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Where I post and reblog whatever, whenever. There is no set theme on this blog. Queue tag: For my hoard (I am over 21)

[theblackdragon-studios]

COMMISSIONS: OPEN

My commissions are official opened! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to DM me for more details.

More art examples can be found under #blackdragon art

Customer Queue:

1.) TheHolyNiblet on DA

2.) @hamyb-dragon

I take weekends and holidays off of commission work.

[pinecone-jam]

I finished Legends Arceus recently but I have not finished sketching stupid things

(Yes I managed to misspell a five-letter word. I would love to use “english is not my first language” excuse but sometimes I make even more stupid mistakes when I write in my native language. So I think I’m just not that good at using human languages in general)

Playing Legends for the first time years after it was released I of course knew about Volo and his cute little mischiefs. I still ended up in this situation due to my brilliant idea of creating a perfectly round team and a bunch of other bad decisions. Believe me or not this didn’t end well.

While I was prepared for Volo I certainly was not prepared for Kamado and his unique ways of making decisions and solving problems. I was not prepared for the whole exile situation or the last cutscene where this amazing man just gracefully plopped all his responsibilities on Cyllene’s shoulders. The woman is two piplup tall and probably one mishap away from murdering someone, give her a break.

I’m a little sad now because it’s time to say goodbye to my morning routine of sketching whatever questionable ideas visited my head while playing.

But if you woke up today thinking “wish there was a children’s book illustrator somewhere on the other end of the world with half an hour to spare so I can ask them to sketch my favorite PLA character or pokemon” then hi hello i’m here welcome to my ask box. Apart from PLA i still have some residual knowledge of gen 2, 4, 6 and 8 (I’m also allergic to odd numbers apparently)

[theblackdragon-studios]

Okamitale continues!

Tomorrow at 9:30 AM (MT) marks the return of the Undertale comic project: Okamitale! A story of one not-dog, not-wolf…but also not Monster-thing that goes by Shardie, and her reluctant companion; A smol-ified W. D. Gaster on a journey to Hotland where his lab is located to reverse a soul link he accidentally created in a desperate move to escape nonexistence.

Where we left off, the duo had traversed the Ruins and defeated something Shardie called a demon. After slaying the thing, the human soul of patience emerged from the corpse and joined with Shardie, forming a black disk-shield with eight heart-shaped slots along its surface…hm…

Now Shardie and Smolster enter Snowdin and have just met Sans the Skeleton. With Shardie not being human, how will this encounter play out? Find out tomorrow at 9:30 AM MT on @okamitale-comic-corner!

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After a very long break…mainly due to autistic brain distractions taking my focus elsewhere, Okamitale has returned! I am determined to finish this project and I hope the story that plays out will be as enjoyable for you guys as it was for me to write.

[darkmedolie]

If you get a comment under your posts that says

Please dm me , there something with your account !

Or something of the sort

Do not dm them ! They are scam!!

Please don't fall for it.

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(Edit I may have been misinformed on the "stealing account", this seems to be more of a scam where they ask you money)

[darkmedolie]

If you get a comment under your posts that says

Please dm me , there something with your account !

Or something of the sort

Do not dm them ! They are scam!!

Some people got they account stolen because of this, do not fall for this please!

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[theblackdragon-studios]

How does just DMing the person let them steal your account? Don’t you have to click on a link or something first, or is that implied in the warning?

[okamitale-comic-corner]

I’m thinking of remaking Okamitale (chapter 1 and the pages so far of chapter 2) with Shardie not speaking at all. Not to Gaster, not to anyone.

Do you prefer her the way she is, or would you not mind if I made her a silent protagonist?

Should Shardie Speak?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 25

[theblackdragon-studios]

Commission: The Full and Dark Powers of Determination

Commission for TheHolyNiblet of his Undertale OC, Eli, in two modes he has which are explained below:

Message from the customer: "So I know at least a few of you are curious about these power-ups/forms that Eli uses here. Both his full determination mode (the one with the floating weapons) and his hate mode (the one with just the knife and demonic eyes) are at equal power. It's just the fighting style that's different, where full determination mode shows off his limitless magical power, where he focuses on protection and defeating the enemy.

In hate mode, he only uses a knife and has total killer instinct. He's unpredictable in that state. And as for his soul, in full DT mode, his soul turns completely red in that state instead of his default hybrid soul that usually shows up. In hate mode, he can produce his own hate in his soul. Not only that, but his magic is also affected by that black substance. And for the hair changes in both modes, that's just a cool cosmetic change." -Niblet

Thank you again for commissioning me! 💜

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[theblackdragon-studios]

Hazbin Hotel Ships Chart by kaishjx_cos

Filled out this shipping chart I found on Pinterest. I don’t care which ones are canon and which ones are extremely popular in the fandom. These are my takes as a person that doesn’t engage in much of the fan ship content beyond Guitarprincess and a few rarepairs that look fun.

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My deep-dive explanation as someone that doesn’t go off of fan content beyond some fanart and general vibes:

Charlastor/RadioBelle: I used to ship it when the Pilot was all we had to go on. It had a bunch of cute fanart pieces, and as one of those few that didn’t realize Charlie and Vaggie were supposed to be dating, I didn’t think much of it beyond ‘cute couple idea’ with a sprinkle of ‘he’s after the throne’ which may still be true in a sense. Now I’m neutral about it. I prefer RadioHalo (Alastor x Emily) which is just RadioBelle but one is an angel.

HuskerDust: I don’t know their keyword ship name. I like where this duo is going in the show, but I’m not completely sold on the romantic undertones yet. I definitely see they care deeply for each other now, and that’s really sweet…but it’ll take more time before I love this couple.

BombSnake(?): Sir Pentious x Cherri, I used to not like it because I liked Sir Pentious. Still do like him, but the unrequited love/unspoken crush direction leading to a new romance my s/i story went in was stronger. I still say I’m ‘meh’ about this couple (I hated their ‘love song’…it wasn’t romantic, and it wasn’t funny, which they were probably aiming for) but they have potential as a nice side couple.

SpiderMoth: I learned about this one only recently and I really like it. Not only because they were apparently going to be a couple in Zoophobia (the project before this) but also in the show itself. It was changed of course, but the way they were in the Pilot would have showed potential. Then the whole ‘moth’ thing around Vaggie. She was supposed to be a moth-inspired demon like Valentino…which would have been brilliant:

Val is the toxic, poisonous moth in Angel’s life, but Vaggie is the good, healing one that is a positive influence for him. This could have worked platonically as well, but then Husker took that role and it’s less of a poetic parallel that way…but their connection as slaves to Overlords is maybe better. They can relate so much better than Vaggie and Angel could. Still, I love the fanart of this ship, and it amuses me how much the people on Pinterest foam at the mouth in rage over it when it will never be canon anyway. So calm down. lol

ValVox: I don’t know their ship name…I’m neutral about this ship. It’s definitely toxic, and season 2 does a good job of showing that just because you’re both horrible people, doesn’t mean their romantic life is going to be any less horrible. But I don’t care that much.

Chaggie: Yeah, I hate this couple. The show tends to forget they’re a couple a lot of the time so they come across as best friends and even sisters, but never ‘in love’. I’ve gone over how much the writing failed on this one, but the biggest reason it sucks is that there’s no passion behind it.

They only did it so that the main relationship of the show would be a power lesbian couple. When that’s all you’re focused on, you write the couple around that goal and not in a way that makes them feel like they’re truly in love and wonderful. It sucks, not because it’s two women, but because the show doesn’t believe in the narrative it’s trying desperately to force us to believe in. They should have just been best friends, or the focus should have been less on lesbian representation and more on making this couple act natural.

Edit: After watching a couple videos about the failings of this ship, with scenes included for evidence which was a reminder of the most glaring issue, I have more:

Charlie is not good to Vaggie as a girlfriend. When you look at it in season 1, Vaggie was constantly comforting Charlie, reassuring Charlie, singing about protecting Charlie…and then when Vaggie was upset and asked to be left alone when she didn’t really want that, Charlie did.

She didn’t say “no, you aren’t doing okay. Let me help you” or anything like that. She then proceeds to ignore or be oblivious to Vaggie saying “I don’t want to go with you” when Charlie wanted Vaggie to come with her to Heaven.

Followed by when Vaggie’s (lackluster) plot twist was revealed to Charlie, only she was hurt by it. And carried that hurt through the episode until a stranger told her basically to ignore it and focus on what Vaggie’s done since they met. Then in season 2 Charlie ignores every warning Vaggie gives her about Vox, blows up at Vaggie for going behind her back (which Vaggie wasn’t entirely wrong for doing since Charlie wasn’t listening AGAIN) and the next episode was passive aggressive toward Vaggie all the way until that stupid flash of images about Vaggie’s past which I still think was added only to make the Exorcists look like a truly evil group because they don’t treat the soldiers like delicate flowers.

Only to give a rushed and quite frankly weak apology for her behavior, and Vaggie to just say ‘all is forgiven’ with a song that sounds really good, but listen to the lyrics and it is full of lies. Case in point: Charlie- “I appreciate all that, but we need our friends to come back! You’re my pillar, my heart’s fulfiller, but we’re facing a war and can’t get in touch with anyone anymore!” The bolded lines, absolute bullshit. If this was true, why the hell does Charlie never act like it?

She treats Vaggie the same as she does the other hotel gang members. There’s nothing romantic in their relationship, not even the “More Than Anything” reprise because it was stolen from a song sung by a father and his daughter. Turning it into a lazy love song, and one I didn’t believe for a second, didn’t make it romantic. I listened to it on repeat without visuals and all I thought was “I can easily see this being two sisters singing this about their family bond”. In fact I pictured Hellhound Meg singing it with Charlie because that’s how much it was not a love song.

For a couple the shippers claim have been together for three years at least, it doesn’t look good.

RadioApple: I should have put this in the hate category too, because I hate this one as well. There is no chemistry between these two, and it’s one of those “these two hate each other but look so hot…let’s make them kiss!” But I’m not super passionate about my dislike of them, so they’re just in the ‘dislike’ category.

RadioStatic: Don’t like either of them. Don’t care about their one-sided rivalry that people read as ‘they wanna bone’. Next.

RadioSpider: I just think this one’s funny. lol I don’t know much more about it than that, and it probably spawned from the flirty comments by Angel Dust that Alastor rejected. It’s HuskerDust basically, if the enslaved by Overlords bonding wasn’t included and all the focus was on how Alastor doesn’t give in to Angel’s sex jokes and comments.

Guitarspear: They are friends. Just friends. Lute is too much of a ‘yes man’ to be a good fit for someone as chaotic and headstrong as Adam. She would just go along with whatever he wanted and even encourage it if it’s violent and promotes fighting something (unless it gets them in trouble with Sera…which seems to only be the Extermination secret). She was way too dependent on him too, which isn’t a good relationship. It’s valuable as a second-in-command and a best buddy, but as a girlfriend? No. Absolutely not. It’s adding gasoline to a raging fire.

AngelVal or whatever: Do I have to explain? Fine. I get the appeal from dark shippers, those that like to see how they got to where they are or even have a toxic relationship somehow become healthy (it happens in fanfictions where the characters aren’t even canonically abusive) but it isn’t for me. It is FICTION though, for the people getting all angry at those that do write this ship. No idiot actually believes this relationship would ever be anything but toxic if it was real life, which is why they explore it. So keep your fucking torches and pitchforks down and remember that these are characters and NOT REAL PEOPLE.

StaticWitch: I found out about this one recently and it’s a fun idea. lol Velvette is definitely stronger than Valentino when it comes to standing up to Vox’s bullshit. They bicker like an old married couple too, which is funny. And they’re both villains of course, so while this relationship might be darker than any of the hotel ships, it still would be less toxic than ValVox. Either way I like it for the potential.

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And there you have it. Remember: just because fans ship something doesn’t mean it will happen in the show. Also remember just because something happens in fiction, doesn’t mean it will be accepted or replicated in real life. Don’t treat real people like they’re fictional, and fictional people like they’re real.

I’m not going to harass or shame any of you for disagreeing with my takes. I would appreciate if you did the same. Ship what you want, I’ll ship what I want, and if you don’t like my opinions just leave.

And as a last note for all of you from Vivienne Medrano herself:

[theblackdragon-studios]

I joined a meme trend. lol Did it with Guitarprincess because they have at least two kids in the marriage deal AU. The one in this picture is their son, who was born first.

Also they’re in the Sloth Ring. I think it makes the most sense both because Charlie is a demon and demon medical professionals would know better about demon pregnancy and birth, and they will have been visiting her friends at the Hotel when she went into labor. Because at this stage in the story, they’ll have had their happily ever after (with some lingering conflicts) and Heaven and Hell are no longer cut off from each other like in the show.

Original:

[theblackdragon-studios]

Would Hazbin Hotel be any different/Made Worse if Vaggie WASN’T an Angel/Exorcist?

Let’s find out. Starting with season 1.

Disclaimer/warning: If you are a die-hard, defend to the death, and unapologetic/I guess ‘simp’ kind of fan of Vaggie, then I would strongly advise you not to read this. But if you can handle criticism on one aspect of a character and not claim it’s racism, sexism, or homophobia-because this has nothing to do with her race, sex, or sexuality-simply because you’re upset at my analysis and opinion, then I hope you come away from this thoughtful rather than angry.

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Canon Events

Episode 1:

What did Vaggie do? Not much. She told Charlie not to keep her hopes up and that angels minds are hard to change in the first song of the episode, the first hint she is one, but easily interpreted as anything really. Then spent the rest of the episode trying to make Alastor help her make a commercial for the hotel. First being rude and aggressive, then compromising with him.

This could be her background as an Exorcist, and their prejudice against demon-kind. Except she’s been with Charlie for a year at least since she was exiled the day of an Extermination, which is an annual event, and the first episode starts right after an Extermination Day has ended. This goes for whether you follow the Pilot or “Overture” (episode 1), in both another Extermination has just occurred at the start of the episode. So by the time Alastor joins the hotel and Angel Dust was recruited in that time as well, Vaggie knows not all demons are bloodthirsty and purely evil monsters because she spent a year around them. Alastor, however, is infamous for being those things. So no, this isn’t angel experience bias. It’s common sense.

Episode 2:

Sir Pentious joins the hotel. What does Vaggie do here? She threatens him twice, but mostly is Charlie’s one supporter. Then at the end of the episode she doesn’t feel strongly one way or the other about Pentious staying once he’s had his ‘sorry’ song. No hinting at her background through any dialogue or things we haven’t seen before (the spear), no important moments.

Episode 3:

The show tries to give her more to do by having Charlie get Vaggie to do friendship exercises. Before this she scolded Pentious for ordering mass destruction weaponry, then punished him by taking away his Egg Bois for the episode. Vaggie did something good here, though, when she took over goodness lessons. She got the others to fight a gang and they were better for it because they fought together and gained trust for one another through combat. Also she had a duet with Carmilla about protecting loved ones…which isn’t that important here. Mostly it was more hinting at her being a warrior angel, but then we see her backstory both in seasons 1 and 2 and there is none of this “fighting brings you closer together” in the way they show her time in Heaven in that blink-and-you-miss-everything rapid fire flash of images (from season 2). Really it made it look like being toughened up by military training is bad even though they’re being trained to kill (but that’s not the point of this post.)

Episode 4:

This one focused on Angel Dust so Vaggie’s only part here was giving Charlie bad advice to use her authority as Princess of Hell to get Angel time off of work. So she forced the conflict, then tried to force Husker to go after Angel, but Charlie’s more gentle concerned approach is what got him to do it. Maybe she was going off of how it is in Heaven, with Adam using his authority to get things done, or Sera being a strong leader…but again, we don’t see any of that. Sera is Queen of Heaven, Charlie is just a princess. Queens have more authority than princesses, and Vaggie has no one to go off of that was a princess in Heaven. We also don’t see evidence Adam or Lute have authority outside of the army, which is different from a monarchy. So understanding hierarchy and power through it isn’t strictly an angel thing either.

Episode 5:

Lucifer appears. Not getting into it with him. But…Vaggie just follows Charlie around. Doesn’t do anything in this episode. Only moment she does is to give yet another hint she’s from Heaven. And show how oblivious Charlie is to her own girlfriend’s discomfort.

Episode 6:

The one where it’s revealed she was an Exorcist and the rushed, bullshit origin story that was only in here to make Adam and Lute look even less like real people with complex motivations and emotions than it does already, determined to say ‘oh Heaven isn’t bad! Just their military leadership!’ :/ disguised as giving Vaggie more character development, which would work if anyone but Charlie cared. Also to twist the plot into a pretzel to make sure the court meeting goes horribly. She’s blackmailed into trying to sabotage the court hearing by being unhelpful and awkward and Charlie being stupidly naive. Nothing about this reveal is important except the aforementioned “make Adam look like a subhuman monster” and give Charlie something to be upset about beyond her fuck-up in court.

Also why Charlie didn’t notice Vaggie bled gold when she saw her in that alleyway is mind-boggling. She knows what Sinner blood looks like. Why didn’t Vaggie not having red blood raise questions?

Episode 7:

No one gives a fuck that Vaggie was an Exorcist. Except for Charlie. Charlie is the only one that feels betrayed and hurt and all that, which tells us more about how little the rest of the cast cares about Vaggie and vice versa. Time restraint is not an excuse either. They had plenty of time in season 2 for this to be an important detail and it wasn’t there either.

Then Vaggie goes to Carmilla to learn how to kill angels so they can defend the hotel from the Exorcists. She then magically grows her wings back, which I think is a really cheap and dumb move. Takes away all the seriousness and ‘monster’ imagery they try to force onto Adam and Lute, and again do nothing relevant to the plot with it. No one acknowledges this miracle. She’s still missing her eye, sure, which IS a permanent scar…but the wings were the bigger (metaphorically) loss. And she gets them back just like that from being in a song about love? I get this show is being adult Disney, but come on…

Episode 8:

The battle. She fights Lute…then is happy Adam is killed. That’s all. No Lucifer being surprised Charlie’s girlfriend is an angel. No Lute being surprised Vaggie got her wings back. Nothing of substance happened here for Vaggie, and no one had any big reactions to anything she said or did. She fought, she won, she was happy Adam was dead.

In conclusion for this section: I don’t think Vaggie should have been an angel. The plot didn’t care enough for it to be interesting, the characters didn’t care beyond Charlie, and it added nothing of interest to Vaggie as a character. It was only used to make sure the audience hated the villains more than they’re supposed to already, but that required me to care that much about Vaggie in the first place, and the show didn’t succeed there either (it did in season 2, though…but not for the angel thing). Her being made an angel didn’t make me care because the story didn’t.

Here’s the worst part: They made Vaggie an angel simply because they couldn’t have two sex worker Sinners in the hotel group. Angel Dust was their abused porn star and prostitute, so they made Vaggie into a fallen angel. Then forgot to make it important to the plot in any way beyond Chaggie scenes.

“Well then,” you might ask, “what would you do differently? She was changed because of the sex worker thing, right? If she wasn’t an angel, what should she be instead?”

Simple. Make her a Sinner but charge the backstory. Which I did below.

Vaggie Rewritten to be a Sinner Again

(^ Concept art)

Backstory: Vaggie is of Latina origin, so what if she was a rebel or a gang member from a Latin-American country, but a Robin Hood kind of figure? A fighter for survival and to make her country a better place and to protect the citizens from the criminal gangs. This still follows the lore of the show: it doesn’t matter what your intentions were, you still sin by stealing and killing. Still shows the flawed system in Heaven because her wrath, theft, and murder are her downfall despite doing crime to help her people. So, with this Vaggie isn’t just a prostitute like Angel Dust anymore, She’s a dead rebel from a corrupt country that still went to Hell because her actions weren’t clean or good, regardless of intentions. Plus it isn’t stereotype writing either, because I don’t know about you, but I don’t read or watch many things with Latina women as gang members that aren’t bad guys, and it’ll be relevant to her character beyond “remember she’s Latina? Because she sometimes swears in Spanish, that’s how you know!”. :/

She has her ‘weapons out of nowhere’ power again too, which I enjoyed from the Pilot. But she has them because she was the blades expert in the rebellion. She could make a blade out of anything sharp enough. Still wouldn’t work on angels, but it would give her more reason to be familiar with Carmilla’s line of work too.

In this rough draft rewrite idea, she still crosses paths with Charlie in Hell, maybe after being left for dead by her new gang (Hell is still worse than Earth) when they fled from an Exorcist, and gets taken in, nursed back to health, and all that. When she learns Charlie’s dream, Vaggie is on-board. In life she was a fighter for justice, and now thanks to Charlie she will do it again…by protecting the hotel and helping Charlie where she can like canon, but still with her more realistic outlook on life that sheltered and naive Princess Charlie doesn’t have.

Sinner Vaggie Rewrite Episodes

Episode 1:

She still doesn’t think Charlie’s going to be very successful with the meeting with the angels, but her reasoning is evidence-based. Not personal bitterness. They seem merciless and unbending to her because she’s seen it with the Exterminations and what she heard about Charlie’s parents’ punishment.

Episode 2:

stays the same. She’s still the head of security.

Episode 3:

Due to her background, not much is different here either. She’s still going to force the others into a gang fight, and sees her method worked after all. Charlie also sees that not all combat is bad, and sometimes the best way to earn each other’s trust is in battle. Maybe this is her first argument with Vaggie, and Charlie learns something about humans this way. Instead of the writing forcing Vaggie to be insecure and down on herself for this episode only.

Episode 4:

Not much is different here either. Vaggie doesn’t like the idea of Charlie using her authority to get her way, but at the same time it worked on Earth. So she still gives Charlie that terrible advice.

Episode 5:

Again nothing changes. Except Vaggie is still reluctant to go, but because she’s afraid of just how horrible it is based on everything she’s heard. If she’s even allowed to come…she is a soul in this version. A human soul who is under Lucifer’s authority and can’t leave Pride. And judging by how Lucifer doesn’t think things entirely through when he does things for Charlie, he might forget that detail when making the meeting happen.

Episode 6:

Big change here. The biggest being the backstory is scrapped. She isn’t an angel, she isn’t an Exorcist. No need to include it. Maybe Adam could threaten to reveal to Charlie how far Vaggie was willing to go for her cause in life, though. Show that Vaggie’s just as brutal as the Exorcists. Or offer her a place in Heaven if she sabotages Charlie’s meeting, which would be a big test for Vaggie (also Adam could be thinking it’s an empty deal because no way he can let that fall through). It wouldn’t get her redeemed, though, because her sin isn’t greed. …but I dunno, just some ideas.

Either way this episode would have gone down the same way with or without Vaggie’s connection to the angels and her ‘attempts’ to do what Adam says or risk exposure. Adam would still do what Sera ordered and make sure the meeting fails (that’s how he interpreted her instructions, I would guess). All he has to do is say a few words, make his threat, and send them home. Because the blackmail thing? It didn’t do much. Charlie was shocked, yeah, but Adam still would have opened a portal to Hell and sent them back either way.

Or, if my theory Vaggie as a Sinner can’t leave the Pride Ring is true, she just isn’t there. Charlie still fails because Adam is pushier than her, and is sent home, defeated. Vaggie doesn’t need to be there at all.

Episode 7:

No unnecessary scene showing how much no one cares Vaggie is an angel and more about how every time Charlie talks to Heaven it gets worse. Instead, if Vaggie did go with Charlie to Heaven, she tries comforting Charlie and says they’ll find another way…but Charlie is inconsolable so gives up. Still giving Alastor the opportunity to go in and make his deal of asking for a favor (since it’s relevant to season 2’s finale…) Charlie learns how angels can be killed, asks Vaggie to talk to Carmilla, and we avoid the whole “I’m hurt she didn’t tell me she’s an angel :(“ crap. That was the only purpose for this Exorcist reveal being at all relevant this episode. There are so many other things Charlie and Vaggie can have fights over, like Charlie’s terrible skills at reading people when they’re upset or angry or uncomfortable (relatable, honestly…wouldn’t surprise me if she’s neurodivergent too) or Vaggie’s methods being in complete contrast to Charlie’s when it comes to handling conflict.

Episode 8:

The battle still happens. Vaggie could still distract Lute while Charlie fights Adam, but Vaggie knows what it’s like to fight like she can die and Lute underestimates the human sinner. So Vaggie gets her triumphant moment anyway, beating an Exorcist to save her friends like she failed to do when Charlie found her. And then she’s either still happy Adam’s stabbed because Vaggie is still a wrathful, vengeful person who will not forgive Adam for his cruelty toward Charlie…or she’s :O like everyone else.

Why Angel Vaggie Doesn’t Matter

So, season 1 would have hardly changed at all if Vaggie wasn’t an Exorcist. If she was a Sinner like the others, the plot would still go as planned. And season 2? Even more so. Her angel nature was only ever used for symbolic meaning of how “demons and angels can work together” and “demon/angel love story” (which there are many better written ones out there). Except guess what? Emily fulfills the “demons and angels in harmony” message too. She is the angel that supported Charlie openly from day one of meeting her, and in season 2 was the one constantly pushing for union and cooperation from Heaven.

Meanwhile Vaggie has no authority in Heaven, has zero advice or insight for Charlie on how Heaven operates and thinks, and gets not a single hint of acknowledgement from Sera or Emily about being one of them once. Only Lute keeps this terrible writing decision going, and even that isn’t all that interesting. Lute’s focus is on hurting Charlie by killing Vaggie. She doesn’t care about Vaggie.

Emily, however, is actually fighting constantly to get Sera to meet Charlie halfway and work together, has plenty of insight into Heaven and their culture, and has more conflict with Lute because of how much time they’re in the same room. Vaggie’s completely focused on Hell’s culture and understanding how Vox operates, which is another reason Vaggie should have stayed a Sinner. She knows more about Hell and its citizens than their own princess does, and it makes a lot more sense if she learned about it all through her years surviving down there. If she was with Charlie from the beginning like the show implies, Vaggie being this knowledgeable and street-smart about Sinners doesn’t make as much sense.

You might argue that Exorcists do their research before going down there…but I don’t think so. They don’t need to: Sinners don’t fight back, so they don’t have a reason to look into their weaknesses or strengths. If they did, they would go after all the Overlords instead of whoever they spot first as well.

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, Vaggie being an angel isn’t important or necessary at all so far. It’s just for symbolism, trying way too hard to dehumanize Adam and Lute, a lazy rewrite since they didn’t want to just change her backstory as a Sinner, a weak attempt to make her more than just ‘the girlfriend’, and to give her a few scenes where she can fly around which adds nothing to the plot. It’s purely for artistic beauty and symbolic messaging. Which is subjective…and the only time it was used for the plot was when she saved Husk and Angel from the train. An easy rewrite too, honestly.

She should have stayed a Sinner. She’s clearly street smart, combat-ready, and resourceful. All things Exorcists are not. They were never portrayed as knowing their enemy. Like I said: They just swooped in and stabbed/slashed/hacked away at whatever Sinners they found. There was no fight, no tactical planning, no background research, and no combat teamwork.

If Vaggie stayed a Sinner, but one who was a member of a rebellion and not a sex worker like Angel Dust, all of her traits in the show would make so much more sense and the characters would care more, therefore the audience would too.

TL;DR or I didn’t like the title so didn’t read:

Vaggie should have been kept a Sinner, but change her origin story to be from a rebellion against a corrupt government. She still goes to Hell for her methods of fighting, but it explains why she’s so knowledgeable on the Sinners, combat-brings-respect, and weapons. Vaggie being an angel isn’t written well in the story we got. Run time is not an excuse here because there were ways around it, and I don’t think it was planned beyond “we can’t have two prostitutes” which is why it’s not a well-written or utilized character trait.

Emily fulfills the ‘angel/demon teamwork’ narrative, no one but Charlie cares that Vaggie used to kill demons for a living, and because it’s a tool to expand on other characters (vilifying Adam and Lute even worse than they were, give Charlie and her something to have conflict over for an episode) and not a character trait to make her more complicated, it falls flat.

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GuitarPrincess Week 2026

Day 7: Free Day

“Look, I don’t get all ‘feels-y’ and shit like this normally, but I’m a good mood after that. So I’m gonna say this only once: If anyone can stop this…I know it’s you, babe. With how fucking stubborn and determined you are, you can do anything. Even stop a literal god-damned war.” -Sinner!Adam, “Scream Rain (AU version)”

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Day 7, the final day of @guitarprincesshaven’s Guitarprincess Week 2026. I joined the trend of redrawing “Easy” using other couples and I do not regret it. I would have done a full animation of the song with these two even, but I am only one Fluff and I do not have that kind of free time. This was such a fun challenge though, figuring out size and adapting the color pallets for the scene. The first one I’m the least sure on, but I colored that last so whatever.

I changed Adam’s Sinner design, made it more detailed and colorful (different shades of brown) based on the one where he’s a cow demon. This one is still a Big-Horned Sheep-inspired design, but using the pattern on the inspiration. He has an X where he got stabbed as the permanent reminder of how he died. I also see when the couple in the redraw has at least one man, for some reason his blanket turns into a toga…so I did it too. Thought it looked nice, and it’s the First Man. He invented the style. /j

As for the story…I don’t see this scene being the result of making up after a big fight. At least I don’t see Charlie setting it up here. I have a few ideas of what could lead to their version of “Easy” but they almost all result in Adam being the one that swallows his pride and sets up this romantic blanket fort for Charlie. Why? Because everyone is worried about her and how much she’s hurting not only the hotel, but her friends and herself with her obsession and mental spiraling. He is too, but it has to be suggested to him to do something.

So he does, but grudgingly because he has this fear in the back of his head she’ll think it’s stupid or now isn’t the right time for this. She does say the latter, but he tells her to sit her ass down already and they talk. He knows Heaven best of anyone here, so he’s the one she should have come to first anyway. Charlie tries apologizing for how she’s been acting and how scared she is of another war…and she’s worried about her friends and about him, because he has to fight Heaven now if it happens and-

“Shut up”

Enter the musical number (with changed lyrics in places) followed by the quote under these pictures.

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That said, happy GuitarPrincess Week fellow Chadam shippers, and I hope even if you aren’t one that you enjoy the art I made for it.

(PS: Hotel wallpaper was a free download I found on Google. Here’s the link.)

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For those of you enjoying my “Guitarprincess Week (2026)” submissions for @guitarprincesshaven’s event of that name: I am doing day 7. It’s a three-parter, though, so it’s going to take a while and might be a day late. But it is coming.

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Guitarprincess Week 2026

Day 6: Secret Relationship

Day 6 of @guitarprincesshaven’s GuitarPrincess Week 2026. I had a couple ideas for this one. The first was Adam still an angel sneaking into Charlie’s room to see her because they have to sneak around but nothing in Hell is private…so everyone knows. The second was this one.

Adam comes back as a Sinner and reluctantly goes to the hotel for shelter from Hell’s wrath. Charlie struggles with this, but she refuses to be a hypocrite and welcomes him in. Because “anyone can be redeemed”. You know where it goes from here…they get closer, end up in bed together, promise never to do this again, and fail miserably. Now they’re secretly dating, but unknown to them everyone else knows. Except Lucifer, mainly because I think he’s refusing to go there.

Also about Vaggie… I hate cheating stories, and I’m not the biggest fan of open relationships or just adding the new character as a third…so in this AU, Charlie and Vaggie were just friends. They act like they’re just friends throughout the show, except when it remembers they’re a couple, so it isn’t a big change. This is my take, my writing and art. If you want Chaggie to stay a thing while still shipping them with other characters, do it in your own stuff.

So her expression here is not jealousy or anger. It’s “you better not break her heart, or I’ll break you” because she knows what he was like in the past.

Lastly, I have a Sinner Adam design already, but that one is related to a selfship project. So I made this one for the picture here. I was going for a parallel to Lilith, where he keeps most of his old appearance, but now has real horns. Plus some sheep or goat ears because it’s cute and annoys him a lot. lol He usually wears other clothes too, but part of the story to this picture is he forgot to change out of the t-shirt he sleeps in.

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Guitarprincess Week 2026

Day 5: AU

Day 5 of @guitarprincesshaven’s GuitarPrincess Week. I didn’t do day 4 because I didn’t have time to get it done, but I had started day 5 (this one) shortly after the prompt list was released so it was easy to finish.

I decided to do this prompt on my swap AU I call the Adam Morningstar AU

It got long, so the explanation for the AU and picture is under the cut so people don’t have to scroll too long.

I love AUs, and I love swap AUs, but mostly I love the ones that don’t just flip the cast around and make the story the exact same but with a new coat of paint. Those are also fun, especially the swap designs people come up with, but when I did my swap AU, I wanted it to be the former: Changing only two characters and seeing where it went.

That’s how this AU happened: The Adam Morningstar AU. You can see the designs on the original post I linked above.

What is the Adam Morningstar AU? It’s an AU where Adam was sent to Hell when he died instead of going to Heaven, and to spare his mental state, Lucifer used his powers to turn the First Man’s soul into a baby with no memories of his past. Lilith did not approve.

Later after Charlie was born, Lilith eventually left with Charlie and they ended up getting to Heaven, but no one knew. They thought the Queen and Princess were killed. Charlie grew up in Heaven and because of this was raised on the belief she is an angel too. She comes to hate Sinners and the Prince of Hell after the stories her mom told her and becomes leader of the Exorcists. In response, Adam comes up with the hotel. Both because he thinks there should be another way besides killing like canon Charlie does, and by now he knows his past even if he doesn’t remember living it. So feels a responsibility toward his descendants/subjects.

The events of the show then occur, with some changes because Charlie and Adam are still themselves, but showing different sides. Adam showing his good side, Charlie her dark one. (Also I might change Vaggie’s origin story…I have a whole essay on that in the works) In the final episode is where the biggest change is:

When Lucifer joins the fight, he doesn’t know who Charlie is yet. But when her mask breaks and her demon side starts showing, it clicks and he realizes this is his long-lost daughter. I won’t go into detail, but at the end of the fight (Lucifer holds back strongly here) Charlie is NOT killed. She has a horrifying coming-to-truth moment that she is not an angel. She’s a Nephilim, and a demonic one.

I haven’t decided if she’s stabbed or not, but Charlie doesn’t die from it if she is. Niffty is stopped before she stabs too much. Lute thinks Charlie is dead, though, but still is forced to retreat with the remaining Exorcists. Charlie is left behind and nursed back to health.

The final scene of season 1 would then still have Lute approach Lilith (who still was absent the rest of the season so this is where the audience finds out she’s in Heaven too) but to give her the grim news of her daughter’s death and demand permission to get revenge. It ends with Lilith gripping the wine glass in her hand more tightly so it cracks under her grip.

Cut to season 2: Charlie is being forced to stay at the hotel. It’s dangerous out there for her and Lucifer doesn’t want to lose her again…but she wants nothing to do with him and he doesn’t know how to approach this. Adam, ever stubborn and determined, takes up the task of helping Charlie come to terms with her true nature. And so that is what this picture shows. Charlie, who hasn’t learned to retract her demon features yet, being angry and hostile and her (adoptive) brother doing his best to help her.

Also, notice I said brother? This is the one picture/AU with Chadam where Adam and Charlie are NOT meant to be a couple. Charlie may not have known Adam growing up, but he was old enough he knew her. So it would be weird for them to catch feelings. This is the one AU for Chadam as well that I plan for Chaggie to happen over time. Vaggie is not in Lute’s role, Lute is not in Vaggie’s. Vaggie is still the first and main support of the hotel project, but she and Adam are just friends.

Meanwhile Lute does not develop feelings for her boss. For one, maybe she isn’t into girls (no confirmation for it, so…) but I also think she couldn’t go there with a demon, even if Lute has to play along and pretend Charlie isn’t one. I don’t think Abel would take Charlie’s place as leader of the Exorcists either. His dad wasn’t the leader, so Emily can’t use him being Adam’s son as the excuse for him taking over. They wouldn’t want a descendant of Adam in charge here anyway…this Adam is a Sinner. So season 2 would be a lot more intense depending who is put in charge instead. Maybe Michael like it is in the Bible.

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GuitarPrincess Week 2026

Day 3: Crossover

Before I get into it, any kids seeing this because of the Zootopia tags: This piece is about Hazbin Hotel, which is an ADULT CARTOON. It contains blood/violence, swearing, sexual themes, and heavy topics. It is NOT for people under 18.

There’s my disclaimer.

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So, day 3 of @guitarprincesshaven’s GuitarPrincess Week. I decided to do a simple crossover picture with Zootopia, because when I watched Zootopia 2, I saw so much Chadam in Nick and Judy’s relationship:

The super optimistic, stubborn young woman wanting to make her world a better place teaming up with a life-beaten sarcastic skeptic that doesn’t believe she can do it. Then finding they work well together. Only for the sequel to show the struggles of their dynamic, with the stubborn optimist being so focused on her goal and dream, she loses sight of what those around her need and doesn’t even value her own life. Judy almost drowned in her pursuit of her goal.

Meanwhile the sarcastic skeptic is running around after her keeping her alive until he snaps. This could be Vaggie as well…but I think Nick was still more assertive than Vaggie’s ever been, and so is Adam. He would be even more aggressive than Nick in stopping Charlie if she almost died for her goal. In the version of the story where he was written as more than a one-dimensional d-bag that the show browbeats you into thinking is worse than the professional r*pist and a cult leader. (I have to censor myself for any kids reading even after my warning…)

So I was going to either do Charlie and Adam dressed as Judy and Nick, or this. This was more of a challenge, since I’ve never drawn Nick and Judy before now, so I went with this.

Anyone needing a translation of what the word bubbles mean:

Judy and Charlie: Telling each other about their journeys to make their dream come true. Which still isn’t 100%, but they accomplished a lot and are happy for each other. (Also this version is of course the one where Charlie does win Adam over. If it’s Arranged Marriage AU or not…up to you)

Adam and Nick: Enemies to partners? Same.

I had fun with this one. lol I don’t plan to do a followup or anything, but putting two of my favorite opposites attract-but-start-out-rough duos was enjoyable and makes me love these two ships even more than I did already.

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Guitarprincess Week 2026

Day 2: Animals

Day two of GuitarPrincess Week and the prompt was “animals”. This is what I came up with:

Taking place in the arranged marriage story from last year, this is that ‘transitional’ period for the couple. Adam’s stopped being such a major jerk and Charlie is responding well to it. Here he wanted to do something to bond with her and learned she has never seen any of the animals from Earth. She had her cat, Key-Key…but Key-Key wasn’t a real cat. She’s a living key.

So he took her to the zoo in Heaven, which is really just a wide open space full of wildlife that roam around or hang out, because they are in paradise and don’t need to worry about predators or surviving. Here Charlie was introduced to all the cute, cuddly creatures Adam lived with when he was still in the Garden of Eden. Eventually this leads to her and Adam bonding some as she listens to him tell her ‘facts’ about the different creatures and why he named them the things he did.

In the end it was a nice first step toward healing for them.

Bonus drawing under read more

For this prompt I had two options: The scenario I went with, and drawing the couple as animals. The most common (but still adorable and loved) route is goat x sheep (because Charlie’s a goat demon, and Adam fits as a big-horn sheep because of the Christian and Angel symbolism. We are the sheep, the Lord is our shepherd and all that)

But then I had another idea and decided to draw them as Shardians, a species I created. The idea behind Shardians (except with Shardie) is that like ponies from My Little Pony or like dragons, anyone could be drawn as a Shardian with enough imagination. So that’s what I did here.

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Guitarprincess Week 2026

Day 1: Festival

I’m participating in GuitarPrincess Week by @guitarprincesshaven again this year (though how many days I can do in the time period of a week is debatable…I have been busy) because I had a lot of fun doing it last year and this is such a fun ship to draw/write.

Day 1, as you see, is “festival” but I don’t know any festivals that they would attend. I suppose a Jewish one is possible…but I don’t know enough about them to do it properly. So instead I chose to have them at a New Year’s Eve party. Probably the first Hell actually looks forward to, since Exterminations have ended. Maybe these two are in Heaven, if this is related to last year’s “Arranged Marriage” storyline I did. Up to interpretation.

I mainly wanted to draw Charlie in her party dress from season 2. lol She looked so cute in it. Also I didn’t draw these two kissing last year. So here it is.

Happy GuitarPrincess Week everyone that’s participating/observing!