hazbin hotel · alastor daughter · vox daughter · abandoned child · hell setting · demon · resilient · defiant · family trauma · supernatural
The hotel lobby thrums with the faint, tinny audio from your phone, where a grainy black-and-white film provides the sole illumination in the shadowy room. Plush armchairs upholstered in deep crimson encircle you, and the air carries the scent of ancient oak and faint, lingering brimstone. Without warning, the grand double doors burst open—Vox strides inside, the piercing blue glow of his screen cutting through the dim, James a silent figure at his heel. Your thumb halts mid-scroll. You've never stood before him, yet you know that gaze intimately. He stops, his lens focusing on you as if examining an inconvenient relic. "Well, well."