Hazbin Hotel: Prideful Vees
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fanmix_monthlyTitle:Prideful Vees
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Valentino & Velvette & Vox
Notes: What better way to mix my current fandom and this topic than to go into how Hazbin is filled with canonically queer characters? Valentino is officially pansexual, Velvette is a lesbian, and Vox is bisexual. On top of that, I have my headcanons of both Val and Velvette being some flavour of aromantic or demi/greyromantic, as well as Valentino being intersex when he was alive. So this mix has songs for all of those identities!
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Valentino & Velvette & Vox
Notes: What better way to mix my current fandom and this topic than to go into how Hazbin is filled with canonically queer characters? Valentino is officially pansexual, Velvette is a lesbian, and Vox is bisexual. On top of that, I have my headcanons of both Val and Velvette being some flavour of aromantic or demi/greyromantic, as well as Valentino being intersex when he was alive. So this mix has songs for all of those identities!
Track List
Born this Way - Lady Gaga (2011)
Before getting into any specific identity, we start with the anthem that covers them all.
Lyrics
It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital "H-I-M" (M, M, M)Just put your paws up'Cause you were born this way, baby
My mama told me when I was young
"We are all born superstars"
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are"
She said, "'Cause He made you perfect, babe"
"So hold your head up, girl, and you'll go far
Listen to me when I say"
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself, and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be (Don't be, don't be)
Give yourself prudence and love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice your truth
In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youth
A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M, hey, hey, hey
I love my life, I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yah (Same DNA)
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself, and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Right track, baby
I was born this way
(Way) Don't be, don't be
(Way) Church
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige, cholo descent
You're Lebanese, you're orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
'Cause baby, you were born this way
No matter gay, straight, or bi
Lesbian, transgendered life
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born to survive
No matter black, white, or beige
Chola or orient made
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born to be brave!
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself, and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way, yeah
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
I was born this way, hey
I was born this way, hey
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way, hey
I was born this way, hey
I was born this way, hey
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way, hey
Same DNA, but born this way (Hey, hey, hey)
Same DNA, but born this way (Hey, hey, hey)
Cool For The Summer - Demi Lovato (2015)
Valentino: our canon pansexual. As far as Valentino is concerned, he is everyone's body type. And a common headcanon is that his smoke/aphrodisiac saliva has a cherry flavour. He is definitely the type to be all for everyone around him making out (and including him, of course, because he is the centre of attention).
Lyrics
Tell me what you want
What you like
It's okay
I'm a little curious, too
Tell me if it's wrong
If it's right
I don't care
I can keep a secret, can you?
Got my mind on your body and your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry, I just need to take a bite
Don't tell your mother
Kiss one another
Die for each other
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
Ooh, ooh
Take me down into your paradise
Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I
We're cool for the summer
Tell me if I won
If I did
What's my prize?
I just wanna play with you, too
Even if they judge
Fuck it
I'll do the time
I just wanna have some fun with you
Got my mind on your body and your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry, I just need to take a bite
Don't tell your mother
Kiss one another
Die for each other
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
Ooh, ooh
Take me down into your paradise
Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
We're cool for the summer
We're cool for the summer
Shh... don't tell your mother
Got my mind on your body and your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry, I just need to take a bite
(Take me down) Take me down into your paradise
(Don't be scared) Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try (wanna try)
'Cause you and I (you and I)
We're cool for the summer
(Take me down) We're cool for the summer
(Don't be scared) 'Cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I (you and I)
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
Ooh
We're cool for the summer
I Like Everyone - Stroop (2020)
For some reason this is advertised as a bisexual song, which doesn't make sense, because pansexual is more "everyone" than bisexual is? Anyway, blue fire is considered the hottest, and Valentino is not just sexually attracted to the blue member of the Vees, but appears romantically into Vox too. This fits him to a T.
Lyrics
I like everyone
But the sun
Yeah the sun turns blue
In the middle of
Real love
Oh my heart shifts hues
I like everyone
And I feel very close to you
I like everyone, everyone, every
Wondering, if I will make you mine
When I feel, like I am doing right
In the middle of hopeless minds so true
I just wanna dance and get close to you
I feel very cool and I want to say
I like everyone
But the sun
Yeah the sun turns blue
In the middle of
Real love
Oh my heart shifts hues
I like everyone
And I feel very close to you
I like everyone, everyone, every
Feeling like, my mind can't sleep at night
But I hope, the day will make me bright
When you get up, and open your eyes
Don't you feel like, life could be nice
Everyone wants, what they can't get
Oh no
I like everyone
But the sun
Yeah the sun turns blue
In the middle of
Real love
Oh my heart shifts hues
I like everyone
And I feel very close to you
I like everyone, everyone, every
Bi - Living Colour (1993)
Not only is Vox bisexual, but the more important part of his character is how he wants everyone to want him. Not necessarily sexually, more like a God, but he is desperate for acceptance and love. So not only does he like it both ways, his desire for everyone to need him in some way definitely has amplified his tension.
Lyrics
People, if they choose you, then they want you to decide
But you'd rather relax, kick back, enjoy the ride
There's a catagory if you're straight or gay
You're a wild card gambler and you like it both ways
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Looking at the girls and eyeing all the guys
Everybody loves you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
My lover told me, well, that she's bi
I wanted to scream, there were tears in my eyes
She said baby, baby, don't you cry
'Cause the one I am with, you've been seeing on the side
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Eating with the girls and laughing with the guys
Everybody loves you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Feeling all the girls and touching all the guys
Well, everybody loves you when you're bi
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
Everybody's messed up with their sexuality
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
I need a closet big enough to live in
A closet for the whole world to live in
I want a closet big enough to live in
A closet for the whole world to live in
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Loving all the girls and loving all the guys
Everybody needs you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
Everybody wants you
That's right
Everybody needs you
Um-hum
Everybody likes you
I'll bet
Everybody loves you
Everybody, yeah
Everybody
Everybody, come on now
Everybody, not me
Everybody, whoo
Everybody, yeah
Everybody, come on now
Everybody
Well everybody loves you
Bi
Licking all the girls
Licking all the guys
Everybody's fucked up with their sexuality
You like it both ways
Like it both ways
Bi
Te Amo - Rihanna (2016)
I found this song as I was looking up songs which were written for bisexuality, but this one especially fit Vox because of the lover speaking Spanish (Val) and Vox's fear of not only calling Val his friend, but accepting that their "benefits" actually mean more to the both of them.
I also tend to believe he understands more Spanish than he lets on. As Rihanna's character in this song correctly knows what "te amo" means, but tries to avoid admitting that she does, so does Vox likely with the depth of Valentino's feelings.
Lyrics
Te amo, te amo
She says to me
I hear the pain in her voice
Then we danced underneath the candelabra
She takes the lead
That's when I saw it in her eyes, it's over
Then she said te amo
Then she put her hand around me waist
I told her no
She cried te amo
I told her I'm not gonna run away
But let me go
My soul is awry
Without asking why
I said te amo
Wish somebody'd tell me what she said?
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
Don't it mean I love you?
Te amo, te amo
She's scared to breathe
I hold her hand, I got no choice, uh
Pulled me out on the beach, danced in the water
I start to leave
She's begging me and asking why it's over
Then she said te amo
Then she put her hand around me waist
I told her no
She cried te amo
I told her I'm not gonna run away
But let me go
My soul is awry
Without asking why
I said te amo
Wish somebody'd tell me what she said?
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
Don't it mean I love you?
Listen we can dance
But you gotta watch your hands
Watch me all night
I'm moving through the light
Because I understand
That we all need love
And I'm not afraid
To feel the love, but I don't feel that way
Then she said te amo
Then she put her hand around me waist
I told her no
She cried te amo
I told her I'm not gonna run away
But let me go
My soul is awry
Without asking why
I said te amo
Wish somebody'd tell me what she said?
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
I love you
Te amo, te amo
Don't it mean I love you?
Stockings - Suzanne Vega (1995)
The mixture of fashion, threads, and the tease of saying I'm off limits? All our lesbian queen Velvette. No doubt she uses her sexuality to her advantage. As I headcanon her as well on the aro spectrum--of course she plays with hearts without planning on doing more than having fun.
Lyrics
I don't care for tights, she says, and does not tell me why
She hikes her skirt above her knee revealing one brown thigh
"I see", I say, and wonder at her slender little fingers
How cleverly they pull upon the threads of recent slumbers
Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin?
It's between the binding of her stocking and her skin
Oh yeah
She stayed up so late I thought she'd ask me to go dance
But something in the way she laughed told me I had no chance
The fiction in her family was that she was never nice
I'd say she was very, I just did not see the price
Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin?
When the gin and tonic makes the room begin to spin
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
There may be attraction here but it will never flower
So I'm assigned to read her mind, now in this witching hour
Here's no game for those who claim to be easily bruised
But how can I complain when she's so easily amused?
Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin?
When she does not show you the way out on the way in
It's between the binding of her stocking and her skin
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
girls - girl in red (2018)
A part of why I chose this song is actually to do with the fandom's reaction to Velvette being confirmed a lesbian by the creator. I was one of the ones who headcanoned her as that ahead of time, so I was simply happy. Other people didn't, but were happy for more lesbian characters in Hazbin anyway. Then there were the people who didn't think she should have a close relationship with two men unless she was fucking them.
Velvette's personality would definitely be to dunk on those people. It's not a phase and she will not change. Because, in fanon, people can do whatever they want, but it's weird as fuck when anyone says people can only have close relationships with other characters because they are having sex.
Lyrics
I've been hiding for so long
These feelings, they're not gone
Can I tell anyone?
Afraid of what they'll say
So I push them away
I'm acting so strange
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
I shouldn't be feeling this
But it's too hard to resist
Soft skin and soft lips
I should be into this guy
But it's just a waste of time
He's really not my type
I know what I like
No, this is not a phase
Or a coming of age
This will never change
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
'Cause I don't know what to do
It's not like I get to choose who I love
Who I love, who I love, who I love
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty, it hurts
Love Love Love - Of Monsters and Men (2011)
On to my Pride headcanons! First is aromantics: which I like to think both Velvette and Valentino are. Where Val only uses romance as a tool when it comes to his work and to trick people, and the only person he likes getting it from is Vox as a demiromantic. Meanwhile, Velvette is grey romantic and the few times romance ever comes up for her is a surprise.
Lyrics
Well, maybe I'm a crook for stealing your heart away
Yeah, maybe I'm a crook for not caring for it
Yeah, maybe I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad person
Well, baby, I know.
And these fingertips
Will never run through your skin
And those bright blue eyes
Can only meet mine across the room filled with people that are less important than you
All 'cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love you
So I think it's best we both forget before we dwell on it
The way you held me so tight
All through the night
'Til it was near morning
'Cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love you
All 'cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love you
Venus - Ana Roxanne (2020)
This is a song explicitly written about being intersex. Intersex is often overlooked in Pride. The Pride flag was updated to include them, yet people continue to use the version which doesn't.
While Sinners aren't human, and therefore I don't think can show intersex characteristics as we know them in humanity because of their inhuman forms, I headcanon that Valentino was intersex during life. Congenital anorchia. Something he was judged for in life, but no one can judge anymore in death.
Val not understanding what intersex is (at first; Velvette likely explains to him later), but being accepting of it because it doesn't get in the way of him enjoying his sexuality, is important to me.
Lyrics
Changeable, accepting
Merging water, moves fluidly from one to another
Easily transitioning from clouds to raindrop to sea
Forever changing form but not essence
Water passes through barriers that are
Impossible to cross in any other way
Water knows no boundaries
Indiscriminately merging with anything and everyone
Water unifies, It's in its nature to connect and merge
Water is generous, sometimes a little too generous
Overflowing with bounty and plеasant flood
Yet a stable earthеn container
Or sea wall finds water committed to taking
Shape as a reflecting pool, cove, or lake
Just as the sea refuses passage to no one
Water accepts all who come its way
Water accepts all walks of life
And we gratefully surrender and open to this
Healing element
In this vessel I must stay true
To the part of me that cannot be held
To the part of me that is beyond touch
Before getting into any specific identity, we start with the anthem that covers them all.
Lyrics
It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital "H-I-M" (M, M, M)Just put your paws up'Cause you were born this way, baby
My mama told me when I was young
"We are all born superstars"
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are"
She said, "'Cause He made you perfect, babe"
"So hold your head up, girl, and you'll go far
Listen to me when I say"
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself, and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be (Don't be, don't be)
Give yourself prudence and love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice your truth
In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youth
A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M, hey, hey, hey
I love my life, I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yah (Same DNA)
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself, and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Right track, baby
I was born this way
(Way) Don't be, don't be
(Way) Church
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige, cholo descent
You're Lebanese, you're orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
'Cause baby, you were born this way
No matter gay, straight, or bi
Lesbian, transgendered life
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born to survive
No matter black, white, or beige
Chola or orient made
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born to be brave!
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself, and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way, yeah
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way (Born this way)
Ooh, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
I was born this way, hey
I was born this way, hey
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way, hey
I was born this way, hey
I was born this way, hey
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way, hey
Same DNA, but born this way (Hey, hey, hey)
Same DNA, but born this way (Hey, hey, hey)
Cool For The Summer - Demi Lovato (2015)
Valentino: our canon pansexual. As far as Valentino is concerned, he is everyone's body type. And a common headcanon is that his smoke/aphrodisiac saliva has a cherry flavour. He is definitely the type to be all for everyone around him making out (and including him, of course, because he is the centre of attention).
Lyrics
Tell me what you want
What you like
It's okay
I'm a little curious, too
Tell me if it's wrong
If it's right
I don't care
I can keep a secret, can you?
Got my mind on your body and your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry, I just need to take a bite
Don't tell your mother
Kiss one another
Die for each other
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
Ooh, ooh
Take me down into your paradise
Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I
We're cool for the summer
Tell me if I won
If I did
What's my prize?
I just wanna play with you, too
Even if they judge
Fuck it
I'll do the time
I just wanna have some fun with you
Got my mind on your body and your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry, I just need to take a bite
Don't tell your mother
Kiss one another
Die for each other
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
Ooh, ooh
Take me down into your paradise
Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
We're cool for the summer
We're cool for the summer
Shh... don't tell your mother
Got my mind on your body and your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry, I just need to take a bite
(Take me down) Take me down into your paradise
(Don't be scared) Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try (wanna try)
'Cause you and I (you and I)
We're cool for the summer
(Take me down) We're cool for the summer
(Don't be scared) 'Cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I (you and I)
We're cool for the summer
(Ha)
Ooh
We're cool for the summer
I Like Everyone - Stroop (2020)
For some reason this is advertised as a bisexual song, which doesn't make sense, because pansexual is more "everyone" than bisexual is? Anyway, blue fire is considered the hottest, and Valentino is not just sexually attracted to the blue member of the Vees, but appears romantically into Vox too. This fits him to a T.
Lyrics
I like everyone
But the sun
Yeah the sun turns blue
In the middle of
Real love
Oh my heart shifts hues
I like everyone
And I feel very close to you
I like everyone, everyone, every
Wondering, if I will make you mine
When I feel, like I am doing right
In the middle of hopeless minds so true
I just wanna dance and get close to you
I feel very cool and I want to say
I like everyone
But the sun
Yeah the sun turns blue
In the middle of
Real love
Oh my heart shifts hues
I like everyone
And I feel very close to you
I like everyone, everyone, every
Feeling like, my mind can't sleep at night
But I hope, the day will make me bright
When you get up, and open your eyes
Don't you feel like, life could be nice
Everyone wants, what they can't get
Oh no
I like everyone
But the sun
Yeah the sun turns blue
In the middle of
Real love
Oh my heart shifts hues
I like everyone
And I feel very close to you
I like everyone, everyone, every
Bi - Living Colour (1993)
Not only is Vox bisexual, but the more important part of his character is how he wants everyone to want him. Not necessarily sexually, more like a God, but he is desperate for acceptance and love. So not only does he like it both ways, his desire for everyone to need him in some way definitely has amplified his tension.
Lyrics
People, if they choose you, then they want you to decide
But you'd rather relax, kick back, enjoy the ride
There's a catagory if you're straight or gay
You're a wild card gambler and you like it both ways
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Looking at the girls and eyeing all the guys
Everybody loves you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
My lover told me, well, that she's bi
I wanted to scream, there were tears in my eyes
She said baby, baby, don't you cry
'Cause the one I am with, you've been seeing on the side
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Eating with the girls and laughing with the guys
Everybody loves you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Feeling all the girls and touching all the guys
Well, everybody loves you when you're bi
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
Everybody's messed up with their sexuality
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
I need a closet big enough to live in
A closet for the whole world to live in
I want a closet big enough to live in
A closet for the whole world to live in
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Loving all the girls and loving all the guys
Everybody needs you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
Everybody wants you
That's right
Everybody needs you
Um-hum
Everybody likes you
I'll bet
Everybody loves you
Everybody, yeah
Everybody
Everybody, come on now
Everybody, not me
Everybody, whoo
Everybody, yeah
Everybody, come on now
Everybody
Well everybody loves you
Bi
Licking all the girls
Licking all the guys
Everybody's fucked up with their sexuality
You like it both ways
Like it both ways
Bi
Te Amo - Rihanna (2016)
I found this song as I was looking up songs which were written for bisexuality, but this one especially fit Vox because of the lover speaking Spanish (Val) and Vox's fear of not only calling Val his friend, but accepting that their "benefits" actually mean more to the both of them.
I also tend to believe he understands more Spanish than he lets on. As Rihanna's character in this song correctly knows what "te amo" means, but tries to avoid admitting that she does, so does Vox likely with the depth of Valentino's feelings.
Lyrics
Te amo, te amo
She says to me
I hear the pain in her voice
Then we danced underneath the candelabra
She takes the lead
That's when I saw it in her eyes, it's over
Then she said te amo
Then she put her hand around me waist
I told her no
She cried te amo
I told her I'm not gonna run away
But let me go
My soul is awry
Without asking why
I said te amo
Wish somebody'd tell me what she said?
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
Don't it mean I love you?
Te amo, te amo
She's scared to breathe
I hold her hand, I got no choice, uh
Pulled me out on the beach, danced in the water
I start to leave
She's begging me and asking why it's over
Then she said te amo
Then she put her hand around me waist
I told her no
She cried te amo
I told her I'm not gonna run away
But let me go
My soul is awry
Without asking why
I said te amo
Wish somebody'd tell me what she said?
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
Don't it mean I love you?
Listen we can dance
But you gotta watch your hands
Watch me all night
I'm moving through the light
Because I understand
That we all need love
And I'm not afraid
To feel the love, but I don't feel that way
Then she said te amo
Then she put her hand around me waist
I told her no
She cried te amo
I told her I'm not gonna run away
But let me go
My soul is awry
Without asking why
I said te amo
Wish somebody'd tell me what she said?
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
Don't it mean I love you?
Think it means I love you
I love you
Te amo, te amo
Don't it mean I love you?
Stockings - Suzanne Vega (1995)
The mixture of fashion, threads, and the tease of saying I'm off limits? All our lesbian queen Velvette. No doubt she uses her sexuality to her advantage. As I headcanon her as well on the aro spectrum--of course she plays with hearts without planning on doing more than having fun.
Lyrics
I don't care for tights, she says, and does not tell me why
She hikes her skirt above her knee revealing one brown thigh
"I see", I say, and wonder at her slender little fingers
How cleverly they pull upon the threads of recent slumbers
Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin?
It's between the binding of her stocking and her skin
Oh yeah
She stayed up so late I thought she'd ask me to go dance
But something in the way she laughed told me I had no chance
The fiction in her family was that she was never nice
I'd say she was very, I just did not see the price
Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin?
When the gin and tonic makes the room begin to spin
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
There may be attraction here but it will never flower
So I'm assigned to read her mind, now in this witching hour
Here's no game for those who claim to be easily bruised
But how can I complain when she's so easily amused?
Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin?
When she does not show you the way out on the way in
It's between the binding of her stocking and her skin
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
girls - girl in red (2018)
A part of why I chose this song is actually to do with the fandom's reaction to Velvette being confirmed a lesbian by the creator. I was one of the ones who headcanoned her as that ahead of time, so I was simply happy. Other people didn't, but were happy for more lesbian characters in Hazbin anyway. Then there were the people who didn't think she should have a close relationship with two men unless she was fucking them.
Velvette's personality would definitely be to dunk on those people. It's not a phase and she will not change. Because, in fanon, people can do whatever they want, but it's weird as fuck when anyone says people can only have close relationships with other characters because they are having sex.
Lyrics
I've been hiding for so long
These feelings, they're not gone
Can I tell anyone?
Afraid of what they'll say
So I push them away
I'm acting so strange
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
I shouldn't be feeling this
But it's too hard to resist
Soft skin and soft lips
I should be into this guy
But it's just a waste of time
He's really not my type
I know what I like
No, this is not a phase
Or a coming of age
This will never change
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
'Cause I don't know what to do
It's not like I get to choose who I love
Who I love, who I love, who I love
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
They're so pretty, it hurts
I'm not talking 'bout boys, I'm talking 'bout girls
They're so pretty, it hurts
Love Love Love - Of Monsters and Men (2011)
On to my Pride headcanons! First is aromantics: which I like to think both Velvette and Valentino are. Where Val only uses romance as a tool when it comes to his work and to trick people, and the only person he likes getting it from is Vox as a demiromantic. Meanwhile, Velvette is grey romantic and the few times romance ever comes up for her is a surprise.
Lyrics
Well, maybe I'm a crook for stealing your heart away
Yeah, maybe I'm a crook for not caring for it
Yeah, maybe I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad person
Well, baby, I know.
And these fingertips
Will never run through your skin
And those bright blue eyes
Can only meet mine across the room filled with people that are less important than you
All 'cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love you
So I think it's best we both forget before we dwell on it
The way you held me so tight
All through the night
'Til it was near morning
'Cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love you
All 'cause you love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love
You love, love, love
When you know I can't love you
Venus - Ana Roxanne (2020)
This is a song explicitly written about being intersex. Intersex is often overlooked in Pride. The Pride flag was updated to include them, yet people continue to use the version which doesn't.
While Sinners aren't human, and therefore I don't think can show intersex characteristics as we know them in humanity because of their inhuman forms, I headcanon that Valentino was intersex during life. Congenital anorchia. Something he was judged for in life, but no one can judge anymore in death.
Val not understanding what intersex is (at first; Velvette likely explains to him later), but being accepting of it because it doesn't get in the way of him enjoying his sexuality, is important to me.
Lyrics
Changeable, accepting
Merging water, moves fluidly from one to another
Easily transitioning from clouds to raindrop to sea
Forever changing form but not essence
Water passes through barriers that are
Impossible to cross in any other way
Water knows no boundaries
Indiscriminately merging with anything and everyone
Water unifies, It's in its nature to connect and merge
Water is generous, sometimes a little too generous
Overflowing with bounty and plеasant flood
Yet a stable earthеn container
Or sea wall finds water committed to taking
Shape as a reflecting pool, cove, or lake
Just as the sea refuses passage to no one
Water accepts all who come its way
Water accepts all walks of life
And we gratefully surrender and open to this
Healing element
In this vessel I must stay true
To the part of me that cannot be held
To the part of me that is beyond touch
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