Hugo is a big subtle Perry The Platypus meme. New Eridu just being Doofs T_T
1.6 and 1.7 spoilers. Using Hugo demo and some trust events, either taken from my own screenshots or other people's YouTube because one, I am not going to time spam everything to get all the trust events because I don't feel too insane today and there are some moments that only 1.6 and 1.7 cutscenes can't cover entirely. I am the Interknot brainrotter coming with you with startling news.
As the title said, if you have heard enough of the Perry The Platypus meme...
Tis the example. You get what I mean. Also, do you know who else wears a fedora...
The fedora is intentional damnit. Because I just realized. When we first meet him, as Hugo Vlad, an 'ordinary' collector...
He's not wearing the hat, people. He's not wearing the hat.
He's still not wearing the hat.
Even after coming out of his faked death...
Don't want people to immediately know that he's back from the dead, and like... people didn't recognize him???
Even after everything is over, people being pretty sure he's alive this time around. That Hugo Vlad is the only publicly known Mockingbird...
You come to us for trust events without the hat and that's enough for people not to recognize you????
THE MAGIC TRICK IS GOING WITHOUT THE HAT AND MASK???? ESPECIALLY THE HAT???? I'M BAMBOOZLED. UTTERLY BAMBOOZLED.
The only times he had worn the hat would be for work, phantom thief work.
Having a reunion with Lycaon as the Mockingbird phantom thief founder, who has every right to call him traitor for leaving Mockingbird...
He lost his hat along the way, but they all know he's Hugo Vlad so maybe that's why he can afford showing himself...
And then he puts it back on to fight Lycaon??? DOES THIS MEAN SOMETHING??? PURE BRAINROTTING PEOPLE. PURE BRAINROT.
For some reason even though for Mockingbird business, he comes without hat. Because its a public place and he doesn't want to be outed as a Mockingbird yet...?
Hugo Vlad the citizen revealing he is Mockingbird. Like, that was hard to figure out when it was the hat and mask that covered it up. Hugo had to say it himself??? The long blond hair and his heterochromic eyes aren't giving it away. This is just too Doof for me.
At first I was a little confused, because one moment he wears the hat and the next moment he doesn't. In this particular mission, does he work as Mockingbird or Hugo Vlad. Is it just that he wears the hat all this time and that the game model was too lazy to add it there for unknown reasons?
But then this scene happens, hatless when he talks to us Proxy, as Hugo Vlad himself and not as Mockingbird leader. So my guess would be that he wears the hat when he wants to show that he's doing things as a Mockingbird and without the hat is his true self?
When did you have time to put the hat my man? Is it to show the Mockingbird alleigance or something else? Something else, considering the dim lighting and maybe that the hat can shade his face to be unrecognizable. In a phantom thief's world with many enemies, and what Hugo knows, he had to make sure his work face is on...?
No hat Hugo being so real to Hartman, with the best full name identity ever. So maybe that's his edgy dramatic self, putting on the hat leffting that scarf sway, letting the dawn light illuminate him, like what. I'm just being objective coz is it just laziness to have a hat in game model. But personally I stand by my reasons about the differences in hat Hugo and no hat Hugo. It differentiates between Hugo the civilian and Hugo the Phantom thief. AND FOR SOME REASON THAT WORKS???
He had put the hat when he was hatless through, which is what will become the MockingbirdFalling.mp4, which is important to why the hat is needed and when it is not... explained somewhere further bellow.
HE INTRODUCES HIMSELF AS HUGO VLAD THE LEADER OF MOCKINGBIRD WITH THAT SUAVE HAT ON, AFTER THE FAKED DEATH WITH THE BEST COMEBACK SINCE PEOPLE KNOW AND HE OWNED IT. THOUGHT THE HUGO VLAD RAVENLOCK WON'T BE TOPPED BUT THIS PROVES WRONG. IT WAS WHEN THE WHOLE INTERKNOT WENT CRAZY KNOWING HIS IDENTITY, HAVING THAT MOCKINGBIRDFALLING.MP4.
And right after, he's back without the hat. Needing to make sure no one around after dramatic asf reveal can see the really alive Mockingbird and arrest him?
All this time in his reveal, in the death video, he had his hat on. So that people know it is Hugo Vlad the phantom thief. But has he ever, even once, shown himself without the hat when he declares himself the phantom thief? Has anyone ever seen Hugo Vlad so blatantly without the hat where he revealed who he truly is?
Are you telling me that the hat covers the face all that well? Was this planned by Hugo all along????
Why he has the hat on, when the video is taken, during this time of day with the hat on that you honestly cannot see the face well... It might be even difficult to discern who the people are, but its because of the hat that Hugo is famous for with those long blonde locks and maybe even those clothes, maybe, that somehow people immediately believed it was Mockingbird, that the video was all too real when the whole thing spread...
But truly, no one has seen his face yet... is the hat really that powerful, or is everyone in New Eridu really having this doof mindset???
DO PEOPLE JUST NEED TO PUT HATS IN ORDER TO HIDE THEIR FACE??? Even PubSec's, ARCHON database has things about Vivian and Lycaon, the current and former partners and they still can't find Hugo Vlad, especially until he revealed himself???
Also, I'm suddenly realizing very few people and even characters wear hats and maybe hats are all too powerful for disguises. There's Lucy with her helmet, and other than that, no one else really wears a hat... but people can recognize Lucy with and without hat, because she introduces herself as such but maybe Hugo introducing himself as two different people with and without people has given placebo effect... Or maybe it specifically needs to be a fedora. A freaking cool fedora.
No wonder people haven't figured out his face yet. Never without his work outfit the hat even when chased around...
All the photos they have of him aren't without a hat... I...
Even when he's escaping indeed...
Here's the link bellow as sources to a thank you for making this insane posts.
Hugo trust event vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KwyP8DXbYY
Hugo 1.6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DMN1oRgNUw&t=12366s
Thank you for coming to my probably incoherent and conspring brainrot. The only people that aren't blind somehow are the people who know, who Hugo revealed himself and one Asaba Haramusa who figured it out all on his own. Someone call Jane and tell her how she can effectively disguise herself without much effort TT_TT
I would make the Hugo meme if I didn't have the photo limit but Hoyo... Hoyo... SERIOUSLY, THE PERRY THE PLATYPUS MEME??? IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE????
... Excuse me chat while I still go reel from this. Hope you feel as insane as me about this. There are a lot more things to be insane about Hugo Vlad, from his fanfiction and the male convention but the moral of this story is no matter how unique your long blonde hair and heterochromic eyes are, the hat hides all... TT_TT
