Well, the problem is, anyone who gets successful isn't just accepted in, the gatekeepers control basic platforms. Funding. There's realistically little hop unless you check the prog stack list.
which translates to what we got with Hazbin. It was never going to be subversive, but even as prog prop it falls due to the same chilling impact of fag taste makers and sex pests.
Your lead, forced into an inorganic and uninteresting dyke romance? Oh that's because shipping from your staff. An episode that actually deals with the humanity of a protagonist in sex work? Anti gay!
Even where she got it right she had to beck peddle. Now if a twisted perverted brown girl of ambiguous sexuality is having to do that, what hope does someone with actual storytelling chops have? none.
I really think it's mostly "she's a shit-tastic writer" as much as "a fucking fujo" with a side of "she claims to be bi for clout but is grossed out by other women and likely even herself." If she's trying to do prog-stack shit she's failed, since she hasn't shown anything gay in a positive light, and the only good relationship I can think of is Moxie and Millie, which is hetero, lmao.
How anyone would struggle to find interesting dynamics between a fallen enemy from heaven and the heir of hell is beyond me, simply on the level of the natural consequences of power dynamics, tensions, and one protecting the other. Vaggie feeling obligated to pay Charlie back or otherwise staying on her good side seems natural, and if Charlie was perceptive, something she'd try to say Vaggie didn't owe her. On top of that, an angel taking the fall over killing a kid would be exceptionally compelling, and likely something Charlie would bring up when Vaggie felt like she was "kept" out of sympathy, or pity, or ass-kissed a bit too hard given the alternative is walking the streets of hell.
What's really funny to me is they stumbled on something interesting in a vapid tumblr sort of sense, but then abandoned even that:
"Vaggie wears the pants in the relationship."
To the autist, spanking it while they scroll one handed, this is little more than "VAGGIE TOPS!1one!" To everyone else with fully featured brains, something like "Oh, Vaggie makes Charlie feel safe and relieved in private, huh, that's why that relationship really works" could be realized, but that would only really work in the show if they leaned into it, showed it, and Charlie had any pressures as a princess at all, which she doesn't, and they instead glossed over their relationship except for showing Charlie as childish and stupid. Instead, it was a throwaway Instagram thing for lazy hype generation and Vivz probably thought "lol it's funny, Charlie's a child and needs a minder and I can get attention from autists with this tripe." and considered that to be on par with developing their relationship, which would be worth an episode at least.
What Charlie offers besides security, affluence, and a way for Vaggie to accomplish what she gave up heaven for is fucked up to think about, going by the show as it stands. Charlie's the only way for Vaggie to not be poor and most likely terribly abused and exploited, so if she has to put up with an idiot who is also likely a pillow queen that's not the worst deal for the pit. That said, she might well be so childish she's not sexual at all, there's that. Imagine if there was some actual exploration of a developed and deep relationship, or even one that's got more than its share of tension and friction but with actual love to smooth out the rough spots and make it work and give it some chemistry?
You don't even have to animate any icky girl girl sex, Vivz, just do the melodrama you love so much, except with some depth! Wait, this is Vivz, she's likely never had a good relationship, if one at all. I'd doubt she's had any sexual experiences that were positive, if any at all, and she's bi for clout. And honestly probably autistic.
I just realized Vaggie/Charlie and Blitzo/Stolas have many parallels. Serious lower status "pants wearer", bumbling noble who needs help; the key difference is the fujo likes gay sexuality but not lesbian sexuality, to the point that even miss cinnamon roll piper's idea of a good time can't be shown, but the fucked up shit between Stolas and Blitzo is a-okay.
Charlie getting ready to beat Val's ass getting snipped in the bud was fucking ridiculous. If she's going to bitch out that fast, have her just cry or something? Why show a glimmer of agency just to have Angel say "no just let the rapist overlord treat me like shit!"? At least crayon-drawing sped hell Piper pissed Val off. Why both Charlie and Lucifer just take shit from sinners is absolutely beyond me.
As I have just shown, even in its own terms, Hazbin fails to show gay relationships in any kind of positive light, instead going for "characters are gay and make nasty jokes" and "hell is totally seedy and Angel's a druggie prostitute sex slave faggot and he gets raped a lot." Helluva Boss's lead gay relationship is unbelievably fucked up, meanwhile the het imp couple seem to be pretty decent, albeit with Millie being pretty thin and boring because Vivz is actually straight and only likes male characters. This reminds me of how hetero MtF troon autists really only like women and their fiction is almost always nothing but women, devoid of men, just reversed. The fact that the fujo queen here managed to only show one healthy relationship, that's hetreo, is unintentionally hilarious in the most sad fucking way imaginable.
I cannot help but reflect on the fact that If Charlie was a man, we'd get "Dickie" as his angel boyfriend (lmao) and probably way more development of both characters, and Hazbin might have shown a healthy gay relationship. This would also help Vivz maintain interest since she only likes gay stuff since she's a terminal fujoshi. Instead, she went with "Disney princess in hell" in the most vapid way imaginable, lost interest in her own lead, and also managed to make the devil into an autistic Brony along the way.
The Aristofaggots.
In conclusion Vivz is an autistic fujo who needs therapy and a boyfriend who is willing to take something for the team that likely involves a bag of flour to find the wet spot.
