Angel Dust

Real name

Anthony

Nicknames

Angel Angie (by Cherri Bomb) Angel Cakes (by Valentino) Hot Stuff (by Travis) My Effeminate Fellow (by Alastor) Striped Freak (by Sir Pentious) Whorebug (by Sir Pentious) Spider (by Sir Pentious) Legs (By Husk) Webs (By Husk)

Date and Reason of Death

1947 Overdose

Likes

Drugs Being abrasive Pranks Getting into scraps Cooking Flirting The color pink Monetary gain Italian food

Dislikes

His feet Losing credibility Valentino's abuse Memorizing scripts Niffty getting into trouble Niffty handling weapons Anyone pointing out his facade Being called fake How expensive drugs and alcohol cost him Anyone else ending up like him Anyone discrediting his acting Charlie involving herself with Valentino's affairs

Sexuality and Gender

Gay Male

Abilities

Retractable set of arms Weapon proficiency Weather sensitivity Athleticism Cooking Bilingualism

Family

Arackniss (older brother) Molly (fraternal twin sister) Unnamed father Unnamed mother Fat Nuggets (Pet)

Friends

Charlie Morningstar Cherri Bomb (close friend) Niffty Husk Sir Pentious (former enemy) Egg Boiz (former enemies) Vaggie Alastor Lucifer Dia Summer Kitty

Enemies

Tiffany Titfucker (rival) Valentino (boss, pimp, and owner) Porn Studios employees (co-workers) Travis (client and director) The Vees (acquainted) Vox Velvette

Appearance

Angel has a slender build and is the tallest of the main cast of characters. He is estimated to stand around 8 feet with his heels on. His fur is white and he has a mop of fluffy white hair that extends from both the front and back of his head, with splotches of light-pink across it. He also has a distinctive and focal light-pink heart pattern on the back of his head. The light-pink outline of a heart also encircles his chest, the bottom point of which extends past his waistband and down to his crotch area. His eyelids are light pink and the color extends up to his eyebrows, giving the effect of eyeshadow, and his lashes are dark and thick. His irises are cerise pink. His right eye has a light yellow sclera, his left eye has a dark sclera. He has a wide mouth full of sharp, pointed teeth and possesses a single golden fang that sits slightly to his right of center, a feature he shares with his boss, Valentino. He has three cerise-pink dots under each of his eyes, which are intended to evoke freckles, although they are actually another set of smaller eyes.[19] One of Angel's most noticeable features is his prominent chest. The chest is actually composed entirely of fluffy fur, however, which Angel intentionally pushes up into a breast-like formation with his tightly pinned jacket for show. Angel's everyday attire consists of a long light pink suit-blazer with horizontal white stripes down the length, reddish-grey miniskirt, and long reddish-grey thigh-high heeled boots, accessorized with a reddish-grey bowtie with a cerise pink center and a black choker. On his top set of arms he wears long cerise pink gloves with white detailing at the cuffs, on his bottom set of arms he wears long white gloves. Though usually depicted with six limbs, Angel has a third retractable set of arms that he usually keeps hidden but can summon at will. In background artwork seen in the pilot, Angel Dust's feet resemble those of a spider's.

Personality

Angel is brash and sarcastic, with a quick, sharp wit. He will often use these traits to deflect criticism or insults, and side-step responsibility. He will switch between playful and destructive as he pleases, and his humor tends to be crude and crass, with an emphasis on dirty jokes and innuendos, which he feels is expected of him and actively plays into. He is stylish and performs an excessive amount of confidence with his public persona, being wildly flirtatious and interested in receiving positive attention for his looks and the profile he has made for himself in Hell. He also makes a show of looking down others, declaring the other denizens of Hell to be mostly "ugly freaks". As a result, Angel can often appear flippant and callous. In reality he is preemptively defensive and hides much of his true, more sensitive and insecure, self for his own protection, not expecting those around him to show him kindness. Angel does have friends, and while he cares about them and will sometimes show signs of wanting to reach out, he keeps many walls up between himself and others, being very protective of his true feelings and avoiding holding overly emotional relationships. He holds a cynical view on the idea of redemption, although he seems to still hold onto a small hope it may be possible for him. The ongoing controlling and abusive situation he is in with his boss, Valentino, puts him under a great deal of stress at his work, and he is implied to be somewhat traumatized as a result. When being confronted by Valentino, Angel becomes scared and nervous around him due to the abuse he inflicts.

Concept and Creation

Angel was one of the first characters that would feature in Hazbin Hotel, and he remains one of Vivziepop's personal favorites. Angel was created during her later years at the School of Visual Arts college, and she recalls how she would draw him excessively, to the point her classmates would comment on it. Angel, along with his brother, Arackniss, were originally planned to be part of a 2013 stand-alone "film noir-esque mafia demons" short story for Vivziepop's animation thesis, titled The Spider Brothers. The Spider Brothers as a thesis, was eventually abandoned, with Vivziepop realizing that the film was "just too complex and too demanding" for her current level of animation and she began to look towards having Angel feature in an arc of her then-running webcomic, Zoophobia, titled Angels and Demons instead. Vivziepop eventually realized that the collection of misfit demons she had designed to appear within the comic had the potential for their own self-contained story, and shifted them, including Angel, over to the first draft of what would eventually become Hazbin Hotel. Vivziepop then slowly started to move away from Angel's grubbier, more masculine origins, beginning to incorporate more elements of gender expressiveness into his character, leaning into earlier hinted at enjoyment of cross-dressing and, later, drag. His biggest thematic design shift happened around 2015, with Angel moving fully to a pinker-toned, more androgynous character - his Hell-career working in porn and as a sex worker was established soon after, as was his gay orientation, all elements that would carry through to the pilot.