#radiostatic headcanon

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

I have to ask

Are you open to a hot take on your content? I just came across your page today and I was surprised to see your take on radiostatic. Or maybe you can answer as Al or Vox. First off let me say I am a biological straight male and I’m aware I grew up in another land than what I’ve seen people in fandom create for themselves. I haven’t even met another straight guy yet who likes Hazbin Hotel and certainly not gonna meet any who ship Al and Vox. I secretly love them together and I think I know why but I wanted to say this.

I don’t see why Alastor is a top in this ship?

When I first saw Alastor on screen it was like my whole world stopped for a moment and I realized if he were gay and if I were gay I’d want to fuck him. I’m not saying im questioning if im gay at all I just think if I were gay I’d want to but I would never bottom and so that’s my reasoning for Top Vox and Bottom Alastor. He’s just really feminine and Vox isn’t at all.

I’d like to know your take on it since it seems to matter on this blog who tops/bottoms.

Oooh, I love character studies!

Ok, so starting off, since you explained the background you're coming from, I'll do the same - I am an asexual/biromantic cis female. Also, I wouldn't necessarily say that who tops/bottoms matters on this blog, but people keep asking, so I've had to give some kind of response.

ANYWAY. I'll start with Vox. I see him as a switch who mostly bottoms. From my understanding, not being gay or a man or that interested in sex, who bottoms doesn't necessarily have anything to do with who's more feminine. And my first impression of Vox was that he was a bottom. He just strikes me as the type who takes charge in every other area of his existence, so he wants a break from that in bed. And while I know top/bottom doesn't necessarily equal dom/sub, that's just the energy I feel he gives off. Everything from the types of men he goes after to the way he kind of seems to be a bit of a glutton for punishment just screams to me that he wants to be fucked. However, I can also see him bringing that 'taking control of the boardroom' energy into the bedroom, hence why I headcanon him as a switch.

Now Alastor. I definitely feel like he's on the side of the asexual spectrum that has basically no interest in sex (and very possibly sex-repulsed, but I choose to headcanon him differently). But we know he loves violence. So, I feel like the only way he would be at all interested in sex if it's a power play to dominate over and hurt the other person. With Vox in particular, I think that what would appeal to Alastor is his once-rival, a powerful Overlord, willingly surrendering to him completely and giving him control over what he feels - proving his devotion to him. And I feel like Alastor would get off more on the power and bloodshed than the sex itself. Also, I think he's too controlling with too many trust issues to put himself in the vulnerable position of being fucked.

None of this is to say that you can't think differently, of course! This is just my own interpretation.

[twyisontheline]

This is exactly my headcanon and what i think happened. And i think that really pissed Vox off because it was even more of a confirmation of Alastor being more powerful. He is alive just cause Alastor decided so. It is such a humiliating knowledge, he can't not hate Alastor for it. And he keep fighting that knowledge, started the song exactly with that goal: to confirm to himself, and to all Hell, that he is the more powerful one now. And i think this is significant: Vox views himself through the eyes of others, classic fluctuating self-esteem and identity situation where you look for confirmations outside cause you are not sure of who you are. And it means that Alastor's accusations are very effective, and of course he breakdowns.

Plus the whole "First you reject me and decide to end our friendship and then you show me mercy? Fuck you and your mind games and toying with me." I like to think when their friendship was starting to fall apart, Vox started to think Alastor didn't really care about him and have a lot of paranoia about him just playing games. In reality, Alastor still cared, because when two friends grow apart, it doesn't mean there isn't love still. But if we take Vox as someone with a fragile ego, than it makes sense he interpreted growing apart (which i think happened cause Vox was changing as a person) as "i am not worthy anymore in his eyes" and that covered every other possibility he might have considered.

"You still pissed he almost beat you that time?"

I personally find it hard to believe that Vox beat Alastor. Considering both Alastors sheer power and reputation for taking down overlords, and Vox's insecure ramblings in the fast text about having "totally wrecked his shit"- it just doesn't add up to me.

If Vox truly won, why is he so worried and Insecure?

The first time I watched Hazbin, I noted that he called Alastor a coward. Why that word in particular? I thought he was just goading him for whatever reason, but the more I think of it the more I'm drawn towards this conclusion:

Vox and Alastor fought but Alastor walked away, sparing Vox.

It's implied the two were friends for some time, and we see how Alastor treats his friends. He's very kind and allows them to joke with him. We see this with Rosie, Mimzy, and Nifty (though you should consider they're all women, and Alastor has a pattern of favoring women.) He allows Mimzy to take advantage of him and get on his nerves, telling her to leave instead of attacking her for the disrespect.

I'm of the opinion Vox and Alastor's friendship was genuine- the photo of the two of them that Vox ripped in half is evidence enough that Vox saw it this way, while Alastor refers to Vox as his "old pal." Assuming they were really friends, I think it's fair to say that Alastor favored Vox.

So I think they fought but instead of Vox actually winning, Alastor could have won but walked away instead. Vox taking it as an insult and Alastor... half insulting him and half not ready to kill his old friend. I think this would explain his insecurity about the matter especially.

[jazzmasternot]

Vox came to me in a dream and told me to post this.

[elsa-fogen]

Alastor's apologising (part 2)

It happens after this and before this

Part 1

Seems like Rosie is angy with Alastor... very angy.

Vox yappin.

i have no thoughts. head empty.

[sleepream]

vox dealing with his night anxiety: staticmoth vs radiostatic edition

val just kicked him out of the room and alastor… well… at least it doesn’t bother him

[twyisontheline]

Now this caused such a domino reaction in me and triggered a whole text post about one of my headcanons. So, headcanon talk! If you are interested in some angst and some aroace Alastor, keep reading.

I know i am overthinking a little cute animatic BUT hear me out. Aside from how i adore Alastor's expressions in this. This is perfect for one of the flavours of Radiostatic i didn't write my hc about yet.

So i guess the lyrics originally are meant in the classic allo "I am not in love with you yet but i can see it happen, maybe" but what if we have internal-angst-about-his-aromanticism!Alastor here.

Alastor has never felt romantic attraction or feelings towards someone, in his human life or demonic death-life-whatever. Now, with how strong amatonormativity is, he did try. He knew (thought) he was supposed to. It never worked. He reached the conclusion that he is fucked up. When he starts killing people, it almost makes sense - he is a psychopath, he is fucked up, that must be related to not being able to love how other people do. How his mother would want him to love. He feels shame and guilt, even if he tries to push it all back down and tell himself that others are weak because they feel so desperate with their love interests and it is something he would never want. And it is something he doesn't want. But society tells him it is something that makes one's life complete and makes you happy and fulfilled and he wonders. Is he broken in a way that prevents him from experiencing something that could be amazing?

Then he dies, and overall, life gets kinda easier. In the whole depravity and anguish and fucked-upness of Hell, there isn't an ideal happiness to wonder about. There isn't a society wanting you to marry and have kids and be normal and quaint. He can embrace being fucked up.

Then he meets Vox. And slowly, but surely, the TV Demon finds a place in his heart. It's not unusual - Alastor did feel affection and platonic love for people before, he knows he is able to feel that. And it has never been an issue that he doesn't feel romantic love, since none of his friends has ever really wanted that kind of relationship with him.

Until it becomes an issue. Until he realizes that Vox has feelings for him. Feelings that are romantic. That kind of love that he, Alastor, is not able to feel. And this opens the wound again. His fucked-upness could very well make him lose Vox. He doesn't want to lose their friendship - Vox gets him and spending time with him is pleasurable in an unique and special way, and no one else gives him that kind of joy.

So he thinks: "I can make myself love him." He forced himself to be many things in his life and death, he won't let a weakness, a fault, a lack-of-ability, mess up with his goals and with what he wants. He is not the weak powerless boy he once was in life. He is a powerful Overlord. He takes what he wants. If learning to feel romantic love is what he needs to do to obtain what he wants, he'll do it.

So he tries, and lies to himself a bunch of times in the process, but he has a lot of insight in this headcanon, he knows himself pretty well, so he knows, deep down, he is failing. And he sees it as that: a failure. So the mix of shame and guilt that is reappearing like an emotional flashback of his human days mixes with the shame of not being able to do something. Of being powerless in front of his own faults.

Fluff ensuring after all the angst could be that he finally confesses all this to Vox in a mental breakdown scenario - cause we know Alastor loves to freak out dramatically when he feels powerless - and Vox is like: "Man, calm down, it's not that big of a deal. I am not exactly thrilled at the idea you don't reciprocate my feelings but the idea you have to fake stuff with me and you tried so hard to be something you are not is even more upsetting. …Plus kinda flattering, tbh, but let's not digress. What i am saying is, you don't have to do it. I am not going to end our friendship over it."

(And idk, Vox has some vague-time-appropriate knowledge about queerness that is more than Alastor has, because Vox is queer and unlike Alastor who doesn't register most of Sinners as not-entertaining-enough and avoids any place that has a even remotely sexual-relatedness, he actually goes out and talks to people and did talk to people while figuring out he was queer. So we can insert here a speech by Vox about sexual/romantic orientation not being an illness etc etc with a bit of backstory about Vox being queer in the fifties too.)

AGHH I FINALLY FINISHED THIS AND POSTED IT ON TIKTOK! if this flops im reposting without the cinema-like effect but HJSJSJSJSDKD PLS GO CHECK MY TT OUT CUZ I PLAN TO MAKE MORE ANIMATICS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE!

[th3d0nutl0rd]

Okay I have a hot take and a controversial opinion here; but I've seen a lot of people get upset over shipping Alastor with other characters due to the fact he's ace, and I totally get it- representation matters. But people shouldn't be getting mad over harmless shipping, especially when it ereases other asexual identities. Demisexuals exist. Asexuals who experience romantic attraction exist. Abrosexuals exist. We want representation too :')

[spacebubblehomebase]

"Applemedia only happens because Alastor's in the middle." 😤

Okay. But have you ever considered: "Cartoons are THE BEST???"✨️

Some would even say: "It scrambles the brain!" 😉

This IS how they started, right???

-Bubbly💙

[oatmealdoodles]

One-sided RadioStatic my beloved

[twyisontheline]

Oh i love this and it triggered thinking about my own vision of this. Headcanon talk!

I like the idea that the fact Vox is shut off and can't interact makes Alastor feel so much more at ease and comfortable. Because he doesn't like when things are unexpected and not under his control, and that applies to being touched and all the little nuances of social interaction, that often take him off guard. He can rarely relax when with someone. Even when he is close to them and feels affection for them, sometimes the closeness makes them even more unpredictable, because he knows more about non intimate social interactions than he knows about what happens when there is intimacy. It is a tiny part of why it is comforting and pleasing to kill - it's a kind of intimacy without the other person being able to do unpredictable things. And Vox knows it. So Alastor isn't annoyed Vox watches the interaction later on. He wants Vox to know that he loves him (platonically or not, Alastor works in this hc both as aro or not), and they both know he struggles with showing it, especially physically. So they agreed on the cameras. It reassures and makes Vox happy, and Alastor wants Vox to be happy and reassured. Plus the way Vox watches the recording every day, not missing a day, reassures Alastor too: there can't be lapses in Vox's love for him, if it falters, that is again an opening for unpredictability.

RadioStatic !!!

Whenever their going to sleep Vox has to shut down completely to charge faster in the night. But because of that he doesn’t move around in bed. He sleeps like the dead, completely stiff as a board so the wires connecting to his head won’t rip off and shutting down feels like being put into a timed coma.

But because he’s like this his favorite deer cuddles him at night like a body pillow. He uses him as he sees fit. Grabs his arm to cuddle him, climbing on top of him to sleep in his chest, pushing him carefully to the corner so Alastor gets majority of the bed.

Stuff like that

So when Vox wakes up he looks through the security camera in their room (yes a security camera 🙄 Vox thinks that Alastor doesn’t know about but he does) ((he secretly /loves/ being watched but won’t ever admit it)) and looks through it to see how many times Alastor kissed,hug and cuddle and before noon even hits Vox returns all the kisses,hugs and cuddles that he missed out on during the long and lonely night that his deer has to face every night.

And Alastor loves waking up to being spoiled and pampered by Vox. It’s a beautiful way to start off the day!

[lemoncakedoodles]

Thinking about Alastor ships…

Most people know the popular head canon that Alastor doesn’t need sleep, and I had a thought.

Wouldn’t it be adorable if he started sleeping because his partner wanted cuddles, then over time he got so used to sleeping that he now sees it as a need and finds himself actually getting tired at times?

[thatonefananticinclass]

So if you think that vox likes alastor but alastor dosn't like him back how do you think vox would react to alastor flirting with him?

Vox would probably be flabbergasted for a second, but then immediately try to regain his composure. Try to be smooth about it even though he's panicking on the inside, wondering why Alastor is doing this. Most likely he'd assume it's Alastor trying to mess with him(which he probably is) but he would still sweat a little under his collar. Alastor has easily played and provoked Vox to the point of causing a black out, so I think if Alastor flirted with Vox hard enough he'd lose it abs cause a couple blackouts around him. I don't think Alastor would go TOO flirty with it, at least physically. Leaving Vox once again irritated and obsessed. ....And unsatisfied 🤭 lol

[mr-malumm]

Im gonna spam my summer week drawings here lol

[twyisontheline]

I agree with this, and also i was thinking about how this shows in his relationship with Valentino and Velvette.

We see in the show that Vox and Val have some sort of relationship: Velvette implies it the first time they appear, plus the dance and duet that stole my heart. But also, the three times we see them interacting are: 1: Vox calming Val down, not reacting openly emotionally to his outburst, but he *does* have an emotional reaction while Val is not looking, and immediately covers it and puts on the mask of in-control diplomatic handler of drama. 2: the frame in 'Poison' where as soon as Vox sees Angel, he makes a face and disappears - this, imho, says a lot. I see it as Vox choosing to hide any emotions he might feel about Val and Angel relationship. 3: the dance. It's interesting that they sing 'for you and me' and not 'for us three', but also it is significative imho that that moment is about sharing enthusiasm about being able to be more powerful. Yes, they dance and kiss, but the emotional part is just being power-angry. Instead, the moments where we see Vox being emotional, he is alone. In the first frames of him, he puts on the smile while talking to Velvette, then it disappears when he is alone, then it reappears when he is talking to Velvette. Valentino makes fun of him being emotional regarding Alastor and riles him up as a sort of power game: Vox did influence him in making him not go to the hotel, so now Val influences him. During the song with Alastor, Vox is very emotional, and alone - and when Alastor hints maybe Vox is not so powerful and the other Vees are the key of his power, they smile. They are not by Vox's side. When the Vees watch the battle, Vox is being very emotional, but he is doing everything by himself: Val and Vel do not show any emotions, do not join him in any way, they are just there, not really connecting emotionally.

The only person who is aknowledging Vox's emotions and interacts with his emotional side is Alastor. In a condescending, 'using Vox's emotions to make him appear and feel weak' way, but he is pointing out his emotions in every single interaction. 'Is Vox insecure?' 'now he's pissy' 'oh, the tv is buffering' 'old pal', every single time he pokes at Vox's emotions.

It could be interpreted as Vox starting to hide more and more of his emotions and his real self when he starts VoxTek, while before that, when him and Alastor were friends, he was more real. And it could also add another layer of angst, because while Alastor, i think, is very good at reading people's emotions, he has more cognitive empathy than 'feeling your feelings as mine' empathy. So when they were friends, Alastor could very well be in the position of understanding and seeing Vox's emotions very well, and being able to choose to show validation, camaraderie, comfort, or to choose to use them and gaslight him. But the emotional connection, that kind of emotional tuning that, from a psychological perspective, is very important for people's well being (it is extremely important to have someone who is tuned with us emotionally) was not there.

Random Thoughts about the TV Man (ft. Alastor)

Something that I was thinking about is how Alastor and Vox both put on a performance to cover up who they truly are, but where Alastor is perpetually smiling as a way of keeping people guessing and uncertain of his motives and emotions, Vox is a people pleaser. He tries to be everything that people want and literally I just can't stop thinking about how exhausting that has to be. We see him constantly adjusting and catering to the public. He's always putting on a show. It's always about public perception with him. He needs to control what people see and think of him at all times. I think that's part of why Alastor terrifies him so much. Because he can get under Vox's skin like no one else and force out his true emotions, break his carefully crafted image like paper through a shredder. And Vox just can't have that.

[jazzmasternot]

I feel bad for my future husband bc I just know ima be making him dress up as Alastor in bed. Ima be like

“cmon babe put on the red wig and pinstripe suit”

“Yes honey 😔”

[dysfunctionalcreature]

also my brain recently decided that Vox canonically being super temperamental and easily pissed off/upset = Vox being a massive fucking crybaby, so I have not been able to get the mental image of Vox crying big pixelated tears anytime Alastor ignores him out of my head for days