' Problems & Princes

☆ artist & (very rarely) writer ☆ they/them ☆ Ladi or Prince ☆ my hazbin oc blog☆ all art/banners/etc is mine unless stated otherwise ☆ sometimes hazbin critical

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★ Call me Ladi or Prince! ★ They/Them ★ Lebanese/Palestinian ★

This is my hazbin hotel side blog, and I mainly post about my aus and ocs! I don’t like vivziepop as a creator, and I’m aware of the shows MANY flaws, so this blog gets critical at times.

My ask box is open at all times! I also don’t mind doing art requests, just don’t expect me to answer very quickly or at all.

★ What’s This Blog Even About? ★

A very unstructured rundown of my main au lore/headcannons. Canon was killed in the shed lol. One day I’ll write a fic or a more organized explanation, but for now this is all you get.

The characters that are featured most often on my blog are Adam, Lute, Sera, and my main (and fav) oc Azrael. However I have several other archangel/prince ocs.

I like QPRs over romantic relationships, so whenever I post about Guitarspear (Adam x Lute) or Deathmetal (Adam x Azrael) or Adam x Lute x Azrael, or anything else, assume I mean QPR unless stated otherwise.

★ Tag Navigation ★

This may change/be updated in the future. This isn’t all my tags, just the most important ones.

#ladi’s art ☆ An overall tag for my art.

#ladi answers ☆ The answers to any asks I receive

#problems and princes au ☆ A tag that encompasses my main verse, basically. h/c, ocs, lore, and non critical character redesigns! Anything that isn’t a 1:1 to canon, which is everything

#Making Purgatory au ☆ A critical hazbin redesign au. I have another, older, redesign au, but I’ve gotten better at art and no longer stand by that au soooo.

#hazbin swap au ☆ An au where Alastor is the one to found the hotel, and Charlie is the mysterious benefactor. Originally made for Charlastor week, but if I make any further content for this au assume it’s not a ship unless tagged otherwise.

#hazbin critical ☆ What it says on the tin, all my hazbin critical thoughts and content. Including my hazbin redesign au, and the older one.

#art for my mutuals ☆ Art for my amazing, wonderful, talented, stunning, (insert a million different compliments) mutuals!

★ Other Blogs ★

@la-di-da-la-di-dee-die ☆ My main blog, featuring my ORIGINAL ORIGINAL characters, and sometimes fanart for other fandoms.

@ladi-s-reblog-extravaganza ☆ As the name suggests, a reblog account. When I reblog anything, it ends up here.

@the-thing-that-watches ☆ An old creepypasta blog. I don’t use it much anymore and probably won’t post stuff here.

★ Other Links ★

Artfight(~La-di-da) ☆ I love doing artfight, and try to participate every year! You can find my hazbin ocs here too.

AO3 (Blue_Cupcake23) ☆ I’m aware that the account name doesn’t match my others, sue me. Anyways, I write way less than I do draw but for the sake of completeness here it is! And I hope to maybe publish fic about my ocs.

Very quickly:

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE, THE LGBTQ ROCKS, SUPPORT MINORITIES AND POC, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, DON’T HATE PEOPLE BASED OFF RELIGION, etc etc.

I do not stand bigoted people or actions, and any bigotry will not be entertained, I will simply immediately block anyone who is bigoted. This is also my policy for hate: blocked!

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I’m not dead! And Happy Pride!

I’m too busy making artfight refs to be doing anything else, buuuuttt if I finish early I might make a proper hazbin pride drawing (with my babies Sera and Emily and Azrael this time too, of course)

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Something made for @mommy-micheal their Gabriel as the painting ‘The Fallen Angel’

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i sincerely apologise if i’m overstepping since i don’t know you personally, but i saw this post if yours (https://www.tumblr.com/princes-and-problems/800119367252803584/hazbin-hotel-is-not-a-show-about-redemption-its) (sorry if the link doesn’t work) and wanted to give you a recommendation

multiverse tales is a story centering around the idea of redemption in several different ways, i personally see it as the main theme of the series. it’s made by Popcross Studios on youtube and you can watch it for completely free.

it does have a lot of spiritual stuff and messaging in the series as well, but it’s not the most prevalent thing and can be mostly ignored as sci-fi stuff if you want.

it has an incredibly diverse range of characters and centres around their conflicts with mostly demons (trying to keep it vauge to avoid spoilers)

it’s quite a long series, but i highly recommend it if you value serious discussions/depictions of redemption in media

Oooooo interesting!! I'll definitely check it out when I'm free :) thanks for the rec!

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Death

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More of @marcomie12 ‘s designs!! A chibi Adam, this time.

Also @mommy-micheal, I hope he is to your liking :)

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happy new year! Low effort extra:

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@marcomie12 ‘s Lilith is so beautiful, I’m going to marry her. I don’t CARE if she’s wearing a wedding ring, Lucifer can budge over. Also drawing a little chibi Adam I’m going to post later.

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Azrael wears a veil when in Heaven, because they’ve found that winners, and even other heaven-born angels, finds the whole half-skull thing scary. Adam just enjoys messing with people. Also I actually remembered to draw Az’s halo, it takes the shape of a soul :)

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Merry Christmas, and to those who don’t celebrate I hope you have a good day regardless :)

(Left to Right: Emily, St. Peter, Abel, Sera, Adam, Lute)

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A little Sera and Emily thing. (Also first peek of an Emily redesign!)

They aren’t technically blood related, but they are family nonetheless. Emily, at least in my redesign/au, isn’t a seraph! Instead, she’s a virtue, which deal with nature-esque stuff. Emily in particular is in charge of clouds patterns and the occasional rain or rainbow.

while she likes her job, she also enjoys bothering Sera.

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it’s been WEEKS since I’ve drawn anything, so shout out to @mommy-micheal ‘s Azrael design for (hopefully) breaking me out of artblock.

Bonus crossover doodle of my Azrael featuring that one meme:

(og meme under the cut)

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The horsemen true form designs :) Human forms coming soon! Just need to color them. Also Death/Az isn't done yet, because I'm not sure if I want to redesign them or if I want to keep their true form the same...

Before I go on about the design, some quick lore stuff! After Eve ate the apple, and therefore banished to the earth with Adam, they were forced to endure the curses of mortality: hunger, sickness, and malcontent. From each curse came something else, sentient and perhaps a little evil. Born from the apple and carried through humanity was Famine, Pestilence, and War. The three were not like the angels, they had no holy grace. Likewise, they were not the demons of hell, too different from them.

They technically are not the causes of their namesakes, instead they're like a meter of how bad it is in the world. The more hunger, illness, and war, the more powerful they are. Sure they indulge in these things, but they aren't the root cause. Humanity is.

Anywho, design notes:

All of them are colored using the color they're related to in the bible (White for Pestilence, Black for Famine, Red for War) with secondary yellow parts to link them together. On both (human) hands, they have yellow stars, as well as one on the center of their foreheads.

Pestilence is an amalgamation of several different animals, chicken, human, mammalian, lizard, rat etc. All of these parts show some form of illness. The middle part of the stomach, which is mammalian based, has mange. The rat tail has ticks. The chicken legs/neck and lizard back-legs I haven't decided yet. The wings, mosquito wings, are too small to fly. I may change the decide to add the blood sacs mosquitos have somewhere, but maybe later. There are giant germs that soround them, as well as giant buboes on their face. They are by far the most 'social' of the horsmen.

Famine is completely malnutritioned. Their hair is patchy and thin due to starvation and I wanted them to look completely uncanny. They cannot really open the mouth on their face properly, due to their jaw being completely deteriorated in this form. Instead they have two giant gashes/mouths on their neck and stomach instead. The one on their mid-section is spilling their stomach out, because the image of them carrying their own stomach looks bad ass as hell. Their bottom half is that of an olm, which can survive decades without food!

War is the shadow creature, and they only use the puppet to interact with the world. The puppet wears an American army uniform. I wanted the puppet to have obvious stitches, and I felt actually so smart when I came up with the blindfold. Y'know, the idea of blindly following orders is a staple of War. I'd like to think they aren't just representative of war, but violent arguement in general.

Height chart:

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Ok, so my mutual @mommy-micheal was asking why Azrael had star hair! the short irl answer is, I thought it looked cool. The short story reason is, it's Cain's influence.

Cain, post murder, was banished from his family both out of fear for the family's safety and because Cain had a guilty concious. As I've mentioned before, Azrael joined him (Also because they were becoming isolated from heaven + guilty concious damn these two have matching problems-)

Anyways. During their travels, Cain rubbed off on Azrael a lot. Most of their fashion choices come from him, and this includes the star hair! (technically, partially). Originally Azrael's hair was just pure void, seeing as they were only half-finished during the process of creation (which is a whole nother thing-) and their role wasn't quite death, but instead as an exectutioner for disobedient angels. They were the End. Nothing more, nothing else. So. Void hair.

But, during their travels with Cain, they ended up having mutliple crisises, and ended falling in love with the night sky. Technically, nothing about stars were alive in the same way plants or animals were, and yet they were just as beautiful as anything living with soul. Cain would use them to navigate at night, and ended up making stories about them to remember which stars were which. Azrael adored this.

One night, they wished they could keep a part of the night sky with them no matter what, the next thing they knew they woke up and their hair had stars in it. In all likelihood, it was a subconcious shape-shifting. Azrael chooses to believe it was a gift. From God? From the night sky itself? Who knows. A gift nonethless.

Cain was not impressed.

A visual representation:

(The stars in Azrael's hair would change to reflect the sky, but after Cain's death they stayed frozen.)

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An Azrael thing

A profile pic for the rp account I'm planning to make for them... I PROMISE I'LL FIGURE OUT THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES SOON.

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The besties! Of all time!!

Note: I've decided that the only characters who get to have red (outside of highlights) in their color scheme are hotel workers. So, only Charlie, Valery, Husk, and Nifty.

So, first off, in my little redesign, sinners cannot own other sinners' souls. Only hellborn can do this. Why? Because in a show about redemption, there sure are a lot of characters who are forced to be bad via soul-owning instead of making their own bad decisions that they later confront and grow from.

(Also, people can be coerced into doing things in ways that aren't literally selling their own soul away? Hello?)

Enought critical stuf!! Design Notes!!!

Cherri's metal of choice is bronze, specifically bronze that is halfway/entirely rusted. Angel's is gold! Like I said, I wanted to limit the amount of red, or colors close to red even, so Angel gets to be more magenta and Cherri is green(ish). I based Angel off the drag of his time, but I did make the dress shorter than it would've been otherwise. I actually like the drag dress from the show, so I've co-opted it! The floofy scarf thing (Can't remember what they're called rn) was actually made by angel from his own webbing! It is very soft, but also strong as hell.

I tried to focus on trying to make Cherri identifiably Punk instead of some nebulous alt style she has in the show. If someone has anything to say on that, please share! I basically just looked up references on google, so anyone with more in depth knowledge would be appreciated :) Especially on the Aussie punk scene. Also the tatoos may be inconsistent later but SHHHHHH

I like to think they both have vision problems because the too much/little number of eyes they have.

I haven't really thought out their places in the plot insofar, but I know that 1) Angel will be a member of the hotel for much the same og reasons (Free room) and 2) Cherri eventually will also join the hotel (but not directly because of Pentious' death)

(Charlie & Vaggie) (Husk & Niffty)

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TW THIS POST BLUNTLY TALKS ABOUT RAPE, SA, AND ABUSE. I DO NOT TALK AROUND THESE TOPICS, AND THE WORDS ARE EMOTIONALLY LOADED AT TIMES. TAKE CARE AND BE CAREFUL.

I don't like the double standard the Hazbin fandom has about the Vs. I am not trying to say people cannot enjoy villain characters, I am not saying that its a bad thing that the Vs are despicable people. I just think some people don't realize that Velvet and Vox are just as bad as Valentino. At the very least, they actively allow and enable Valentino's behaviour. They give Valentino the saftey and security to rape and abuse his workers. They make sure that system is in place, so that he never faces consequences for his actions.

More realistically, they do more than this. Velvet sells date rape potions. She profits off rape. She abuses her workers. She most likely creates the same hostile work environment that Valentino does. If she is meant to be even somewhat representitive of the modeling industry, as well as toxic influencers, she probably enforces unrealistic beauty expectations. The sort of manager to give their workers EDs.

Vox is somehow more babied than Velvet, and yet we are given more textual evidence of what a shitty person he is. He exploits people. He actively dates a rapist, and supports him in full. He uses a victims of rape (Angel Dust) and strips away even more of his autonomy via mind control. We see a scene where Vox takes advantage of Angel after an he is implied to have been raped by Valentino. He abuses Angel, and most likely his other workers. These crimes aren't excused as much as the next few, so I've decided they deserve their own rant:

(So, this will include criticisms of Radiostatic/Radiosilence. I am a firm believer in both 'ship and let ship' as well as using the block button to curate your dash. I don't really care about who ships what, however reading this post back I've realized that these next few paragraphs are very, very critically blunt of the people who overlook textual evidence of sexual assault and even make comments that fall into victim-blamey territory. I do enjoy the ship to a degree, even if these paragraphs are very hostile. Still, be warned.)

Vox (and Valentino) sexually assaults Alastor. He has sex with Valentino while Alastor is in the room. This. This is fucking horrendous. And I have seen so many people in the fandom excuse it as 'shipping material' and not really realizing that this is straight up sexual assault. No ifs. No buts. Alastor at the current moment is helpless, seeing as he made a deal to be Vox's captive in all forms. He cannot fight back. This is an inherent power dynamic that needs to kept in mind. Alastor is also a touch-repulsed, most likely sex-repusled, asexual.

Hell, in the finale we get a whole ass monologue how much he hates how touchy Vox is. How Vox constantly touches him, and how so very unwelcome it is. This is harrassment, sexual in nature, especially when Alastor cannot fight back. This was a simeltanuesly validating scene, as well as striking a cord that's personal to me with how real the sentiment of disgust was. This isn't someone who 'secretly enjoys it'. This is someone who was ready to kill his sexual assaulter (and former fucking friend, because no matter what Al says he does seem to have a companiable relationship with Vox at some point) because he constantly harassed and violated him during captivity,

In the same scene where Vox & Valentino are implied to have had sex infront of Alastor, Vox electricutes Alastor during their duet. This is torture. Straight up, this is fucking torture. I've seen some people throw out that 'Alastor is a masochist and actually enjoys this scene' and. Thats not how masochism works. Thats not how BDSM works. THATS NOT HOW CONSENT WORKS. Someone enjoying Masochism does not mean they enjoy being hurt all the time, just as you can enjoy sex with some people but you obviously won't be down to do it with everyone all the time!

And if this is a sexually charged scene? Not just torture, not saying torture isn't bad but if there is more to it, If Vox is deriving sexual pleasure from this? Then it is sexual assault, rape, whatever you want to call it. Because Alastor is Vox's captive. He has not consented and, is in fact, seemingly entirely repellant of Vox! Oh yes, they once had a friendship 70 years ago, but in modern times all Alastor has shown is disgust, hate, and how much he despises how much Vox touches him. A man who was kept captive, and when freed immeaditly goes on a monologue about how much his captor would not stop touching him.

And the people saying that Alastor deserves it? Because he rejected Vox 70 years ago and Vox couldn't let it go? Are you hearing yourself? Alastor was cruel. Alastor is a bad person. That does not mean he deserves to be sexually assaulted. Vox is a cult leader. Vox killed people. Vox isn't a fucking middle schooler. The big bad cult leader had his feelings hurt and went on to sexually assault and harass and violate the person he was rejected by. Boohoo.

TLDR all the Vs enable rape/have raped people/sexually assaulted people, abused people, and held up an oppressive work place because they are all evil pricks! None of them are better than the other, so I'd like the fandom to stop acting like Velvet and Vox are better than Valentino morally.