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deadbeat-motel · 9 hours

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Oh for fucks sake.

I was trying to look for "Hell" by Squirel Nuts Zipper and of course Hazbin and Helluva takes every spot save for three.

I'm going to explode.

#vivziepop critical #motts is ranting #//seriously. this is getting so fucking annoying.//#//half the damn results don't even have hell in the title//

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deadbeat-motel · 15 hours

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Love your art/redesigns! I was wondering how you imagine Vox in this universe (mostly bc i still can’t believe vivziepop decided to make a technology/entertainment oligarch into a neon twink💀) and ig the Vees in general

Ahaha. Little akward cause Vox happens to be one of the few designs from the show that I enjoyed. He's such a welcomed break from the red in everyone in that universe. But yeah, I still can see the short comings of his design.

If I'd redesign him..... personally, he's no longer be an object head because I'm just not a fan of that sort of thing.

As for the others....

Im not redesigning Val, personally I just really dont want to touch whatever he is. I'll just keep him as a stock image of a cockroach tbh.

And for Velvette, im not a fan of the clothes they give her. Im pretty sure that fashion designer would've been bullied because of the outfits she wears on the show. She's definitely written to be more of a fast fashion designer but I might want to expirament with more high fashion/avant garde designs. Oh and probably texture her hair and give her skin some saturation too.

But all that would have to wait since I'll be taking a longer break to focus on uni again.

#asks stuff

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deadbeat-motel · 15 hours

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Deadbeat Motel: Lucifer

"You've come to seek the end have you?" a figure stands in its lonesome greeting his visitor.

The King of Hell as he once was called, it had been some centuries since anyone had addressed him by that title. The number of sinners who still knew him by that monicker dwindled as time marched on. Now the only ones who call him by that are prideful Overlords seeking to find an end to their long afterlives but would never let another claim the glory of being their executioner.

The Overlord before him didn't say much, opting to avert their gaze.

"The time to have shown shame was long before you came to my realm. If you truly wished to find an end, then look me in the eye."

When the overlord finally grew the courage to do so, they felt something pass through their body. Lucifer's arm had pierced them with the tips of those clawed fingers glittering like white angelic steel. The overlord looked at their torso, Lucifer's fingers definitely passed through their body but it left no mark. They were almost doubtful he did anything to them... but that's when they finally felt it. Its origin on their torso, small and focused like a snake's bite, radiated such an imense pain bringing the overlord to their hands and knees shaking.

"I never promised a painless death..." The overlord's body shakes and trembles as they choke through screams

"... toughen through the pain. You earned your place in hell, you need to earn your death."

That's where Lucifer comes in, being the only other angelic being in this place, he can offer the same end that these angels do with the sinners.

There always comes a time in every Overlord's afterlife where their mortal soul can no longer stand an eternal life of hell. Despite the angels overpassing these souls during the extermination, they are not free from other overlords. Paranoia seeps into their mind as the fear of who would eventually toture them never leaves their mind.

Trivia:

Zestiel, being the only mortal soul that has reached 700, has impressed Lucifer with how long he's kept clinging to his sanity. Though he assumes that once Carmilla is gone, he should soon be seeing him come through his doors.

Lucifer in the show shows disdain for sinners but I feel like they had to brush through it with their 8-episode limit. Which sucks so I amped it up to 11 here where he sees every human as disgusting for forsaking his gift of free will. He is quite hostile and antagonistic when interacting with sinners.

Lucifer has NOT seen Charlie since her birth, he was an absent father. Ever since he left, Lilith has broken all ties with him. Theres a deep pit of guilt and shame inside him that festers from his regrets.

While I am aware that Lucifer and the 7 sins have a circus motif going on. The execution is so bad I don't really want to attempt salvaging it. I'm scrapping his entire ringmaster vibe.

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This was an interesting idea i just wanted to get out in writing before I forgot.

#deadbeat motel rewrite #deadbeat motel lucifer #hazbin hotel critical #vivziepop critical #hazbin hotel rewrite #motts is ranting

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deadbeat-motel · 6 days

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Something of a quick fix to the whole "no one in hell knows angels can't be killed" because it's such an insane thing to believe that in a thousand years, not a single soul ever thought of fighting the angels? In the show, angels are told to be such an easy kill because they never had to defend themselves and Carmilla produces angel-tipped weapons by the hundreds, to the point of having a market for her products. It's so hard to believe that not one of the sinners who owns one of these "Carmine-Crafted" weapons didn't try to fight back against an angel and succeeded.

So here's a thought:

What if only Carmilla and Zestiel, the two at the top of the sinner's hierarchy and even able to keep every overlord in check, had actually known that angels could be killed. What if the idea that angels can't be killed was propaganda they started and kept going to keep sinners from killing an angel and inciting an unwanted war with heaven?

Somewhat long post ahead.

In the show proper, Zestiel voices concern about "Heaven purging all of hell for daring an uprising" when the idea of fighting back against the angels is brought up. He seems so sure that this would lead to an entire purge if they ever attempted the idea and surely, there must be something within the 700+ years that he had spent in that realm that makes him so sure about this possible outcome.

Here's what I wrote:

In Zestiel's time, the overpopulation of hell had just begun to be a problem. There was no yearly purge like the one we're familiar with now. Instead, it was only annual visits to check in on the realm and on Lucifer himself (personally, I would like to believe these visits were to check in on him after being thrown into hell by the higher order of angels.) Sinners back then were just as murder-happy as they are now and have found out that Angels are not good at defending themselves and that they can hurt the angels with the weapons they bring themselves.

This first murder of angels caused an extreme outrage up in heaven that it started the first purge of all sinners of hell but unlike the normal exterminations, this purge wiped out more than 80% of the population. Zestiel was one of the few who had survived this initial purge and personally saw heaven's wrath when provoked. Everyone who had survived lived on and warned the newer sinners to never attack an angel.

Heaven, however, decided to start the yearly extermination a few years later and many of those surviving demons died in the many exterminations that happened after that. Leaving Zestiel as the only living demon who still remembers the first purge and why it happened. Zestiel wants to avoid having heaven's big purge again not because he cares about the sinners like him, but because he cannot let himself live through something like that again.

Carmilla fits in this as the main weapons dealer in hell, she could make sure that the production of angel-infused weaponry is contained and limited to only her and an exclusive few. She can also make sure that the weapons being used in hell are controlled by her since she's basically made a monopoly on weapons in hell. Zestiel makes her his partner in making sure to continue making sure that the sinners will never fight and win against angels.

Both these overlords work together to continue scaring off every sinner from attempting to kill an angel and even if they try to, they're able to rely on the fact that none of their weapons can even harm an angel.

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It's not a perfect fix (admittedly it was written hastily and does go against other parts of the worldbuilding) but it's at least a step in a clear direction and makes sense of the "No one knows angels can be hurt" aspect of worldbuilding.

#vivziepop critical #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel rewrite #motts is ranting #//also can we talk about how Zestiel feels like he's designed like he came from the victorian era whilst talking in 13th-century English?//#//Cause he made me so confused about whether he should be from 19th or 13th century England/./

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deadbeat-motel · 10 days

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I imagine she's only glowing because of the light refracting from that bald head.

Why is she white and spoon shaped

#reblog #i have so much to say about these fugly angel designs #but i have to leave that for another post

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deadbeat-motel · 11 days

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alastor would look good with some twists. vary lengths like his canon hair and he can have it faded underneath 🙏🏽

Ah, ah. I was not sure what you meant by twists but I tried my best using what I could understand about it from google:

#hazbin hotel critical #deadbeat motel redesign #hazbin hotel redesign #hazbin hotel criticism #asks stuff #deadbeat motel alastor #//ah. kinda fucked up some proportions here.//#//or if I did the twists right.//#//also another old ask//

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deadbeat-motel · 11 days

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I finally got to the design I hate the most, Alastor.

I'm not a fan of my design simplified to meet the cast's more cartoony style. I tried my best but might draw him some other time with my actual style.

Anyway, my thoughts are under the cut:

My issues with their Original designs:

What can I say that hasn't been already said by so many others?

Red overpowers his entire design and he barely stands out of the background, sometimes he blends with it at times.

Supposedly a mixed person yet the average audience member who watches the show with no context can't tell that he is. I don't want to hear about how mixed people can be pale-skinned because he was never written as a white-passing poc in mind. His Creole background was an excuse to use voodoo in the show and merchandising.

Another Vivzie character that dons a shoulder-padded suit. I believe he's one of the 5 others that has this repeating design trait (Angel Dust, Charlie, Pentious, Lucifer, Valentino, Vox)

His hair bothers me a lot. A 1930s man having a scene kid's haircut? I have a hard time believing that for the sake of the show. Also, not to mention he has that awkward undercut that ends up making him a scuffed Willy Wonka cosplayer.

Twink...

Personal tidbit, but I'm not sure what his staff's design even is? an egg with a microphone in it?

The thought process:

First of all, gave him a darker skin tone, that light grey doesn't cut it for me, unfortunately.

Also heard that his inspiration was Dr. Facilier and with that in mind, I wanted to make him look like him a bit more like him.

The mostly grey and black color palette was inspired by 99monchrome's take on Alastor. Teddy's take is pretty amazing.

If I remember, there was something about him being hunted and shot at like a deer while escaping the authorities. The headshot manifests as a small red X on his forehead.

Gave him a pencil moustache since I wanted him to look like a grown man in the 1930s. Plus, there is a seemingly noticeable lack of facial hair on every male character in this show. (If you're showing me an example of the opposite, please do not give me some background character or any Helluva boss character.)

An extra set of teeth will appear within the slits on his mouth, forming to prevent Alastor from being ever able to frown.

His mouth is also constantly bleeding.

A small detail that would be easy to miss but his eyes are radio dials.

He has a tail and fur on his body because I think it's cute.

Sort of like Velvette in the series, I do want to have Alastor drastically change hairstyles from time to time. Dreads, Twists, Straightened, Buzzed, etc.

A little detail just important to me is that his eyebrows go from thin to thick at its ends.

He does have fur all over his body.

#vivziepop critical #deadbeat motel rewrite #deadbeat motel redesign #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel redesign #deadbeat motel alastor

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deadbeat-motel · 12 days

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Not sure if someone’s asked this but what’s your go to art program

You're the first one actually, and I use Clipstudio Paint.

If anyone also wanted to know, the brush I use on this blog is the ballpoint pen from The Inkyway's brush pack.

#asks stuff

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deadbeat-motel · 14 days

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So this redesign is on a character that doesn't appear in the series proper. This is Crymini.

Her purpose in Deadbeat is to fulfill the sloth part of the 7 sins theme and be the most modern character we have in the roster (still debating whether she should be from the 2000s, 2010s or the 2020s).

Theres really not much I can say about this redesign.

My issues with her Original design:

A "Punk rock" character who has a pretty bland design. Her outfit consists of only two things, a skull print dress and a black jacket.

How in the 9 hells does that hair work??? Two segments are fighting for space on her head while the third one acts as a giant ponytail???

She suffers from the same problem all anthro female characters from Viv suffer from: they're made from the same hourglass body wolf base. If I were to take out the spots from her body, could you tell that this is a hyena and not some generic cat/wolf character? If she ever gets into season 2, Hopefully, she gets a second redesign to give her a unique body.

The thought process behind the design:

Gave her a nonfeminine body, or more like a body type where she doesn't have a cinched waist.

My roster was looking a little bit too muted and she needed a pop of color to distinguish herself from the others, hence the blue stitches on her grey hoodie.

The collar is a manifestation of her feelings of being controlled by her family, being visually too tight and almost suffocating. Despite being far from her family now, she hasn't outran the issues they cause for her

Her clothing choice is pretty bland since I don't think she would be the type of person to have a fashion sense. As long as it feels good, it's nice enough for her.

#deadbeat motel redesign #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel redesign #hazbin hotel critical #vivziepop critical #deadbeat motel crymini #//treat this also as what I wished Loona looked like instead of obvious furry bait//

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deadbeat-motel · 17 days

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ᑫᑌIᑕK ᒍOKE-Y ᖇEᗪEᔕIGᑎ

My friend and I were talking about how useless these characters are. He suggested I redesign them and since they're basically over-glorified pets, I decided they should just be pets like the cat they own.

Vivziepop underestimates the power of fugly ass creatures.

#vivziepop critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel redesign #deadbeat motel redesign #//I did this in like 15 minutes//#//also i don't understand why these nothing characters get to have a full tuxedo//

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deadbeat-motel · 17 days

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Asking for some advice, since she has been taking me too long to do

Cherri Bomb has admittedly given me a bit more of a hard time than I realized. These two are my 4th and 5th attempts at finalizing her but again, It's like there's something not working with either design.

I'm asking for some advice/critique or some suggestions.

#deadbeat motel redesign #hazbin hotel redesign #deadbeat motel cherri bomb #//I have not tested her addition to the others in the roster yet//#//I am a bit worried that she wouldn't mesh well with them//

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deadbeat-motel · 18 days

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As much as I like Rosie's simplistic design, I cannot get over the fact that the animators can barely be bothered to keep this woman on model.

(Mind you, the top row is from episode 3 and the bottom rows are basically from the same scene only minutes or seconds apart.)

The animators either had no turnaround reference sheet to go with or they finally broke after having to animate the entire main cast for more than 3 hours runtime.

#hazbin hotel critical #vivziepop critical #motts is ranting #//She's literally a talking coconut//#//they can't decide whether this woman has full or no lips//#//or if her eyes are circular or it has a shape//#//There are more examples but tumblr wont let me post all of them//#//its noticable in the cannibal town song//

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deadbeat-motel · 20 days

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@candy-sticks-zaza Double Nifftys! the rooms are going to be twice as clean! Ahahaha!

Husk's heart suddenly stops working seeing his adopted child just multiplied.

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Deadbeat father with his baby-leashed daughter.

I believe these are the last of the designs that will try to follow the original design as best as it can because looking at my sketches right now, Alastor, Cherri Bomb, and Pentious (and Crymini) goes a different direction than their counterparts.

You know how this works, thoughts below:

My issues with their Original designs:

Niffty:

Man, I only have two things to critique about this one since she's also a solid design:

What is the purpose of the scarf? It comes out of nowhere for the design, what is the connection/purpose of having it? Genuinely asking since it does bother me a bit.

She barely is a bug, there is no feature in the design that gives us any idea that she might be a bug (Or even an alien since apparently Cyclops are just a normal sinner type in this hell). Looking at the Wiki, I think the only reason for the alien aspect is that it came from a song? Either way, she doesn't showcase any of either in her design.

Husk:

GOD THE WINGS. DEAR GOD THE WINGS. IT'S SO UGLY AND CLUTTERED AND THE PATTERNS BARELY MAKE ANY SENSE. It's so awful ewwww. Every scene that didn't have them closed looked extremely rushed and ugly. It could've benefitted from just copying how actual feathered wing patterns naturally are.

His eyebrows are not a problem for me (It's my favourite part of him) but the unnecessary two black stripes are.

He's probably supposed to be a tuxedo cat, but he legitamately looks like the cat in the hat with his entire face being white.

The thought process for these two:

Niffty:

Personally was not into the whole Cyclops thing, especially when there are no hellborns (that I can recall at least) in Helluva Boss that posess a singular eye. She's got 2 eyes now because.... reasons.

The mismatched eyes was my solution to removing the Cyclops sinners of this world. Plus it's a neat little character detail that her insecurity of some kind of eye defect manifests as this odd eye shape.

Her hair is a bit neater because as much as I enjoyed how her original hair looks, It's kind of silly to think a person who's obsessed with cleanliness would have such an unkempt haircut? (Specifically talking about that scene kid-esque bangs she has.)

While I kept the maid aspect with her clothes, I made it a lot more flowery so that it reads more like a child's outfit mimicing a maid's.

I gave her one fucked up antennae since in the rewrite ill be doing, she's very easily lost and thus became homeless, drifting to any place that would allow her to stay for a little while long until they kick her out.

Bug wings and the spurs on her arms and legs are just to sell the bug aspect a bit more.

Hopefully, it was clear enough. But her arms are made of two arms conjoined together to create a singular arm.

Admittedly, I did not choose a specific bug for Niffty. Insects are not something I'm interested in and I got lazy with this aspect.

Husk:

MADE HIM A LOT FATTER AHAHAHAHHA. Husk feels like he could've ended up as a bara if Vivzie's twinkif-y ray didn't hit him.

Specific fluff areas as well as a red mustache make him look older and do more to make you understand he's much more aged than the rest of the cast.

Genuinely enjoyed the hair that they gave Husk in his flashback, it looked handsome on him. Why Vivzie didn't put that in his actual redesign is beyond me, but here it is on him now

Since his wings barely play any role in the story, I shrunk it and de-cluttered the poor thing.

The red suspenders are there to simply put a pop of color on his already muted colors.

Despite the running joke that Vivzie's characters all have a bowtie, kept it on Husk since I think it would be cute that he probably keeps it on because Niffty made it herself for him.

This is just personal, but I wanted to give him an actual cat's pattern because I saw Husk from the headcanon voices video and thought that he was a sloth for some reason.

#deadbeat motel niffty #deadbeat motel husk #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel redesign #vivziepop critical #//these two are going to send him to an early afterlife death//

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deadbeat-motel · 20 days

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I. Really like , your redesigns????? They actually take advantage of the setting and back stories that we get while also giving unique body sizes????? I can't wait to see what else you got in store!!!

Thank you! My main thing about this rewrite/Redesign is making sure every Sinner has a body type distinct from each other and a color palette that tries to be as different as possible.

I tested this out by making a color palette of each character from the original and my own roster and at least for me, I can tell who's who in mine.

(the characters are aligned with their own counterparts btw.)

If you can tell who's who from the original palettes then you will be able to know which ones are which in the Deadbeat roster (Cherri Bomb is the only one I haven't designed yet.)

#deadbeat motel redesign #vivziepop critical #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel redesign #asks stuff #//I know this was months ago and it was only Charlie Angeldust and Valerie but there are more characters now//

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deadbeat-motel · 21 days