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against the wind
By: underpassgraffiti Word count: 11k When Hiccup and Snotlout get stranded, they have to work together to stay alive. Easier said than done. ♥ \| Link

The Honourary Thorston
By: Concerned_ Brown_Bread Chapters: 4/4 Word count: 17.4k Hiccup sighed, “So are you gonna put out the fire or …” “Nah,” Ruffnut said, “Let it burn.” “You know, little H,” Tuffnut said, finally looking away from the fire, “We’re always wrecking havoc. It’s like our specialty. But you my friend - you are a walking disaster.” “Gee, thanks.” The roof on the smithy collapsed inward. Hiccup sighed. Ruffnut and Tuffnut looked at him in awe. Hiccup hadn’t known it then, and wouldn’t ever know it, but that was the day that he first truly began falling out of favour with his father - and the day that he began falling into favour with the most insane duo on Berk. Or, thanks to the fact that Hiccup seems to screw-up everything he touches, the twins follow him around for free entertainment. What they didn't sign up for was friendship. Link

The Honourary Thorston

By: Concerned_ Brown_Bread
Chapters: 4/4
Word count: 17.4k

Hiccup sighed, “So are you gonna put out the fire or …”

“Nah,” Ruffnut said, “Let it burn.”

“You know, little H,” Tuffnut said, finally looking away from the fire, “We’re always wrecking havoc. It’s like our specialty. But you my friend - you are a walking disaster.”

“Gee, thanks.”

The roof on the smithy collapsed inward. Hiccup sighed. Ruffnut and Tuffnut looked at him in awe.

Hiccup hadn’t known it then, and wouldn’t ever know it, but that was the day that he first truly began falling out of favour with his father - and the day that he began falling into favour with the most insane duo on Berk.

Or, thanks to the fact that Hiccup seems to screw-up everything he touches, the twins follow him around for free entertainment. What they didn't sign up for was friendship.

Link

windburn
By: spacenintendogs Chapers: 3/3 Word count: 8.7k Snotlout has been disappearing from the Edge on weekends, much to Astrid's annoyance with the Dragon Hunters potentially turning up at any moment. Hiccup explains where Snotlout has been going for the past month: Berk, back home. The reason shakes Astrid to her core: Snotlout's mom is sick. And he has a new baby sister on top of it. ♥ \| Link

windburn

By: spacenintendogs
Chapers: 3/3
Word count: 8.7k

Snotlout has been disappearing from the Edge on weekends, much to Astrid's annoyance with the Dragon Hunters potentially turning up at any moment. Hiccup explains where Snotlout has been going for the past month: Berk, back home.

The reason shakes Astrid to her core: Snotlout's mom is sick.

And he has a new baby sister on top of it.

♥ | Link

Hook, Don't Sink (Series)
By: WhoIsWren Works: 5 Word count: 5k Secret Snotlout moments throughout the series. There are moments where the abuse of his father affects his decisions as a Dragon Rider; and moments when Hookfang chases away the hurt Spitelout inflicts. It’s a look behind the show, a peak into the life that Snotlout and Hookfang hide from the others. A look at the gooey insides of their hard shells, and how two broken souls are a little more healed by one another. Link

Hook, Don't Sink (Series)

By: WhoIsWren
Works: 5
Word count: 5k

Secret Snotlout moments throughout the series. There are moments where the abuse of his father affects his decisions as a Dragon Rider; and moments when Hookfang chases away the hurt Spitelout inflicts.

It’s a look behind the show, a peak into the life that Snotlout and Hookfang hide from the others. A look at the gooey insides of their hard shells, and how two broken souls are a little more healed by one another.

Link

hijack

totally super normal and not at all insane about all of these btw (they consume my every waking thought)

complete (chaptered)

Of the Northmost Winds and Skies
By: xxiiyu Chapters: 44/44 Word count: 416k It's the first winter after Pitch's defeat. Jack is happy, he's not alone anymore, and his memories are gradually returning. But when a treasure hunt gone wrong puts Jack and Jamie in danger, flinging them through time and space, they find themselves on an island neither of them have heard of before. Jack's first priority is to get Jamie home safe, but Berk's inhabitants - human and otherwise - are certainly not making it easy. Knowing they will leave Berk and the Vikings behind as soon as they know how to, Jack is not going to risk the pain of growing close to any of these people (or dragons, for that matter). But Hiccup Horrendous Haddock, wearing his heart on his sleeve, doesn't seem to want to take the hint. ♥ \| Link

Of the Northmost Winds and Skies

By: xxiiyu
Chapters: 44/44
Word count: 416k

It's the first winter after Pitch's defeat. Jack is happy, he's not alone anymore, and his memories are gradually returning. But when a treasure hunt gone wrong puts Jack and Jamie in danger, flinging them through time and space, they find themselves on an island neither of them have heard of before. Jack's first priority is to get Jamie home safe, but Berk's inhabitants - human and otherwise - are certainly not making it easy.

Knowing they will leave Berk and the Vikings behind as soon as they know how to, Jack is not going to risk the pain of growing close to any of these people (or dragons, for that matter). But Hiccup Horrendous Haddock, wearing his heart on his sleeve, doesn't seem to want to take the hint.

♥ | Link

Snow-Crested Shrines
By: turkeyvultureinavest Chapters: 7/7 Word count: 64k Everyone knew about the tales the children of Berk were raised on: elves and vaettir, wicked and clever beings slinking in the shadows to steal or kill with a sharp tongue. Hiccup had never given much thought to these stories, until he meets something while trapped out in a blizzard, and finds a whole new world opened to him. ♥ \| Link \| Part 1 of Faithful Misadventures

Snow-Crested Shrines

By: turkeyvultureinavest
Chapters: 7/7
Word count: 64k

Everyone knew about the tales the children of Berk were raised on: elves and vaettir, wicked and clever beings slinking in the shadows to steal or kill with a sharp tongue.

Hiccup had never given much thought to these stories, until he meets something while trapped out in a blizzard, and finds a whole new world opened to him.

♥ | Link | Part 1 of Faithful Misadventures

Deathsong Cries
By: turkeyvultureinavest Chapters: 4/4 Word count: 27.1k Jack doesn't understand his episodes, those little moments where he swears he catches a glimpse of another life. The in-between, stuck knowing no matter how many questions he might have that an answer will never come. It's kind of hard to stay mad for long, though, when his boyfriend is off getting himself killed trying to dismantle a new dragon hunter group. He can't help but tag along. Link \| Part 2 of Faithful Misadventures

Deathsong Cries

By: turkeyvultureinavest
Chapters: 4/4
Word count: 27.1k

Jack doesn't understand his episodes, those little moments where he swears he catches a glimpse of another life. The in-between, stuck knowing no matter how many questions he might have that an answer will never come.

It's kind of hard to stay mad for long, though, when his boyfriend is off getting himself killed trying to dismantle a new dragon hunter group. He can't help but tag along.

Link | Part 2 of Faithful Misadventures

Winter Moon
By: alicesketch Chapters: 16/16 Word count: 84.7k Hiccup and Jack have very different feelings about starting their high school year: Hiccup has been forced to move to Forks by his mother, while Jack is happy to hang around with humans. They might even become friends (or something more), if it wasn't for an enemy from the distant past who threatens to ruin their not-so-normal lives. Or their awkwardness. ♥ \| Link \| Part 1 of Twilight AU

Winter Moon

By: alicesketch
Chapters: 16/16
Word count: 84.7k

Hiccup and Jack have very different feelings about starting their high school year: Hiccup has been forced to move to Forks by his mother, while Jack is happy to hang around with humans. They might even become friends (or something more), if it wasn't for an enemy from the distant past who threatens to ruin their not-so-normal lives. Or their awkwardness.

♥ | Link | Part 1 of Twilight AU

Early Sunset
By: alicesketch Chapters: 12/12 Word count: 66.3k It's been a year since Pitch Black's defeat, but another challenge awaits Hiccup and Jack. The new students of Forks High School hide a secret, and along with new enemies, old friends and even more awkward moments, the two will have to make some difficult choices. ♥ \| Link \| Part 2 of Twilight AU

Save A Village... Get A Bride?
By: EmerialynCodeVenice Chapters: 4/4 Word count: 14.8k Hiccup would've done anything to save Berk from a hungry winter monster, but he didn't expect the price would be to become the consort of the god, Jökul Frosti. AKA: Where a single misunderstanding sends Berk down the wedding-planning path, Hiccup rethinking life, and Jack's just happy to be seen. Link

complete (one-shot)

The Golden Light
By: alkaline_frog Word count: 11k Suddenly the sound detector picked up on a low frequency. Jamie's eyes widened. Something was coming directly towards him – and coming fast. "Oh gods, oh gods, uh." Jamie's hands fluttered in the air. He wasn’t wearing Frostbiter's bracelet. He didn't know whether to reach for his camera, or grab his gear and bolt, or lie down and give up, and his window of opportunity was closing by the second. The entity decided for him, picking up speed as it barrelled straight at him. Camera it was then. If he was going to die, then he would die vindicated. ♥ \| Link \| OTNWAS spin-off

The Golden Light

By: alkaline_frog
Word count: 11k

Suddenly the sound detector picked up on a low frequency. Jamie's eyes widened.

Something was coming directly towards him – and coming fast.

"Oh gods, oh gods, uh." Jamie's hands fluttered in the air. He wasn’t wearing Frostbiter's bracelet. He didn't know whether to reach for his camera, or grab his gear and bolt, or lie down and give up, and his window of opportunity was closing by the second.

The entity decided for him, picking up speed as it barrelled straight at him. Camera it was then. If he was going to die, then he would die vindicated.

♥ | Link | OTNWAS spin-off

Designation: Frost
By: fickleminder Word count: 5.2k There's more to Hiccup's new roommate and his car than meets the eye. Transformers AU (Bayverse, post Age of Extinction). Link

the rhythm's more important than the melody
By: twiafom Word count: 3.8k Hiccup has spent five summers pining for Jackson Overland, the son of the trader who comes to Berk once a year, and this might just be the one where he finally does something about it. ♥ \| Link

there’s nothing about you (that i don’t adore)
By: twiafom Word count: 1.7k Jack was great at keeping secrets, and even better at keeping his own. Who would ever have to know? (Jack has a crush. He tries to grow out of it, but, well, nothing that comes with Hiccup Horrendous Haddock is ever easy.) ♥ \| Link

Branching Scars
By: Alterkaetion Word count: 20.1k With Hiccup buckling under the stress of his future roll as Chief of Berk, leading his team of Riders and fighting a war, Jack offers to help him relax. In more ways than one. ♥ \| Link \| NSFW/Explicit

on-going

Can't Smile Like You Mean It When You're Tongue Tied
By: Sockhead_42 Chapters: 4/? Word count: 40k "Accept loss forever, you say?" Hiccup mumbled to himself. Jim heard him anyway. "It's the only way, I fear." He nodded sagely. Between smoking in parking lots, late night gas station runs, and long car drives, grief shows its true form time and time again because what is it if not love persevering? ♥ \| Link

Force of Habit
By: Hyryraeth Chapters: 2/4 Word count: 24.8k Jack has so much love in his life he thinks he could burst from it. Pop into blue and white confetti, pile miles of white, powdery joy onto Burgess, and there'd still be plenty left over for the rest of the winter world. He has Jamie, and he has Hiccup and Toothless, and he has the Guardians. He's more excited than ever to navigate whatever awaits him. That is, until cold waters from Berk come back to haunt him. It's a fresh wound, an old storm, one he's uncertain he can weather unmoored. Lucky for him, Jack's no longer in short supply of anchors. ♥ \| Link \| Unofficial OTNWAS Sequel

Force of Habit

By: Hyryraeth
Chapters: 2/4
Word count: 24.8k

Jack has so much love in his life he thinks he could burst from it. Pop into blue and white confetti, pile miles of white, powdery joy onto Burgess, and there'd still be plenty left over for the rest of the winter world. He has Jamie, and he has Hiccup and Toothless, and he has the Guardians. He's more excited than ever to navigate whatever awaits him.

That is, until cold waters from Berk come back to haunt him. It's a fresh wound, an old storm, one he's uncertain he can weather unmoored. Lucky for him, Jack's no longer in short supply of anchors.

♥ | Link | Unofficial OTNWAS Sequel

Translations
By: bignostalgias Chapters: 2/9 Word count: 18.8k The stranger proceeded to speak, but in a language Jack couldn’t place, despite his hundreds of years of exploration. It had a weight and fullness to it that sounded Scandinavian, but the accent and the vowels were off. He had a nasally voice, and he spoke quickly, hands twitching a little like he wanted to wave them again but didn’t want to startle Jack. The Nightmare behind him watched, interested. Ready to pounce if it felt the tide change. “I — I can’t—” Jack interrupted him. “I have no clue what you’re saying.” ♥ \| Link

Translations

By: bignostalgias
Chapters: 2/9
Word count: 18.8k

The stranger proceeded to speak, but in a language Jack couldn’t place, despite his hundreds of years of exploration. It had a weight and fullness to it that sounded Scandinavian, but the accent and the vowels were off. He had a nasally voice, and he spoke quickly, hands twitching a little like he wanted to wave them again but didn’t want to startle Jack. The Nightmare behind him watched, interested. Ready to pounce if it felt the tide change.

“I — I can’t—” Jack interrupted him. “I have no clue what you’re saying.”

♥ | Link

The Lights of Avalon
By: alkaline_frog Chapters: 10/30 Word count: 90.4k The Legend of King Arthur is Jackson Overland’s favourite fairytale to tell the children in his village—and he wishes it had stayed just that. But Jack’s world is changed forever when he is deemed worthy of the Legendary Sword Excalibur, should he choose to accept it. Darkness threatens the land, and its people will need a hero. And although Excalibur’s powers are great, so too is the cost of wielding it—so much so that Jack would rather become a traveling bard who spends his days running as far away as possible. Little does he know, on the road to avoiding his destiny, Jack will only meet it—or rather, him. Link

The Lights of Avalon

By: alkaline_frog
Chapters: 10/30
Word count: 90.4k

The Legend of King Arthur is Jackson Overland’s favourite fairytale to tell the children in his village—and he wishes it had stayed just that. But Jack’s world is changed forever when he is deemed worthy of the Legendary Sword Excalibur, should he choose to accept it. Darkness threatens the land, and its people will need a hero. And although Excalibur’s powers are great, so too is the cost of wielding it—so much so that Jack would rather become a traveling bard who spends his days running as far away as possible. Little does he know, on the road to avoiding his destiny, Jack will only meet it—or rather, him.

Link

Hiccup's Law
By: Kae_Viche Chapters: 5/? Word count: 37k Henry ‘Hiccup’ Haddock’s life isn’t entirely terrible. Sure, his father has been gone for two years because of his job at the Military, and the country has been in a state of unrest since the civil war- but he’s happy. With his alchemy studies going well and his relationship with his best friend Jack Overland never better, what is there to complain about? Once tragedy strikes, though, Hiccup comes to learn life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. And no one, least of all Hiccup, could have predicted the chaos that would follow to drive that lesson home. Link

Hiccup's Law

By: Kae_Viche
Chapters: 5/?
Word count: 37k

Henry ‘Hiccup’ Haddock’s life isn’t entirely terrible. Sure, his father has been gone for two years because of his job at the Military, and the country has been in a state of unrest since the civil war- but he’s happy. With his alchemy studies going well and his relationship with his best friend Jack Overland never better, what is there to complain about?

Once tragedy strikes, though, Hiccup comes to learn life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. And no one, least of all Hiccup, could have predicted the chaos that would follow to drive that lesson home.

Link

snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time
By: seafoam_dew (baisley) Chapters: 3/? Word count: 4.4k A collection of one-shots, drabbles and whatever takes my fancy for the Hijack arranged marriage au because I'm too impatient to write out a full-on fic with plots and slow burns. ♥ \| Link

Maces and Talons
By: Kae_Viche Chapters: 3/9 Word count: 20.6k The old Overland house has a ghost in its walls. The city of Burgess avoid the house like it will swallow them whole, too. As it had done to two teenagers twenty-two years ago. If you care for rumours, children swear they can hear the drumming heartbeat of the ghost when they walk by. They don't dare get any closer. If you go into the house, you may not ever come back out. What had happened that night, when those children disappeared? Was it something personal and sinister... Or supernatural? Link

Maces and Talons

By: Kae_Viche
Chapters: 3/9
Word count: 20.6k

The old Overland house has a ghost in its walls.

The city of Burgess avoid the house like it will swallow them whole, too. As it had done to two teenagers twenty-two years ago.

If you care for rumours, children swear they can hear the drumming heartbeat of the ghost when they walk by. They don't dare get any closer. If you go into the house, you may not ever come back out.

What had happened that night, when those children disappeared? Was it something personal and sinister... Or supernatural?

Link

Dress Us in Blue & Silver
By: imdeadtiredTM, That1Notetaker Chapters: 2/4 Word count: 26k Hiccup's desperately trying to figure out what exactly is the deal with Burgess ever since he moved in. He keeps dreaming of a lake. Or more specifically, drowning in one. He knows there's a lake, but there are no photos, no maps to where this lake is. Hiccup knows it exists, because the other residences know about it too, but whenever he asks for details they seem to know nothing, baring a few exceptions, and Hiccup can't help but feel like he's going insane. All of this, somehow, leads to him giving Jack Frost a four hour car ride. Jack, who's the center of all of this in one way or another. Link

Dress Us in Blue & Silver

By: imdeadtiredTM, That1Notetaker
Chapters: 2/4
Word count: 26k

Hiccup's desperately trying to figure out what exactly is the deal with Burgess ever since he moved in. He keeps dreaming of a lake. Or more specifically, drowning in one. He knows there's a lake, but there are no photos, no maps to where this lake is. Hiccup knows it exists, because the other residences know about it too, but whenever he asks for details they seem to know nothing, baring a few exceptions, and Hiccup can't help but feel like he's going insane.

All of this, somehow, leads to him giving Jack Frost a four hour car ride. Jack, who's the center of all of this in one way or another.

Link

Dragon Babies and Other Unexpected Acquisitions (Series)
By: ThatAwkwardFaeNerd Works: 3 Word count: 16.9k Jack finds a dragon egg in the trash. Chaos ensues. A series of short fics detailing a weird little urban fantasy world full of dragons, viral memes, and constant gay panic. ♥ \| Link

Between Blurred Lines
By: ThatAwkwardFaeNerd Chapters: 9/? Word count: 36.4k It's cold on the day Hiccup is married. After thousands of years of conflict, there can finally be peace, but now he is marrying a creature he has never even seen. ♥ \| Link

The Impossible Task
By: Kae_Viche Chapters: 1/? Word count: 7.7k With the defeat of Drago Bludvist behind them and Berk flourishing under Stoick's mighty rein, Hiccup and Jack's romantic relationship has finally had time to blossom. New and tentative, said relationship has just barely been tested. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on who you ask), Stoick is determined for Jack to prove his worth as Hiccup's future husband with a necessary ceremonial test. A Bethrothal Task. Will Jack succeed in retrieving an important heirloom of Berk's history? Or will their relationship be doomed from the start? ♥ \| Link

The Impossible Task

By: Kae_Viche
Chapters: 1/?
Word count: 7.7k

With the defeat of Drago Bludvist behind them and Berk flourishing under Stoick's mighty rein, Hiccup and Jack's romantic relationship has finally had time to blossom. New and tentative, said relationship has just barely been tested. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on who you ask), Stoick is determined for Jack to prove his worth as Hiccup's future husband with a necessary ceremonial test. A Bethrothal Task. Will Jack succeed in retrieving an important heirloom of Berk's history? Or will their relationship be doomed from the start?

♥ | Link

Endless Garden
By: HijackSecrets, Kae_Viche Chapters: 3/4 Word count: 26.6k “Who the hell are you?” Jack looked him up and down, utterly bewildered. The stranger startled, finally righting himself so he could turn to Jack. “Jack—” he coughed, before continuing, “Jack Frost?” Jack’s eyebrows raised. “...Do I know you?” he asked slowly, trying to find something familiar about his figure, his mask, or even his weird nasally voice, but nothing rang any bells. “I don’t think we’ve met.” “Oh, no no, I uh…” Facing away from Jack, the spirit then turned towards the horizon and started to drift away. “I keep to myself.” “So you know who I am but I still don’t know who you are.” He squinted even more curiously at the stranger, a grin growing at this new mystery. It wasn’t often that he met a brand new spirit, after all. Link

Endless Garden

By: HijackSecrets, Kae_Viche
Chapters: 3/4
Word count: 26.6k

“Who the hell are you?” Jack looked him up and down, utterly bewildered.

The stranger startled, finally righting himself so he could turn to Jack. “Jack—” he coughed, before continuing, “Jack Frost?”

Jack’s eyebrows raised.

“...Do I know you?” he asked slowly, trying to find something familiar about his figure, his mask, or even his weird nasally voice, but nothing rang any bells. “I don’t think we’ve met.”

“Oh, no no, I uh…” Facing away from Jack, the spirit then turned towards the horizon and started to drift away. “I keep to myself.”

“So you know who I am but I still don’t know who you are.” He squinted even more curiously at the stranger, a grin growing at this new mystery. It wasn’t often that he met a brand new spirit, after all.

Link

httyd books

all works are complete and mostly gen + book trio!
everything by these two authors are amazing but these are my faves :)

Then they just won't leave
By: storyvisitor Word count: 3.3k “You do not believe that a king would be missed by the people who surround him on a daily basis? The amount of people I had meetings scheduled with before breakfast today was honestly ridiculous.” Hiccup is kidnapped, and his captors are about to realize just what they're dealing with. ♥ \| Link

Dare
By: storyvisitor Word count: 3.3k A child underestimates how alert the Warriors of the Wilderwest are when it comes to watching out for their king. ♥ \| Link

Separation Anxiety
By: storyvisitor Word count: 3.3k Things are changing, and change is hard. Link

The Way Memories Work
By: storyvisitor Word count: 1.1k There's a year Fishlegs doesn't talk about. Link

Waiting for it all to fall apart
By: storyvisitor Word count: 1.7k Camicazi has lost too much to war, and she cannot bear the idea of losing her best friends too. Link

cold water
By: wickedcriminal Word count: 1.6k Hiccup has successfully survived water torture at the hands of Alvin and the witch. He has successfully rescued Camicazi and escaped down the trapdoor. And he has successfully made a name for himself as one of the most supernaturally unkillable boys in the viking world. Now it's time to find the Lost Things. To rescue Toothless. To sail to Tomorrow. To save the archipelago. He just needs... a moment... to breathe. ♥ \| Link

cold water

By: wickedcriminal
Word count: 1.6k

Hiccup has successfully survived water torture at the hands of Alvin and the witch. He has successfully rescued Camicazi and escaped down the trapdoor. And he has successfully made a name for himself as one of the most supernaturally unkillable boys in the viking world.

Now it's time to find the Lost Things. To rescue Toothless. To sail to Tomorrow. To save the archipelago.

He just needs... a moment... to breathe.

♥ | Link

how to save a life
By: wickedcriminal Word count: 2.1k "Breathe." Snotlout could barely follow his own order. "Breathe." Hiccup wouldn't breathe. ♥ \| Link

metal jaws
By: wickedcriminal Word count: 2.3k All it took was a snap. Hiccup gets caught in a dragon trap. ♥ \| Link

how can I be an optimist about this?
By: wickedcriminal Word count: 1.4k "I hope the dragons burn this place to the ground." Eggingarde whispered, suddenly. It took Fishlegs by surprise, and for a minute he thought she was picking up his dark sarcasm, but she sounded completely serious. "Then I'd get to see past the wall, just once." Link

the screams all sound the same
By: wickedcriminal Word count: 1.4k "What were you dreaming about?" She asked, much more gently. Hiccup tried to ride through another climbing sob, swallowing the tension in his throat as the anxiety slowly died away into hopeless exhaustion. "Home." He whispered. Link