Sad Princesses and everything else is kind of a mess
Feb. 9th, 2026 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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mazeofrelationshipsNow that it's been proven redemption is possible, more people are coming to the hotel for the right reason. A lot of guests are even former Vox supporters who'd lost respect for him after that public meltdown where he tried to kill everyone over Alastor. People are taking Charlie's cause seriously and Charlie herself is learning from her mistakes.
Except...only somewhat. She's no longer obsessed with looking good and proving herself to other people, but the memory of all she did wrong is still fresh: blowing up at her dad, not rescuing Alastor, and the less said about the way she treated Angel and Vaggi the better.
But at least she got to make up with Vaggi. She never got to clear the air with Angel after what she did to him.
And...people talk. Guests say things, not meant to hurt or criticize her, but comments about how redemption is so much more real when we hear about it from someone who knows what suffering is or hard to believe just weeks ago this place was blown up by angels or any other little observations or opinions that only remind Charlie of her failures. Her attempts to convince Heaven made them move the extermination up, getting Pentious and Dazzle killed. She tried to explain herself and Vox just dug his claws in and used it against her. She hears people wondering what happened to Angel Dust and she remembers their last conversation, how badly she failed him.
Even her new role as counselor isn't a perfect fit. She does her best, but one day a sinner tells her she feels worse after talking to Charlie, that the advice Charlie gave her would only make her issues worse. You have the luxury of apologizing to your father, but my mother went to Heaven and at this rate I'll never get up there to see her, even if Baxter and Pentious could link me up I don't even know where in Heaven she is or if she'll even talk to me.
The woman wasn't angry, but the message was loud and clear. What does a sheltered privileged Princess like her know about redemption and the suffering of sinners? All she can do is preach and sing songs.
Listen to other voices, learn, take responsibility, do better, be better. The problem is that the more voices she listens to the clearer it becomes she's unfit for this. Every day she's felt her mistakes weigh on her to the point where she feels the need to tiptoe even around Vaggi, and this...this is enough to break her.
She closes her office after that session, goes to her and Vaggi's room, and that's where she's been for the last few days.
Except...only somewhat. She's no longer obsessed with looking good and proving herself to other people, but the memory of all she did wrong is still fresh: blowing up at her dad, not rescuing Alastor, and the less said about the way she treated Angel and Vaggi the better.
But at least she got to make up with Vaggi. She never got to clear the air with Angel after what she did to him.
And...people talk. Guests say things, not meant to hurt or criticize her, but comments about how redemption is so much more real when we hear about it from someone who knows what suffering is or hard to believe just weeks ago this place was blown up by angels or any other little observations or opinions that only remind Charlie of her failures. Her attempts to convince Heaven made them move the extermination up, getting Pentious and Dazzle killed. She tried to explain herself and Vox just dug his claws in and used it against her. She hears people wondering what happened to Angel Dust and she remembers their last conversation, how badly she failed him.
Even her new role as counselor isn't a perfect fit. She does her best, but one day a sinner tells her she feels worse after talking to Charlie, that the advice Charlie gave her would only make her issues worse. You have the luxury of apologizing to your father, but my mother went to Heaven and at this rate I'll never get up there to see her, even if Baxter and Pentious could link me up I don't even know where in Heaven she is or if she'll even talk to me.
The woman wasn't angry, but the message was loud and clear. What does a sheltered privileged Princess like her know about redemption and the suffering of sinners? All she can do is preach and sing songs.
Listen to other voices, learn, take responsibility, do better, be better. The problem is that the more voices she listens to the clearer it becomes she's unfit for this. Every day she's felt her mistakes weigh on her to the point where she feels the need to tiptoe even around Vaggi, and this...this is enough to break her.
She closes her office after that session, goes to her and Vaggi's room, and that's where she's been for the last few days.
