anyway. firmly of the belief that both Vox and Val are hugely, stupidly, embarrassingly down bad for Velvette, but for Valentino it's just that he would do literally anything for the opportunity to fuck her and otherwise his feelings towards her are shockingly platonic. She's still his bestest best friend in the whole wide world, of course, but he kind of likes that about her and for once has no desire to perform romance towards her the same way he does with Vox, Angel, and whoever his current fixation du jour is. Vox, on the other hand, thinks 'god I am in love with this girl' at least 10x a day and genuinely believes somewhere beneath all the performative cynicism that she might be his soulmate (at least when he isn't convinced that Alastor is his soulmate, which also happens a lot, but wbk). he's also super thirsty for her, obviously, but what I'm saying is that his attraction has layers