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During his human life Vox listened to Alastor's radio show exactly once, while on vacation as a child

Alastor physically cannot stop smiling, he's stuck like that

Niffty didn't sell her soul to Alastor. She just got bored of being an overlord, and she thinks he's funny

Husk almost died eight times as a human, which is why his hell form is a cat

Vaggie was very lonely in heaven but never expressed her feelings because heaven was supposed to be perfect, and she feared that feeling that way was her fault

Valentino tried to get clean several times throughout his human life but always went back to crime, drugs, and toxic lovers (like a moth to a flame)

Pentious and Baxter were genuinely good friends at first, but the relationship soured over time

Baxter was Pentious's first friend

Pentious is Sera's first human friend

Charlie didn't have friends her own age as a child, which led to her struggles in relating to her friends as an adult

Lucifer has literally gone years without speaking or getting out of bed before

Velvette sometimes goes days without sleeping

One on one Velvette could take Valentino in a fight, but it would be difficult, and they'd both be ugly crying by the end of it

Both Velvette and Valentino could destroy Vox in a brawl

Sometimes Angel Dust vents to Niffty about work

Angel Dust speaks English and Italian fluently, and is conversational in Yiddish due to his neighbors speaking it as he was growing up

Alastor does not know how to use a smartphone but does own an old flip phone (which he abhors)

Mimzy had Alastor hide several bodies for her while they were alive, their remains were never found

Alastor gave Niffty her aprons, she has three of them

Before Angel Dust brought his angelic steel filled guns to defend the hotel, no angel had ever died by bullet (during that battle, he killed several exterminators who literally didn't know what hit them)

Rosie is a romantic soul who was genuinely in love with her husbands. She still ate them, as well as several other of her paramours throughout the years

Watching her parents' marriage deteriorate genuinely affected Charlie and led to a period of poor mental health during her adolescence (which she compensates for as an adult with intense positivity)

Vox did a lot of cocaine when he was alive

Alastor smokes weed alone in his room but only when he feels safe

It’s the pride parade, Alastor is trying to call for Vox’s attention only to be ignored. There’s only one other way to get Vox’s attention instead 🤭

Something something about Alastor being sound and Vox being vision.

A bunch of Vox faces I drew for my laptop background. Feel free to use them for yourselves

Texts From Superheroes

As Season Two began it seemed a simple matter of viewing Vox's determination to tank the hotel's already meagre reputation as an extension of his feelings towards Alastor. He only begins paying attention to the hotel in the first place because he knows Alastor is living there. When visiting in person the very first thing he does is ask after Alastor. The hotel and it's reputation are important to Vox but only because he thinks they are important to Alastor. It is useful to him only as much as it can be used as a tool to gain Alastor's attention/approval. But then we consider the flashback, and most importantly, the offer of partnership that was the catalyst for the downfall of their relationship.

All of Vox's motives have to be reconsidered in light of the confirmation that this is more than hatred or lust or a mix of both. Vox, quite possibly for the first time in his life, felt a genuine connection with someone. Not only were there romantic feelings involved but also a very real desire for an equal partnership, a willingness to share the pedestal with someone instead of killing them off to gain power for himself. For the first time in his life Vox had found someone who he perceived as an equal to himself instead of as a threat to the spotlight, and he had that newfound vulnerability thrown back in his face immediately, rebuffed in the most degrading, embarrassing way it possibly could have been in that moment.

70 years later and Vox is watching as Alastor - the guy who told him "there are no friends in Hell", the person who taught him that partnership is vulnerability, that everyone's a predator if you're stupid enough to bare your throat for them - is seemingly perfectly happy working with Charlie Morningstar on a project as ridiculous as redemption. Vox offered him all of Hell in exchange for his partnership and got aggressively turned down, only for Al to show up for a tacky hotel on the brink of collapse for the sake of a woman he doesn't even believe in.

The hotel means more to Vox than a simple object of Alastor's desires. It's a slap in the face to his offer in that bar 70 years ago. It's a betrayal of everything Alastor told him, everything that shattered their bond. It's a gaping insecurity lit up in flashing neon signs, 'If I wasn't good enough for you, then why is she? If all of Hell wasn't enough for you, then what's so good about that place?'