I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but
In the scene where Vox captures Lucifer, I noticed that instead of being mad that Alastor was fighting someone else, it was more as if he was upset that they both weren’t focusing on him. As he tells them when he stops their fighting, “This is my moment.”
He echos this again when Valentino and Velvette intervenes his (mass) murder-suicide attempt. He says this backing away from them, hunching in on himself with a droopy antenna (the one we know isn’t damaged), gesturing to himself, and his voice distortion softens a bit to sound more human when he says “This is my moment.”
Adding on to this, Vox does see Valentino and Velvette as his family. In “When I Think About the Future,” Vox refers to his relationship with them as “playing house.” Applying this context to the scene, Vox feels like his family is taking away his moment again
To me, this feels more like someone who had always been neglected any attention as a kid from their parents.
With Valentino being silhouetted in the frame and him being taller than Vox, it kinda looks like a kid begging their parent to give them attention.
In his taunting of Charlie, Vox tells her that “You are a pale imitation of your mother, and she’d be disgusted at the weak, pitiful failure you’ve become.” Vox specifically calls out failure, and he’s so angry saying these words to her when throughout the season, he enjoyed taunting her. Also throughout the season, we’ve seen how similar Vox and Charlie are. In this moment, he is seeing himself in Charlie. He’s speaking someone else’s words that were said to him. These words are a major part of the trauma he experienced at some point.
I say trauma because Lucifer calling him a failure is what started his flashback sequence in “Brighter.” He specifically saw himself as a failure as a weatherman until he started killing people.
I made a post about this, but I honestly think Vox did like being a weatherman at one point. As to why: here. But that begs the question: who caused his trauma? It wasn’t Alastor because he didn’t know Alastor till he died. Alastor is the surrogate or the substitute that Vox projects these feelings on. It had to be someone as important to him as Alastor.
Looking back at the shot of Vox calling Charlie a “failure,” there’s this odd fallen piece of cloth that I couldn’t really tell what it was. Curtain? Table cloth? But then it clicked in my head, doesn’t it look like a blouse or the top of a dress? There’s this bust line- I know we like the Voobs ™ but this looks very much like a feminine figure that is placed on top of Vox’s imagine- making Vox “a pale imitation of” a woman. His mother.
His mother was probably very emotionally neglectful and abusive that never gave him much attention. His mother was probably also a very successful and famous entertainer that never let her son have a moment that made him feel special and thought he was a failure.
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