TW for mentions of vomit and me complaining over non-canon character designs
There are these very specific very popular fan designs for the angels in Hazbin Hotel that I just dread seeing.
Genuinely it's so bad I have thrown up like three times just seeing them.
First example. Why the FUCK are they all shaped like that. I know it's the show's artstyle and whatnot but why is Michael, MICHAEL, Mr. Demon Slayer Dragon Killer Warfare and Justice Archangel a TWINK??? THAT'S NOT MY BOY FUCK NO
Same issue with Azrael because that's meant to be the personification of DEATH itself, not whateverthefuck that is. Like okay I'm fucking sorry?? Why does he look like that
At least this one by this person looks a bit better but it still makes me want to throw up. Like no hate to the artists at all I love their work but those designs make me genuinely sick to my stomach I'm not even joking I've had to get hospitalised over how bad it got once and right now I'm feeling like I'm going to vomit again.
This. Michael looks exactly like Lucifer which pisses me off but, okay, sure, I can take it. I like many Michaels that have at some point fallen and become Lucifer, I do not actually care enough about that. Nor do I care about them making Gabriel a woman if that's what you think the problem is because I've seen some genuinely gorgeous portrayals of the angels as fem and I love them seriously. Angels don't have gender, they're genderless, we can portray them in any way we want so long as it's not sexualising (Which Hazbin itself already fucks up) or demeaning (Another thing it fucks up).
My problem is that three out of seven are kids or at least look like kids. I think we see how this could be a problem considering the type of show these designs are fanmade of, right?
Hazbin Hotel is very much not a kid friendly show, there's a reason not many children are showed to be there and especially not as the main focus or main characters of it. It makes a lot of sexual jokes about its own characters (Ahem, using Sir Pentious' SA scene as a joke), and it's just overall not a friendly space for minors. And you may say, "Oh, but Robin, they're not actually kids, they've actually been around since the creation of the world!" or, "Oh, but Robin, they're not canon, why are you so pressed about it?" So I'm going to reply to both.
"They're not actually kids!": this claim is just invalid. Sure, they could not be kids, but they look like kids. It's the same problem other popular pieces of media have that they think that just because they slapped a couple dozen zeroes to the age of a character that appears to be a minor it's okay. The thought is still there. A person who doesn't know the media that character comes from could think they're a kid. This is especially a problem when you think about why pedophiles come into the internet in the first place. This also comes with another problem that people say "they're just pixels bro" which I'll get to in a second.
"They're not canon!": No, but they're widely popular. Like the amount of fanart I've seen for these designs is insane. And it's cool idrgaf, my problem is that since they're very popular, they're much easier to find for creeps who look to shield themselves behind the "they're not real" argument.
"They're just pixels!": The. Idea. Is. Still. There. You may not want to see it but that's visibly a child, with the mind of a child, the maturity of a CHILD. We see how this could be an issue? They may not exist, yeah, but the idea is still there. Now this wouldn't be an issue if the media they were fanmade for was any SFW media (or at least not that big of an issue) but we have to remind ourselves that they're made as fan designs for Hazbin Hotel. Hazbin is not a child friendly show. Hazbin should not have children on the spotlight. They sexualise their characters all the time, even Emily who is relatively young looking and slightly immature gets that treatment. I'm not bothering with the "She's an angel!" argument either because I play What in "Hell" is bad? Sexualisation of angels is a whole nother problem that isn't mine to discuss. If anyone wants to, go ahead and do so, but I'm not going to be a hypocrite and complain about it while I play a literal porn game about biblical beings.
THE POINT IS. Child or child-like designs shouldn't be used in media like Hazbin, at least not constantly enough for it to be a main design. We've seen little Charlie, yeah, that's not a problem, because it's not her main design. For three out of the seven angel designs we got there, they look like kids. They don't have any other design so we can assume those are the main ones. Even in WHB we've seen the little seraphim and little devils.
Wtv I've stretched this out for too long.
Tldr; I hate these designs, they literally make me sick, and some too woke ramble that I wrote on my phone at like 5AM to 6:30AM while I was meant to be dead asleep.
Thank you for reading if you did, idk what I was on while writing this but I feel I missed some points I may get to some other time after I remember lol idk I may be too woke for this or smth
Anyways look at the commission I made my cousin a while back of my own Azrael design for my own story in my mind I love it mwah plz go follow them their art is so cool left the uhh watermark there so y'all can go look at their acc lol have funzies