PLEASE remember to include trans men and mascs and intersex men in your fight for reproductive rights. And breast health education. And free period products. We are so easily erased from these conversations. Insurance deny claims and clinics refuse to see us because of an M marker. Don't forget about us!
Not a specific prompt (I'm still learning to draw her well. Next year maybe I'll do prompts if we do this again!), but here's another for Vaggi Week 2026. Not sure if that already ended but that's okay if it did lol
Chaggie is as deep as Stolitz if people would just take a moment to LOOK & THINK š¤ā
to see how lovingly theyāre animated, their sheer physical intimacy & love languages
to make the effort to see the subtext of their love, and the meaning a repenting Exorcist & a lonely Princess have to each other
Charlie comes into Vaggiās life when she needs it most. Charlie is the first being to show her kindness, unconditional care, after a lifetime in an abusive and traumatising military environment that just mutilated her and cast her aside for showing mercy and remorse.
Charlie has to have been the first one to say Vaggiās name with the pronunciation she likes and has kept ever since.
And Charlie, with her dreams of redemption, gives Vaggi hope that she too can atone for what she did as an Exorcist (and how she kept her past secret out of fear of losing her girl)
and to Charlie? Vaggi comes into her life at a time when sheās cut off from her parents, with perhaps only the Goat Bois for company, struggling to get her dreams off the ground. Then hereās this beautiful, poor injured āsinnerā in an alleyway whoās receptive to her aid (and seems to like her back).
And not only that, but is enthused by & wants to support her goal of creating a hotel that rehabilitates sinners!
And she does get her so far; renovating the Hotel building, helping recruit Angel Dust⦠Alastor may have gotten the Hotel off the ground, but Vaggi laid the foundations with Charlie.
They are each otherās respite in a cruel realm; itās no wonder that their most intimate love language occurs when theyāre alone - though as we see in S2, as the Hotel becomes more successful and more of a home, they get comfortable with PDA, harmonising in song, Vaggi flying Charlie around
And of course they have their hiccups. Vaggi kept her past a secret out of a fear that Charlie would leave her, only for Adam and Lute to cruelly out her.
But Charlie recognised Vaggi was trying overall, to do better, to redeem herself, and she forgave her because redemption is her whole mojo
then in Season 2 they miscommunicate with Charlieās mounting stress and fixation on her way of doing things. Vaggi goes behind Charlieās back to try and get Lucifer to help re. Vox, which just ends up boosting Voxās case for total war with Heaven.
Charlie is hurt. They have a deeper, more cutting argument this time over Vaggiās tempering of Charlieās wild, hyperfixated ambitions. But Charlie sees that Vaggi is triggered by their argument, realises she was wrong to not listen, and apologises and shows remorse. they forgive each other
Itās a complex, realistic argument where neither of them are completely in the right or wrong, where their codependency is challenged as Vaggi for the first time stands up to and aggressively voices disagreement with Charlie⦠a decision which leads her to try and drown her sorrows just minutes later
Itās understandable that Vaggi is codependant on Charlie, when she came right out of a military environment that betrayed her, & immediately imprinted on the woman who saved her. Of course sheād want to serve Charlie, and is most of the time completely smitten with whatever Charlieās plan is
losing Charlie is Vaggiās biggest fear. Itās why she was afraid to tell her she was an exorcist. Itās why sheās never combative and tries to gently let her girlfriend down, until the stress of the Charlieās poorly-thought out PR for the Hotel and Voxās rally pushes her to the breaking pointā¦
and likewise for Charlie, when Vaggi is someone whoās been unwaveringly at her side for over 3.5 years and never really pushed back on most of her ideas until now, the shock of her girlfriend blaming her for something she sees as the fault of Vaggi and her dad going behind her back hurts
their argument in āSilencedā and āScream Rainā, the culmination of Charlieās character arc of crumbling under the pressure for the past few episodes, activates both of their abandonment fears.
Carmilla might not have the time for āthis lesbian dramaā, but we should. Itās not just a petty split. It is a somewhat codependent relationship being challenged by miscommunication, but on the strength of Charlie & Vaggiās love for each other, they make it out the other side just as close
So, a bit like Stolitz, Chaggie is a relationship founded on a miscommunication (albeit a smaller one, Vaggi keeping her identity a secret) and informed by both charactersā respective traumas & mental health (Charlieās abandonment & low self esteem; Vaggiās military trauma & low self-worth).
But they know they love each other right from the start. And even if thereās still more bumps on the road ahead ā addressing that Vaggi still is a people-pleaser for Charlie & that sheās still in the process of forging her own independent identity; maybe challenging who they are without each otherā¦
because Charlie and Vaggi love each other more than anything. they are secure in that fact and have been all along
and, like Vaggi sang: anyone who finds love in Hell can do anything šš
I know we make jokes about the proverbial asexual pervert who has written hundreds of thousands of words of smut on ao3, but also shoutout to the aces who arenāt perverts. to the aces who skip the sex scenes and wince at sex jokes and awkwardly leave the conversation when your friends start talking about sex. your boundaries arenāt childish and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
PLEASE remember to include trans men and mascs and intersex men in your fight for reproductive rights. And breast health education. And free period products. We are so easily erased from these conversations. Insurance deny claims and clinics refuse to see us because of an M marker. Don't forget about us!
You know, that might be an interesting contrast to see: what Vox looked like while trying to free Alastor (malnourished and probably a bit maniac) vs modern day A/V Vox (well-fed and much more relaxed)