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A Hazbin Hotel sideblog for Lacuna, the Alastor enthusiast, Vees enjoyer counterpart to @lace-hazbin, ahaha. The Official Wasian Vox Propaganda Accomplice.

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️Theory/Analysis Tags: #🐇🌙💬 (general)　#wasian vox　#alastor's deer ears　#radio interference theory　 #vox mass suicide theory　#alastor's vanity mic

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[dallacuna-b]

Hello, it's been a while but I'm back with another unserious theory that I'm about to insist on for fun: Take this microphone on Alastor's vanity. Nothing too strange, it's just there, innocuously.

On his vanity… Not connected to anything……

… Why?

I elaborate my thoughts on Bluesky and below!

It certainly doesn't seem to have a purpose! He's not broadcasting from his vanity. The design of the mic—though it could just be stylistic oversight from the artists—is quite a bit more modern than we would expect from Alastor.

Mind you I am only doing cursory research for this mostly joke theory but on a quick look, it definitely wasn't the style of mics in the 1920s, which is a period of time Alastor could have been active as a radio host and could have had lingering paraphernalia from.

It most certainly isn't from the 1930s, either, which seems to favor blockier styles or the ring suspension model, both of which we see represented in Alastor's canon

(suspension ring left, blockier design right)

To me, the design of the microphone in the first screencap stands out to me as more modern. Like I said I'm not looking to deep dive on this, so I haven't found what I think could be an exact match for the design (if one even exists!), but it evokes any of these more recent ones to me:

Though seeing as the pole of the stand doesn't actually attach to what I think is the head of the microphone, there's a question of whether it's a microphone at all—with drawn art there's always the question of if something is intentional or human error and there's no way to know ahahaha.

(Edit: Actually, leftmost mic and the pill mics in the pictures directly above this paragraph also don't connect the mic head to the pole! So it's probably a functional microphone.)

In any case, if it's an intentional omission, maybe this isn't meant to be a functional mic at all—it could be a model, or a trophy of some sort—but if it was simply a mistake or an obscure mic model, it could be a functional mic. Either way though, I argue that its design is from the 1950s onwards, and I personally think it's doubtful that Alastor would get himself a contemporary mic/model for his own self! Not when he's still using his older-style equipment to present day.

So was it a gift then? Points in favor is that it's kept in the same area as Niffty's roach crown, which was also a gift.

This then begs the question: Who would give a gift to Alastor? And of those people, who would gift him a newer microphone, of all things? There's probably an argument that could be made for a variety of people—(I think Mimzy chief among them, personally)—but as my tags imply, the answer I'm going to argue for is that it could have been a gift from Vox, prior to their fallout.

To me it makes the simplest answer—we don't see other characters that Alastor interacts with taking any real interest in broadcasting, and we don't see him really discuss it with anyone else. Equipment's the kind of gift only a very good listener or fellow enthusiast can really give, and Vox was once both to Al.

(Of course, can't write off the possibility that it's a trophy of some sort, but I feel like if it were a trophy, there are better ways to signal that from a design standpoint (making it gold or silver) and if Alastor were award-winning in some way, it's likely to have come up in dialogue by now)

Something really interesting also is actually how little this mic is actually on screen. For most of the scene, it's actually covered by Alastor's body!

This implies to me that it's not something we're actually supposed to notice very easily. There could be many reasons for that, of course, but I think one of the more compelling ones is that—as the story and staff have thus far implied—there's more to Vox and Alastor's history than we've been shown, and that this is a detail we're supposed to notice and revisit later.

I think it's also interesting that we only see this vanity as a part of Alastor's room when he's in distress. We didn't see it in season 1, if I recall correctly. So, our first view of this vanity is Alastor in private, drinking and smoking—vices we hadn't seen from him before!—seething over his lost power and injury. It's intimate. Our association with this vanity space is private and intimate, which means that the items on it are possibly also sentimental to him in some way.

In any case, as per usual, just putting my thoughts out there on a whim, hahaha. I'm never really arguing that my theories are true so much as saying that I think it's a substantiated reading + hard to disprove.

Thank you for reading it all if you did though!

[dallacuna-b]

This is so belated but Lace noticed this a month ago, and the evidence grows…

[ashlikesnow2]

*When you’re having a nice, cozy Sinsmas and your ex-deer-demon-boyfriend suddenly launches a surprise attack*

[lace-hazbin]

I’m leaving them both outside for Christmas. Huddle for warmth!!!

[ashlikesnow2]

[lace-hazbin]

Ranked Competitive Sex MurderMedia Edition: Gay Chicken (Alastor is wearing Vincent’s shirt)

[lace-hazbin]

HE’S MY MAN, WE’RE HAND IN HAND TO HELL AND BACK

(Got brainworms for a scenario where Vox loses his memories following a suicide attempt and Alastor swoops in to “fix” him.)

[maersiel]

merry crisis

[ashlikesnow2]

AHHHHH I LOVE THEM

[dallacuna-b]

First draft of the next installment of Murder Protege AU got the thumbs up conceptually, yaaaay—now to polish up and fill in all the parts I glossed over ahahaha

(If you don't know what this refers to, please peruse the tag here!)

[lace-hazbin]

Vox and Alastor go to couples therapy

[lace-hazbin]

Post-Season 2

[dallacuna-b]

To the person who sent me an ask about Lace's and my wasian Vox interpretation and what that means for his thoughts towards the state of East Asian politics in the 1950s, please know that I do intend to answer with my thoughts on this but it may take a bit because the answer will be delicately handled ahahahaha

[lace-hazbin]

Faces :D

[dallacuna-b]

Hello, it's been a while but I'm back with another unserious theory that I'm about to insist on for fun: Take this microphone on Alastor's vanity. Nothing too strange, it's just there, innocuously.

On his vanity… Not connected to anything……

… Why?

I elaborate my thoughts on Bluesky and below!

It certainly doesn't seem to have a purpose! He's not broadcasting from his vanity. The design of the mic—though it could just be stylistic oversight from the artists—is quite a bit more modern than we would expect from Alastor.

Mind you I am only doing cursory research for this mostly joke theory but on a quick look, it definitely wasn't the style of mics in the 1920s, which is a period of time Alastor could have been active as a radio host and could have had lingering paraphernalia from.

It most certainly isn't from the 1930s, either, which seems to favor blockier styles or the ring suspension model, both of which we see represented in Alastor's canon

(suspension ring left, blockier design right)

To me, the design of the microphone in the first screencap stands out to me as more modern. Like I said I'm not looking to deep dive on this, so I haven't found what I think could be an exact match for the design (if one even exists!), but it evokes any of these more recent ones to me:

Though seeing as the pole of the stand doesn't actually attach to what I think is the head of the microphone, there's a question of whether it's a microphone at all—with drawn art there's always the question of if something is intentional or human error and there's no way to know ahahaha.

(Edit: Actually, leftmost mic and the pill mics in the pictures directly above this paragraph also don't connect the mic head to the pole! So it's probably a functional microphone.)

In any case, if it's an intentional omission, maybe this isn't meant to be a functional mic at all—it could be a model, or a trophy of some sort—but if it was simply a mistake or an obscure mic model, it could be a functional mic. Either way though, I argue that its design is from the 1950s onwards, and I personally think it's doubtful that Alastor would get himself a contemporary mic/model for his own self! Not when he's still using his older-style equipment to present day.

So was it a gift then? Points in favor is that it's kept in the same area as Niffty's roach crown, which was also a gift.

This then begs the question: Who would give a gift to Alastor? And of those people, who would gift him a newer microphone, of all things? There's probably an argument that could be made for a variety of people—(I think Mimzy chief among them, personally)—but as my tags imply, the answer I'm going to argue for is that it could have been a gift from Vox, prior to their fallout.

To me it makes the simplest answer—we don't see other characters that Alastor interacts with taking any real interest in broadcasting, and we don't see him really discuss it with anyone else. Equipment's the kind of gift only a very good listener or fellow enthusiast can really give, and Vox was once both to Al.

(Of course, can't write off the possibility that it's a trophy of some sort, but I feel like if it were a trophy, there are better ways to signal that from a design standpoint (making it gold or silver) and if Alastor were award-winning in some way, it's likely to have come up in dialogue by now)

Something really interesting also is actually how little this mic is actually on screen. For most of the scene, it's actually covered by Alastor's body!

This implies to me that it's not something we're actually supposed to notice very easily. There could be many reasons for that, of course, but I think one of the more compelling ones is that—as the story and staff have thus far implied—there's more to Vox and Alastor's history than we've been shown, and that this is a detail we're supposed to notice and revisit later.

I think it's also interesting that we only see this vanity as a part of Alastor's room when he's in distress. We didn't see it in season 1, if I recall correctly. So, our first view of this vanity is Alastor in private, drinking and smoking—vices we hadn't seen from him before!—seething over his lost power and injury. It's intimate. Our association with this vanity space is private and intimate, which means that the items on it are possibly also sentimental to him in some way.

In any case, as per usual, just putting my thoughts out there on a whim, hahaha. I'm never really arguing that my theories are true so much as saying that I think it's a substantiated reading + hard to disprove.

Thank you for reading it all if you did though!

[lace-hazbin]

I know the easy fanfic followup to this would be Vox frantically jerking off, but I propose this way funnier alternative

[lace-hazbin]

bodyswap…