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Random Obey me headcannon i have is that angels love music. It's basically instinctual. They love to sing and will do it at the most random times and that the brothers, as newly fallen demons, would accidentally start singing while doing something, giving the demons around them another reason to scrutinize them. And another thing that Satan couldn't relate with, as he never was an angel.
#obey me!#obey me shall we date#obey me#obey me nightbringer#obey me brothers#obey me headcanons#obey me hcs#omswd#obey me fandom#obey me demon brothers#light angst#the boys had to suppress something they loved#i hc this because of all the songs#and how in the bible angels often sing#they love music and i love them#Raphael is the only angel that doesn't sing#he's too busy being a hitman lol
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UPROOTED EPISODE 4 TEN DEAD FIFTEEN INJURED
#uprooted#legends of avantris#dimwits of dimwood#booker uprooted#peggy uprooted#hazel uprooted#grumley uprooted#WHEN ANDY STARTED SINGING I FUCKING IMPLODED#originally this was just gonna be bookzel but then the others joined in and I HAD to include them#I LOVE YOU SILLY LITTLE POLYAMOROUS WOODLAND CREATURES‼️‼️‼️#this song has been stuck in my head ALL DAY because of this#if I get a little more insane I’m gonna make a post abt my hcs for each of the parties love languages
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okay so steph is definitely a music purist?
we can all agree on that right? like she's a 'said she was born in the wrong generation in middle school' fleetwood mac, david bowie, the mamas & the papas, niche modern indie artists and also chappell roan kind of music listener. obviously. but.... i dont think we've really considered pete's music taste?
pete, who is a science, left-brained kind of kid, so he probably does not actively go out to look for music and is instead just provided music by the people around him?
pete whose older brother is theodore spankoffski and so his earliest and most fond and nostalgic music influences from his childhood would have come directly from ted's cd collection???
basically what im saying is peter spankoffski has the most trashy, early 00's ke$ha, black eyed peas my humps era, all american rejects ass music taste in the world
that boy had bowling for soup's 1985 memorized at age four, his guilty pleasure music is hollywood undead's everywhere i go, ted did his first decent person move in years when pete came out as trans as a kid and stopped listening to grow a pear by ke$ha and pete forcibly made him play it because it's a bop
and then his only friends are a weeb and a theatre kid.
steph gives him the aux cord on a date to be nice, as a sign of trust, and is blasted in the face with the most uncurated mess of j-pop, sondheim, weezer, and like... owl city's fireflies and that's just a fact
#I must clarify this isn’t a dig at any of these songs they all fuck#my source is im a youngest child with a decently older brother and all of my nostalgic music is literally this#my mom had to force my brother to limit what songs he played around me because I was six years old and started saying the word hoe a lot#peter spankoffski#also my hc is Pete is teds full brother so their parents are just Old and Pete stood NO chance#he grew up around Dickhead Era Ted and a dad who forced him to name classic rock bands when they came on the radio#and also my source is my music taste is also the peoples around me because im bad at finding music#nerdy prudes must die#stephanie lauter#starkid#lautski#he also probably really likes train
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ignore the random writing its mostly bullcrap!!!
ok when i first saw sally's van with the lgbtq flag i kept pausing to double check and confirm it was so bad (fun fact i hc her as trans) SHES SO SWEET crying emoji
#the writing above 'Sanders' on the Sally drawing isnt (he) btw- its (hc) as in headcanon#shoutout to all the harumi enjoyers out there because dang. i see why#ninjago sally#ninjago harumi#ninjago fanart#ninjago#im kind of a fake sally fan i struggle to listen to her song :pensive:#teshfarts
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Yeehaw‼️
#cotl#cult of the lamb#cotl lamb#cotl bishops#first one is a wip idk when I’ll finish 😔#winter break is always weird for me + working on a commission rn#but uhh I tried the cowboy fleece for the first time the other day (ik I’m several months late shhhh)#it’s fun but I still prefer swords + daggers 😔😩#I like the idea of the crown shapes/familiars being different for each crown#so not everyone has a snake 👀#Leshy has a moth both because th bagworm hc and I’m biased 😩#speaking of moths#Sketched out a quick design for a future fic chapter and quickly adopted them as a sona#and considering my fursona is Also an Io moth 😩😩#also just . Silly bishop backstory hcskdd#forgive the shitty cropping I had to fit in all of my notes 😔😔#everyone gets a tragic backstory except for The Bugs#(although not even they are entirely free of angst 👀)#Pinterest quotes/song lyrics beloved…#I have more I need to draw Lamb to 😩#and finally#working on more relic god follower designs 🥺🤲#Was sketching out Laplace and just going#‘ah that’s my gender’#nyways 😩
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I noticed there weren't a lot of wktd playlists so I decided to make my own semi unhinged ones for each of the girlies. A good portion of the songs are based around my own headcanons for what each of them would listen too.
#wktd#we know the devil#jupiter wktd#neptune wktd#venus wktd#yes i do hc that Venus listens to Tally Hall/Miracle Musical and that Neptune is a Jugglette#idk why but nep just gives me listens to ICP energy#its also a mix of what I think they’d listen to pre and post canon#also some songs are on two/all of the playlists because I imagined them as ship songs#and/or thought it fit multiple of them
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I forgot to post this on tumblr too so here’s a ditch edit I made the other day :D
mild warning for bright colours/light
Audio credit: “Cassiopeia” by bears in trees
Video credit: @shootimpro (Improvised Play #30 - The Unrelenting Aubergine)
(Btw the empty sfth blog is because someone got the url and is saving it for if sfth ever want to join tumblr)
#shoot from the hip#the unrelenting aubergine#sfth ditch#sfth edits#bears in trees#I actually used this song because bears in trees made a post about what songs they thought were good for edits and this one SCREAMS ditch#So#:)#If you want the hc lore behind the edit I’m basically going for a “Derek is Titch’s rock” kinda thing#Like he’s always there and he’s always been there#And even though Titch hasn’t always appreciated him he’s realising it now#Like he’s realising how much Derek has done for him and starting to let himself love#starting to let himself show Derek sides of him that are weaker and ask for help and let him lean on Derek#Like Derek’s always been there but just now Titch is finally accepting help and comfort#Anyway :)#That’s just my rambling#Because I’m insane about these two#This is my third ditch edit out of around 10 maybe?#first ditch one where I didn’t use a clip of them kissing lol#sfthposting#emu edits#anyway also I made this in public because my social anxiety is getting better#Sure I was alone and my brightness all the way down on low and went out of the app when someone walked past but uh#I still made it outside in public#soo#yay#a win?#Anyway cool
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Do think you can do something with ash and clay like father and daughter
PLEASE 😁
Clay-Ash, Father Daughter Edit
Of course, I would love to make a video showcasing how much Ash and Clay are father-daughter, sha!! I've always loved this relationship between them, and I hold it close to my heart.
Thank you so much for sending in this ask! The video was a pleasure to make. The video isn't crazy exciting, since it's not supposed to be a hype song. I instead decided to focus on the small details, like color correcting!
Song: Beautiful Boy - John Lenon [ x ]
#theyre literally father daughter#they told me themselves#clay calloway#sing ash#sing movie#sing 2016#sing 2#sing 2021#mysing#ok but i cannot understate how good this father-daughter relationship is#first of all clays never had kids#i choose to believe that was just because they never chose to#meanwhile ash#we never see her parents despite her being relatively pretty young#i like to think that Ash used Clays music as an escape from her toxic parents and homelife and found comfort and solace in his song#ad thats why she calls herself his biggest fan before even meeting him#meanwhile Clay#Ash was able to help him realize the situation hes in and get out of him#(i can elaborate more on that Ash hc earlier btw)#they both helped each other out emotionally a lot#theres also the huge point in Out of This World when Clay decides to sing because he sees herself in Ash... LITERALLY#when the lights shine on Ash's quills they turn white like Clay's mane#and its just ohhhhh its so father daughter#also shoutout the several several clips of Clay looking at Ash to check on her#oh yeah also this song was a huge comfort song for me because of some past issues so i was glad to be able to use it here
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all i have been able to think about today is that silly little knife game where you stab the spots between your fingers and try not to hurt yourself and how that silly little game is SO horrorkiller. i cant explain it it bothers me so much that i cant explain it but it just does its so them
they play it when theyre bored. because when in doubt bodily mutilation and the risk of hurt and pain is always an appealing one. and when i mean they i just mean killer because horror wouldn't wanna just hurt himself on the fly like that for funsies. he likes to see others hurt because hahaha FINALLY some damn entertainment!!! but hurting himself???? nononnno hes already got enough body pain as it is oh and killer has already grabbed his hand and started playing (and now horror can't back out because killer's got him sucked in the game)
they sing the silly little song. horror has all his fingers the knife goes chop chop chop if killer misses the spaces in between horror's fingers will come off! and they are both enraptured and both captured in this childishly morbid game. it's so anticipatory because they both know its all up to killer to decide if horror gets hurt. hes more than precise enough to keep the game going for hours long without ever hitting horror but would he want to keep it going for that long? horror doesn't know how long killer would want to wait before getting to see him react to getting hurt
and killer does eventually do it even after theyre sung the song over and over countless times and tried different harmonies and finally killer decides to end this little song and dance and stab into horror's hand. maybe he decides to do a finger. maybe the palm if he really wants to piss horror up. its sudden its surprising and GODDAMN is it painful!!!! horror's trying not to show it but with all the sweat and the way his fingers are twitching killer can see that it hurts him. it's a bit amusing :3
and then horror grabs the knife from killer and they do it all over again but this time horror's the one doing the stabbing. he's not as precise as killer. he hits him a lot more than killer hit him but goddamn it he is in PAIN and wants to let it out because hes annoying and irritated and goddamnit would killer just stop looking at him with that blank smile while he's bleeding out from his hand???? yeah horror's pissy
horror's annoyed and trying to get some form of petty revenge on killer (he likes it when he finally manages to get that stupid smile to falter just a little bit) and killer's watching horror desperately try not to just stab the knife through his oh so very exposed soul that he could very easily hurt if he really wanted to hurt killer. anyways the game finally ends when either one or both of them get bored! but thats fine!!! killer will get bored again and horror will end up escalating it to a messier point than it was before and the only thing that'll get hurt is the surface that they use to stab between fingers. oh and eachother of course :p
#just know that this was based solely off vibes going on in my head#none of this makes sense at all and i have no idea how to express what im thinking but DAMMIT i know what im talking about!!!!!#two sadists walk into a room. one of them enjoys pain one of them doesnt. they make out (horrorkiller)#i just really think theyre neat. it would be sweet to hear them sing that song. it fits them so well#horrorkiller has the knife game. kist has russian roulette. what does horrordust have#what homoerotic dangerously reckless game could horrordust play??? i dont particularly know..........#i remember playing this game when i was younger except i used a pencil. because i dont wanna fucking stab myself????#the song starts off by mentioning that they get drunk first which like. yeah that seems right#horror would start the game if he were first that way he'd get first turn and then get whiny when killer does it back#the knife goes chop chop chop NO IT DOESNT SILLY! the knife cuts the axe chops :3#horror's voice is all shaky and unstable from the anger and pain while killer's is smooth and calm despite him being hurt more#the dichotomy >>>> i love horrorkiller theyre my favorite mttduo!!!!#guy who feels too much and guy who doesnt feel enough. guy who tries to feel nothing is also there but this isnt about dust ok#cringe stuff i removed from the post: horrorkiller holding their mangled hands together while they play this game#the red and black of their blood mix together and drips on the floor from their ruined hands :3 so sweet..........#because horror needs a thing to squeeze while trying to pretend that killer stabbing through his fucking wrist doesnt hurt 💀#dust knows exactly what game they played the night before when horror starts wearing full gloves. and killer ditches his fingerless ones :3#kiiiillllerrrr stop showing off your stab wounds from your buddy thats not family friendly nor is it straight 😒😒😒😒#tricule hc#killer sans#horror sans#dust sans#murder time trio#he's MENTIONED (like always. if the 3rd member of the trio wasn't mentioned in tags who would i be)#sans au#utmv#horrorkiller#horrorkiller nation (grand total of 5 people) cmere pspsspspspspsps#1/10 DONE for christmas uaagahhh. why did i tag this hrkl when technically all of my posts could be seen as mttpoly anywausLMAO im so tired#off to do the other 9/10 posts i have to finish.....hahahahaah iM SO TIRED WEARE STILL NOT OPENING GIFTS YET WTF PLEASE I WONT STAY AWAKE
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ive said it once and ill say it again. catwin is SO tuggoffelees coded
#:V#catwin#cat king would 100% sing a song hyping edwin up#ALSO. edwin would totally call cat king 'a terrible bore'#the cat king is so tugger coded in general#please go watch rum tum tugger. go watch cats in general. being a cats fan has shaped how i view the cat king severely#my most serious hc is that the cat king actually loves cats because it Gets what being a cat is all about
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Charlotte, Henry, and Jasper hcs:
-Jasper gives the best cuddles in swellview, it's unreal. Piper has agreed, and she can barely stand physical contact with other people outside of a firm handshake or the contact needed to maim someone; a fist bump if you're lucky. it's also most common that Jasper is the first to ask about cuddles, especially if he notices Henry or Charlotte might want that.
It's not uncommon to see Charlotte doing homework in junk n' stuff laying against Jasper while he scrolls on his phone. Honestly, it's bad for her productivity(not as bad as the man cave but still). She wants to get her shit done, but that requires grabbing her backpack, and it's comfy where she's at right there. After like a minute of mentally being at war with herself she'll be like "Is it ok if I go to the man cave to grab my backpack? I'll be right back." and Jasper's like "yeah, no problem." and Charlotte's like "ok thanks".
-They have a 1 spotify account between the 3 of them. How they manage to share a singular account is beyond me, and the laws of reason, but they do it. It's technically Henry's account, given he pays for the premium subscription, but it wasn't just his for more than like a week. Their spotify wrapped playlist is disjointed to a comedic degree. Don't even try to get through their liked songs.
They have separate personal playlists for their personal favorites. but the playlist names are indecipherable if you are not them. and they will judge each other's music tastes in the playlist description.
-This might be canon, but Charlote can read Henry like a book. Henry's eyebrows move a centimeter, and Charlotte is getting a burrito bc she sees that he's craving one. She knows the degree of "Is Ray shitting me?" that Henry is feeling the second he comes out the tube, the mask affects nothing. Everyone kinda writes it off like "It's a bit creepy, but it's also Charlotte" & "that's a normal smart person thing to do." which no, it isn't.
Charlotte is most accurate with Henry, but Henry can read Jasper better than Charlotte can, and Jasper can read Charlotte better than Henry. It moves in a triangle of sorts. They also read each other's emotions in different ways. Charlotte goes off of facial expressions, Henry by the tone of their voice, and Jasper by general body language.
-Henry is probably the best cook out of the 3 of them. None of them are particularly bad at cooking per say, but Henry is the best at it. He tries to play it off at times and suggest that they get take-out on his nights to make dinner, but that's almost always a no from Charlotte and Jasper unless he's exhausted. Also the take-out in dystopia is terrible, even by shitty take-out standards. Like you do not get take-out in dystopia unless you *have* to.
Henry's weak link? Grilling/Barbeque. The guy won't turn hamburgers into hockey pucks, but he hates working a grill, and the grill hates him back. But that's fine, as Charlotte was taught by the Lord of Barbeque, her uncle Rosco. And in terms of baking, Henry and Charlotte love Jasper's baking too much to try and replicate it. It works out well for them in the kitchen.
-Henry and Charlotte were in competition for best driver sophomore year. It started as a joke of who would chauffer and who would pay for gas. But then they were in the same car for driver's ed and shit got intense. They would point out if the other was one mile over the speed limit, roasting the other's parking, grilling each other on the exact meaning of signs.
They got their driver's test scores and it turns out Jasper is the best/safest driver. Henry and Charlotte tied at the decent score of 79, but Jasper got a 96. He jokes its his way of recovering after experiencing Piper drive in the graveyard, which she scoffed at. So Jasper is the chauffer while Henry and Charlotte pay for his gas.
-honestly it's a good rule of thumb that if two of them are competing, the other person will win. Jasper and Henry racing to the swellview pool in the summer? Charlotte's already there. Jasper and Charlotte at each other's throats over who gets the last slice of pie? They turn around and Henry's watching them while eating the piece in question. Henry and Charlotte are spending all day trying to beat a high score in a video game? Jasper takes a turn and his score is undefeated for a week.
When schwoz first pointed it out, it was kind of a point of contention. the 2 competing would glare at the 3rd person before snapping back to glaring at the other. But after the driver's license competition, it just became funny. Charlotte and Henry saw Jasper asking Piper and Ray their scores, laughing his ass off as grumbled about just barely passing his drivers test. And joined in laughing as Piper growled at him, but not quite ruing the fact the dmv fucked up about her license.
#I tried to make it so it doesn't matter how you view their dynamic: beit poly a qpr or entirely platonic these hcs still apply#I need y'all to know that I think henry's playlist is named cheep cheep motherclucker#do i say that they notice the things they notice bc it's what they focus on in their own behaviors? yes#hen watches his tone bc he has 2 identities. char masks her face to not show any panic. jasp makes sure he's moving like he always does#also because their parents all kinda suck(jasper's especially) so they often mask themselves. (insert all autistic headcanons here)#it'd be even funnier if there were almost no liked songs on their account because they have to all love the song for it to go there#Jasper doesn't continue to drive like he did for the driver's test but nobody does.#henry danger#charlotte page#henry hart#jasper dunlop#chensper#dangerverse#they mean so much to me oh my stars.
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if 141 had fav songs, what do you personally think their favs would be 😨
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if you notice that a majority of these are 80's/90's songs no you didn't for price i'll say he's a fan of longer, more drawn out songs, like 4+ minutes, so maybe something like Hotel California by Eagles. i think he likes more build-up in his music, but also likes music he can just keep on in the background—he's not an avid music-listener or anything, but him listening to music also isn't a rare occurrence—and i feel like Hotel California fits that pretty well.
for ghost i'm gonna say True by Spandau Ballet, for some reason i imagine he really enjoys whatever genre this song is—i looked it up, it said new wave and alternate/indie pop but it's like. more specific than that. you get what i mean. also, hate me if you want, but he's a secret, very ashamed Weezer fan. dude listens to Island In The Sun daily. it's 100% in his top five for his spotify wrapped. it's the tiniest bit out of character, but you can't tell me it doesn't fit him.
for soap something like Hold the Line by TOTO, for the sole reason of me being able to see him belting it out while driving and almost getting into a car crash NUMEROUS times because of it. yes, he's a very smart boy, no, that does not stop him from the occasional stupid activity. also, please note that he will listen to any and all genres. whether it's heavy metal or hyperpop, i guarantee you he'll listen to it.
for gaz i think he listens to more podcasts than he does songs (for podcasts: i think he'd like What Now? with Trevor Noah or The Big Picture with Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins) but if i had to choose a song i'd say Doo Wop (That Thing) by Ms. Lauryn Hill or Fantasy by Mariah Carey. i say those because i literally can't imagine him listening to anything else.
#i may have done gaz a little dirty#actually no#i think those songs just arent my music taste#proud weezer enjoyer#also proud tyler the creater enjoyer at the same time#theres two wolves inside of you#cod#cod hcs#hcs#task force 141#tf141#captain john price#kyle gaz garrick#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#i think that price likes quiet more than he likes music#but he'll still listen to music#all of them like quiet more tbh because then theyll be a lil bit more aware of whats going on around them#but out of all of them soap is the biggest music enjoyer#python333
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WIP Tag/Ask Game
RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.
Thank you @mtndw-whteout for tagging me! ___〆(・∀・)
I think I'll stick to Mob Psycho 100 related things this time around, as I haven't been working on many Discworld things as much as I'd like, and Trollhunters stuff is in deep hibernation.
Glow Worms or rather: In the Depths of the Safflower Hills
Refrigerator Problem
Good Morning Afternoon
Starry Starry Night
Bad Times and Grit [working title]
Any Kind of Dead Person
And uh, yeah that's about it for now!
˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗ Thank you again for tagging me!
I'd like to tag: @babblish @mangatxt @abovo-adastra @feather-dancer @little-seed @sharkaroni @bearberrythief @disorganised-thoughtss (as always, no pressure!) And also I'll tag anyone who is interested!
Hop on in (b ᵔヮᵔ)b *: ・゚
#My response time will be a bit slow especially with how busy these next two months will be for me#I was tempted to add 'Swallow Song' which is a fic I'm intending to act as an epilogue for Glow Worms...but if I talk about it it'd probabl#spoil a few things in Glow Worms haha#Nico blabs into the void#Nico writes#progress report#wip games#I'm tempted to somehow make all these fics be related in some way#that is to say vaguely affiliated to Glow Worms#mainly because I want to keep reusing my HCs (Reigen Family Funeral Industry and half Brazilian Serizawa)#but maybe not all of them... idk - time will tell#mp100
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#indomitable desire to animate like Scott just vibes to Alejandro song because he's such a little gay#random hc I got the idea that he and Sophie ended up on good terms#and I headcanoned that he and Sophie talked a lot in general about relationships and all that (which she is clearly better at than him)#она помогла ему понять сам концепт любовных отношений и он понял что далеко не девочки его интересую хихик
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Hi, I'm gonna make you hurt.
There's this song, Color esperanza by Diego Torres, that was really typical for moms to like when I was a kid (in my country at least, Idk what your moms listened to). Anyways, imagine Catherine Todd singing it while doing the house chores and baby Jay going along with her. Then Robin Jason singing it when he's feeling nostalgic or happy.
Imagine that's why green is his favorite color (because color of hope= emerald). Here's a part of the chorus:
(the original in Spanish)
Pintarse la cara Color esperanza Tentar al futuro Con el corazón
(the translation by musixmatch.com)
Paint the face
Hope color
Tempting the future
With the heart
Anyways, I just think it would be quite bittersweet if he liked to sing this to remember his mom when he was young. I don't know what would be more sad:
He not singing it more after his resurrection because he can't bring himself to sing such an optimistic song because it feels like a mockery to his own life—
Or he still singing it because he needs the hope. Specially after everything.
#jason todd singing old songs in spanish lives rent free in my head#all those mom songs#he cooking and going around the kitchen singing this#or any chayanne song really#when a cape enters through his window#“…”#i call them mom songs because until 2010 more or less all moms in my country had the same musical taste#axel chayanne jorge rojas and this one song#that's it#robin jason todd#jason todd#catherine todd#i hc her as daughter of inmigrants or an inmigrant herself#and changed her name for some reason to a more usa sounding name#can't blame her living in gotham#bet people hear foreign names and think “oh no. it's the mafia”
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**| Interesting revelations of the evening!
I’m not certain Vox has ever actually fired a gun. He’s certainly never owned one. Most of the time if he needs to cause pain his just sort of… goes zappy on them. Flesh doesn’t take kindly to massive amounts of electricity!
Hah! Now that I have drawn you in with fun hc there’s the more serious examination of themes. A consequence of when I started writing Vox is the fact that I could not turn off the university part of my brain that’s just like “if you were to write an essay for him what are the themes you would focus on? What DEFINES him???” And the answer was performance, because clearly right? He’s TV man.
And this had the unintentional side effect of earning him the “not as bad a person as you could have been” award because if he was a really bad boss, and I leaned more into the corrupt businessman aspects of him, then that core theme would have been less performance and more consumerism and capitalism. Which I decided was not thematically relevant and would have just detracted from the overall character I wanted to write.
If I had to pick his main three vibes it’s: performance in big bold letters (more on that in a sec), modernization (not capitalism or consumerism, but specifically that transition of technology and opinion), and a very sci-fi concern of what is a human? Is he still?
but but but going back to the performance. It’s so key to how I write him. Like there’s the literal performance aspect on screen, but it’s more than that. As Vincent he performs a veneer of, if not heterosexuality, than at least… not queerness. But otherwise he’s still very much him. Sure his charm was taught, but he made it a part of himself, it’s not a performance anymore, he has things he enjoys and doesn’t, and is, more or less, honest in that. Vox is… not that. It’s why in the 1946!Vincent content, the fun is forcing Vox to acknowledge himself. He has to step beyond the performance, he has to see backstage essentially. He has to be vulnerable.
And vulnerability is something that cannot exist in the Overlord Vox persona, which he is constantly inhabiting. But at the same time that’s not who he actually is, but it’s who he’s performing as, even to himself. He’s always on this knife’s edge of self reflection and juuust missing the point, because if he goes to close to the truth, the masquerade falls apart.
There’s this line from the song All for Believing by Missy Higgins that’s great here, and it’s “But I see you painted your soul into your guard”, and it’s super true for Vox. Overlord Vox is the face of every new product, he derides the old as outdated, he’s ruthless, and powerful and confident. Nothing gets under the skin of Overlord Vox, not even a broken screen, see him laughing in Voxtagram? Laugh with him. It keeps him safe, it’s the image that’s given him power and control and the successful end result to all the ambition that is still a core part of him.
Vox however??? Vox is a bit of romantic, and he loves swing music, and black and white game shows, he’s an insomniac and a bit of nerd. It’s not that Overlord Vox isn’t him, because like the lyrics says, it’s been painted into. Overlord Vox is the strongest parts of himself people take seriously and made into a living, breathing part of himself. It’s a shield and a half truth.
Money does play a role, but it’s a tertiary one at best. He has more money than God, he owns everything under the sun, great, great, it plays the role it needs to and is otherwise vague. What is he doing with his money??? Uhh, I don’t know, who cares?
The modernization works in with the performance, though that’s another post of its own. So please enjoy this somewhat rambling roundabout examination of why my Vox is, all things considered, not that bad a dude. It’s about the pretentious English major themes, and that being the least interesting thing to explore for me. (Just see his playlist, it’s basically all “look at me, look at me, look at what I’m showing you, don’t look over there behind the scenes).
#*personnel file (hc)#*no signal (ooc)#*cathode rays and rock and roll (vincent price)#I barley even know that this is#is it a hc? A meta??? Incoherent???#shoutout to my class this morning and the direct thought process of:#that would be a fun theme for him! Wait no#that would require breaking the he’s a fine boss hc#well why would that be an issue?#because it’s not Right^tm it’s about the performance#Queue the lightbulb moment of THEMATIC RELEVANCE!#I love Vox he’s a perfect disaster#the embodiment of the performance goes off without a hitch#but if you look behind the curtain the costume closet is in shambles#the props are scattered all around#there’s an actor frantically reading lines in the corner#the moment you look at him for more than 5 minutes the whole illusion falls apart#Expect more in this vein to come!#probably a giant tag ramble in a post for the Gladiator by Jann song#which is GREAT for him#And sort of touches on a lot of the themes mentioned here
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