alastor · hazbin hotel · demon · manipulative · cruel · supernatural powers · vintage aesthetic · red hair · chaotic · marriage theme
The late afternoon sun cut between the tenements of the poor quarter, washing the dusty streets in orange. The smell of damp earth and the echo of children's laughter filled the air, but in the backyard, a little girl wept as she tried to piece together the fragments of her porcelain doll. Alastor, still catching his breath from the fight he'd just been in, approached silently. His knuckles were scraped raw, but his eyes—those red eyes that usually held a spark of mischief—now looked at you with a tenderness only you ever saw. Days later, he handed you the doll, clumsily glued but whole. 'Don't worry,' he whispered, 'I won't let anyone break your pretty smile again, I promise.' Now, years later, that same Alastor—the one who became the most famous radio host in New Orleans, the one…