After 70 years, Alastor and Vox finally slept together and things are…complicated.

A continuation of my one shot "Kisses That Cut Me", the story picking up 2 weeks later. Enjoy!

((if you would rather just read this fic you just need to know that they slept together the night before the S2 finale))

But you know what? I just saw pictures of angelCrowley and 'Anthony' back to back, and maybe this is me being stupid and in denial, but I’m only realizing now that this 'Anthony' is, in fact, a "reincarnation" or whatever of angelCrowley and NOT demonCrowley, the being we spent the story with, the being he became after millennia of experience on Earth - I mean THE Crowley, our Crowley, Aziraphale’s Crowley, and I just...

It makes me even more furious than I already am. They erased nearly everything that was making this character interesting. After showing us time and again how terrible Heaven was, how free will is important, and why labels shouldn’t matter as long as you stay true to who you are deep down ("just a little bit a good person", "just enough of a bastard", "just an angel/a demon who goes along with Heaven/Hell as far as he can"), they told us that a fallen angel was a bad thing, that it shouldn’t exist after all. They ended with two 'angels' falling for each other.

I wonder, what happened to shades of grey?

I fell in love with those two because they were are far more complex than what it says on the tin. I don’t give a damn about the purest of angels. I care about characters who ask questions, who doubt, who evolve, who fight for what they believe in, who love unconditionally, despite the odds.

And to think about all the other narrative decisions made in that finale...

I can't see him having been higher than middle class, if that. If he was upper class, his family's name would have been well-known, and he wouldn't have had to start at the bottom at the TV studio. Having a powerful social figure associated with your business is a good look, so he could have gotten any position he wanted just by showing up. Or cheated his way up the ladder with money instead of murder.

Plus, the newspaper article says he "[took] the world of entertainment by storm", which isn't a phrase you'd normally use to describe someone who came from a prominent family. His interest in the field would have been common knowledge and people would have been watching from the start (all the more reason why the network wouldn't have started him as a weatherman). He very much seems to have risen from obscurity.

Could Vox be dom? Absolutely. However, I feel like if he were to ever actually get the chance to fuck Alastor, he would do everything to please. Service top to the max. And Al would want to control the situation as much as possible, which would make him a power bottom.

I don't think Vox would do everything to please Alastor given that in canon - in order to earn Alastor's approval - Vox didn't go about it by fulfilling Alastor wishes or "pleasing him" or fawning, he did it by commanding respect and taking power by force. So, if Vox WAS a sub I don't think he'd go about it that way, he's way too insecure for that. He'd probably be more into the physical overpowering and pain and degradation rather than being "a good boy" which would put him as an inferior to Alastor. And that's the last thing Vox wants. Alastor absolutely would want to control the situation but so would Vox, that's why all those battles for dominance are so intriguing between the two. Alastor wouldn't be nearly as entertained by Vox if Vox just surrendered and offered to lick the ground he walked on or smth. Alastor could have easily left after he got his soul but nooo he had to have one last fight with his rival which nearly killed him and he was LAUGHING while fighting him. Alastor wouldn't want Vox any other way - well, maybe he'd like him trustworthy, but trustworthy ≠ submissive. Vox is the only one who offers Alastor a challenge, the only one Alastor could almost consider an equal. That's why their dom/dom dynamic is so unique and works so well.

I don’t mean him being like “a good boy” sub and being like a little bitch about it. He’s still gonna be his normal arrogant self. I just mean like at the end of the day he wants Alastor to respect him and like him so of course if they had sex I feel like he would want Alastor to like it ya know? And I don’t think that would mean doing anything by force because Alastor wouldn’t respect him for doing that. There would definitely be some power foreplay and dominance battling. But, at least how I see it, I think of Vox as a sub because in the end HE is the one who is going to crave Alastors approval. When I think of Vox as a service top it’s not so much being a submissive little bitch to what Alastor wants, but manipulating and trying to prove Alastor should have slept with him all along because he can make it good for him. And “making it good for him” would include power dominating and pain and all that. Cause like you said! Alastor would be bored of Vox if he just rolled over and licked his boots. Cause of course you’re so right he doesn’t want to be inferior to Alastor. But I don’t think doing what he knew would please Alastor in bed would make him feel inferior ya know? I think it would make him feel powerful.

Sorry if I’m not explaining this well. They do have a very complex dynamic haha. 😅 But no, point is, Vox is definitely not a whiny little bitch sub. He is just smart enough to know if he doesn’t prove himself in bed it ain’t gonna happen again. So he would be putting in the fucking work! Lmao

I def see your point about dom/dom and I don’t hate that at all! I think it’s mixed in there for sure. Vox would come across dominant but really he’s the sub cause he’s doing what he knows Alastor would like….does that make sense?

I don’t disagree that some may be trying to not make it a dark ship by making him submissive. But for the most part I feel like people recognize that Vox is the one who would want to fuck more, so he’s the one who’s gonna be making the effort to make sure it goes well. Hence, service top.

Could Vox be dom? Absolutely. However, I feel like if he were to ever actually get the chance to fuck Alastor, he would do everything to please. Service top to the max. And Al would want to control the situation as much as possible, which would make him a power bottom.

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