Terragonn

obviously i care about canon because what i enjoy about fics is often the puzzle of how to adapt whatever’s being thrown my way by an extremely chaotic tv show into the style/genre/tone/plot of fic i enjoy, and i find it very valuable to return to the source material every once and a while to reconnect with the things that inspired me in the first place. but ultimately i dont have any interest in worshipping at the altar of canon because i don’t think whatever The Author is doing is any more ‘real’ than what i’m doing lol. like we’re working in different forms, you made the space i’m playing in, but my fic is very much separate from my other fandom engagement because it is literally not about the story as it exists but about the things I find interesting enough about it to use it as a springboard to do my own thing. sometimes I worry that people don’t like this approach but I honestly cannot see the appeal of doing it any other way lol

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