#brugo

Because probably, it was just the 2 of them for a while. Narancia didn’t join them until half a year after they met. Abbacchio (bit more complicated) joined the police after finishing highschool (19), and has since spend an amount of time learning of the corruption within the police. and after, had enough time to grow his hair out. since he just turned 21, he couldn’t have been with them for more that a year.

so I think it’s safe to say they spend their time with the 2 of them for half a year to a year.

I’m fully convinced that Fugo staying behind wasn’t because he was simply scared for his life. He was given the option to join Passione and was fully aware that he had the choice to decline it. But he didn’t. Fugo knew of the dirt in the mafia world and that it could cost him his head. if you value your life so much, that’s not a choice you’d make.

this is just a side theory of me, but I also think that how Purple Haze manifested itself as also being deadly to its owner, could imply that Fugo was struggling with suicidal thoughts. so yeah, I really don’t think this boy was concerned with staying alive...

I think it’s a combination of things: First and far most being Bucciarati’s right hand man. Bucciarati asked him to join to be his voice of reason. He clashed on the matter with Bucciarati, probably in a way how they have often clashed. Sometimes Bucciarati would win the argument, sometimes Fugo would. And I also think Fugo often played devil’s advocate, just to spar with Bucciarati, to think important matters over carefully and argument them. He respects Bucciarati, but wasn’t afraid to talk back to him.

in PHF he wonders to himself why he ‘couldn’t’ join them, rather than ‘wouldn’t’. almost like Bucciarati had set him up to the matter.

Because imagine if Fugo had NOT disagreed! He was the one speaking everyone’s thoughts on the matter. If Fugo had joined Bucciarati, it would cloud the judgement of the others, the path to taking a different decision was closed. Fugo and Bucciarati taking different sides made it so that the others could choose fairly.

That’s also the first thing Fugo did: find out about Bucciarati’s point of view in the matter. while the others were stunned, he was the one to ask for Bucciarati’s reasons.

I mentioned this in a different post already, but the positioning of Fugo is just so beautiful. he’s the one closest, having one foot down the stairs. I really believe he was willing to follow if Bucciarati’s reasons had been indisputable.

The moment the boat takes off, Bucciarati was aware that he would never seen Fugo and Narancia again. (even if they’d succeed, he was running on borrowed time) Which is why it was a moment that Bucciarati’s steel mask broke when Narancia joined in after all. But it may also be a moment where he realizes his pain of leaving the other behind.

(I also just love his face here. the team is like ‘cool, narancia’s coming! 8)’ but Bucciarati’s rly like ‘!!!!?????’)

I think that the fact that Bucciarati didn’t ask any of them to come shows he’s a type of person who always shoulders everything by himself and frankly doesn’t know how to ask for help. There’s no telling if it played along, but I can imagine it would have been hurtful for Fugo that Bucciarati practically chose Trish over him. perhaps, who knows, if Bucciarati had said ‘please come along Fugo, I can’t do this without your help’, things would have been different.

Because come on, Fugo’s not an idiot (most of the time). If the boss was so intent on keeping his identity hidden that he’d kill his own daughter, what were the chances of him keeping team Bucciarati alive after having spend an entire week with her???

So the reason why he staid behind CAN’T be that he was afraid. His chance of survival was already at 0, no matter what road he’d take.

Yet Fugo says it’s something he ‘can’t’ do. Joining them with a lack of conviction would not cut it. Joining in half-hearted on a suicide mission wouldn’t only be dangerous for himself, but also for the ones around him. Mainly Bucciarati. Perhaps he though they’d have a bigger chance to make it without him? As his Stand was the bigest wildcard of all. who knows... He didn’t know Bucciarati was already a dead man walking, afterall.

After leaving Venice, Bucciarati seems to be doing alright with leaving Fugo behind. He was free to choose it after all. And maybe it was because of Abbacchio’s death, maybe because his feelings were dying both physically and emotionally. but I think it’s all the 3 at once that made Trish realize Bucciarati was acting off, including having Fugo no longer on the team.

Brugo Coldhammer is a down-to-earth, homey guy who took up adventuring once he realized his hammer could be used for more than weaponsmithing. He has a strong sense of justice, though his hard demeanor often prevents others from seeing that. He’s a forge domain cleric!