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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Night In The Woods (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Mae Borowski & Casey Hartley, Casey Hartley & Greggory Lee, Mae Borowski & Casey Hartley & Greggory Lee, Angus Delaney/Greggory Lee, Casey Hartley & Jeremy "Germ" Warton Characters: Casey Hartley, (Mentioned) Greggory Lee, (Mentioned) Mae Borowski, (Mentioned) Angus Delaney, (Mentioned) Jeremy "Germ" Warton, (Mentioned) Casey Hartley's Parents, Eide (Night In The Woods), The Cult Leader (Night In The Woods), The Cult (Night In The Woods), (Mentioned) Mr. Penderson (Night in the Woods) Additional Tags: when i say major character death the character in question died well before the series started, my second fic with that tag haha, anyway i wondered about casey's mental state during his death, and how he died and if he died well and what his last thoughts were, and i was like. obviously mae and gregg, his two dearest friends in the whole world, So here you go!, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Homophobic Language, i used a couple slurs here, including vintage ones, so be aware of that, also, implied racism, Implied/Referenced Sex, no description of sex it's just mentioned, Angst, Heavy Angst, Hurt No Comfort, gregg/casey if you squint, Fighting, Blood, References to Drugs, but like. weed, or well, i guess theres also the reference to casey's meth lab cousin Summary:

If you had asked Casey Hartley how he thought he was going to die, he would have had different answers in different years of his life.

this is what happens when you found a good post around 3 a.m.

Edit : It’s been a month since the release and my boys don’t have a ship name?!

I know I mentioned in a post before that someone on Twitter said Lute gives them religious fanatic vibes and I couldn’t agree more.

One interesting way that manifests is her fascination with Adam. Many fans have suggested she has some kind of one-sided crush on him, which I tend to agree with as well. But still, he’s basically the opposite of Heaven’s claimed ideals—he’s a complete and total asshole, curses and has casual sex all the time, and is a flagrant misogynist on top of that. And he’s not even that nice to her—he’s called her a bitch and a dumb bitch before, so it’s not a case of “Oh but he treats me nice.” Nope! He treats Lute as trash as he treats the rest of the women he’s in contact with.

Lute also expressed disgust at Vaggie and Charlie’s relationship, calling it “vile and blasphemous”—classic homophobic language which she makes sure to repeat in the courtroom when mentioning all the “cocks in his mouth” that Angel Dust had. She’s the epitome of a homophobic Christian woman who has a terrible marriage with a man-child husband, but yet still thinks herself superior to queer relationships because it’s “God’s design.” Meanwhile, Charlie and Vaggie have one of the healthiest relationships you could see onscreen. They’re well past the honeymoon phase into established domesticity, live together, share a room, share their lives, are partners in every sense of the word, and more importantly, how did each of them prepare for this life or death fight? Charlie and Vaggie affirm their love for each other in a sweet duet, stating that they love each other “more than anything.” Adam starts by telling Lute to “cool it.”

My brother mentioned that Lute would probably say “Well, no relationship is perfect”—which is exactly the kind of rhetoric these women use to explain away their useless husbands or why their marriage is miserable when they were promised it would be great. I think he’s absolutely right, and no relationship is perfect—Charlie and Vaggie just had a big conflict, but they worked through it lovingly together. Charlie affirmed that she loved Vaggie even though she was angry with her. Neither of them treat each other with the sexist, hierarchal disdain Adam treats Lute with. So it’s a really excellent comparison, and I’m impressed with how the show pulled it off.

One small line that I think is going to be massively underrated in Hazbin Hotel is the part in “Welcome to Heaven” when Charlie tries to defend Angel’s apparent decision to join Cherri and get fucked up. She says, “Are you really telling me you’ve never had a drink with friends at the end of a hard day?” Adam’s reply is, “Uh, we don’t have hard days? It’s fucking Heaven, bitch.”

That’s speaking from a position of immense privilege, but also, the fact that Adam thinks that’s a rebuttal is incredibly telling. Because that is also a Christian belief, an older one but one that continues to exist in some circles: that if you’re having a hard time, it’s your fault. You’re having a hard day and I’m having an easy one? Your fault. You’re poor? It’s because you did something wrong. Christianity believes that if something bad is happening to you, it’s because you did something to deserve it. I still struggle with that so many years later—when something bad happens to me, I start rifling through recent things I’ve done wrong to deserve it. It’s probably going to be the hardest thing Christianity’s done to me that I have to get rid of: the idea that I deserve every bad thing that’s happening to me through my own faults.

Adam not only doesn’t sympathize with Angel’s decision to have a drink after a hard day—which makes perfect sense—he seems to blame Angel for the fact that he had a hard day in the first place. His answer to Charlie’s question is essentially “Don’t have bad days then.” It’s like the “stop being poor” equivalent dismissal. He doesn’t even see his own privilege—he thinks he deserves where he is and Angel deserves where he is too: in Hell, suffering.

I loved this. No more keeping their real feelings under wraps—they said the quiet part out loud. They don’t give a shit about people trying to be better, all they care about is punishment. And that’s demonstrated by the fact that they were going to a hotel full of sinners who were actually trying to be better people and killing them first, when we saw plenty of violence and bloodshed from other sinners during Charlie’s walk to the Heaven embassy. But nope, they wanted to kill people trying to be good just to make a point: you can never be good enough to get into Heaven because it’s too late, don’t bother, and if you even try we’ll crush you twice as hard. Mocking their efforts to try especially, taunting them for even thinking they could be better, they could be good, they could change.

I loved this part. The way he said that sounded so much scarier than he normally does, like he was in serious pain from Charlie’s injury and about to hurt her badly because of it. “The fuck?! That hurts!” The shock pervading his words were interesting too, and it reeks of entitlement—like “how dare you hurt me/be able to hurt me” despite how powerful Charlie is and what Adam’s done in the past. Knowing exactly how violent men like him are (it’s a pattern), it really made me nervous to hear how angry he was.

I loved this so much. Reading between the lines of “not very open-minded” especially considering some of Adam and Lute’s comments, and then you have Lucifer who finds out his daughter has a girlfriend and likes girls and is adorably awkward about relating to her about it, and so polite and kind to said girlfriend. I think as a queer person, it’s easy to take comfort in Hell (Lil’ Nas demonstrated that very well) so this made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside 💕 When one rejects you, someone else will accept you. Hazbin Hotel did that very well.

Well… at least Adam didn’t wipe the smile off his face…

This scene invented feminism.

Thinking about different parts of Hazbin Hotel and the different parts of Christianity they critiqued.

For one, I saw some people say that they were surprised that Vaggie was maimed and kicked out of Heaven for sparing one singular demon child. That didn’t surprise me in the least. It’s very clearly a one strike you’re out situation, and for fundamentalists, they do believe some people deserve to die (yes, even children). If you don’t believe me, crack open the Bible. God kills plenty of children there. Furthermore, I like that Vaggie is a lesbian who was kicked out of Heaven. She’s literally a lesbian, but she was kicked out of Heaven for not obeying the rules, making one mistake—her story works on a literal and metaphorical level, and I love that. I don’t just like when it’s a metaphor for some type of discrimination, the literal should be there too. And I’m a lesbian, so I like relating to her.

For two, the moving of the goal posts in regard to Angel Dust. Adam came up with three completely random things, but clearly no one in that courtroom expected Angel Dust to do them. When he did, suddenly it’s “not everything is spelled in ink” and “why isn’t he here then.” Which is exactly what I expected them to do. If Angel Dust did somehow meet their arbitrary standard, they’d just dismiss it outright or come up with something else he didn’t do. Par for the course.

For three, the fact that Sera told Emily she needed to stop questioning things because if she did she’d end up Fallen like Lucifer. Because that is, once again, a Christian belief: that questioning things is a sin. You’re supposed to just accept it. It sounds bizarre, but it is true.

I think it was an excellent job in terms of critiquing Christianity and pointing out a lot of the flaws inherent. For people like me who were raised Catholic, the rhetoric and things the characters did were all-too-familiar. Even Sera describing the extermination as “a hard decision” was exactly what my grandfather said about his decision to not come to my wedding. (Which, yeah, thanks, asshole.)

🎶 When I saw your face, you made me feel like a stranger in a brand new place… 🎵

Do you know what I love about Hazbin Hotel though?

That the angels are clearly sinners too.

Not only the fact that Adam curses all the time and talks about casual sex (which, he’s possibly even cheating on his wife then??) but also, the angels kill demons and Adam even admits they enjoy doing so. He calls it entertainment.

And Vivienne’s making an excellent point: when you do something bad to a group of people who are considered beneath them, minorities, everything else…

What you do to them suddenly isn’t bad. It’s okay now, it’s righteous, because you’ve dehumanized these people.

And then when they try to fight back? Like the single slain angel exterminator? Well then magically it’s a problem.

When Lute said that “the only reason [Charlie’s] still around” is that Lucifer gave her and all the hell-borns some kind of pardon or protection from being killed in these exterminations, I was like ok, that makes sense. I was starting to wonder/assume that the extermination was something that only applied to sinners because it didn’t seem to affect any of our Helluva Boss cast.

But then I was like, wait, why would they want to kill hell-borns anyway? For sinners you could argue that they “earned” it through their bad deeds, but hell-born have no choice but to be born there? And they seem to have a functioning society, just one that’s “edgier” than human society. Also, plenty of the hell-born are good people?

But THEN, I remembered that is a fundamentalist Christian belief: that you can already be born bad, and that the same deeds can be good or bad depending on who’s doing them. Lute taunts Charlie that her life doesn’t matter…that’s a sin, right? Except no it isn’t, because of who’s doing it and to whom.

I love queer people’s takes on Heaven and Hell, they’re always great.

Why yes, I AM using these to further the Stolitz agenda.

Do you know what I love about Hazbin Hotel though?

That the angels are clearly sinners too.

Not only the fact that Adam curses all the time and talks about casual sex (which, he’s possibly even cheating on his wife then??) but also, the angels kill demons and Adam even admits they enjoy doing so. He calls it entertainment.

And Vivienne’s making an excellent point: when you do something bad to a group of people who are considered beneath them, minorities, everything else…

What you do to them suddenly isn’t bad. It’s okay now, it’s righteous, because you’ve dehumanized these people.

And then when they try to fight back? Like the single slain angel exterminator? Well then magically it’s a problem.

When Lute said that “the only reason [Charlie’s] still around” is that Lucifer gave her and all the hell-borns some kind of pardon or protection from being killed in these exterminations, I was like ok, that makes sense. I was starting to wonder/assume that the extermination was something that only applied to sinners because it didn’t seem to affect any of our Helluva Boss cast.

But then I was like, wait, why would they want to kill hell-borns anyway? For sinners you could argue that they “earned” it through their bad deeds, but hell-born have no choice but to be born there? And they seem to have a functioning society, just one that’s “edgier” than human society. Also, plenty of the hell-born are good people?

But THEN, I remembered that is a fundamentalist Christian belief: that you can already be born bad, and that the same deeds can be good or bad depending on who’s doing them. Lute taunts Charlie that her life doesn’t matter…that’s a sin, right? Except no it isn’t, because of who’s doing it and to whom.

I love queer people’s takes on Heaven and Hell, they’re always great.

“Think of who you care about; protect them and be out.” // “And then you do it for her; that’s how you know you can win.”

Was thinking about Alastor and what a complicated character he is. He resists the boxes everyone wants to put him in, doing bad and good things on the regular. One thing that does seem to be true is that he genuinely cares about the hotel and the people there, whatever his initial motives for arriving happen to be.

I was thinking about how he can be redeemed for what he did for Husk, for example, and unfortunately an idea did come to me, one that won’t leave my head:

die.

That’s one way Alastor can be redeemed, and unfortunately it seems more and more likely. The things he’s done can be forgiven and wiped out by him dying to protect the rest of the team. Not for a while, maybe not even the final season, but I could see it happening.

And also, this from the finale today:

Kinda seems like foreshadowing.