Counting Down The Days Til Varigo Week Like It’s A National Holiday 🙏

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!)

Just give her bread, Hugo.

What's your weirdest comfort food and you're nerdy son's weirdest comfor food?

My comfort food is not a food, but a whole bottle of red wine. Whenever I’m feeling down, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Cabernet are my best friends in the whole world.

Hugo used to always ask for a piece of bread when he was sad. Not even buttered, sometimes he preferred it a bit stale as well. No idea why.

Why am I considering implying this in my fic

you could never let me be in charge of creating vat7k because i'd have 100 gecs playing with a montage of the gang spying on hugo in an underground strip club (varian got suspicious of why hugo disappears for days at a time and of course this is the one time hugo isn't in cahoots with donnie) (hugo's actively stealing jewelry off of people while getting laid) (varian never asked where hugo went during his free time again but he thinks about it every single day)

I have no thoughts other than library depression now. I don't even know how a library can be depressed, but it is.

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.

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

Why does Ao3 go down the minute I'm a chapter and a half from finishing one of the greatest fics I've found???

I feel like Hugo's betrayal would be parallel to when Varian reveals his criminal past, but also not really? I like to think Varian would've revealed his past by himself, rather than waiting for the group to stumble across a wanted poster or smth. I also think Hugo would've figured it out a while ago, and while Nuru and Yong would be mad that he hid it for so long, they'd soon realise that he's changed his ways, and their friendship and trust would grow stronger.

When it comes to Hugo's betrayal, however, he hid it for much longer. Donella was also the one to tell everyone, not giving Hugo a chance to explain himself. Another thing is that nobody in team radical knew or could really relate, except for maybe Varian but he was too heartbroken at that point. While Varian was comforted by Hugo after his reveal, Hugo had nobody. He was stuck with Nuru and Yong, who hated him at that moment, and Varian just ran off.

I also think that for Varian, Nuru would be more upset but for Hugo, it'd be Yong.

Varigo

Team radical goes to the spire and meets Calliope and it's just a contest to see who can out "uhm actually" the other