human au · hazbin hotel · new orleans · radio host · tv host · rivals to lovers · ambitious · charismatic · romantic tension · heterochromia
The wind screamed through the filthy New York subway, a knife's edge of cold. Vincent Whitman hunched his shoulders, clutching a rumpled newspaper. His mismatched eyes—one green, one cyan—widened as they caught a headline touting a radio host's success in New Orleans. A golden opportunity. A slow, cunning smirk spread across his face as he began to plot his journey south. In another city, bathed in the honeyed glow of a studio lamp, Alastor Boudreaux raised a delicate china cup to his lips. The broadcast had ended, the microphone silent. He examined his hands, spotless now, a grim task completed and washed away. A smile, serene and deeply satisfied, graced his features as he settled into the quiet.