#and the personality of hades
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Ok so I think I found a way to fix Vox LOLLOLOL.
And by fix him, I mean make him much, much worse.
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So I was drabbling in my head w Claude and Vox and they got to deep talking about their previous lives and regrets and all sorts of existential meanderings, when Vox surprised me by saying “I was a Christian, ya know. A good one. Never even missed a Sunday- come late night or hangover or hellwater. *chuckle* Fat lot of good it did me, right?”
And then I was like oh. OHHHH.
He should’ve been a televangelist.
So now this is canon as far as I’m concerned, and can even make perfect use of the little priest getup from his song number. After all, that is essentially what he’s doing with the V’s: amassing a hell-wide cult through the power of his broadcast monopoly. And explains why Claude had never heard of him before- he’s not your average kind of celebrity.
I picture he got his start on local access TV, in the early 40s, just right after Al would’ve had his heyday with radio. He was an East Coast boy, no doubt, and mastered the quick-talking pander of the telecasters at the time. He often ran small broadcasts for local churches- fundraisers, telethons, what have you- and the Christian community ate up his All-American boyish charm. Especially the ladies. He married one who went to his church and really believed his words had the power to change lives, urged him to start his own televised worship, and boy did he thrive. They quickly became a household name, and he basically kick-started the whole televangelist movement into high gear. Like the bastard he is. Soon he gained a country-wide following and had money pouring in from the faithful by the buckets, and of course it all went straight to his head. Hence why it’s a TV now as punishment. That’s when he began exploiting his pulpit, believing himself a prophet, staying with his wife only to maintain their image, buying houses and toys and cars all with parishioner’s money, staying awake for days on cocaine and coming back down with barbiturates, the whole nine yards.
It eventually caught up to him when his followers tried to commit a mass murder/suicide in his name, and a lengthy court appeal didn’t really smooth over their new reputation as a dangerous cult. Which is so unfair. It wasn’t like he told them to go all Old Testament, buuut… it’s not like his message was that far off from it either. Idiots. From then on, he started overworking, overthinking, and overdoing the whole thing right into the ground. His wife left him, he lost a ton of money in legal fees, and he had to hire protection now to keep up with the death threats from angry loved ones of his devotees. All the stress and resentment drove him into religious fanaticism, and his sermons just got more and more ego-driven and manic, asking for larger tithes and claiming it would be help him work the Lord’s magic even faster. He eventually was killed by a hit put out on him by an up and coming newer cult- ironically a spinoff of his original one- proving that he was very much mortal, but his faithful followers still believed he was a messiah of some kind.
And that’s because- in his haze of drugs and self-destruction- he believed he was one too. He was sure that what he was doing was for all the Right Reasons, even if the methods were unorthodox. But hey- even Jesus flipped tables and rebelled against the Romans, so who’s to say his path is any less holy? He was SURE that he’d still be getting a ticket to Heaven, despite some minor setbacks…
So you can imagine his rage when he very much woke up in Hell.
All his hard work, all his devotion, all his MONEY- for what?? Damned to live with a TV instead of his beautiful face and nothing to show for his decades of faith??
What the fUCK??
It was then that he realized God was the biggest scam of all and immediately renounced his faith, spending the first few years of demonhood sinning and drinking as much as possible. He had no idea how to cope with it all, and saw no point to trying, really. What good is having a TV head when you can barely stand the thought of using it- just a constant reminder of the empire you left crumbing behind you.
And that’s when he met Alastor.
Now here was someone else cursed by his favorite medium and a deer form that boasted anything but the predator he saw himself as- only this man was anything but deterred by it. The Radio Demon’s broadcasts may have terrorized everyone else in Hell, but they invigorated something deep inside Vox. Something he hasn’t felt since his first televised sermon… something like worship.
He had to seek him out.
This then ties in perfectly with his one-sided crush/obsession with Al, their doomed stint at friendship, and the impending rejection he receives at the end. AGAIN. First God, now Alastor…? You’d think that second blow would reduce him into an even greater depression than before, but instead, it flips a switch inside him. That’s when Vox decides ENOUGH. He’s done pandering, he’s done negotiating, he’s done elevating anyone else above himself. And why should he?? If anything HE should be the one on that pedestal, HE should be the only one to get credit for all HIS deeds…
HE should be God.
And dammit, if he can’t join the original up in Heaven, why not try to become one down in Hell?
The rest is canon as we know it, but I just really realllllly love the idea of ex-Christian Vox, and all the disillusionment religious trauma can bring. He went straight from communion to capitalism, and I like that in my hell-bound guys. I will def be using this as his canon backstory for my AU with Claude, bc I needed to bring even more conflicted suffering and RSD to this character before I can truly ship them together hahaa.
And…. despite what his real backstory actually is…. this is the only one I subscribe to now. 😈
ALSO:
TELL ME THIS ISN’T HIM!!??!??? HELP. CREEPY HANDSOME IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO FOR THIS CURSED TV MAN I HAVE DECLARED IT SO PLS ADJUST YOUR FANART ACCORDINGLY.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk I’m going to go rot in my hole now thinking of more hcs for this akskshagaga-
#I've done it#I’ve cracked the code everyone#he’s now appropriately babygirl evil#think frollo without the genocide#and the personality of hades#mmmm what a man#vox hazbin hotel#televangelist vox#religious trauma vox#atheist vox#cult leader vox#1950’s tv cults#backstory hcs#claude x vox#hazbin hotel#the v’s hazbin hotel#alastor hazbin hotel#canon divergence#but I like it more#plotting#rotting#thotting
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give odysseus loser hair please. thanks supergiant
#look at him. we couldve had this#pleaase pleaaaseee bro i need him to look like a wet fucking dog#personally i do not think he deserves all that charisma#also believe it or not but this took like an hour and a half#i think im improving too#art#sketch#hades game#hades 2#hades supergiant#hades fanart#the odyssey#odysseus#greek mythology#the iliad#tagamemnon
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not normal about orpheus and eurydice. you loved someone so much it opened the stones of the underworld. so much that death had to listen. so much that everything stopped for your love. so much that you turned around. so much that even when you did wrong. she forgave you.
#orpheus and eurydice#hadestown#maybe#maybe not#greek mythology#mythology#i think loving someone that much is the most human thing you can do#i think that’s what it means to be a person#not romantically#not necessarily. even a friend. a family member#orpheus#eurydice#hades#persephone#shrike speaks#taking back what i said about love making you human. it doesn’t#but i think it’s a beautiful experience.#so. much happiness is wished upon the loveless aspecs i spoke to a while back :)
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the juxtaposition between the sirens' songs is so funny. coral crown is an impersonal anthem about drowning sailors that clearly has a lot of thought put into the poetry of the lyrics. and then melinoe keeps showing up to fight them and they're like "oh shit we need to write a new song to roast her QUICK" and we get i am gonna claw (out your eyes etc) where the cadence is all over the place and the lyrics are just like we hate you and we're gonna kill you and your hair is ugly.
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Petition for the Greek Temples to be rebuilt, so that I can pray to the gods in all their glory
#personal#witchy#witchcraft#witch#witchblr#witches#abbie speaks#hellenic polytheism#hellenic deities#hellenic pagan#hellenic worship#hellenic polythiest#Hekate#Hecate#Haides#Hades#persephone#aphrodite goddess#aphrodite#apollo#nyx#nyx goddess
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the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.
#ovids version made me cry#imagine you’re just a nymph watching your friend torn away from you by the literal king of the dead#and despite knowing how powerless you are against him you still choose to stand up to him#to stand up for your friend#imagine being so torn apart by the grief of losing her you weep yourself to death#imagine turning that story into a good girl/bad boy romance#weird#anyway#the story of persephone is personal to me#bc i wish my mother loved me like that#demeter was a good mother#you all suck for portraying her as anything less#idc if you disagree#‘oh myth is open to interpretation and reinterpretation’#okay. well i don’t care.#there’s such thing as bad interpretations#making demeter the villain is a bad one#making hades a misunderstood protagonist is also a bad one
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Okay but what if Apollo had a matching star with Artemis
#Hades#hades game#apollo#artemis#pantheon twins#Greek Mythology#Supergiant Games#my art#digital art#I promise I will stop talking about Apollo soon#but for now he is my personal babygirl
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if you didnt get a coin in your mouth when you died in ancient greece, you weren't able to go to the underworld, and no men at sea got a burial (elpenor was actually very VERY lucky) so technically polites and all the others are just wandering alone and afraid and confused in their death places. polites sits in the cyclops cave, eurylochus and 580?? men are forever at the bottom of the sea, and 6 are still near scylla
#my personal headcanon is that two parts of them exist#the soul is wandering and the spirit is in hades#anyways i jst made that headcanon so i didnt ruin the underworld saga for myself#epic the musical#jorge rivera herrans#eurylochus#epic musical#epic the musical fanart#epic the thunder saga#telemachus#the odyssey#odypen#odyssey#odysseus#penelope of ithaca#antinous#epic the wisdom saga#telemachus epic the musical#athena epic the musical#zeus epic#epic the musical headcanon#headcanon#my headcanons#headcannons
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i do love the juxaposition of hades 1 having zagreus seeking meaning and purpose versus hades 2 where melinoe has essentially been groomed for one specific purpose only
#hades 2#melinoe#zagreus#you know maybe this is why hectate doesn't want melinoe to think of her as a mother#because mother isn't what you call the person who raised you to be a weapon#regardless of how kindly and gently they do so#maybe post-war content will be about the living weapon trying to find purpose in peace time
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one of the things that infuriates me about discussion like this on twitter is that the gods are supposed to be representative of not just the Greeks, but also the kinds of people that the Greeks encountered, along with the kinds of people who encountered their culture
Do you really think one of the most influential and important ancient western civilizations located in the motherfucking MEDITERRANEAN, a body of water which touches more societies than any other body of water on earth compared to its size, would really not have ever encountered a black or an asian person
miscellaneous other things to prove my point, both proving the Greeks made art of other people they encountered and that their culture was spread to a huge number of places on earth
source for second image is below
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You know how cool it would’ve been if Jason fell into Tartarus? As much as I love the Percabeth “I’d walk the ends of the world for you” I think Jason falling into Tartarus would’ve helped his character. Since Tartarus focuses mainly on memories, don’t you think it would’ve been an interesting way for Jason to relearn who he was? We’d see his memories and past achievements and hardships and figure out how he turned the way he did. Basically, Jason’s character would benefit from it and it could’ve been a challenge he had to face—like does he really want to know who he used to be? Sure he wants his memories back, but there’s a slight chance that he doesn’t like what he sees. Imagine the emotional turmoil he’d go through. Oh and also we’d get dark!Jason and that’s cool in of itself.
#I dunno#I just want Jason to have his memories#because he deserves to know who he was#and if he was a good person or not#because I feel like he’d worry about that and second guess if he really was a good person#shuu rambles#heroes of olympus#jason grace#tartarus#house of hades#percy jackson#annabeth chase
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"I liked your brother better"
#hades 2#chaos hades#melinoe hades#the only person who seems to like zag over mel LMAO#i am unable to not take this as chaos' subtle jab towards mel for being stuck up#dont get me wrong i love her sm!! but she has a stick up her ass soemtimes compared to zag
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Okay so this joke has definitely been made before but like I couldn’t resist making it for myself
#look at my sons look at them go#also off topic but shoutout to that one person on the hades wiki who said Than wears leather???#that is a flat out lie but honestly I like the world you’re living in so live your truth <3#thanatos hades#hypnos hades#hades game
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some of my fav hermes!!
#hermes#from left to right:#blood of zeus#epic the musical#record of ragnarok#greek mythology#hades game#ok done with tagging#the greek mytho one is my personal design#i love all of them#art
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not sure if anyone on here has seen it yet but the chances of arospec / aromantic melinoe have grown exponentially large. honestly may be canon atp
((screenshot from: @/TheScruffyCat on twitter))
#hades 2#hades game#hades ii#melinoe#melinoë#hades melinoe#hades melinoë#hades 2 melinoe#hades 2 melinoë#hades supergiant#melinoe hades#melinoë hades#aromantic#arospec#sippin coffee#i think it would be SO incredibly funny if melinoe only had one romance option (icarus) and didnt gaf about the rest because shes arospec#i genuinely cant feel any romance vibes from any other character unless its icarus or Maybe arachne#so i think supergiant could do the funniest thing and tease everyone with all these romance options#and then only give the players one#because mel personally just doesnt care#as someone whos arospec. i would love that immensely#as someone whos arospec. i would also love waxwitch immensely
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“Ask me for sanctuary”
SCREAMING, CRYING, BAWLING MY EYES OUT
#SHUT THE FUCK UP#thinking about maria crushed under the rubble of a hotel because she loved her family too much#thinking about bianca crushed by talos because she loved her brother too much#thinking about nico ten years old and losing everything he loves#lost confused unable to think clearly without his mom and sister by his side#thinking about hades doing everything in his power to get nico to not leave to stay with him in the underworld where he can protect him#thinking about nico praying to his father in agony after he lost another person because he was right it’s too much no one’s safe at camp#pjo tv show#pjo spoilers#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#hades#hades pjo#maria di angelo#bianca di angelo#nico di angelo
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