#nrambles

But canon just doesn't support it. The amount of times Alastor pulls away and Vox doesn't continue to engage physically is just too telling. Will he hurt him? Sure. It's what they do to each other, it's reciprocal. But Alastor being literally tied to a chair and pulling away when Vox puts his hands on his shoulders and Vox not grabbing him again??? There's just still some degree of respect there.

People try to go too hard one way or the other. Is Vox kind of a hopeless romantic? I think so. Is his view of romance completely fucked up and controlling? Yeah! Like him having emotions doesn't make him Good. It doesn't absolve him. And acting like he's just some cold monster doesn't work either, because it just doesn't fit the narrative. It's also boring af, honestly.

Does he not SA Alastor because he thinks it's wrong? Hell no. He doesn't do it because he still wants Alastor to actually want him. To acknowledge him. The thing that people miss so often with this is how badly Vox wants to be wanted. It's not a win to just take it, because it's not what he really wants in the end.

This is so funny. Alastor absolutely said this to Vox at some point.

Television was still in its experimental stage in 1948, and radio remained the number one broadcast medium in terms of profits, audience size, and respectability. Most of the big stars of radio—Jack Benny, Bob Hope, and the team of George Burns and Gracie Allen, for example—were at first reluctant to risk their substantial careers on an upstart medium like television.

I'm losing it with them calling television an upstart medium and radio still being number one so close to when Vox was supposed to have died. I'm also calling it here that Vox had to have been involved with radio at some point because moving from radio to television was the natural transition point. Especially with how old he already was.

Who is Vox? Everything you imagine, everything you want.