Father's Day Skullcrusher

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Name: Father’s Day Skullcrusher
Species: Rumblehorn

Habitat: Berk

Fire Type: Flaming rock "missiles"

Biography:

 

“Well I got my club and I got my rope and I smell like a yak ‘cuz I don’t use soap. I’m a Viking through and through.”—Stoick

 

What child doesn’t have some kind of issue with their Father? 

 

In Hiccup’s case, growing up with a disapproving Stoick as his only parental authority left him with a burden of self-doubt none of his friends had to deal with. It is this impossibility to please his father that first drove him beyond the accepted truths of his village to befriend Toothless in the first place. Over the years, Hiccup worked hard to win his father’s approval, finally succeeding in doing so shortly before Stoick met his doom at the hands of Drago Bludvist.

 

Skullcrusher watched it all. He heard the frustration of his rider, ranting about his rebellious son, and knew that under this ire was a hidden admiration. He watched Hiccup, despondent that his father was so hard to impress, and knew that it would drive a greater ambition than if affection was granted easily. For years he witnessed this interplay between father and son, until the moment everything changed for all of them. Through all of it, he sensed one emotion above all others: love. 

 

He knows Stoick’s anger is driven by wanting to protect his son, just as Hiccup’s rebelliousness is driven by a desire to have his father's approval after bearing the guilt of responsibility for his mother’s disappearance. 

 

No matter how difficult a son’s relationship with his father can become in a world where men and boys are encouraged to repress their feelings, under all the confusion is the love Stoick felt when he first held his infant son and saw the potential for what Hiccup would one day become. At that moment, no other emotion was stronger than pride.