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Little Alastor redesigns for fun! 📻

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Least Fuckable Hellaverse Character (Round 4, Match 1)

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Least Fuckable Hellaverse Character (Round 4, Match 2)

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The concept of Vox having a nuclear family while he was alive will never not be funny to me.

Imagine dying and discovering your (likely) homophobic dad from the 50s is currently in hell, head over heels for a cannibal deer guy and screwing a giant moth pimp.

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Least Fuckable Hellaverse Character (Round 3, Section 1, Match 1)

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Least Fuckable Hellaverse Character (Round 3, Section 1, Match 2)

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Happy Pride y'all! 🖤🤍💜

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our king✨👑

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OH DEER, MILLIE CONFIRMED STRAIGHT?

Vortex too! :D

edit: Some is saying Millie has already been confirmed, my apologies for the mistake! Genuinely didnt know:,)

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Gonna need these two to make up now pls

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daddy daughter family bonding coming in a season 3 near you, TRUST!!!

commissions are open!

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Sins 🔥🔥🔥

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Most Popular Hellaverse Fansong (Round 2, Section 15, Match 3)

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Most Popular Hellaverse Fansong (Round 2, Section 15, Match 4)

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Aroace rep in the Hellaverse

I saw someone say recently that Alastor’s aroace-ness is queer baiting and it made me want to talk about ace rep in the Hellaverse as a whole.

There are 3 confirmed asexual characters across the two series, 1 in Hazbin: Alastor (who I’m pretty sure is aroace), and 2 in Helluva: Mammon and Octavia (both were confirmed via a pride month post).

First, let’s talk about Alastor: l hate to be an Alastor defender, but I don’t think he’s queer bait. In the show he’s never depicted as being interested in any type of romantic/sexual relationship ( only business relationships). He’s also the only one out of the three who’s identity is explicitly referenced in the actual show so far (even if it is a throwaway line). And the “radioapple merch” stuff is just isn’t true, people say that Alastor and Lucifer have “matching keychains” in the valentines merch which is false. They both got stand alone keychains, with Lucifer’s referencing Lilith and Alastor’s referencing himself. I feel like if you see too single people depicted next to a bunch of couples on Valentine’s Day and your first thought is that they must be involved with each other then that’s a you thing. And about that jacket or whatever it was, it was referencing a popular scene from a popular episode, it’s not teasing radioapple any more than the episode is. You know, the episode about them hating each other? Anyways as an aroace I think it would be nice to see more merch of Alastor with his actual friends (Rosie, Mimzy, Niffty, and maybe Husk), and some more explicitly aroace merch though the keychain is pretty neat (if you like Alastor). Now about shipping: in the pilot era, which is when Alastor’s aroace-ness began (before that he was depicted as infatuated with Mimzy), Viv said she doesn’t mind him getting shipped, which I’m pretty sure she said to keep her name out of shipping arguments, because there’s nothing anyone can do to stop shipping anyone with everyone. But I’m not trying to defend Vivzie here, there are still things wrong here. 1. Her most relevant asexual character is a heartless murderer and cannibal 2. (This one’s personal) I really hate Alastor and I don’t want to be associated with him just because I’m aroace, and I’m sure I’m not alone

Now let’s talk about Helluva boss’s asexual characters. Like I said both of these characters’ identities got revealed by a pride month post on social media and neither’s identities got referenced in the show (yet). Which is disappointing. But what’s more disappointing is that one of these characters is another heartless irredeemable villain in the form of Mammon sin of greed, and I wouldn’t have a problem with that if aro/ace identities weren’t given to heartless villains so much (both in canon and fanon stuff), 2/3 ace characters being horrible villains (even if they are loved by fans) isn’t a good look. Now, Mammon makes multiple references to sex and seems to be interested in Leviathan which is great to see, a lot of asexuals can relate to that (I might not one of them, but it’s still important and I’m happy to see it). It’s a shame that his asexuality is never actually mentioned. And finally Octavia. I have a lot of hope for this girl. Her sexuality is also never mentioned in the show, she is surrounded by purple a lot but she does have a galaxy theme. Unfortunately she does fall into a common stereotype for both aros and aces, which is that she is “broken”. But out of the three I have the most hope for her to be the best ace rep in the hellaverse (AKA she’s the only one out of the three who I wouldn’t be embarrassed to be associated with based on sexuality alone)

Edit: I did not know today was international asexuality day, but I guess this came out at the perfect time

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Frankly, as an asexual I don’t think Viv’s ace representation is amazing, in fact, I find it pretty underwhelming, but I also don’t think this one common argument is a good critique:

“Alastor is a heartless killer so that means it’s bad representation”

I mean, yeah, I would agree if he was in a regular everyday show instead of being part of a series where practically every character is a horrible person who was justifiably sent to hell.

His lack of morality makes sense within the context he’s in, he isn’t an outlier whose only reason to be evil is his asexuality.

I just don’t find this kind of moralistic approach to criticizing representation productive, most of the time it just creates this idea that every diverse character should be overly sanitized, limiting the diversity in representation we have.