Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a character from How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. He is a Viking hero known as "the Dragon Whisperer" and is described as reserved, inventive, compassionate, and sarcastic. He is also more softhearted than other Vikings and can't bring himself to kill an injured dragon. Hiccup spends most of his time inventing contraptions to use instead of traditional Viking weapons and doesn't talk to people much because he feels like an embarrassment to his father.