History Fanfic / WinterInLifsHolt

* HappilyAdopted: Hiccup and Astrid end up adopting Astrid’s niece, [=Ætta=], after the deaths of [=Ætta=]'s parents; her father (Astrid's older brother) was lost at sea and her mother died of an illness.

* MeaningfulTitles: The whole fanfic is an ActBreak cool-down from the high octane story of ''Becoming Lífþrasir'', a "holt" being a wooden cabin or domicile and Astrid playing the role of "Líf", with the primary story being Hiccup and Astrid learning about each other and their role in this new world they now live in.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Having not seen each other for years (as well as the circumstances that led to their engagement and reuniting), Hiccup and Astrid are stuck trying and failing for most of the story trying to kindle a relationship, trying to figure out just how much the other had changed and adapting to it.
* UsedToBeATomboy: While Astrid is just as capable as any warrior woman on Berk, she wound up taking on more "feminine" duties around the village ever since she became an unofficial member of the Haddock clan (cooking, laundry, healing, etc). This is troubling for Hiccup who, having only ever known her as a tough-as-nails shield-maiden, thinks that she is denying herself all of the things she wants to do because of him.

** Snotlout himself, as well. Ashamed of his actions toward Astrid and "Cattongue" in the prvious story, Snotlout decides to be Hiccup's "wingman" and essentially act as a pseudo-bodyguard for his cousin. [[spoiler:Ends up proving to be fairly capable at this, helping Hiccup out several times throughout the story.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[spoiler:Hiccup gains the right to decide the Berserker Tribe's next chief through him utterly destroying their invasion almost single-handedly and defeating their former chief in single combat. By that point they're all too terrified to refuse his terms.]]

** On a much more serious note, [[spoiler: Hiccup brings the above NoodleIncident up in relation to the fact that he can't remember the Berserker invasion that he knows must've occurred the previous night. Because of a bad trip on the medicine he was given to treat his leg infection, Hiccup had lost his ability to distinguish his enemies as human, and so the usually gentle man lost all inhibitions in combat and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness calmly and serenely slaughtered over sixty of the invading Berserkers]] before [[BossBattle killing their chief in single combat]] with a OneHitKill and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority declaring the right]] to [[KingmakerScenario appoint their next]]--all while wearing next to nothing that could protect him, as he'd just escaped from his sickbed, and somehow only receiving a single minor injury from the BossBattle at the end. Everyone else is some mixture of amazed and horrified, but Hiccup can't remember any of it.]]