Chapter Trigger Warnings Wrote:Explicit Mention of Non-Con, Explicit Description of Murder, Explicit Discussion of Abortion, Explicit Act of Murder, Explicit Depiction of Severe Illness
Last exit ATOV before Nanowrimo!
To Label The Stars: The Cultural Impact Of Names, Kyoto University Press, Ltd. Wrote:The ancient Hooligan tradition of absurdist or otherwise unconventional personal names that was in place during the time of Hiccup Haddock III (himself a prime example of the tradition) originated, according to tribal legend, with Hiccup III's ancestor, Hiccup I. According to the sagas, his parents named him when the baby had nonstop hiccups prior to his formal naming—and then a plague broke out which decimated the other infants of his cohort, and young Hiccup I not only survived, he never contracted the disease at all, a pattern which persisted through the next two years of plague outbreaks. Then, according to the saga, another toddler who had contracted the plague and was in danger of dying from it had his name changed from Varg to Catbrains in desperation by his parents, and was healthy within a week.
This resulted in absurdist names for nearly all of the tribe's children over the next generations, a situation apparently enhanced as a result of the difficulty which the tribe had in bringing pregnancies to term due to Nadder venom-induced miscarriages. With the birthing of children being so hard to achieve during this period, children were prized and even coddled as much as the harsh environment allowed them to be. The prizing of any child, no matter how sickly or bastard-born, reached the point where the tradition of exposing sickly infants which was the norm in other Norse cultures was rejected emphatically by the Hooligans.
Further reinforcement of the naming tradition came from the extinction of several other clans during this time, as well as Clan Hofferson's near extinction in the late-900s AD all of which were seen as being the natural consequence of failing to heed the tribal wisdoms of unconventional names. Over time, this tradition eventually grew to encompass a protective aura against other childhood threats to life and limb, both real and mythical.
In the chief's hut on Berk, Hiccup talks with Astrid and Wulfhild about a problem one of his solutions has created, in the process working his way to the solution. Near Inbhir Aora, Toiréasa and Dagur talk about his problems and secrets (including those first two content warnings). Back on Berk, Fishwings talks with Lopsides about the other girl's future, in the process learning why she's lately been shut out (it has to do with the third warning). On Sigurd's estate, as his and Inga's baby is being born, Dogsbreath participates in the fourth warning, balancing a life for a life. In Vedrarfjord, Hákon gets new shoes and bad news. Back in the chief's hut, Astrid makes a verbal apology to Wulfhild (realizing in the afterglow that she's kind of let that slide), and they speculate on what their lives might've been like if the Dragon War were still going. Finally, at the summit of Mount Hasan, Sigurd and his loves visit an old signal-fire station and receive a message from the past that points him toward the future...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/66411299