#al’s also not aware that the time vox spent as an electrical engineer during wwii was one of the happiest times in his life

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At first, Alastor gets a kick out of forcing Vox to do manual, menial labor, something he knows Vox would’ve hated under normal circumstances. Vox always saw hands-on work as beneath him, associating it with the poor and preferring more “cerebral” work. However, the novelty eventually wears off when it becomes clear that The New Vox actually enjoys his handyman work and doesn’t/can’t perceive it as the insult that Alastor meant it as.