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i feel like the only reason Olruggio isn’t more obviously a disaster (takes terrible care of himself) to me is his proximity to Qifrey, the biggest disaster (psychologically) to walk the earth

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touchy Chase is so important to me lmao… the hug when they all thought House was dying, the shoulder slap when House came back after getting shot with House staring at him for it after like he’s an alien

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i need to revisit the flashback scene where Alastor rejects Vox bc, while i'm not necessarily invested in Alastor returning Vox's feelings or not, i feel like there's more going on there than a straightforward "rejection bc ur weaky-weak (and our views don't agree)"

bc from what i remember, the way Alastor acted was almost like a boundary was crossed, or like Vox betrayed him somehow

like, he seemed fine chilling arnd drinking w/him before that convo where Vox explicitly asks him to "team up" w/him, so what changed...

somebody also pointed out that during the rejection Alastor is doing the hair-pulling thing which he usu only does when he's upset/stressed, so despite the mocking comments the convo might've actually been upsetting to him

someone also unpacked human Alastor's past as a mixed guy during segregation in the US; i assume he started depending only on himself as a human bc of that and carried that mentality after he died ("there are no friends in hell" etc), and usually when we see him cooperating with anyone it's very transactional, in the context of a deal, etc

anyway i wonder if he thought Vox was the same as him and had the same view (the line abt Vox being as powerful as him being abt being powerful /in the same way/) so they could be peers/equals

but then Vox revealed that to not actually be true and ruined everything by asking Alastor to do sth and to trust in a way that he can't/doesn't want to do when things were just fine before, showing that he's just like everyone else and prompting Alastor to sever the connection... idk

bc, even tho we know Alastor just enjoys fucking with ppl for the hell of it and Vox was obviously positioned as probably the sinner who would become the most powerful and therefore could break Alastor's deal w/Rosie, i'm also a bit like, why did it have to be Vox specifically. maybe Alastor also wanted to make him suffer for what happened between them in the past 🤷

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i’m back again thinking abt the differences between Alastor and Vox

they both want power, but their reasons are very different, as are their relationships to others around them who do/don’t have power

afaict, as a human, Alastor starts killing in response to being subjugated by someone else (for that first kill anyway, idk about the rest). when he summons Rosie and asks her to make him the strongest demon in hell, he literally says it’s so that he won’t be weak, so ppl will leave him alone and he’ll be able to continue with his “fun”. it doesn’t sound like he necessarily wants /power over others/ — he just wants power so people won’t mess with him. bc he’s seen from experience on Earth that if you’re lower down the food chain, people will mess with you and it sucks.

there’s also the couple of times we see him dealing w/people weaker than him. ppl commenting on his S1 recap song on YouTube have pointed out that he could have been more mocking towards Angel’s situation, but instead he just calls Angel a “tragic victim of circumstance”. and then there’s the prequel comic where the butcher starts bullying/abusing the lamb, so Alastor goes back into the shop and rips the butcher apart saying he doesn’t like it when ppl behave like that. (idk what status the prequel comics occupy, if they were officially pulled offline maybe they’re no longer considered canon, but i’m also like, if this wasn’t important why would the creators show it in a comic to begin with lol.) there’s also the factoid in the fan wiki where the creator mentions if any serial killer inspired Alastor it would be Dexter, who killed using a specific code, which dictated he only kill Bad People. i’m defo not arguing that Alastor is some sort of crusader who only kills baddies to save others, bc he clearly doesn’t — he kills at random w/o knowing what ppl’s deals are, he kills bc he enjoys it (talking abt ppl’s screams on his broadcast etc), he clearly doesn’t care enough abt Angel’s situation to actually do anything to help. it’s more that i don’t think he goes out of his way to pick on weaker folk bc it’s easier — in fact it’s prob more that’s exactly why he /doesn’t/ do it, it’s too easy and therefore boring. and maybe he has a bit of empathy for these ppl bc he faced similar shit when he was alive.

Alastor and ppl /more/ powerful than him, on the other hand: the most significant group of demons he went after in hell were the other Overlords. the person he opts to fuck with for fun at the hotel? the literal king of hell. when he (supposedly) perceives Vox as weak he laughs at him and blows him off, when Vox is at his strongest he’s suddenly all up in his business excited to fight him. (imo there was no other reason for that fight except that and perhaps pride, Alastor could’ve easily fucked off with his freedom and not bothered confronting Vox at all.) there’s also how, during the S1 finale fight, he fought the most powerful angel in the army: Adam (altho one could argue he only did this as part of the hotel’s wider defense plan.)

/however/, he doesn’t seem to fight these ppl to a greater end. he doesn’t need/want anything from them. he’s already the most powerful sinner in hell, what does he have to gain from defeating other Overlords? i genuinely think he’s just here for a laff and does all that bc he finds it fun.

/on the other hand/, we have Vox. from what we can see of his life as a human, said life seems fine. he doesn’t have the most glamorous job ever, but he seems comfortable. importantly, none of the ppl he kills are directly doing anything negative to him. they’re just out there living their lives, but they occupy positions higher than Vox/that he wants, so he offs them. he kills out of ambition, bc he wants power, attention, for ppl to follow him, and to be “higher” than others. then ofc when he gets to hell he builds his whole media empire, and seems to control a lot of aspects of hell and its inhabitants’ lives even before the events of S2.

anyway, this brings me to the rejection conversation yet again: Vox’s proposition is that Alastor rule hell alongside him, as his partner. as i just went over, Alastor has never shown any desire to rule over anyone, lol. he just doesn’t doesn’t want ppl to rule over /him/. i might go as far to argue that in that moment Vox might’ve reminded him of some of the ppl he killed. i really think Vox just gave him the ick with that aspect of the proposition lol

i also think it’s telling that Vox was a white man as a human and Alastor was mixed, lmao. Vox really makes me think of those studies that have been conducted where if you put white men in a room with women or other minorities and the latter talk 50% and it’s actually equal, the white dudes will perceive it as the after group talking /more/ than 50% and therefore unfair to them, lol. i rly think Vox prob thinks of himself as a victim bc he didn’t get the things he “deserved” (ascending to the top of the TV network as a human, ruling heaven and hell as a demon), when ofc whether he really deserves those things or not remains to be seen

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i'm gonna lose it a bit when we finally see Easthies animated

Oluriggio is my fave overall, but "main character fave" and "minor character fave" can hit very differently, possibly bc you see the latter more rarely so go more insane when you do get to see them lmfao

also Easthies is That Type where he's just… so high strung. i need to throw him into the torment nexus

we don't need to throw Olruggio into the torment nexus bc he's so good at tormenting himself already :)

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something something orufrey fucky plant horror

like maybe Qifrey starts to get tree’d again while making out/doing spicie things with Olly, and they’re so close the tree starts winding around/incorporating/invading Olly’s body too…

(there has to be a way for him to survive this lol)

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my thoughts about Azul/Rielle are

maybe it’s just that Rielle seems like a sweet enough person from the little we’ve seen of him in canon, plus he’s in RSA the good boy school, but i find it hard to picture him as an outright bully of Azul. maybe that’s just wishful thinking tho

but, i can see him being complicit in the sense of not bothering to try and help, and/or laughing along in that way ppl can do where they’re just blindly joining in with whatever everyone else is doing without taking the time to recognize why it’s hurtful

i also feel like, similar to how Neige never did anything directly to Vil, he was just a pain for always getting the roles Vil wanted and making Vil feel compared to him, plus taking the fairest one of all crown, Rielle’s existence would be annoying enough to Azul alone simply bc of him seeming like this beloved perfect prince when Azul’s experience was not like that at all

however! while we dunno much abt canon Rielle yet i don’t think, if i assume his personality will be derived somewhat from Ariel in The Little Mermaid… him and Azul are actually kind of similar

if anyone remembers in the film Ariel was the youngest and picked on by her sisters a lot, everyone thought she was weird for going off collecting trinkets and checking out the surface instead of doing more princess stuff, she didn’t seem like she felt like she fit in

and while it’s not the same as literally being ostracized from merfolk society and feared like the sea witch, it’s not like she was 100% accepted either

plus she was obsessed with going on land

i think canon Rielle said sth abt rly wanting to be on land too

Azul also chose to go on land

iirc not many ppl from the Coral Sea do this, so they have this land fascination in common, albeit for slightly different reasons perhaps

however, i can also see Azul being like… you could have just been a normal princess and you chose to be a weirdo whereas i was forced into this and tried to make myself into something that would be more loved :’)

but yeah perhaps Rielle is interested in Azul bc of this now that they’re older

i also just like Rielle having the biggest crush on Azul. i have no good reason for this, i just think Azul is hot and people should crush on him lol

i was thrilled at the clip i saw where Rielle was like omg i wanted to keep in touch, you’re so handsome and distinguished, like hello

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i kinda love that Hiehart is low-key obsessed with Olruggio and he deeply impacted Utowain altho he prob doesn’t even remember him. everyone wants you Olly,