Gosh I didn’t care for Astrid/Hiccup at all in the first movie but in the second movie their dynamic was just

So good? Astrid supports and motivates him from afar and they’re so genuinely comfortable around one another and their dialogue is so REAL I found myself grinning whenever they interacted and she’s the only one who understands a semblance of his struggles with his identity and doesn’t project anything onto him and

They were good. They were so good I love how they were realistically portrayed in that good lovers are first and foremost friends with one another