Would love to see Alastor remind Vox of his own words.
Like Velvette, still understandably furious at the forced apology to Carmilla, brings ipad Vox to the hazbin hotel to make him apologise.
Not because she feels guilty or thinks they need to. She just wants to see Vox suffer a little ironic payback.
He protests, trying to turn off or shove up a screensaver which is as close to avoiding eye contact as a screen without a neck can get, bjt vel keeps pressing the screen on button.
Charlie is more cautious about their intentions this time but also very excited at the idea that even Vox could be capable of redemption if he starts with sorry...
She has been restrained from singing at least 4 times so far.
After a strong shake like he was a misbehaving etch a sketch, Vox finally mumbles a begruding almost apology. "Im.... sorry if my attempt to overthrow heaven, stop the exterminations your family cursed us with and (becomethenewgod) upset you when it backfired and shit."
Vaggi doesnt get a chance to even raise that Vox's attempt didnt even come to a real apology and also what was that last bit...? Before hysterical laughter filled the room as shadows coalesced before the unrepentent ipad and his doll of a stand.
"Oh ho ho, Vincent, what a terrible happening to find you once more in the hotel and lying through your teeth to the naive staff. Do tell what makes you think you have the right to trespass after your deplorable behaviour, hmmm?"
Vox crackled with static and snow, snarling.
"Oi, you shut the fuck up too, deer boy... you goaded this fucking idiot into half of it with your little jabs and playing off his weird obssessive thing for you. You should apologise too for that, and for your freaky bug daughter bitch thing ruining my hair!"
Alastor blinked and laughed harder. "Why, i dont recall giving any orders dear Velvette... if The picturebox here decided to show his true colours and treat you poorly in his thwarted ascent to deification... tbat is on the little fool. I merely came to see if Vincent here wanted to make good on his little threat?"
"Fuck off with that, you old bastard, you just twisted what little brain he had in there around to play your own game. Thats why he turned on me and val. But since you're done playing puppet master, we've sealed the cracks, and when vox earns body priviledges again, the vees will be coming for you..."
Alastor wrinkles his nose.
"An unfortunate turn of phrase... do not use it again."
Velvette rolls her eyes. "You'd be so lucky if i bothered, old man but you're not my type..."
"Why yes, i did note your interest in Carmilla. Looking for a, how does the phrase go...? Ah, dommy milf mommy, yes?" Alastor fired back lethally with all the care of someone asking about ankthers garden this june.
Velvette actually drops vox in her outrage and shock that an ancient geezer even knows those words.
Vox buffers as tendrils pick him up off the floor with the delicacy of one using the least contact possible to remove a squashed roach from tbe floor and relocate it to the trash.
Alastor ignores Vaggi's confused and accusatory, 'who taught him that? I am going to take your dessert priviledges when i find hou', to grin at Vox.
"So, old pal, given that you nearly brpke all of hell on your egomaniacal, and frankly rizzless, clamber for godly power, in which you isolated allies and showed your weakness to all with eyes... do you have anything left to live for?"
Charlie tugged at his arm. "Al, we dont promote suicide here." She admonished sternly.
"Oh perish the thought princess, i merely meant that the fool has finally stopped long enough to consider the things he so easily aped and cast aside in his quest for power. Always looking for a new identity to mimic as he rose up the ladder. Why, just ask him about how he formed his media empire on earth, its a rivetingly bloody tale of a man who couldnt ever find a sense of self and perpetually stole it from others to feel like a real human being."
"Fuck you! You think you're better than me you old hack? Youre just as much a serial killer as me, asshole, did you tell these soft hearted freaks you aligned with that? Bet you didnt... at least i can trust vel and val with my secrets."
"Can you though? Your embellishes tales of the cult you led seem to avoid the truth behind your motives, how you impersonated and climbed over the corpses of dozens of people over and over again. How you liked having those about you who were programmable, were not a threat... and something to discard. How easily you dropped the other vees the moment it suited... do they know you see them as pawns?"
"Shut up, just shut the fuck up! You ruined EVERYTHING i could have torn down heaven and ruled but you, you just couldn't let me succeed because you, what, aligned with the drippy princess? And for what? You couldve been one of the original vees and you tossed tbat aside and laughes in my face, if anyones fucked in the head, its you Al!"
"Hmmm, perhaps. But you cant help but blame others for your own innates failires, can you, vincent... why, i do recall warning you of this outcome. And i believe you replied something specific... what was it now? Oh yes."
Vox's eyes widen as radio dials spin into place and his own voice emanated from the clenched, glowing teeth. "You can say your last I Told You So while i slit your throat..."
Whatever clever statement the deer was about to dangle over the ipad's head was drowned out by a horrified, "He was going to kill you?!"
Three three overlords shared a very pointed look between them.
"Er, didnt you teach blondie how overlords work, red?" Velvette asked, waving at the soppy yet furious princess standing several feet away with clenched fists.
"Overlord or not, i wont have someone threatening people that matter to me, and especially not when thry let themselves get captured to protect me..."
Alastor's ears went flat in horror. "Charlotte, that was merely a byproduct of a far larger matter that-..."
How to stop her taking this out of context so severely?
Velvette notices the general look of mutes panic on Alaator's face and cant help but laugh