Heather

Heather

> We would rather fight than hide in shame.
>
> Heather

**Heather** is the second-in-command of the Berserkers and the sister of Dagur the Deranged and the daughter of Oswald the Agreeable. She was a member of the Dragon Riders before leaving to join her brother in Berserker Island. She rides a Razorwhip dragon named Windshear.

## Physical Appearance

Heather's appearance has a drastic change. She still wears her hair in the same style as before but it is noticeably longer and she no longer wears eyeliner. She now wears a long-sleeve, light gray shirt with a black, short-sleeved hooded shirt over it, a brown mask to hide her identity, a brown leather vest, wristbands, dark gray pants and brown boots. She has three black belts, as well as one that holds her horn and a Dragon Eye lens. Heather has metallic-like shoulder guards, bracers, knee pads and skirt, all from the scales from Windshear.

Heather also possesses a satchel similar to the ones that the Dragon Riders use, except it is black in color and has no crest on it.

In Season 4's episode, "Saving Shattermaster", Heather wears a long-sleeve black jumpsuit, with black shoulder pads and arm guards. In the latter, she also wears a matching mask obscuring her mouth and nose.

## Personality

In spite of all her problematic behavior, Heather has a strong moral drive. She ends up becoming a vigilante for justice by returning stolen loot from pirates to their rightful owners. It is also demonstrated that she will go to great lengths in order to protect those she cares about, as she didn't want the Riders to join her mission to keep them out of danger. While nervous around dragons at first, after her brief stay on Berk, followed much later by meeting Windshear, she ended up developing an interest in them. It leads her to become determined to protect them, such as when she wanted to help Garffiljorg back to his family and take down the Dragon Hunters for good.

Heather is very observant, and thus knowledgeable. She asks Astrid if she and Hiccup are together when she notices how close they are.

She has also shown a caring and attentive side, as when she sang to Garff and calmed him, refusing to let the Riders abandon him, on the grounds that she "knew what it was like to be alone".

## Biography

### Second meeting with the Dragon Riders

Sometime later, Heather's village is attacked by Dagur the Deranged. After that, she finds and trains a Razorwhip, naming her Windshear. The two later start to raid bandit ships and redistribute the stolen goods back to their rightful owners. Three years after the end of the First Berserker War, one of her raids is spotted by Bucket and Mulch, thus drawing the attention of the Dragon Riders. One by one, she incapacitates them until only Hiccup is left. After a chase, Hiccup shoots Heather down and she finally reveals her identity. After clearing things up, the Riders invite her with them to Dragon's Edge.

When they ask how she trained a Razorwhip, Heather explains it was because of everything the Riders showed her during her visit to Berk. After telling them how she and Windshear met, the Riders soon notice a more unhinged and shady side to Heather. While this puts Hiccup off, Astrid appears to enjoy it.

Later that evening, Hiccup attempts to interrogate Heather on her attacks but she just tells him not to worry over it. She explains that a lot has happened in the last few years and she is not the same anymore. Hiccup, still surprised by her change and skeptical of her behavior, continues to question her motives. When Heather threatens to leave, he tries to assure her that he just wants to help.

That night, Heather locks up all the dragons in their pens so she can't be followed. Unbeknownst to her, Hiccup and Toothless are shadowing her.

She meets up with Trader Johann before heading out to find Dagur so she can avenge her parents and village.

However, Dagur is not traveling alone and uses the chains from the Reaper to capture her and Windshear.

Hiccup and Toothless arrive just in time and blast the winches to free Heather and Windshear. While Heather wants to stay and fight, Hiccup convinces her to retreat for the sake of Windshear's safety.

On the way back, Heather reveals that she was separated from her birth family at a young age and the only thing she could really remember was her father's hands and the smell of his shield he let her play with. She also tells him her horn was given to her by her birth father and that it's the last possession she has of him.

After returning back to Dragon's Edge, Heather apologized to the Dragon Riders for locking up their dragons. She is instantly forgiven and Astrid pulls her away for some girl time.

The two quickly bond over target practice and Heather teases Astrid about Hiccup after noticing how close they are. This throws Astrid's focus off and she blushingly denies that they are anything more than just friends, but Heather doesn't buy it. Astrid then pokes fun at Heather, leading Heather to admit that she likes Fishlegs.

After a few rounds of cliff jumping, Heather decides to take Astrid back to her camp. There they meet up with Johann, who appears to be worried about Heather. He informs them that Dagur is about to strike a deal for some new ships with anti-dragon catapults and grappling hooks in the Sea of Despair.

After the deal is done, Johann won't be able to find him again. Heather and Astrid head back to the dragon camp for reinforcements, but the Riders, including Astrid, are unsure of proceeding into action without Hiccup and Toothless. Heather doesn't want to wait and resorts to guilt-tripping the riders into tagging along. Astrid ends up agreeing on the condition that it's just a capture mission, not a kill mission. She also leaves behind a map for Hiccup so he can catch up with them when he makes his return.

While the twins, Snotlout, and Fishlegs distract Dagur's crew, Astrid, Heather, and their dragons sneak aboard. The two quickly capture Dagur and despite Astrid's protests, Heather tells Windshear to finish him off. Heather is then stopped by Hiccup who arrives just in time to reveal that Dagur is her brother, causing Heather to freeze up in shock.

Dagur offers Heather to join him, as he's the only family she has left, but Heather is unable to accept him as her brother and leaves with the Dragon Riders.

After her return back on the Edge, Heather prepares to make her leave. Astrid tries convincing her into staying but Heather refuses, as she has a lot to figure out now. She thanks Astrid for their friendship before taking off with Windshear.

### Working with the Dragon Hunters

Heather reappears on a Dragon Hunters' ship. Thinking she was captured as well, Astrid tries to tell her to run but is surprised when Dagur shows up beside her. Heather then claims she has joined her brother and the Dragon Hunters.

Astrid is furious at Heather for betraying the Riders after all they have done for her. During the Dragon Riders' first attempt at escaping, Heather confronts Astrid while she is trying to free Stormfly. When Dagur comes up with the idea to throw the Riders overboard, Heather insists they use them for work instead as she doesn't want Dagur to get blamed in case the riders' are successful in their escape. Dagur appears to be touched by his sister's thoughtfulness.

When Hiccup and Snotlout give the others a chance to escape, Heather and Astrid engage in close combat which results in Heather getting knocked off her feet. This gives Astrid enough time to race below deck to free Stormfly and later share a private moment with Heather.

During their next encounter, Heather is found camping out in a snowstorm on Glacier Island. She and Astrid share a hug as they greet one another, revealing Heather is not actually working with the Dragon Hunters, but spying on them. Heather informs Astrid of a cave where she believes the Snow Wraith is hibernating and plans to keep Ryker as far away as possible. Though Astrid is uncomfortable about keeping their plan a secret from Hiccup since she has never lied to him before. Heather still insists they keep the other riders in the dark, knowing Hiccup would want to pull her out.

Heather tries to convince Ryker to search the coast, but he insists on checking the caves, leading Heather to purposely reveal their location to the Riders to protect them. Ryker then forces her to make Windshear shoot at the cave the Dragon Riders are hiding in, trapping them inside. After the Hunters capture the Snow Wraiths, the Riders manage to take them back to relocate. Hiccup tries to shoot Heather and Ryker down but is suddenly stopped by Astrid who reveals that Heather is on their side, which distracts Hiccup long enough to give Heather and Ryker the chance to escape.

Back on Dragon's Edge, Astrid explains that Heather only got close to Dagur so she could avenge her family. When she found out about the Dragon Hunters, she continued the charade to find a way to take them down as well. According to Heather, the leader of the Dragon Hunters is not Ryker, but a man named Viggo Grimborn, whom everyone is afraid of. Since Viggo stays in the shadows, Heather plans to work with the Hunters to draw him out.

To keep up pretenses, Heather is present during the siege of Dragon's Edge. She tries to warn Ruffnut to stay out of the way after she is captured by the Hunters, but the twin keeps blabbing, forcing Heather to tie her to a tree. She gives Ruffnut a second opportunity to escape on Windshear later on and the Rider accepts Heather's help, but not before head-butting the Berserker.

When Hiccup and the others show up, Heather uses her horn to call Windshear back to her and gives Ruffnut a swift punch in the face as payback for her earlier improvisations, such as head-butting her and riding off on Windshear in the opposite direction of where Heather told her to go. After the Hunters' defeat, she leaves with Dagur and Ryker on Windshear.

During another attack by the Dragon Riders, Ryker begins to question Heather's true loyalty. When Ryker confronts her about intentionally losing to the riders, Dagur defends her, much to Heather's surprise.

Heather joins Dagur and Ryker during their meeting with Viggo Grimborn in his tent. While her brother and Ryker are sent off to get some rest, Viggo orders Heather to stay behind so he can talk to her. He speculates over who the traitor could be, questioning if it's either Dagur or Ryker and asks for her input. Heather also learns of his plan to capture a Flightmare.

Heather later meets up with Astrid and Hiccup to inform them of Viggo's plan and hand them a map that she used to track down the Mystery Class dragon with. Heather's double-agent role ends up backfiring, however, as she soon discovers that Viggo knows she is the traitor, and he has set up a trap. After fighting off several Hunters, Heather and Windshear join the Dragon Riders but it's too late as the Flightmare has already been captured. Heather attempts to rescue it but fails, finding herself being taken down as well.

While imprisoned, Heather tries to reason with Dagur into letting her go, since they are family but Dagur refuses, reminding her that she tried to kill him in the past. Heather explains that she didn't know they were siblings at the time and that he also had wiped out her village. While this does cause Dagur to think for a moment, he still doesn't relent.

After a conversation with Ryker, Dagur leads Heather along with two guards into a cave and then suddenly knocks both of the Hunters out. He frees Heather and reunites her with Windshear, and then silently walks away. Heather returns back to Hiccup and Astrid to help them redirect the Flightmare away from the island. However, she and Windshear disappear without a word shortly afterward.

### Joining the Riders

The other Riders eventually find out that Heather has been keeping in touch with Fishlegs via air mail. After reading through her letters, they invite her to join them on Dragon's Edge.

Heather is especially happy to see Fishlegs and Astrid again when she arrives at the Edge. While getting settled in, she and Astrid discuss her disappearance and Heather reveals she feels terrible about doing that to them, but that she needed some time to figure things out, mostly about Dagur. The girls soon change the subject to their potential love interest, with Heather encouraging Astrid to express her true feelings for Hiccup, but her friend retaliates by teasing her about Heather's exchange of letters with Fishlegs.

Heather later makes dinner for the others but is soon interrupted by a Deadly Nadder migration that the Riders have been redirecting away from Dragon Hunter territory. Hiccup requests Heather's help, but she declines, claiming Windshear is still tired from the trip. Fishlegs stays behind with her and the two bond and flirt as he gives her a tour of the Edge, even showing her a spot to build her own hut. Their moment is, however, interrupted when Meatlug and Windshear get into a fight. Tuffnut assumes Meatlug is jealous, but Heather believes it might have something to do with Windshear. Another flock of Nadders begins to make their way, and Hiccup requests Heather's help again. While still reluctant, she accepts.

Soon after, Windshear begins to attack the Nadders, and even the twins and their dragon. Heather decides to take Windshear back to Dragon's Edge to figure out what is wrong with her. When Hiccup goes to check on them later on, he offers to help get Windshear more adjusted to working with other dragons. The training doesn't go as planned and Windshear ends up knocking Hiccup off of Toothless. Fearing Windshear might hurt someone, Heather figures it best she leaves.

Fishlegs rushes to Heather before she takes off with Windshear, trying to persuade her to stay. He tells her he doesn't want a long-distance relationship and that he wants her to stay with him. Heather admits she feels the same way but she can't leave Windshear. Fishlegs then comes to the realization that the Razorwhip is only protecting Heather, which gives him an idea. Fishlegs and Heather switch dragons as they join the other Riders who are fighting off a small band of Hunters and Windshear keeps her calm this time around.

After the battle, Heather decides to stay with the Dragon Riders, now that Windshear feels comfortable around the other dragons.

The happy moment is soon spoiled when Hiccup receives a letter from Dagur asking for Dragon Riders' help in finding his sister.

When Hiccup and Toothless are captured by the Hunters, Heather helps the Dragon Riders find them.

When the Riders take in a baby Death Song named Garffiljorg, Heather shows sympathy for the dragon instead of being annoyed by its cries like the others. She refuses to abandon him, knowing what it is like to be alone. She sings to Garff, which lulls him to sleep. This gives the Dragon Riders the idea of singing to Garff to train him. It does not work out as planned, however, so the Riders eventually decide to take Garff to Melody Island, hoping he will bond with the Death Song they have encountered previously. They are soon trapped by the Mystery Class dragon, who also rejects Garff since he is singing the songs the Riders taught him. After trying to find another song the Death Song could like, he bonds with Garff and Heather encourages him to go off with his new family.

Heather, Astrid, and Snotlout follow Viggo's ships to find out what he wants with a large supply of marble bricks. They soon discover that Viggo is using them to make a dragon-proof fortress on his island. With it nearly complete, they race back to warn the other riders.

One night, Hiccup brings Dagur up during dinner and asks the others about the possibility that he has changed. Heather reacts to this with anger, quickly discarding that idea, and even threatening to split Dagur in two if she sees him again. Hiccup then sends her off with Snotlout to scout Viggo's fleet for a mission to destroy it so Heather does not find out that Dagur is currently staying on Dragon's Edge.

When they get back, Heather ends up punching Dagur upon seeing him and lashes out at Hiccup for teaching Dagur how to ride a dragon. Hiccup tries explaining that Dagur saved him and Toothless, but Heather still believes him to be working for Viggo and calls him a spy. As Dagur leaves, he finds Hiccup's display for Viggo's fleet and tries to warn them it's a trap. At this point, no one believes him and he agrees to be locked up. The next day, Dagur breaks out with his new dragon Shattermaster, and heads toward the Armada. Heather tries to knock him out of the sky, but he manages to subdue Windshear long enough to prove it is a trap and takes on the entire fleet by himself, which seems to cost him his life.

While the other Riders are mournful of Dagur's death, Heather does not share their grief, believing her brother thought he could make it out alive. Hiccup comments that he never heard Heather call Dagur "brother" before, which causes her to retreat to the hut she is staying in. She finds a note from Dagur on her bed in which he apologizes for everything he has done. He also tells Heather about Viggo's dragon auctions. The note also reveals that Dagur didn't kill their father, but that he actually went missing. Heather begins to cry, finally forgiving Dagur, and mourns his death.

Heather joins the riders to infiltrate Viggo's Dragon Auction.

After another mission of rescuing dragons, Heather helps Astrid who had been shot in the leg and does not hesitate to tell Hiccup about it. When the Riders receive a message from Viggo to meet him on a faraway island, Heather joins Astrid and Hiccup for the meeting, circling in the air above with Astrid while Hiccup speaks to Viggo.

### Reuniting with Dagur

Heather stays behind with the twins to ensure that the Defender of the Wing's village stays intact with the volcano overflowing. She has Windshear topple trees to stop the lava flow before it reaches the village.

When the twins rudely wake up the other riders with the Thunder Ear, Heather is startled by the ruffled appearance of her very sleepy roommate, Astrid.

Heather assists the Dragon Riders and Stoick in rescuing Hiccup.

Heather is seen taking flowers to Astrid as thanks for letting her borrow her axe.

Having visited the Northern Markets many times before, Heather joins Hiccup to go and look for the stranger who saved Throk and Mala at the markets and is shocked to find that it's Dagur and that he seems to be working for the Dragon Hunters. Heather wants to kill Dagur for his betrayal but Hiccup talks her into waiting. When Windshear and Toothless capture Dagur, Heather puts her axe to his throat and tries to question him but Dagur pretends to have lost his memory and manages to escape. The next time she sees him, he is standing on the docks waiting for a Dragon Hunter ship. Heather runs down to him and tries to fight him but Dagur doesn't fight back. He eventually explains that he is trying to save Shattermaster who has been captured by the hunters. Heather helps him free his dragon and Dagur promises to return to her, giving her the Berserker promise that can never be broken.

When Fishlegs starts getting sucked down into the Submaripper's whirlpool, Heather quickly flies toward him on Windshear and tries to pull him out. When she finds it too powerful, she has Windshear hero the other dragons fire into the mouth of the whirlpool until it stops and Fishlegs can fly back to safety.

In her severe sleep deprivation, Heather loses coordination, and has a hard time walking, and even standing at times. She also mistakes a rock for Windshear, and even thinks the rock is moving, as she tells it to "hold still". Despite her sleepy state, she still tries to follow Hiccup's orders to wash her dragon.

Dagur reunites with Heather and asks her to join him on a journey to look for their father. Heather is unsure of leaving with him, having made herself at home on the Edge, and is in the midst of developing a romantic relationship with Fishlegs. Irritated, she continuously shoots down her brother's wild suggestions until they come to an understanding while rescuing the other riders who have been captured by Viggo. Heather eventually realizes how much Dagur needs her help and officially leaves Dragon's Edge to live as a full-time Berserker with her brother. She kisses Fishlegs goodbye before she leaves.

Heather and Dagur join the Dragon Riders and the Auxiliary Team in a sneak attack on Viggo's camp, only to find it already vandalized and abandoned. She and Fishlegs appear to be the only ones who know of Hiccup and Astrid's secret relationship.

Berserker Island is under attack by Ryker and the Shellfire so Heather and Dagur rejoin the Riders to help them defeat their adversaries. Heather is heartbroken over the thought of having to rebuild everything destroyed by the Hunters. When Heather falls off Windshear, she lands mere feet away from the Shellfire, which gives her a good look at it while it's firing. Windshear eventually picks her up again and helps her destroy the last of the Dragon Hunters' ships.

### Searching for Oswald

Heather and Dagur later live on Berserker Island in peace.

When Dagur takes in Gustav as his apprentice, they invite the Dragon Riders to his ceremony. After the gang arrives, they give them a warm welcome, and Heather hugs Astrid. On the way to the stables, the dragons get agitated, and Heather explains that they are having a hard time accommodating the environment.

Later, during Gustav's ceremony, Savage and a few Berserker soldiers turn on Dagur and capture him. Heather manages to escape along with the other Riders and leads them into a small cave. She instructs Snotlout and Gustav to go through some underground tunnels so they could get to the prison cells and free Dagur.

Meanwhile, she, Fishlegs, Hiccup, and Astrid go to the stables to get their dragons. However, this appears to be a waste of time, as the dragons won't go near the island. There are also men guarding the stables. Heather comments that, as a Berserker, she is strong even without her dragon and wants to fight back, determined to bring her brother back. All the Riders then confront Savage and his men in the arena. Seeing the situation going down, Savage holds Heather captive and threatens her. Fortunately, Snotlout and Dagur come just in time, with Snotlout quickly freeing Heather.

The next day, Heather participates at Dagur's ceremony. It is expected that he will give the award to Gustav as his "super Berserker apprentice". He, however, gives the trophy to Snotlout, for his bravery in the battle.

Heather joins the Riders on their adventures on Wingmaiden Island, helping to save Snotlout from nesting Razorwhip females and discovering that Windshear once lived with the Wingmaidens, as all baby Razorwhips, born blind, do to keep from being eaten by the males. She also plays at the boar pit with Ruffnut and gets covered in dirt, which she does not seem to appreciate.

In Searching for Oswald... and Chicken, Heather is following a diary kept by her father, trying to find him. However, it keeps leading her and Dagur into traps, which causes Dagur to ask Hiccup to help him show Heather she will not find Oswald using it. Hiccup does find a clue in it, though, which leads Dagur to find the remains of their father on Vanaheim, along with two letters: one for him and another for Heather. There is also a drawing depicting a Dragon Eye lens, one of which is shown on Heather's belt at the end of the episode, as she is talking to Johann who claims to have met a man who has seen her father alive.

In Sins of the Past, Johann is making Heather think he is taking her to the Northern Markets to see the man who supposedly has seen her father alive. However, he refuses to enter the tavern that is the rendezvous point, claiming there would be trouble for him if he did, thus letting Heather enter alone. She meets the man, and he tells her to follow him out the back door, which she does.

However, she is suspicious and tricks him into telling her he isn't actually taking her to her father by talking about his non-existing hook. Once she understands it is a trap, she fights back, but Krogan shows up to make things harder. Johann then comes in on Windshear, and they fly away with Snotlout, who was also at the Northern Markets buying chicken feed, for which he had traded a lot of his clothes for.

However, they are pursued by the Dragon Flyers and Heather and Johann are knocked off Windshear. Johann is caught by Hookfang's claw and catches Heather's hand. Windshear gets caught in a net. Hookfang then crash-lands on a small island. Krogan then tells Heather he will only return Windshear in exchange for Heather's Dragon Eye lens. Heather responds to Snotlout's shocking questions that she did not know that it was a Dragon Eye lens and that her father had given it to her. She at first seems reluctant to give it up, but is persuaded by Johann to do it for Windshear. She meets Krogan and threatens to drop it in the ocean if he doesn't show her her dragon.

They exchange the lens and the key to Windshear's cage but as he is leaving, Krogan knocks the cage into the water. Heather dives after it to save her dragon but is shocked to find that Krogan had given her the wrong key. Luckily, Dagur shows up and pulls them out of the water. The Dragon Riders, who came with him, follow Krogan to take back the Dragon Eye lens, but fail because of Johann's "clumsiness". Back at the Edge, Dagur tells Heather that their father died on Vanaheim and hands her the letter Oswald left for her. Her long and perilous search for Oswald finally over, Heather then tearfully hugs her brother, the only family she has left.

### Final Battle

Heather leaves with Windshear Dragon's Edge to go to Vanaheim and visit her father's final resting place. On the way there, she is followed by a group of Dragon Flyers and is attacked. Despite her best efforts to hold them off, she gets badly injured and is forced to retreat to Berk.

There, she explains to the riders what happened and blames herself for that. She then wants to go with the riders and save Vanaheim, but as she gets up, she collapses on Windshear. Astrid tells her that she couldn't fight in her state, nor could Windshear and that they should stay on Berk where they can be taken off by Gothi.

After they heal completely, Heather and Windshear return to Berserker Island. Heather walks up with Dagur, making sure the village is in order. Suddenly, a horn announces incoming ships, and Dagur remarks that he was not expecting any guest. Heather sees through a spyglass the whole army of the Dragon Hunters and Flyers and sarcastically replies that they were uninvited guests. Heather and Dagur take out their weapons and prepare for the fight. They are soon joined by the Dragon Riders who tell them that the Hunters came after the King of Dragons. Heather then engages in battle with Windshear and the two manage to take out a few Flyers. At one point during the fight, Heather jumps off Windshear, kicks a Flyer, and lands back on her dragon. When thousands of wild dragons join the battle, Heather watches it, amazed. In the end, they all manage to defeat the Dragon Hunters and Flyers.

In the aftermath of the battle, Heather attends Dagur and Mala's wedding, along with the Dragon Riders and the rest of the Berserker Tribe. When the Dragon Riders leave the Edge, Heather chooses to stay on Berserker Island, along with her brother.

## Abilities

* **Acting:** Heather is a very good actress as she was able to fool the Dragon Riders for a few days, except Astrid Hofferson, who saw her sneaking around in "Heather Report, Part 1". These skills are used again when infiltrating the Dragon Hunters. ("Night of the Hunters, Part 1" and "Night of the Hunters, Part 2") Only Viggo Grimborn was able to figure her out in "Maces and Talons, Part 1".

* **Strength and Fighting Skills:** Heather is pretty tough as she is able to take on Astrid, as well as able to scale the walls in Berk's prison and stay at the top for some time. ("Heather Report, Part 2") Heather became much stronger after her village was attacked. She is capable of taking on at least three Dragon Hunters at once, as shown in "Maces and Talons, Part 2". Heather's weapon is a double axe that is able to fold at the end. She prefers close combat, so she can stare at her enemies in the eye, as stated in "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1" and "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 2". However, her skills appear to be inferior to that of Viggo Grimborn and Krogan.

* **Dragon Training and Riding:** Even with very little time spent on Berk, Heather picked up on Dragon Training pretty quickly, as all the dragons have taken a liking to her. Even though she wasn't very fast, she was also capable of flying with Stormfly. Her skills have improved by *Dragons: Race to the Edge*, with her training her own dragon, Windshear.

* **Intelligence:** She is shown to be pretty clever to come up with a great lie to fool everyone. She even came up with ideas to escape from prison in "Heather Report, Part 2". She was also able to beat Fishlegs Ingerman in the game Maces and Talons three times in a row in "Gold Rush".

* **Crafting:** Heather seems to have a bit knowledge of arts and crafts as she gave Hiccup advice on how to increase Toothless' speed with a shorter connecting rod. In "Heather Report, Part 1", she also made her own battle axe and was able to create her own armor from Windshear's scales. In "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1", she most likely built Windshear's saddle as well.

* **Berserk:** When she was younger, Heather didn't display any tendencies. These traits began to appear after Dagur's attack. She seemed to enjoy fighting more than before. This and the loss of her family have also made Heather a bit unstable, though not dangerously so. Heather admitted to Astrid she was afraid that she had the same Berserker insanity as her brother, but Astrid assured her she was nothing like Dagur in "To Heather or Not to Heather".

* **Cooking:** Heather is revealed to be an excellent cook. Tuffnut Thorston himself cannot get enough of her yak-chops. She appears to have taken over preparing meals for the gang as of "To Heather or Not to Heather".

* **Singing:** Heather is an excellent singer. She was the only one Garffiljorg did not blast with amber.

## Trivia

* Like Heather's modern non-Norse appearance, her name is also historically incorrect. Heather is a Middle English name and it didn't exist until centuries after the Viking era.
* Heather is the first adoptive child in the franchise.
	+ In the book series, it's Fishlegs who is the adopted descendant of the Berserkers.
* Due to a large number of patches on her clothes when she's first introduced, it is possible Heather comes from a poor island. She is the only character with patched and torn clothing who is not a villain.
* A piece of Heather's concept art is seen during the end credits of *Dragons: Riders of Berk* from "Heather Report, Part 1" to "We Are Family, Part 2".
* Heather is the only original character who did not return in *Dragons: Defenders of Berk*. However, she returned in *Race to the Edge*.
	+ It was rumored that Heather would return in *Dragons: Defenders of Berk* and train a Scauldron named Spout. However, that never came to pass. Though this might have been an early idea for "Free Scauldy".
* Heather and Eret, Son of Eret, from *How to Train Your Dragon 2*, share some similarities as both characters worked for either the antagonists respectively when they met the Dragon Riders. But their allegiance to the antagonists was not out of loyalty, and both characters would join the Riders in defeating the respective antagonists. Coincidentally enough, both also have black hair.
* In *School of Dragons*, she narrates the Skrill's bio at the Hatchery, instead of Gobber like the other dragons. She also says she would like to test how strong its electricity is. This could be a hint about her origins.
* Heather is the first Dragon Rider not originally from Berk.
* Heather's shoulder guards in her later appearances are similar to the ones Dagur used to wear (Dagur wears one layer on his right shoulder and four layers on his left, while Heather wears one layer on her left shoulder and three on her right).
* Heather's return is similar to Valka's in *How to Train Your Dragon 2*:
	+ Their first impressions indicate they might be villains.
	+ Both are masked attacking raiders.
	+ Both of their dragons are in the Sharp Class.
* Even though her Dragon Rider avatar is aged up in *School of Dragons*, her alchemist one is not.
* According to Richard Hamilton, there is a slight chance that Heather might appear in their graphic novels, which take place after the second film.[1]
* Heather is the first female character that wasn't written by director Dean DeBlois. The second and third being Mala and Atali respectively.
* Heather's *Race to the Edge* appearance was designed by Visual Development Painter Jessica Bulinski. [2]
* Mae Whitman, Heather's voice actress, previously appeared in a franchise alongside David Faustino, the voice of Dagur the Deranged. Mae Whitman portrayed Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender whilst David Faustino played as Mako in the former's follow-up series The Legends of Korra.