You can't kill me in a way that matters.

I have had this idea in mind and been thinking about for daaaaays, so! imagine with me: On the 40th anniversary of their partnership, exactly one month before Velvet joined the Vees in 2016, Vox presented Valentino with a garden rose containing 14,600 flowers: a rose for every day of their partnership. He didn’t just pick any roses: the blooms marking their first decade were old garden roses, carefully sourced from Rosie, the only demon in Hell able to provide flowers grown in the mortal world. These winter-blooming roses mirrored the season when their original partnership deal was made, while the rest of the garden drew from exotic regions, mostly the lust ring, chosen to correspond with the seasonality of each decade’s bloom. Vox engineered the arrangement so that 3,560 roses would bloom separately each season, and nestled among the winter roses was a single genetically modified “queen of the night” that would bloom only on the exact date of their anniversary. From the very first decade onward, Vox meticulously planned the flowers’ placement so that when the garden reached full bloom, the petals would form a heart. Over the years, Valentino adds roses for every additional day of their partnership, layering meaning, color, and origin into the design. This garden is site of Vox’s rallies during season 2 and was destroyed during his mental breakdown in the finale. Later, when Vox is begging for his body back from the Vees, Valentino insists on a single condition: Vox must replant the entire garden himself, two hours a day, without powers or technological aid, which would take about seven years. Vox accepts almost immediately to get back to Val's good graces and prove himself and whatnot Also! On the day Vox personally visited Rosie to commission the roses for his anniversary garden, Alastor happened to stop by. He asks Rosie why Vox was there out of curiosity and a smidge of paranoia. When she explained, Alastor’s expression twisted in visible disgust; the extravagance struck him as excessive, pathetic, and so typically Vox. and Rosie jokes, “Well, imagine what he’d have done if you were the one who had accepted his partnership offer all those years ago.” Alastor chuckles dryly. “Never would have happened. But even in that hypothetical scenario, I’m sure Vox would have turned the day into a garish, over-the-top spectacle. Perhaps he would have declared a national holiday, or offered me the Pearly Gates as a present—some ridiculous display, the likes of which only he could conceive.” and Rosie smirks knowingly at Alastor shaking his head, amused despite himself.

so english is not my native tongue, and i just found out the term "lame duck" means "officeholder who's not running for reelections" GUYS IS THIS WHY LUCIFER IS OBSSESSED WITH DUCKS?! I'M-