A Hat in Time - All Character Storybooks 

Snatcher: *Breathes on the same planet as another woman* Queen Vanessa: ArE YOu cheATiNG oN mE??!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

In the Vanessa level, the Snatcher doesn't let you use your hats or umbrella. You can't attack her at all. It makes me think that even now, though she may have killed him, he still loves her deep down.

baby conductor and grooves are actually the cutest little things ever

You know for a guy who was murdered by his own queen because of a misunderstanding and turned into a shadow devil thing that needs souls for some reason Snacher is actually a pretty cool guy :D

The mafia is less mafia and more just businessmen looking for a better life.

Everyone is like "Poor Vanessa" Meanwhile; I'm like: Poor Prince--

a "cute" as heck platform game

Baby Conductor and baby DJ Grooves: *THE CUTEST KIDS IN THE GAME MUST PROTEC*

I feel sorry for the Snatcher's story, and everyone else, I hope there's a Hat in Time sequel where are of those troubles are fixed

Poor Vanessa and Snatcher. All that misery over one misunderstanding.

It's a shame mustache girl doesn't have a storybook.

snatcher:Im going to buy flowers for vanessa ^-^ vanessa:WAS YOU KISSING HER HAND WITH YOUR HAND??

2:19 u can see all the residents from the snatchers forest! The foxes, the faceless ghosts used to have red cloaks and the snake things are there too. Vanessa overreacting doomed her entire land and all her subjects -_-

Dang that Queen Vanessa story is really sad. Never noticed until know

I feel bad for the Snatcher now

RIP. Queen Vanessa. Lost their mind, went insane, basically 8345678469834 times worse than insanity, all over one misunderstanding. What a way to go!

Backstory overview: Mafia's Grand Voyage. The Mafia were once low-life workers working hard at a factory, but they did not enjoy their jobs. Tired of their menial labor, the man who would become their boss rallies up the workers, and together, they set sail to a distant island of which, they would build their dream utopia: Mafia Town. Conductor and Grooves' Big Dreams. When both were little, they watched their first ever movie awards on television, and from this, they dreamed of becoming great movie directors in hopes of winning the awards for themselves. Years later, the Conductor and Grooves move into the same building that would become Dead Bird Studio, beginning their long rivalry to best each other for the movie awards. The Tale of Queen Vanessa. Once upon a time, there was a princess and a prince who're in love. But one day, while taking a stroll around town, Vanessa finds the prince holding hands with another girl, and she did not take it lightly. Heartbroken, Vanessa assumed that the prince broke up with her, and stormed out of the town crying, unaware that the prince was actually buying flowers for Vanessa from the girl. When he arrives back, he tries to give the flowers to her and explain the situation, but Vanessa was too heartbroken to listen, and her anger and jealousy transformed her into a terrifying shadow monster. The prince was then locked up in the basement, and overcome with grief, he would eventually transform into the Snatcher. The Twilight Ascent. A goat was on an adventure to find the mysterious twilight realm on top of the peaks. When he finally reaches his destination, he would meditate within the realm, and become one with the stars.

The whole Mafia thing saddens me. The Mafia just wanted a place to be alone. Mustache Girl just wants her home back. They could absolutely reconcile if they tried, but they each view each other as intrinsic obstacles to their fairly reasonable goals. :c

Conductor = the past Grooves = the future Now i understand the rivalry.

Queen Vanessa overreacted a bit.

prince: * going to dungeon * me: feels bad man * turns to next page * me: OMG IS THAT THE SNATCHER

Queen Vanessa has no chill

Welp... I did NOT expect the tale of Queen Vassena to be that much of a bombshell. This game is soooooo good!!

Imagine being the Prince. (Hella late, but who cares) You were with a tutor for a while. You finally go back to the kingdom and you decide to buy flowers for Vanessa. You pay the botanist, and you hear crying and someone’s rapid footsteps slowly fading away. You turn your head, but only see a blur of someone running into the alley (or what I can assume is an alley). You go back into the castle, where your princess is weeping terribly. Had you done something wrong? What was wrong? You attempt to ask, but guards grab you. You are now desperate to know what is wrong, yelling her name, but she can’t hear you anymore. The guards made sure you couldn’t get out of the dungeon, locking you up in tight chains. You rotted there, still not knowing your crime. Were the flowers bad? Did I say something wrong? Did I DO something wrong? Now I want us to try to describe how this would feel. (Thanks for reading this far btw!) Confusion would overwhelm you, mixed with anger, and sadness. Eventually you would be angry that you were punished for no crime. That rage would fill you up and you would have no idea how to take it out on Vanessa.. or just anyone. You wanted them to feel the same pain you did... but how? (CLIFFHANGER AAAAA)

Everybody gangsta till Queen Vanessa runs away crying

before storybook "this is cute" after storybook "this is dark"

Y'all talk about Vanessa and Snatcher, but... 1:30 CONDUCTOR HAS PECKING EYES. HE HAS EYES. THATS UN-PECKIN-BELIEVABLE.

00:25 Wait...There's Mafia Women? And they have the same shape? lmaoooooo

Me playing through Vanessa’s level: hey snatcher looks kinda like he has hair, maybe he’s her lover lol A week later after seeing the storybook; I...I was kidding

All comments sympathizing with the princess at all, or saying “all this just because she misinterpreted the prince and the flower girl” are just wrong. All the notes in the mansion show that well before she saw him “holding hands” with the flower girl she had an unhealthy obsession for him and was abusively possessive in their relationship. She literally banned bacon just because the prince enjoyed it, that’s abusive af. And when he said he was coming back for a weekend to visit, she vowed to make him stay by any means necessary. Clearly this was going to happen one way or another, she just needed any excuse. The prince is the real victim (obviously).

**Sees Prince in Vanessa's story** Me: "Meh, probably just some one-off character" **Prince starts having Snatcher features** Me: Now wait a Doug Dimmadamn minute

The Vanessa Story is sad, With the music it adds up how sad it is.

Everyone talking about vanessa n stuff, but can we take a second to appreciate how adorable baby grooves and conductor are?

I wonder if, even after the horrible things she did, Snatcher still loves Vanessa deep down.

Ok so to put it into perspective (since people's explaining comments for some reason are cut out in the middle) what these storybooks show us: Mafia's Grand Voyage: The mafia works either as janitor's or fish/seafood cooks in a factory. (kinda reminds me of "Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs", especially the island at the time where the sardines were their primary income) After being tired of their jobs, they decide to leave and search for a new home - however, they leave their women alone. After countless days of relaxing and searching, they finally found the island we know as Mafia Town today. (which is inspired by Santorini, a very well-known island in the Aegean sea owned by Greece) Conductor's (and) DJ Grooves Big dreams: It starts off with showing their homes when they were children. They were watching the Annual Bird Movie Awards on TV and saw a crow holding the trophy. (it could have been the very first Annual Bird Movie award; probably this crow became their idol) After getting the equipment and funding and even a key to the, at the time, empty Dead Bird Studios, the 2 discovered that they both had access to the studio and fought over the right of property. They settled on cutting it in half and produced their own movies inside their parts of the studio as well as having a growing rivalry between them. As we know thanks to the Finale boss fight, where Hat Kid and the winner of the ABMA have a Lil' heart-to-heart, the Conductor won every single time but once, Award 42, which DJ Grooves got. And so to this day they have been recording train-related Western on the one side and Party and Parade movies on the other. The Tale of Queen Vanessa (by far the most changing and interesting story): We get to know, that the Prince and Princess Vanessa were a happy couple, living in the then "normal" Subcon Forest. (which still looked like it could resemble the Black Forest in Germany just to give an example) In between the first and second page, the trip of the Prince for his studies happened, as we know this from her diary entries when we enter her bedroom in the (spooky) Manor, which was the home of both the Prince and her. He got the time with his female tutor, whilst Vanessa only got letters and became jealous. After her mother, the Queen had died, she was crowned Queen Vanessa. She was sad about it though, as her lovely prince wasn't gonna be crowned King for another while. Later the prince comes back finally. Vanessa went for a little walk inside the Subcon Village, meeting the Minions and Dweller's, who were normal wood creatures and humans at the time. She sees the prince holding hands with another woman and runs away, heart-broken and full of tears. In reality tho, the prince gave the woman, a florist, money to buy a bunch of flowers for Vanessa. Back at the Manor, the prince wants to clear things up for Vanessa, but she wasn't listening to him, as she became he possessed shadowy self we know her today. The prince was taken away by guards into the Basement, where he was chained. He was possessed himself and became The Snatcher. His shadow figure, who, well, now makes the calls inside the forest, saw everything grow dark too, he became insane. And so to this day, Snatcher is collecting souls and continues to be a jerk, while Vanessa continues to wander around her Manor and freeze anyone she captures. The Twilight Ascent: This is by far the hardest to understand the story. It shows an old goat wandering through the desert and making his way to a hill, seeing the place, that would become Alpine Skyline. He made his ascent to the peak, where the Twilight Bell hangs today,. I have the theory that he meditated and ascended into a higher form, forming the constellations of stars. Somehow other goats made their way or were created by those constellations. The Twilight Bell formed and every time you ring it, you go into this Old Goat's new home in another dimension. You can even see the Ghost Goats over there, they might be the remains of dead goats, now wandering around in the Twilight dimension. I found it exciting to read about the backstories and theorizing about some of the possible outcomes. Lemme know if you liked it or if you have anything to add or correct.

Poor snatcher I just wanna hug him and tell him I’m sorry! Grooves and conductor are so cute to!!!

*Spoilers ahead* Well... if you read the notes around Vanessa’s manor, it becomes clear this overreaction wasn’t a one-time thing. Even at her normal state she tore to shreds anything what connected her prince to other things. She even mentions she wants to keep him in chains and forbids bacon in the house, because he might love it more than her. ... So yeah... i feel we have a realy creepy mental problem here xS Poor Snatcher.

Just saying, in the basement of Queen Vanessa's Manor, if you use the Forest Dweller's Hat, you can see an outline of someone on the wall... I guess we all know who the outline belonged to then.

Learning about Vanessa and Snatcher really makes me love Snatcher more as a character, understanding why he can be so cold at times is due to his heartbreak is really nice.

Wait so.... Queen Vanessa got jealous over him going to the florist... to get flowers for _her_ !? And then locks him in a dungeon!? Wow, talk about obsessive, holy crap.

Holy frick the Queen Vanessa one is dark as hell

me sees prince: ok he is cool me seeing him turning into the snatcher: *OMFG THIS IS BETTER*

Damn, snatchers story is dark. Thrown in a dungeon only to rot to darkness, sadness, and fear... I love that character

Prince: Thanks for the flowers *shakes hand* Vanessa: Wonder were the prince is *GASP* *sees him shaking the flower woman’s hand* Vanessa: He is 100% cheating on me. Prince: hey Vanessa I bought you flowe- Vanessa: k go to prison.

1:59 O O F that knife

If you think about it. When you are going to Vanessa's manor Snatcher doesn't let you use any of your hats or there ability. And as well as Snatcher doesn't even think or want Vanessa dead. It's very sweet to know that Snatcher still loves her, but doesn't show it..

Snatcher buying flowers: Meanwhile Queen Vanessa: how dare you lay thine hand upon another girl

I’m 99% sure that Snatcher and the Lady were just shaking hands after he got the flowers.

Prince: *shakes hand resembling a thank you to the woman who sold the flowers to him for Vanessa* Vanessa:so you have chosen... death.

So Vanessa was once a beautiful princess who fell in love with the prince. Then she became a monster when it felt like the prince betrayed her. Then Vanessa's overreacting caused her subjects to suffer as well. So basically, a mixture of Malificent and the Beast

Dude, I didn't know that the prince was Snatcher in the past, I freacking cryed!! 😭💔

My mouth dropped when I first found all the pages and read the story of Vanessa, only then to relize the Snatcher WAS the prince

The dislikes are from the prince and his alternative accounts

Wow the queen Vanessa book escalated quickly

Snatcher: "Buys flowers" Vanessa: *So you have chosen death*

Vacation Rivalry Broken Heart Star

I wish they made one about Hat Kid or Mustache Girl Lel why so many likes?

Theory: Why snatcher tried to keep the time pieces is because he want’s to go back in time to get flowers for Vanessa once again but has to tell her so he won’t rot in the dungeon and to have his true love to come back to normal

Vanessa’s story is the most intense heartbreak story I’ve ever seen

I have a story, it's called *"Never trust the one that bleeds"* Once a young man, he wanted to find the secrets of the universe; a passion he shared ever since childhood. He started to lose hope when he was 30 years old, starting the think there are no secrets of the universe; one day however made him forget those thoughts as he found a pearl that was crimson red, in his words he said that "It looked like it could bleed any second.". This orb however told the many secrets of the universe and he wanted to tell the tail to all his friends, family and loved ones. But he noticed how they all scream in terror and say "DON'T LOOK, OR IT TAKES YOU!!" The more and more he tried, the more and more people he made go insane, until he too lost his sanity to the orb. People say when looking at this man's glare whoever have nightmares of going down a hallway that looked like the inside of a throat. There hands and eyes that bleed look at you and say distorted and reversed yelling like "Don't look, or *it* takes you..." The man found out about this and realized that his victims disappear down a bloody hallway, never ending suffering and never ending guilt. He isolated himself from the world and swore a promise: Those that go into his hiding place shall be killed, before they go down that bloody hallway. Because he didn't want people to suffer pain and to live in fear for eternity all because of him. And he said to himself before he left "Finding and learning the secrets of the universe was not worth this... That people had to suffer for the rest of their afterlife, *all because of me...."* This story was inspired by a mod called *The Snatcher's Scavenger Hunt* And one of the jumscares was going down a hallway that looked like the inside of a throat and there, hands reach out screaming in pain. At the end lies 2 red eyes and A Hat Kid wooden replica with a mask with just its mouth before *it takes you* back to Hat Kid's room. I'd draw this myself, but I am still practicing, but if any animators out there that want to do this you totally can, but please just give me credit. Thank you for listening my story with me!

1)Oh...So thats how Mafia arrived the island! Wait,is there a female ma- 2) They are so *cute* !!! 3)Dang...Queen Vanessa was trully a yandere. Poor Snatcher! 4).....Uhhhh ,I'm sorry but, *wha???*

Because of Misunderstanding, she thinks the prince love another woman. And the prince actually went to buy flowers from female seller for his true love (the queen). Page 3 or 4: the prince pay and give money to female seller and the queen came in wrong moment and misunderstanding is happened 💔 Misunderstanding may destroy a good life forever. Sorry about my English 😅

Everyone: Poor Vanessa And Snatcher... Me: *_About to make a that’s how mafia works joke about _**_0:57_*

waitin for new dlc where you become snatcher and vanessa's couples counselor

Snatcher must be thinking how much Vanessa hates flowers.

Mustache girl backstory: Mustache girl was once a happy little girl, strolling along the roads and smiling and waving to people. Eventually, the Mafia arrived on their island, so Mustache girl went over to them and greeted them kindly. But then, the Mafia rudely shoved her out of the way and began ruining the place and drawing graffiti on the walls. Mustache girl tried to make them stop, but they just laughed at all her attempts. Soon the place had became mafia town. Upset, she eventually went into hiding. In a hat in time seal the deal (the game's dlc) There's a storybook for Mustache girl. I suppose she eventually changed over time, and wanted revenge on the mafia, which most likely explains her hatred for them.

“I will buy flowers for you.” *GASP* HOW DARE YOU! *wat*

Everyone: A Hat In Time is soooo cute!! Vanessa: No

The 'music' that plays while reading storybooks is so simple, yet really nice to listen to for some reason.

i personally wish there was a storybook for "the illness"

I feel so bad for my man Snatcher, he can't live his life without having Vanessa jealous. We're at the point where if he sneeze and someone says "bless you" Vanessa would just straight up decapitate her/him

I can’t look at Snatcher the same way again. ;-;

Snatcher: I give you money for flowers for girl Flowerist: ok Venessa: he touch her hand he no love me Later Snatcher: I bring you flowers Venessa: die you cheated on me Snatcher: Wait no I was ju- Venessa: I dont wanna hear your lies I'm evil now Snatcher: I is sed I die no Venessa: I is sed I evel now And that's why subcon forest is scary and dark and sadistic and masochistic and everything else wrong

Vanessa looked like a real cutie, shame she was bonkers.

Mafia: I don't really know who to go with here. The mafia just wanted a place that they dont have to work and moustache girl just wants her home back. Conductor and Grooves: *sho cute, I can't pick.* Vanessa: She really overreacted. No. 1. There are a million reasons that snatcher would be around another woman, especially a flower shop. Secondly, there is no reason to rip out everything in your room because you saw your Boyfriend/Fiancé/Husband around someone else. Also, Snatcher really had a reason for Vanessa, but because she was so stubborn, she didnt give him a chance to explain. She didn't even look at him! She sent him into the dungeon to rot because of a crime that could have been proven innocent with one look at Snatcher and a couple of words. Snatcher loved her, he doesn't even let you attack her, but he doesn't know what went wrong. He thinks that he has done something terrible and does not know how he went wrong, and has lost the love of his life because of it. He can only take out the hatred on everyone else because he does not want to hurt Vanessa. (N/A)

Queen Vanessa's story, the only story with 2 interesting characters origins at the same time

Almost everyone is talking about vanessas story. BUT ONLY A FEW APPRECIATE BABY GROOVES AND CONDUCTOR

I NEVER KNEW SNATCHER WAS VANESSA'S GIRL! Dang Snatcher...I feel bad for ya man...used to have a crown but now all you have is a top hat.

Man, dont you just hate it when your gf locks u up in your basement and freezes your entire kingdom over a simple misunderstanding

Snatcher has The most saddest back story honestly He was only getting her flowers 💐 And Vanessa locked him up ‘-‘

Amazing how a story can be told without words.

I like that they decided to add backstory to the characters this way.

The music really adds to the surreal feeling of this section of the game

So...is it confirmed that the Snatcher was actually the prince?

A whole chapter could’ve been avoided, or at least less scary, if one misunderstanding was avoided.

I was here for thrills not feels

Whoa the tale of queen vanessa turned to be quite dark

Wait wait wait so the Prince in queen Vanessa's story... is SNATCHER!?!?

2:16 Huh... I just realized those spirits with the dweller masks used to be children around the village before it was frozen over. Sheesh

its sad how snatcher was just buying flowers for vanessa but vanessa took it that snatcher is dating another girl

1:15 who that is adorable to the MAX!

I just realized the tears of the prince are the same color bottles that Snatcher tries to kill you with. 1. Snatcher’s tears kill you.. what? 2. He might be coping in some way by attacking you, as if his tears represent anger and sadness, and he’s taking it out on you.

people ship snatcher and vanessa? seriously? guys, their relationship was CLEARLY NOT STABLE

The conducter one has a nice arts style and I think I don't need to even talk about queen vanessa

Queen Vanessa thought that Snatcher was trying to cheat on her but really he was trying to buy flowers for her and then he got locked up and became what he is now

HE WAS JUST BUYING FLOWERS FOR YOU VENASSA

I just realized that actually, the Conductor and DJ Groove was not chilhood friends. Look closely, they lived in different houses, it's a two different backgrounds and it's has a break in the middle of the photo, that mean they wasn't in the same room. When they found each other in adult age, it's was the first time they met.

I honestly think that DJ Grooves or The Conductor woudnt be where they are right now if not for eachother their rivalry is what motivates them to always outdo eachother.

Seeing Snatcher in Queen Vanessa's book was a biggest plot twist I saw in my life

Queen Vanessa story is sad but wheres the body of the prince