#thatoneanon

you should draw Sam (gladiator, not awesamdude)-you know who

Dedicated Donella disliker, but I do still feel like she does know Hugo better than anyone. But, mostly just because she can read people. She recognizes tiny gestures he makes as anxiety or anger or joy when nobody else can. Especially in Hugo, because most of his physical emotional cues are small, and wouldn’t be noticed by most people. Varian’s known Hugo for months and can’t tell when he subconsciously lies, but Donella can tell if he is because he made eye contact for a second too long while trying to make his lie look more believable, because he does these things by instinct now. Hugo earns his keep with Donella one way or another, and she lets him have it because she’s fully aware Hugo is an asset. She makes him believe he isn’t while being aware he is. She recognizes when he’s tired and makes him rest. Not because she’s a good person, but because he works better when rested. She has the ability to read him like a book, so she does -that one anon

I don’t like making Donella out to be the big evil but GOD I think she’s awful. She’s not magical, or wanting to take over the world. She’s just a bad person. She’s the kind to lean in Hugo’s face and tell him to stop being scared when even he didn’t know he was scared. She’s holding the vat7k kids hostage and showing Hugo off like a spectacle to Varian and he’s TERRIFIED, because she could tell Varian anything. She could tell him nothing, or she could tell him all the worst thing’s Hugo’s done that he hates. But she doesn’t, just to have that authority after him. She knew Ulla and Quirin, she knows their son would forgive Hugo in a heartbeat. So she dangles it over Hugo’s head and goes “I could ruin your life if I wanted to” without ever actually saying anything. Varian believes Donella is bad in the way that Zhan Tiri was bad, like a villain. Hugo knows she’s just an awful person who exploits others to advance herself -that one anon

Rewatching tts and remembering how much of a little freak Varian is. Quirin was probably so concerned about Varian making shrines to a criminal in his basement and being accident-prone while creating explosions. I need him to maintain that energy in vat7k because he’s such a little dork I love him -that one anon

REAL he has anxiety and he’s less clumsy but he still drops stuff and he gets visibly uncomfortable whenever he drops something. He drops a vial that’s just water without any chemicals yet and jumps a mile in the air

My dog woke me up at 5am licking my feet which resulted in a weird dream where I sent you a video of my dog and then realized my feet were in it, so I sent you an ask begging you not to publish it, but you did anyways. So that was kind of weird and I can’t determine why that would ever happen

Thinking about Donella (derogatory) because every single canon piece of information we have about her is like “She’s a horrible awful person! She exploited Hugo multiple times over her issues from twenty years ago” and the vat7k fandom treats her like she’s an angel -that one anon

Just imaging them interacting like “You too?” “Yeah.”