Wait I just realized something Hazbin-related.
Did everyone get this before me??
Alastor said he’d been gone for 7 years
And that’s also how long Lilith has been gone!!
Right? Charlie said in episode one her Mom hasn’t gotten back to her in 7 years.
That can’t be a coincidence—especially since Alastor looked a little shifty when Zestial asked where he was.
And!! I saw someone point out that Lilith sang songs to help with her creations, right? Like, to inspire demons? That’s kinda similar to what Alastor does!
Okay, two theories:
One, Alastor and Lilith are related somehow.
(So by default, Alastor and Charlie are also related.)
Two:
Alastor did actually die 7 years ago and Lilith has been masquerading as him ever since.
He didn’t come to the hotel in order to be “entertained.” He did it to check on his daughter.
OH
AND
IN THE PILOT HE SHOWS UP THE SECOND CHARLIE HANGS UP WITH HER MOM!!
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wondering if childe being designed with red hair was researched and has a deeper meaning bc theres a bunch of stuff that makes a weird amount of sense. for him to have red hair specifically.
red hair is basically a mutation (mc1r gene) and it affects a bunch of different stuff, not just hair color, but also vitamin production and pain receptors
redheads in particular produce their own vitamin D so historically people with that hair color moved more towards colder climates bc they could retain heat better and thus could withstand the cold more. bc of their vitamin D production they also had stronger bones than people who didnt have red hair so its theorized that in colder climates redheads were having more children than non-redheads bc the latter just had brittler bones and had a rough time in the cold (the video i watched abt it also made a joke abt how redheads would thrive "underground" more than in the sun and well. funny that). also apparently some redheads need 20% more anesthesia than non-redheads bc they can have a higher pain tolerance
so its interesting that childe, known redhead, lives in a cold climate (snezhnaya) has a lot of siblings, and survived the abyss (makes his own vitamin D, has Stronger Bones, possibly high pain tolerance) its kind of hilarious? are u telling me him having red hair is deep. i love that
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I rewatched Grian's pov of last life some days ago (you know, as everyone does with their favorite season of the series) and the surprise I had when in the last episode I heard "Joel, this is the ultimate betrayal, I'm sorry" when they were trying to trap the main path and Joel was under a lot of TNT and Grian was just one block away of the lever that triggered everything.
Like, I knew limited life was a lot similar to last life but Grian didn't had to pull out the same phrase to one of his red allies the two times, you know?
My natural response to this information is to make a headcanon about it and make it about Grian and his trauma responds to being betrayal.
If you watch the episode he sounds like he couldn't help himself, he was nervously laughing, seeing the lever and Joel and then the lever back and saying "Joel- Joel, you don't understand!" with the same defeat energy he said "There was buttons on the floor, Jimmy!" in limited life, like it is part of his nature, like he was trying to excuse his nature and even warn Joel to get away to the fire zone before he inevitable pull the lever. I'm pretty sure he would have done it if Joel stayed there.
So yeah, silly Grian response to pull down levers and touch buttons until seeing what it does. But I want to add how this might be also an unconscious response to the trauma of being betrayed several times in the past and fearing that people he trust would do that to him again, not only for Scar big betrayal in third life but the ones in last life too.
So, let's make a list of the ones I remember:
He was exiled of the Southlands when he become red (that isn't really a 'betrayal', but he did feel that one "exiling me from the base that I create", he felt that they abandoned him because he was a loose cause now).
Mumbo and Jimmy trying to kill him a couple times until Grian end up killing both of them for being traitors (isn't curious how when he was red he never try to go for the Southlands?)
Martyn inmediatly turning against him when he was the boogeyman and leaving for another alliance the moment he become red again.
When Bdubs pretend to join the red alliance but end up killing Lizzie.
Like, this one was a group of people he trusted and wanted to stay with. And I understand most of it is justifiable, but that doesn't erase the feeling of betrayal they provoke, that stays no matter how much you want to rationalize it (and Grian does try).
And in all of this except when he was exiled he has a fight response, Mumbo and Jimmy have tried to kill him for the fourth time, that's it, he is killing them, Martyn betrayed him the second he become the Boogeyman? He is trying to kill him, Bdubs betrays the red alliance? He is killing him!
His pilot answer of being betrayal is fighting back. I think that is the reason why he was 'ultimate betrayal' Joel in that episode, because Joel has become red two times, technically he is the reason he lost his friends one time, is logical that he thinks he could betray him and tries to do it first but at the same time doesn't want to do it, doesn't want to get rid of the only friend he has left.
I think this is something Grian starts to do automatically after this. In double life, he plans the stalactite kill on Ren and he doesn't have in count that for the soulmate link he is also gonna kill BigB until he does.
And finally in limited life the las episodes Scar was threating them, trying to kill Joel a couple times. But Scar was also someone that Grian considerate an 'allie' and was pretty chill with him when neither the noisy neighbors or Cleo where around, he does the ultimate betrayal and is successful, probably because Scar wasn't putting attention, but Grian does try to warn him that he is gonna attack him, he does a quite "I'm sorry, Scar... This is the ultimate betrayal" and he apologizes but at the end, he killed him.
My other theory is combining this with Grian's curse of getting rid or being the cause of the deads of the people he cares about, almost like this is the way the Watchers punish him for entering the game: forcing him to betray people he cares about.
I could talk about Last life Grian for hours, he is my favorite and the dynamic of Joel and him is so silly I love them.
Thank you for coming to my Grian rant of the week.
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i genuinely think there’s nothing more tragic than art that is not permitted to be sincere. stories that are frightened to be stories, ashamed by the specter of their own silliness, their own absurdity, their pockmarks and cliches and fundamental honesty. art that apologizes for its own existence, begs you not to look at it, made by artists mortified by their own vulnerability, who shield themselves away layer by deadening layer in their impenetrable armor of cynicism and irony and lampshading and “it was all a dream” and “none of it was real, he was just ~crazy~ all along” and snarky little quips whenever there’s emotional honesty and meta disclaimers whenever there’s the faintest hint of imperfection, like there’s a cinema sins counter going in the writer’s head and it pings every time the armor slips. like little kids hiding their favorite stuffed animals in the back of the closet, absolutely, cripplingly terrified of being exposed as creatures that feel. that’s what’s silly!! that’s what’s absurd!! be earnest with your art!!!!! be earnest and wholehearted and sincere even when it’s silly and absurd and imperfect and excruciatingly honest!!!!! say something beautiful and true!!!!!!!!!!!!
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