Velvette

"♪ Haha, you've got it twisted. I'm not the one who needs a new attitude. Maybe you missed it, but I'm that #Bitch and I will do nothing less than what I please. Woo! I'm the backbone of the Vees. Mad that I acted respectless? Well, it's 'cause no one could respect this. ♪"

- Velvette, to Carmilla Carmine

Velvette (pronounced Velvet) is one of the many Overlords in Hell and is a major antagonist in Hazbin Hotel.

She is a close associate of Vox and Valentino and is the self-proclaimed "backbone of the Vees".

Appearance
Velvette is a slim demon with cedar-brown skin, and long curly hair kept into pigtails with bangs by black hair ties. Her hair is colored in a desire-red that features the insides colored in a dark navy-blue, and white swirled-streaks on her pigtails and one on her bangs.

Her eyes have white irises, red sclera and slit pupils, and her makeup consists of burgundy eyeshadow on her eyelids, and black lipstick on her lips with a strip across the center of her mouth, and fangs inside.

Velvette's clothing is that of white skull-shaped earrings, and a sleeveless navy-blue coat with burgundy lining and two desire hearts on the left side of the fur collar (similar to the ones on Valentino's). Her coat is usually worn over a sleeveless, black turtlenecked crop-top that includes two desire hearts on the chest. Her set of loose-pants are colored in navy-blue and desire-red in a striped-pattern, held by a black belt with a white heart-shaped buckle. Similar to her hair, Velvette's clothing changes appearance occassionally.

For footwear, she wore heeled black shoes with white poms on the top. Velvette accessorized with black-striped fingerless opera gloves with alternating colors - white for her right glove and desire for her left.

Due to being a fashion designer, Velvette frequently changes hairstyles and clothing, as seen in "Radio Killed the Video Star", "Scrambled Eggs", and "The Show Must Go On".

Pilot
In the pilot, Velvette sported a doll-like appearance with desire and burgundy hair with a white streak on her bangs - her pigtails are noticeably messier in appearance, and it has been held by black and white frilled hair ties.

On the lower part of her eyes, she appears to wear white dripping clown-eyeliner with a white strip across her eyes.

In addition to her clothing, she sports a pimped-out, tea-length dress that is colored in white, black and desire. Her dress features short puffed sleeves, along with black triangle and desire heart patterns located at the bottom.

Her fingerless gloves appear to be longer, and they are instead desire and white striped. She also wore black tights and desire flats with white poms on top.

Personality
Velvette is the energetic, stylish and trendy type who is always up-to-date with the latest trends and technology. This is one of the main reasons why she and Vox get along quite well with each other. Faustisse has also described her as being a very crazy person.

She is critical and judgy when it comes to fashion. Velvette is also observant, such as when she notices Carmilla's expression after she pulled out the severed Exorcist's head, and suspected her to be responsible, in which confirmed her suspicions later.

She is shown to be a cruel and overbearing employer, insulting and demeaning her employees (who are justifiably afraid of her) while barking orders at them. One unfortunate employee is made to function as a living mannequin, ordered to stand still while Velvette uses magic to change her outfit many times in order to decide which one to wear during her show.

She considers herself as "the backbone of the Vees", meaning that she is more willing to put up a fight, as seen when she manages to irritate Carmilla Carmine at the meeting and when she insults and makes fun of Zestial and the other Overlords for being "afraid to fight".

Abilities

 * Clothing Manipulation - Velvette is able to instantly produce and change the clothing of others in various styles and types by swiping her fingers like she swipes on a phone screen.

Skillset

 * Wide Intellect - She correctly deduced that Carmilla was responsible for the demons' first murder of an Exorcist Angel based of her body language and silence during the Overlords' meeting.
 * Potion-making - Velvette is said to be good with food and skilled in preparing potions. An example of this would be the love potion being advertised under Valentino's brand shown on posters and billboards in "Radio Killed the Video Star" and "Masquerade".
 * Cooking - TBA
 * Musical Talent - She is capable of singing and even rapping.
 * Technological Skill - As someone who uses her phone and social media all the time, she has vast skill in technology.

Gallery

 * Velvette/Gallery

Trivia

 * Prior to October 2022, she went by the name "Velvet" as disclosed by the series' staff, merchandise, and social media accounts. On October 31, 2022, a teaser from Hazbin Hotel's Twitter account confirmed her name would be "Velvette" for the main series.
 * The name "velvet" means "a closely woven fabric of silk, cotton, or nylon, that has a thick short pile on one side". Its Latin root word, villus, means "shaggy cloth" or "tuft of hair".
 * Her name could also refer to the color velvet, like the color of her hair.
 * The color velvet often represents power and wealth, representing her status as an Overlord.
 * The "ette" is used as a suffix to make words feminine, representing her status as the only female member of the Vees.
 * According to the "Clocktower Countdown to Premiere" livestream, Velvette is the youngest Overlord in Hell, also making her the youngest of the Vees.
 * Velvette's nickname of "Babydoll" by Valentino was first revealed in the non-canon Voxtagram posts.
 * Velvette's phone case design was made by Sam Miller and is designed so the "<3" is both a heart chatspeak and stands for "3 Vees" while the patterns at the bottom corners are @ symbols mimicking the shape language of her pigtails.

Development

 * During the pilot and and non-canon Voxtagram stories, Velvette was approximately the same height as Vox, who is about 7 feet tall. In the series, she is shorter than Vox.
 * In the non-canon Voxtagram stories, Vox, Valentino, and Velvette were called the "VVV Overlords". In these stories, the group regularly hung out together, where Velvette seemed to be the glue that binds the other two together.