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Sorry for the crappy quality, but I prefered to use Glaze to avoid AI stealing (you never know). It's the first of an LGBT+ Princess Tutu fanart series I want to do.

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"(Although Vox is hot, and episode 4 was great)"

You and me both there, pal.

The fuck is Charlie doing and is it interesting?

I don't mean this in a bad faith analysis type of way. I do tend to be very critical of media, tearing apart writing flaws is something of a hobby, and I will admit I haven't loved the first three episodes (Although Vox is hot, and episode 4 was great). HOWEVER, I'm genuinely curious about what the fuck Charlie plans to do with the hotel, because we saw her idea get shot down by heaven in EPISODE ONE.

I was honestly surprised to see stuff about Heaven so early, and I was especially surprised to see Charlie's idea get directly shot down by an angel so soon because it makes me question Charlie's behavior. If you don't understand my surprise or confusion, let me explain. Typically the story structure in a cartoon like this would be that the start of the show is building up the hotel, and getting someone to a point where redemption seems actually reasonable for them, and THEN they go to heaven and get shot down, potentially sending characters spiraling towards relapse in their good behavior and bringing up new challenges. This sets up the one at fault to be HEAVEN, which would eventually unite the group and bring them together again to figure out redemption for real. But that's not what's happened so far.

With Charlie getting shot down so early, and getting shot down alone, it sets up something that could potentially become very interesting if it's handled correctly, because at this point Charlie is keeping secrets from the group (aside from Vaggie). From what we've seen on the show, nobody else knows she brought her ideas directly to an angel, she pulled Vaggie aside to tell her this. Now, imagine the scenario I described previously again. They build up the hotel and get someone to a point where redemption seems reasonable, go to heaven and get shot down. But this time the interaction ends with the angels telling the group that they ALREADY told Charlie that it'd be impossible. Now in this scenario, despite the fact that heaven is still at fault, the group now also has a reason to be upset with Charlie, the one who brought the whole thing together. This could lead into a WAY MORE FUN path to coming back together and building the idea of redemption up for real, with everyone eventually believing the same way that Charlie does with actual character work necessary for the group to get there. And I really hope this is the direction that the show goes.

However, I'm nothing if not a critic, and I was let down very heavily by Helluva Boss, so I'm not impressed by Vivzie's writing. This could also get brushed off. This might've just been a rushed way to set up the extermination coming sooner and heaven being bad and dangerous. This ISN'T a hate post, I enjoyed episode 4, and I'm sure future episodes will be good too, but Vivzie's work has a bad habit of never giving interesting conflict to the female characters and never exploring them in favor of giving us more backstory for the male leads. I really hope that Charlie gets an interesting conflict with the other characters, I don't care if it's not what I described in this post, I love being caught off guard by a show, I just really want something interesting with Charlie, she deserves better than to be brushed aside like the women of Helluva Boss.

Cherri Bomb: I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of ass, so… *blows bubblegum bubble* Angel Dust: I came here to kick bubblegum and chew ass Angel Dust: wait Cherri Bomb: w a i t

It seems like the Hazbin Hotel series has been usually doing a lot more telling than showing, and one of the things that especially suffers from this is Angel's path to healing.

Episode 4 marks the start of the process; Angel starts to talk to and confide to others about his personal problems.

Episode 6, however, tells us "yeah, he's doing pretty good btw". They even show us him standing up to Valentino and shit.

Which, don't get me wrong, I'm always happy to see people giving Val the ass-kicking he deserves but like-

h o w ?

We barely see any progression of Angel Dust resolving his personal issues. Again, he learns to talk to others about his problems in Episode 4, but that's about it. And Episode 6 wants us to believe that he's been pretty good breaking his old habits (it's supposed to serve as proof for the angels in heaven that "yes, sinners can change and get better.")

Angel has been dealing with his personal addiction since even before his death (reminder that he died from an overdose in 1947). He's even chosen to name himself after a drug.

Drug rehabilation is a very slow and gradual process. Addiction to drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc. isn't something you can just turn off with the flick of a switch. It's not a habit you can easily break within a week or even a month. People say that they're going to quit, but they don't. Because they can't quit. Not without a steady rehabilation process and therapeutic/medical help.

We don't know how much time passes between each episode of the show. No matter how long the time gap between episodes 4 & 6 is, the fact remains that we're only seeing the beginning of a healing process (episode 4) and either a "third act" or the ending to that process (episode 6.)

The series shows us the beginning of the pathway to healing but then suddenly jumpcuts to a much later point.

It's like giving us a book with 80% of the pages missing.

Hopeless Revenge

I noticed something interesting in the latest chapter. When Snake is thinking about people reaching out to help him, he sees Doll and o!Ciel.

He seems to be comparing them. Interestingly, when Snake first confronted o!Ciel after the death of the circus troop, o!Ciel thought of Doll.

So Snake is making a comparison between Doll and o!Ciel and o!Ciel is seeing similarities in Snake and Doll.

Basically, I think this just shows there are similarities in all three (as well as similarities). One of the things all three had in common was the need revenge/vengeance. Doll ran at Sebastian and o!Ciel in anger. She was attacking in a lost cause to take revenge for the death of her 'family.' Snake tracked Ciel down in order to kill him to take a similar revenge.

It looks like neither Snake nor Doll will be successful. In fact, it seemed hopeless from the beginning.

So, what does say about oCiel's quest for revenge? It is just as hopeless and doomed for failure?

The Duality of Man