#Brughel Poisson

[karoo-o]

Madame Brughel Poisson

[feroluce]

On Sampo's name (ALL of his names!)

I feel like everyone who's a fan knows the meaning of Sampo's full name by now- the sampo was a legendary item that could magically make endless supplies of gold, flour, and salt, all priceless items at the time! So it works perfectly for a scammer businessman like Sampo. ☆

"Koski" is the Finnish word for "water rapids" which might seem kinda random but actually makes sense for him, since Aha and the Masked Fools are also referred to with water terms:

This kind of analogy isn't specific to only Aha and the Masked Fools, but it does still tie them together. So water rapids fits perfectly! Sampo wants to stir the pot! He likes to shake things around and spice things up! He's taking that stagnant pool and turning it into water rapids! It would actually explain his ridiculous hair color, too; a dark blue wave tipped with white foam haha

EDIT: an amazing contribution from @ricochetlovebombs, who heard it from hoyolab user Rattaboy. If you interpret his first and last name together, instead of separately like I did, you would get something like "money river."

In other words, Sampo's name literally means CASH FLOW SKXJMDMDMD

What I really wanted to talk about is his drag alias name, though, Brughel Poisson, because to me that's where it gets really interesting.

So like in the English version, Sampo goes by Brughel Poisson when he's in disguise. Searching for just "Brughel" itself doesn't seem to get you much at first: a Flemish and Dutch Renaissance painter named Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who was famous for his landscapes and peasant scenery, especially Hunters in the Snow and The Blue Cloak.

He's referred to as "the Elder" because he had a son also named Pieter Brueghel (the Younger), and he began a long line of painters, all named Brueghel. Some of them did original work, and many of them created reproductions of the Elder's art to sell. The Elder was also famous as a printmaker. All of this is hilarious when you remember that Sampo is an infamous counterfeiter and has sold a relic called the Parallel Universe Printer JSKZJSMD

There is also something called Brueghel's Syndrome, named after one of Brueghel's paintings called De Gaper, which pictured a man yawning widely. It's a condition that causes the mouth to open and gape uncontrollably, twisting a person's countenance into a distorted mask of their usual face.

Tumblr doesn't have a way of censoring pics like twitter, so for the sake of the medically squeamish, I'm just showing De Gaper here. But if you look up Brueghel's Syndrome, you can find pictures of actual patients, some of whom really do make faces resembling Aha's comedy and tragedy masks!

In the Chinese and Japanese versions, his alias last name is a lot more silly- In those, "Sampo" is phonetically written as "san-bo" and "san-po." And in disguise, his last names are phonetically written as... "Bo-san" and "Po-san." The Chinese version uses different tones, but still. This smug asshole seriously just decided to write his own name backwards and called it a day NDMKXMDMD

In the English version, Poisson itself is kind of a reused Hoyo asset- it's also the name of Navia's fishing village in Genshin Impact. Which is a really silly name for a village, because it literally just means "fish" in French smzjxkdkdk but!

Again, more water imagery. And in English, if something is suspicious, we say that it's "fishy," which is perhaps the most fitting association yet for someone as shady as Sampo ☆

And for a good while I thought that was the only connection. But then. My beloved @hydrachea, who is an actual native French speaker, dropped this on me right after April Fool's Day:

Poisson is literally the word you use to pull an April Fool's prank.

[thepaleunicorn]

Ah yes, the stray artist is finally back

Hello guys, I’m finally here again, haha

Got a lot of stuff on my plate and once gain was in a dark place mentally (got diagnosed with BPD, so my meds are now more correct? I guess) + uni was just annihilating to me, but I’m still here (for better or for worse)

Got you another Sampo pic – this time it’s Brughel Poisson, but without a wig, eh? Guess the Silvermane Guards finally took it from her, haha

[thesaart]

my idea/rendition of Brughel Poisson just alone that sampos entire character story is more about a character he played then actually him says i think a lot. now with the new update i really hope were gonna find out a bit more about him that or he maybe is gonna confuse everybody even more.

[poipurr]

hello sampard nation more things my wife wanted me to draw hehhe

[flightofthejackdaw]

I will fall to my knees if at some point we meet “Madame Possion” in the flesh, I want to see Sampo dolled up putting on the performance of his life. I want everyone except maybe the trailblazer to be completely unaware of the Madame’s true identity. I want Sampo to put on a show for us, I want him serving harder than he’s ever before. I want to see his beautiful muscular self dressed to the nines

Please Hyoyo I’m begging on my hands and knees, if you want my money you can have it! Just give me Madame Brughel Possion

[clockcower]

Thinking bout sampo 5* being preservation despite being an emanator of aha bc he spent so much time on belobog and maybe people are glad to see him and he wants to protect his home alongside all the people he's grown to love. Maybe the warmth of preservation fills the void of nihility

That or brughel poisson. A 5* brughel would go so hard

[dark-blue-scam]

[yaoicarus]

A piece I did for the Sampard Discord's Sampard Zine!! I hope you guys check both the zine and the server out!

[keithphobic]

shart shit quick bad brughel poisson doodle and a sampard ill never finish

[penxil]

um. i can explain

[karoo-o]

Another drawing of my Brughel Poisson's design

[laseratingfist]

some doodles

[whatnopictures]

Brughel slay

[mars1atlas]

Enter; Madam Brughel Possion! aka Sampo! + some headcanons c:

[theactualsunshinechild]

My humble Brughel Poisson rendition!

Admittedly not my finest work, didn't bother fine tuning the lines or anything like that, but I am still quite happy with how she came out!

Now of course, given what we've learned about Masked Fool capabilities, I am of the opinion that in actuality Sampo probably just stole the stature and look of someone else entirely, (Sparkle being the funniest option since she did the same to him in Penacony, (and with Sampo's obsequious personality overlaid over her petite looks, he could probably get away with anything)) but I thought it would be fun to go the classic "obviously just a genderbend of the character" route as a design challenge.

So here we have the messy Sampo hair with some extensions, a simple lip gloss, dressed equally as revealing and impractical for the weather as usual, and some glasses to really sell the disguise. (Also prominent tits as a clever distraction)