Astrid and Hiccup's Relationship

## How to Train Your Dragon

At first, Astrid is not interested in Hiccup and considers him quite irresponsible when he tries to go against higher orders to prove himself, she is particularly surprised with his inability to stay focused on training ground. Like Fishlegs, Astrid does not comment on Hiccup's clumsiness or laugh at him, when she passed the other teenagers, she stopped looking at her axe to look at him with a smile on her face, however she is the only one among her friends who was not happy for Hiccup's improvements and is also the only one who physically assaults him. In others, she insults him instead of making fun of him like Snotlout or the twins.

Her vendetta against him seems to be on the more personal ground and is fuelled by suspicion and jealousy. Astrid grows particularly annoyed with him when he takes the upper hand during Dragon Training, suddenly showing far superior skills than she could ever hope to achieve despite all her hard work and determination. She also seems to be the only one able to see through the façade Hiccup puts up in the wake of his popularity. She confronts him on this one night (while he is dealing with Toothless) and she leaves more suspicious. By the time Hiccup takes the final win, Astrid has grown beyond aggravated. Instead of confronting him calmly like she initially did when questioning him about his weirdness, Astrid follows him to the Cove and aggressively tries to press the truth out of him on his improvement. When she hears something she throws Hiccup to the ground and moves forward to investigate. Once she spots Toothless, however, her feud with Hiccup is forgotten and her first instincts are to protect him from the dragon, this could also be a reflection, or that she just didn't hate him so much. Hiccup is quick to intervene before anything serious happens. He attempts to calm both individuals down and explain himself to Astrid, who is thoroughly astonished by the revelation. Although it is unknown if she was actually running to the village, Astrid runs away in shock and fear, only to be picked up by Toothless and dropped in a tree. After finally agreeing with Hiccup to "let him show her" why Toothless is not as dangerous as she believes, (having no choice other than fall out of the tree to her death) she reluctantly gets on the dragon.

But sensing her attitude, Toothless doesn't listen to Hiccup's instructions to get down gently. Instead, he races down, dunking his riders into the water, and spinning in circles. Astrid wraps both her arms and legs around Hiccup in fear, because she doesn't want to fall. After hearing Astrid apologize to Hiccup, Toothless slows down out of sympathy. The trio go on a flight together, with Astrid admiring the beauty of the sky, especially as the sun starts to go down. She waves her hand through the clouds and even falls back, so she can feel the wind in her hair. As they approach Berk, Astrid puts her arms around Hiccup's waist and leans her head on his shoulder, to Hiccup's surprise and then joy. As they go back into the air, she admits flying is amazing, and adding onto to it by saying Toothless is amazing. This is the moment she falls in love with him. As they try to go back, Toothless suddenly hears a call and flies into line with a ton of other dragons, Hiccup telling Astrid to get down, so they aren't spotted.

Once they are in the Dragon's Nest, Hiccup urges Toothless to get out for his and Astrid's safety, both Hiccup and Astrid are slightly frightened when a Gronckle fails to get enough food for the Red Death and is promptly eaten. Once escaping the Nest, Astrid immediately tells Hiccup they have to tell Stoick, but Hiccup takes her arm, telling her no, that they'll kill Toothless if the village finds out. She asks if he's really being serious about wanting to keep the Dragon's Nest a secret, as it's something Vikings have searched for since they first arrived, just to protect his pet dragon. When Hiccup firmly says yes, her face changes and shoulders drop, realizing just how important Toothless is to him. She decides to support him, asking what he's going to do, to which he says he'll think of something by the next morning. She then punches him in the arm, saying that's for kidnapping her. As he rubs his sore arm, she grabs him by the shirt and quickly kisses his cheek as she says that was for everything else before running back home, leaving Hiccup in shock and bewilderment, and embarrassed in front of Toothless.

In the Arena the next day, she meets him before he goes inside, asking what his plan is. He says he has to try to stop this, but if something goes wrong he asks her to take care of Toothless. She accepts, before asking him to promise her nothing will go wrong. He doesn't get the time to respond, as Gobber tells him it's time to go in. After trying to train the Monstrous Nightmare and Stoick angering it by losing his temper, Astrid cries out for Hiccup, using a nearby axe to force the arena door open and then throwing a hammer at the dragon to distract it from Hiccup. When Stoick enters the arena and Toothless is subdued, Astrid then holds Hiccup back as he's desperately trying to stop his father and the other Vikings from chaining Toothless up.

After Toothless is locked up on a ship heading towards the Dragon's Nest, Hiccup watches them sail off in despair, and Astrid doesn't make him feel better when she states the obvious (he's lost his tribe, father, and best friend) but slowly turns it into an almost pep motivational speech. She asks him why he didn't go through with his plan to kill Toothless when he found him in the woods, and he eventually confides in her that he saw himself when he looked at him. She asks him what he plans to do, and he responds with "I don't know, probably something stupid" when she tells him it's a good start, but he's already done that, he responds with "then something crazy".
When Hiccup introduces the dragons in the arena to the other Viking teens, she shows her support, and when Ruffnut tries to flirt with Hiccup, Astrid pulls her away by her helmet.

During the battle against the Red Death, Hiccup and Astrid both ride Stormfly, Hiccup finding his confidence and calling out instructions to the other teens. He leaves her to fly the Dragon alone when he jumps down to free Toothless from a burning ship. He later saves Astrid when the Red Death tries to suck Stormfly into its mouth and swallow her. When Hiccup has Toothless shoot a plasma blast at the Red Death, Astrid starts to fall to the ground before Toothless grabs her. She smiles up at Toothless and Hiccup before Toothless gently drops her on the ground. There she, Stoick, and the other Vikings watch in horror and awe as Hiccup and Toothless fight the Red Death in the clouds above.
After Hiccup disappears in the smoke and fire, Astrid rushes to the scene, believing Hiccup is dead. When she hears Stoick proclaim that he's still alive, she tears up as she rejoices with the Vikings. After he wakes up and goes outside she sneaks up behind him and punches his back, claiming that it was for scaring her. As Hiccup protests angrily, she pulls him forward for a kiss on the lips. He quickly tells her he can get used to the punches. She then joins Hiccup and the other teens for a dragon ride on their dragons as the movie ends, concluding their relationship as "a couple".

## Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon

When Hiccup realizes that Gobber shouldn't go after the Boneknapper alone, Astrid takes a step toward him in support. They also sit next to each other on the ship, and are often standing next to each other once on the island. At Gobber's outrageous stories, and all the teens' annoyance at them, Astrid shoves Hiccup in Gobber's direction as a hint that he put a stop to this.

## Book of Dragons

Astrid and Hiccup are sharing a bench at a table in the Great Hall and sitting very close together.

## Gift of the Night Fury

Astrid remains a close friend of Hiccup in Gift of the Night Fury, as Astrid and Hiccup both advocate the idea to make up new holiday traditions to cheer the tribe up. She gestures for some support in her ideas, and he's quick to give it. When the other teens don't like her Yaknog, she says she bets that Hiccup would like it as she runs off to share it with him. As they discuss the prosthetic Hiccup makes for Toothless so the Night Fury can fly on his own, he also calls her "M'lady" as she hands him a cup of Yaknog. Near the end of the special, Astrid comforts Hiccup when he's missing Toothless, holding his hand, lifting his face by the chin to look at her, and then kissing him on the lips, following with a sincere hug. He's shocked again, but quickly relaxes as he rhetorically asks her where Toothless went. She still likes to tease Hiccup however, as she did with him when she noticed Toothless had entered the Great Hall, before she giddily turned him around, so he could see Toothless was back.

## Valerix Season 1

In Valerix Season 1, they appear to have a budding relationship, but they are quite shy and awkward about it. Their romantic attachment is more suggested in their dynamic and interaction then outright stated. Whilst Astrid maintains more of her initial stern, authoritative demeanor with the other Vikings, she opens up more when alone with Hiccup, and apparently feels safe showing a considerably softer, more whimsical side of her personality to him. The two are incredibly close, with Astrid acting as Hiccup's confidant when he needs advice on personal problems, and often pair off from the others when needing to achieve something especially difficult.

In "How to Start a Dragon Academy", when Hiccup and Toothless win the best trick contest, Astrid looks on in awe with the others and remarks that "They're still the best!" When Hiccup is given the responsibility of keeping the dragons out of trouble, he gets overwhelmed whilst running from crisis to crisis, much to Astrid's pity. She pays him a visit later in the evening, announcing her arrival before entering his room, and Hiccup, speaking to Toothless, exclaims, "Astrid... perfect. I don't look too beat up, do I?", which indicates that Hiccup cares what Astrid thinks of him. After the Academy's sign is hung, the two look on with pride, and Astrid gives him a signature, flirtatious punch in the arm.

In "Animal House", when Hiccup and Toothless get swept up in an avalanche they, Astrid and Stormfly caused while dragon-boarding, Astrid attempts to save Hiccup, but winds up getting dragged down with him and Toothless along with Stormfly into a huge crevice of snow and ice. In the dark, they come to and call for each other. Astrid tells him that she's freezing and he tells her to come to him. Their dragons use their firepower to open a hole in the ice so they don't freeze, and to let in some light, and in it they suddenly realize that they're holding each other tightly. They both back off awkwardly, assure each other that they're okay, and Astrid teasingly punches his arm again.
Later, Hiccup and Astrid are sitting next to each other while they tell Fishlegs what happened, and when he suggests that had the dragons not been there to shield them they could have used each others body heat to stay warm, they scoot away from each other and blush in awkward denial.

In "In Dragons We Trust", after dropping their dragons off at Dragon Island, Astrid leans against the ship's mast, and Hiccup quite obviously changes his position to lean against the mast in the same fashion. He then confides in her his suspicions that Mildew framed the dragons for the recent mishaps at home.

In "Alvin and the Outcasts", Hiccup and Astrid appear together, alone, on a cliff on Berk. They discuss their banished dragons and later Astrid spots an enemy vessel. Though no romantic behavior is displayed, this scene demonstrates that the pair communicate very well with each other, share ideas and concerns, and rely on each other for support. Hiccup was hiding so as not to get captured by the Outcasts, until Alvin started painfully interrogating Astrid. It was then that Hiccup showed himself and made a deal with Alvin to leave the people of Berk in peace if he proved he was the Dragon Conqueror.

Later, after he and Toothless reunite, Alvin and his men fire catapult and crossbow rounds at them while in the air, nearly shooting them out of the sky with the latter, before Astrid incinerates the rounds with a blast from Stormfly. After Hiccup asks what kept her, she smiles and teasingly responds with "Why? Did you miss me?" In the battle that follows, when Astrid falls off her dragon and lands on Alvin's ship, Hiccup is the most concerned for her safety, and he is the first person she looks to for a rescue, which he eventually manages to do after a combined distraction from Stoick's ship and a surprise attack on Alvin by Astrid herself.

In, "How to Pick Your Dragon", Hiccup asks Astrid for advice on how to get his dragon Toothless back from his dad, and she tells him to use the "honey and the hatchet" method. Hiccup says, "Why does your advice always involve weapons?" Astrid just smiles back at Hiccup in response.

In "Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man", while Hiccup was protesting to Bucket and Stoick about his portrayal as a muscular teen in the portrait after it was unveiled, Tuffnut asks "Whoa, what happened to Hiccup?", to which Astrid replies "Who cares." in a flirtatious tone and demeanor although it was possible Astrid was joking about liking the painting (considering she understood Hiccup's thought after the scene).
Later, during the cave-in, Astrid frantically refused to leave Hiccup (who collapsed into a pit), even trying to physically stop Fishlegs from mounting his dragon, until he pointed out that there wouldn't be anybody left to save Hiccup if all of them got trapped. The two were the teens most fervently trying to dig Hiccup out once they were back outside, and ran to the spot where they thought they saw Hiccup get crushed.

In "Heather Report, Part 1", Though she insists she's not, it's quite clear that Astrid is dealing with feelings of jealousy when Hiccup starts neglecting his commitments to her in favor of Heather. She angrily tells Hiccup that his brain is under siege.

In "Heather Report, Part 2", Hiccup wanted to shadow Astrid on her mission to Outcast Island because he wants to be sure she'll be safe.
Later, when Alvin grabs Astrid and runs off with her Hiccup gives chase. Hiccup was also ready to kill Alvin when he threatened Astrid's life. Before Heather leaves she gives Astrid a good-bye hug and appears to not even notice that Hiccup was expecting one as well.

In "Thawfest", Astrid was most proud of and happy for Hiccup when he started scoring victories over Snotlout during the dragon events, and understood his reasons and need to win, at least just once. She was also the most put off by his new demeanor and attitude in response to his victories. When Hiccup revealed a darker, more toxic side of him with regards to the pressure Snotlout was under, she disappointedly tells him that the one thing she always liked about him was that he was a gracious loser and that she never imagined he'd be such a lousy winner.
Despite this, in the final race, Astrid displays some concern at the fact that Hiccup and Toothless would have to take the longer route of the course and recognizes with a smile his redemption of himself when Hiccup throws the race so Snotlout could keep to his father's high standards. After Stoick's announcement of the victor, she punches him on the arm and tells him she knows what he did. Though he denies any knowledge of what she's alluding to, claiming that Snotlout was "just the better Viking today", she praises him saying, "No Hiccup, no one was a better Viking than you today", before smiling and kissing him on the lips for doing the right thing and being himself once again.

In "When Lightning Strikes", Astrid is the first person that Hiccup seeks out before leaving the island, and when Hiccup tells Astrid that he is leaving with Toothless the first thing that she asks if he will come back. Despite his assurance that he will return, when the villagers all realize that the lightning wasn't because of Toothless, Astrid appears emotional and distraught.
She is the one who tells him they got Toothless, and when she and Stormfly fly him to the top of the ship's mast, she's genuinely worried about his safety during the electric storm.

In "What Flies Beneath", Hiccup has to depend on Astrid to give him a ride on Stormfly during much of the episode while Toothless is seeking out the Whispering Death. Astrid tries to help Hiccup out of a hole in the ground before the Whispering Death gets him. When Hiccup walks off the cliffside unexpectedly, Astrid runs to the edge of the cliff and calls out to him.

In "Twinsanity", Astrid and Hiccup almost appear to think alike as they try to get Barf and Belch out of danger. They also talk to each other personally several times throughout the episode.

In "Defiant One", when Snotlout doesn't follow directions and starts heading North instead of South, Hiccup initially doesn't go after him until Astrid, through one word, makes Hiccup change his mind and go after Snotlout. Later when Hookfang returns to Berk, without Snotlout, Hiccup and Toothless, Astrid shows concern, asking "And where are Hiccup and Toothless?" Later, she shows concern when they find Toothless' tail floating on the water. In the end, she gives Hiccup a smile for rescuing Snotlout even though he hadn't wanted to do so originally.

In "Breakneck Bog", when the other teens want to flee Trader Johann's Ship and the Smothering Smokebreaths, Astrid is the only one to stay behind to help Hiccup find the treasure said to be from his late mother. She manages to talk the others into staying and helping, too.

In "Gem of a Different Color", Gobber pairs Hiccup and Astrid together for hand to hand combat, but Hiccup quickly protests, insistent it's not a fair match. It's unclear if he does this in an attempt to be a gentleman, or if he knows Astrid would win with no contest. He manages to dodge her first swing but is quickly pinned to the ground. At Gobber's advisement, he then plays dead, and she gets off of him. As she's helping him back to his feet, she asks if he's ok, and he jokes that his shoulder should pop back into place in no time.

In "We Are Family, Part 1" & "We Are Family, Part 2", when Hiccup is upset that they didn't find any other Night Furies for Toothless, Astrid cheers him up saying that Toothless is pretty happy anyway, because Hiccup is his family.

## Valerix Season 2

It's clear by this point that Astrid has grown very comfortable in her role as Hiccup's second-in-command and closest confidante. While they both still shy away from their feelings for each other, their friendship has reached new heights.

In "Live and Let Fly", Astrid and Hiccup are comfortable walking closely side by side on their way back from the arena. When Astrid catches Hiccup flying Toothless against his father's wishes, she chases him down on Stormfly, despite that meaning she was also breaking Stoick's new rule. When she catches him, Hiccup confides in Astrid his feelings on the rule, and they come up with the Secret Dragon Flight Club together. They then explain it to the rest of the other teens together.

In "The Iron Gronckle", Hiccup and Astrid are standing next to each other while they discuss the missing ship. Astrid and Hiccup talk to the group together, saying that they are a team, and stand close together.