use a vpn or else you’ll contract ligma like Vox

He caught the malware :(

THINK ABOUT IT!!!!! The parallels between Val and Ozzie are obvious. Like that man wants to be Ozzie so bad it's insane, from the way he dresses to the way he decorates to straight up OWNING A ROBO FIZZ, Val clearly wishes he was the embodiment of Lust. But are there parallels between Vox and Fizz? Actually, surprisingly yeah. They're both showmen, like aggressively so. They're very public figures, with their face all over every product in Hell(albeit Vox is doing it a lot more purposefully then Fizz). Fizz's antagonism towards Blitzø is actually pretty reminiscent of Vox's towards Alastor(except Fizz and Blitzø have a lot more baggage lmao), and they even share some aesthetic similarities! Specifically the colors of Fizz's robotic limbs matching Vox's overall color scheme. Which speaking of robots, that's probably their biggest similarity overall: they're both partially made of technology. I hesitate to say cyborg because Idk how much that applies to Vox, since object heads aren't typically classified as cyborgs as far as I know, and we don't actually know how much of Vox is organic(also cyborg is just one of those words I have an inexplicable dislike of Idk-), but like. Think cyborg I guess. Like Vox is a LOT more of a dick and probably doesn't have a very tragic backstory? Maybe? Unclear. But the similarities are undeniable.

Okay, now that individual parallels are out of the way, how could their relationship to eachother parallel Fizzmodeus? Starting with baseline aesthetics: they got the height difference. It's not as dramatic as Fizz and Ozzie's but TO BE FAIR, Huskerdust are the same way(their height difference is obvious, but not as massive as Blitzø and Stolas'). Staticmoth is also very buisness-partners-with-benefits and some hints at deeper feelings, which is how we were introduced to Fizzmodeus. I don't think Val and Vox feel the need to hide their romantic feelings? But tbh it could go either way we haven't seen much of their dynamic yet. That's kinda where the similarities I could spot find because see previous sentence, so let's move onto the differences!

I think a good way to breakdown what makes Staticmoth toxic Fizzmodeus is actually by bringing Alastor and Blitzø back in to compare and contrast how Val handles Vox's rivalry with how Ozzie handles Fizz's. In Radio Killed the Video Star, the only reason Val tells Vox that Alastor is at the hotel is to piss him off. He clearly enjoys Vox's reaction, and keeps egging him on. Teasing him about it. Which like, friendly teasing between partners is well and good, but Val is clearly just doing it cause he wants to see a fight and doesn't care about how distressed Vox is about this. Vox goes off on his own and sings a fuckin banger, gets publically humiliated, causes a massive blackout. Val doesn't really do shit to help him out, just kinda sits there and. Idk watches? Unclear what the other Vees are actually doing because most of Stayed Gone takes place in funny TV land where Vox is capable of bending reality to his whim for the sake of visual interest. But what Val is actively doing during the musical number isn't important so who cares. What's important is that he egged Vox on, convinced him that confronting Alastor right then was a good idea, and then just sat back as Vox got so pissed off he had a meltdown. Which I SWEAR I'm not trying to dramatize this scene it just sounds really fucking bad when you write it all down from this perspective. I think it's also worth noting that all of this is DIRECTLY AFTER Vox did the exact opposite for Val, calming him down so he doesn't make a fool of himself in public.

Meanwhile compare that to how Ozzie handles Fizz and Blitzø's relationship. During House of Asmodeus, once Fizz realizes Blitzø is there, he starts publically roasting him about how shitty his love life is. Ozzie encourages him, and even gives him a little congratualtions in the background when Verosika joins in for changing the subject, but the difference here is that House of Asmodeus takes place in a much more controlled environment, so it's less likely either of them will have to face consequences for being assholes. There's also how Ozzie's encouragement is just a lot more genuine. Like "yeah babe, go insult that guy who traumatized and abandoned you whoo!" rather then "hey hey look there's that guy you hate. You should go fight with him lmao show him who's boss." Then there's the ending. At the end of both Stayed Gone and House of Asmodeus, Vox and Fizz eat shit and die. Don't worry they're both fine like immediately after, but while in House of Asmodeus Ozzie immediately rushes over to Fizz to make sure okay, we uh. Do not see Vox interact with anybody but Alastor in the direct aftermath of his eating shit and dying, which is fair because he's in his weird little gamer cave. Then we skip straight to the Vees having a meeting to decide what they're gonna do about Alastor, and we don't really know what any of them were doing in the interim between the end of Stayed Gone and the meeting, so uh this part of the comparison kinda falls flat. But again something worth noting is that Val just straight up. Does not care about Alastor during the meeting scene. He's sitting there bedazzling his fucking gun BY HAND with school glue and rhinestones, not even paying attention to the meeting, despite being the one to get Vox all riled up about Alastor IN THE FIRST PLACE.

In short: Val encourages Vox to fight Alastor without thinking it through, doesn't bother to help out during the actual fight, and then immediately stops caring the moment the fights over. Meanwhile Ozzie, while encouraging Fizz to pick on Blitzø, backs him up the whole time, and while still supportive of his boyfriend, doesn't actively encourage Fizz to do things that would get him hurt. Ozzie also supports Fizz by refusing to let Blitzø have an Asmodean crystal because he knows Fizz wouldn't like it! Which is the exact opposite of pissing your partner off on purpose so you can watch a fight!!! And if that isn't enough evidence for you, then uh. I guess you could compare how Val treats... just everybody around him, really, with how Ozzie does(but that's more individual character analysis than relationship analysis). Or you could talk about how fed up with Val's shit Vox clearly is in comparison to the mutual support of Fizzmodeus. Or how. Val throws a glass at Vox. And breaks his phone. And then Vox has to scream in his face to get him to listen-

As much as Levi adores being tickled, he cannot for the life of him actually say the word “tickle.” Just hearing someone say the word, no matter the context, will cause his face to heat up and his brain to turn to mush. So, no, saying that word is most definitely out of the question.

This is a fact that Erwin loves to exploit. He’ll subtly slip the word into casual conversation around other people, and watch Levi’s reaction: the Captain doesn’t even have the sense to glare at Erwin, he just freezes and turns red, and when someone asks him what’s wrong, he can barely gather the facilities needed to tell them that he’s fine.

Later, when they’re alone, Levi will confront Erwin about the incident, and Erwin will smile kindly and say, “You really don’t like that word, do you? I guess I’ll have to stop tickling you altogether, then, hmm? Since you hate it so much.” And Levi knows in the back of his mind that Erwin doesn’t really mean it, but panic shoots through him anyway at the idea of losing such intimacy, and he whines out a small, embarrassed, “No.”

“Ah, so you do want to be tickled?”

Levi nods. Erwin moves closer until Levi is trapped between his husband’s body and the footboard of the bed.

“Then ask for it, Levi,” Erwin whispers in his ear. Levi shivers. “Come on, you can do it,” Erwin encourages.

So Levi screws his eyes shut and clenches his fists in Erwin’s shirt and after four attempts, he finally manages to get the words out: “Will you t-tickle me… Please?”

Levi really likes being tickled but he’d be extremely hard-pressed to admit it out loud. Erwin knows anyway because Levi is always provoking him and why else would he do that if not for the simple fact that he enjoyed getting absolutely wrecked?

And Levi does it often, too. They’ll be eating breakfast and Levi will poke at Erwin’s side, or he’ll make excessive shit jokes at lunchtime, or at dinner, he’ll bring up an embarrassing story of the Commander, and well- what else is Erwin supposed to do? Levi needs to be punished, and if the shorter man just so happens to enjoy that punishment? Even better for both parties.

…Of course, that means Levi will never learn his lesson about messing with the Commander.

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Erwin took a pic of his grumpy babe.

Isn’t this a reward by itself? *suppressing a high pitched scream while appearing all composed and stuff*

Levi : Delusor [World Cosplay] Erwin : BNaumovski [World Cosplay]

Erwin Smith: BNaumovski [World Cosplay]

Levi: Delusor [World Cosplay] Photography: Mistiqarts [World Cosplay] Retouch: Borivoje Naumovski  [AVATAR.designs]