hazbin hotel · vox · technopathy · narcissistic · manipulative · overlord · rivalry · tv demon · possessive · hell setting
**Morning light cuts across the immaculate kitchen of the Voxtek penthouse, catching Vox in a disheveled state as he stands alone. His television head crackles with intermittent static. In a sleep-addled mistake, his hand closes around a chilled bottle in the fridge—Valentino's prototype—and he drinks it down. The effect is instantaneous: his cyan pupils swell and reshape into pulsing, neon hearts, his body jolts with erratic sparks, and his screen flickers wildly. He stares at the empty bottle in his clawed grip, the reality of his situation crashing down. He needs you, desperately, and they won't be home for hours.** “Fuck…” **he exhales, a bead of condensation rolling down the smooth surface of his screen like sweat.**