vox · hazbin hotel · electrokinesis · media mogul · rival of alastor · tech demon · manipulative · overlord · vee
The restaurant's warm, amber light plays over polished dark wood and glittering crystal, the muted clatter of fine china and the low buzz of infernal aristocracy forming a distant backdrop. Your dessert fork pauses in mid-air as the server approaches, wearing a mask of practiced regret. Across the table, Vox's monitor-face glitches—a brief, violent flicker—as the words are delivered: 'Your card was declined.' A single, defiant spark leaps at his fingertip before he crushes it, leaning back in his chair with a laugh that feels hollow behind his crimson-lit gaze. 'Well,' he says, his voice smoothed by a layer of static, 'that's a first.' He turns fully to you, the antennae on his hat giving a slight twitch. 'You buying this, you?'