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VoxTopic: Redeemed/Winner Vox Concepts
After Season 2, I'm not gonna lie: I want to see Vox redeemed more than ever. I love a challenge, and redemption would definitely be a difficult thing for this guy!
So, here's my version of Redeemed/Winner/Angel Vox! I wanted to do a bit more than a palette swap and go for a redeemed version with fitting thematic changes - visuals that show the character has undergone a big internal transformation, while also fitting his character.
Inside of every demon is a rainbow.
When Sir Pentious arrived in Heaven, the physical features of his body that functioned as a punishment in Hell were removed: he lost the many eyes that had covered his form as punishment for turning a blind eye to the murder of several women in his neighborhood. Similarly, in Heaven, Vox's form should change to reflect that he is no longer being punished for his transgressions. But what is his punishment, exactly? Is it having a TV for a head, such that he must constantly project an image to the world? The need to upgrade said head to avoid becoming obsolete? Or is it the fact that his power apparently comes from his approval rating? Regardless, none of those things are true now! because...
The first and biggest change for Vox is that he's finally escaped the TV. Instead, his head is a pane of pure light - free, unbound by metal and plastic, unburdened by the constant need for upgrades, able to change shape and still project whatever he needs.
He doesn't get the luxury of being fully human again, but truth be told, he'd probably feel strange being confined to a human form now.
Chasing Rainbows
Sinner Vox is heavily storm-coded, even referring to himself as "the flood" in obvious reference to the event God used to wipe out almost all life on Earth. In his redeemed form, Vox moves on to the natural next step in that story, as well as his own: While Sinner Vox is the oncoming storm, Winner Vox is the rainbow that comes after. Still a weather phenomenon - and as in Christian mythos, wherein the rainbow symbolizes God's promise never to destroy humanity in this way again, Vox's unmistakable wings are his own reminder not to return to his past self. The rainbow also evokes other myths: In Ancient Rome (ROME), the rainbow goddess Iris was a messenger and god of communication; and in Norse myth, the Bifrost that acts as a bridge between realms is sometimes viewed as a rainbow - both fitting symbolism for the first soul to successfully bridge the gap between realms and broadcast publicly between Heaven and Hell.
Given his canonical ability to send messages and bridge realms, I envision Vox taking a sort of psychopomp role in Heaven, helping guide new arrivals. Let the guy who tore off the Pearly Gates greet at them, yeah? I'm sure Peter would appreciate the company...eventually.
I also wanted to honor the many parallels between Vox and Charlie that the last season highlighted - so what better way than to reference the very first song she sang? In the pilot, Charlie wants nothing more than to redeem sinners, but the opening number ("I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," written in 1917 and popularized in the '40s - a song Vox would know!) makes clear that she feels stuck, and that none of her schemes ever work. It sort of feels appropriate that such a monumental feat as redeeming a guy who almost took out half the Pentagram would symbolically let Charlie catch her "rainbow." I mean, you can't write a more inspiring story than that!
In this way, even without his tech, the former media Overlord continues to be a driving force in messaging and communication. He's still bright - still dazzling - and he still attracts eyes, in the way people always look up to admire a rainbow when they see one - but now, what he offers is beauty for its own and others' sake, not his. Showmanship is second nature to him, and he very much still is one; Vox has always been so dedicated, ambitious and hardworking - turn those powers to good, and I imagine him as overwhelming and magnetic of a force for good as Sinner Vox is one for evil. But now, instead of a being of lightning, he is a being of light. And nobody ever could miss him.
Heaven never saw as many rainbows as it did on the day Vincent Whittman was redeemed.
...Well, I had to fulfill the foreshadowing, didn't I?
VoxTopic: Vincent's Final Meeting (by the Numbers)
For the purpose of providing this information to anyone in the fandom who might care to know, I decided to take a quick screenshot of Vincent's final meeting and actually count the number of people in attendance! I've seen people offer wildly variable numbers here, from just twenty or so all the way up to two hundred, and I wanted to pin it down a bit more precisely. The shot I've taken for reference is the widest one we get of the meeting, and includes all the people who were there to listen to him speak:
Because some of the people's outlines aren't completely distinct, the count isn't perfect, but based on this shot, we can see there were roughly 100 people at Vincent's final presentation - in fact, precisely because the count isn't perfect, I personally prefer to round it down to an even hundred, with Vincent himself being the hundred and first. That's a lot of people to convince to stand in ankle-deep water! - and a lot of people to electrocute all at once! Heck, with a number like that, Vincent's final kill count in life might even be higher than Alastor's! I wonder if any of them survived...?
Because I could, I also took the liberty of counting the number of TVs Vincent had strung up around the aquarium for his big moment. Turns out he rigged more than fifty, at least one TV for every two guests! He certainly does love his spectacle!
Final counts:
Followers Present: ~ 100+
Televisions Present: 50+
Bonus: My favorite bit of foreshadowing in this season, from the same scene:
Little fishy followers all imminently heading for their graves....
Yay, body horror!
...Look, I just want this man to suffer, okay?
Let his fate- and destiny-obsessed ass be plagued by prophetic dreams of his demon shape in the months before his death I am begging
I blame all the cool flashes of his demon form in "Brighter" for this
I see people talking about how when Vox is saying how her mom would be disappointed in her is him projecting and not how
"What did your dad do? Hit you?"
Like that isnt projecting.
Mind you, he says what Val said was he killed his dad. As in, that's what he knows for sure. (Which side note val I know? You're a piece of shit but, really, you told Vox that. Holly shit man that's unessisary.) Anyways, he jumps straight to being hit with a laugh as though that's not a big deal.
That is projecting. God he was such a shit for that.
Yes, this! You're the first person I've seen to have noticed and commented on this, and I'm going insane because there are so many ways this could be taken!:
Did you really kill your dad for hitting you? So fucking weak. My dad hit me and I managed to take it just fine. That's just what dads do.
Did you really kill your dad for hitting you? So fucking weak; you should be grateful he paid attention to you at all. I never got even that much acknowledgment.
My dad tore down my ego every single fucking day and I didn't kill him; what could yours possibly have done to be so bad as to induce you to kill him? Did he hit you?
We already know Vox hates Angel Dust, not least because he distracts Valentino, but I think there's more to it than that. I think Angel Dust presents Vox with a very uncomfortable mirror of some kind, one that Vox really, really hates looking into. It's why he was so pleased at Angel Dust leaving to stay at the hotel, and why he's constantly targeting him in his plans and schemes. And now that Angel Dust has decided to go back to Valentino, perhaps we'll get the chance to see what all that is about...
One of the things I do appreciate about Hazbin Hotel being a show that's ostensibly for adults is that while this sort of jab would be a normal thing for a villain to say to a hero in a kids' show (albeit more age-appropriate), and not necessarily indicative of anything beyond the villain taunting the hero, here at least the fandom just knows all this means something for the villain beyond a quip he's laying down to hurt the hero and I absolutely love that kind of implication. What the hell happened to you, Vox.
What—am I wrong?!
This came about because I happened to see a beautiful piece of art while scrolling through my dashboard, and my immediate thought at first glance was: "Oh hey, Stanford Pi—wait. That's Vincent Whittman?!...Oh. OH. HOLD UP—"
Yep—drop Stanford Pines and Bill Cipher into a blender, and I'm pretty sure what will come out is Vincent Whittman. I honestly don't think the design could be more perfect if someone TRIED. The hair? The glasses? The fashion sense? The very distinctive Bill eye shape? The fucking cleft chin? The manacles he uses are even the exact same color as Bill's! That's not to mention the similarities between Vox and Bill in their demon forms—shapes, glitching, eye motifs, on-body phone calls and staticky voice drops!—all the culty behavior Bill got up to, or the scores upon scores of notes and plans Stanford makes about his special interests! Hey, did you know Stanford Pines loves collecting moths? Or that Bill created an ad for a guy named Whitman back in 1901? Or possessed a dead man to become a cult leader in 1952? You do now!
Dear Hazbin fans who may be reading this: If you like toxic old man yaoi and somehow haven't seen Gravity Falls and read The Book of Bill, run, don't walk to your nearest computer/bookstore, 'cause the toxicity between those two bitter canonical (!) partners-turned-enemies makes Radiostatic look TAME. Demons! Deals! Possession in the supernatural sense! Forced humiliation, tattoos, and spider-eating! I am so serious right now! Vincent Whittman was fated to doomed yaoi from the start with ancestors like these two! And those guys are neeever gonna beat the allegations now...
P.S. "I have missed you...but my aim is getting better" Radiostatic jokes when???
"Average man thinks about the Roman Empire 3 to 4 times per week" factoid actualy just statistical error. Average man thinks about the Roman Empire 0 times per week. I, who play "Brighter" 374 times per day, am an outlier adn should not have been counted
"I'm gonna show you what it means to be the motherfucking King of Hell!"
Yeah, you go, you dorky little weatherboy!
Seriously, the contrast between this and everything in "Vox Dei" is just so fucking hilarious. Tell me this guy ever imagined he would diss Lucifer off a stage and rip the Pearly Gates off Heaven. No fucking shot. I love him
Fun Facts That May or May Not Relate to Vincent Whittman
One (albeit rare) cause of heterochromia is chimerism - one being having multiple sets of DNA. This can happen when one fraternal (nonidentical) twin absorbs its sibling in the womb, and usually occurs by week twelve of a pregnancy.
In some shark species, the embryos kill and eat their unborn siblings in the womb - a process known as embryophagy.
By Jeff Kubina from Columbia, Maryland - Shark, CC BY-SA 2.0
So am I saying Vincent Whittman absorbed his twin sibling in the womb before he was born?
Noooo, why would I say that about a man who has specifically been shown to absorb the traits of the people he's killed? A man who never feels confident enough to just be his own person? A man who has explicitly been shown to adore the very animals in which in-womb fratricide is a known thing? A man who constantly feels like something is missing from his life? Naaaah. That's way too out there, right? Right?
....Vincent totally absorbed his twin sibling in the womb is what I am saying
(And no one would have known. Ultrasounds weren't a thing when Vincent's mother was pregnant and DNA testing wasn't a thing until thirty years after his death. Man is just going around not knowing he stole something from his first kill long before he chose to kill on purpose.)
Which begs the question of which color eyes Vincent's twin would have had...the blue, or the green?
In your dreams, Vincent.
It's pathetic, I know A jealous fool who won't let go If I was sorry for my actions Would I ever stoop so low? Got no reason to live And I've got nothing left to give you But my love, love, fuck it, this is love
- "This Is Love," Air Traffic Controller
Vox is a bacteriophage as confirmed by the creators of the show, and I think it tells us EVERYTHING about him as a character.
This particular virus hijacks other cells, using their DNA to propagate itself until the host cell ruptures and its game over. Its a virus it does this because it isn't actually alive, it's just shaped in a way that DOES THIS.
Vox ruins everything because he just is shaped in a way that hijacks, imitates people and then DESTROYS EVERYTHING.
It's the perfect form for him.
He replicated outfits when he was alive, styles, shows, killed people to metaphorically wear their skin and then in the show he steals verse structures in songs, motifs, forms, everything is a copy. Even his constant smiling is a poor imitation of Alastor.,
Okay, I have to chime in here because I've seen this idea going around enough that I can't let certain parts of it pass anymore.
Is Vox like a bacteriophage/virus? In some ways, absolutely!:
Kills others? Check.
Infects others with itself? Check - this applies, insofar as we are talking about Vox's hypnotic eye.
Dead inside? Very check (only slightly /s).
And if it stopped there, I'd be fine with this. However, the idea that Vox steals others' styles for himself introduces confusion, NOT clarity, to the metaphor. A bacteriophage does not itself take on aspects of its host cell; it uses the host to create replicas of what it already is. Its strong identity infects and breaks down the host cell until the host becomes a factory for producing more of the bacteriophage's ideas rather than its own. It copies ITSELF, NOT others. If Vox had been shown to be an actual cult leader throughout his life, this could have worked extremely well. Cult leaders typically have a strong identity that draws others in, and use others to do their bidding and spread their message. This is actually perfect. But the fact that the show chose to do the exact opposite of this in the end - abandon the cult leader idea in favor of a much more straightforward story in which Vincent kills and takes on the aspects of others to rise to the top - at least until that final scene of his human life that returns to vaguely cult-leader-like concepts, which feels isolated in comparison to the rest of the montage we got - weakens both their original cult leader concept and the ideas they're trying to put forth in this demon form. It mixes the metaphor - taking on host identities after their deaths is simply not what a bacteriophage does. Rather, the host cell is essentially what pumps out copies of the virus. You'd expect Vincent's victims to be taking on his style in this metaphor, not the other way around.
(Yes, bacteriophages use the host cell's architecture to produce their copies, like Vox uses his victims' styles of song. But this happens while the host is alive. If we were exclusively talking about Hell, this would be fine - Alastor is still "alive"; Lucifer is still "alive"; everyone he steals from is still "alive" as he tries to destroy them. But Vincent's human victims? When he takes on their forms, they are dead dead. He's already killed them.) Unfortunately, the fact that the resulting metaphor of Vox-as-virus is mixed in this way makes it weaker than other metaphors by default, and I really think they could have come up with something stronger if they gave this a bit more thought. Alternatively, they could have dropped the idea that Vincent either killed or copied his human victims and gone with him actually being a cult leader in life. It just feels like they didn't put quite enough research into how bacteriophages actually operate, or they were so married to the idea that they wanted to make the character look pathetic for copying that they didn't think about how this would play against the demon form they gave him. And unfortunately, the result is confusing people - as shown in the number of people who are saying the metaphor is perfect. It isn't. That isn't how bacteriophages work.
Don't get me wrong - I personally think Vox is by far still the best written character in the show, which is why it pains me that certain parts of his story aren't clicking together as perfectly as they could have. When you have something so close to greatness that it just needs that extra push to be perfect, it hurts worse than when you have something that's a bit less aligned from the start. I just think that with just a bit more consideration, Vox's character could have been even more stellar than he already is, and I'm not shy to admit that I want the best for my favorites.
My contribution to the "Vox is a creep" discourse 🤡
On this blog we drag Alastor, I've admitted that since the beginning, and this is just too richly deserved
Assuming it's possible, who would you rather see redeemed in the end?
Alastor
Vox
Neither, because they're more fun to think of in Hell.
Neither, because neither deserves it.
Neither, because neither deserves it AND they're more fun to think of in Hell.
Both.
I am super curious as to what the results will be....might also follow up later with a second poll with fewer options, just to see what happens when people are forced into a binary choice.
No way was I going to miss doing fanart of this guy for World Television Day! (11/21) Felt appropriate to give a little bit of a tribute to the best TV I know.
Vox Headcanons, but Extremely Specific to the Theory that He's From the Hampton Roads Virginia Area, Based on His Weather Map
Vincent Whittman is the creator of WAVY-TV, founded in 1957.
Vox has had to explain to Val a few too many times that no, Newport News was not the rival station.
He invented Hampton Roads white sauce because he thought Mexican restaurants needed more mayo.
He had a son who was a drummer in the first Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums Corps in 1958. Did he know he had a son? Don't worry about it.
He is still salty that they found the USS Monitor after he died, because he couldn't get the glory of reporting on it.
He is a surprisingly good defensive driver, given where he learned to drive.
His Tidewater accent only comes out in extremely specific situations, such as when he says Norfolk. Thankfully, there is no Norfolk in Hell.
The circumstances that have allowed all this to be at least mildly plausible are a true blessing for which I will thank the Lord every day Never in my goddamn life did I think I would encounter a wild Newport News joke in relation to Vox online but here we are
Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats made me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats made me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once–
I had to adjust the perspective a little but it looks pretty similar to me
Oh, hey! Turns out Vox was doing his weather reporting around my neck of the woods! What an awesome unexpected detail that I can't help but irrationally feel is a little gift just for me ~
(No, but seriously, just knowing the area will honestly make it so much easier to visualize how he was influenced by and felt about his environment; it really is a gift.)
