It's not the likes of you that I'm trying to impress
But it seems the will of the hat-- but I digress.

[It gives him pause to think of a rhyme for "Equius" and for a moment, he seems to flicker from an angry, sloppy, unshaven man into and angry, clean-shaven, slightly effeminate man with the same hair and eye colour... but the image doesn't last. Must be a fault in the SFC's video]

What kind of a curse? Whose doing?