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hello anon,

I am well aware of Vaggie's canon sexuality, and I am quite happy she is a lesbian. I myself am a lesbian, and she is my favorite character. The StrikerxVaggie ship was based on a meme post that was a crackship challenge that stated your hellaverse crackship is your fave Hazbin character x your fave helluva boss character.

Obviously that was Vaggie and Striker, and being a writer I wanted to see the challenge of shipping them. I only ship them in the context of my Lone Vaggie au, where I've rewritten the hazbin timeline where Vaggie wasn't saved by Charlie but by Carmilla, and she hasn't discovered that she is and is allowed to be attracted to only women.

I definitely don't intend to erase the fact she's a canon lesbian, but let's not pretend the majority of fandoms and writers don't twist canonical straight characters and make them queer, or bisexual characters where they only make them gay or lesbian.

I've also known personally other lesbians who can still find sex with men gratifying but aren't romantically inclined towards them, and lesbians who took a long while and dated a plethora of men and women before realizing they are only really attracted towards women. Sexuality is a spectrum, and some people are still figuring things out for themselves.

Hope this clears up any confusion. I'm well aware of Vaggie being a canon lesbian, and this is a writing exercise of a what if scenario where Vaggie hasn't discovered she's only really romantically and physically drawn towards women, as in my fic Hell is not so empty, especially dealing with Religious Trauma and all the teachings that have repressed who she really is that she has to unlearn while dealing with the threat of missing Angelic weapons and her future enigmatic partnership with Striker. I also want to explore her character outside of what we've only been given through the show, which falls into the sin of only boxing her in as 'Charlie's girlfriend.' I want to write her being her own person seperate from being in a relationship with Charlie before she inevitably finds her way to the Morningstar princess.

To sum it up, the original sole fic of Hell is not so empty is just a collection of ideas I wanted to smash together in one fic: Vaggie working for Carmilla, Vaggie getting seperate development away from Charlie, treating a crackship seriously, and exploring how religious trauma can affect ones mental state and acceptance of themselves.

That's all folks.

Spoilers for my fic Hell is not so empty ending

She wants my hands on her body

She wants to burn like she's made of fire

She gets what she wants

link to previous question about the ship for context

in regards to the fic Hell is not so empty

This is genuinely a complex question to answer without spoiling the plot to my Lone Vaggie au, but here goes:

Spoilers for the plot of Hell is not so empty

Hello anon!

Haha thank you kindly! It's a very niche crackship that I can only ship in one specific context of an au because I don't want to erase the fact that Vaggie is a canon lesbian, but I also want everyone to remember like asexuality, other sexualities can exist on a spectrum. Plus the concept of them is so cool, being that they are both very good fighters! I love me a couple who can kick ass together, and probably do it messy. I wanna see Vaggie throw hands (like when she punched that one demon in the pilot or was hand to hand fighting Lute) since we know Striker can and will throw hands.

I think they're neat.

But I am glad someone else is a fan on this small ship, the boat now has more passengers as they say. It was difficult writing an au where they can even meet and begin a (temporary) relationship but I'm doing my best with Hell is not so empty, but there are two stand alone fics I've written for them.

Hell is not so empty

Summary:

What if instead of a random cannibal child, Vaggie had cornered Carmilla's daughters during the extermination. Seeing fearful eyes but a desire to protect one another, Vaggie falters and urges them to flee right before Lute ambushed her.

Wingless and down to one eye, it's not Charlie that finds the mutilated angel, but Carmilla instead, who repays her daughters lives with aid and a purpose.

Three years later, Vaggie works under Carmilla as a guard, her identity kept secret. When a shipment of angelic weapons goes missing, Carmilla sends Vaggie to locate the missing weaponry, and to fell anyone who gets in her way.

Vaggie would never imagine she'd run into an Imp who could match her blade with blade, hand to hand, and turns out he's even skilled with guns. A true challenge to test Vaggie's skills and the convictions she holds onto with broken bloodied hands. Along the way, she also meets the kind and ambitious Princess of Hell herself, making her question the lessons Heaven had drilled into her.

Rating: M

Warnings: Graphic depiction of violence, Injury, and Religious trauma exploration

Relationships: Striker/Vaggie, Charlie/Vaggie (endgame), Zestial/Carmilla