I was going to say… it's hard to decide whether HTTYD is anthropomorphic when we don't know (and indeed part of the series' conceit) is that people don't know enough about what dragons in their world are capable of to start with. One might even call it zoomorphic due to how much effort Hiccup and his friends go to in order to adapt to their dragons (e.g. the maze test).
I guess this could be applied to aliens, such as my character - we think we know what Earth animals are capable of, and so know when they have human characteristics; but what of others: are they just like that normally? Or is what matters that they have 'human' characteristics, regardless of whether they are innate? (Mind you, most Norns have a far more limited vocabulary.)
I was going to say… it's hard to decide whether HTTYD is anthropomorphic when we don't know (and indeed part of the series' conceit) is that people don't know enough about what dragons in their world are capable of to start with. One might even call it zoomorphic due to how much effort Hiccup and his friends go to in order to adapt to their dragons (e.g. the maze test).
I guess this could be applied to aliens, such as my character - we think we know what Earth animals are capable of, and so know when they have human characteristics; but what of others: are they just like that normally? Or is what matters that they have 'human' characteristics, regardless of whether they are innate? (Mind you, most Norns have a far more limited vocabulary.)