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Alastor: You know i’m in the kind of mood where I’d actually say yes if you asked me on a date but then I remembered you’re dating Valentino so..

Vox almost snapping his phone in half in pure flustered panic typing his number: VAL WE GOTTA BREAK UP NOW TALK LATER

Vox in the most excited voice in his life: OK ALASTOR WILL YOU DATE ME??!

Alastor: Moods past :)

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no but i'm literally just thinking SOOO much about how Vox is obviously living a hollow and unfulfilling life, and how the only thing he shows genuine interest in is power and Alastor

even with the other Vees, he's distant and muted- he doesn't really seem to engage with them, not deeply, or particularly happily- he does care about them, i think, considering he's willing to 'let his guard down', (which is a whole 'nother post, and only vaguely something i mentioned here) but i'd wager he finds the whole thing dull

Vox is stuck in a rut. he's bored, he straight up says fuck my life, and then follows that up with putting on a fake ass smile for the masses. up until Alastor is thrown back into the mix, Vox's whole demeanour screams fake

and then Alastor is back and Vox is emotive. he's excited, he's interested, he's energetic. yeah, the whole thing is based on some bitter ex drama, and it's probably not, like, healthy- but he's actually consistently acting alive

compare his whole music sequence with the way he's acting before Alastor's whole ass came back, and there is such a stark difference. he's all over the fucking place, he's borderline manic, whereas before he just- he was very obviously bored

you can even see some of this when you compare the brief glance of Vox and Val during Angel's song, and then with the episode 8 song

i think Alastor is the only thing in Vox's life he actively cares about, at this point. it's the only thing that interests him, that captivates him, and oh boy, i cannot wait to see more of them in season 2

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Vox to Valentino: you can’t just go off when someone pisses you off, gotta maintain our pristine image of control and class

Also Vox, 0.3 seconds after saying this: I’m going to interrupt the regularly scheduled programming to make a singing informercial about how my rival is back and emphasize how much I don’t care, no one else should care, this doesn’t bother me AT ALL fuck you Alastor-

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Velvette: Vox, you need to stop being so obsessed over the radio demon. He doesn’t care.

Vox: *sweating* I’m NOT in love with the radio demon

Velvette:

Velvette: I didn’t say “love”

Velvette: But that certainly explains all the “A+V” in hearts everywhere.

Vox: it sTANDS FOR ANGST AND VIOLENCE

Velvette: Mmhmm, and the shrine?

Vox, hurriedly tearing everything down: ITS A MURDER BOARD

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btw I hope people realise that the reason we see vox as like. so fucking pathetic. is because like 90% of the time we've seen him is in the context of alastor and thinking or being in the vicinity of alastor just makes him look fucking pathetic. and I think that's just like really fucking funny. like he is actually legitimately cunning, charismatic and manipulative, with like literally anyone else. to civilians, employees. and he keeps this professional, cunning attitude up with both velvette and val in the beginning of episode 2 even.

and we saw this version of him for all of 5 minutes but the moment alastor was brought up he lost all sense and reason then it all went crumbling down in stayed gone.

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how vox's "offer" for alastor to join his "team" went

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Yeah, that’s what he meant.

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No filter. :V

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here's the thing, I fully believe that Alastor is aroace, but I also believe that he would commit to dating someone if he thought that doing so would be really entertaining. like absolutely Al hates Vox, but if he discovered that calling Vox "babe" made him consistently short-circuit and fry any other nearby VoxTek, I think he would seriously consider starting to call Vox "babe" just to get to see him bluescreen and wreck his own tech

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Velvette: Vox, you need to stop being so obsessed over the radio demon. He doesn’t care.

Vox: *sweating* I’m NOT in love with the radio demon

Velvette:

Velvette: I didn’t say “love”

Velvette: But that certainly explains all the “A+V” in hearts everywhere.

Vox: it sTANDS FOR ANGST AND VIOLENCE

Velvette: Mmhmm, and the shrine?

Vox, hurriedly tearing everything down: ITS A MURDER BOARD

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Yeah, that’s what he meant.

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No filter. :V

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The real reason he was gone for seven years.

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Do y'all see it, do you see the vision

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cringefail vox is my favorite vox 🥰 all his competence is thrown out the window as soon as his rival is involved

firm believer that alastor does NOT fuck w/ him at all, doesn't stop vox from trying tho

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Will Graham not being scared of Hannibal, but so, so scared of loving Hannibal, being loved by Hannibal, wanting a life with Hannibal and what surrendering to that means about him. Gouging my eyes out btw.

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im like "yeah im fine" then cry over a shitty animated show from 2012