#service dog Vark

[straying-further-from-gods-grace]

Yo!!! Hey everybody!

I had Service Shark Vark art!

Will repost with links to new fics!!!!

For those who don't know I have fics of headcanons for disabilities and Alastor has seizures, Vark is his service shark gifted to him by Vox!

Occasionally I might write where he's Vox service dog, tho

Talking shit to the haters

(Sorry if the perspective is off, Vox should be in the foreground here)

A close up of Vox because I just love the sass. He is tearing the demon apart verbally. And uploading the roast online too, lol

Also a cute quick doodle of playing fetch! When TV daddy finally puts down the phone!

Here are the fics it's currently Relevant to will update s needed;

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Jumble of headcanons in no particular order about Vark because I need to write them down somewhere to pretend to be organized

He started off sooo cute and tiny, like the size of a guinea pig. And he made laser noises like a baby Cuban crocodile.

He was so so tiny. He did not stay tiny.

Sharks sense electricity! He's naturally drawn to Vox when Vox is taking in or letting off too much power. He naturally interrupts Vox's overstimulation and warns about seizures, so Vox trained him some actual medical alert tasks.

Service shark Vark 🐕‍🦺

On the topic of electricity, I also headcanon him as having some aspects of an electric eel as well. A fantasy eel. He can take in some of Vox's excess energy, and isn't bothered by the sparks Vox throws off.

I'm chewing on the idea that Val bought Vark for Vox as an apology gift.

Now I'm just quoting myself directly from discord: I keep thinking of how I can include this (Vark being a gift from Val) in my one fanfic where it obviously does not fit bc Val hates Vark in it. Maybe he's jealous that Vox cares way more about Vark himself than the fact that Val gave him a gift. So unappreciative, didn't even have make-up sex over it bc Vox was too busy practically having a breakdown over how adorable Vark is. Val realizes that this was a mistake and he should have picked a very different gift instead

Vark is such a well behaved good boy when he's working, as a service shark. When Vox is in distress, Vark is so focused on trying to help with all the power of his tiny shark brain <3 Outside of that tho? He's a terror. He's so excitable. He canonically (in the old Voxtagram art) jumps on and knocks people over. This ties into him previously being a tiny adorable little thing. It was sooo cute when he jumped on your leg, back when he was the size of a large potato. It stayed cute up until they realized he was going to be so much bigger than they ever expected.

(It's like a bottle raised bull. The cute things they did when they were a little baby calf are no longer cute now that they're so large they are going to hurt you on accident just trying to be friendly and playful. RIP.)

Other service dog tasks for Vark: deep pressure therapy (of course. Interrupting behaviors such as when Vox is getting overwhelmed. Blocking to stop other people from getting too close to/touching Vox when he would shock them. I am forgetting so many things and will continue writing this list later

Vox doesn't do public access with Vark. This ties into my headcanons for Vox that he is deeply ashamed of himself and he cannot let anyone know he has problems ever.

Unfortunately, I am evil. So I also like the idea of Vark as an owner-trained service animal who is hmm not the perfect candidate for the job. In the same way shepherds aren't recommended for anxiety work, he can feed too much off of Vox's own emotions and has issues with guarding aggression that at times cause him to become reactive. (*points at my fanfic where he bites Val*)

I love bad representation.

Alsooo I don't like hammerhead sharks or animals that are too cartoon-y for me to understand as a real creature, so I'm making up a new design for Vark

Based on a Bonnethead Shark! Fun fact about Bonnethead Sharks: they are omnivorous! They eat seagrass :)

So Vark is omnivorous but unfortunately he's also like a tiger shark in that he'll eat anything even if it's not food. Tiger sharks have been found with license plates, tires, and other trash in their stomachs (sad)

Don't ask Vox how many times Vark has needed emergency exploratory surgery after eating something he shouldn't have. He doesn't want to talk about it.

Vark chews on wires like real sharks biting at undersea fiber optic cables. Chomp chomp

When Vark was a tiny baby, Velvette dressed him up in silly little outfits to post online. She doesn't do that anymore because he has mostly outgrown his cuteness stage for her: she only thought he was cute when he was little.

[vylad243]

I'm the anon that said about a support animal and I got an idea 🔥⁉️

It should be Alastor that gets the support animal for Lyric cuz he does it as a apology for being a bad father and stuff

The animal should be involved with fish like Vark and should be Like does disable support animals and the pet lyric gets help with her seizures?? I'm not smart with those stuff but you get it right??

The pet should be a Labrador size lmao the rest goes to you 🙃

Love anon <3

Vark is a support animal, and Lyric's pet will be a service animal!

Alastor won't just be getting her a pet for her seizures as an apology. He has to talk it over with Vox first and Lyric herself, but it was his idea.

I'm not sure if Alastor will get a pre-trained service dog or have Lyric train one herself. It's something that Alastor would plan very carefully though so he makes the best choices for his family

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I know we're having fun meme time rn but I cant stop thinking about service dog Vark 😭 what are his tasks?? Probably like deep pressure therapy for when Vox gets agitated and upset but what else? Do they train him on which rooms are off limits to Vox so Vark can distract him from wandering into those? Lead Vox places like the kitchen at certain times so he can have something close to a regular daily rhythm (that might help his time perception actually)?

Those are good ideas! I'm not actually familiar with the complexities of service animals, so I can't contribute a ton, but I really like the off-limits rooms and daily rhythm ones! I'd be slightly concerned about deep pressure therapy given Vox's powers, but hopefully he augmented Vark to be resistant to electric shocks even before the mindbreak happened.