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Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela, OMFG

Early in today's episode of Helluva Boss (s2e09 "Apology Tour") Verosika Mayday is throwing a party with Stolas, the most recent person her ex hurt, as the guest of honor. She walks into the living room, sees Stolas there, and walks over to check in on him, like a good host does, no matter how drunk.

And I had to stop myself from alt-tabbing and searching to see if they'd recast the part, because the voice that came out was not Verosika Mayday's. It didn't sound like a succubus at all. It sounded like a tired, tipsy adult woman, probably pushing 40 and sad and a little tired, and concerned for the person she was talking to.

I mean come on, Verosika's not a main character but she's been in several episodes by now. We've heard her on stage, twice, we've heard her arguing with Blitz twice before this point, we've heard her talking to her crew, off-stage. We know what she sounds like. Drunk or nearly-sober, seductive or mocking or professional or angry, singing or speaking, she has a very consistent voice.

And this new-sounding voice actress listens to Stolas try to change the subject with a funny-sad unrelated story, encourages him to open up about his feelings, and then, when she turns to get him a slice of rage-cake, she's "Verosika Mayday" again. The enraged, drunk version we've heard before, and for almost the entire rest of the party she's "Verosika Mayday," with only one more slip into this "new" version of her that I caught, right before Stolas' big musical number.

And if Cristina Vee and whoever was voice-directing her did this on purpose, I'm awe-struck. Because it changes the whole character. It changes the whole way we should be seeing the succubuses in this show. Are succubusses voice-coached from childhood to Sound Sexy? To never ever let anyone, prey species or not, hear their natural voices? How many people have heard Verosika Mayday's real voice, when she isn't code-switched into sounding at least slightly perma-horny? Has anybody heard her real birth voice at all since childhood? Has Blitz?

I sincerely hope this was on-purpose, not a recording-booth error, because it's amazing world-building, and the "new" voice of Verosika slipped through at just the right time. Because if this was on purpose, I am even more in awe of Cristina Vee.

So... Apology tour.

Stolla is immortal?! But imps are mortals- no... No...

The amount of couples in Blitz hate party, who probably met in past parties, realy make me smile

I realy hope we see Verosika in happy relationship in future episodes. And Dennis, it's not his fault his name is Dennis

"Sorry i f*cked your mom i thought she was your dad" GKENXBI

Verosika Mayday my love 🥰🥰🥰

(But really, I love her so fucking much)

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Verosika Mayday my love 🥰🥰🥰

(But really, I love her so fucking much)

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Verosika Mayday my love 🥰🥰🥰

(But really, I love her so fucking much)

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Had to draw blitz getting run over

Verosika

I tried to draw Verosika!! :)

꧁•⊹٭𝙷𝚊𝚣𝚋𝚒𝚗/𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚟𝚊 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝٭⊹•꧂

꧁•⊹٭𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜٭⊹•꧂

꧁•⊹٭𝚁𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚜٭⊹•꧂

Ｈａｚｂｉｎ Ｈｏｔｅｌ

𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞

𝐒𝐢𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬

𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐞

𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐞

Ｈｅｌｌｕｖａ Ｂｏｓｓ

𝐅𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢

𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐬

𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲

Hssoisisis i keep forgetting to work on this one

Literally sitting in my wip folders for months now

To make sure ill rember to finish this, ill post it here aaaaaaa

Helluva Boss Apology Tour review

In retrospect, it's pretty funny that my expectations for this and The Full Moon ended up being reversed, the episode I expected to by focused on character interaction ended up being more action focused, while the episode I thought would be action focused ended up being mostly character interactions.

For those who just want my thoughts on the plot developments: Once again, I'm pleasantly surprised by how Stolas is handled, with a few moments sticking out for currently neutral reasons (it'll make more sense later).

Now, do get to the details:

I felt the opening sequence was slightly longer than needed, but I feel that was somewhat intentional, evoking a sense of unease.

The montage of the bulk of Blitz's apologies is a lovely tribute to what amounts to the first third of the show, this is easily the most callback heavy episode, but I'd say it feels earned given its place in the story. And I simply can't gloss over the brief acknowledgement of all the people who ship Martha and Mayberry, for someone like me, who has a love of those tongue in cheek fandom gags, it's a real good treat.

Speaking of references, don't think I missed Grandpa's cameo when Blitz gets to Earth, oddly enough, it's not even the characters first interactions with the hellaverse, as Brandon's channel has a sketch of Blitz and Moxxie going after Grandpa.

The song was perfectly serviceable, even if I'm not a fan of Bryce Pinkham's voice in general. I'll also take this opportunity to say I loved both the joke of an actual Blitz plush being burned and the brief shot of the last "party" Stolas attended.

The major point of the episode is obviously the conversation between Blitz and Stolas at the party, and I certainly have some thoughts on it. The first moment that stuck out to me was Stolas saying he wants someone to care about him and want him in their life, only for him to clarify a moment later that he meant it romantically feels like it was done to show that he's, at least on some level, aware that he's neglecting Octavia, which I can't wait to see catch up with him, hopefully by the end of the season. The second is when her doubles down on wanting to be wanted, the exact moment when I came up with this question:"Stolas why do you think no one wants you in their life?" And this is exactly what I hope is built on, Stolas has drowned himself in self pity for so long that there's very little to him as a person to the point that no one sees any real benefit in having any relationship with him, not just romantically, but platonically as well.

This is all building to my point, I'm genuinely starting to think that Blitz and Stolas' relationship will ultimately end on a mutually respectful break up, and if that does turn out to be true then I might genuinely end up somewhat respecting this plotline, despite the major road bumps in the first half of the season.

The last major point I want to hit is Verosika, who manages to be both more extreme and more subdued than before while still feeling completely natural. While I don't have any concrete ideas, I am very curious to see where her character goes in the future.

In conclusion, while I think I prefer The Full Moon, this is still a better episode than roughly half of season. I just hope they can keep it up in the last three episodes as well as the three shorts we'll be getting in July, August and September, which are indeed a thing, in case you weren't aware. That's all for now, feel free to leave any of your own thoughts below.

(Go check out helluva boss on YouTube, not my character, I did draw the artwork though!) Verosika fanart!

AAAAHHH I LOVE IT SO CUTE🤩🤩🤩🤩✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️💞

NAH @maralaai U NEVER TO LATE🫵✨

Completely silly, goofy and out of character 😂💞

MAYDAY MAYDAY!!! ITS VEROSIKA MAYDAY!!!!!

I was so exited to try my shiny inks that S U P P O S E D to S H I N E red in non-transparent places? buuuuuuuut no they didn`t- Verosika is still the prettiest thing in my sketchbook, even with my chonky brush strokes

Verosika redesign ( sorry it’s so messy )💕🎤🍹

You can’t tell me they wouldn’t tear those songs UP✨

I want them to be friends so badly 💕

Helluva color palette tings💕

My helluva swap au! sry my handwriting is so shit, I didn’t think I’d post this

I did meet Verosika Mayday she is so cool. 😍😍🥰🥰 And this from @lovesart23 art.