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bexistentialist

9 years ago

I'm not sure if this has any standing, but it makes me think about what I know about Millenials and Baby Boomers just as people. I know nowadays there's a lot of mentally ill youth, and they have a fear of making people feel bad or being a burden, they are people pleasers. On the other hand, the adults in our lives say things like "you're welcome" which has a tendency to make the person who was helped feel some level of guilt. Even if people are not mentally ill, I think every young person has had that feeling of guilt put into them, and so they go out of their way to make sure no one else feels guilty for being helped and to point out that it was not a problem at all in the most genuine way possible. I think it is just genuinely a trend in younger generations that they always fear being some sort of burdens. So, they tend to downplay things they need help with and downplay the good deeds they do. This is great modesty, but it is also quite harmful in some ways. Either way, neither generation has a better way of looking at these things, but they both have their positives and their trade offs. I think Millenials' use of "no problem" as simply a result of being raised by Baby Boomers and their response to this mindset that they've been given.

Speaking of linguistics, there’s one particular linguistic tick that I think clearly separates Baby Boomers from Millennials: how we reply when someone says “thank you.”

You almost never hear a Millennial say “you’re welcome.” At least not when someone thanks them. It just isn’t done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners, but because the polite response is “No problem.” Millennials only use “you’re welcome” sarcastically when they haven’t been thanked or when something has been taken from/done to them without their consent. It’s a phrase that’s used to point out someone else’s rudeness. A Millenial would typically be fairly uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” as an acknowledgement of genuine thanks because the phrase is only ever used disengenuously.

Baby Boomers, however, get really miffed if someone says “no problem” in response to being thanked. From their perspective, saying “no problem” means that whatever they’re thanking someone for was in fact a problem, but the other person did it anyway as a personal favor. To them “You’re welcome” is the standard polite response.

“You’re welcome” means to Millennials what “no problem” means to Baby Boomers, and vice versa.The two phrases have converse meanings to the different age sets. I’m not sure exactly where this line gets drawn, but it’s somewhere in the middle of Gen X. This is a real pain in the ass if you work in customer service because everyone thinks that everyone else is being rude when they’re really being polite in their own language.

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I'd be really interested to actually know a bit of the psychology behind it I could be totally wrong THIS IS JUST MY TAKE ON IT !! linguistics millenials vs baby boomers

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battlekidx2

11 months ago

Alastor Theory

Okay, I'm gonna throw my hat into the ring when it come to who has Alastor on a leash and I'm not gonna say Lilith.

I think Eve might also be an option for being the one that owns Alastor's soul.

I think the Lilith connection is a bit too obvious and Lilith hates being forced into subservience canonically within the show, so it would be weird if she chained another soul to do her bidding. And Eve is easily the character that would have the most issues with the Morningstar family, heaven, and hell. She was made out of Adam's rib and given the apple by Lilith and Lucifer. She's been a pawn in other people's plans since the beginning. She's the one blamed for original sin and it's clear she's not in heaven. She was the scapegoat while Adam got off relatively Scott free.

She has so many reasons to want to get back at everyone and what better way to gradually gain a foothold without drawing attention to herself than enlisting the services of a sinner in hell?

It’s said that Alastor immediately started taking out overlords that had been dominant for centuries the moment he stepped foot in hell. There has to be a reason for that. It feels too calculated to be a coincidence.

Plus Lilith’s disappearance coinciding with the Alastor's isn’t necessarily a factor against this theory because it can be explained as Eve essentially throwing Alastor into a battle with Lilith where Alastor was injured and had to take time to recover.

His reaction when Zestial said people thought he had been struck down by holy arms was a bit telling to me. The way he took that moment to look away and collect himself to brush it off read as Zestial hitting too close to the mark.

He's super touchy about why he was gone for 7 years and we've seen that Alastor's berserk button is his pride and he dislikes his strength being questioned. He absolutely would not want to admit he was gone because he was recovering.

That comment seemed too pointed by the writers to be completely written off.

Maybe in this battle Eve got Lilith's soul. If she doesn’t why would Lilith be gone from Charlie’s life for seven years? Why wouldn't she return around the same time as Alastor? She seemed to really care about Charlie. Charlie still tries to call her and she doesn’t seem to hold any resentment toward Lilith, so I think there would have to be a reason beyond nebulous plans that's keeping her away.

Alastor also clearly does not have a good relationship to whoever has his soul, so I kind of imagine if it was Lilith he would be a bit more hostile towards Charlie or it would show a bit more in the moments where he was alone or when Charlie isn't looking. (Alastor is the only character this show is truly subtle with)

I just wanted to put my opinion out there because I've seen so many Lilith owns Alastor's soul theories out there and I wanted to offer a different angle.

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hazbin hotel alastor lilith Eve hazbin hotel theory alastor theory this theory is just for fun I saw everyone believing the person alastor has a contract with was lilith and wanted to offer an alternative I could be totally wrong but I still had fun thinking about it

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battlekidx2

11 months ago

I actually did think about what Charlie's role in this would be and I think the reason Alastor was sent to look over Charlie would be because she'd be a pawn in Eve's plan.

Eve has been hurt by both heaven and hell. She's the one that benefits the most from this war that is coming in episode 8.

We don't know who told heaven that hell was trying to rise up against them. It's clear that Lucifer wasn't trying to start anything and Lilith (based on Charlie's story at the beginning) was mostly just building her people up. There wasn't a hint of an uprising.

So who fed heaven this lie?

Eve.

And Charlie is the only one in hell trying to change the status quo. It felt like the sinners were resigned to their fate so they just lived however they wanted at the start of the story.

Alastor would have been sent to the hotel after it was announced to ensure it didn't fail because if it succeeded then the reasoning behind the angels' extermination would come to light to both hell's inhabitants and the rest of heaven. This would then cause an actual uprising in hell.

And we know that sinners can kill exterminators because of Carmilla. (I think the only reason she could kill them could be her weapons. I think she's the one that Striker got the gun to kill Stolas from, but it's been a while since I watched that episode.)

The hazbin hotel itself looks like it's going to become a symbol of the resistance against hell in the next episode with Charlie leading the charge. Charlie is the best person for this. She's exempt from the extermination, the daughter of the king of hell, and likely very powerful (even if she doesn't show it). She's a symbol.

As a result heaven and hell destroy each other.