Obviously Donella And Cyrus Are The Two Main People Hugo Worked With, Basically Being His Family, But

I'd need to write it down since right now it's just a bunch of ideas floating around my head, but I love the idea of Varian finding out about Hugo at some point before the finale, and giving him a second chance. Then the finale happens, Donella says some things, and it looks like Hugo broke his promise and wasn't deserving of Varian's second chance. That would be why Varian would be upset, in my eyes. This plot hole has been bugging me for so long, you're onto something

I personally hate vat7k fics or posts that have Varian being all angsty and crying over Hugo double crossing them. One, because Varian isn’t one to cry easily, he wouldn’t cry over Hugo, and two, because Varian knows all too well that circumstances can lead people to do bad things and he quite literally comes from the kingdom of second chances. He’s a reformed criminal, his brother figure/hero is a reformed criminal, all his friends are reformed criminals, he knows the power that second chances can hold. Everyone who is a bad person has the potential and capacity to still do good and be good, he himself is a country bumpkin turned terrorist turned shadow ruler turned royal engineer.

And I’ve never seen a fic where Hugo promises he’s good only to break a promise he made, (mostly because Varian would outright deck him for seemingly no reason and tell him to not make promises) and Varian is frankly too smart to have never considered the possibility of Hugo having alternative motives (the guy steals a totem then comes back wanting to be friends??? It doesn’t make sense; obviously Varian would theorize).

Don’t get me wrong, Varian would be absolutely pissed at first and would probably storm into the eternal library out of spite. It just wouldn’t be in a “I’m crying and need to escape this situation” kind of way. More in a “I’m so pissed and I’m so stupid I need to cool off and come back to this later” kind of way. Although he doesn’t get to come back for a while after…

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

Okay, yeah, I'm using most of these for my Vat7k series. Thank you!!

Okay so I know he's out Vat7k exclusive but he is in team radical so what are your Varian headcanons??

YAYYY VARIAN MY BELOVED

Used to love when it snowed because it meant he got to go sledding with his dad, but then he developed an intense fear/hatred of snow because of the events during queen for a day

First reaction was to not trust Nuru because of how much she reminds him of Rapunzel. Even though the two of them had mostly mended things at that point, there was still a part of him deep down that blamed Raps and expected Nuru to betray the rest of the team for her kingdom

Had to put up a sign declaring his lab an “anti-Eugene” zone due to how often Eugene just barges in without warning. When it didn’t work, Varian changed it to say “Anti-Horace” just to piss him off

Keira and Catalina were his first friends that were actually around his age

Calls Hugo “pretty boy” as an insult (backfires cuz Hugo thinks they’re flirting)

Thrives in warm/hot weather but the moment the temperature drops, Varian refuses to go outside and wears thick clothing until it’s spring/summer again

He’s a snob about produce due to his dad being a farmer, and it’s a nightmare to go food shopping with him. What’s supposed to take an hour at most turns into an entire afternoon wasted at the market because the tomatoes are too soft or the apples aren’t the right color or the celery doesn’t snap right. Hugo, who grew up eating whatever he could get his hands on, has to physically restrain himself from strangling Varian

He had freckles everywhere

Exchanges letters with Rapunzel throughout his journey as a way of mending their relationship further (they both still feel super guilty about everything that happened and blame themselves) so no matter how far Varian travels, he’ll always have someone from home to guide him

Doodles Team Radical in the margins of his journal when he’s bored (caught himself making a very detailed sketch of Hugo’s face and was shamed of himself for days)

Inconsistent sleep schedule due to nightmares, which often leads to him sitting outside by thr campfire late at night. Because of this, he and Hugo are alone together a lot of the time because Hugo is usually the last of the team to go to bed

Insane sweet tooth, genuinely can’t get through the day without consuming something sweet

First to see Hugo with his hair down and was a flustered mess about it for hours after

Hugo was the first one he told about his past as the Alchemist

Has the Saporian emblem on his body somewhere (either tattooed or branded idk) because everyone in that group has it as a way to pledge their loyalty

Slight country accent that surfaces only when he’s really fired up (you can pry this hc from my cold dead hands cuz I think it’s so funny that he becomes a cowboy when he’s angry)

“Accidentally” leaves too traps in the castle halls where he knows Nigel and/or Frederick will be walking

Forgets to eat all the time. People will remind him, but he’ll just wave it off and forget until someone shoves a ham sandwich in his face and threatens to reorganize his beaker drawer

Despises coffee and makes fun of Eugene for drinking an “old man” drink, but he will drink it if he’s pulling an all nighter and is desperate for something to keep him awake

Realized he was bisexual at some point during the journey. I feel like he wouldn’t care about romance after becoming royal engineer and getting over his crush on Cassandra, so it wouldn’t really occur to him that he likes both guys and girls until he’s on the road with too much time to think

Tries to emulate his dad when taking charge of the group cuz even away from home, he looks up to his dad

Wrist scars from the handcuffs during his prison era, whether they’re prominent or barely visible

Left-handed. Why? I dunno, it just makes sense to me

Hot chocolate snob. He’ll drink almost all kinds of hot chocolate, but he has a preference for the high quality stuff they keep in the castle and can tell the difference between different kinds (judges people who make it with water instead of milk)

When he’s in a particularly sour mood, he’ll shut off all the hot water in Corona just to be petty (usually does it when Frederick pisses him off)

Yong called him his brother once and he didn’t stop crying for an hour

Makes fun of Hugo for not knowing how to swim until Varian has to save him from drowning in the water trial

Gets offended when people call Ruddiger fat or say he’s overweight (he’s basically a bowling ball that waddles around the castle but Varian isn’t ready for that conversation yet)

Refuses to let people take care of him when he’s sick because they “have better things to do”

Hugo is the only one he will voluntarily share a lab space with. Anyone else and he’d sooner throw himself out a window

I have so much more but this is definitely long enough jansosiwbsoishwnsksoaisj I love him

Thank you for the ask <333

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 😭😭😭

HOW

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!!!!

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

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.

You did the right thing, Hugo. Also I'm selling the gay river anyways, so consider this the end of a plot arc or smth

If you don't stop eating ice cream, I'm taking Olivia on a trip to the gay river, which is on the other side of the world :D

*covers my child with my hands* KEEP YOUR GRUBBY ANON HANDS THE FUCK OFF MY DAUGHTER!!!! THAT IS ONE PLACE I WILL NOT GO!!!

Thats it, it's all gone. In the trash and burned to ashes, nothing comes before Olivia

The gay river is a national landmark, thank you very much.

What's your opinion on your kid having the most popular account? (and all the anons just throwing the craziest asks on him)

I think it’s good for him. It gives him the attention he so desperately requires. I’m not so thrilled about some of the asks he gets though, some are very personal or straight up weird. (Not to mention the ones who are trying to make him sick with ice cream and “gay water”)

You're kidding me. Ngl I really thought the Vat7k fandom was safe from proshoppers, but... Then again we have tall Varian anon and people who ship Nuru x Hugo for some reason (which, ew). Still one of the best fandoms I've ever been in, but this sucks. Especially since their art style and some of their headcanons are so cool!

@lovefromixchel ships Hugo with Cyrus.

He also said that he doesn't like Varigo.

I'm asking you, every person in the Vat7k fandom, block him.

Every person who doesn't understand why this kind of romanticization of grooming is wrong is just sick.