vox using an outdated phrase (pivot to video) vs alastor using modern phrases (he’s pissy, that’s the tea) in Stayed Gone means so much to me
(“pivot to video” isn’t a very old phrase—it’s only been out of use for like a decade—but while it hasn’t been all that long, by definition, it’s def outdated, especially in the tech world.)
it shows really well how the two are mirrors of each other in that they aren’t identical and they aren’t opposites, but they are connected to each other. There are a ton of parallels (character designs, old vs new, “video killed the radio star,” though it is almost switched in this case, etc.) which make it like super fucking obvious that they know each other very well.
also the fact that every other time we have seen alastor mocking others, he does it in a very disconnected and uncaring way, but with vox he is clearly trying to rile him up and is almost childishly arguing with him. There was no attempt to actually ‘win’ the argument, he was just trying to piss him off. He didn’t abandon his typical traits obviously, but he and vox’s public argument thing def felt more like petty bickering between two people who are very close but are also on weird terms and no one is really sure exactly where they stand with each other (not even them lmao)
