AU Idea of Vox endlessly farming the experience of knowing and losing Alastor through VR.
It starts as a revenge fantasy against an Alastor that's weaker than him. It quickly loses its appeal because it's like beating an anger management doll. Same for his sexual fantasies. It's not right in the way he Needs it to be.
Then he makes a perfect simulacrum (Minus a secret or two) of Alastor back before their falling out and tries making it work. Sometimes he gets a little farther with him, but inevitably he "goes and ruins it" somehow. Even as he thinks he's getting better at reading the minutiae of Alastor's expressions.
Then he starts imagining his own "What if's?" What if he were the King of Hell? What if he and Alastor met earlier/later? What if he had the power to enthrall Alastor? What if he never became an Overlord and just stayed satisfied with what he had?
The variables change, but each time he still trips over boundaries he Knows are there, but can't help pushing.
And after a while it becomes its own sort of addiction. A feedback loop of trial and error. Even one extra hit of dopamine every time he scrapes a bit of success from a defeat is enough to convince him he can do it this time.
Velvette and Valentino can't make him stop. If they destroy his main tech, he uses back ups in his own head until he can get it rebuilt. They can't use the business as a bargaining chip after his crash out and lateral corporate shuffle after Season 2.
Much as it pains them, they'll have to call in the source of Vox's spiral to sort this, because it's gone well beyond therapeutic escapism. They send a formal request to the Hazbin Hotel.
Alastor remotes in to a scene of himself and Vox alone in a room. Alastor's sitting in a high-backed chair and Vox is kneeling at his feet with his screen in the other's lap.
Vox is half awake, barely blinking. Like he's drugged himself.
Like most of these scenes, it's reminiscent of a time they've shared in the past, skewed a little on its axis.
Alastor boops his screen. "Picturebox, I believe you have some explaining to do."