#did I base these guys off The Vees from Hazbin Hotel?

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Lord Dregg’s Children (TMNT 2012 OCs)

Concept: Lord Vringath Dregg is dead, but before his passing he laid 3 eggs to where he would be reincarnated in his children. The Dregg Triplets were born, each having a distinct characteristic from their father’s personality. Now the Triplets plot to avenge their father, rebuild his insect empire and become sworn enemies of the next generation of the Hamato family.

Droks Dregg

Male, 6’2”

Voice HC: Joel Perez

Signature color code: 534293 (dark purple)

Oldest (first one to hatch out the egg/chrysalis idk)

The most dangerous of the three siblings.

Narcissistic, very charismatic, low self-esteem if things don’t go his way.

Likes having control of everything and everyone, panics when he starts losing his grip. Everyone is a pawn to him. Stay in line and he’ll let you live (maybe)

Analyzes the situation before taking action. Plans ahead

Prefers hurting the opponent more mentally than physically

Defiantly a gossip, has little mini tick like creatures that fly around the galaxy listening in and reporting back to him

Needs to straggle something or someone

Extra talons grow out of his back, making him resemble a spider

Kroda Dregg

Female, 6’1”

Voice HC: Faye Mata

Signature color code: 05bbaa (turquoise)

Middle child, hatched soon after Droks

Lies and tells everyone she’s the oldest, competes with her big brother

Self absorbed, psychopathic and manipulative. Eerie charm

Doesn’t think, just acts. Droks often has to keep her in check

Perfectionist with her kills.

Built up rage, will lose her shit at the drop of the hat. She will bite you.

If she’s not good at something on her first try, it is officially “stupid and pointless” to her

Goes straight for the kill. Will give you a quick death. Or just eat you. Which she’s in the mood for

Her nails are like wasp stingers.

Envious that Tar can fly.

Tar Dregg

Male, 6’0”

Voice HC: Richard Steven Horvitz

Signature color code: eb5951 (medium red)

Youngest, took longest to hatch.

Siblings make fun of him for his height. He’s literally only 1-2 inches shorter than them

Very confident and pushy. Clever with insults/combacks. Ambitious with his talents.

Opinionated, he makes his presence known

Enjoys the slow and painful process of hurting his victims.

Finds his siblings bickering to be entertaining. Often tries to find ways to make them fight, even if it means starting fake drama.

Does what he’s told cause “meh I got nothing better to do so yolo”

Will betray his siblings for a single potato chip

Is the only sibling with wings

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I’m so disappointed with Hazbin Hotel.

Big spoilers for the whole show, episode 5 and 6 in particular

The first four episodes were a bit fast, a bit packed, but they had promise, and the next two episodes just squandered it.

The first batch set up the Vees as the antagonists for season one. Valentino as Angel’s abuser and the force pulling him away from the hotel and back into sin. He was a bit less... intimidating than I was hoping he was going to be, being played more as a joke compared to Vox and Velvette, but it could have worked. Vox was being set up as a rival for Alastor, one who Alastor didn't seem to take too seriously, but would have been fun to watch their interactions, and would have been a good lens to learn more about Alastor. Velvette being the only one without any sort of tie to the main cast was a bit strange, but they could have leaned into episode 3 and her antagonizing the overlords. It would have been a cool B-plot, and a way to show hell itself and flesh out the lore, along with learning about the overlords and their dynamics. She only interacts with Carmilla and Zestial; what do the other overlords think about her and the Vees plans? How do they feel about taking on heaven and the exorcists?

The time jump after the first four episodes was, in my opinion a huge mistake, and a MASSIVE missed opportunity. That time should have been used to develop hell, establish the hotels presence. Why does no one want to join the hotel? Angel is only there (at first) for the free rent. Why aren't more demons taking advantage of that? Why aren't people showing up to creep on Angel? What are the Vees up to? Based on episode 3, they're quite eager to go to war. What in specific are their plans? What are they doing to work towards that goal? Skipping 4-5 months ahead makes them feel toothless, and not in an intentional way. Carmilla killed that one exorcist. How? This could have been a cool and fun mystery for Velvette to solve over the course of a few episodes, but we just get handed "Oh Carmilla did it to defend her daughters and she doesn't want to go to war." Okay, well, again, how did she do it? That should then be what Velvette is trying to solve. Lucifer has next to no build up, and his song with Charlie feels like unearned catharsis for a conflict that was barely established before it was resolved. Him not having a relationship with Charlie not because he's a bad father, but because he doesn't know how to, is a super interesting plot point, and I'm so disappointed it was resolved in the same episode it was introduced. He should have been way more established before being physically brought in. We should have learned how he runs the pride ring, what the people living there think of him, what his reputation is. Those 4-5 months should have been used to build him up as the powerful but reclusive ruler of hell, maybe invoked as a threat (against the Vees by Carmilla for example, "stop provoking the overlords or I'll call Lucifer in to deal with you"). We should have seen more from Charlie talking about her relationship with him, building up their strained dynamic, and how it came to be. Did Lilith keep them apart? Was Lucifer busy and not make enough time for her when she was a child/pre-teen? We could have seen him interacting with an underling, or even talking to himself, lamenting that he doesn't know what he's doing as a father, seen more of him being locked away in his workshop and learned why he keeps to himself so much. Or not, if that's being held back for future plot reasons, but we needed SOMETHING more than what we got.

Vaggie being a fallen exorcist was introduced and then revealed to Charlie in the same episode and feels like a wasted opportunity. I know they don't want to make Vaggie the bad guy or show her directly harming Charlie, but Adam and Lute threatening her and then exposing it to Charlie almost immediately seems wasteful and incompetent on their part.

Angel's growth is all happening off screen, and I think that's a shame. He's such an interesting character, and I want to see more of him gaining confidence in himself. I think a character that's not CHOOSING to be better, but is GETTING better by experiencing genuine love and friendship is so interesting, and it's just not shown. He goes from "I'm staying here for the free rent. Crack is expensive" to standing up to Valentino in front of a crowd of onlookers with what seems to the audience as one song of development in between.

Overall there's too much happening too fast. In my opinion, the first season should have been the Vees time to shine; they should have been the villains. We should have spent the whole first season learning about the dynamics of hell, exploring what the deal is with the overlords, even a monster-of-the-week type plot with demons showing up to the hotel and the cast evaluating if they want to redeem themselves or if they're just there to creep on Angel. Everything in episode 5 and 6 should have been season 2. Mid to late season 2 at that. I think the episodes themselves were fine, they just should have come later in the show.

This isn't even going into my issues with the first episode and how the pilot relates to it, and the choice to recast everyone.

I wanted to like this show. When the pilots initially dropped, I thought Hazbin had a lot of promise, and I was really looking forward to it. The first 4 episodes made me cautiously optimistic about the show's chances. But episode 5 and 6 really just shot that in the foot for me.

There's so much promise here that's just... being squandered. And I can't for the life of me understand why.