I Don't Know If This If A Fic Already But Building On That One Trope. The One Where After Arthur Dies

MY REVIEW OF HAZBIN HOTEL EP 1!

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First thing off, I hate how the show just expects you to watch the pilot. Like the show feels like it made for viv fans who have been here from day one. Which is absolutely fine!

The thing is, the newer fans shouldn't have to feel stressed or overwhelmed trying to find out why episode 1 of hazbin Hotel didn't feel like episode 1! For example, if i got a doller for the number of people I saw post about the confusion they were feeling, I would probably be a millionaire.

So sadly, hazbin just feels like a show you have to do homework before watching it to find out what you are watching.

Okay, sorry for my rant 😅

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Summary of the episode:

Charlie gets a call from her dad to attend a meeting with the angels in his place. She does so, and we get to meet the two antagonists of the season, Adam and Lute. In the second plot of the episode, we follow Vaggie as she tries to flim a commercial of the hotel to surprise Charlie with.

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My issues with the episode short formed:

● Bad pacing

● some thing should've been kept secret for another episode to explore it further

● And it being episode 1, but instead, it was treated as episode 2 because the writers expected you to watch the pilot

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My issues with the episode long formed:

● the episode was doing too much for a 20-minute episode. It felt like it was trying to keep itself in a standard 2 plot episode but the writers got super excited for plot A (charlie part) that they try to speed up plot B (vaggie and the hotel crew part) to get back to plot A as soon as possible or they didn't understand how to go about the two parts without it becoming to boring for the fans watching.

● Some things should have been kept a secret. And which I mean, some of the things we introduced in episode 1 should've had it own episodes dedicated for that plot.

I would have it that charlie enters the meeting doors. We never see her again until the end of the episode. The rest of the episode just focuses on vaggie, the hotel, and the disaster they are causing to make the commercial. Then, after the last couple minutes of the episode have charlie walked in defeat and crash. Vaggie asks what is wrong and tries to comfort charlie, but Charlie's stays quiet on what happened during the meeting and instead goes to her room. And vaggie left there defeated as she held the camera that has the commercial everyone worked together to make.

● as I said in the beginning, this show is quite all over the place. For you truly know what is going on, you have to go on youtube, watch the pilot, then go back to Prime and watch the rest of the episodes.

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music for this episode:

I loved hell was forever! Like, I genuinely loved it so much!!!!!! If I choose a song to listen to again for the first time from Hazbin Hotel, I would choose hell was forever!

Happy day in hell, I'm sorry, but the song was okay. I didn't enjoy it that much, and if I were to rate the songs. This song would probably be one of the lasts. It just something about the song that just felt off about it.

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Overall, I give this episode a 5.4/10! I would love what else people have to say as well!

Imagine if merlin just shows up in the middle of the prayer like he's spawning out of nowhere scaring the shit out of Arthur and Mordred. Anyway, can't wait to read part 3! Loves and goodbyes ❤️❤️❤️

Aww, thank you so much! I can 100% imagine Mordred and Arthur praying, and in the middle of it, Merlin shows up with his magic crackling with power around him, his voice booming in his dragonlord voice yelling "Who dares summon Emrys- oh wait it's just you."

Arthur's just staring at him in disbelief while Mordred gives him some pastries as an offering.

Maybe Mordred would gaslight Arthur on Merlin's behalf later when Arthur commented on how Emrys very obviously looked exactly like Merlin. Mordred would blink innocently and ask "You mean he looked like Merlin to you? Emrys is known to take on the form of whoever you think of the most, so that's no surprise that your mind saw him as Merlin." And Arthur's just left as a blushing mess after that explanation lol!

flowers for you

Not really sure we are suppose to fear Alastor more than the 7 sins, but the fact he is shown as this dangerous sociopath who seems more morally evil than all the sins, can bad mouth the Devil in front of him without consequences, and the Princess herself(who in this universe I think should be the 3rd strongest in hell) seems scared of this "RaDiO DeMoN" who Is literally just a guy who fell in hell and got lucky with powers is honestly embarrassing (even more because the characters of Lucifer and Charlie are so woobified and don't use their status at all)

Honestly, I should make clear that post was a total joke.

I was thinking how Alastor is just another sinner, but somehow is able to talk down the literal king of hell and was somewhat more morally worse than the sins like you said.

So I made the post, I wasn't thinking too much about the post itself, and it doesn't help my humor is not the best to make clear it was a joke 😅

I love "Merlin crossdressing for plot reasons" fics lmao

tbh I'm pretty upset about Rosie being the owner of Alastor's soul. Like, they had the potential to have a beautiful cannibal friendship and Viv just fucking ruined it. Also them being besties would have fixed one of the main problems in Alastor's ace rep. Viv has implied that the reason Al is aroace is bc he only truly loves and cares about himself (which is a horrible stereotype of aroace people). Al having a close friendship with Rosie and ACTUALLY CARING ABOUT HER would have rectified that but noooo mean lady gotta bully the pwecious bean

When that scene officially shows, Radiorose fans are going to be in SHAMBLES. I feel so bad for them but at the same time I can’t wait for them to potentially argue with Vivziepop on bluesky. Oh, so Alastor is basically a narcissist (wait, can I say that?). That explains why his merch says “love yourself” it’s not him practicing self love but him caring about himself. 💀

Honestly, people always talk about Lucifer depression. But for me, personally, after his introduction episode, his depression is suddenly gone.

It's heavily implied he has been in a depressed state for at least 7 years. So, for it to suddenly disappear after he started talking to charlie it quite strange.

(I mean, I guess it because he became happier? But I don't know)

Not to mention his depression is also treated as a funny joke by a lot of fans

So, I just want to add before I end this post that even though the character is fictional, depression is not.

Depression can have a significant impact on a person's life, affecting their mood, sleep, appetite, and overall well-being. It's important to remember that depression is a serious mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide.

Whatever you do, don't imagine Gwaine marveling at Merlin's magic and telling him its beautiful and Merlin blushing and being so pleased at having someone who knows and enjoys his magic. (also don't imagine Gwaine kissing Merlin at random times just to see his magic spark and do things) (poor Gaius has lost more glass jars as casualties of Gwaine's sneak attacks than Merlin cares to admit to)

OH NO

Imagine Merlin needing a lot of time to get used to someone actually truly appreciating his magic so Gwaine is constantly emphasising how much he loves it to reassure him and OH NO imagine Merlin realising that the last time someone appreciated his magic like this was Freya oh my god

And eventually as Merlin actually comes to terms with Gwaine liking his magic, he starts using it more and more (in private of course) to make him smile and to feel that little bubble of pride in his chest because he’s making someone happy. With his magic.

Imagine one time Gwaine is seriously injured and distressed - he can’t get out of the cot, he’s got a fever, maybe he’s a bit confused about where he is - so Merlin sits with him, telling him a story and creating pictures with his magic, using the flames of the candles or the water from a nearby bucket or the sparks from the fire, and he rambles on and on, barely even knowing what he’s saying, and making pictures to go along with it, and Gwaine hears Merlin’s voice and sees the magical pictures and he relaxes because maybe he can’t get out of bed, maybe he’s in pain, maybe he’s confused, but he knows Merlin is there so he knows he’ll be okay.

Imagine occasionally Merlin’s nightmares get the best of him and his magic throws things around in his sleep. He wakes up to see Gwaine’s room an absolute mess, broken furniture, overturned candle holders, a smashed window. And Gwaine’s leaning over Merlin, looking frightened, and Merlin thinks “this is it. I’ve done it. He’s scared of me now.” But Gwaine, ignoring the mess of the room, searches Merlin’s face and asks “are you alright?” Because he’d been trying to wake Merlin up for what seemed like far too long and Merlin had been so terrified and he hadn’t known what to do. And he lets Merlin fall apart in his arms and he holds him until the shaking stops and finally, much, much later, Merlin looks again at the state of the room and he’s worried all over again, he tells Gwaine he’s sorry and he’ll find a way to fix it all. But Gwaine just smiles because Merlin’s here with him and he’s safe and he’s okay so who cares about his damn room, it was too ostentatious for his tastes anyway. And they blame it on a drunken night getting a bit too wild when people ask about the window and the furniture that has to be replaced, and the whole time Merlin’s nervous, sure that someone’s going to figure them out, but Gwaine just holds his hand and keeps talking to the guard and no one suspects a thing.

AND I COULD PROBABLY KEEP GOING FOREVER BUT THIS IS ALREADY TOO LONG I’M SORRY

Conference post

How come loona has so many forms?

Like aren't hellhounds supposed to be the lowest class in hell hierarchy?

I mean, it would make sense if she learned all these forms from the book, but it never stated to be case

So, like, all hellhounds have this many forms and somehow lower class under imps?

And if this is the case, hell hierarchy makes little to no sense to me. Because how is magical species of dogs with many forms lower than another species of hellborn with no powers.

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