The amount of love the 17776 fandom has for Hubble will never not be funny to me. Like you're choosing to obsess over a character that has exactly five lines in canon. Two of them are just "congrats." That's like. The most fandom thing I've ever heard of.
I do definitely think some of that love can be attributed to the fact that he's the only other probe besides the MCs who we know for sure is awake, and he's definitely the most well known for his real life counterpart. I heavily doubt most people would have even heard of Nine if it wasn't for 17776, and Ten and Juice's prospects, despite one being a crazy important milestone and one being a relatively recent mission, aren't much better. But everyone, space nerd or not, has probably heard of the Hubble Space Telescope, or at least seen one of its photos. (Seriously, those things are everywhere)
The following is the entirety of Hubble's canon existence. Five lines and some extra ideas by Ten. (Read bottom to top, 17776 intermission part 3)
RIP to all the Hubble fans who found out he was supposed to appear in 20020 and got moved to 20021. Hopefully you'll get more content in 50007. Maybe even six lines!
From the above screenshot people have created all sorts of designs and art and ideas about who this guy is. I've seen a lot of people agree on a few things, which is funny given how little we actually know about him. He's apparently a good listener, knows the other great observatories, loves taking photos, and is closest with Juice. (Which I find funny, given that Juice is the only one he DOESN'T interact with in canon.)
While I do think it's a little strange that for some people out of all these developed and beautiful characters, the one that resonates with them most is a guy who's presence effectively amounts to "hi screw you yay YAYYYY bye," and rides off the reader knowing about the real life space telescope, the way the way we love little scraps and offhand mentions like this is one of the beautiful things about this fandom to me. 17776 and 20020 are full of mini stories hinting at things that are never fully explained, and Hubble is a prime example. A little scrap that suggests something so much bigger. A little piece of one world in another.
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