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Hello I have returned from the dead to say that Alastor is certainly not interested in a relationship with Vox but he’s also a jealous attention whore who gets mad when Vox pays attention to other people and Valentino 100% picked up on that and went out of his way to push his buttons because he thinks it’s funny. This all indirectly lead to the entire plot of the show. Trust me I’m in Viv’s walls.

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We didn't deserve this weekend.

Truly.

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Arackniss confirmed to be making an appearance in season three or four????

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I like how the season two wait has caused me to devolve to the point that I genuinely, unironically ship Valastor now. They can make each other SO much worse ❤️

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fake relationship trope with valentino and alastor mostly because they both get a lot out of annoying vox and how better to annoy vox than take away both of his favorite toys

could end like forty different ways but the journey is so much more fun isnt it

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I think partly why radioapple is so mischaracterized so often is because Lucifer wouldn't be able to handle Alastor’s crazy.

Alastor’s definition of love means watching the light in someone's eyes die. It means sinking his teeth deep into his beloved's neck and draining them dry, after which he cradles their blood-soaked body and reveres them. It means disembowelling them and studying every last inch of their body like an autopsy. It means carving their chest open with a pair of pliers and holding their heart in his hand. It means a dangerous, violent love that sporadically varies between both terrifying obsession and emotionally constipated dismissal.

And Lucifer is just... too mellow for that. He builds ducks and refuses to fight even though he can level anyone in a matter of seconds, for god's sake. That's why Alastor’s bloodlust and insane behaviour have to be tuned down in order for the ship to work, and that's just so much less interesting.

BUT

We do know SOMEONE equally as unhinged who might be into that. Someone who craves that chaos and unpredictability. Someone who gets off on the pain. Someone who also expresses his love and devotion through intimate violence.

(*cough cough* it's Vox *cough cough*)

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I think the reason why RadioSilence me so uncomfortable is because people act like it's so funny. And I don't understand the joke. The haha funny.

"Haha, Vox is stalking and s*xually harassing Alastor" "Haha, Vox is so embarrassed that he's sobbing" "Haha, Vox got rejected and will never be happy"

Like. What. Am I supposed to laugh at this poor man's mistery and suffering? Because I'm not. I'm very uncomfortable. That's not funny and it definitely doesn't make me like Alastor.

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The funniest version of Valastor would be Vox trying to introduce them in the hopes of them fighting over him but instead they get together and he has to go sit in the cuck chair.

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Vox being just sliiightly shorter than Alastor this is the best thing to ever happen you just KNOW that it hurts his self-esteem lmaoo

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Overlord Girls Night 🥳💅

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What's going on with these two tho? 👀👀👀👀

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Drawing lesbian Vel cuz it’s confirmed💅

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I know that complaining about the Vees not getting enough screentime is a dead horse by this point, but good lord, I desperately need to know what ended up coming of this.

I think the general assumption is that the project got killed or forgotten, and that’s not unrealistic, but it’s not impossible that it did actually end up going somewhere, and I would like to speculate a bit about why I believe it may come back.

After Vox announced it, he explicitly told his assistant to try and get Carmilla Carmine on the books. I actually find that rather interesting, because it means he suspected that Carmilla’s weapons were the best bet for defending against angels. He also knew that angels could be killed, because they had the decapitated exorcist’s head for about a week at that point. While he clearly came up with the project on a whim (as he tells his assistant), he wasn’t entirely talking out of his ass - he had a reason to believe they would have a product to sell. Enough of a reason to be announcing it to the public, absolutely not, but the guy can literally hypnotize people. He can exaggerate a little, as a treat.

This would be confirmed in the next episode, when Velvette got Carmilla to all but confess to killing the angel.

The thing is, Valentino having his moments aside, the Vees aren’t stupid. They knew that:

Angels can be killed.

Carmilla Carmine was involved in the death of the angel.

Carmilla Carmine sells and arms herself with angelic steel.

Angelic steel is the only material capable of permanently killing sinners and higher demons like Ars Goetia, meaning it can kill beings normal weapons cannot.

Sure, they didn’t have explicit verbal confirmation of Carmilla using angelic weapons to kill the exorcist, but they don’t exactly need that to reach the correct conclusion. Keep in mind that they had the head for a week, too. They had time to inspect and analyze it - usually weapons will leave some trace of material behind, especially on bones, and a weapon as unique as steel pointe shoes would leave some pretty distinct wounds. They were likely very well aware of how the exorcist died for months before Carmilla explicitly spelled it out for Vaggie and the audience. “Use their own weapons to kill them” is a pretty common trope in media, and speaking for myself as a viewer, I was not even remotely surprised at the reveal.

(I’m willing to bet Alastor reached this conclusion too, but he might not have wanted to explicitly tell Charlie “yeah you just use angelic weapons” without knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt, since it would have damaged his credibility with her irreparably if he was wrong.)

The issue isn’t that the Vees don’t know what they’re doing - it’s that Carmilla hates them. Given how Vox talks about her (“that bitch Carmine”) I doubt they’ve had good business dealings in the past, so she probably isn’t super willing to help them make weapons of mass destruction. It’s unlikely they were able to obtain the materials needed to put the product into mass production, so I would be surprised if it managed to get past the prototype phase.

But I doubt they spent the six months the show covered resting on their laurels, and a prototype is still enough to be dangerous. Even with Adam gone, Heaven isn’t going away as a threat, at least if Lute has anything to say about it, and that could give the Vees the perfect chance to demonstrate what they’ve developed. They’re most likely going to try and start a smear campaign against the hotel and their associates, and this could easily be part of it - they’re trying to give the average sinner the ability to defend themselves! After all, Carmine weapons are so expensive and exclusive, is it fair that only the wealthiest can afford them? Shouldn’t you trust them, the approachable and beloved Vees, instead?

They may be full of shit, but if you wrap the shit up nicely enough, nobody is going to recognize it.

There’s a writing principle called Chekov’s Gun, which suggests that every element of a story must eventually come back later in the plot - “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.” Obviously Viv doesn’t totally adhere to this (it’s difficult to in television), but I wouldn’t be surprised if this particular case does indeed show up again.

Thanks for reading my rambling, I hope you found it interesting! If you have any thoughts, please let me know, I love speculating.

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human! vel and some grumpy old man

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VALASTOR IN SEASON 2??

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