Ghostofastar

They sound nothing alike, they look completely differnt when written out, there origins are completely different as Horace originats from latin while Eugene originats from ancient Greece, and their meaning aren't similar either Horace meaning 'time' or 'season' and Eugene meaning 'well born' or 'noble'

So I have two theories so far:

1. The people running the orphanage gave some of the children (that were young enough) more common or easier to pronounce names in hopes of increasing their chances of getting adopted, like how people coming over form places like China or Africa will give themselves English nicknames to make it easier for themselves in places like work and college

2. Due to the panic the sudden evacuation cause things like birth certificates or whatever they used to keep track of births at the time where lost or maybe destroyed by the rocks leaving people to simply tell people the babies name and hoped they remembered it down the line, and when names of certain children were forgotten they were given new ones by the caregivers and said names reflect on where they were from or what was popular in the area at the time

Ok but now Im just picturing a sinarieo like

Varian: ok we can't look suspicious so leave all weapons he ok

Yong&nuru: hands over all weapons ( and fireworks)*

Hugo: hands over a knife*

Varian: ALL of them Hugo

Hugo: sighs* removes a small collection of other weapons*

Varian:

Hugo:

Varian: Hugo I said-

Like you can imagine due to poor hygiene, little to no medical care and no way to properly rest a lot of people died due to simple illness

Like he'd see his boy, his only son the, reason he's doing all this his last remaining family to see him again happy, safe and alive. He is not going to be able to look the other way you would have to drag him away kicking and screaming and even then you'd be lucky to even get him to look away

So I headcannon that all the tts group knows how to braid hair due to being friends with Rapunzel.

Quirin carries around one of Varians old experiment log/journal as a keep sake.

Yong finds it somehow (fell out of a bag/rummaging through Quirin stuff/ect) and thinks Quirin is secretly like some sort of alchemist/knight, lord demanitis type person and tries out some of the experiments in the log/journal cause he thinks there cool

Meanwhile, Quirin is freaking the fuck out cause where the hell did Varians log/ journal go?! and when he finds out Yong has it he goes ballistic that he took and could have damaged it via the various experiments/ losing it/ ect. The two argue and the truth about who it belongs to and why Quirin has it is revealed... sort of. I think Quirin would still hide a lot of details and the crew would only learn that the log/journal is his sons and that his son needs some sort of help that Quirin believes can only be found in the library

Quirin at first is still very protective of all of the crew. Varian would have been around the same age as yong and Nuru and he would be just a year younger than Hugo.

I think this would be a good point of conflict for the early journey especially with Hugo who is used to taking care of himself and suddenly this old, retired knight trying to act like his father when he can barely take care of himself

Yong also gets really annoyed cause Quirin is very strict when it comes to him doing experiments of any kind despite not knowing a thing about chemical reactions and experiments in general!

An AU where Varian gets stuck in the amber but unlike with Quirin they never find a way to get him out, years later while clean out a room or smt Quirin finds Ullas old journal and decides to try find the library to free Varian. The gang of Nuru, Yong and Hugo all still go with him and rather than romance it just pure familial love that cause Hugo to become torn especially when he hear Quirin talk about his son, the boy hes trying so hard to free and help, that he loves so much

Like he finds them too restrictive or something like that and as such will rarely hug people. But he loves just touch people he's close to.

Like he won't hug Varian often but he would die if he could hold his hand. He won't Hugo him but he'll lean his head on their's and just enjoy the moment of inamacy, he'll throw an arm around his shoulders and be content

He'll ruffle Young hair or rest a hand on his shoulder.