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The throne compensates for the growth☝️

Drawing them is always so much fun 🤭

Canon songs that would be altered in the RAMverse:

Stayed Gone – Obviously. The change could be as simple and Val and Velvette taking over Vox's part and the tone being less fun and more threatening, or something more complicated. They wouldn't be going on Vox's propaganda campaign though, they'd just be squaring up to fight before Al starts taunting them over the radio. Might just stay between them and Al, but it could be fun to give Vox a chance to sing too, probably with Alastor.

It Starts With Sorry – Pentious isn't immediately caught in RAM, so if ISWS happens, it's months down the line. Would probably change significantly, since he chooses to defect from the Vees and might be willingly coming clean to Charlie.

Respectless – Val gets a guest verse since he decided to actually show up to the meeting on the off chance Alastor decided to show his face. His part is somewhere in between "bigging up Velvette" and "just straight up threatening Husk."

Finale – Vox is still a part of the hotel crew and sings with them during their verses. Val and Vel might be celebrating Alastor's supposed defeat and preparing to go rescue Vox (until Alastor shows back up at the last minute), or their part might be more serious, like Al's monologue.

Canon songs that would be altered in the RAMverse:

Stayed Gone – Obviously. The change could be as simple and Val and Velvette taking over Vox's part and the tone being less fun and more threatening, or something more complicated. They wouldn't be going on Vox's propaganda campaign though, they'd just be squaring up to fight before Al starts taunting them over the radio. Might just stay between them and Al, but it could be fun to give Vox a chance to sing too, probably with Alastor.

It Starts With Sorry – Pentious isn't immediately caught in RAM, so if ISWS happens, it's months down the line. Would probably change significantly, since he chooses to defect from the Vees and might be willingly coming clean to Charlie.

Respectless – Val gets a guest verse since he decided to actually show up to the meeting on the off chance Alastor decided to show his face. His part is somewhere in between "bigging up Velvette" and "just straight up threatening Husk."

Finale – Vox is still a part of the hotel crew and sings with them during their verses. Val and Vel might be celebrating Alastor's supposed defeat and preparing to go rescue Vox (until Alastor shows back up at the last minute), or their part might be more serious, like Al's monologue.

I hc that Vox was a small-time Vaudeville child star for a few years when he was alive. Wonder if he'd ever have days where he really wants to perform for Val and Vel. Or tears up his room looking for his tap shoes. Or starts believing that Valentino and Velvette are his parents whenever they're forcing him to do something he really doesn't want to do.

I need more information on the overlords of hell, if only because I have this whole thing in my head about how they each stand in for the seven deadly sins, and I don't have one for sloth and I need it so my brain will brrr.

I know it's probably not a new idea, but here's my reasoning:

wrath - camilla carmine. she's a weapons dealer, powerful and running things (much in the same way that satan is running things - at least while lucifer is mia). she and satan also both have this whole restrained anger thing about them which I think is a great parallel (although she's got more control than he does).

lust - obviously valentino and his porn empire. now, he's a darker side of the idea of lust than our good boy ozzie. he leans more into the concept that lust without consent is greed (which ties into one of my other overlords later, you'll see), but his power absolutely lies in controlling what's 'sexy' - like how angel's work seems to be dependent more on val's kinks than what's popular with the pride ring.

envy - hear me out, but it's vox. he's constantly amassing this empire, this power, which, yeah, could be read as greed, but he's doing it because he wants what others have. he wants to be a one of the big dicks of hell, to beat camilla and zestial and especially alastor. vox creating the vees is a way to push himself above the others because he wants them to want what he has. his shows, his apps, his beef with alastor in stayed gone, everything is designed to make people like him more than the other overlords, especially alastor. hence the big smiles and posturing for audiences - he doesn't need to do that for power - he already has that. he does that because he wants to be respected/liked more than the others are. and alastor has that with the other overlords - zestial and rosie like him, camilla respects him (at least enough to speak to him like an equal). vox is looked down upon by the other overlords, and he envies that power alastor has.

pride - I feel like it's obvious it's alastor. he's so self-assured to the point that he's dismissive of everyone around him, especially those who could be seen as a threat. he goes up against adam, the most powerful of the exterminators, seemingly without any concern that he might not be strong enough to stop him (to the point where alastor isn't even armed with any angelic steel.He has some in the shield, but not even his little summoned creatures carry angelic weapons against adam). and to that point, pride is alastor's downfall there - if he'd been better prepared, he could have taken adam out. but he refused to use weapons provided by another overlord. he's threatened by lucifer (the actual sin of pride) because he can provide charlie with things alastor can't, and alastor being charlie's go-to for advice and protection and her hotel's needs are what gives him power in their relationship. it's what he needs for his ulterior motives to succeed. also, pride going head to head with pride is the most on point thing possible for the seven deadly sins.

gluttony - this feels a little lazy honestly, but rosie. but she's a cannibal, and what is cannibalism if not people throwing away all their reasoning for the joy of the feast?

greed - velvette. she's got a whole material wealth thing about her. fashion/social media overlord, the latter of which is always tied to overconsumption (hello, watch any of those grwm tiktoks where they have like, outfits for their stanley cups and twenty-three step hand care regimes where most of it is completely unnecessary). she and val are the only ones of the overlords we see consistently changing their outfits, and as I mentioned above, I see val tied into this sin, too. not just because of the outfits, but because of the love potions. ozzie calls them artificial bullshit, and we see ads in Hazbin that show that val and vel make and sell them. I also think husk would have been the overlord 'of greed' back before he lost his soul to alastor, which also fits into my headcanon that with velvette being the youngest of the overlords and having died around the 2000s/2010s (I think?), husk probably lost power before she acheived overlord status with the vees, maybe even before she died, seeing as the other residents of the hotel don't seem to know who he was in his past, so maybe it's been a while since he fell off the map.

sloth - ??? we don't really have one for sloth? I don't think the gambling overlord would have fit here, so I don't think it was husk. and we don't know enough about zestial or the others for them to fit but it doesn't feel like zestial's vibe? like, the closest we have is him not wanting to fight the angels, but that was for lack of information, rather than laziness.

so please, season two, solidify this idea for me because I love the symmetry of it and it's killing me that sloth is unfulfilled.

Did I get carried way? Yes.

It's time to rebel.

The Seven Deadly Sins

What are they

he's too old for this shit

Masterpost

Music suggestions! Avenues, Ground Vision, and Something something lake (- all by drive45!) very scattered songs that I think fit ram!vox :3

Ooo, yeah, you're right these fit perfectly tone-wise. They're kind of like "Baby Hotline" and "There's Something Happening," where the words being said don't really make sense, but you get a vague idea of what they're trying to say, but by the end of the song you still don't really understand what that was all about– Perfect for RAM!Vox. Also, fsr I can see him wearing basically all of the outfits in the videos.

For "Avenues," the parts where the singer appears to get angry at someone, but in a very vague and incoherent way, work for Vox and Alastor.

This is a good freakout moment for Vox; he has moments when he almost grasps what exactly feels so wrong about everything, but they slip through his fingers like water and it's so fucking frustrating for him. He feels helpless, unable to understand or change anything about his situation, and usually starts lashing out if those feelings aren't immediately redirected.

This is Vox going stir-crazy in the tower. He needs to get out of this fucking place; he feels trapped, every moment feels identical, and he's so fucking lonely.