Please give me a period of time where Vincent got to hang out regularly w/ Al and Mimzy, pretending to put up w/ her to be close to Alastor, and she just casually covers Alastor's drink when he isn't paying attention to it.

I'm excited to find out how the parallels w/ Alastor's need for control play out. Vox seeks ultimate power to be admired by society (and thus "worthy"), but Alastor seeks ultimate power to be totally free of society's influence (and thus "safe"). They're diametrically opposed and I am FASCINATED.

And this fruitless pattern has taken him all the way to the point of trying to BECOME GOD, bc none of the tiers beneath that have been enough to fill the void, & this one HAS to work, it HAS to. He's such a metaphor for the entropy of late-stage capitalism it makes me want to howl at the moon. +

-how clear it is that once Vox "becomes" that higher-tier person, it doesn't satisfy him like he fantasized it would - & instead of recognizing he's chasing smth that can only be found within, he decides he just needs to climb even higher. Surely THEN he'll be able to like himself. Surely. +

It was very there in "Brighter", but it didn't fully hit me until somebody pointed out that the minute Vox witnessed Sera's divinity he immediately found the next person above him to aspire to become and changed up his style, trying to get whatever it is she has that impressed him. & what I love is-

My main takeaway here is that I need to stop only designing bg characters after just anthros and cryptids, bc all the in-show Sinners based on inanimate objects are so fucking fun, and I'm letting too much potential pass me by.

Thank god I'm not the only one on the "Alastor has ED/PE and it's not just fine but actively cute" train. Unselfconsciously soft/smalldick Al turned out to be my very favorite kind.

Redemption would consist of repairing their relationship, rooting out the issues that started their vendetta, then figuring out how to forgive each other and move on for their own mutual benefit. Their Winner forms would still be conjoined, bc by then they know they were always stronger as a team.

AotM!Al finds his concept of IT-ness deeply empowering, and while this doesn't help w/ his tendency to set himself apart rather than seek support from others, there IS something to be said for how it opens up a gender-null space for him to experience his identity in isolation.