Hugo

Hugo is an uncanonical character from "Varian & The Seven Kingdoms." He would have accompanied Varian on his journey with the rest of his travel party in order to gain the seven totems for Donella. These totems would activate a portal to the eternal library. Hugo comes from a very technologically advanced, yet economically-divided kingdom. As a result, he lives like a criminal, stealing riches to fund his experiments and to live a more lavish life. He had street smarts, intelligence, and style. However, Hugo can be very mischievous and sneaky, and is often out for himself.

Hugo was someone who was from a more steampunk/industrial kingdom. His primary interest was learning to create limitless gold- a big pursuit of alchemists. Donella acted as Hugo’s mentor, sort of having adopted him. Hugo was part of her crew and ended up put on orders by Donella to infiltrate and sabotage Varian on his journey to complete the seven trials. So, after initially stealing the hard-earned totem from Yong and Varian in the first trial, Hugo returns with it and tells the boys they clearly need someone watching their backs with more experience on the road. He joined the pack quickly after that but was not very well-liked for some time- particularly by Nuru. Hugo was always supposed to be just like…annoyingly a little bit better than Varian? Very much the “well, actually-” type of character…just a little taller, just a little cooler, a little more flair, etc. The guy drove Varian crazy but he also kind of wanted to be him? Conversely, Hugo was a big fan of messing with Varian for fun, but became truly fond of him over time. Ultimately, we’d planned for him to walk back on his promise to Donella to stop Varian from completing the trials and help him do so/ reunite with Ulla instead. We wanted Hugo and Varian's friendship to repair the frayed one between Ulla and Donella, with them ending things as equals/partners!

Appearance
Hugo is a tall, lanky young man with very light skin, freckles and bright green eyes. He has a diamond-shaped head with flushed cheeks and freckly cheeks and nose. He has round, bright green eyes behind round glasses with thin brown rims. He seems to have naturally dark eyelids. His angled arch eyebrows are brown and thick with an eyebrow slit in his right brow. He has chin length, strawberry blonde hair with a dark blonde undercut, usually styled into a short, messy ponytail. He has messy bangs are parted on the right side His ears have two piercing, a gold orbital one on his helix, and a silver one on his earlobe. He has a straight, sharp nose with a raised tip of his nose.

He is very tall with long fingers, broad shoulders and long legs. He is shown to move quite gracefully and

He is dressed mainly in a muted, dark green with dark brown details. He has a high-necked, long-sleeved shirt with two tones of greens, along with gray shoulder pats, matching large bracelets and dark green, almost black buttons on the front. His shoulder pats and bracelets are decorated with silver balls. He also wears brown finger gloves and a grey pair of goggles with bright yellow lenses around his neck. In some photos, these goggles are decorated with spikes.

His pants are more of a teal color, with tall, brown boots on his feet. He seems to have some sort of a pouch strapped onto his left leg with a orange-ish brown piece of cloth.

Personality
Mischievous, logical, cunning. Hugo’s used to being a player of one and doing most things to further his social or financial standing in order to continue funding his own inventions. When he gets the order to play on a team, it’s a struggle for him. Hugo is also used to being the smartest guy in the room and LIKES it that way. And generally, he is, with a leg up on street smarts. What he lacks is emotional intelligence. He’s resourceful, sneaky, nonchalant, and a survivalist who often gets the gang out of hot water. (Also…pulled a job with that "Flynn Rider" guy once… what a hack)

Voice
Kait Ritter said that she wanted Hugo to be voiced by Jarrod Spector. Jarrod is an American actor and singer in his forties. He has released quite a bit of songs that can be listened to in Spotify or YouTube.

Varian
Hugo didn't exactly give the best first impression, since during their first meeting Hugo steals the totem Varian and Yong worked so hard for. After Hugo gave the totem back and managed to join their team, he would constantly tease and purposefully mess with Varian. Varian would be annoyed and impressed by Hugo at the same time. Hugo once make fun of Varian for the crush he had on Cassandra. Varian looks up to Hugo's intelligence and charisma, but is constantly driven up the wall by his sassiness and snarky comments. Hugo didn't think much of Varian at first, but would eventually become his best friend. In the end, It's said that Hugo learned more from Varian than Varian did from Hugo.

When everyone finds out that Hugo is a double agent sent by Donella, Varian is upset. Hugo realizes that he'd rather be Varian’s friend than be loyal to Donella, and betrays her. He tries to apologize to Varian, but finds out that Varian has locked himself in The Eternal Library. When Hugo gets inside the library, he sees Varian getting possessed by his mother. Hugo tries to save Varian with Nuru and Yong. Then eventually Ulla is defeated. Hugo apologises to Varian and they exchange meaningful words with each other. The two admit their feelings for one another and end up in a romantic relationship.

Nuru
Hugo disliked Nuru at first because of her status as a princess. This dislike was mutual, since Nuru was constantly suspicious of Hugo, and didn't trust him for a long time. During the course of the story, they would eventually become friends, or at least learn to tolerate one another.

Yong
Not much is known about their relationship, but Yong would most likely be suspicious of Hugo because he stole their totem. They would still probably get along, because of Yong's trusting and naïve nature.

Donella
Donella is Hugo's boss, and often portrayed as his adopted mother figure. Hugo is an orphan, so it makes sense he would see Donella as the closest thing he has to a family. Donella taught Hugo alchemy and science, and uses him to do some of her criminal business. During the story, she would command Hugo to infiltrate Varian's crew, and steal their totems. In the end, Hugo ends up betraying Donella for Varian’s friendship.

Olivia
Olivia is Hugo's robotic pet mouse that he made when he was young. For most of Hugo's life he considered Olivia to be his only friend.