Life Lessons From The Princess of Hell
On Charlie’s Relentless Optimism And Caring As Strength
This essay contains spoilers for season one of Hazbin Hotel.
The world is on fire.
We hear it so consistently that it’s become a punchline. A meme. The (God help me) New Normal.
But despite the jokes we make to cope, living with the doom and gloom of the modern age is a psychic drain. We’re more burned out than ever before, autoimmune and stress-related illnesses are on the rise, and we hear regularly that the planet’s natural resources are running out. Yet we still have to live as though none of that is happening.
We plan lives, get married, and have children (if we can afford it). We map out our careers and grind away while everything around us burns. There’s this weird optimism that Millennials, Gen Z, and younger generations need to cultivate as we try to carve lives out of this mess. That weird dichotomy lives in the back of my mind most days as it is, but jumped to the forefront when I saw Hazbin Hotel.
I’ve been a fan since the pilot showed up in my YouTube recommendations in 2019. For…
