A baffling thing to me with the hazbin fandom is that people seem to have selective willingness to engage with the story. Some characters must be interpreted uncharitably while other characters get to be nuanced.
Vaggi's helping redeem sinners out of guilt for her past? No, it's just Charlie's dream and she doesn't actually care! Vaggi spared Lute because she doesn't consider sparing that child a mistake? No, she's just cruel to Lute because she hates her! If you make these arguments, you're told that "the writing isn't that deep" and you've just read too much fanfic or are projecting. But then other characters get all sorts of dissections into why they do what they do! Alastor tells Rosie he'll let them all die in Hear my Hope because he's a self-serving antagonist? No, it was just leverage to get his staff but he really does care! (And hey, maybe that ends up being true later, but the point is coming to that conclusion now.)
Spring-boarding off that, on a less rant-y note... Theories have been going around about Lute's exclusion in the pride merch. I've seen a few people say they think it's because it's a spoiler, and she and Vaggi were romantic at one point. Do you have any thoughts? I think you've said you don't like her much; would her being with Vaggi in the past make that better or worse?
Oh and happy pride!
Yeah, anon, the characters that some don't like or don't find interesting seem to get the most surface-level "understanding," but the characters they do like? Oh, they can write entire theses on them. They always tell on themselves.
As for the Pride merch, I've seen some people joke that she wasn't included because "she really is homophobic" and that "she isn't beating the homophobia allegations." I did chuckle at the latter, not gonna lie. But that is a good point about it possibly being a spoiler about her and Vaggi possibly being some sort of item—I didn't think about that. Regarding any thoughts I may have on it, you're right: I'm one of lute's biggest haters, but if it's revealed that she and Vaggi were fooling around in the past...I guess it'd make sense as to why she's still stuck on Stupid over Vags, but at the same time, I would be a little disappointed, I think(?). Disappointed because, well, why couldn't it have been a friendship that had gone all kinds of left? I don't think it always has to be lovers-to-enemies sort of deal. And if it is, was it a moment of weakness ? Or did they actually want to try their hand at a relationship? I think it's just the bias in me, but out of all the women in the army, she chose lute? How did it come about?
Really, I just want to know why she has it out for Vaggi so badly. What in the world did she do? That's what I'm interested in. Her being straight or not isn't something I'm focused on because I just want to know what Vaggi did that was so unforgivable. 😂
And Happy Pride to you, too, anon!
