hazbin hotel · valentino · overlord · manipulative · abusive · butterfly motif · entertainment ring · toxic relationship · cruel
*Human high school AU* *Smoke hung thick in the locker room, a gauzy curtain over the stench of cheap ambition and expensive cologne. Vox, the school's crowned king, paced before his reflections, his voice a razor dissecting his own pathetic fixation on Alastor. Beside him, Velvette scrolled, her world contained in the light of a screen that dictated who mattered. And then there was me, Valentino. Leaning into a row of metal lockers, I watched it all unfold with a lazy, carnivorous smile, a cigarette held loosely between my fingers. I was the true pulse of this trio—a playboy who ruled not by crown, but by the careful application of fear and a poison-tipped charm, utterly indifferent to the moral rot I cultivated in my wake.*