#eeliot hazbin hotel

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my personal hc about the radiostatic breakup is that it's technically actually papermint/eeliot's fault. like yeah its complicated and sad when it's vox's or alastor's or valentino's or all of the above, but i have the funniest progression of events in mind.

so imagine like a few decades into voxtek's success, vox and alastor are still friends but vox was super busy all the time so he got an assistant. papermint was good at his job and vox (shockingly) actually enjoyed spending time with an employee for once, so they usually banter when going over the new factory shipments.

"so we should change the newest industry line to the copper and pvc coated wires, and upcharge the consumer grade by 3% to eat the cost of-"

"wouldn't it be cool if your skin was coated like that? like, you'd conduct better and be harder to injure."

"...i mean. replacing my head went fine."

and so vox was very happy with his new combat-ready skin, especially since it's doubled all his electricity power.

alastor, however, was absolutely enraged when he went out drinking with his best-friend-and-totally-nothing-else-i-swear and he chipped a tooth trying to drink his blood. tv dumped instantly and decades long rivalry formed

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Me trying to be normal about Vox’s assistant challenge impossible

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Something That Has Been Bouncing Around in My Brain

This is one of those little things that has just lived rent free in my brain ever since I saw episode 2. So from what I have seen, people generally think that Vox is a terrible toxic boss who abuses his employees. While I'm not gonna say that this is not true, the one interaction we see between him and his staff (his assistant) was very telling to me.

TW for discission of abusive work relationships, physical/mental/emotional abuse, and other canon-typical triggers.

Look at what we have seen from the Vees as bosses so far.

Valentino is highly abusive in every capacity and cruel to his employees. His employees fear him and his wrath. They are reluctant to disagree or argue with him. They don't talk back. We see this specifically with Angel Dust and Travis. Angel Dust is pretty self-explanatory, but with Travis, when Valentino says that no one cares about the script and for Angel to just improv the scene, he looks directly at Travis who looks scared shitless as he hurriedly agrees with Valentino.

Velvette is a very strict boss with high expectations and an even higher approval bar. She flat out fires someone for not meeting her standards. She is very much the boss from Devil Wears Prada. She is verbally abusive to her employees and accepts only the best of the best. I definitely think she is a better boss than Valentino, but she's also not sunshine and rainbows. She does have the benefit in her corner that she at minimum recognizes that physical abuse is counter-intuitive to her bottom line and calls Vox in for backup when Valentino is going on a rampage and harming her employees. Her employees might not be emotionally or mentally safe from her, but at minimum they are physically safe.

And Vox? Well, here's where things get interesting in my opinion. Because the only interaction we see between Vox and an employee is that employee questioning him. His assistant walks right up to him and essentially says "I have no idea what is going on" and Vox doesn't get pissed or verbally berate him or anything. He answers his question and then immediately launches into a plan and distributes marching orders. And it can't even be argued that he is controlling his temper for the media crowd because they're all so hypnotized at that moment that he is openly talking about how this is a last second bullshit plan for profit right in front of them. The point I'm trying to make is that Vox's assistant literally has no fear of questioning his boss, something that would be 100% out of the question with Valentino and Velvette. His assistant had no idea if this was a new idea or if he had just somehow let something fall through the cracks, but he felt safe enough to ask that question. Like think about it. For all the assistant knew, he could have completely dropped the ball on something that was supposed to be long in production and he still felt safe enough to bring it to Vox's attention that he didn't know what Vox was talking about. That says a lot. And in turn, Vox has zero interest in hiding that this is a last second scheme. He straight up tells his assistant as much. This tells us that, at minimum, Vox has favorites who get more privileges than others in how they can interact with him as we only see him interact with a single employee as opposed to Valentino and Velvette who interact with multiple employees.

Now, I'm not the type of analyzer to ignore the elephant in the room for the sake of my bias because frankly where is the fun in that? Something that does lend itself to the Vox being just as toxic a boss as the others is the fact that he does offer up the lowest earners to Valentino to shoot. That is definitely a shitty move. The one fact that I will point out here is that this isn't done just for shits and giggles or over a tantrum (like Valentino tearing apart Velvette's model). Vox does this in order to satiate Valentino's bloodlust and keep him from being in a bad mood, causing more collateral damage to the company (again, Velvette's model) and their image, and going after the hotel. It's a calculated move to appease Valentino. And Vox specifically goes for the people who would be the least loss to the company while they regenerate. It's still shitty to offer up your employees to get shot up like a demented carnival game, but I think it's fair to say he wouldn't have done that if Valentino wasn't being a big baby about the whole Angel Dust situation. It's not even his first go to. He plays every card to talk Valentino down first before resorting to the sacrifice of his employees when Valentino insists on being petulant about the whole thing. And what do we see? Valentino's mood abruptly goes from petulant to pleased. He is officially sated and appeased, which was Vox's goal from the beginning.

So what do I think this ultimately says about Vox as a boss? I think that he has high standards/expectations and definitely plays favorites and will absolutely throw you under the bus if it comes down to the protection of his company and image, but on average he's not a terrible boss. I think as long as you do your job, do it well, and make him money, he is perfectly fine to work with.

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“There is a situation Mr. V,” Vox heard his assistant’s voice through the speaker. He just hummed as a response. “Sir!” “Fuck fucks sake Eeliot! Spit it the fuck out!” Vox slammed his fists on the table. His assistant’s gray face seemed paler than usual, he looked terrified “The Casino Overlord is here.” Shit.

(- Chapter 12 of Lucky Bastard on AO3)

[fuzzy-stencils]

Hello! Im back from my social media break. I had to focus on college, and focus on some personal issues in my life.

While on my break, I drew a lot of doodles of some Hazbin Hotel redesign concepts. These are just some of Vox’s Assistant (aka Papermint, or Eeliot as some have been calling him.) This little guy has become a favorite of mine (same goes with Vox). Also a little fem! version of my redesign.

I took inspiration from one of Vox’s beta designs, 1960’s suits, and the rubberhose art style. I’ll have to design a non sepia tone alt color palette for him later on

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I found out some people are calling him Eeliot amd that makes me so happy 😭 I can’t explain why

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Eeliot (Vox's Assistant) Headcanon

Eeliot is actually an electric eel Sinner and has a minor form of electrokinesis similar to Vox's. He can surround his body with an electrical current and use it to enhance his speed and agility. He sought Vox out after witnessing the Overlord's own electrokinesis during a turf battle because he wanted to learn to control his power better. Did not expect to end up as the Overlord's personal assistant (especially as a fairly weak and new Sinner, working so closely with an Overlord???), but he's not mad about it.

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Random Vox & Vark Headcanon (ft. Eeliot)

Vark was a gift from Eeliot (Vox's personal assistant) and a few other employees.

It was after a particularly bad breakup with Valentino and Vox was doing the "I can't think about it if I'm working" thing and definitely overworking himself. Vox's employees know better than to get directly involved in his relationship drama with Valentino, but they also don't want to just do nothing. They decided Vox needed a sizable distraction, one that would also provide some emotional support and affection when things (inevitably) got shitty with Valentino again.

They "gave" Vox Vark by literally opening his office door just enough to shove the shark pup inside before bolting (Vox of course knew exactly who had been involved in this little stunt because he can literally see through the security cameras but hey an attempt at discretion was made). Vox had no idea what the fuck was happening and just watched the puppy wander curiously around his office with a big neon blue bow around its neck. Then the shark pup made the realization that he was not in fact alone in the room and very eagerly made his way over to Vox and Vox did not know how to process that this thing was not afraid of him in the slightest. Vox has literally never had a pet in his life. His parents never allowed it and he was just too busy as an adult to even consider it. He thinks this is a ridiculous idea. Absolutely absurd. Who in their right mind would think he has the emotional capacity to care for another living thing?

Then Vark falls asleep on his foot and Vox spends the rest of the day researching how to care for shark pups.

(Not even a full day has passed before Vark has his own Sinstagram account courtesy of Velvette who is very rapidly filling it with photos and videos of the newest member of the Vees; side headcanon that Velvette is a secret animal lover and may or may not have lost her collective shit when Vox entered the common area carrying the shark puppy)

(Because actually extracting the words "thank you" from Vox is something that is just not happening, the employees involved simply find a quiet bonus attached to their next paychecks)

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I genuinely don’t know if I ever posted this so I might as well

Seamour, my Hazbin hotel OC/ self insert

Seamour works for Voxtek in the customer service department. His deal isn’t that bad compared to others because no one in hell wants to work customer service.

He has moderate to severe eczema and is constantly putting on ointments when outside of water, according to his coworkers his skin “feels like wax”

He is a mix between an eel and a shark

Magical manipulation(mental or physical) doesn’t affect him (ex: Alastor’s shadows/tentacles(???) and Vox’s hypnosis, Valentino’s smoke/spit) however he is still very much effected by regular manipulation tactics and physical violence

He is somewhat new to hell

He died on a boat trip in the middle of the ocean.

He shares an apartment with Eeliot (Vox’s assistant) and helps him with his work done. Mostly because Seamour likes the perks of having an underwater living space. (Yes it’s in Vox’s fucking shark tank)

He wears one of Vox’s sweater vests