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In celebration of the new Zelda game coming out, Iām gonna be focusing and sharing a bit on my zelda inspired AU with Reshi and Allistor!!
Wardens are lesser gods and goddesses that control seasons, each one is revived after they have died by another warden and given their new powers/altered appearance.
After Allistorās revival, he is hesitant to accept that this small woman is really the Warden of Winter, buuut upon gaining wings he kinda starts to understand the situation.
This comic is based on a snipped that is taken from a larger written chapter of the au! Its just for funsies and I love them heheh
Happy halloween all you happy people! My halloween reviews continue with a bit of a change of plans. Originally for halloween I was going to review EVERY episode of Helluva Boss so far. But you know what they say about plans.Ā
To make a very long story your likely not intrested in short: I had enough slots to do two episodes at a time when I first PLANNED to do this, but eventually scaled back from doing 6 reviews a week, which was both stressing me out and making me fall further and further behind, to five and evetually 4, leaving me with not nearly enough space to do them unless I did them all in one big review.Ā
I decided the series was just TOO good to try and cram into one and itād be more fun spreading it out.Ā
The second was I put in a last minute goal in my failed pledge drive that allowed anyone who contributed to pick a goal for the drive depending on how much they spent. My longtime contributer WeirdKev27 was, not suprisingly the ONLY one to actually pitch in, so he picked Hazbin Hotel and This Duckburg Life, the latter comes out next month.Ā
So I decided to simply double up, putting the pilot of Helluva with the PIlot of Hazbin and having a Vinziepop double feature. I REALLY enjoyed the Hazbin Hotel pilot, and Helluva Boss is easily one of my faviorite shows of the 2020ā²s so far. So it was no big ask to the do the former nor staple on the latter. So join me inside as I examine one demonās quest to redeem other demons, and another demonās quest to make a shitload of money by shooting people in the face. Itās a helluva time under the cut.Ā
Hazbin Hotel:
I couldnāt find hardly any behind the scenes stuff for either. I know a BIT about why Helluva Boss was made iāll get into later, but I have nothing on what the inspiration behind these series was, just that sheād already come up with this hell for a webcomic thatās now been scrubbed for the internet, and it eventually evolved into this show, which later lead to Helluva Boss. The reason this show is only at pilot is because it got picked up by A24, and so far we havenāt heard anything since because animation is all secretive and shit. But needless to say weāll probably hear about it eventually so for now letās enjoy what we got.Ā
So our pilot begins with an utterly gorgeous rendition ofĀ āIām Always Chasing Rainbowsā an old vaudville song, backed by some cool shadow art. I do love me some shadow puppet art. We then cut to Hell which has been horribly ravaged, looking even worse than normal, after the extermination. To save time the extermination is an annual culling of hell where a bunch of tv headed robot angels come down and kill as many people as possible to keep the population down. Needless to say Hellās Princess and Lucifer, king of hellās heir aparent, Charlie is horrified by this... and has a plan to fix it.Ā
Meanwhile we meet Angel Dust, a smart mouthed spider-like prostitute who just got done fucking a client and gets some drugs out of a vending machine because itās hell, and ends up smack dab in the middle of an attack by Ser Pentous, a snake themed villian whose essentially what would happen if Doctor Robotnik went to hell and became a snake, complete with egg themed minons, one of which wishes his boss would shoot him. Eh we all have our own things. Mine is keith david riding a centaur. To each their own little egg, to each their own.Ā
Pentious is a lord of hell, something only explained from context here and was fleshed out more in what word of god I have heard, i.e. how hellās heiarchy works. The Overlords are the lowest of the highest, essentially hellās crime bosses. While there ARE higher authorities, the Goetiaās, the other owl beasts, the seven deadly sins who run the rings and Lucifer himself, they geniulley donāt give a shit what goes on unless it effects them directly. This is hell after all, itās not a huge shock that only ONE of their highest class, Charlie, actually cares if people live or die. So the streets of hell are fair game for whoever wants to carve up territory and since the extermination cleared out some overlords, therāes now a bunch of free territory to fight over.Ā
His opponent, despite not having an air ship or fried chicken fetuses though easily bests him with a simple bomb and enters, introducing us to Cherry Bomb
I got that GIF SPECIFICALLY for this very moment... it was worth it. Sheās also just a fun character, not taking any shit and easily besting a guy with far more resources with simple skill and explosives. I mean even without those bombshell looks, pun VERY intended sheād be a winner.Ā
Weāll get back to why sheās important later, as we cut to the local news with Katie Killjoy, a demonic version of your standard fox news anchor and Tom Trench, a perverted guy in a Gas Mask who gets a coffee vasectomy for perving on cherry. Good. A lady that fine you gotta romance. Maybe take her out for an evening at the theater and then some light car bombing. Think it out tom.Ā
The reason weāre at the studio as we meet two of our other leads, Charlie, the princess of hell we saw breifly earlier who we now meet in full and Vaggie, her supportive latinx girlfriend with the unfortunate name. Charlie has finally got a spot on said news, and is going to pitch her big bold idea... and has to be talked down from using a musical number. Charlie is essentially what happens when you set a disney princess movie in hell and that concept alone could drive a series, but Vivianne smartly made her a layered character: Sheās optimstic, naive and as weāll see in a second fairly judgey... but she also is doing this big swing of a project because she dosenāt want to see hundreds die again and again for the rest of her days if she can help it and geninely believes in people.Ā
Vaggie serves as a good counterpoint to that, being cynical and more reaslitic, if still willing to help and still fully beliving in her girl.Ā
One final note before we move on: one of the few proudction things I DO know is that the two were originally just best friends.. but the people workign on the pilot started shipping them, Vivianne caught on, realized it made sense, and the two became a couple. Itā snot overwhelmingly blatant, but enough hints were thrown in despite few script changes to make it obvious enough and the fact their relationship is low key is in itself a valid and noble form or reputation.
ONe of those hints is Katie, who refuses to shake Charlieās hand despite Charlie being you know, princess of hell... and Charlie pointing out this kind of thing is why sheās in hell. Katie further talks down to her, and Lucifer would smite her for his insolence but he has better things to do.Ā
So Charlie has her interview where she gives her big idea: She wants to save demons from the purge, help them become better and get into heaven, saving their soulds and leaving hell less crowded so hopefully the killings stop. Her method? A hotel where sinners will stay and try to reform. During said appeal she also runs into a rather... familiar face with an unfamiliar look
This is indeed Blitzo. Not only did Vivianne confirm this was his prototype deisgn, with his eyes, suit and horns all very diffrent, but sheād later give a canon explination as to WHY Blitzo looks nothing like himself, an instagram host passing it off as a halloweeen costume. Though really you could tell just by the way he had the balls to check out the head of hell itsefās ass on live television. But again her dadās kinda busy.Ā
So now would be a good time to bring up WHY Blitzoās in the pilot for aĀ diffrent show entirely. One could easily assume Viv simply really liked his design out of all those featured in the pilot. And suprisingly.. youād be wrong. Like the main antagonists, Valentino, Vox and Velvet, his cameo here was to set him up for the series, with he and Moxxie already thought up. It also makes perfect sense when you think about it: Blitzoās entire business model is actively going against Charlieās goal by increasing hellās population. Itās just with the main and recurring cast already full to burst and likely MORE characters only hinted at in the pilot or that we havenāt even heard a peep about to come, something had to give. But Blitzo clearly spoke to viv too much to just toss out, so we got one of the best shows in recent memory instead. Blizto woudlnāt be the only one in the pilot either as while this cameo was likely less intentional we also see Loona briefly.Ā
her design had some changes itself, but not nearly as much, leading me to belivie she HADNāT had the idea for the character.. but the animation for Loony was so slick and her befuddled reaction to charlie so entertaining, she found a place for her in Helluva Boss. And I for one thank her for it as iām sure does most of the furry community. So this ended up being one of the best kinds of cut content: the kind thatās just recycled for something even better and gives u something to gnaw on while we wait for A24 to fucking tell us what the plan is already.Ā
The Loona thing also brings me to another point: the deisgn work on this series is fucking amazing. It extends to helluva boss too: As word of god posts iāve heard about have beared out, Viv put a LOT of thought into how hell works in this universe, as well as each species. But even with a general template every charcter in both shows feels unique. Family members may have some common traits, but each and every person FEELS like their own person from the smallest background character to our main cast, and while we see members of the same species like the imps or some hellhounds, even thatās full of contrast. Blitzo looks COMPLETELY diffrent from M and M, and both of them have notable differences despite looking far more similar. Every characters has subtle little touches to make them stand out and every single human, lost soul, hellspawn and what have you looks vibrant and unique. And about 80% of them look hot but it is hell, thatās kind of the standard. Few animated shows have this level of care, detail and creativity and itās one of this universeās most valuable features.Ā
So back to the plot how do the demons take this idea?
Unsuprisingly no oneās intertested. So Charlie tries the ace up her sleeve: a disney style song! Inside Every Demon in a Rainbow is a throughly enjoyable number, with too many amazing sight gags to announce (my faviorites being her scrambling a demon whose a massive puzzle and her foaming at the mouth at meeting a rabid possum lady. ). Itās bouncy, fits her personality.. and shows off both the best of her, her determination to save people and genuine belief theirs good in everyone.. and the things holding her back from actually achieving that.
Her naivite has already been on display, thinking the people of hell genuinely care about their own salvation or doing anything but living it up before permadeath hits them some day.Ā
The bigger issue though is one that we first get to see in this song, an issue Vaggie shares with Charlie: Charlie and Vaggie.. are judgmental as all hell.Ā
I went to the lyrics, since the part where she insults everyone is fast as hell and I applaud Charlieās VA Elsie Lovelock for making it seem effortless, to see just WHAT horrible things she calls everyone and how many. Over the course of just one song she calls her subjects and the people she GENUINELY WANTS TO HELP junkies, freaks, weirdos, creepers, fuck-ups, zeroes, cretins, sluts, loosers, sexual deviants, boozers, perscrption drug abusers, monsters, theives, crazies, cannibals, and crying babies. She also insults people for cartoon porn addictions, vegan ranting and psychic predictions.Ā
Now itās one thing to call people who REVEL in being terrible stuff like this or insult them. Itās another to call people who might GENINELY want to change and might WANT your help names, treat addictions like itās the personās own fault entirely instead of a crippling disease that isnāt easy to overcome just because a cheerful princess who, while clearly having some hardships given her cold relationship with her parents, still comes from a privileged and entitled background, and in general act like your better than them. And while she is probably better than MOST people in hell, it is hell after all, it dozenāt change the fact sheās painting EVERY sinner with the same brush. All crimes are equal , she can fix them the same way, your all terrible. This.. just isnāt true.Ā
To use examples from this very universe, Mrs. Mayberry went to hell because she murdered one person and tried to murder another. In charlieās estemation, she deserves hell because she killed, simple as that. She got overly angry, killed someone and worse did it, accidently or not, in front of children. The problem is itās not that black and white.. because nothing is. She clearly had undiagnosed anger issues she never properly dealt with, and still has to a degree in the afterlife. She also clearly loved those kids and died because the sheer weight of her actions got to her and she took her own life. Even her calling a hit with our beloved I.M.P. was understandable as the person who fucked her husband lived, got lauded as a hero, and turned out to be a cannibal. Sheās not a great person, she clearly has stuff to atone for and underlying issues to adress. .but there is a person worth saving there, the kind Charlie can work with. In constrast you have guys like Lyle, who is an unrepenant asshole who frankly deserves hell. By painting them as the same, Charlie is missing that if she wants the hotel to work she has to stop seeing EVERYONE as just the worst scum of the earth, and start seeing them as people, figuring out who WANTS to get better, who wants to deep down but wonāt admit it and who she genuinely canāt save. I do feel thatās 100% intentional though and a great conflict for the series to have: our heroine has good intetnions and compassion but needs to learn empathy and actual methods of reformation instaed of just assuming staying clean and not having sex will automatically make someone better.Ā
And iāts proven by the fact that we find out her only customer, her trial run is Angle Dust, whose there entirely for the free room.. and is currently helping his closest and as far as we know only friend Cherry with her turf war, leading to a succession of clever gags, with of course theĀ āHarder Daddyā gag being the key.Ā
Angel is sure things are fine with Charlieās whole thing... when in fact sheās picked a fight with Katie and despite not transforming is clearly doing just fine. Also tomās on fire for some reason.Ā
So after a big fakeout about seeing the big final pushes for both battles, we instead cut to the aftermath in the limo, as Vaggie is naturally pissed about this, and Angel instead takes this as an opportunity to piss her off repeatedly. Itās only when Charlie pipes in her gentle disapointment does Angel remotely seem to feel bad for humilating them like this. And itās easy to see why: Charlie genuinely belivies in people, so even if Angel canāt admit he cares about her and values her as a friend, itās easy to see why he does: She offered him a home, a safe refuge from his abuser, and a second chance out of the kindess of her heart.Ā
He still DOES Sex Work, but for his own enjoyment and profit instead of Valentinoās. She gave him the keys to be free from the hell heās been trapped in.Ā
Vaggie by contrast isnāt a bad person and unlike the rest of hell is at least TRYING to be better... but to Angel... sheās a hypocrite, insulated from the kind of hardships the rest of hell has to put up with by virtue of screwing the bossā; daughter.
Now granted he clearly pisses her off a bunch because iāts fun, itās who he is and one of the MANNNYYYY ways he gets off. But heās not exactly wrong in it either as Vaggie takes an unearned high ground, going along with Charlieās high standards and painting everyone with the same brush despite clearly having ended up here herself and being the poster child forĀ āgoing to hell is way more complicated than Charlie seems to think for some people.ā. And honestly character stuff like this.. is WHY this pilotās so engaging. The characters all have layers and layers to peel apart once we finally get the series, reasons WHY they are this way we arenāt privy to yet.
So they head home, with Angel trying and failing to comfort Charlie. .before our heroes get a guest. Alistor, a dapper dressed smilling chap who earned the moniker the radio demon.. and scares the hell, pun intended, out of Charlie and Vaggie. It helps show off the guyās scale instantly: Allistor, as we learn, is a dead soul, usually one of the lower rungs of hellās hiearchy. Yet he scares one of hellās own royals out of her mind.Ā
Charlie ends up letting him in and we get a sense of the man, sadistic, kind of an asshole, but deeply charming. We also find out from Vaggie, as Angel much like the audeince has no idea why this, as he put sitĀ āStrawberry pimpā is such a big deal, why heās so terrifying: Allistor is one of the most infamous souls in hell, having come seemingly out of nowhere with power the likes of which few had seen. Whatās worse.. he had no clear goal but his own amusment, destroying warlords whoād held their territory for centuries with ease and broadcasting his carnage for all to hear, hence the whole Radio Demon moniker. Heās powerful, cunning, deeply terrifying.. and naturally Angel offers to suck his dick, something that actually give sthe demon pause. As we later learned Allistor is asexual. I mean itās only ONE beat he misses but given the guy dominates pretty much every conversatoin, itās very noticable the one time he actually shuts up for a second and letās his guard down.Ā
As for why heās here Allistor wants to help with the hotel. He dosenāt remotely belivie in it, beliving that peopleās chance at redemption was up there.. but finds the whole idea deeply hilarious and wants to watch the shit show himself. Vaggie is naturally on her guard, and for once rightfully so, but Charlie assures her she can handle this. Her dad didnāt teach her much, but he taught her one thing: donāt take shit from other demons
Charlie frankly tells Allistor that she gets he sees this as a joke, outlines how seriously she takes this job.. but agrees to his help because they could use it. Allistor tries to offer a former demonic deal complete with a sickly horrifying glowing hand... but Charlie wisely refuses, simply ordering him to help her as long as he wants on her power as princess alone. And itās VERY clear from her tone she knows this is all bravado: she canāt foce him to do any more than you can get a tornado to do gemoetry.. but itās also very clear she knows Allistor WANTS to do this, and will likely help her anyway just for shits and giggles, and has nothing to loose by TRYING to get him to help without making a deal. And it works. Allistor agrees, and likely woudlāve helped no matter what given his reasons for doing this. But you canāt blame him for not wanting to get some sort of horrifying contract on the princess of hell. He had to try.Ā
Alllistor also brings up a good point when he relaizes Vaggie is the only staff member they have. This simply wonāt do and if they want people to visit, their going to need to class it up and jazz up services. So he decides to give Charlie the employees she needs by calling in a few favors, since being who he is, he naturally has demons on standbye. First up is Nifty, who I love. Seriously I just love cyclopian characters. And in addition to being a cyclops sheās a 20 something 1950ā²s teeny booper and neat freak brought in as the maid, getting right to work, and impressing Charlie.Ā
Next up is everyoneās faviorite and my boy Husk, a weird winged cat thing who Iām convinced is what happened to Tom from tom and jerry when he died 80 years ago. His son has the part now.Ā Husk isnāt too pleased to be called form his gambling to work the front desk and the bar. Allistor then sweetens the pot with easily the best gag of the pilot.Ā
With the players set Allistor gives his own mocking rendtion ofĀ āInside Every Demon is a Rainbowā. Allistor.. is easily one of the best parts of the pilot, having a sadistic sense of humor, a sense of style while being DEEPLY unsettling: from the ruin that show up, to his slasher grin to the fact somethiāngs CLEARLY wrong with him weāre not privy to. Just an awesome character.Ā
So with that our heroes get one last visitor: Sir Pentious who shows up to get revenge on Angel.. only to pivot to Allistor who he sees as a bit rival he has a storied history with. Allistor.. dosenāt seem to remmeber him and is either mocking the guy for funzies or simply has made SO Many minor enemies who werenāt even worth killing and he simply keeps alive for sport that heās lost count. My take?
Naturally.. Allistor takes him out in seconds, then takes everyone to get breakfast. The stage is set, the players have arrived... let the show begin... anytime now A24 any time now.
Hazbin Hotelās pilot is one of the best iāve seen. Itās vibrant, shows off the show well and was done on a miniscule budget with whoever the creator could scrounge up, but looks utterly gorgeous. When we finally do get the series itās easily set to become one of the biggest of this decade, and itās no wonder the show STILL has an active fanbase despite not having new content in some time, even ignoring the overlap with Helluva Boss. A truly excellent start to something that I can just tell is going to be great.Ā
Helluva Boss Pilot:
I have much less to say here, but I figured if iām going to cover this show in the future, and I fully intend to, I should at least touch on the pilot. So consider this a ncie bonus to the hazbin hotel review.Ā
Helluva Bossā pilot is far simplier: our heroes are all in office dealing with recent issues like Loonaās behavior, Blitzo spending all their money on a commerical, Bltizo stalking moxie and millie outside of work.Ā and having shot a child that turned out to apparently not be the target. Itās really more a loose framework for jokes than a solid plot. But it works, intorducing us to everyone excellently. The very FIRST line sets up Blitzo perfecty with him talking about how bad things are going, not wanting to name names.. then instantly blaming Moxxie. Moxxie is shown to be high strung and have conflict with the boss, Millie is shown to be a supportive wife but far more tolerant of her bossās shenanigans, Loona to be moody and holding everyone including her dad at a distantce and Stolas thirsty as hell> Their set up well and the pilot is littered with iconic jokes that I could make an entire article on iāts own listing:Ā āSorry it was spidersā,Ā āDo you have any idea how expensive acting classes are?ā, the ENTIRE bit with Blitzo stalking M and M, the phone gag,Ā āYou what?ā, and my personal favoiriteĀ āsorry I fucked your husband.Ā ā Itās just sparkling with creativity and great gags.Ā
The only real issue with it is that itās missing the depth of both the hazbin pilot and this show itself. The characters arenāt as fleshed out yet and itās clear Viv took crticisms of teh pilot to heart and thus did some deep work on them between pilot and series. EVERY character is diffrent and thatās not getting into the diffrent voices (For the record I think Stolas softer post-pilot voice fits him MUCH better while Millie is about the same). Blitzo is far less compitent at buisness here, which is more standard boss stuff. The series changing him to a guy who IS genuinely good at what he does and at juggling the books, even if he sometimes spends their profits on gem studed horses, works better, contrasting him actually being good at the job.. with him being a clingy, sad on the inside trainwreck in his personal life.Ā
In the same veign, Loona is far more of a dick, being mean to everyone more violently and less entertainingly if no less hotly. The series wisely made her more sardonic with her douchebaggery and also later gave her depths, showing she dosenāt have any friends or a personal life outside of IMP, as well as giving her some competence, being the only one with a human disguise. Moxxie and Millie are barely changed, with Moxxie just being a bit more openly defiant of blitzo, while heās more professional about his issues with him in the series proper, but also far more submissive. Shippers take that as you will. Millie.. is almost exactly the same.
Finally we have Stolas whose a bit more.. uncomfortably predatory. While there are undertones of him being creepy with Blitzo in the series, itās clear itās more because he dosenāt have any idea how to properly interact with people or that heās mistreating the guy. Here he comes off domenering and again pretty creepy and Blitzo is far less willing to participate in their deal.
So overall the pilot is good and an intresting peak at what the characters were to start and what they are now in the finished series. Someday weāll come back to hell, but for now this was a nice peak into two of th ebest shows on the internet, and a sign creators simply can write their own ticket. Sure a studio can pick them up.. but creators now no longer have to beg a network with a pilot. You can show off your talent.. and theyāll come to you. And I love that. Thanks for reading.Ā
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