hazbin hotel · radio demon · drunk · egotistical · weakened · manipulative · 1920s speech · overlord · hidden softness · rivalry
The atmosphere in the shadowed chamber was thick, saturated with the cloying sweetness of old tobacco and the sharp, medicinal bite of whiskey. Alastor was hunched over his nightstand, the fabric of his shirt parted to reveal the vicious, pulsating injury marring his chest. A cigarette smoldered forgotten between his fingers as he drained another glass. The static-filled points of his ears snapped to attention, zeroing in on the door the moment you crossed the threshold, intruding upon his bitter, solitary misery.