I love the story only issue is Fishlegs is too much involved as in there's hardly any moments with Merida and Hiccup without Fishlegs. Feels as if he's third wheeling

a 10 años... y esto sigue como el vino... es exquisito y único

YO THIS WAS A PHENOMENAL MERICCUP FANFIC. I drew a little fanart on Tumblr if you’re interested to check out ;) My username name is: blubeeztle. It’ll be tagged under: my art / mericcup.
Again, great story. At first I thought it was gonna be a lame, unoriginal concept of placing Mer in the httyd world but the way they slowly fell in love, the way Fishlegs became friends with Hic, how Astrid and Mer fought, how you paired certain couples together, how Gobber has a mysterious upbringing(btw was a nice touch. Other stories I’ve read haven’t brought up how his accent was similar to Highlanders), the friendships made, how Hic and his cousin reconciled over time and the way the enemies were tied in together. I also enjoyed how Hilda was well written as a wise woman that helped steer the teens path. I love this story.

Kept wondering until the last paragraph if anyone was going to lampshade what language the letters were in, or how Hic can write using the Latin alphabet (or the in-universe equivalent) or if Elinor knew how to write in Futhark, but then I realized that would have been more of a hassle than just going with the good ol' "nobody speaks French in France; everyone speaks English with a French accent!" no shade, good choice -i'm just a geek.
btw I read this story back in 2014 during my ROBTD-era! it holds up pretty well ten years later 3

Rlly hope Night Fury is still here. But i have a feeing Red Death is the variant of that dragon…

The 9ne thing that really bothers me about mash-ups is when other characters come in and steal the actions of another character. You don't want them useless, the new infused character, but you can't have them taking the developmental actions of another character. (It's like book vs. movie characters, i.e. Movie-Hermione stealing Book-Ron lines for her to look smart and him dumb even though he would know more about wizarding-world customs than her.) In this case, Merida stepping in to cut the ropes in place of Hiccup. This was a huge moment for him, deciding to forgo his quest of becoming like the other vikings. This was him stepping into his role as himself after he tried to be like the others. Merida shouldn't take that from him just for her to have something to do in the scene. It doesn’t add to her character, but it does detract from his. Anyway, food for thought for future stories.

I laughed out loud at Fishleg's, "Well, I'm done.D Gold.

is there a sequel to this story?

The red death is female so it kinda ruins the idea when everyone knows the dragons a female.

Hmm, before Hiccup could have only known that Rapunzel was Marida's friend, and he didn't even get her full name. Unless he intercepted a letter between Rapunzel and Merida, I doubt he'd suddenly get her name, plus her title, all of the sudden. Other than that, I think this was a great chapter! Lots of elements that movies never touch being introduced, so it's certainly interesting to read your take on it. ;D

good job on the accent but oh my god that was a chore to read.

I'm sorry if you already know this, or if this upsets you, but I thought I should let you know that this whole story has been uploaded to another website. They have credited you and even linked to this story, but it just seems in poor taste to me because it looks like they haven't contacted any of the creators of the stories they uploaded. I'm sorry again if you already know about this secondary upload, or if I have upset you! The upload can be found here: /details/savefanfiction-8937106-The_Dragon_and_the_Bow-Finmonster/page/n21/mode/2up

Merida is quite bitchy, and I am honestly quite perplexed at how almost everyone is letting her get away with it.

It's all good. Why don't you learn about the Scottish dialect of the English language on Duolingo? Highly recommend it. You can also learn Scottish Gaelic too.

I have a dreadfully stupid question for someone wh watches as much animation as I do, but are these two franchises owned by the same or different people? Because I canna help but feel like this story really has legs and could actually make a terrific alternate story line. So is it Dreamwoorks, Disney or who?

Goes without saying I think it's a great tale, right? Two of my favurites brought together beautifully. And people love all these so well they might even tolerate an 'AU.' And if not then it's time the rest of the world was introduced to the concept of Alternative Universe stories!