Cloudy Rambles - Blog Posts

Been a while since I’ve posted anything Metalocalypse related but I was thinking about the time I heard that some of the songs in the Doomstar Requiem were inspired by the musical Jesus Christ Superstar

And now that I’m doing backstage work for Jesus Christ Superstar that’s all I can really think about

Hello I am currently in class and bored out of my mind so here's how I think every tts/vat7k character would draw. Also I included my OCs cause they infect my brain

Rapunzel: Really good with both watercolour and acrylics (is it acrylics that she used? Idk historical accuracy is dead in this series and I don't know paint despite being an artist). She also occasionally uses coloured pencil. She sometimes does lineart, sometimes doesn't, and can draw pretty much anything! Also likes to draw designs for clothes or jewellery she can make.

Eugene: Cannot draw for shit, as seen in season 2, ep 4 (in what world was that a gopher, that was a dinosaur bud). Rapunzel does teach him often, and he is slowly but surely getting better! Whenever he draws himself, he makes himself look exaggeratedly handsome (which he is, but that's besides the point).

Cassandra: Also can't draw. Never really saw a reason to learn, but Rapunzel also insisted on teaching her.

Lance: Reeeally can't draw. Like worse than Eugene and Cass. He has fun though, and that's all that counts.

Varian: Good with sketching, but can't turn it into a finished piece to save his life. Great at capturing specific details in a persons face. He mostly draws blueprints and diagrams, but I once saw a headcanon where he draws team radical in the margins of his journal and I love that. He would def draw his friends and Ruddiger but he'd label them like diagrams because why not?

Angry: Can't draw. Tried and then ripped the paper.

Catalina: I really don't know. I feel bad for not knowing because I love her but I seriously can't figure it out.

Hugo: Self-taught, much like Rapunzel and Varian. He never grew up with many art supplies, so he learned to draw with charcoal, and grey lead pencils literally the size of his hand. He can also sorta culpt, and Rapunzel taught him watercolour, which he did like. He draws realism, but even more realistic than Varian. He only draws people close to him, such as Varian, Olivia, Donella, and Livvy (OC). Took this from a headcanon I found, but I don't remember who wrote it, sadly. Also he draws clothes to make, but he's not all that good at sewing.

Nuru: Can draw star charts, spell circles, and often tried to recreate/redesign old tapestries. She's not the best artist, but again, she has fun!

Yong: Draws straight on the paper with sharpies and highlighter. Eats the pencils.

OC time!!

Livvy: Would absolutely draw in a chibi style. Thinks Hugo's art is incredible (which it is), and Hugo would try to teach her some things! (I'm projecting here because I'm the artist of my family and my sister often gets me to teach her, and Hugo is literally me and my sister was a big inspiration for Livvy).

Melody: New dream kid #1, so she knows how to paint. Talented at drawing perspective.

Ryder: New dream kid #2, but this time he's a massive interior design freak.

Sofija: Varigo kid #1, and they both taught her how to draw. Despite how adorable and innocent she seems, she draws the most fucked up and gory stuff with a whimsical little smile on her face.

Niko: Varigo kid #2, but he prefers to write poetry rathet than create visual art.

Okay this was a lot but I'm done now :D This isn't EVERY character but no way I'm writing for every character (maybe in the future)

Random idea that's been living in my head rent free and I needed to yap about it even a little: Hugo doesn't have wanted posters. Like at all. Donella made sure to get rid of all of them because dealing with her employee/son being wanted in like a million towns and kingdoms and whatever would just be a hassle. Donella did keep at least one of them, maybe Hugo's very first since he started working for her. So if in one of the trials (maybe the iron trial) Varian finds Hugo's wanted poster in Donella's base... I really wanna figure out what would happen

Young Hugo with a group of other orphans on their way to steal from Donella. They succeed, somehow, and Hugo has the treasure/whatever thing they stole. But Donella's soldiers are chasing them. Not everyone is gonna make it out. One of the kids asks Hugo for the treasure thing, and Hugo throws it. The kids are now within reach of the soldiers. Hugo is about to catch up to the other orphans when one of the kids kicks the wall hard and a ton of heavy supplies and machinery fall on Hugo. That, is how Hugo lost his leg (in my fic anyways)

Also Olivia gets a little dented here but she gets saved by one of the soldiers or Donella herself, and then Hugo reunites with her after he wakes up

Donella also makes Hugo's mechanical leg and teaches him how to make it stronger (though he really uses this knowledge on Liv, despite how much Donella makes it clear she thinks the mouse is useless)

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 don't think tangled is ever getting any continuation. Like ever. The series didn't make much money in the long run, so the most this fandom will get is a crappy live action and maybe a crappier Gothel movie. Like tangled two is incredibly pointless because we have the show, which is just a sequel but better cause it's a show. Also, I'd vibe with a Cass spinoff the most cause it's something I think about the least (no hate to Cass, I adore her) but low-key ship her with lady Caine so they at least need to interact

Sorry for the long ramble damn

Suppose Tangled did have a sequel in the future. In that case, they'll probably de-canonise Tangled the series/Rapunzel's tangled adventure like replacing Varian with a female or an elderly alchemist, or that one book called "What Once was Mine: A Twisted Tale" where Cassandra was replaced with a thief named Gina. Or the book titled "Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch" based on Mother Gohtel. Where it doesn't reference Gothel being part of the Zhan Tiri followers, or the new book coming next year called Rootbound: A Tangled Novel, where it wouldn't base its novel on the series. But maybe because the author wanted to do their own take on the movie, and not bases off a show. Varian and the seven kingdoms (Cancelled idea for a spinoff of the series) are already scrapped and would probably be the project that Disney's portfolio of scrapped and abandoned projects. And the spinoff for Tangled the series will probably be Eugene and Lance, or Cassandra.

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.

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!)

chat I'm cooking 🔥

I'll draw these at some point lmao (probably) but for now just take your best guess

I think I'm too far gone in this fandom. If you asked me who my favourite character was back when I only knew about the movie, I'd probably say Rapunzel or Pascal. Now if you ask me the same question I'll say the eternal library.

I like to think he has a mix of like a million different accents. In my mind, he would've had a French or German accent as a kid, especially from the orphanage. He learned English a lot better as he grew older, but he can't read it that well. I also think Donella and Cyrus would be Russian, so their accents would rub off on Hugo a lot, and he'd also know quite a bit of Russian from them. He would mostly try to speak with a typical American accent, but whenever one of the other options slips out, team radical teases him endlessly

also he forgets English words sometimes

Vat7k randomness

I 100% headcanon that Hugo used to have some sort of an accent (like French sounding or something) as a kid (because as far as I know, Ingvarr has its own language), and while travelling/doing missions for Donella and stuff, he would drop the accent and just speak with a modern day American accent.

Fast forward a few years (after Vat7k and Varian and Hugo live together), every now and then, Hugo's real accent will shine through and Varian will tease the life outta him.

"YOU WANT A BAGUETTE WITH THAT FRENCH BOY?'

"OUI OUI CROSSANT"

"did you just say 'lItTlE sNaCk'???"

also totally irrelevant, but that one video of Talya and Jorge singing "Wait For Me" from Hadestown is literally those two (Hugo being Jorge ofc)

also plz ask me questions abt Vat7k, or any other fandom i have listed really, and i'll answer!

i might doodle a request you have if i like it so yeah (i'm very busy stalking Hugo effing Rottawange so idk if i'll have time /silly)

so uh yea thx for coming to my Ted Talk

-peace out bitches <3