APPLICATION | IYASHIKEI

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Player Information

Player Name: Meowzy
Pronouns: Any
Age: 37
Preferred Means of Contact: Meowzy, PM
Invitation: Cancels itself out and disappears into the void due to mod status
Other Characters In Game: N/A
Do you have any plans for this character in the game? Having this weird man re-adjust to a society that's, y'know, not Hell will be spectacular. He's spent way more of his existence in Hell than he did on Earth, so going back to something that's more similar to that old mortal life will jar him. But hey, maybe being away from all those bad influences will be good for him??? We can't fix him because Hell was never the problem, but we sure can try to slap some duct tape on the cracks and see what happens.

Character Information

Character's Full Name: Vox (previously Vincent Whittman)
Character's Pronouns: He/him
Character's Canon: Hazbin Hotel
Character's Canon Point: Post-season 2
Character's Age: In total it'd be around 120 years old, but he spent somewhere between 40 and 50 of those years alive and the rest of it dead. So... Y'know.
Did your character willingly come to Iyashikei? If yes, why? Kind of. He briefly considered it might be nice to get away from the mess he made, and that was interpreted as acceptance.
Will they need any special accommodations upon arrival? A new body, as permitted by the mods and already being used in the TDM.

Character's History: Wikia link

Character's Personality:
Questions:

1. Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them. How would your character act once someone got to know them?
Though it does depend on the context of the first meeting somewhat, Vox tends to put up a public-facing front, especially when meeting strangers. There's a reason he's the face and voice of Voxtek. When he puts his best foot forward, he can be charismatic, enthusiastic and really speak to what it is he thinks people want to hear. This man showboats like you wouldn't believe and so long as everything goes his way, he'll draw everyone's good faith towards him like a magnet. It's no wonder he had a cult-like following both in life and in death.

What'll become obvious once someone gets to know him is that he's actually an incredibly troubled, dangerous individual. The facade is broken with (laughable) ease to reveal someone who's bitter, volatile, self-absorbed and paranoid. Whatever good nature was once in him is long dead and buried, leaving a demon in the literal sense of the word. Vox is damaged goods and once there's no need to play pretend anymore, he'll let people know it in the worst ways. He can play nice when the situation calls for it, or he can throw a fit. While he does have people he cares about, like the two other Vees, he fails to fully connect with them, still keeping them at a certain arm's length and seeing them more as assistants than actual partners. There's a lot to say about that, but let's just boil it down to an internalized belief of 'relying on other people makes you weak'.


2. What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
Vox is a trendsetter in every sense of the word. He really does know what the people want, and has a good hunch for what will be popular. When he was alive, he was already pushing for investing in color television before those were mainstream, and suggested things like 24/7 news and Shark Week (the Discovery Channel thing) in the 50s, which is a good three decades before we actually got them. Voxtek very much leans into that same thing, offering the people of Hell exactly what they want. It's implied that Vox is responsible for quite a few technological advancements in Hell, and likely also brought Earth media to the masses, since Voxtek has apparently been pirating Heaven's and Earth's channels for decades. Vox himself is a cinephile who supposedly also likes watching commercials and game shows (source: Vivziepop herself), so even after 75 years in Hell, he knows what all the latest trends on Earth are.


3. What does your character think their flaws are? What do they think their strengths are? What are their actual flaws and strengths?
Flaws??? Ha ha what are you talking about, Vox has no flaws! Anything that ever goes wrong in his life is someone else's fault and there sure as hell isn't a gaping hole deep within him, don't be silly. As for his strengths, he has lots of them. He's smart and good-looking and strong, so he's destined to lord over all those other weaklings in Hell. That's what he would insist, anyway.

Vox's actual major flaw is his major insecurity issues, coupled with his megalomania. He lives in this constant delusion that he's the most powerful, most clever person in the room, only to react very poorly when he's confronted with the fact that he's, well, not. Vox has an incredible need to keep proving that he's Hot Shit because he needs the validation. Alastor takes advantage of this in season 2 by manipulating Vox up close over the course of several episodes, insisting over and over that Vox is going to fail and that he hasn't gotten anywhere without the help of others. These accusations hit Vox so hard that he doubles down on his attempts to become the strongest sinner in Hell, casting his partners aside to 'prove' he doesn't need them. He had a perfectly good plan which involved sharing the spotlight with the other two Vees, but Alastor jabbed his insecurities so hard that he completely pivoted into a mindset where he alone is the strongest. He has to prove that he can stand at the top and be God, because he can't live with himself if he were to fail. The more resistance he gets, the more he pushes back, and this ensures conflicts escalate very quickly. Vox gets insulted, he tries to squash the source and next thing you know, he's ready to take out himself and half the city just to silence the one person who kept antagonizing him.

His actual major strength is his ingenuity. His ability to take any situation and spin it in his own favor. Using the information gained from a spy who went totally unnoticed since season one, he manages to get all of Hell's sinners on his side by consistently turning situations around to make himself look better, and even captures Lucifer Morningstar to use him as an essential tool in a way that most people wouldn't think to do. As said in an earlier question, he really knows what people want and plays into that. If what they want doesn't exist yet, he'll spearhead the initiative to make it exist.

4. What is a common misconception other characters have about your character?
One of the misconceptions is that Vox hates Alastor because of some petty little grudge. Valentino assumes Vox is 'still pissed that Alastor almost beat him that one time' (unclear what this refers to, but it sounds recent). Alastor himself describes it to Vox's followers as 'he's pissy because he asked me to join his team and I said no', which is a little closer to the truth but still far from it. There's far more nuance to this than a simple rejection.

We learn through the song Brighter that when he was still alive, Vox would take matters into his own hands. He was always jealous of others, acted alone and didn't have a shred of empathy. Vivziepop confirmed there was also some internalized homophobia at play, so Vox really just never had any meaningful connections. Then he got to Hell and met Alastor- a man who didn't judge, because he was very similar to Vox himself. They were all branded as sinners, so all those societal norms that once shackled him didn't matter anymore; he could be more like his true self. Instead of seeing Alastor as an obstacle to dispose of, he instead began to see the radio demon as someone inspiring. Someone to be his equal, to share the spotlight with. Vox genuinely believed that for the first time in his life, he had a friend and that they could be partners. He got over all his selfish pride and showed vulnerability for the first time, only to be laughed at, which laser targeted every single insecurity he had about how other people viewed him. He was accused of being weak and pathetic for even wanting something as basic as friends, let alone more than that. So basically, Vox was opening up, trying to be a more genuine version of himself, and Alastor did the equivalent of throwing a grenade into that opening. It destroyed every shred of hope for a genuine connection that Vox still had left. From that point on, Vox made it his mission to repay Alastor in kind for all the damage that was done.

So... Yeah. Little bit more complicated than a petty grudge.

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