History Fanfic / BecomingLifprasir

''Becoming Lífþrasir'' is a ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' fanfic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/387401/Midoriko-sama Midoriko-sama]].

-->[[spoiler:'''Hiccup:'' "Sorry dad... I thought I was doing the right thing when I left. I didn't mean to disappoint you, again."]]
-->[[spoiler:''Stoick:'' "You didn't, you could never."]]
-->[[spoiler:''Hiccup:'' "I'm sure the time when I blew up the chicken coop came close."]]

* SelfDeprecation: [[DeadpanSnarker Hiccup]], naturally, occasionally veers into this when trying to release tension during conversations. For example:
-->[[spoiler:'''Hiccup:'' "Sorry dad... I thought I was doing the right thing when I left. I didn't mean to disappoint you, again."
-->''Stoick:'' "You didn't, you could never."
-->''Hiccup:'' "I'm sure the time when I blew up the chicken coop came close."]]

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: By the five year time skip, Hiccup has, in his short life, discovered an entirely new, superior metal alloy; become known as the best smith in the Viking Archipelago; designed and fabricated numerous inventions described in-universe as genius; become so respected his acceptance among the allied tribes and leadership over the (other) tribal heirs is unquestioned; created the art of dragon riding; and already spread his methods of coexistence with the dragons to most of said allied tribes. But because he's internalized the rejection he felt from Berk over all the qualities that made him so different in the first place, Hiccup struggles to take pride in his achievements or even recognize himself as good enough, since he sees these accomplishments as simply extentions of the characteristics Berk didn't like--all the traits Berk wrote off as useless. In practice, this means he has major imposter syndrome, as he grew up with the idea that he had to become someone different so the village, especially his father, would be proud of him--and since he has accepted that he can't be who they wanted, he struggles to believe they now sincerely think he's good enough for them anyways. His perspective section outright states that he expects Berk to form a lynch mob if they realize they've been "tricked into following the instructions of Hiccup the Useless."