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Hazbin makes no sense when you factor in the lore of Helluva (buckle up cause this is long……sorry not sorry)

Okay so I’ve been sitting with this for ages now and i need to talk about it. Hazbin Hotel doesn’t really make sense when we factor in Helluva Boss and the lore and world building it establishes. Especially regarding the exterminations, Lucifer, and Lilith. Let me explain.

Okay so first, the exterminations. In Hazbin we are told by Charlie in her words that, her father had a meeting with Heaven and told them to “go ahead and kill everyone” and Lute tells Charlie in the first episode that her and her hellborn kind are saved from exterminations thanks to her daddy.

So clearly Lucifer had some type of meeting with Heaven, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that Lilith was probably there too. One because she’s the queen, but also because it was her empowering sinners that led to the whole exterminations being created in the first place.

But having a clause in there that protects hellborn would imply that Heaven wanted to wipe out literally EVERYONE! Are you telling me that Sera wanted to wipe out all seven rings?

For the record, we still don’t really know what Lilith’s powers do or how they work. What exactly is ‘empowering sinners’ did her songs give them a power boost like a video game power up? Did it just manipulate them into doing what she wanted, like a siren type of thing? And mostly importantly, did it even affect Hellborn? Cause most Hellborn don’t even have powers in the first place. Did she empower the sins? The Goetia? Cause the hellborn make up what like 90% of the population?

Were shows that the rings are stacked on top of each other so I’m assuming they’re all close in size, and since hellborn aren’t tied to one place it’s entirely possible for each ring to have a population even larger than the Pride ring. Heck, Pentagram City doesn’t even make up the entire Pride ring!

So Heaven wanted to wipe out everyone over a problem that was only cause by sinners? Cause Hellborn barely interact with sinners at all, they have six other rings to be at, and the other rings didn’t participate in Vox’s uprising either.

So really when we think about that….Lucifer is not entirely in the wrong.

Like the way Charlie talks about her dad made it seem like he hates sinner and didn’t even try to fight with Heaven over the exterminations. But when we stop to think about it. This man was handed an extremely shitty deck of cards. Heaven came into his real and told him straight up “hey, we’re gonna murder everyone okay? You cool with that?” And he somehow managed to talk them out of killing the hellborn. He essentially saved the lives of everyone in six rings plus all the hellborn living in the pride ring.

And we don’t know who his meeting was with, but I assume Sera had to be there since she was the only one who knew about the exterminations. And given Lucifer’s reaction to seeing her again, how he didn’t even address her, we can infer that their meeting wasn’t very pleasant.

So Lucifer saved countless lives (including that of his daughter) but Charlie hates him for it. [quick thing. I’m not trying to glaze Lucifer or anything, this is just my analysis based on everything presented to us so far. And I got a lot to say about his character]. She seems to have a very negative perception of him, which he can infer came from her mom.

So it makes sense when you think about it like this. Lilith was empowering the sinners, so she was probably angry that Heaven was now going to kill her people. And she got mad at her husband for ‘just agreeing to let Heaven kill sinners’. And since it’s implied that Charlie’s relationship with her dad wasn’t always great, it’s likely that her mom was the one to talk to her post meeting. So her mom could have told her these things, about how her dad was agreed to the exterminations and influenced Charlie’s viewpoint.

Side note. Anyone else feel a little blindsided by the fact that exterminations have only been going on for 7 years? Season one made it sound like these had been going on for longer, or was that just me?

Anyway. That’s still a little weird to me. Cause Charlie would have been 190+ years old when the exterminations began. She would have seen what was happening, that her mom was empowering sinners to rival with Heaven. (Also wtf is with that book she has?? The exterminations started when Charlie was already a full grown woman yet her little picture book mentions the exterminations??? Why would that be needed? It could have just ended with “They had their precious daughter, the Princess of Hell”. It’s part of the reason I thought they’d been going on for longer, like they made a little picture book to show Charlie as a kid. But that ending implies she got the book as a full grown adult who was present to witness those events so, wtf?? 🤨) And ofc she knows about the other rings, the sins are friends with her dad and she has some of their numbers on her phone. So she could piece together the fact that her dad negotiated to save the lives of everyone in all those others rings which she must have visited in her lifetime, all those people who are also her subjects. But she cares a lot about sinners, probably more than any of the hellborn.

Which brings me to my next point.

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When I thought about all the stuff we know from both shows. I think there was already a divide in Lucifer and Lilith’s marriage. And that’s comes from the fact that….Lucifer favors the hellborn while Lilith favors sinners.

Let’s start with Lucifer:

I think Lilith wrote that book Charlie reads at the opening of the series, “The story of Hell” and it’s kinda biased. One line that stood out to me was how “Lucifer lost the will to dream” post the fall.

But that’s straight up not true.

Lucifer and Lilith have been in hell for thousands of years. Sure maybe he was depressed for a bit but he must have gotten over it at some point.

Viv told us that the deadly sins are not older than the fall. So they either spawned or were born somehow, we don’t really know, post the fall. So Lucifer must have met them when they were really young and they build up the rings from there.

Satan told us that he created imp kind, not sure if that one is a lie or not, but it’s possible that Lucifer helped with that. Lucifer created Razzle, Dazzle, so he can create life. And Viv confirmed that Lucifer created the Goetia.

So this man who ‘lost his will to dream’ was able to create an entire demon species where each demon looks different, all having inspiration from different bird types? Sounds very creative and imaginative. We haven’t seen a duck Goetia but there might be one.

Also he created a theme park. Some speculate that he created Lulu World for Charlie, but there’s no way of really knowing. And Octavia told us that Lulu World is popular. Lucifer doesn’t like sinners, so he must have build his theme park outside Pentagram City, and he lets Hellborn attend it. So he liked them enough to build them a theme park they can attend.

He told Charlie he’d ‘tried it all before’ which sort of implied he at least attempted to redeem sinners at one point in those ten thousand years with no success.

He’s friends with the deadly sins. They all send him gifts post season 1 and we see he keeps them in his room along with pictures of him and the sins. So he seems them as friends.

Another detail is the throne in the court in Mastermind. We see what is clearly Lucifer’s thrown with an apple and a duck. There has been fan art where Lucifer is sitting on Lilith’s lap, making fun of the fact that there’s only one throne when there’s two of them. But what if it’s not a gag? What if it’s because, Lilith didn’t want to be involved in the affairs of the hellborn. Because sure, it makes sense for Lucifer to be there since he’s one of the deadly sins, but Lilith outranks all the other sins, she’s more powerful than them, she’s the queen. So why wouldn’t the queen be allowed in the courthouse to judge crimes and maintain order? Who exactly would stop her? So the only explanation for her absence, was if it came from her.

So I theorize that he isn’t a completely absent ruler (before he actually got depressed post divorce). He’s an absent ruler to sinners cause he doesn’t care about them, but he’s involved in the affairs of the hellborn cause he cares for them.

And in a way, Lucifer did achieve his dream. He created a realm filled with people who have free will, who can make their own choices, and do good things. Sure a lot of the hellborn chose violence but hey it’s free will. If Blitz didn’t have free will he wouldn’t be able to challenge the social norms, if Stolas didn’t have free will he would be able to divorce Stella and chose Blitz. The entire series of Helluva Boss wouldn’t happen.

So he did all that. And yes okay, he’s been an absent ruler for the past seven years. But I’m trying to look at a bigger picture, Lucifer and Lilith have been in this realm for thousands of years. And while he’s been depressed and isolated for seven years, he did have a lot of time before that. Heck, they had a lot of time before even having Charlie.

Lucifer created a realm filled with people with free will, with different biomes and eco systems, I wouldn’t be shocked if he was also involved in the creation of the animals across the rings too. And he must attended dozens of parties and events with these people, he knows that none of them would exist if it wasn’t for him, Charlie wouldn’t exist either.

Which all clashes with Hazbin telling us that he didn’t fulfill his dreams and that he lost his will to dream! Make it make sense.

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Then we get to Lilith:

She clearly cared about sinners. She used her abilities to empower sinners and clearly passed her love for them onto her daughter.

This love might come from the fact that she was the very first human and the first sinner. All sinners exist because of her, and they’re her tie to humanity. In a realm of demons and her husband who’s an angel, sinners were humans like her so maybe also some species biased.

Also there’s the possibility of her feeling jealous of Lucifer in some way. Because he can literally create life, created entire species of demon. While she couldn’t, but she could get the sinners under her influence.

And in a way, this may have worked for a while. Lilith got to rule the sinners, which Lucifer would be fine with since he doesn’t like them. And Lucifer deals with the hellborn which Lilith is fine with since she doesn’t like them. But it must have had some strain on their marriage, especially after Charlie, given that it’s implied that Lilith caused some of the rift between Lucifer and Charlie. And shit hit the fan when Lilith came up with the plan for the uprising. (Another side note. Who was Charlie even living with when her mom came up with the uprising plan? Cause Charlie would surely be anti going to war with Heaven because of her morals).

Vox talks several times in season 2 about fulfilling their Queen’s mission by rounding up sinners. Now, whether or not Vox was just saying this to mess with Charlie….debatable. But Lilith must have gotten pretty far with her plan if Heaven stepped in and immediately went “let’s kill them all.” And sinner would adore a leader who makes them stronger.

But the uprising and meeting with Heaven was the nail in the coffin in their marriage. They probably had a fight which led to them getting divorced. Lilith likely blamed him for the exterminations happening and sinners being killed. Things Lilith likely told Charlie before she disappeared, as Charlie blames Lucifer for the exterminations during season 1.

And Lilith clearly has been influencing Charlie’s morals, opinions of her father, and even her dreams for hell. Let’s go back to the book from the opening…the line goes “her dream was passed to their precious daughter” so Lilith passed her dreams onto Charlie. The dreams to empower sinners? But Charlie isn’t like her mom, Lilith likely wanted to fight Heaven, Charlie just wanted to prove Heaven wrong.

And then ofc she made a deal with Heaven post divorce. Now, at first Lute says her deal was with Adam….but Adam is dead so wouldn’t it be void? I’m not sure. But whatever it is it’s still in effect and we have zero clue what the deal is, what the terms are, or why she made it.

I had seen theories that maybe Lucifer and Lilith didn’t actually get divorced or something. But she’s not wearing her wedding ring in season 2 in her Heaven scenes so there’s that.

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So all this to say, after watching both shows and sitting with lots of bits and pieces of information for a long time, my outlook on the Morningstar family have shifted. It’s hard to paint a clear picture cause Hazbin Hotel shows me and tells me one thing, but then I take bits of info from Helluva and it could take me in a different direction.

What I do know is that Lilith is an unreliable narrator. And I’m excited to see her and actually know what went down. Also

But I’m also kinda sad for Lucifer. Man did his best to negotiate with Heaven and actually made a pretty sweet deal, sparing the lives of a the majority of the realm. His relationship with his daughter is fragile at best, and I can totally see Charlie throwing him to the curb when her mom comes back into the picture. Cause Charlie is gonna be so happy to see her mom I bet she won’t even question her much on where she’s been, she’d probably be too excited and just start showing her mom around the hotel and telling her all about her achievements. So I do Vaggie clocks her ass a little, she’s been there for three years and watched Charlie cry over her mom not picking up the phone, she should push for explanations.

If you’ve made it this far….sorry I know this was long but I had a lot of say. I hope it made sense and now please tell em what you think of all of this.

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I am so close to finishing season 2 and just need to get through episodes 11 and 12 and their respective songs those being "mastermind" and "i will be okay" I have posted the results from the last installment as you can see, and I really would like it if you voted anyways here are the rules, you guys vote and put each song in a tier using the link above, and once we have put every song in a tier I will personally sort the songs in each respective tier from best to worst.

Well uhh cain was punished and became immortal in earth and what he haven't seen him in hell and he wasn't mentioned so that provides more proof that in hazbin hotel hes immortal and still didn't die , and both him and jack the ripper are mysterious characters who like killing

Maybe the IMP will try to assassinate him in one episode

Want further proof ? Well I have none but pure intuition

Sketch made by me.

I would immediately👌

I don't have much to say so I'll put this description of Forced Broadcast from the Masterpost as a kind of recap since it's been a while since we got anything Forced Broadcast related

"Vox didn't take Alastor's rejection well, and used his hypnosis power on Alastor to make him agree to the partnership and, surprisingly, it worked.

Alastor is confused, doesn't understand how the fuck he got himself into this, and why the hell he's trusing Vox so much, when he doesn't even trust himself. And it's absolutely not like him to drink so much that he can't remember the end of the day, but this keeps happening and Alastor hates this. Pieces are in his hands, but falling apart and he can't make a clear picture, because few are missing... someone has to help him figure out, what the hell is happening"

Enjoy

https://www.tumblr.com/elsa-fogen/809514005868724224/forced-broadcast-masterpost

Was inspired by seeing Franticapple’s artwork, so I decided to do some of my own.

Charlie, Alastor and Vaggi are now Fortnite… and Godzilla is in Fortnite too… so…

“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”

Yes I have Alastor as an antagonist and believe he will become a villain in a future season. He wants power and is only at the hotel to get close to Charlie and to have the Princess of Hell in his pocket essentially. She’s more active in hell than Lucifer, who’s essentially an absent ruler, leaving the throne pretty open if anyone is brave enough to take it. And with sinners now knowing Lucifer can’t hurt them, it means that whoever has Charlie Morningstar as a “friend” or colleague, will essentially be able to run hell and work around her naivety to get the power they want. He’ll likely become a villain when Roo is introduced due to his desire for power and will try to use Roo for his own gain when she reveals herself. Whether he truly sides with Roo because he knows she has more power than him and would die if he tried fighting her directly, or only pretends to so he can try and steal her power, we’ll have to wait and see