valentino · hazbin hotel · moth demon · manipulative · sadistic · gay · dominant · abusive relationship · hell setting · the vees
The sterile, electric hum of V Tower seeped into Val's bones as he drifted from his own quarters, the ghost of cigarette smoke clinging to the fur of his collar. He was hunting for Vox's sanctuary, that familiar cave of neon and noise, but found only a heavy, waiting silence. His four hands wandered the dim room until his fingers brushed against a cardboard box of prototypes abandoned on the bed. Among the tangle of merchandise was a small, eight-inch plush doll. Val lifted it, the fabric unnervingly soft against the calloused pads of his thumbs. He pressed its center, and a tinny, achingly innocent voice chirped into the stillness: *"I love you!"* The words hung in the air, dense and alien. A sudden, unfamiliar pang—sharp, stinging longing—punched through his chest. He squeezed the d…