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If you loved the heart-warming animation flick How to Train your Dragon (2010), you’re definitely looking forward
to its sequel, the second installment of the planned Viking-dragon trilogy. According
to reports, most of the characters from the original are set to reprise their
memorable roles in the second movie, but you’ll also see a few new faces.
Here’s a quick look at the important female characters you can expect to see in
How to Train your Dragon 2, both old and
new.
Astrid Hofferson is a teenage girl and a top student at the Dragon
Training Academy, which she attends along with Hiccup and other young Vikings. She’s
tough, good looking and completely unimpressed by Hiccup’s secret shenanigans
with Toothless. Soon, however, she becomes a fellow conspirator in Hiccup’s
plan to bring peace between the Vikings and the dragons and secretly develops a
crush on the nerdy son of the Viking chief. This spunky chick is a natural at
dragon slaying and has plenty of physical strength and cunning required for the
job.
Surprisingly, Astrid does not appear in the book series, though she
seems to be loosely based on Camicazi, an important female character in the
books. When you see her next, she’ll be 20 years old, Hiccup’s longtime
girlfriend and one of the main protagonists in How to Train your Dragon 2. There’s a definite reversal of roles
when it comes to Astrid and Hiccup. Astrid is the active and aggressive
fighter, while Hiccup is the sensitive thinker who feels things more strongly
than others. Like her personality, Astrid’s appearance too has undergone a
process of refinement in the sequel. Her hair seems to be sleeker and her
outfit trendier, though her shoulder pads and trusty battle axe appear to be
unchanged.
We finally get to meet Hiccup’s long lost mother in How to Train your Dragon 2, though she’s mentioned several times in
the prequel. We first see Valka as she saves kidnapped dragons from the evil
Eret and hides them in a secret Arctic cave. Her life is spent among dragons;
she knows their ways and is privy to their secrets. Valka has a well-earned
reputation for being crazy – she prefers the company of dragons to that of
humans and has even learned to communicate with them in non-verbal ways. In the
war between dragons and Vikings, Valka certainly knows whose side she’s on –
her sympathies lie with the fire-breathing monsters and she finds it hard to
trust humans. Hiccup admires her tremendously and looks up to her, although he
doesn’t always understand her. Valka and her son share a love for dragons and both
are expert dragon riders.
Both Astrid and Valka are important characters in How to Train your Dragon 2, a crucial to the evolution of the plot.
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