Ulla Vat7k - Blog Posts
Wanted to practice some pixelart portraits and so I did the one woman that had a chokehold on me during the pandemic Ulla Vat7k you are a mess of a corrupted soul and I will treasure you and your unrequired - toxic - doomed - scientist - yuri
(And by unrequired I mean Donella whoops-)
AHHHHHHHHH
So I'm not sure if we've all agreed on this or not, but I think it's generally accepted in the Vat7k fandom that Ulla was around 16-20 when she started the trials (collage/high school years). Also, we know that she met Quirin in the Dark Kingdom and then had a kid with him.
She was definitely over the age of consent, which means that she was probably 20-22 when she had Varian, making her around 20 years older than him (38-40 in Vat7k).
Donella was probably a year or two older, making her 21-23 years older than Hugo, around 39-41 (most likely 39 or 40).
So these badasses aren't even old. Hell, they're probably younger than your mother ToT
I personally think that Ulla was/is 38 and Donella's 39.
YIPPEEEEE (i've been thinking about this since Saturday lol; tell me what you think!)
Edit: I just mean this as a 'what if' kind of headcanon. I'm not saying I think it's canon, or that it would've been, but I just think it's cool that there's a possibility. Also, someone pointed out that she has grey hair. Uhmmm Ulla and Momella were at the Eternal Library, so there's a chance it had some sort of aging spell in it (Varian also got possesed by his mother who looks 18, so she might not have aged much either 🥲)
but again; it's just a theory
A FILM THEORY- ok i'll stop now
Gimmie your Donella headcanons pretty pls
well… only because you said pretty pls
evil lesbian time
-she has used her braid to strangle a man before. this was in front of hugo, but he was ten years old, so he was practically an adult. it’s fine.
-she used to be very protective about her lab journals, but ulla started doodling around her notes and donella gradually warmed up to it. (then they started to drift apart, and ulla began her own journal that she never let donella see, and donella was left to trace the loops of ulla’s handwriting even before ulla was gone.)
-she usually made it a policy not to hire child soldiers, but hugo was the best thief she’d ever seen. she tested him & his instincts for a while before deciding to raise him herself.
-on that note, she does love hugo in a way, but donella’s mind is very priority-organized, and hugo ranks low on that list.
-she prefers mechanical weapons to chemical ones. her dagger is her go-to in a 1v1 fight, though.
-slightly civil to quirin. slightly. a long time ago.
-very defensive, even with those she half-trusts. they have to be out to get her, otherwise, why would they be saying this?
-constant, well-hidden paranoia. she’s climbed so far but her position is so precarious.
-she was raised in a very unstable home that she left as soon as she could. either she was an orphan or she was brought up by someone who parented her like she parents hugo.
-she only got truly, unconditionally attached to someone once, and that woman disappeared for almost two decades. ulla was always going to disappear, and donella was always going to be left.
Okay so if Donella is basically unable to use or be affected by magic in any way, then what if Ulla was the opposite? I always found it weird how Donella was the one to trap Ulla in the library, cause like. when would she have the time to trap her. she's gathering her troops, so she's a bit busy.
SO, to fix this, I decided that as a side affect of keeping Donella out and away, Ulla begun to rely on magic to continue living. She's technically half-alive though. She doesn't have a complete physical form, so she often appears see-through and its really disturbing.
The way she learns she can possess things is when she's reading a book and she's not able to focus, so she thinks if she possesses it, she'll just absorb all the knowledge. It works, but it makes her feel incredibly sick (not like she can feel sick anymore), and she didn't learn a thing about the book. So when she possesses Varian, she can't access his thoughts or anything.
She kinda destroyed/shut down the portal after throwing Donella out, but she knows that she's practically bound to the library, so if the library was ever unlocked again, she knew that if she left, she'd just disintegrate. Possessing Varian would probably be easier than possessing anyone else, because another of my HCs (that I may have stole from VTT) is that Var has a slight connection to the moonstone, and it's easier to possess magical things if you are magic. The same does not apply with proper ghosts, as seen in s1 with Ruth.
The library would also stop working properly for Ulla, mainly because it didn't like her, but also because she was living off of too much unstable magic, making the whole library unstable. Really putting into perspective how powerful Ulla is.
Just thinking about Varian inheriting his evil laugh and psychotic expressions from his mother and giving both Quirin and Donnie some fucked up flashbacks about Ulla
Donella and Ulla in their younger years!
…before the eternal library
