Meristrid

Meristrid is the femslash ship between Merida and Astrid from the Brave and How to Train Your Dragon fandoms.

Canon
Merida and Astrid never met in canon due to the fact that they come from different universes. Astrid is a DreamWorks character and Merida is a Pixar character.

Both Astrid and Merida have short fusses when their anger gets the better of them, which sometimes gets them or their allies into trouble. The two are also skilled female warriors, with both of them being shown to have a skill in archery. Much like Merida, Astrid enjoys being out in nature when working on her skills.

Fanon
Meristrid is considered a rarepair within the How to Train Your Dragon and Brave fandoms. It's also a considered a rarepair within the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons crossover fandom. Like most crossover ships, it's often overshadowed by the most popular ships for each character within their respective fandoms. Despite this, it has a fair amount of fans that dedicate time to make fan edits, art and written works for the ship. In a few Brave/Celtic and How to Train Your Dragon/Viking AUs, fans have Merida as Astrid, and Astrid as Merida. Along with a few manip fanart featuring the two in each other's clothing for those AUs.

Fans sometimes make Merstrid rival with both Mericcup and Hiccstrid. Some others make Astrid and Merida fight each other for Hiccup's heart. There are a few fanwork that have the two as friends, allies and sister in arms. Like Astrid is with Heather, who she had a rocky start with before they became best friends. Some fanfics have Astrid's tribe being enemies of DunBroch, commonly in Mericcup as their leaders and families/friends work to create peace between their people and lands. The same analogy can be used in Meristid.

In video manips of the ship, the two meet each other in their respective canon universes and become closer to one another. Sometimes, Astrid shows Merida her homeland, or viceversa. Overtime, as they go on more dates, they end up forming a romantic bond with one another.

On AO3, the ship has over 10 fanfics in total. Meanwhile, fanfiction.net has over 50, with only 1 placed under pairing. The ship also has a reasonable size fanbase on both Tumblr and Deviantart.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Astrid/Merida tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Astrid/Merida tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Astrid/Merida tag on FanFiction.Net

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