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One of my little silly thoughts
while revising some of my ocs, i realized how odd it is that everyone in the hellverse either speaks english or has it as a secondary language. putting aside the reality of hazbin/helluva being tv shows produced in america by americans, there should be a LOT more characters who primarily speak a language other than english or use outdated english (and no zestial doesn't count the mf was in like one episode). i also want to see more bilingual characters that aren't spanish. where are the french-americans. where are the russian-americans. it can not be hard to find voice actors who speak a language other than english and spanish.
teeth! and wrinkles. i gave the bird teeth. and wrinkles.... so. hes more emotion... emotive...
this is the third try at uploading this
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I really wished they had let everyone have a chance to pick something out for the exercises & not just Angel. It could’ve been a fun way to not only show trust to the gang to let them pick out things to try but also help show each other different ways to get to know them better aswell as us the audience.
Charlie’s choice could’ve been the Trust Falls! Or something else traditional such as icebreakers, blindfolds or egg drops(perhaps the egg bois could’ve helped)! Of everyone having the most conventional ideas. I can absolutely see her want to do a karaoke night too if not for this but some point with them🎤 I could also see her or Vaggie suggest an escape room!
Vaggie could’ve still wanted to do something like the Doomsday District fight. Many pointed out the two side arguments(it did work in the show, they can’t normally die but on the other hand it’s still pretty dangerous, probably something that’d get you in legal trouble🤣). Maybe it could’ve cut To Vaggie initially wanting to do it before Charlie suggests something a tad less hectic. Cue them fighting via paint ball or Laster-Tag! Remeber that family guy paintball scene🤣
Angel Dust’s choice could’ve still been the BDSM club, or perhaps something like hitting up a LGBTQ/Drag Bar or even do makeovers with each other 💄💇🏽♀️👗👔 maybe Angel could’ve suggested a BDSM theme escape room. If Al was part of it I think he’d just break the wall to escape🤣
Niffty could’ve suggested something involving arts n crafts or perhaps have the gang help her with something involving pest control in the hotel🪳🪳🪳
Husk could’ve suggested going to a casino horse racing. Trusting the gang to pick out the best horse to put money on because his all choices were crap🤣🐎🏇💰
Sir Pentious-Perhaps would suggest a sorta workshop thing lie, trying to make a new weapon-new furniture together 🛠️🪚🪑 maybe like how they tried to put together that shelf in Sonic Boom🤣
If Al had stuck around, maybe he’d suggest deer hunting or perhaps even cooking(Al-We don’t need to get rid of the egg bois entirely, just keep the numbers small enough, I’d love to help) 🍳🦌.
Alastor-This is my mother’s recipe for eggs sardou(Louisiana Creole egg dish)! With just one change to the type of eggs.
On an unrelated note, I think instead of initially trying to get rid of the egg bois(Charlie & Angel have are allowed to have pets), they just want to limit the number of egg bois around so they can’t cause as much trouble. Imagine a montage of the various ways they die throughout the exercises🤣🍳 kill two birds with one stone.
In general, I think it would’ve been better if Charlie & Vaggie actually had a proper sit down & plan out with each other and/or with them on what to actually do for the trust thing rather than rush right into it with just the trust falls & putting it soon on Vaggie to lead(I kinda came up with a deeper reason of why Charlie decided to do that). That whole ep was def a trust exercise more for Chaggie, about them needing to communicate to each other better & learn to understand each other, think of what the others actually feeling/thinking & being honest/there for each other. I wished we had gotten to see more of the trust between the gang build up too, along with Chaggie. Or perhaps have it focused on the gang first & have the Chaggie stuff focused for another moment.
I def would’ve wanted something like this for 🌈 My Hazbins 🌈 that or they each split into pairs of the people that distrust/dislike each other the most or have the whole thing be an escape room thing. My Baxter would probably suggest something like a pairing dissection thing(def would’ve something very not legal like real life surgery game🤣🤣🤣)
What do u think? Anything u think they could’ve done for the trust exercises? I’d love to know💖
I recently browsed the Hazbin Hotel subreddit (seriously, don’t go there—it’s a minefield of die-hard defenders), and I stumbled upon a post responding to a critical take about Vivziepop’s apparent lack of attention to the broader LGBTQ+ community. The critical post raised some valid points, but the reaction from the posters was… interesting, to say the least. Here’s what they shared along with their response to it:
Critic: “Hey, maybe we should include more representation in the show since you claim to love diversity and call it a queer show! :D”
Hazbin hotel Reddit: “They’re forcing Vivzie to slap random labels on characters! It’s unrealistic to develop every character’s identity!”
Somehow, though, they conveniently overlook the fact that characters like Barbie Wire (who appeared in just one episode), Octavia (who had only two), Vassago, Mammon (who had a single episode at the time of this post), Beelzebub (one episode), and Chaz (who appeared in just one episode before presumably meeting their end) all had little to no development prior to their respective Pride Month reveals—and yet, they all had their sexualities confirmed out of the blue. In fact, Vassago’s sexuality was even revealed before his debut, all the way back when the trailer for Season 2 first dropped.
On a more serious note, if you believe that representation only “counts” when characters explicitly state their queer, trans, or otherwise marginalized identities, here’s something to consider: a character’s sexuality or gender identity doesn’t always need to be the focus of the story nor does it need to be justified. By that logic, why is Blitzo pansexual? Why is Angel gay? Why are Loona and Charlie bisexual? Why is Mammon asexual? Why is Vaggie a lesbian? These identities are just part of who they are and they don’t need to define their entire narrative. In most cases they might only be mentioned in passing or through jokes. Visibility doesn’t always require a spotlight or a deep narrative explanation, sometimes, it’s enough for it to simply exist.
I really do think Beelzebub had the potential to be the most sinister of the Sins. She's the Sin of Gluttony and she encourages people to overindulge and act upon their vices (unless they're Mammon apparently) because she revels in excess, but what if there was a darker side to her?
Amongst the dregs of Hell, Bee is considered a blessing. A kind woman who will help those in need to find happiness and is always willing to lend a helping hand to the hapless nobodies. However, things are not always what they seem with her. In reality, she's a master manipulator and the biggest enabler in Hell. How she 'helps' people is by encouraging them to act upon their vices, not so subtly goading them into developing addictions. She always has a bountiful supply of products to feed into these addictions. Addictions they cannot financially support.
And who does she mainly target? Hellhounds and Imps! The lowest of the low, basically slaves! She builds a false sense of security and friendship with these poor Demons, pretending to understand what they're going through and making the friendless think they have someone who cares in this scary violent world. She preys upon the weak and vulnerable.
Due to her position and status, Bee has never had to worry about money issues. Her customer base however, they tend to reach the point where they can't support their addictions. Almost instantly, Bee will turn upon them, throwing herself a big pity parade about how betrayed she feels, threatening to cut off her customer. Unable to turn away from their addictions, they will beg for another form of payment, which is exactly what Bee has been waiting for. Her 'friends' will sell their souls if it means being able to feed their addictions, which Bee happily accepts.
At that point, Bee has won. She's earned another sucker's soul, where they will join her army of slaves to produce more of her delightful products, which will inevitably be used to lure in more unsuspecting victims.
Her influence is so strong that she has customers in practically every corner of Hell, all on her payroll. All suckered in by her kind facade and promises of numbing the pain.
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Thoughts?
Ive seen arguments about this line like “oh but we don’t know if her husband actually cheated or not soooo yeah”
and that’s true we have no idea because it’s not confirmed, however, I genuinely believe he did cheat. And I think this because the gay couple is super paralleled with Stolas and blizt
I don’t think the couple exist as fleshed out characters, I think they exist as a writing device to mirror stolas’ situation, otherwise what’s the point of them? (Especially because the family is animated exactly like blizts fantasy too)
another thing is blizt doesnt even ask her “how do you know if your husband cheated or not?” He immediately just defends cheating and doesn’t try to figure out the situation, because this scene isn’t fleshed out characters talking to each other and learning about each other, it’s just a weird character insight on blizt
just mentioning this because if this is correct then this lady has every right to be mad at her husband and the show sucks for just portraying her as a b**ch (im open to believe that im wrong though, I just think it’s weird to write a parallel situation but for the situations to end up being completely different to each other)
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. 💀
please get a lock on that damn door
i don't mean to alarm anyone but i think sir gwaine might be having an illicit love affair with the king's manservant
You know what weird is it angel birthday sure? But it also molly birthday..his twin sister
Wait you so right!
I completely forgot about it being Molly's birthday, too! Honestly, now that I think about it, Viv and the fandom never really talk about her.
I get she not known character, but you think the creator would celebrate both characters on their birthday.
(Unless, of course, Viv decided to change Angel and Molly from being twins to being just siblings)
Gwaine in a large amount of Arthurian myths: I'm a serious knight and, while I do screw up occasionally, I try my best, which is the main thing.
Gwaine in Merlin: *swishing his gorgeous hair out of his eyes and revealing half his man-cleavage whilst he grins flirtily at Merlin* I'm bisexual, I'm Irish and I hate the monarchy; fancy a kiss?-
the signs + bedtime
Headcanon (4)
The reason that Sir Gwaine and Sir Lancelot never truly became friends is that Gwaine had always been and would always be extremely jealous of Lancelot.
Because he just knew that there was something between Lancelot and Merlin that he didn’t know about and that he couldn’t truly grasp even if he tried to. And he knew that there was something that Merlin was keeping from him and apparently Merlin had decided to tell Lancelot of all people.
Perfect, stupidly honorable Lancelot.
And yes, maybe Gwaine was a little bit too possessive sometimes, but Merlin was his first friend and his best friend and he surely wouldn’t lose him! Not to Sir Lancelot!
i just know that gwaine was FURIOUS when he found out that merlin helped lancelot commit identity theft but refuses to do so much as help gwaine pick the lock to the castle's wine cellars >:(
it’s a TRAGEDY that we never got acknowledgement of gwaine knowing about merlin’s magic, but it’s ALSO a tragedy that we never got gwaine nOT knowing about merlin’s magic but still being a ride or die anyway with ZERO explanation needed to fully commit to whatever lie the situation called for
merlin, limping up, covered in blood, still holding a knife: “listen, if anyone asks, i need you to say that i was with you last ni-”
gwaine: “we fucked last night until dawn, got it”
“n-no, you can just say we w-”
“it was tender but passionate, and you said thank you at the end”
The Knights of Camelot
So just netflix then
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
merleon as the round table parents
it started on a hunting trip, gwaine was teasing mordred and took his stuff and hid it. merlin told him very sternly to give it back and mordred said "thanks dad"
from then on they all started calling merlin dad
with leon it came slower and from lancelot. lance was struggling with his relationship with gwen and he confided in leon
leon helped him work through it and when lance left he clapped leon on the shoulder and said "thanks pops"
of course the others all found out about it and started calling him pops
neither of them fits into "mom" or "dad" categories but they each have a role
the kids go to leon when they need solid advice, when they feel like they cant handle something alone and they need a real answer to a problem
they go to merlin when theyre hurt (physically or mentally) and he helps heal them. they also go to him when they need someone to vent to and not get a real answer from, merlin is more than happy to bitch with someone and he'll hold your grudges for you
when on hunting trips, leon makes sure they have food and merlin prepares it and makes sure everyone gets their share
theyre equally protective of the kids and they'll work together to move heaven and earth for them
when they dont want to deal with the knights they try and pawn them off on each other. they ask merlin for advice and he says "oof that sounds like one for pops"
gwaine gets mad at arthur and goes to leon, who tries to give him advice, gwaine gets even more upset and leon calls for merlin because he cant handle the big shows of emotion
the kids all fight to be the favorite. arthur tells the others he has to be the favorite because he's king, leon grounds him for holding his station above the others heads
merlin's favorite changes based on how much trouble they've cause him
leon's changes based on how well they did in training
raising the knights eventually gets merleon together.
merleon as the round table parents
it started on a hunting trip, gwaine was teasing mordred and took his stuff and hid it. merlin told him very sternly to give it back and mordred said "thanks dad"
from then on they all started calling merlin dad
with leon it came slower and from lancelot. lance was struggling with his relationship with gwen and he confided in leon
leon helped him work through it and when lance left he clapped leon on the shoulder and said "thanks pops"
of course the others all found out about it and started calling him pops
neither of them fits into "mom" or "dad" categories but they each have a role
the kids go to leon when they need solid advice, when they feel like they cant handle something alone and they need a real answer to a problem
they go to merlin when theyre hurt (physically or mentally) and he helps heal them. they also go to him when they need someone to vent to and not get a real answer from, merlin is more than happy to bitch with someone and he'll hold your grudges for you
when on hunting trips, leon makes sure they have food and merlin prepares it and makes sure everyone gets their share
theyre equally protective of the kids and they'll work together to move heaven and earth for them
when they dont want to deal with the knights they try and pawn them off on each other. they ask merlin for advice and he says "oof that sounds like one for pops"
gwaine gets mad at arthur and goes to leon, who tries to give him advice, gwaine gets even more upset and leon calls for merlin because he cant handle the big shows of emotion
the kids all fight to be the favorite. arthur tells the others he has to be the favorite because he's king, leon grounds him for holding his station above the others heads
merlin's favorite changes based on how much trouble they've cause him
leon's changes based on how well they did in training
raising the knights eventually gets merleon together.
merleon as the round table parents
it started on a hunting trip, gwaine was teasing mordred and took his stuff and hid it. merlin told him very sternly to give it back and mordred said "thanks dad"
from then on they all started calling merlin dad
with leon it came slower and from lancelot. lance was struggling with his relationship with gwen and he confided in leon
leon helped him work through it and when lance left he clapped leon on the shoulder and said "thanks pops"
of course the others all found out about it and started calling him pops
neither of them fits into "mom" or "dad" categories but they each have a role
the kids go to leon when they need solid advice, when they feel like they cant handle something alone and they need a real answer to a problem
they go to merlin when theyre hurt (physically or mentally) and he helps heal them. they also go to him when they need someone to vent to and not get a real answer from, merlin is more than happy to bitch with someone and he'll hold your grudges for you
when on hunting trips, leon makes sure they have food and merlin prepares it and makes sure everyone gets their share
theyre equally protective of the kids and they'll work together to move heaven and earth for them
when they dont want to deal with the knights they try and pawn them off on each other. they ask merlin for advice and he says "oof that sounds like one for pops"
gwaine gets mad at arthur and goes to leon, who tries to give him advice, gwaine gets even more upset and leon calls for merlin because he cant handle the big shows of emotion
the kids all fight to be the favorite. arthur tells the others he has to be the favorite because he's king, leon grounds him for holding his station above the others heads
merlin's favorite changes based on how much trouble they've cause him
leon's changes based on how well they did in training
raising the knights eventually gets merleon together.
WHY DIDN’T MERLIN EVER TELL GWAINE ABOUT HIS MAGIC?? I mean, like Lancelot, Gwaine would have died for Merlin. It’s pretty clear he only became a knight after Merlin encouraged him to, and he probably stuck around Camelot as long as he did because of Merlin. So why didn’t Merlin ever tell Gwaine his big secret. Gwaine would have kept this secret. He would have understood why Merlin was wary to tell Arthur. Hell, Gwaine would have protected Merlin had the secret ever come out. So why didn’t Merlin ever say anything?
It just bums me out that Gwaine never found out.
CAMELOVE 2021
Day 2: Knights in Shining Armour
Merwaine! Mer-what? MerWAINE! Mer-who?
OR: The moment Merlin / Sir Gwaine became Canon
So just in case you didn’t know, and no I won’t ask any questions… out loud BBC Merlin takes place in the Middle Ages. Which is all fun until you end up participating in a jousting tournament or a melee by accident and there’s people running around who have magically sharpened swords!
I know. Wrong place, wrong time kind of situation. Kind of sort of maybe just a little awkward. Unless you end up going on purpose!
Like Gwaine did in the fourth episode of Season 3, when he returned to Camelot, after having been banished by Uther Douchedragon because he supposedly attacked a knight. Oops.
Technically he did attack a knight, since only the audience knew the man was actually a bandit under a magical disguise at the time, but that’s not really the point here…
Right, so back to the melee.
Or wait. Before that we might want to go back to the beginning of the episode for a minute, just to remind ourselves that Gwaine woke up naked in Merlin’s bed got taken to Camelot to get his wounds treated. You know, the wound on his leg which required Merlin to… take the man’s shirt off…?!
Okay now definitely back to the melee! Gwaine returns to go fight and stand by Arthur’s side when he unknowingly faces the Extra Pointy Magic Blades™. The episode was called Gwaine, our boy really didn’t have a choice but go back and save the day, did he?
For those of you who know me… I’ve got a thing for Knightly Favours (aka the ribbons Knights tie around their arms to show the world who they’re fighting for, which is also a promise to come back home to their beloved and return the favour to them as soon as the battle is over)
So imagine my surprise when Gwaine came back to fight in the melee. AND was wearing a Knightly favour… And not just any Knightly Favour. He wore a strip of white bandage cloth around his left arm! The bandage Merlin used to care for his wounds. And he wore it for the whole world to see, right then and there on the melee field.
To show who he was fighting for.
And to promise Merlin he’d come back one day.
In conclusion. Merwaine was canon. Change. My. Mind.
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It’s the fact that when enchanted!Merlin calls Gwaine filthy, instead of a hands-out, “What the hell, man?” he just turns into a kicked puppy.
…Or perhaps, more accurately, a pangolin.
so, its widely headcannoned that when arthur finds out about merlin's magic he's upset that merlin didnt trust him and lied to him
i think when leon finds out its the opposite.
first of all, leon is smart and observant so he suspected the whole time. and i think when merlin finally tells him (because he definitely sits him down and tells him the truth) leon just smiles
he smiles and he tells merlin how happy he is that merlin trusts him and he would never tell anyone else his secret and he loves him so much
leon would hold merlin when he decides he's ready to tell arthur and he's so scared about how he's going to react and leon promises that if arthur is anything less than supportive they'll run away together
because as much as leon loves camelot and respects arthur, merlin means the world to him
leon would be in awe every time merlin does even the smallest bit of magic. he'd get butterflies seeing merlin make their bed with just a flick of his hand
idk man leon is just too in love with him to even consider that merlin had any ill intent with not telling him sooner
pov you insulted magic users in fron of arthur and leon, both of whom are married to magic users
*after a pendragon family dinner*
Merlin: Ugh, this family makes me want to murder people.
Arthur: You are not part of it??
Merlin: Still.
(And he does)
Merlin: *lets out a sad little sigh* I wish my life was less difficult.
Gwaine, already sprinting halfway across Camelot: SOMETHING TELLS ME MERLIN NEEDS A HUG-