Show me the moving pictures.

Accidentally work through trauma. Charlie, look! They’re doing therapy! That’s what this is!

I can’t even say that Alastor wouldn’t pull this kind of nonsense. I have the same headcanon that he’s the one that fucked up Vox’s antenna—it just seems to fit that he would have done visible permanent damage. I mean, who else would have done it?

Wait this is incredible actually. How did this parallel not REMOTELY occur to me until now??

Some more fanart of Vox getting gaslit-gatekept-girlbossed in my human Alastor x post-s2 demon Vox roadtrip fic yay

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I feel a strong kinship with partners au Vox in the sense that I have the most hedonistic Pomeranian in documented history and his number one dream is to run into traffic at any given moment. He hates me for not letting him and Unfortunately he is very cute so I haven't sold him yet

I think the important reframing of this phenomenon is that Vox is not doing things for Alastor. Alastor is inventing tasks for Vox. Vox is like a working dog breed that develops anxiety and creates destructive tasks for itself if you lock it inside a city apartment with nothing to do instead of providing enrichment, and Vox’s misplaced idea of a typical work day is being locked inside doing repetitive tasks for hours. If you leave Vox to his own devices for too long, he will start trying to take over Hell or create imaginary beef with the monarchy or try to ascend to godhood.

You need to give him productive things to do or he goes crazy.

Clocked. Clocked on all fronts. You saw right through both of them.

And this is also like - it's not even just a social norms/societal expectations thing. Alastor isn't concerned that Valentino is going to (successfully) bitch and moan about Vox putting Alastor first; he's concerned that Vox is going to deprioritize their relationship if he gets into a romantic one, because that's just what always happens. That's what people do.

behold the Radiobelle Conspiracy Board

Lucifer and Vox:

CACKLING

the fucking vees polycule = charlie vaggie and alastor comparison. They even both have a lesbian in the squad.

I hit the floor. None of this makes any sense to anyone other than Vox. Vox is on an entirely separate planet from anyone else represented on the conspiracy board.

"and now lucifer wants to fuck him"

VOX.

Did the Vees?

When did 'this is in no shape or form a normal rivalry' become public knowledge?

Oh my god this comparison.

I think the Val and Vel bought into the scorned lover thing pretty hard and were not expecting Alastor to be such a true tactical problem from inside the house. You get glimpses of this from Velvette’s perspective (and behaviors) in TCHBW—she doesn’t really take Alastor seriously until it is way too late to start doing that, and is largely under the impression that Vox is just still being led around by the end of his dick. Val is slightly less naïve about Alastor’s actual power scaling, but I think he largely assumed that once Vox had Alastor he would calm down. Like, surely you can just fuck this guy now and get over yourself.

(Little does he know that fucking Alastor would probably just make Vox worse. It’s a ‘give a mouse a cookie’ situation. Pun intended.)

To the general public, it probably read as a relatively expected rivalry between two oppositional forces in media—until the parade. And the toting Alastor around everywhere. Like, the baseline expectation is that you belligerently humiliate and traumatize your enemy until they cease to be any possible future threat and arguably cease to want to be a person anymore. Vox veered sideways off that path SO FAST. Why are you taking your prisoner on a date to a 1950s throwback diner. wtf is going on right now.

To other Overlords, I think pre-S2 there was largely a perception that Alastor was playing with his food, actually. We know that Vox wasn’t taken particularly seriously by his peers based on the Bad With Us intro and other context clues, whereas Alastor was apparently feared throughout Pride and respected by even the most ancient Overlords on the scene. So like, why is the Radio Demon spending decades playfully knocking Vox down like a cat shoves a glass off the counter and waiting for him to get back up again? Why isn’t he eating this guy.

(a second ask clarified that this is for partners AU l m a o)

You know, something I've been pondering for a while is whether a cisgender version of Vox would take advantage of his uh, adaptable biology if he somehow came to the conclusion that Alastor is straight, and that that is the primary or only reason that Alastor is not interested in him.

And as a comedy writer, the immediate humor of this scenario to me is that we end up with like, unwitting trans ally Alastor. Vox reveals his update in a see/I did it for you/now we can be together way and Alastor is like "but obviously you're a man. this has changed nothing." And Vox, who has every reason to know better but is absolutely still in the mindset of a guy from the 50s in more ways than one, is like okay but like-- I addressed that. and Alastor with no particular finesse is like well no, it's just not an issue of biology. it's who you are.

And then Vox calls him woke, and Alastor is like I have no idea what you're accusing me of, but this is exactly the kind of horribly rude behavior that I would only expect from a man.