the center of this man's attention

Travis, Ethan, the moth door girls, Kitty and, of course, Angel, are there though. And Ethan is the one making it weird, because maybe it could've been a team Valentino thing (which is still... a choice!), but nah. Ethan's here. And it's a public party... where the Vees are not wishing Valentino a happy birthday :0

Man, I'm really hoping they take Val's abusive tendencies and its impacts on his relationships as far as it can be taken, because like... yeah. Like it's canon that Vox and Velvette didn't sing happy birthday to him. It's just canon. Idc if they try and retcon this aspect of the dynamic in the future, I'm fucking LOOKING at it.

And let's never forget that yk, Vox and Velvette are also Valentino victims, and we are introduced to them as such. I know people love to baby Valentino to fit in some stereotypical (*coughs haggardly*) boxes, but his four hands are rated E for everyone. We have SEEN with our eyes that he: ruined Velvette's show, broke Vox's screen, and... I mean we have more than seen Angel Dust getting the full monty, fucking 'ell.

Also, follow up on me wondering why Melissa wears the basic employee uniform at the Heaven Takeover party... she's not invited either. Which is interesting to me. Velvette's staff experience femicidal blood baths, and her personal assistant gets treated like an average employee... Getting a strong whiff of misogyny up in here.

Idk maybe this is a nothingburger but it means a lot to me, and makes me feel very vindicated in how I'm writing this fic rn. Like, basically, when Val feels lonely... he goes to Angel. Where his partners in crime should be the ones wishing him well, they can't/don't/won't. And he has Angel do it instead. We also get a blink-and-you'll-miss-it of this when he's talking about how Vox won't have freaky public sex with him like Angel (which also, he did at Velvette's launch party. So another of Velvette's things that he scandalises without a care...)

Think of the drama of Vox trying to give Valentino lashings about this, and the anger Val was taking out on Angel was because of him and Velvette not coming to his birthday.

Also counting the candles, there's 10... The fucking concept of Valentino being cumulatively 100 years old. Do you know how fucking juicy it would be if Vox and Velvette skipped or were not invited to his centenary. Like that's a BIG one... the fucking cinematics, bro.