Small neat detail I noticed: Vox's and Sir Pentious' use of their hypnotism kind of reflects their characters.
Vox actively uses his hypnotic eye to influence people into believing him and buying from him. And he uses it very often. To the point that when any kind of obstacle comes his way, the hypno-eye just seems to activate on instinct.
Pentious has only used his hypnotism once so far and it's when he's defending himself from Angel Dust. His hypnotism is also much weaker than Vox's. Whereas Vox seems to be able to brainwash people and the effects last for some time, Pentious's hypnosis only stuns Angel and Angel manages to break out of it after like a second.
Husk having once been an Overlord makes so much sense when you look at his character design. The Overlords are the sinners who own the most souls. They also have visual theming that communicates what their entire "deal" is. Carmilla is made of steel and points and she sells weapons. Valentino looks like a pimp and works in the porn industry. Alastor is a radio host. Presumably their jobs and specialties (or simple conquest) is also where they get most of the souls they own, like Valentino with Angel Dust.
But there's a gap in the line-up. Gambling. There's no Overlord with an obvious gambling motif like Husk has. Out of all the exploitative industries where people could end up signing their very souls away, gambling seems like the most obvious. So as the only character who looks like they could be running a bunch of casinos where people go so broke they end up betting their souls, which Hell has to have, it fits Husk very well.
Okay I’m currently proud to announce that I am working on a new indie pilot! It’s a fan made spinoff of Hazbin!! It’s about a whole different group of characters from Hazbin instead of Charlie and the rest of the hotel. I’m not going to spoil the plot but I will probably start leaving teasers and sneakpeaks. Also here’s a clue about who the main characters are!
The series will probably be around 5 to 8 episodes?? Maybe?? Anyway the series will be voiced by my friends including my bestie Zoey and my boyfriend Kai!! We can’t wait to share it with everyone! It might take a while since all of us have school but we will manage lol. FEEL FREE TO ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT IT!! I WILL GLADY ANSWER LOL. Stay tuned!!
Crack theory that only has like a 2% chance of actually happening but that makes sense to me regardless: Niffty is Alastor’s daughter. In the early 30’s, right before his death, some of Alastor’s friends set him up with her mother. They hooked up, although it was rather perfunctory and Alastor didn’t particularly enjoy it. He was killed before she even realized she was pregnant. Even though Niffty’s not particularly powerful and is a bit of a liability, Alastor keeps her around out of his own twisted sort of affection.
The thing about the Continental is that they kind of failed to fulfill its promise on all fronts. It was literally billed as "from the world of John Wick" but there wasn't really anything about it that put us in the realm of the universe except for the gold coins.
They also hyped the hell out of Katie McGrath/the Adjudicator. And there was hardly anything of her either.
It's a real shame that they used a vengeance plot... I think John Wick cornered the market on that story. So it would have been interesting to see a different motivation. And as much as I enjoyed the detective's story, *every* single plot in the series boiled down to vengeance. Except for the Adjudicator.
But that's only because she wasn't *given* a story. Even if they didn't want to give her a backstory, she could have been our portal into further lore about the hotel, and the inner workings of the world under the High Table.
They didn't even give us that.
Ultimately it was underwhelming and failed to fulfill its potential. If you're in it just for Katie McGrath, in my opinion either give it a miss or else watch the cut of just her scenes. It's not worth the watch.
The Hotel Vanderbilt installed a radiophone set, February 28, 1922. This is the new operator, Mollie Culligan. A radiophone was a radio that allowed people to converse.
Alright here's my full (possibly hot) take on redesigning Hazbin Hotel characters and making a video showcasing those redesigns while you criticize the official designs.
First and foremost, you are redesigning someone else's OCs. Hazbin Hotel is, in essence, a passion project for Viv. How she talks about it makes that incredibly clear to me. The only difference between Hazbin Hotel and, for example, the story I'm developing surrounding some of my D&D OCs is that Hazbin Hotel got picked up by a streaming service and is significantly more popular than most passsion projects get.
Personally if someone wanted to redesign my D&D OCs, I wouldn't mind it, in fact I'd probably think it was really cool that someone would want to redesign one of my OCs to be closer to their tastes in terms of what they like to draw. I would, however, be made incredibly uncomfortable if someone made a video redesigning them where they also pointed out everything they thought was wrong with the designs. I didn't design these specific D&D characters to be 1-to-1 accurate to their classes in D&D or to look professionally designed. I designed them how I wanted them to look for the story I'm telling because I don't plan to ever play them in a campaign. The main character Avlan is a paladin, and I can acknowledge that his design might not look exactly like a paladin. One of the tabaxi in the story (Ice) is a bard and the other (Spark) is a ranger, and I acknowledge that their classes might not come across well in their designs. The single tiefling I've designed for this story (Tragedy) is a cleric but might not come off as one in their design. But I specifically designed them to be easy for me to draw because I want to be able to tell this story through my art. Having someone say "oh, Avlan's armor isn't paladin enough!" or "Avlan's fur colors and patterns should be closer to a wild rabbit's because harengon shouldn't be based on domestic rabbit colors!" would fucking hurt (especially because I'm so attached to Avlan, but it would hurt just as much if similar comments were made about Ice, Spark, or Tragedy). I am so passionate about these characters and being told their designs are bad or wrong in some way would be like a stab in the heart, and it would still feel like a stab in the heart if this story ever got a massive fandom behind it. Giving Avlan more complex armor because you think it'd look cool or just want to see what it'd look like? Sure, if I could draw more complex armor I'd give him more complex armor too. Giving him more complex armor but also shitting on the armor I decide to draw him with? My motivation to draw him in his armor, potentially draw him period, would be dead for WEEKS.
Why is it suddenly okay just because someone's passion project was picked up by Amazon Prime? Why is it suddenly okay to be "fixing" someone's character designs just because the project has a much bigger budget than most artists get and is on a popular streaming service? It's not. I don't care if you're a professional character designer, or think a specific character would look better with certain traits, or just don't like the character designs.
Hazbin Hotel is still Vivienne Medrano's passion project, and redesigning her characters and making videos talking about everything you think is "wrong" with them is, honestly, disgusting. You can make videos explaining your choices in your redesigns without putting down the designs that already exist, whether you like them or not. Me thinking Lucifer looks better with his tail not restricted to his full demon form doesn't suddenly mean I don't like his official design, because I fucking love it. If you wouldn't do it to an artist whose passion project is just a webcomic here on Tumblr, don't fucking do it to an artist whose passion project got picked up for a cartoon by a big streaming service (or any company for that matter).