I wanna talk about this part of hazbin hotel specifically:
That is extremely emotionally charged dialogue. Because, sure, Vox is often called manipulative, an asshole, a liar etc. But a “fucking creep”? From Alastor of all characters? That says something about Vox and his behaviour.
Whilst we are given more tame images like Vox taking Alastor on dates that he only seems annoyed with, or their backstory in which Alastor genuinely laughs when Vox tries to imitate him
We also have Alastor being forced into a fucking cuck chair against his will.
(and can i just say that his clothes being specifically thrown all around alastor is really telling about how that scene went down, and it is not pleasant to think about)
We have Vox revealing that Alastor doesn’t have a tail.
But how does Vox know this? Did he confirm it with his bare hands? Because if yes, that is absolutely grounds to call him a fucking creep, especially from Alastor, a character who literally cannot cover up the fact he hates being touched by Vox.
(which you can see in the backstory scene: the radio static/screeching quietly in the background when Vox touches Alastor’s shoulders)
I can’t help but see the obvious difference between their expressions. Alastor does smile as always but where Vox looks like he is genuinely enjoying forcing himself into Alastor’s personal space, Alastor looks. Uncomfortable. Hostile. Repulsed, even.
He turns away. He can’t stand it.
We know that he is uncomfortable, but really stop to think about how this goes beyond a character’s touch-aversion.
Vox is genuinely inappropriate towards Alastor, beyond just a sexual interest or obsession he acts like a sex pest which honestly has got to feel horrible from Alastor’s end. Imagine you reject someone (albeit in the most humiliating way possible like jeez Al you couldn’t have let him down gently) and then said person develops a psycho-sexual relationship in his head with you to the point where the moment you are forced to be in proximity with him he straps you to a chair and forces you to watch him have sex and/or touches you and announces intimate information about your body to an entire population.
I wouldn’t play-down Alastor’s ability to mask discomfort well, he absolutely can and does, but Vox isn’t just in love with Alastor he overtly sexualises him both publicly and psychologically.
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