#papermint didnt get fired exclusively because he spent the next week running voxtek while vox ate ice cream and cried

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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