Terragonn

The way so many people don't get this when it's literally the main thing still driving them apart and the main focus all of season 2 tried to nail down is driving me insane. Vox is becoming worse because he's trying to put himself above everyone else including Valentino and Velvette in the hopes he will prove Aalstor wrong for doubting him. This tendency is foreshadowed even in Once we get up there when he says "to everyone who doubted me your doubting days are done" during which he sings about being god and ruling the world. Alastor in turn, is only getting more and more reassured that he did the right thing by cutting Vox off the first time as he watches Vox discard anything and everyone to rise to the top. Alastor calls him "broken from the start" because Vox's dissatisfaction doesn't stem from an insatiable greed for more, but from a crippling inability to find worth in himself as a person. He doesn't know how to recognize himself as someone worthy so he finds value in himself through what he can DO instead of who he IS. And Alastor knows this. He knows Vox better than Vox knows himself.

The fandom perception of Alastor confuses me so much actually. Quite literally quite simply quite obviously the Main Theme/Entire Point of Hazbin is "the key to redemption is allowing love to motivate you instead of fear" and then ppl will deadass look at The Guy Who's Motivated Entirely By Fear Always and is A Main Character and is So So So Fucking Lonely because he had one genuine friendship ever and allowed his fear to destroy it and go "yeah he's an endgame villain, he will never get better actually"

he said he likes physical touch so i slapped him

What if I start a trend called "No one nuts November" where everyone writes about their favorite characters having bad sex that sucks and isn't fun.

see a while ago I decided i actually DO think vox and angel have fucked at some point in their timeline, exactly once and at great psychological cost to them both. for one reason or another Vox finally agreed to the threesome Val has been begging for since the 70s, and obviously Angel was never going to be given a choice in the matter, so that's great. and the entire experience is just a catastrophic nightmare on every level imaginable. it sucks and NOT in a fun fucked up hot way. it's painfully awkward and difficult and a little bit traumatic but like, banally so. Every step of the process gets turned into a whole sisyphean ordeal. Vox needs to be heavily dosed on magical aphrodisiacs just to get in the game, and even then he is visibly cringing every time he remembers it's Angel that's touching him. Angel's stuck in a position where Val obviously wants him to Engage In The Sex and appeal to the fantasy, which he could totally do, except Vox wants him to stay still and shut up so they can get through this as quickly as possible, and either of them are liable to hurt him for fucking up. Val is trying so hard to make this work, getting Vox worked up and fully deploying his power as Hell's greatest porn director, but no amount of outside interference can save this situation. nobody has a good time and it makes the vox/angel dynamic immeasurably worse thereafter. the end.