Are we gonna talk about Vox crying. At "I don't care. So long as I wipe that smug smile off Alastor's fucking face, I don't care what happens."

Or are we just gonna ignore he was going to commit suicide over Alastor?

Rant positively inspired by this reblog: ⬇️

Truthfully, I’m so fcking tired of all the ship discourse surrounding Alastor’s asexuality.

The lack of tolerance in this fandom is unbelievable. It’s disappointing. It’s hypocritical.

More importantly, many of the people trying to “police” Alastor’s character in fanmade-works don’t seem to realize they’re invalidating ace experiences like my own.

Asexuality is a spectrum—something that’s been carefully explained in countless posts since the pilot episode aired. Yet, every day, people in the Hazbin fandom continue to make truly ignorant, and (sometimes cruel) assumptions about a life they’ve never lived.

I’m in my 30s. I’ve never been kissed… I still have my friggin V-card.

That said, I’m tired of everyone assuming that just because I don’t crave sex, I’m incapable of a romantic or even a sexual relationship. Sure, I don’t seek sex out. I rarely even think about it. But just because I’m not inherently drawn to it doesn’t mean I’m repulsed by it—or afraid of it. It just means it’s not something I naturally want.

With the right person though? I might be open to it, just as I’d be open to watching their favorite show or going to their favorite restaurant.

Yes, there are asexual people who are sex-repulsed—and their feelings and experiences absolutely matter. But they are not the only ones who exist. They are not the only ones who deserve representation.

(More damning?These people are not the ones acting vile online)

And here’s the biggest point: Alastor is an imaginary character.

He doesn’t need your help. He doesn’t need your protection.

But the person on the other side of the screen? Real.

The artist whose page you left a hate comment on? Real.

The author who poured pieces of their own experiences into a fanfic? Real.

Real. Real. Real.

You want to help? You want to protect? You want to validate asexual voices?

Then stop preaching—and listen to us. All of us. Even the “weird” ones who don’t fit neatly into your worldview.

If that’s too much for you? Then at least remember, at the end of the day, you control the content you consume.

If you don’t like a ship, block the tag.

If you don’t want romance or smut, use tags like “Queerplatonic Relationship” or “Sex-Repulsed Alastor.”

Please—just let the rest of us enjoy our fandom in peace.

And if you can’t stand to have your worldview stretched beyond your prejudices of how a proper ace should be? Or you refuse to be tolerant and learn how to respectfully coexist with people you disagree with?

Then maybe you are not ready to watch a series meant for “mature audiences”.

Usually when you see a megalomaniacal villain capturing the disinterested object of their affections, there's this pervasive background (and occasionally foreground) looming threat of sexual assault coming if the captive doesn't play their cards and the unstable emotions of their captor just right. And yes, the captives are usually female in these scenarios - but this show doesn't shy away from showing sexual assault and the threat thereof, does so specifically with male characters, and I'm confident that if that was the vibe they wanted, they would 100% have gone for it.

But, like... Vox is out here running the Radio Demon humiliation circuit in a way that, if you pay attention to it, is 50% Vox Humiliation circuit. He goes on live TV to show his doodles about whether this guy nobody cares about that much has a fucking tail; he takes Alastor on a one-sided milkshake date and puts two straws in the drink. Furthermore, he parades Alastor around and yanks him every which way, but at no point does he actually try to make Alastor do anything.

Yes, it's humiliating and Alastor is clearly on his last, exhausted nerve. But at no point does Vox manage to genuinely threaten Alastor, and at no point does Alastor feel threatened. His response to Alastor going, "Mm, no!" to answering a question Vox admits to having been holding for over 70 years isn't to threaten to torture it out of Alastor, it's, "Seriously?!"

Alastor is fantastic at needling and manipulating Vox this entire episode, but the one point where I think he actually falls through is when he pushes too hard about Vox still needing him at the end of their duet, and it's why Vox gets the upper hand at the end of that song - because Alastor is wrong! Vox doesn't need him. Vox never needed him. But Vox wanted him, because they were friends. And he still wants him, to an absolutely crippling degree that has him making handshake deals in the street even as he openly acknowledges that they sound too good to be true.

He's pissed, he's hurt, he's a narcissistic and egotistical psycho, but doesn't actually care about whatever he can take from Alastor's unwilling body. He wants Alastor to say 'yes' and mean it when Vox offers him a Sazerac, because what he really wishes is that they were celebrating together.

This mf took his captive on a 1950s milkshake date.

SO UH

GUESS WHAT HE DOES WHILE REJECTING VOX'S OFFER TO BE PARTNERS???????

ARE

SO

FUCKING

BAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKK

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The classic angry table clawing - everyone knows that one:

Smiling for heightened control and influence (and smiling through annoyance):

The [demonic shock] [slow head turn] [extra filtered voice] "haha, what did you [just] say?" scenes:

These scenes, at the beginning and end of Stayed Gone:

Depicting themselves as a member of a religious institution to vie for the audience's trust:

NO ONE WILL CONVINCE ME THAT THIS IS ONE SIDED.

HE WAS HIDING HIS FACE ALOT AND HIS EYES ARE FULL OF REGRET.

IN THE FIRST PICTURE IT SHOWS HOW ALASTOR USUALLY SMILES ITS MORE SHARP AND FORCED. THE SECOND PICTURE ITS SOFTER AND GENUINE.