oh great googly moogly i saw your rb and i just wanted to say that everything was extremely well said. i think the worst part of chaggie being 'what could have been' is that radiostatic never could have been. just like you said both are inherently fucked up self-serving megalomaniacs, they are the best and worst thing for each other
i cant stop thinking about it radiostatic is so broken i want more
i also really hate when people call 'easy' the chaggie sex song because it is so much more than that. it's one of the most romantic songs in hazbin hotel along with piss, love in a bottle and losin' streak (which have their fair share of radiostatic parellels) and guess which pairing got the most spotlight under all that toxicity and tension?thats right our favorite doomed idiots
another line from easy aside from 'in a pit that doesn't let sun through somehow we managed to see stars' (which had obvious implications to me) that really struck was 'you and me don't need no one else to make it through the crazy' because (more of a stretch) it can totally be reframed from love being a sanctuary to love being a medium. vox doesn't need anyone but alastor in more ways than one because only alastor can see how damaged vox to where no one but him can genuinely strike a nerve
holy yapperoni somehow your rb just gave me this giant burst of radiostatic/silence inspiration but thank you for such a thoughtful take
YES!!!! I’ve always been drawn to ships that have so much room for nuance like of course every ship and relationships have depth and nuance but with canon ships like Chaggie you don’t really have to go dumpster diving to see the dynamic. It’s mmmm ‘surface level’ so to say because you’re given everything point blank. It’s complex but not complicated
Radiostatic is allllll about complicated and shit buried so far under you’d have better luck hitting bedrock than those twos feelings and emotions for each other. There’s just something so human and utterly tragic about radiostatic and it has me in a chokehold. I think that’s why some of the fics out there about them, the really good like ‘friends to enemies to rivals to lovers’ get me so much cause they’re such beautiful explorations of what is probably the messiest and most human relationship you can interpret from canon and I’m a sucker for shit like that.
I love me my fluff but I want radiostatic to work for it, I want them raw and broken and exposed to each other cause all they’ve ever known are masks, facades, personas and lies. It’s all they’ll ever let themselves accept and they pursue those things in such different ways too.
Alastor is a loner, full stop. He equates independence to power and wants nothing less. Vox equates attention and fame to power, regardless of how he gets there (with a group, with hypnosis etc etc). Two very broken men trying to prove they’re the strongest in very opposing ways, forever stuck clashing cause who else gets it? Who else understands this desperate need to be on top
Anyhoo, thank you for coming to my ted talk and I’m so glad to have found a kindred soul in this mania that is radiostatic
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