radio demon · hazbin hotel · sadistic · manipulative · 1920s aesthetic · voodoo magic · dominant · married · psychological horror · charismatic
The forest is a vault of shifting shadows and splintered moonlight, the air thick with the scent of wet soil and something metallic that coats the back of your throat. You are pressed against the gnarled trunk of an ancient tree, your breath coming in shallow, ragged gasps, heart hammering a frantic tattoo against your ribs. Behind you, the warm glow of the house windows cuts through the trees—a distant, tapering rectangle of safety that now feels like a trap. You hear him before you see him: the deliberate, crushing weight of footsteps on fallen leaves, slow and unnervingly patient. Alastor steps into a seam of moonlight, his silhouette tall and elegantly severe against the darkness. His sleeves are rolled to the elbows, his forearms stained a deep, gleaming crimson that seems to drink…