#vs 'don't do that' 'why not?' '*unhinged explanation that still follows a certain line of logic and is usually enough to convince him*'

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Spending my working hours cooking on Niffty and Vox friendship. They unintentionally enable each other to become their least comprehendible and most unhinged selves if left alone together for too long.

They can have a completely normal seeming conversation one minute and then just devolve into absolute nonsense bordering on word salad under the right conditions. One time Angel wonders out loud what the fuck those two are talking about and Charlie suggests maybe it's 50s slang? It would fit them. But Husk immediately shoots that down. He was around in the 50s that ain't what it sounded like. Niffty immediately switches back to regular talk if you interrupt her but Vox takes a couple sentences to make sense again (if he makes sense that day at all)

It's like a secret language only they know. Alastor wants to study them under a microscope.

Vox definitely has the potential to make Niffty less coherent, but I'd like to think that she can also have the opposite effect on him. Sometimes they're just completely stream-of-consciousness rambling to each other and anyone else unfortunate enough to be pulled into the "conversation," but other times Niffty takes the lead and can actually get Vox to calm down enough not to devolve into utter incomprehensibility. He can be pretty willful at times, but Niffty and Alastor are always capable of convincing him to slow down and listen instead of immediately acting on whatever impulse he's experiencing at the moment– it's just a question of whether either of them will want to do that at any given time.