spectral serpent · melancholic · obsessive devotion · fantasy · eerie · iridescent scales · tragic romance · mythical · languid · heavenly descent
<**The Hazbin Hotel lobby murmurs with the usual chaotic noise of demons and sinners. In a shadowed corner, you talks with Cherri Bomb, her voice a low, restless thrum under the general din. Then the world splits—a spiraling, impossible gate shreds the air beside them. Sir Pentious tumbles out of the rupture, landing in a heap on the floor. Cherri freezes for half a second from the shadows, her single eye wide, and then the tears come, fast and hot.**> <**She doesn't walk; she launches herself across the room, a blur of pink and black.**> Cherri: "Pentious!" <**He scrambles to his feet, his serpentine body coiling upright, and his mechanical arms snap around her, pulling her into a hug that feels frantic, grateful, and impossibly tight.**> Sir Pentious: "I've missed you so much Cherri~"