#itty bitty thoughts

When someone on the internet makes a comment about your blorbo, your hyperfixation character, your little dude, showing just how much they don't understand; don't see the minute details. How they don't see the subtle hints, don't pick up the subtext. They don't see the beauty in his not being perfect.

They don't understand!!!

Vox driving a wedge between Charlie and vaggi, slowly getting them to distrust each other until he can swoop in and gain Charlie’s affection enough for her to cling to him and then he can keep her all to himself

Charlie trying to get vox to change into something he’s not, and failing. Both of their insecurities get worse and worse.

This goes terribly because now instead of just being a little more chilled out like they wanted, he becomes a shy, people pleasing, uwu soft boy, puppy vox who wears comfy sweaters and is way too cuddly.

Normally val and vel are okay with voxs natural cuddly nature. Laying on the couch and holding each other, always having his hands on their shoulders or waists, randomly throwing his arm around them in a half hug- that’s just vox being vox

But Vox_2.0 is a whole new monster. Severe separation anxiety, refuses to do his work because he doesn’t want to risk messing up, can’t exist without being held, oh no he spilled hot chocolate on his favorite shark sweater- and now he’s crying, great. Are you mad at him? Please don’t be mad at him, he’ll do anything (besides work because that’s too hard), just please don’t be mad

Vox is only into slow, passionate missionary sex which was wonderful for Val at first but quickly got real boring real fast.

The moment that the vees wanted their old vox back? He said “thank you, I love you guys so much you mean the world to me!” That is NOT their vox and it just felt icky hearing him say it. So they take him back to the bioengineers. He goes with them willingly but when he overhears them talking about rewriting him once again while playing with his legos and plushies, he panics and electrocutes the whole room. He runs away crying. Val and vel survived but the bioengineers died

Fortunately, the senior engineer saved the coding in a flash drive or something and hid it away for safe keeping, but he’s dead so they’re stuck with wimpy useless vox until he regenerates and is able to find it.

So now the world is stuck with Vox_2.0. Outside the vees he seems to be well liked, and Charlie is quick to forgive him. They become best friends. The rest of the hazbins are still unnerved with him hanging around so often. Charlie sweetly asks him to find a way to get angel to come back home and vox says “oh he already knows how to do that! He just needs to fill out a resignation form! I hope this doesn’t sound rude but I’ve been trying to get him to leave for a while now. Before I used him as a spy. Goodness, I was so bad wasnt I? I’m so sorry, please forgive me!”

Back at the vee tower, vox just gets more and more annoying. He’s reverted back to his early 1900s ideals and values which means HEAVY censorship. No drugs, no alcohol on tv, no sex, no porn, no PDA of any kind, and DEFINITELY no cursing! “Ah fiddlesticks! Oh fudge. Gosh oh golly! Jeez Louise!” And other g rated euphemisms. This also means that unfortunately Val’s studio has to be shut down for the following weeks until vox can be his normal, mentally ill self again. Velvette can continue designing new lines but with heavy restrictions. No skin can be showing. Short sleeves are okay but must be long enough to hide the shoulders completely and should be coupled with gloves. Everything needs to be approved by vox, who is becoming more and more power hungry with each day. In the opposite direction of what he once was. Control and censorship is his new kink, figuratively.

The vees can’t take it anymore. Val is sick of only getting a quick peck on the lips to avoid any temptation and velvette is sick of them losing money with their empty studios. They try everything to make vox mad but he isn’t cracking. Velvette walked around the whole tower completely naked and vox scolded her while covering his eyes, trying desperately not to let the demons win and take a quick peek. Val invited a whole orgy to have an overdose party on voxs bed. Vox slept on the couch every night for two weeks, and wouldn’t come back in until he knew for sure that his room was thoroughly deep cleaned.

Val and vel were getting desperate. They’ve tried everything they could think of to force vox into a meltdown and nothing was working. He was just too nice and friendly to stay mad at them. So for a last ditch effort of damage control, they did the one thing the 3 of them vowed to never do:

They invite Alastor over for dinner.

They offer any meal his gross weird cannabalistic heart desired, including a bite out of velvettes leg under the one condition that he Breaks. Vox. Make him cry and have a melt down. Make him break the tower, darn it, make him try to *bleep* himself and everyone else around him again if he has to, just FIX THEIR FRIEND! Alastor agrees to the opportunity to bully vox but it doesn’t go as well as he had wanted.

Vox is thrilled to have Alastor over for dinner! He offers him a bottle of wine and a side of fresh blood that val had bought from Rosie. He’s so happy that all of the backhanded compliments Alastor gives him does just flies right over his head. Alastor resorts to straight up insulting vox but vox is just happy to be there, wagging his dumb new shark tail. Alastor brings up the name Vincent and instead of being triggered by the memory, vox is just like “you know what? I don’t want to be vox anymore. I should go back to being Vincent! I was much happier back then!” And asks everyone at the table to call him Vincent. Val and vel refuse and Alastor follows their lead and also refuses. Vox becomes genuinely sad. Not the sad crying mess he’s been but actually sad. He’s quiet for the rest of the night while the others are laughing and telling embarrassing stories about vox. Val and vel eventually leave vox and Alastor alone and vox tries to excuse himself but Alastor accuses him of faking this for some kind of deception. This seems to hurt vox more than anything else. “You hated me for thinking we were friends, you hated me when we were enemies, you hated me for being nice, and you hated me for being mean. Why can’t I be enough for you?” There it is, Alastor thinks. There’s the vox he knew

So Alastor decides to roll with it. No, it’s never going to be enough. Because vox himself isn’t enough, not just for Alastor, but for anyone. That’s why he feels he needs to sell out and put his face on every product imaginable. Create an ai assistant clone to help people. Make *bleep*ing popsicles with his big stupid head. Gosh, Alastor was getting tired of the *bleep*ing censorship!

At this point vox has tears in his eyes that he’s trying hard to hold back. Alastor continues to drill in how pathetic and weak vox was. He decides to leave vox by himself but before he turns and walks away he says one last sentence. “I liked you more before you got better.”

Vox snaps.

He shoots his wires out and wraps them around alastors body and throws him against the wall. Alastor lets vox get a few hits in before he decides to fight back. This turns into an all out brawl between vox and alastor. Val and vel evacuate the building, not because they care about their employees but because if this worked, they were going to need all hands on deck to get the business up and running again.

Alastor fights hard but in the end he knew the only way to get vox back to his old self was to let him win. So alastor does. He lets vox think Alastor can’t take any more and flees the battle. Vox is ecstatic. He did it! He did it without anyone’s help! He was still powerful! Powerful enough to beat Alastor in 1v1 match!

Vox realizes how stupid and weak he looks in his big comfy sweater that has a cartoon whale on it taking a bubble bath. Why did he even buy this? They did the vees let him wear it?? This is not him. It never was. He calls his top bioengineers to the labs. They should be alive and well enough to fix him by now. It’s been 6 weeks since val and vel ruined him. He couldn’t keep walking around like this with this stupid weak personality anymore.

The next day val and vel are crying tears of joy to have Vox_1.5, their normal, mentally ill, volatile, substance abusing, only slightly clingy, foul mouthed vox back. The tower instantly becomes productive again. Even Ethan is happy to have something to do (and to get yelled at by his favorite sexy boss but shhh we don’t talk about that). Charlie comes by for their regularly scheduled lunch friend date and vox calls her a “stupid blonde bimbo bitch” and slams the door in her face, leaving her confused and a little sad she lost a friend.

The vees celebrate with alcohol, drugs, and sex. Velvette brings her girlfriend of the week over to have fun with while the boys are going at it

They’d be at each others throats every single day and they’d have the freakiest (negative), scariest sex every night.

None of them are dating and ALL OF THEM are dating. They’re all dating but vox and blitz hate each other and both get jealous when the other flirts with Val or stolas but they’ll also spend a lot of time together cuddling on the couch and watching movies.

Val and stolas love going on dates together. Stolas gets blitz to tag along so now all 3 of them are on a cute date without vox??? The most special guy in the world??? He’s pissed. He drags velvette who is not in the poly onto a date of their own, right behind Val, blitz, and stolas. He’s constantly looking over to see if any of them are watching (they are not)

Vox and stolas have cute dinner dates together, but only inside the tower, because it’s bad enough dating one man. How is he supposed to show his face when the public finds out he’s dating 3?

Velvette is disgusted by them but she loves the vees so she hangs out with everyone. She leaves the room when Bird Beak and Flathead start making out, and breaks out in a sprint if Val and Blitz go at it

This man controls my life, everywhere I go I see his face. I’m playing a video game with my sister and im just thinking “haha vox and velvette playing games together” and that’s it. I can’t even make it into a comic because there’s no punchline or anything, literally just it’s them playing games. Or I’ll be walking my dog and I think “aww human au where shok.wav is a Rottweiler and Vincent loves his giant puppy”