gone, not very emotional, not particularly parental

It's never 'oh Valhallarama needs to stay home, be a mother, Stoick shouldn't have to do all this'

Those are just the roles they have

Idk I just think that's neat

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Another thing i appreciate is that Valhallarama being less emotional isn't portrayed as a bad thing

Like her not paying attention to Hiccup, her often leaving, and Hiccup feeling unloved by her is the problem

But not the fact that she's unemotional

Once she explains things to Hiccup and he understands that she does love him, but she's not the kind of person to openly express that, he's not angry about it

He never expects her to become more loving and emotional

That's never something that she's supposed to do

Pretty much she just has to own up to the fact that she made mistakes and work to fix them and her relationship with Hiccup in a way that makes sense for her

She doesn't have to change her whole personality to be seen as good, as loving, as caring

She's allowed to be unemotional without being emotionless

As someone who's bad at emotion and is uncomfortable with verbally and openly expressing love and stuff, it's nice that she's not made out to be horrible because of that

I really appreciate that about her character

[oseytorvan]

Astrid would be thrilled with Valhallarama

[thoughtsofananon]

Tongues and Teeth the crane wives animatic with Hiccup and Valhallarama do you understand can you see my vision