“They Always Used To Joke About How Alike We Were— And I Always Figured It Was Just Because Of Our

Obviously Donella and Cyrus are the two main people Hugo worked with, basically being his family, but I feel like some other soldiers would be pretty good friends with Hugo and they alongside sometimes Cyrus (though he's got a bit more of an important job than regular soldiers) would teach Hugo things Donella couldn't if she was to busy, like how to cook or sew

Not saying Donella wouldn't do this, but I can imagine her being at least a little neglectful of Hugo, and some soldiers might take pity on him

I love to imagine that since Yong reminds Varian so much of his younger self, he pours so much care and support on nurturing Yong's curious mind in a way he never had in his own (prior to meeting Rapunzel). Showering the kid with encouragement, assurance and wisdom... to keep going.

And that because of this, Yong develops to embrace failure as part of the stepping stone process on getting something right. He is not afraid to admit when he's wrong, and is eager to learn where he can improve. He becomes braver, more sure of himself and grows to have stronger belief in himself and in his capacity as an inventor in his own merit.

He's the most open to all sorts of ideas, no matter how absurd it sounds on paper. He will be down to give it a shot and try to make it work cuz thats part of the fun. And thats something that's special about him in the group, he is the member that constantly reminds the team that learning for fun is just as important as taking their line of work seriously. And sometimes, the other three really needs that.

I was born with blonde hair, but by this point it's turned to a light-ish brown that only looks golden and/or red in some lighting, so I just project onto Hugo and give him my exact hair colour. Still figuring out whether or not he'd continue dyeing it well into the future.

As for Donella, I think it'd be fun if she was the only natural blonde in the series. I imagine her in flashbacks to have sorta dirty blonde hair, but ofc eventually it turned grey.

I know everyone under the sun head cannons that Hugo bleaches his hair and even though it would totally be in character and make sense goddamit this series is FULL OF GINGERS LET US HAVE AT LEAST ONE NATURAL BLONDE

Plus, I think it’d be even more gay of him if he just drew in his eyebrows instead

NO!!!! NO!!!!! I REFUSE!!! ITS SO FUNNY IF THERES LITERALLY NOT ONE NATURAL BLONDE IN THIS SERIES. AS A NATURAL BLONDE I SUPPORT IT. HE 100% BLEACHES THAT SHIT IDGAF. HOW IS THAT NOT GAY ENOUGH ALREADY

Also what do you MEANN this series is full of gingers theres literally only like. Ulla and catalina (I ALMOST FORGOT HER IM SORRY CATALINA I LOVE YOU) and the stabbingtons and idk fucking. Feldspar???? I guess???? LMFAOO

And dont you dare tell me “Uhhhm Actually ullas family-“ UHMMM ACTUALLY WE DONT KNOW IF THEY’RE EVEN GINGER. THE ONE DRAWING WE HAVE OF THEM ISN’T EVEN COLORED. YOU GUYS ALL MADE THAT UP. ALSO THEY AREN’T REAL

It also doesn’t even matter frankly bc i don’t even think he’s ginger i think hes more like,, a very reddish brunette?? Like auburn kinda?? I honestly just use such warm colors my brunettes are already kinda reddish, so when i try to add More to hugo’s it just ends up looking red 😭 But its also funny for him to be a ginger because its just another thing to bully him for so i’ll gladly accept that too. Could go either way i guess. Up for interpretation

What are some of your favorite Hugo headcanons because I love seeing what people think of him

AH IT’S HAPPENING

-i love robotic arm hugo. i think it’s an absolutely fantastic concept. however, if that were the case, he’d either have to have lost his arm or been born without it. either way, i imagine donella had to do surgery both on his shoulder and his brain to attach it, which gives him phantom pains. varian’s noticed that hugo tends to use his human arm for things, but he didn’t put it together until he grabbed hugo’s metal wrist a bit too hard and saw him wince.

-he’s insecure about his singing voice and usually sings out of key to tick people off, but when he actually tries to sing— be it to calm someone down, or serenade varian— it sounds incredible.

-he has worn a dress to smuggle stolen objects in, multiple times. that made him begin to feel introspective before he Noped himself right out of that spiral. (i think he’s genderfluid/genderqueer, but he’s usually okay with being called he/him when he knows it’s someone who would adjust the term if asked.)

-he does Not like bugs. bugs of any kind. even butterflies are pushing it.

-the absolute biggest sap, but all on the inside. varian loves in feelings and gestures, and he does great with words of affirmation, but hugo’s mind is like a poetry mill that never stops. if anyone was able to tell what yearning, dramatic thoughts he was thinking, they would never let him hear the end of it.

-he had a celebrity crush on the alchemist of old corona. and eight different conspiracy theories. this is a pretty common hc but i love it.

-attracted to varian’s “villain voice”. nuru judges him so hard for that.

-a huge love language of his is physical touch, but he’s trained himself out of it. fast forward a few years after the events of vat7k, and you will see hugo glomping onto his chosen people.

-horrible at art. he can draw blueprints and schematics, but he cannot draw people. he’s only managed to draw his robot mouse by thinking of her as various mechanical parts. he tried to draw himself once at eight and once at nineteen and both drawings look the same.

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I have a theory that during Vat7k, Varian didn't go by his real name for a while, but rather Vee or Var. Mostly because if he were to use his real name, he would've been detained (y'know, from the whole coup d'etat and terrorism). I think that Nuru, Hugo, and Yong would've known his real name, but just thought he preferred to be called a nickname.

Idk :3

thinking about your ingvarrian swear posts and having the thought of hugo developing a crush and when they fight he throws in some sweet pet names too bc he's so frustrated at himself for liking this guy and letting it out during their verbal matches is the only way he can get any kind of release

which eventually results in them having a fight with varian starting it off by calling him something like My Darling or Sweet or Cute and throws hugo off the entire day

THATS SO FUNNY BUT CUTE HELP

ahh~ fighting each other truly is their love language first and foremost like the rivals to lovers sillies that they are <3 already actin like an old married couple before they even started dating and all

Trying to draw timeskip Hugo and I don't even know what to do with his hair. Like I made it longer so it would be easier but it's really not. Also I had to erase it multiple times so I accidentally made Baldgo 😭😭😭

I mean sure

PLEASE tell me you have a british or southern accent 💔

A bit of a French accent but I hide it CAUSE ALL THESE MOTHEFUCKERS MAKE FUN OF ME FOR IT!!!!

TELL ME EVERY TTS/VAT7K HEADCANON YOU HAVE

PLEASE NO I HAVE A FAMILY

why did i subject myself to this. i’m still gonna do it, though. (these aren’t fully dedicated to any one character, so y’all can still ask about them! just thinking of the overall shows)

-varian got down on one knee to propose to hugo. hugo laughed and said “ha, you’re even shorter now.” there was a moment of absolute silence before hugo realized what was going on. varian started to stand up. hugo frantically begged him to wait and start over.

-cassandra and eugene occasionally called off their rivalry for cass to teach eugene to play chess. cass had realized he didn’t know how (orphan, poor, thief) and said that a future king obviously had to learn. cue surprisingly cute, very gruff training.

-varian is terrified of maximus. maximus can smell the criminal on him. varian has had to hide in a tree from that horse several times.

-there was a point in hugo’s life, after vat7k, where it finally dawned on him that he was safe and happy. varian held him as he cried with too many emotions he couldn’t describe.

-hugo absolutely despises frederic and arianna. he performs elaborate, heist-like pranks on them for varian’s sake. they don’t know it’s him. they’re losing their minds.

-for a long time after his redemption, varian didn’t see anything wrong in his relationship with andrew. he just thought “well, he’s standing in for my dad.” and then he did consciously realize “he’s evil”, but he didn’t actually unpack everything that went on. i don’t think andrew did anything to him, but i think he was extremely creepy, and there’s still something so horrible about a man in a confined space with a boy who was 13 only a year ago.

-upon the separatists of saporia breaking out, andrew made sure to keep varian busy in the castle so he didn’t realize that the citizens of corona were enslaved.

-varian’s truth cookies made pete and stan confess their love.

-nuru is afraid of ruddiger at first (not a lot of wildlife in a meteor-ravaged kingdom). she finally gets over that fear just in time for varian to have to turn ruddiger into beast-ruddiger for some reason. nuru is even more emotionally scarred.

-“plus est en vous” goes differently in my mind. in my ideal reality. in my headcanon. i don’t know exactly what happened, but i do know varian, lance, and eugene play MUCH bigger roles.

-hugo is an emotional drunk. varian is a stupid drunk (while inebriated, he once invented a ship, which had already been invented at the time. ((by “ship”, i mean boat.))) rapunzel is also an emotional drunk. cass is the death-wish kind of drunk that would deliberately try to get run over by a carriage. eugene can keep an objective in mind when he drinks, like getting information out of somebody, but he will also get distracted by a really pretty swirl of wood on the table. lance is a philosophical drunk.

-the whole team, from both shows, hums their big songs to themselves when they’re bored. those things may spring out of their innermost psyches and display themselves in fits of passion, but damn if they aren’t catchy.

-angry once won an arm-wrestling match against lance. no one knows how it happened. lance swears she hypnotized him.

-eugene lets rapunzel paint on him, and she comes to him for fashion advice.

THAT’S ALL I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW AND THEY AREN’T EVEN CHARACTER-SPECIFIC SO OH BOY I GUESS I HAVE MORE

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