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AvannaK — HTTYD2 Genderbend
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Five years after Hiccup and Toothless ended the war, and Berk is now a haven where humans and dragons can live peacefully. While Astrid and the others are dragon racing—the hottest new Berkian sport—our favorite duo prefer to spend their time exploring a world that was once out of reach before flight. Hiccup especially seeks to escape the exhausting clutches of her father, who insists on pushing her through chief grooming and finding a suitor. On one of their adventures, they encounter a mysterious dragon rider, someone who turns Hiccup’s world upside down, and soon the pair find themselves fighting for a peaceful future once again.
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the middle picture gave me a gay crush on Fem!Hiccup. it was bad enough already, god damn it!
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Interesting name "genderbend." You should definitely use this idea on Dreamworks because they could use a little artist like you in their crew! Plus, I love those pictures of fem!Hiccup! They're very cool! I especially like the middle part when Hiccup (Mildred) takes off her helmet and smooths out her hair, but I would like it if she shakes it all out. Now, that might drive all the boys crazy on Berk, especially Snoutlout! Hee hee hee! Anyway, on a scale of 1 to 10, you are a 12. Beautiful work!
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Hiccup encounters pirates. Hiccup fights pirates. Hiccup kicks the crap out of pirates. End of the day, pirates are all tied up, happy endings all around and Hiccup can remove her helmet...
"Holy f**k, you're a *girl*!?"
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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I would have actually liked to see what would have happened if Hiccup was a girl.....but that was the only change. Lol
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ME TOO! That's my whole genderbent AU right there. Just Hiccup is a girl… and the first movie is pretty similar but things start to shift for the second movie since there's no immediate suitor she has. XD
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Lol. I mean, I guess if the writers were smart enough, they could make the romance between genderbent Hiccup and Astrid work and not too clique.
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Oh no, no no. Haha, I have written whole things about that. For one thing, Hiccup is straight. Like her male counterpart, she grew up feeling sexual attraction towards the opposite gender. Not that she minds women per se, but she definitely hankers for the D.
For another, the romance was pushed and forced in HTTYD1 and kind of tarnished Astrid's character for it. This would be a great opportunity for that to not happen. Without the sexual element Hiccup feels towards Astrid, we just have pure admiration and genuine desire for friendship and acknowledgment. And that's what she would earn.
But also, viking culture… marriage… heirs. Hiccup would be pushed towards suitors like crazy in HTTYD2.
In my fem!Hiccup AU Astrid does have a relationship with Heather. And she's often leaving a door open for Hiccup to pursue their friendship in a sexual manner, but Hiccup doesn't take it. And Hiccup has had experiences with Camicazi as she grew up. Also Thuggory and Eret. It's a whole thing. XD
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Oh, I didn't mean to imply that. I assumed that Astrid was genderbent as well. My bad.
I'll be sure to check out more of your stuff soon! Thanks!
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Really .You drink wine to have super photoshopping skills?
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Avanna, I really love your female Hiccups, even more because I always imagined a female version of him! Thank you for doing it, it's like a dream coming true!!!
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And you're doing it in an amazing way! Keep doing it
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You're very talented! I have seen a lot of people try to make these gender-swaps and fail. But you did a great job at making it believable.
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Thank you! I mean, I have noticed mostly… doll-like Hiccup genderbends… I mean when it comes to edits. BUt a lot of thought went into her character and her design when I change her (which is very little, I think, that should be changed) so I'm super glad you like it!
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Welcome! Yeah, most of them are either creepy or lazy. Well, I think you did a very good job. I don't know if I could do it.
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Can I draw fem!Hiccup base on your photomanipulation? I feel like her now
I will credit to you.
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ABSOLUTELY! I'd love to see it when you finish! If you want many more refs, I have a ton on my tumblr that I'll soon bring over here
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wow. After seeing some of your genderbend-pics I reaaally want to see the movie like this. That would be freaking awesome!
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Thank you! Yes, I've… accidentally turned this into a big thing for myself (mostly on my tumblr). But can you IMAGINE the movie? It would be AWESOME!
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stop talking about it D: ! I want to see it.
that would be so cool.
But thank you for keeping the idea alive
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Haha, well they're going up today!
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It's a really good thing that we're all fanGIRLS - this movie would lose all popularity if Hiccup really looked like that!
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME
I like you--which is the only thing that's keeping me from giving you a loud and heartfelt screw you. Hahaha, sorry--but no way. If Hiccup looked like that she would be just as popular. It would probably increase the men in the fandom. AND AND AND women love women protags who are kickass and beautiful. God, it would be even more popular in my opinion. Also, it would show a female hero who would be relatable to all genders. Fem!Hiccup is not different from male!Hiccup in anything other than body.
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I understand that there's no difference other than in body. Check. Got it.
And I'm glad you like me.
So I'll disagree here - many men would shun it a little, because it would seem like another "Disney Princess" movie. Even though we know it's nothing of the sort, female protagonists in "children's movies" drive off boys and some men.
But perhaps my point wasn't clear enough - if Hiccup WAS a girl and the trailer was introduced like that, the helmet off...well, we wouldn't exactly be going on and on about puberty and his forearms. [NOT. That I have too much of a problem with the forearms.]
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It wouldn't be disney princess at all. AT ALL. HTTYD has very very few disney princess elements, and the only thing that WAS disney princess was the romance. Cut that out and it's even LESS of a disney princess movie. You might be too young to remember Xena, Warrior Princess, but THAT had plenty of male viewers and that was about a woman and her woman sidekick. IT was about ACTION AND ADVENTURE. Not any more disney than HTTYD is.
This isn't like Brave or like Frozen. These characters were well told, organic, and real. There was nothing remarkable about the HTTYD story at all, actually. It was how it was told that made it fantastic and stand out. Hiccup's gender would but very little dent in that. She'd still be remarkably relatable and personable. As a male, Hiccup is already seen as having more "traditional feminine behaviors". Her behavior wouldn't change at all, if she was a girl
We'd be on and off about how freaking HOT Hiccup turned out to be. She was still an adorable little kid and went through puberty LIKE A FREAKING BOSS. EVERYONE would love it. The boys of the fandom would be dazzled. The girls would be JUST as dazzled.
So no. It would still be JUST as popular, if not more popular. You are really, really underestimating how DESPERATELY we--men and women--need a well-told female hero that doesn't bank on romance in some way.
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I know - it's not a Disney Princess movie at all. Anything like it. It would drive a lot of people away because they'd automatically assume it would be. (Although hopefully the lack of singing would make a good impression.)
Eh...I'm not sure I agree. Merida and Elsa aren't slouchy at all in the looks department, but they don't get half the attention that Hiccup and Jack Frost do.
Hmm...possibly. HTTYD definitely makes a good case for not prioritizing romance - Hiccup's crush is just a crush, then gets eclipsed entirely by, like, real life, and his crush takes the place of tormentor/babysitter until everything comes clean and he's allowed to like her again. She's not pivotal to the plot at all.
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It's not about looks--it's about execution. Merida's film was… lackluster. Frozen was better but… not as well done or heartfelt as HTTYD. It had to potential to be that, but it dropped the ball in several respects. Hiccup's character is what made him a hit with just about everybody. His life, his choices, his behavior, his story--all of it was fantastic and fantastically done.
You've basically insulted women all over the place here. Seeing a woman doesn't mean "disney". God damn it. Now HTTYD was shittily advertised and the reason it became so popular was through word of mouth and getting the ball rolling. The few people who saw it (no thanks to the bad ads) really spread it around. Hiccup's gender wouldn't have put it off so much as DW would have stepped on its own foot. So no, a thousand times no, it wouldn't be less popular if Hiccup was a girl. It would steam roll into popularity the same way it did in this universe, with him as a boy.
Astrid is 100000% and I will say screw you again just for suggesting it. Haha, the crush wasn't pivotal--in fact, it was bullshit and the one "disney" thing about the film--but Astrid certainly was pivotal. Her position, her choices, and Hiccup's desire to have her in his (or her, in this case)'s corner is what made the movie happen. Astrid was so freaking pivotal that if she didn't exist we'd have Hitchups on our hands. PIVATOLLLL
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Obviously you bring out my talent to shove a foot all the way up to my hip into my mouth.
About Astrid - the crush part. Was what I was talking about. [I kind of wonder why you like me when I keep making you so mad?] But, for the first half of the movie, she isn't pivotal the way she becomes when Hiccup drags her into the main plotline after Astrid Goes For A Spin.
Seeing as I'm a woman, I didn't intend that insult - I'm saying what I've seen to be true. Animation/DreamWorks etc. is more of a female like in general. Hiccup would appeal to women watching the first movie either male or female - because yes, the choices and personality and story, and because it's all "cute." (The word I hate most when describing HTTYD.) However, the fanbase went crazy with the new "hot" Hiccup from HTTYD2 in a way it wouldn't have for fem!Hiccup - because most of us are straight.
Men tend to watch animated stuff less, generally. They liked boy Hiccup because of all the aforementioned reasons, and because he was a good role model for their own kids (one of the reasons most of the men who watched the movie did.) I'm not sure how all those men feel about the new and improved HTTYD2 Hiccup, but I highly doubt they're on the floor screaming about his hair. (Or would be if it was fem!Hiccup.)
And kids? As weird as it is for adults to think, kids really identify with their own gender until they learn to think outside the box. All the young girls who watched HTTYD loved Astrid - hopefully they're old enough to love Hiccup in HTTYD2. The boys loved Hiccup, and will continue to idolize him - still an older, cooler role model. Fem!Hiccup would have been ideal for littler girls, and it would have the same aspect as above. But with no "leading lady" dynamic going on for a boy character, the young male viewers would have been minimized, much the way Disney attempts to drive them away in packs.
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Hahaha, don't worry about it. You don't make me mad! Just more like 'wtffff'. (Though the Astrid thing could be argued that she was the reason he felt so determined to get to know Hiccup. "Figure out what side you're on" she barked at him, and then he got that look before he tried to approach Toothless)
I still find your argument is invalid. After all that, sorry 
So at the end--HTTYD with Hiccup, both one and two, would still be amazingly popular.
HTTYD wasn't well advertised--so the marketing approach that you're trying to pitch is barely valid. It would have started as flat, and built up as people realized the gem it truly was.
Except it would also be ground breaking. It would have been a successfully told female-hero story and it would have eventually been shoved in the faces of everyone. Holy shit, in so many ways the world truly missed out on fem!Hiccup.
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Yeah, they turned it into a love story. Bad idea. Although the "Sharing is Caring" idea could work there. >;->
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Well, this whole argument has made my day. Just want to point out something I read about Legend of Korra, which I think applies to this situation and female protagonists.
"Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls. During test screenings, though, boys said they didn't care that Korra was a girl. They just said she was awesome."
Httyd could definitely work with a female protagonist.
Also, Yes, fans would go "boy-oi-oi-oi-oing" for Fem!Hotcup. And lesbians- mmmmm.
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