#sarahyaps

I just had a thought that they probably should have scrapped the hypno plot altogether if it wasn't going to go anywhere. Especially since they didn't need to explain Angel leaving since he sang a whole song in s1 about being addicted to Val. He doesn't need a reason to go back.

So my thought was- Angel isn't a spy. But after episode 3, he starts to miss Val. After he learns Husk is leaving the hotel after Alastor's kidnapping, Angel reaffirms to himself that he also has no reason to go back and takes it as a rejection. So Angel doesn't give HUsk hope that he'll be there when he gets back but he also masks his true feelings so their talk still ends on a high note and Husk still decides to go back to the hotel for Angel.

Angel, however, doesn't go back and instead tells Val that he wants to move back in. In episode 7, there is no Angel presentation and it's just Vox's speech. But Angel is standing by Val as his arm candy. Everyone assumes that he must have been kidnapped. They go to the party to prevent the war and save Angel as they did in episode 8. Angel is still zonked out on drugs and still defends Val because I do think he was more drugged up and acting on Val's orders rather than hypno'd. Or at least it can be explained that way....

ANYWAY, all of that happens exactly the same way. Angel helps out in Hear My Hope still and then he still chooses to go back to Val. Biggest change here is Angel's reason for leaving and maybe he is more cruel about it. Husk is FAR sadder about it because it's more of a rejection. A "choosing him over me" situation because Angel doesn't seems to have a reason other than "he wants to". It's a relapse and he relapsed bad. Husk understands maybe but he is still very hurt.

because i do want a hskrdst ending. i don't want it to be a "and angel was husk's abuser" end. I want it to come across as more of a "and they were problematic together, the end"

"No way! They're gonna fight!" Says the man who claims he is always one step ahead of the princess and supposedly has been having Angel relay information to him, including the incoming fight with Heaven.

Listen, it's not a crime if this hypno plot wasn't always the plan as of Season 1, but it does make it more disappointing. Like they should have spent Episode 1-5 of season 2 giving us wayyyyy more hints because the reveal came as wayyyy too big of a shock. If I go "You have been?" When Vox says: "How did you think I was always one step ahead of the princess." then there is a problem. Because genuinely the first time I heard him say this I was trying to wrack my brain for instances other than the Lucifer situation where he was one step ahead because he certainly wasn't for the extermination. He acts like he's just learning about it as he watches them train for it.