#pickedpiper

THANKS 💙

IT FEELS GOOD ACTUALLY BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY FOLLOWING YOU DOESN’T SEEM TO JUDGE YOUR UNPOPULAR TASTES AND IN FACT IS PRETTY SUPPORTIVE

It’s his teeth that get to me.

I love the fact that you all decided to chose violence against him but to be honest

I want to punch him so much in the face when he’s not making his ‘evilish’ look

I hate him

His weird mutated dolphin/swordfish face looks so punchable

i think hugo is a kid that got massively fucked over by the people he was supposed to be able to trust. he’s a very sad character no matter which angle you look at him from.

hugo is a VERY interesting character imo. especially because off is a very ambiguous game when it comes to a lot of things relating to him.

i’m going to come out (again) as a disliker of the whole “batter and queen are hugo’s parents” theory that had every off enjoyer in a chokehold when the game was big. not that there’s anything inherently wrong with it! it’s a completely valid way to read the game but it’s just not my favorite personally, and i’ll tell you why.

i think a lot of people read it that way because of a mistranslation in one of the english versions, which was rectified in a later version. i’ve never been able to find an actual statement abt hugo’s relation to the batter (besides being his creator) from mortis ghost himself so i just choose to believe it isn’t the case.

it is very easy to read batter as being hugo’s dad! but keep in mind what exactly the batter is before you come to any conclusion. the batter is a physical incarnation of the concept of purity and, according to mortis on the anniversary stream, was created the moment that OFF began. this clashes hardcore with the information we receive about hugo in the room, where it states that his father left him there while he waited for his mother (the queen) to pick him up.

is it possible that hugo made the batter for a time, then the batter “died”, and then the batter was remade a while later? yeah. is it likely? probably not. so unless one of those continue stop rise motherfuckers was running around and ended up spawning i don’t really think the “father” that keeps being mentioned in the room is the batter. who it actually is i haven’t got a clue in hell but based on this alone i can’t really say in good faith it’s him.

“but grimkid! if the batter isn’t hugo’s dad what is he!!!” i hear you ask. and i’ll tell you.

hugo is a very young child stuck in a VERY scary situation. he’s been ignored, forgotten, and neglected. the only time anyone paid him any truly positive attention was with three complete strangers that ended up abandoning him, too. he’s no doubt scared, confused, sad and angry too. it’s a lot for someone who can’t be any more than five years old, isn’t it? and what do very young children typically do when they feel like that?

they cry. they throw tantrums. they’re too young to understand what’s going on with them so they end up trying to express themselves by taking it out on their surrounding with (usually) little to no understanding of the actual consequences. this is doubly so for children who are never positively taught how to express those feelings in other methods, which hugo was most certainly not.

i think the batter is an extension of hugo, made out of the desire to lash out at the world around him. through the batter, he takes his frustrations out on the people who abandoned him (dedan, japhet, enoch, and his mother) by breaking the things around him (all of the zones, including his own) without realizing what will actually happen. in the end, it ends up costing hugo everything, including his life.