Heyyyyyyyyyyy fam so it’s been over a year since I posted on Tumblr!! I don’t really plan on coming back or anything, but Tumblr is a little more conducive to long text posts…took me a second to figure out how to post again 👀💦

I came back because I hear some of you guys are talkin’ about my boy Hugo, so I thought I’d come do some kind of Hugo rundown post for anyone who is interested.

He was my very first DnD character! I started playing around the time I started on Tangled. Sadly I had to leave that game, but I sort of kept him as like….the first OC I ever cared about. I still draw him all the time.

The Hugo I made for DND and the Hugo we repurposed for Varian and the Seven Kingdoms are FUNDAMENTALLY the same, but uh…. Seven Kingdoms Hugo is definitely Disney-fied which is probably for the best. I’ll drop his original DnD backstory/rundown first:

Hugo is a human artificer, meaning he was the team crafter/tinkerer/alchemist. He’s chaotic neutral and he is………. He’s not a good guy. At least at the start of the campaign. His basic backstory is that he was an abandoned baby, raised in an orphanage until he could walk and/or when he found out how he could make adults do whatever he wanted if he just cried the right way. After that he went full con-artist.

Since he never really learned to form attachments, Hugo is extremely self-serving, opportunistic and manipulative. The only thing he comes close to loving is the little enchanted mechanical mouse he created to help him steal and hide things. Her name is Olivia!

His main motivations are greed and curiosity. He’ll shamelessly do just about anything for money, and he’ll only put himself in real danger if he can get something he’s interested in. He likes fine things, which he usually steals, but he’ll never wear them in public because he knows it makes him a target.

He’s also uh…I wouldn’t call him a playboy, but something along those lines to keep it PG. He’s not meant to be particularly attractive or charming, but he is persuasive and smart. Men, women, and monsters all interest him, but whatever hookups he manages only last until he gets bored. If he ever started to feel emotional attachment he’d probably fight himself on it, or just keep pretending he doesn’t have feelings, like, he’d be the LAST one to admit that he’s feeling things, even if everyone around him could tell.

He also hates royalty and elites, people born into wealth, etc. They’re the ones who get him in the most trouble and in his opinion are undeserving of what they have.

Seven Kingdoms Hugo is a little less of a complete sociopath. He’s still out for himself, for sure, but he’s impressed by Varian’s talent and is interested in what he’s up to. Since Varian would have been traveling on his own accord for the first time, he lacks street smarts, and Hugo would definitely take advantage of that (I think Kait might have mentioned the part about him being a double agent at some point?) But Varian is smart, he’d catch on quick. Hugo would end up switching teams for reals of course, gaining some insight for himself along the way. And of course he would’ve had to seriously make up for whatever bad stuff he’d done.

Uhhh what else

There are runes along the temples of his glasses that he can use to see if things are enchanted.





He’s the kind of dude who, if he has a project he’s working on that he’s obsessed with finishing, he’ll survive solely off energy potions until it’s done. He doesn’t take very good care of himself tbh.





He’s not a coward, but he’d definitely split if the odds were against him. And he’s not physically strong.





He doesn’t like to drink or do anything that would make him feel like he didn’t have control of himself or the situation.

My main inspirations for his character were Jillian Holtzmann from Ghostbusters 2016 and Joanne the Scammer (that part was kind of an accident but here we are)





He was named after the Brian Selznick book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” which was also the inspiration for Olivia the mechanical mouse.





Words I’d use to describe Hugo: squirrelly, slippery, intelligent, crafty, ambitious.





Parts of his overall look: he’s just kind of long and gangly, I always wanted him to have big hands with spindly fingers.





And that’s all I can think of for now! Feel free to do whatever you want with him, I’m hereby releasing him into public domain lol





If you want to see some REALLY old Hugo art, there’s probably some way back in my #annerart tag.





I’ve got lots going on these days so I don’t get social very much, but I’ll probably be lurking and appreciating whatever you guys are coming up with ✨✨✨