#zzzero hugo

[starguardianniom]

1.6, Hugo and Vivian

I am so happy to see Hugo and Vivian appearing in 1.6, ok they won't be playable but still I'm starving for info about them, in the meanwhile feast your eyes on this.

I flipped it over to get a better look at Hugo and Vivian for those who also loves them like me. You're welcome. ^^

[lalage]

When we were young

[razorblade180]

Manager: Hey we need an art theme for-

Employee: Dripped Out Demon Time.

Manager:What does that even mean-

I need interviews with the art team. I get that they’re all supposed to look like movie posters but I rarely see posters go this hard.

[sangpires]

🐺🦇

[sayuulish]

:p

[maashuuq]

hugo redraw

[121231212i]

Vivian & Hugo drip marketings

[creadbrumbs]

Hugo! 🧛🩸

[vitece]

The only thing I thought about while reading the story was: "Oh my gosh, eat me, beautiful vampire"

[wendrousart]

Savour it all 🦇🦇

[dimitriblunt]

crownwolf fight scene . but something is a little different at the end

[undergoing-mitosis]

gonna expand on this cause the death note special interest in me started vibrating when i was playing the new story quest and i need to get this out

(i wrote a whole ass essay by accident, tried to break it up with colours and bold bits and pictures for people with adhd like me who can't stand a wall of text 🫡)

first of all, have a collection of quotes from hugo from the epilogue part A:

"There are some people whose only purpose in life is to bring more suffering into this world."

"Sometimes, murder is what brings justice back into this world. And for that, I must stain these hands with blood."

"If fate is not willing to give me justice, then I'll just have to cease it with my own hands."

"For a permanent and absolute victory, we must endure the pain of cutting away rotten flesh, and persevere through the darkest hour before dawn. Someone has to do it."

now, take a variety of quotes from light yagami:

"This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me?"

"Look around you, and all you will see are people the world would be better off without."

"I am justice! I protect the innocent and those who fear evil!"

"Evil only gives birth to evil. And if those wicked people commit sins and run wild, then the weak will learn to commit crimes, and even try to justify their actions in the end."

"There was no other way, the world had to be fixed!"

now, it's obvious that light and hugo have a similar worldview, a view of society as fundamentally rotten and broken, and a belief that they can fix it (hubris go brr). they both believe that sacrificing one human life can save more, and that murder is necessary for change. and ofc they are also both twinks wearing suits with a flair for the dramatic who are often depicted with scythes, but that's besides the point.

what i believe is more interesting is the differences between them, and how this affects their characterisation and actions.

more below cut 👇

firstly, light is tainted with arrogance. he wishes to place himself on a level above humans, sees himself as a god, and believes that he is the only person capable of bringing about this change in the world. he never sees the flaws in the way in which he is changing the world, dissociates terms like "murder" and "serial killer" to his actions, and one of his most fatal mistakes was the result of blinding anger when someone dared to call Kira's actions evil. in comparison, hugo's whole speech to the proxy before his betrayal shows that he has almost the opposite view: he is very aware that what he is doing is wrong, and is willing to be the villain in this story, sacrificing himself and his morals for the good of the world. the most heartbreaking part of how he distanced himself for vivian, hurting her in order to keep her safe. he will do anything for the outcome he desires, but this comes from a place of broken vengeance and ruthlessness rather than one of arrogance and delusions of greatness.

ironically, light's characterisation in the JP musical is more similar to hugo, as shown through the song "hurricane": this depicts light as more of a martyr, willing to sacrifice himself and take the fall for the good of society. (not applicable to the EN version, where light is just as deranged just as quickly as in the manganime.) this initial naïvety makes his fall to the same arrogance and delusion we see from the start of the series that much more impactful, since light was depicted as a genuine antihero rather than the manganime-canon-typical seeing a slippery slope and grabbing a sled.

however, despite how much older hugo is (i'd guess 25-35) compared to light's 17 at the start of canon, i would say that he is still not without some naïvety and ignorance. though lesser than light's, it's obvious hugo has a very skewed worldview influenced by his past experiences, and we still don't know is his way truly is the right way as he believes it is.

i liken this to an amazing light yagami line from "where is the justice" from the EN death note musical, "perhaps it's time we change the colours [of the world] then, till we're back to seeing black and white and wrong and right again." regardless of how nuanced hugo believes himself to be, i think he still sees in black and white, and thinks he has to be the "black" to rid all other "black" from the world, bringing "white" back into it. because he betrayed the vow and killed a person, he is now automatically evil, and so must use his evil for good since he is beyond saving. he says "this is the true me", but really i think that is just the "me" he wants himself to believe he is, because that is easier than dealing with the consequences of his actions. so, in truth, hugo is pretty naïve and childish in his view of both himself and the world, he would just rather stew in bitterness than face his guilt, whereas light has no guilt to feel.

now, let's talk about the original question i posed: if hugo had a death note, what would he do? well, personally i think he would do something very similar to what light did: kill those who he sees as a "tumour in society" to scrape it out and leave only the clean bits. and he would trust nobody to do this but himself. he'd probably end up killing TOPS rather than criminals since it seems like his bitterness lies towards high society and corrupt individuals with power, rather than light's thing of criminals who go free/don't get the proper punishment.

however, one interesting character arc that i believe hugo would go through, and i hope hoyo is cooking up for him in part B of the epilogue, is the loss of oneself. one of the key themes of death note is humanity, and it poses a key thing that makes us human as flaws. light wants to be greater than human, but by putting his mind and body through what no human should have to, he loses himself to temptation, power and corruption. no human is perfect, and so likewise no human can have a perfect resolve that cannot be broken down or corrupted. and so, in the end, nothing changed: light was left unsatisfied, his craving for power never subsided, he grew bored, and he died as a pathetic man with no power over life or death like he believed he had, his name in the death note like all those criminals he killed without mercy, and as the anime montage so gorgeously shows he ruined his own life and was the seed of his own destruction. personally, i much prefer the interpretation that the seed of evil was already inside light, like it is in all humans, and the death note was only the catalyst. theoretically, this means hugo could go through something similar: like light, he wants to shape himself into a perfect piece on a chessboard with the ultimate goal of enacting justice. but hope can he trust that he won't be corrupted by the power that corrupted so many others? how can he be sure that his plan will actually be for the good of the world, and he won't lose himself along the way to evil and rage and ends up being the catalyst for his own destruction, just like light was?

i think there are two ways you can take this arc. either, hugo has a rise and then a downfall and becomes a disgraced man beyond saving, like light. OR, and what i personally hope will happen, he gets a redemption arc and realises that he's lost who he was, and i really fucking want lycaon to be the one to bring him back from the brink. that way hugo will have shown lycaon that the world is more nuanced and bitter than lycaon wants to believe, and lycaon can show hugo that there is still good in the world, and that hugo deserves to live his life and not just become a chess piece, a means to an end. hugo obviously wanted to destroy himself, and i really hope that lycaon won't let that happen cause deep down he cares so deeply. toxic doomed yaoi, anyone?

anyways i guess we have to wait for a month for the next part of the story to come out. UGH im on the edge of my seat.

then also there'll be antagonising parallels between crownwolf and lawlight given how lycaon was tasked with being the one to kill hugo if he went beyond saving but may end up being his saviour after all, whereas L and light were always destined to be each others downfall and both of them caused the death of the other and auuuuuubbbghhjjj

also fuck i love a good redemption arc

thanks for reading if you got this far. fuck i just noticed how long this was my audhd really took over on this one 😭

please tell me your thoughts on the comments i need to brainrot 👇👇👇

nobody give hugo vlad a death note he would do horrific things with it

[nefrilm]

In theaters april 23

[mightymorphin777]

Yeah, I’m fucking getting him.

[asiearts]

The person you're calling is inside a hollow! Which one of these is it? 🤔

Aaaaahhh thank God I finally finished them!! That's 30 characters so far! 😭 And for Day 50 of the challenge too 💪 (If anyone's wondering, I focused on the characters I really liked so some might not be here （；´▽｀）ゞ

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