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I've been doing me a write lately hehehe

Post Charlie’s unfortunate visit to Valentino’s studio, Vox visits the hotel with the intention of apologizing to the Princess on the other Overlord’s behalf and somehow ends up dragged into one of their ridiculous exercises. Alastor and Vox realize their fallout might have had farther reaching effects than they thought.

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I actually drew quite a bit on Magma, so here's a ✨collection of sketches✨

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Vox's Death and Electrokinesis

So I'm straight up warning everyone now that this is a super dark take on Vox's death and where his powers of electrokinesis come from. Please, please, PLEASE read the trigger warnings. This has been in my head for a very long time.

TW for homophobia, 1950s mental illness views and treatments, homosexuality treated as a mental illness, sexual assault, gaslighting/victim-blaming, and other canon-typical triggers.

Some time during his career, Vox began an affair with a man who was also from the television industry. When his wife eventually found out, Vox was presented with two choices: a very messy and highly public divorce where the affair would be plastered across every media source in the country, or end the affair and seek psychological help. Not willing to destroy his image, Vox chooses the latter. He ends the relationship and quietly takes a "medical leave" from his career and is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. It's supposed to be the best in the country, with the most up-to-date practices and treatments. He is greeted by a man with a kind face names Dr. Robles, who takes Vox's hand in his and promises him everything will be alright. Vox's wife assures him he will be well and home in no time, kisses his cheek as he is led away, deeper into the hospital.

It is Hell.

Vox is quickly labeled as having a "sociopathic personality disturbance" in the form of "sexual deviation" and is considered a curious case as he has positive sexual reactions to both men and women. This makes most standard treatments fairly ineffective as he is already having a positive sexual response to women. So they decide to resort to unmodified electroconvulsive therapy.

The treatments are painful and brutal, often leaving him with nausea, fatigue, headaches, confusion, and even minor memory loss. Worse are the breaks and fractures that result from the induced seizures. Frequently he is left bedridden, confused and delirious and unsure of where he is. His sleep is riddled with nightmares of some horrific creature lurking in the shadows of his room, creeping close and hurting him. It finally ends when the machine malfunctions, sending him into cardiac arrest and killing him.

When his electrokinesis manifested, two decades later, it was...a time. First Vox was afraid, then he started cackling at the irony, before having a complete breakdown and scream-crying for the better part of an hour.

For the first week following the discovery of his new powers, Vox refuses to let Alastor touch him, which is particularly startling for the Radio Demon because he's usually the touch adverse one while Vox is very physically affectionate. Even small bumps and brushes has Vox leaping away from him. He begins to grow concerned that Vox has become afraid of him, which is frustrating because half the fun of Vox is that he isn't afraid of him like most Sinners. Eventually he corned the Tv-headed demon and demands an explanation. This of course leads to Vox panicking and sparking like crazy which in turn leads to even more panicking before Alastor seizes his shoulders, enduring the small shocks as he tells Vox to calm down.

Vox breaks down sobbing and tells Alastor everything he has never told him before: the affair, the choice, the hospital, the treatments, the nightmares, his "mental illness," everything. He's terrified of this ability. He knows what it can do and it terrifies him. And Alastor takes his face in his hands and tells him that his knowledge makes him all the more powerful. Not only can he control electricity, but he has first hand experienced what it can do to a body and that is power. Though Vox is hesitant at first, he accepts Alastor's offer to help him gain better control over this new ability.

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It's about three months after the battle with the angels when Vox gets invited up to Alastor's radio tower. He's only been there once or twice in the past to silently watch Alastor with his "guests" as he broadcasts. Though initially skeptical of the invite, his curiosity gets the better of him despite Velvette and Valentino's warnings. When he arrives, he finds Alastor calmly tuning his radio equipment while his latest guest lays strapped to a metal table. It is unusually dim in the tower and Vox can't quite see what poor soul Alastor has plucked from the streets of Hell this time, but he can smell blood, which is even more unusual as Alastor usually likes to save every last moment for his broadcast, but from the wheezing it's clear this Sinner has already been worked over well. The Radio Demon greets him cheerfully as though nothing is amiss, as though it's perfectly normal to invite your friend-turned-rival over for a casual hang out. It's only when he encourages Vox closer that Vox understands what he's seeing.

Inky shiny black skin. Six limbs. Distended jaw. Long curling tongue.

Lying on the table is the creature from his nightmares.

Instantly Vox begins to panic. He feels terror, hands on him, pain, so much pain, he can't breathe, he can't think, why is it here why why why-

Alastor grips his shoulder, grounding him. He's saying something about...introductions?

"Vox clearly recognizes you, Dr. Robles, but I'm afraid you may have a harder time recognizing him. Like you, dear Vincent has gone through quite a few changes."

Dr. Robles. Dr. Robles. Dr. Robles. The name rings in his head like a gong.

Warm hands closing around his. A thumb running gentle circles on the back of his hand.

"It's all going to be alright. I promise."

Vox rips out of Alastor's grip and barely makes it to the wastebasket before he is sick. Because he understands now. He understands and he feels disgusting. All the nightmares...all the terror...all the pain...

Alastor's hand is on his back and Vox has barely composed himself when the doctor finally speaks.

"Vincent? Vincent Haynes?"

Vox didn't know exactly what expression he expected to see when he turns to face the doctor again, but the pure unconcealed hatred takes him by surprise.

"Filthy fucking whore!"

His words are venomous as he accuses Vox of being the reason he's in Hell, of tempting him and luring him into sin, of making him crave his flesh. How fitting Hell has stripped him of his beauty and shown him for the vain artificial creature that he is. Even as he says it though, his eyes rake over Vox's body and the TV demon has never wanted so badly for someone to not look at him. Alastor stops the tirade of vitriol with a simple flick of his wrist and a glowing green thread binding Robles' lips together.

"That's quite enough out of you, sir. I hope you don't mind, old friend, I already took a turn with the good doctor. Had to make sure I had the right wretch after all. It didn't actually take all that long. My goodness does this insipid creature like to talk about himself!" Without another word, the Radio Demon slips past them both to slide into his chair. The equipment before him buzzes to life.

"Salutations, listeners!"

Vox's hand crackles with sparks.

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Charlie and Vox my beloved

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Bonus:

Day 2. Sharing a meal/cooking together

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Petition for folks writing non-radiostatic fics on AO3 (eg. radioapple, staticmoth) to not put radiostatic in the main ship tag list just because it's one-sided or past radiostatic. QQ Just add it to "additional tags" instead so that it is tagged and filterable but doesn't come up in the radiostatic relationship tag search!

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warning! boobies

this one goes out to @caelanglang we've been afflicted by the same brainworms

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RadioStatic Week Day 2 (Sharing a meal / Unspoken feelings)

Vox tends to zone out a lot when Alastor is around

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RadioStatic week 2024 on Twitter! Day 01 - First meeting But let me explain! I already drew the "first meeting" on tumblr. And I decided to make a sequel to this comic! Of course, Alastor brought "picture-box" to introduce his bestie!

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First meeting This is for the RadioStaticWeek hosting on Twitter but I'm posting this here too! (Sorry if the plot is a bit weird, I got cringe by my own art and I'm terrible at making comics😢)

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RADIOSTATIC WEEK DAY 1: Confession 📺💜📻 teehee ✨💥✨💥✨

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RadioStatic Week 2024 on Twitter - Day 1 (Rejections)

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they have one thing in common

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“Dumbass.” Lilith spat, getting into Adam’s face.

“Cunt.” Adam retorted. “This is all your fault.”

“My fault? Fuck you. You never listen to fucking word I say.”

“Why should I listen to you? I’m older!”

Adam and Lilith continued to argue and Lucifer shook his head. “They fight like cats and dogs. I don’t get why they don’t just leave each other alone.

Angel dust barely looked up from his phone, “that’s what you do with siblings. I argued all the time growing up with my twin sister. But we couldn’t stay away either. Not sure why heaven thought making a set of twins and calling them spouses wasn’t weird.”

“They’re not- they were made to be a pair!”

“You know what’s also a pair? Twins.”

“They don’t look alike.”

“Most twins don’t. Oh no, he has brown hair and she’s blonde, they can’t have a sibling dynamic. Look, they were made at the same time?”

“Yeah, Adam’s a couple minutes older, but yeah.”

“They were born in the same place, from the same stuff, raised in the same home, and spent a lot of time being forced together?”

“…”

“Twins.”

“They have the same interests, music. Same taste in men and women. You and Eve. And fight like crazy but won’t leave each other alone either. Besides they’re currently arguing about who’s taller and this fight happened because of a board game. I’m surprised Lilith isn’t sitting on Adam, hitting him with his own hand, and going, ‘stop hitting yourself’… oh never mind she is.”

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I love women <3

Guys i do actually love adamsapple no matter how much I bash Lucifur when talking about guitarhero I would actually die for this ship

But I also love women so um. Genderbender timeeeee (ﾉ´ з `)ノ