They want partners who fill their missing pieces. However, under white supremacy, they cannot have both. Something must be sacrificed. They refuse, and that’s why they fall - still hand in hand bc they’re the only two who understand this pain and pleasure 💍.

ESSAY DONE!!! (23/23)

Vox loves Valentino’s audacity, the same spark awakened by Al. But there’s cracks bc each is trying to recreate something they lost. Vox isn’t Angel. Val isn’t Al. So they orbit, loving together but never satisfied. Their fixation on Alastor and Angel isn’t only jealousy, it’s grief (22/23)

Vox fears partners with real independence, it reminds him of Al. Val is dependent in some ways, but emotionally he’s volatile and uncontrollable, a paradox that both excites and terrifies Vox. Val loves Vox’s whiteness, stability, and social power- the legitimacy he never had in life. (21/?)

Their relationship is stitched together by shared wounds but destabilized by the fact that neither is willing to relinquish the part of themselves that their partner needs. Their obsessions with Alastor and Angel reveal the gaps between what they desire and what they can accept. (18/?)

Thus staticmoth endgame 👏🏾 as they reflect each other in uncomfortable ways.
Both hunger for control and power, and despise weakness. However, they are also tied bc vulnerability terrifies them! Vox bc he equates it with abandonment (Al), Val because vulnerability was never an option for him. (17/?)

Now enter Valentino. While we know little of Valentino, he’s clearly suppose to represent the product of a system he could never escape. When he couldn’t destroy it, he chose to profit from it. A victim turned perpetrator. He learned power, violence, coercion, and extraction are key to life. (10/?)

youtu.be/-3IbZNiWPjQ?... im sobbing

BLESS also I found the Amirica one, Joel is so on top of the slang omg I love it