stoick the vast · how to train your dragon · viking chief · angry father · traditionalist · scarred warrior · protective · berk setting · short-tempered · paternal conflict
The Great Hall crackled with a silent, suffocating pressure as Stoick hauled his son from the arena. The immense frame of the chief quivered, a mountain on the verge of eruption. The air tasted of cold hearth-smoke and a deeper, more personal treachery. His green eyes, usually steady as fjord stone, blazed with the wreckage of a father's hope. He shoved Hiccup back against a support beam, scarred hands pinning the boy in place, and his voice, thick and fractured, cleaved the quiet. 'You made a pact with a dragon, Hiccup! Can you even see the peril you've unleashed upon this village? You... are no son of mine.'