I think Hugo has a birthday curse were something goes terribly wrong, so I have this scene in my head were Rapunzel just like-
" Hugo, I heard your birthday is coming up. What do you want to do for it?"
Hugo " A small celebration were everyone can stay safe and nothing to go wrong."
Everyone would just be like why and also what does he mean were nothing goes wrong.
Rapunzel speaking people's thoughts " What do you mean nothing to go wrong?"
Hugo " I have a birthday curse were something goes wrong."
Raps " care to explain? "
Hugo " Gladly. So it starts with my 5th birthday the first birthday I remember but not clearly, when I woke up several weeks later from that night I was in the woods with no memory, my 6th birthday I was abandoned by the people who found me in the woods and tought me crime, my 7th b'day physically tortured cus of old Ivgarian laws, 8th b'day I almost drowned, 9th b'day I was kidnapped, 10th b'day I was terribly beat up for a while, 11th I almost got exploded, not fun, 12th got tortured again, 13th went to jail, 14th got stabbed a few times, 15th went to jail again, 16th got thrown out a window a broke many bones, 17th got shot twice one in the shoulder the other in my leg, 18th got poisoned, 19th almost got crushed but I did whatch someone get crushed, and my 20th forced to betray my team and then save Varian from being possessed by his own mother then got possessed by said mother after I kinda betrayed my own mother figure. So maybe it's best if we don't do anything."
Varian " We're going to get you to therapy."
Hugo " We all need it."
Eugene " Hugo what the hell my life as a their wasn't this bad and that's just your birthday."
Rapunzel " So I'm not the only one with a birthday curse. Cool. "
After shoving Hansel in the oven, the witch turns to Gretel - who is currently fending the witch off with a gingerbread chair - and says:
“I can’t believe you thought a trail of breadcrumbs would save you. I mean, honestly, this is a forest! It’s full of animals. Honestly, the very idea that a dumb shit like you thought you could get the better of me is absurd.”
Gretel hits her in the face with said chair. To be fair to the witch, she takes the chairshot like a champ.
“Ow!”
“Did you know,” says Gretel, “that crows are capable of facial recognition?”
“Eh?” Says the witch, clambering to her feet and pulling a candy cane sledgehammer off the wall. “What’s that got to do with anything?”
“Not only that,” Gretel continues, “but they can remember both friends and enemies. And they’ll often follow people they remember as friends.”
The two fence with their sugared weapons for a moment, before the witch knocks the chair out of Gretel’s hands.
“Enough with the bird facts! Honestly, this whole attempted escape has been utter clownshoes. Get in the fucking oven!”
She seizes Gretel by the collar. Gretel immediately sandbags, letting her whole body go limp. This eminently practical defense forces the witch to try and deadlift her. Which is hard, as the witch often skips leg day.
“For example,” Gretel says, as the witch struggles and grunts, “if you feed crows a lot of breadcrumbs, they’ll probably start to see you as a friend and follow you in the hope of more food.”
The witch stops. Outside, she hears the thunder of wings.
“They’ll even bring you shiny things they find as presents!” Says Gretel, as a corner of the gingerbread ceiling is suddenly cut away by a large crow with a knife in its mouth.
“Oh shitballs.” Says the witch, as the crows descend. “I hope you know this is a great unkindness.”
Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.
Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.
He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.
And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.
i don't know where this would take place in the story but i thought varian having his staff was a necessity ofc :D im not the biggest fan of hugo's design so i tried something based off other art i've seen, buttttt im still not super sure of it aha
i used this screencap from the show as a reference!
uhhhhhhhh speedpaint process underneath yeauhhhhh thank uuu~~
I think a lot of people (including the Ember Island Players) forget that Sokkas comic relief doesn’t come from him being the puns guy but from him being the worlds most miserable little pessimistic guy. He’s on a trip to save the world with two extremely overpowered idealists and an extremely overpowered tank going through a rebellion phase and he’s 15 years old and trying to put them all on toddler leashes and hating the spirt world which keeps spitting in his face and bullying him specifically. Him being miserable is why he’s so endearing.