Week 61! (Patreon)

Now here's two interesting fellows for our next non-couple, Max and Hugo, both smoking their cigarettes.

Unfortunately, I can't really go into these two's history with each other, since a lot of it has to do with the conspiracy organization that created Kale in the first place and their involvement with that project, and that's all spoilers for the moment. I also shouldn't really go into the creation of either of them, since both also contain spoilers to some degree and/or aren't relevant to their relationship with each other.

What I can somewhat talk about is their general relationship with each other and how they work off each other. The first time Hugo was ever drawn in the comic, it was him answering a call from Max. The two were flirty with one another, but also business-minded considering the seriousness of the subject they were talking about (basically, Hugo was telling Max he had the go-ahead to do whatever it is he did inside of Kale's mind in Arc 9). There's not much else in the comic itself to go off of with these two, especially considering both Max and Hugo have interacted more with Kale's father Cyrus than with each other thus far.

Still, from what little we've seen of their interaction and their individual personalities, one can infer the sort of relationship the skunk and fox have. Max obviously has his very flaming stereotypical personality, but underneath that is his serious, and even depressed, real self. Hugo also seems to put up a facade of sorts, always having a smile and being friendly with others, but also having a serious real self underneath, albeit a more resentful and spiteful one rather than melancholy. Both of these men put on these masks where they're very extroverted and social and outgoing, yet underneath those masks lie people who are anti-social in a sense. Max has regrets and guilt, Hugo has scorn and resentment. They both can identify with each other in that sense, and thus Max can flirt with Hugo and Hugo can be friendly with Max, but both understand their true natures.

If anything, their relationship is probably the most "business"-like of any of them. Like with everyone else, they act friendly, but their true natures and true relationship are buried underneath all of that.