Vaggie

"♪ When I saw your face, you made me feel like a stranger in a brand new place. And it felt so good to be understood, but there's so much I wished that I could say. So I- I'll be your armor. Do whatever it takes, I'll make the mistakes. I'll spend my life being your partner. ♪"

- Vaggie, during "Whatever It Takes"

Vagatha, more commonly known as Vaggie, is a fallen angel and former Exorcist. She is one of the main protagonists of Hazbin Hotel and serves as the manager of the Hazbin Hotel.

Skilled in combat and very protective of her girlfriend, Charlie Morningstar, Vaggie is tough but has a heart of gold.

Appearance
Vaggie is a slim humanoid who sports a moth-themed design with mutated, gray-lavender skin. Her knee-length grayish-white hair with long bangs is jagged-styled, with stripes at the ends that are the same color as her skin tone. On the back of her head, she sports an accessorized red-pink bow with a small torn, and the two long tails reacts along with her mood.

Her right eye has a light pink sclera and an ivory-white iris, while her left eye is replaced by a slate-gray eyepatch that sports a red-pink "X" shape, which glows when she is angry or irritated. Her mouth has small fangs and black lips.

Vaggie wears a blouse that is the same color as her bow and the "X" shape on her eyepatch, with a dark slate-gray peter-pan collar, dark slate-gray scalloped-trimming on the sleeves, and two dark slate-gray buttons located down the front. She also sport a choker necklace and a miniskirt with a thick pale pink waistband hugging her waist, both colored in the same dark slate-gray.

Vaggie's accessories includes a set of fingerless slate-gray opera gloves with matching thigh-high stockings, which includes white scallops at the top and at the tip of the toes.

Pilot
In her pilot design, Vaggie's hair is the same color, but the stripes at the end were instead light pink. Her bow was colored in a paler shade of red-pink, and its appearance is softer-looking that is not torn. She also sported gray eyeshadow on her eyelids.

She wore what appears to be a light slate-gray one-shouldered bra under a white minidress with loose straps, two light gray crosses on her chest, and light gray scalloped trim at the bottom. In addition, she also wore a light slate-gray belt around her waist.

Her choker necklace and arm-length gloves were the same light slate-gray color; her right glove covered her entire hand while her left was fingerless. She also wore thigh-high stockings that are scalloped white at the top; her right was a full light slate-gray while her left was striped in light pink and light slate-gray.

Personality
Vaggie is a pragmatic and cautious fallen angel who devotes a great deal of her time towards attempting to support Charlie with her vision for the hotel, as well as guide her away from as much trouble or humiliation as possible.

She is tough but she has a heart of gold. Loyal and kind to those she cares for, but short on patience and trust, Vaggie tends to be very reactive and often takes an immediate defensive stance (with an offense at the ready) when it comes to dealing with potential threats, towards either herself or to Charlie.

While it remains unclear whether Vaggie fully buys into Charlie's proposed concept for redemption, she passionately defends it from more skeptical sinners.

Vaggie appears to be fairly prudent in business, trying her hardest to fill her designated role as hotel management, even with an initial lack of resources and a very run-down property to operate out of.

She is also relatively easy to bait past the point of irritation and into more rash explosiveness, as others are quick to discover. Angel Dust perceives Vaggie to have a distrust towards men in particular.

Back when she used to be an Exorcist, she was a ruthless killing machine. However, she had a change of heart when she encountered a Sinner child in an alley. Unable to bring herself to kill child, she lets them go, which caused her to lose her status and become a Fallen Angel. It was also at the same time shortly after that she met Charlie, where she helped her, thus causing Vaggie to be loyal and protective of her.

Abilities

 * Expressive Hair - Her hair flares up whenever she shows strong emotion or anger. It even flows when she explains something serious, like how dangerous Alastor is.
 * Expressive Bowtie - Like her hair, her bowtie responds to her emotions. It flares up when she is angry, remains neutral when she is calm or not expressing strong emotion, and droops when she is upset.

Skillset

 * Hand-to-Hand Combat - Vaggie demonstrates a considerable physical strength that belies her slight frame when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. She is able to swiftly punch a male demon off his chair in one bare-knuckle hit.
 * Weapon Proficiency - Vaggie projects proficiency when handling weapons, and seems to favor blades. Although she has yet to actually make use of her larger weapons, she does not lack confidence when it comes to brandishing them for self-defense, and she is able to throw a dagger into the electric window button of a car with pin-point precision.
 * Bilingualism - Vaggie can fluently speak Spanish, as well as English.
 * Wide Intellect - Vaggie appears to have quite a comprehensive knowledge regarding the hierarchies and folklaw of hell, particularly those pertaining to her area of residence, the Pride Ring, and the machinations of the power-jostling sinners located there. She understands the looming dangers of the Overlords, their politics, as well as the tale of how Alastor became the first mortal soul to harness enough power to "begin to topple overlords who had been dominant for centuries".
 * Flight - She used to be an Exorcist angel, thus she originally had wings in the past to fly until she was stripped of them by Lute along with her status.

Weaponry

 * Throwing Daggers - Vaggie has throwing daggers in her possession, although whether she has the power to summon them or she just keeps them on her is unclear.
 * Angelic Spear - Vaggie possesses a spear for self defense and was seen carrying it around with her once Alastor appears as a threatening presence at the hotel in the pilot. She had this spear since her past days as an Exorcist.

Gallery

 * Vaggie/Gallery

Concept & Creation
As with many of the core cast of Hazbin Hotel, Vaggie started out a very aesthetically and thematically different character.

Initially planned to appear in the "Angels and Demons" arc of Vivziepop's then-running webcomic, Zoophobia, she appeared in 2013 as a mystical and overtly moth-like woman with a darker-blue color palette.

Vivziepop eventually realized that the collection of demon misfits had the potential for their own self-contained story and shifted them, including Vaggie, over to the first draft of what would eventually become Hazbin Hotel.

Vaggie went through several phases of development preceding her initial design. She received her first redesign in 2015, moving into a very 80s'-themed look to match her 1980s date of death. However, this date was later changed to 2014 and the character eventually emerged at the end of the process with the more pastel-goth design finally settled on for the pilot.

Christopher Niosi, who met Vivziepop in the School of Visual Arts, and who was given special thanks in her thesis film, Son of 666, was the one who suggested Monica Franco for the role of Vaggie, before the pilot had started production and before casting had even begun.

Trivia

 * Vaggie's real name, "Vagatha", may be taken from the name "Agatha", which means "good woman" in Greek.
 * Like Vivziepop, Vaggie is also Salvadoran. Additionally, she can also speak Spanish, as evidenced in the pilot.
 * Cynical Beauty.jpg According to Vivziepop, Vaggie is the "most human" character, in terms of her emotional state and her problems, which are more real-world adjacent, involving issues around mental health and inner darkness. This is reflected in her more humanoid design.
 * When asked about Vaggie's orientation and whether she is a lesbian, Faustisse replied that they would "certainly say that Vaggie is strongly interested in women".
 * Faustisse stated that Vaggie does not have any friends. Whether they were referring to Vaggie's living life or her current situation in Hell outside of Charlie is yet unclear.
 * Vaggie is described as an overly protective person, and someone who desires to be in control of situations. Her overprotectiveness is a strong part of her personality that is referred to as both "justified and not so much" depending on certain situations.
 * Vivziepop considers Vaggie a "neat freak", who is made uncomfortable and stressed out by mess.
 * Faustisse stated that Vaggie has big issues with anger.
 * Vaggie is described as "a really good dancer", the most skilled of the main cast.
 * Vivziepop referenced Vaggie's preference for bladed weapons, mentioning that if any character were to meet the "giant sword" trope, it would be her. Described as the fighter of the group, that element of her character apparently played a role in a magical girl adjacent element to her theming.
 * Charlie consoles Vaggie.png Vivziepop has confirmed that Charlie and Vaggie are indeed a canon couple.
 * She compares Charlie and Vaggie's relationship to that of Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
 * When asked who she thinks fell for the other first (Charlie or Vaggie), Vivziepop stated that she thinks they were really good friends for a while and it was "kind of a natural progression for them", so she doesn't really know who was in love first, thinking it was a more mutual feeling that developed between them. She also thinks that their becoming a couple happened a fairly long time prior to the events of the pilot, and even before some events that she has planned to occur before the pilot.
 * In a tweet on June 26, 2019, Vivziepop said that she feels Vaggie died way before she claims she did, because everything in Vivziepop thinks Vaggie met Charlie in her high school years. whether this is canon or not is currently unknown.
 * Faustisse feels that Vaggie is the top in their relationship.
 * According to Faustisse, Vaggie is bad at handling kids.
 * Vivziepop thinks Vaggie would enjoy punk and 80s' era music, as well as have a guilty pleasure for . She thinks she would also gravitate towards music similar to, an artist who appears frequently on Vivziepop's official Spotify playlist for Hazbin Hotel, and has been previously used as background music for her speed-draw streams of Vaggie.
 * Vaggie's Spanish lines are left untouched in the official Japanese dub, instead of being dubbed over in Japanese.
 * Before being archived, Vaggie was in charge of handling the hotel's Voxtagram account (@hotel_magnement).
 * Vaggie shares her pilot voice actor with the Hellhound Adoption Center Lady ("Seeing Stars") and Counselor Jimmy from Helluva Boss.

Development

 * In a late 2016 speed draw of Vaggie, Vivziepop listed her last name as "Motha". Whether this is still the case is unknown.
 * In earlier artworks that featured several of Vaggie's earlier design iterations for Zoophobia, Angel Dust and Vaggie were portrayed as a romantic couple within the version of the story she was currently working on. She eventually decided against it and moved on, never having made it official and continuing to develop the characters in other directions, describing them as "no longer compatible".
 * When Vivziepop first created Angel and Vaggie, "Africa" by Toto was their "ship" song, and as of March 20, 2016 Vivziepop still thinks it is the only song they can bond over.
 * Vaggie's original design was said to be based around the theming of moths and suicide, but was "rehauled" due to unknown reasons.
 * Vivziepop still considers Vaggie to be moth-themed, but in a more subtle way.
 * Faustisse thinks that Vaggie's full demon form might still be themed around suicide.
 * Vivziepop expressed a strong desire to have Vaggie appear in different outfits for every episode of the show.
 * In earlier renditions of the character, and in the pilot episode, Vaggie was a Sinner demon who died in 2014 around or in her 20s. In the main series, however, she was believed to be a Sinner until the episode "Welcome to Heaven" where it is revealed she had lied about her identity and is actually a former Exorcist and angel.