What if Donella wasn't just cursed to never enter the library, but she was cursed to never be able to use/work with magic again? Whenever one of her soldiers retrieved an enchanted item for her, it always worked for them but never for Donella. That's part of why she needed Hugo to be the one to go on the trials. Of course it's because he's smart, but it's also because he's an artificer, and enchantments and whatnot are kinda his whole thing. She could send her entire army into the library on her behalf, but none of them would know where to go from there. Hugo would.
Also, I like to think that Hugo often helped Donella when combining said magic objects into her weapons. Donella and some of her workers would make the weapon, but Hugo would add the item and make sure it's in perfect condition for their clients. Mainly I just need some mother/child bonding. Like Donella eventually letting Hugo work almost alongside her, and Donella teaching young Hugo more advanced things about engineering (though Hugo would just use this knowledge to upgrade Olivia, but don't tell Don that!)
guys hear me out... this "i want" song is so Nuru coded
I do wish I went with Yong cause he's incredibly underrated
I'm bored so
I'm voting Varian but for me it's between him and Hugo <3 my favorite little bitches
happy valentines day !! 💗
amburu if you can hear us save us amburu
Okay so if Donella is basically unable to use or be affected by magic in any way, then what if Ulla was the opposite? I always found it weird how Donella was the one to trap Ulla in the library, cause like. when would she have the time to trap her. she's gathering her troops, so she's a bit busy.
SO, to fix this, I decided that as a side affect of keeping Donella out and away, Ulla begun to rely on magic to continue living. She's technically half-alive though. She doesn't have a complete physical form, so she often appears see-through and its really disturbing.
The way she learns she can possess things is when she's reading a book and she's not able to focus, so she thinks if she possesses it, she'll just absorb all the knowledge. It works, but it makes her feel incredibly sick (not like she can feel sick anymore), and she didn't learn a thing about the book. So when she possesses Varian, she can't access his thoughts or anything.
She kinda destroyed/shut down the portal after throwing Donella out, but she knows that she's practically bound to the library, so if the library was ever unlocked again, she knew that if she left, she'd just disintegrate. Possessing Varian would probably be easier than possessing anyone else, because another of my HCs (that I may have stole from VTT) is that Var has a slight connection to the moonstone, and it's easier to possess magical things if you are magic. The same does not apply with proper ghosts, as seen in s1 with Ruth.
The library would also stop working properly for Ulla, mainly because it didn't like her, but also because she was living off of too much unstable magic, making the whole library unstable. Really putting into perspective how powerful Ulla is.
Hugo, for being super complex and interesting and overall sick as heck
I'm bored so
I'm voting Varian but for me it's between him and Hugo <3 my favorite little bitches
Tw: blood?
I once fell into a hole in the side of the road and now there's a sick af scar on my leg
I also have a scar on my elbow from when I slipped in a puddle at age 7, landed on gravel and then got trampled by other kids who didn't notice me. I walked back to the classroom (this was the last day of school) with my arm bleeding and they just gave me an ice pack. I went home and found out they didn't tell my mum
Idk how to tag people sorry :/
it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore
Gimmie your Donella headcanons pretty pls
well… only because you said pretty pls
evil lesbian time
-she has used her braid to strangle a man before. this was in front of hugo, but he was ten years old, so he was practically an adult. it’s fine.
-she used to be very protective about her lab journals, but ulla started doodling around her notes and donella gradually warmed up to it. (then they started to drift apart, and ulla began her own journal that she never let donella see, and donella was left to trace the loops of ulla’s handwriting even before ulla was gone.)
-she usually made it a policy not to hire child soldiers, but hugo was the best thief she’d ever seen. she tested him & his instincts for a while before deciding to raise him herself.
-on that note, she does love hugo in a way, but donella’s mind is very priority-organized, and hugo ranks low on that list.
-she prefers mechanical weapons to chemical ones. her dagger is her go-to in a 1v1 fight, though.
-slightly civil to quirin. slightly. a long time ago.
-very defensive, even with those she half-trusts. they have to be out to get her, otherwise, why would they be saying this?
-constant, well-hidden paranoia. she’s climbed so far but her position is so precarious.
-she was raised in a very unstable home that she left as soon as she could. either she was an orphan or she was brought up by someone who parented her like she parents hugo.
-she only got truly, unconditionally attached to someone once, and that woman disappeared for almost two decades. ulla was always going to disappear, and donella was always going to be left.
Love this
More Very Potter redraws as Vat7k
This was the scene:
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I have just freshly posted a fanfic and somehow it has 0 hits but 1 kudos?? How???