#vidette

-The not-so-family-friendly backstory-

Vidette is the younger sister of the overlord, Velvette. Born in New Jersey to Regina and Warren Sharpe, Vidette was neglected and abused by her parents because they simply viewed her as worthless and difficult to love. In their parents' eye's, Velvette was the golden child, and she was the devil-spawn.

All her life, albeit not much, Velvette was the only family member who showed any amount of care for her. Her parents would often leave her outside during storms or extreme cold or heat. Velvette would eventually give in and let her in. They'd withhold food, leave her closed in her room for long amounts of time, even ignore her crying when she was little. If it went on too long, they'd shake her crib or yell at her to get her to stop crying.

She never had anything new, or if it was new, it was bad quality.

The amount of pressure they put on Velvette to be successful was ridiculous as well. Vidette wasn't the only abused one- but Velvette's abuse was a lot more subtle, as there was VERY clear favoritism.

At eighteen, Vidette was stressed out and strained in college, trying to make her parents proud of her. She decided that since her grades were up, she could allow herself one night for a break. So she attended a party she'd been invited to, but wound up lured upstairs and assaulted by two male classmates.

She was (incorrectly) ashamed of herself as rumors of her being a "playgirl" spread. Her grades plummeted, and she dropped out from shame. She attempted to go back to her parents, but once hearing her story, they declared her a stain on the family, and promptly disowned her and told her to never show her face again.

Vidette was left on her own, and without any degree or life skills of her own, she ended up turning to sin. She prostituted in order to pay to eat every day, but soon found that the pimp she worked for wouldn't allow her to quit to pursue a better life even if she wanted to, threatening her life if she tried

his is her life for 6 years. Depression has overtaken her. She tried calling Velvette for any form of help, but unbeknownst to her, by this point Velvette had already died. This last piece of news sends her spiraling, and she snaps. She grabs a knife and goes to her last client and kills him, then kills every man in the brothel, until finally killing her boss. Once she snaps out of it, she's horrified at what she's done, and throws herself off the balcony, winding up strangled to death after getting tangled in clotheslines.

She wakes up in Hell, and Blitz is the first one to find her freshly fallen as she has a casual panic attack/existential crisis. He sees how vulnerable she is, and takes her home with him. He offers that she could crash on his couch if she'll work at I.M.P.. She agrees, and she becomes friends with the I.M.P cast. She acts as the resident cultural expert (Being the only former human on the team), and she uses her magic to help disguise them and keep their cover.

For the first few months or so of living in Hell, she stays with Blitz and Loona in their apartment, until she makes the decision to move to the Hazbin Hotel to try and better herself, and hopefully reach Heaven.

She meets Alastor, who she recognizes as a distant cousin from when she was researching her ancestry during life, and seeing that she's is easily manipulated, he basically just takes her in there and then, treating her like a daughter and acting as the parental figure she never had in life. She's fast friends with everyone there, briefly mutually crushes on Pentious but they decide to just be besties, gains a sibling-like dynamic with Husk and Niffty- and for the first time in her life, she feels loved.

She and Angel Dust hit it off due to their similar backgrounds, and eventually started dating.

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She refuses to go back to her old job from life, and doesn't really like the thought of being an accomplice to murder anymore, so she has instead found a regular gig with Beelzebub at her club in the Gluttony Ring as a singer.

(This last point changes to having gigs at clubs, the hotel, or being a guest on Alastor's show in the event of an AU where sinners can't leave the pride ring)

She eventually decides to try and reconnect with Velvette, and it doesn't go SUPER well. There's a lot of yelling, accusations, and realizing their parents were horrible to BOTH of them, and not just Vidette. Velvette had zero idea what was going on with Vidette after she was kicked out of the house, as Velvette had gone off to start her own life before unceremoniously croaking (Probably texting and driving).

They sort of make up, and Vox is threatened by Velvette into keeping a general eye on Vidette while she's in the Vee tower waiting for Angel to get off work so she can take him home. This is a preventative measure so Valentino can't get to her.

Vidette has also willingly given custody of her soul to Alastor so that she can't be tricked into giving it to another overlord, and so he can more easily drag her away from self-destructive behaviors.

She's happy to run errands with/for him (Especially if it involves going to cannibal town), and she's treated akin to Niffty, soul-wise, in that he's soft with her. He's prone to sending Husk or Niffty with her when on errands as an extra layer of protection.

-RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS-

-Angel Dust is her boyfriend/future husband

-Velvette is her biological sister.

-Husker is very protective of her, acting like an older brother or a father figure a lot of the time.

-Alastor acts as an unhinged father figure. He is also a distant cousin. -Rosie is like an aunt or a mother figure.

-Sir Pentious is her best friend (R.I.P)

-She's friends with the I.M.P. (This includes Stolas and Octavia)

-Emberlynn is a friend

-Ozzie and Fizz are friends (met through IMP)

-ABILITIES-

Vidette is by far not the strongest physical fighter in Hell, but she can be dangerous at a distance. She has the ability to minorly puppeteer people, or make them hallucinate via song, the effects of which vary depending on the lyrics she sings. She can also broadcast her voice over any speakers in a room without needing a mic. In her full demon form, her nails sharpen into claws, she gains puppeteer strings that she uses as lassos, and she makes discordant music box noises when she runs. if her puppeteer strings are cut, the joints they're connected to will gain deep lacerations that CAN temporarily kill her, leaving her vulnerable until she regenerates. If cut with an angelic something, it can permakill her.

Being art marionette, all her joints are connected by ball-joints, and can be pulled off without any pain.

She tires out from Full Demon Mode very easily, and can't keep it up for long. if she's blinded by rage, she'll keep fighting until she collapses.

Her regular powers are less tiring, but if used too much, she still gets tired. Her powers CAN: -Force people to move or stop moving their muscles -Speed up the healing process -Cause hallucinations Her powers DO NOT:

-turn people into zombies. the targets are fully aware when under a spell. -Work on overlords, or people powerful enough to resist it. (Like 7 deadly sins, goetas, Seraphims, etc- UNLESS THEY ARE WEAKENED SIGNIFICANTLY. -Work if she is overly emotional -Permakill people -Work if the target cannot hear her -Be used to heal herself

-Songs she often uses-

Take a hint - Victorious

Used mainly to scare off creeps

Healing Incantation - Tangled

"Field medicine/stop dying gosh darn it"

Love Like You - Steven Universe

Anxiety relief. Often described as a balm for the mind. Like free anxiety meds)

-Fun Facts-

-She is the first OC to start as an adult (rather than having an aged up version like Mei and Diana) -She is the second OC to have canonical children (first is Mei) -Her design and personality are based off of Fluttershy -She's a musical theatre nerd

-She always carries a portable mic with her. She has stickers on it, each one representing each one of her friends. -She enjoys going to Cannibal Town with Alastor to meet up with Rosie -Has a mean right hook

-In order to kiss her, Angel has to pick her up, or somehow become smaller (sitting down, couching, lying down, kneeling, etc)

-Vidette enjoys being carried around by Angel

-When hugging Angel, her face winds up stuffed directly in his waist, because she is almost half his height -Her name means "muchly loved", and she finds that ironic, because she had never felt loved until she got to Hazbin. -She has no desire to go to heaven until they sort out their problems. If ever she does, she wants to go with everyone else, because she doesn't want to leave her family.

-The heart on her cheek is a representation of the marks made by lust on her body turning into love after her death. -She had Vitiligo as a human, which is where the heart on her cheek originally came from

-She is capable of holding Cursed Cat Alastor without being maimed

-She's a lightweight, and can't drink much without getting drunk. -"The Cheese Incident" is that one time when she got drunk where she ranted about cheese for two hours straight. -She has the wikipedia article about Parmesan cheese memorized because of this event ^ -They canonically used ring pops instead of actual rings for the proposal/wedding -Vidette has Kosmemophobia, the fear of jewelry (same as me)

-In overlord AUs, she's the Overlord of Broadway

Vidette is the child of 2 fisherman (dad was out on whaling boats, mum was local) and thought the sea was both terrifying (stories from his dad) and boring (stories from his mum) at the same time - it was always kind of inevitable that she was going to do some kind of work around the docks too, even though she had no particular love for it. For a while he entertained the idea of becoming a teacher, because his childhood friend Rishon, who was the son of a merchant near the docks, taught Vidette how to read & write.

She and Rishon fell into a very secretive and torrid love affair as they got older, and when Rishon decided to travel up to Istanbul for university, she decided to pack up her life without telling her parents and go with him to hopefully study history. Rishon's dad found out and chased Vidette onto a particularly rough and rocky overlook over the ocean the night they were planning their escape, and Vidette fell off and into the water. He was knocked unconscious on the rocks, but he blearily remembers someone pulling his body from the waves.

She woke up on a fishing boat miles and miles away from home - she had been knocked out for days, and realized there was no home to go back to, not if Rishon's dad had anything to say about it. Vidette spent the next few years working on various fishing boats and earning her keep, as she had basic, but competent, skills in regards to fishing. He started to understand why people liked being on the ocean so much, and he started to taste the first bit of freedom he was ever afforded. She got stronger and more weather worn, more confident, but more and more obsessed with finding Rishon. By chance, many years later, she got word of a seminar being held by a man matching his name and description while Vidette's latest crew were stopped in a port town. He went hoping to finally find Rishon again, but when Vidette tried to explain herself and what she had been up to, Rishon dismissed her. He didn't want to marry a sailor, he fell in love with the girl that was excited to learn and be a teacher and educate children, not catch fish for a living.

This broke Vidette a little. He'd spent the last decade hoping for a reunion and to resume the life they promised to each other, but it was too late. Rishon and Vidette had changed too much to be compatible anymore. She went back to sea the next day, and only hours into their journey, they were captured by pirates. Vidette managed to convince the captain that he would be a fine crewmember, and the captain made her prove it by asking her to kill one of the other fisherman. When the deed was done, he joined the crew under Captain Edward Low. The crew of his ship The Fancy were generally fair and friendly, but Captain Low was prone to cruelty and violence at a moments notice, something Vidette had to get used to in order to survive her new life of piracy. She was luckily in good company with other captured dockworkers, and took to the life on a pirate ship just as well as the fishing boat. The first raid he participated in was a complete adrenaline rush, and he only managed to fire one shot before getting stabbed in the foot and getting laid up under the deck for a few days, unable to walk but completely ecstatic. The captain saw potential in her, and over the next 6 years, Vidette managed to work his way up all the way to second mate.

When various government factions started coming hard after Low, resulting in 90% of the crew getting killed, the remaining crew of The Fancy staged a mutiny against the captain. This was not without resistance, and Vidette had to duel the first mate to the death after the crew pitched Edward Low off the side of his own boat. When she was injured but victorious, the crew named her captain. When Vidette was back in fighting trim, he renamed the ship Scylla's Revenge and has been the captain for nearly a decade - parts of the crew have come and gone over the years, but the current bunch are some of the best he's sailed with.