There's something so special about the idea Valentino got Vark for Vox to help with his fear of sharks and then Vox making Kitty for Valentino himself since he wanted one that's so important to me.
Here was Vox, not looking at his gills too much or the fact he had a tiny tail and dorsal fin that increases in size when he's touched by water.
At first, Valentino thought that Vox could be hurt by water due to his robotic body.
But then one day they both got drenched in the acid rain of Hell's weather.
Thankfully, this time around the acidity wasn't harmful to Sinners.
Though Valentino had been amused when he saw some parts of Vox's sweater melting away.
Before he saw the speckle of cyan freckles decorating his shoulders as his dorsal fin popped out, his shark tail going out slightly but not at its full lenght, though definitely enough that Valentino saw it.
He had grinned at the time, thoroughly amused and intrigued by the revelation that Vox avoided water not because he was weak to it but because his more shark-like features come out.
He teased Vox about it, before he noted the way Vox grumbled and quickly put back on his coatsuit to hide himself.
Vox admitted later on that he didn't like his shark-like features, not when he was fucking terrified of them.
It had been hard getting Vark for Vox.
But it was definitely worth it when he seemed so happy and at peace as he played with the shark-dog.
Notably even taking a dive in Vark's water to play with him.
Vox tried multiple times to order a Fizziebot for Valentino since he wanted one, and even though he has a few Voxtek shops in the other Rings and Mammon can't easily sell in the Pride Ring, Mammon would never allow him to buy a Fizziebot in fear that Voxtek would reverse engineer and copy the Fizziebots for Sinners.
When it was clear that Vox couldn't get Valentino his Fizziebot, he decided to make one himself for Val.
(he even ordered a few of his hellborn employees to do it for him but for some fucking reason, Mammon knows which ones they are and won't give them one the greedy prick- Thankfully he didn't have to send any care packages for any dead hellborn employees so that's a plus)
It has been hard for him to get the proportions right when he didn't have the blueprints for it, having to patch together a bunch of reference photos from the internet and then feeding them into the program he prepared before he could get started, but once he did it was all worth it.
To the untrained eye, Kitty looks like any other Fizziebot except that it was specifically designed as a commission. Though it was all of Vox's work.
Knowing Valentino, Vox made sure to program it- her an obedient and docile personality, also being able to feel pain since he knows Valentino would love to use her as a punching bag even when it serves no ither purpose but to fuel Valentino's desire for suffering.
(He may have to repair Kitty on his own since Valentino refuses other people to touch Kitty, but it was worth it if it meant he could see more recordings of what Valentino had been up to throughout the day. And also a… more personal look when the two of them are in bed)
Like every Fizziebot, Kitty cannot speak. Though she can record and remember things.
She was perfect the way she is, perfectly crafted to Valentino's desires.
In a way, Proxy spits at all of that.
Being a sort of weird reverse amalgamation of Valentino helping Vox with accepting his shark-like qualities and Kitty being a gift to help Valentino out.
Being a robot that eerily looks so much like Vox stripped of any of its shark-like features.
A constant reminder that he was gone.
A constant reminder that makes grieving him properly even harder.
When the public can't doesn't know.
When you have to live with the fake ghost of a dear lover- partner- friend.
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