Book 3, Chapter 26
Princess Asta Rhonda Haddock (November 10, AD 1042-October 16, AD 1122), the firstborn child of Hiccup and Wulfhild Haddock, was an early Norse scientist of the Dragon Era, whose areas of interest included biology, anatomy, botany, mathematics, geology, paleontology, and cartography. Taught by her father, she also completed a full course of education at Waterford University. As one of the foremost early alumni of that institution, she achieved formal recognition as a Master of Natural Philosophy three times over during the course of her career (and is considered to be the founder of the fields of modern geology and paleontology as a result, based on her published studies of the fossils and sedimentary layers of Europa and the northern Vestrilands), in addition to the collaborative research work she engaged in, especially with her other siblings.
While she advised her half-sister, the Empress Valka II, on scientific matters, she actively shunned involvement into politics, viewing them as a distraction from her scientific work…
—Asta Rhonda Haddock (n.d.) In Wikikenna. Retrieved May 26, 1855
Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
- Babies Ever After: Hiccup and Wulfhild's first child is born.
- Dead Guy Junior: Wulfhild's daughter Asta Rhonda Haddock, her first name is a shortened version of Astrid (Wulfhild's mother).
- Declaration of Protection: Toothless promises that he will look after and protect Hiccup's children as though they were his own family.
- Internal Reveal: Toothless, Stormfly, and Mistletoe find out that humans don't lay eggs.
- It Can Think: Toothless is initially surprised to see Asta's birth, still believing that "walkers" lay eggs like dragons, but is quick to move past this surprise and vow to himself that Hiccup's children will be considered part of his family.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Fishwings gives a scathing one to Spitelout after he keeps pestering her for news about Snotlout/Sigurd, which essentially boils down to her calling him out on the pressure to succeed he kept putting onto Snotlout/Sigurd, and that it was probably what ultimately led to him joining the Varangian Guard and essentially betraying Berk.
- The Reveal:
- We find out the identity of the father of Lopsides' children, Beorn the sailor.
- Horsefeathers and Líle got married.
- Shotgun Wedding: Clodgall forces Beorn to marry Lopsides and support the children he left her to raise on her own.
