Ok so Luca Clips have been showing up on my TikTok fyp and it’s mostly the start of the movie, which has me thinking about the start and noticing little things… anyways
Alberto seems to already know about the other sea monsters’ fear of the surface/humans as he is not at all surprised by Luca’s overreaction to the change, just nonchalantly saying “First time?” to all that screaming and kicking Luca did, and I think Alberto, as a thief, has actually capitalised on this fear because why else would he disguise himself as a human with the diving suit and harpoon when searching for stuff to take underwater?
He’s either 1: making sure no sea monsters go near “his” stuff like Luca did, or 2: he’s also stealing from sea monsters occasionally, which would maybe help explain why he never went to try and live in the village. I wouldn’t put it past him either as he just so casually stole Luca’s shepherd stick without a second thought.
And you know he wouldn’t have cared about not giving it back cause he only gave it back after Luca was nice to him and when he knew Luca would be coming back to the surface anyway. It’s like a trade almost, “you be my (boy)friend and you can keep your stick” 😭
Like after Luca says “Good day” to him, he looks down at the stick and ROLLS HIS EYES before getting up to give it back to Luca. I know like what an inconvenience Alberto, having to give back the thing you STOLE 🙄 /lh
also he uses the stick later in Ciao Alberto, I know it’s a cute Luberto thing, but also I think Alberto just really likes that stick and is happy it’s now “his” 😭
