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Mehehhwheh, made another silly thing with Wally as little cartoony fella

I'm actually enjoying the process of animating small silly gifs, so maybe there will be more!!

THESE COMMERCIALS MADE ME SO INSPIRED I JUST CAN'T

Also drew these as my friend gave me some of their acrylic markers and damn THEY'RE REALLY GOOD I NEED to buy them they're really nice to draw🙏

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I'm testing a new animation program, so there is no reason for this outside of fun. I also can imagine Lucifer just standing in the background one morning at the hotel, staring off into space.

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I just sort of want to get this out of my head so I can move onto other things, but I don't think Lilith is going to be what we expect her to be. Barring everything Vizzie previously stated about the Morningstar family, I just have this gut feeling she's not the big bad.

Lilith may be antagonistic at first, maybe not who knows at this point, but I don't think she's the problem that Sera seems so afraid of. Especially with how Lute approaches her at the beach, that is not someone who is afraid of Lilith. She insulted her daughter by calling her a brat, and made demands out of her. 

I know there are theories about Alastor and Lilith being in cahoots together because of them disappearing at the same time, and Alastor's attitude towards Lucifer. A lot of people think Lilith has Alastor on a leash, but correlation is not causation. I strongly believe Alastor just didn't like a stronger and more influential figure popping up at the hotel, what he considers his territory. Alastor is a grade-a-narc, and he likes to pick fights with bigger male authority figures to secure his place in their world.

In the finale, Alastor was distressed about his deal, possibly forcing him to stay at the hotel even though now it nearly got him killed. He wants out, but he’s scared of whatever or whoever has him, to the point he’s second guessing if there is even a way out at all. From here we see a very peculiar motif. These red eyes. Both in his tower (which don't appear anywhere else in the hotel), and his shield.

These eyes are literally everywhere, and in the beginning animatic we see that these eyes represent the pit” or Hell. They show up the minute Charlie mentions that a great black pit opened up, which her parents were then thrown into as punishment for allowing Evil to take hold of earth. Lilith and Lucifer are cast into these eyes. I know there is a theory that these are associated with Lilith, but I don't think so. I think they’re just representative of Hell itself, or the entity of Evil itself. Motifs are a BIG thing in Hazbin, everyone has one, especially the Morningstars. 

The motifs we know about Lilith are what we've physically seen so far. We know she inspired Hell through her music (which seems like a Morningstar habit honestly, they all do this). Charlie as a baby has music notes on her dress. 

The animatic in the beginning story shows Lilith with her music notes, as well as Charlie calling it back in her song " Happy Day in Hell". Then, after being shown Lilith and her music notes, then eyes show up at the bottom with the city of hell being created. 

Lucifer also has a call back to eyes since angels have many many eyes in their forms, especially Seraphim. However, his motifs almost always appear in golden yellow, both on his person and in his architecture. The Hotel has many eyes everywhere, but they are all clearly related to Lucifer either by their gold color or his maroon shade of red that's all over the hotel. They're almost always symmetrical in the architecture as well, while the hell eyes are more misshapen.

*Which side tangent, but it's very clear this Hotel used to belong to the Morningstars before it was abandoned and Charlie took up residence. It's dilapidated, heavily, to the point Charlie was willing to let Alastor in to help liven it up a little. Per the large circus imagery, I think it's safe to say it was Lucifer’s, for one reason or another, which is interesting.* 

Anyway, these Hell eyes are red, always. And Eve is very heavily associated with the color red in the very little amount we get to see of her. 

Even Lilith is standing outside the aura of red that surrounds Eve, Lucifer, and the Apples. 

Charlie's main motif seems to be hearts, and it's also shared with her father as he has a heart in his tail just like Charlies. 

What we know about Lilith is second hand, but I think it's fair to say Charlie would know her mother better than anyone (minus Lucifer obviously). Charlie says her mother loved her kingdom, and she passed that passion onto her daughter.  So whatever is happening with Lilith I believe has to do strictly with the exterminations and that only. A bargain, a willing prisoner, a tired and hopeless queen that’s done with it all? Who knows, but I don’t think she has anything to do with Alastor's whole ordeal, nor the enormous threat to Heaven as Sera talks about. 

I don’t know if it's Eve, or some other force, but I think Alastor is way more in over his head than making deals with Hell’s love struck family. I think he’s doing deeds on behalf of a much larger universal evil that’s present throughout all of hell. We know in the beginning that Evil existed before the creation of Eden, we see a creepy representation of it in the beginning standing next to “Good”. Good and Evil have been at war for eons. This force was itching to get its blood red hands on Earth, and so just maybe it also wants a piece of Heaven. 

Alastor wasn’t sent to the hotel to check up on Lilith’s daughter. I think he was sent to have the best chance anyone could at getting a foot into Heaven. We have to remember Charlie is Lucifer’s daughter, the King of Hell that still has connections to Heaven. Enough to get a meeting for his daughter. No one knows what gets a soul into Heaven, and considering how messed up Adam was, it may not even have to be real or mean anything. Charlie wouldn’t take Alastor that first time, because she didn’t owe him anything. Now she does, per their deal after her failed negotiations. As long as none gets hurt, but having her let him join along for their next holy vacation or something similar would fit that criteria.

Sir Pentious making it to Heaven would send Sera into a panic. I doubt she wants sinners, people that have been touched by evil, barging through the gates into Heaven redeemed or not. Clearly by her face, she’s distressed. Sera doesn’t want a war with Hell, because of what is in Hell. Evil has never had a better opportunity to corrupt the incorruptible than it does with an army of demons and a deluded Princess with dreams. Just like her father. 

So I don't think Lilith is the villain. A small one, maybe, but Lucifer still wears his ring and Charlie speaks the world of her. She looked happy in her portraits with her family, and I don’t doubt she’d do anything to protect them, but that’s an entirely different argument. No, I think Lilith exists to distract everyone from what is lurking underneath. Lilith and Alastor might have disappeared at the same time due to a similar cause, but I don’t believe it's because Lilith initiated a deal with him. Alastor was lured into a deal with a much larger threat, the same threat that concerned Sera enough to start the exterminations in the first place, that might have also triggered Lilith’s involvement.

Of course this is all speculation, and there really is no solid proof, but I just need this written and pushed away from me so I can move onto other thoughts. I know there was, or may be a character called Roo, but I try not to involve older concepts or ideas since so many things can change when the final scripts and show are done. I'm just going off strictly what we have seen straight in the show.

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Its been a while since I've felt motivated to crochet anything. Might as well be Hell's Greatest Duck Daddy

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I still wholeheartedly want to believe that Lilith is good until season 2 proves me wrong, however until then I will imagine and sketch the big Sins taking care of their little one.

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If I had a nickel for every 3ft tall, autistic, socially awkward, depressed, goofy, and occult themed grown man with a creative obsession of some kind, that also loves apples, I'd have two nickels.

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I've never tried posting my art on here. Should I make this a thing?

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look at you, you're gorgeous💥

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It's such a small little thing, but I adore how animated Aziraphale's and Crowley's wings are. They could have easily done minimum movement and have them be static behind their backs. They sort of are in the first scene of season one as a comparison, however in the final scene of season one, and the first scene of episode one of season 2, they are all over the place. I love it. They move with their expressions and you can see how more expressive Crowley's are in comparison to Aziraphale's, which differentiates their personalities really well right of the bat.

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I would love to believe that's true, but there are so many little things to suggest that it isn't that.

Crowley putting back on his glasses when Aziraphale said "Oh Crowley, nothing last forever." You can see the devastation and misunderstanding of that statement directly on Crowley's face, and we have further proof of that when Crowley very slowly, but deliberately, puts his glasses back on. It doesn't only help to disguise his emotions, but it's a comfort for him. It's a wall between him and whatever makes him feel uneasy. We're shown throughout the entire series that Crowley wears his glasses everywhere, except in the bookshop, because Aziraphale makes him feel comfortable enough to allow Crowley to be fully himself. We see purposeful shots of Crowley's glasses hanging or being placed down in the bookshop in season 2. So him putting them back on, in direct conversation with Aziraphale, means he's no longer comfortable there. He wants to disguise his genuine hurt from the angel, and he instinctually wants to find something that'll make him more at ease.

Then there is the kiss. It's aggressive, desperate. Someone trying to convey a loving gesture of patience wouldn't be that forceful. That's Crowley angry, heartbroken, and hopeless. He's pulling out whatever he can to get across his emotions to Aziraphale without directly saying it, probably because he's on the verge of tears and so hyped up on adrenaline he wouldn't be able to say it anyway. That is a last ditch effort to get Aziraphale to understand what exactly he means and was offering,. Before, in the conversation when Crowley was trying to confess to him, Aziraphale brushed it off as always. Aziraphale is dancing around the offer like they always do, because that's his comfort zone. It worked as well, just by Aziraphale's reaction, however, then he broke any chance at a parley when he said "I forgive you." You can watch as all hope leaves Crowley's body, as he slumps a bit, utters a "Don't bother." and leaves.

Now Crowley does wait at his car, possibly one last optimistic stand, praying Aziraphale would change his mind, or possibly to see him off with his own eyes. When Crowley enters the Bentley and the "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square." starts to play, he bitterly turns it off and starts his car, and drives off with a slightly sour, but otherwise emotionless expression.

I don't think someone that's willing to wait until his loved one decides better for themselves would be so visibly distraught and angry about what occurred. Crowley has been rejected, again. He's been rejected by God, Heaven, Hell, and now Aziraphale multiple times. Even a demon can only take so much. He's had to watch Aziraphale return to the people that tried to kill, and still might, but he can't force Aziraphale to do what he wants. Its not something he's willing to do with Aziraphale because of his trauma and disdain for both sides. Crowley may come to understand his side later, when he's had time to brew on it, but I don't think he left that bookshop with any real expectations of ever seeing Aziraphale again, certainly not in a happy loving reunion.

I honestly think that Aziraphale was wholeheartedly trying to advance his and Crowley's relationship, in his own incredibly adorable and old fashioned way, in Season 2. There are so many instances where Aziraphale is flirting, touching, lovingly gazing, and extending offers he would normally feel to uncomfortable to make. Like, wanting to dance with Crowley. That is a huge step forward for someone that moves as slowly as Aziraphale does. He is an anxious bean. He tries to establish that its their car and bookshop. He's trying to blur the lines in their possessions a little bit there. Aziraphale even reached out for help to Crowley first and wanted them to work together on protecting Gabriel. Of course, poor Crowley doesn't seem to notice it at all, because he's usually the one testing the waters, seeing how far he can tempt Aziraphale. He's been protecting their fragile existence for ages.

Aziraphale is breaking down boundaries very subtly. He was trying to progress the intimacy in their relationship, by being a little more blatant with his flirtations. With how hedonistic Aziraphale is, I wouldn't doubt that he'd want to try a more human way of approaching his and Crowley's relationship. Moving it from a 6,000 year old friendship to a romantic one. He wants his Jane Austen romance. I cannot be told that if that kiss had happened at any other point, Aziraphale would have been over the moon. He even struggles between reciprocating or pushing Crowley away, which he chooses to do neither.

Unfortunately that kiss was ruined, because it was loaded with so much emotional pain and desperation that it essentially acted as a weapon against Aziraphale. Here is what you're leaving behind, here is what we could have had. You were so close to this weren't you?

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I'm honestly losing my mind over this. I know Aziraphale is looking at Crowley like he's a falling star, light of his earth, here, but Crowley is literally admitting he's been living out of his car for possibly three years. (I'm not sure how much time it took for Hell to appoint Shax, but in the Covid audio Crowley was taking a nap until July, so its might have been far shorter of a time.)

So is Aziraphale just astonishedly endeared here? We know now that he didn't know Crowley was living out of his car, that's why he never offered to have Crowley move in.

Like is Aziraphale just thinking, "Lord help me you're such an idiot, but I love you." Lol

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I honestly think that Aziraphale was wholeheartedly trying to advance his and Crowley's relationship, in his own incredibly adorable and old fashioned way, in Season 2. There are so many instances where Aziraphale is flirting, touching, lovingly gazing, and extending offers he would normally feel to uncomfortable to make. Like, wanting to dance with Crowley. That is a huge step forward for someone that moves as slowly as Aziraphale does. He is an anxious bean. He tries to establish that its their car and bookshop. He's trying to blur the lines in their possessions a little bit there. Aziraphale even reached out for help to Crowley first and wanted them to work together on protecting Gabriel. Of course, poor Crowley doesn't seem to notice it at all, because he's usually the one testing the waters, seeing how far he can tempt Aziraphale. He's been protecting their fragile existence for ages.

Aziraphale is breaking down boundaries very subtly. He was trying to progress the intimacy in their relationship, by being a little more blatant with his flirtations. With how hedonistic Aziraphale is, I wouldn't doubt that he'd want to try a more human way of approaching his and Crowley's relationship. Moving it from a 6,000 year old friendship to a romantic one. He wants his Jane Austen romance. I cannot be told that if that kiss had happened at any other point, Aziraphale would have been over the moon. He even struggles between reciprocating or pushing Crowley away, which he chooses to do neither.

Unfortunately that kiss was ruined, because it was loaded with so much emotional pain and desperation that it essentially acted as a weapon against Aziraphale. Here is what you're leaving behind, here is what we could have had. You were so close to this weren't you?

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So as I'm jumping back and forth between two fandoms right now, I wanna sort of put this out here before I explode. This is a reference to the Good Omens "Essay Theory" by Ariaste (I'm not directly linking them, as I dont want to bother them. They've discussed wanting to take a break from theorizing.) However, here is the link to said theory: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/edit?usp=drivesdk

Now, we just recently got the released behind the scenes footage and images of season 2. One of them immediately caught my eye.

This is a sort of collaged concept photo for Aziraphale's halo, which reminded me of something.

This scene in the Job episode. At first I thought this oval shaped thing was a portal that Aziraphale was stepping out of, but it's clearly not. He does just randomly manifest on the cliff, but as he recognizes Crowley, this spikey aura fades off, then returns when he goes back to avaunting Crowley. It wouldnt return if it was just a portal up to the cliffside. It looks like a simplified version of the concept halo. You can even see where some of the spikes make an arch around Aziraphale's head in particular, then another layer trails down the silhouette of his body.

The concept is entirely different then what we see in episode 6.

Which is a much simpler and stereotypical angels halo, that seeimgly comes out of nowhere. Its not previously referenced at all, as the theory suggests. Also why would Aziraphale effortlessly be able to summon this golden spiked aura but not be able to pull his halo out without a struggle? Its a bomb isnt it? You'd think an angel would need to quickly get ahold of such a weapon in a battle scenario.

So its either a matter of the spikey aura being its own thing, which in that scene is the only time we see at all. If it is, what is it then? Just some sort angelic light meant to ward off demons or look intimidating? Why didn't he use it against Shax if thats the case? I think its Aziraphale's real halo, and the one we see in the finale episode is some made up version that someone wants us to believe is Aziraphale's halo.

My only hesitance with this thought is, wouldn't Metatron know what an angels halo looks like? Unless he is something different than an angel, so he may not be aware of even his own people's characteristics (which let's be honest wouldn't be surprising).

Either way, if you believe in this theory or not, the images are still quite interesting regardless, and I think are worth discussing. At least a little bit.