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mire1li · 3 months

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Reader as Alastor's Mother

My very silly gf (@yurislotusgarden) gave me hc ideas so i wrote them (with her help) This is fem!Reader! Part 2!, Part 3!

𓋼 You heard about the Hazbin Hotel and decided that you wanted a chance at redemption, which is how you ended up there. Alastor was out when you arrived so Charlie met you first.

“Oh my goodness, hi! It’s a pleasure to meet you! I’m Charlie! Would you like a tour of the hotel?! Please, come inside!” She essentially dragged you in and then finally calmed down.

She would drag you around the whole hotel, explaining things too fast for you to register. And then Alastor suddenly entered the hotel, looking proud and smug as ever. 𓋼 “Alastor?”

“Mother, Is that you? It’s been far too long!”

"Indeed, it has! Say, do you know your way around here?"

"I do! Why do you ask?"

"Well… this Charlie girl gave me a tour earlier but… she was simply too frantic with explaning everything so… I couldn't really catch on to what she said"

"Ah yes, classic Charlie."

And so, he showed you around properly, in a much calmer and more understandable fashion. You two ran into Charlie once or twice, but just told her you were 'walking around and meeting the residents and staff' as to not upset her.

You took turns telling stories during your tour, his being much more interesting than you'd expected! 𓋼 Charlie and Vaggie essentially had the exact same reaction to finding out you’re Alastor’s mother. Since one was out when the other found out, it made it much funnier.

“Hey Alastor, who is this?”

“Why, it’s my mother!” He wrapped his arm around your shoulder and brought you closer, in a side-hug, wearing the most sly grin any of them had ever seen.

“Oh, alright- hold on what?!” 𓋼 I could see Angel and Husk talking about you at the bar, nothing bad, of course.

“So who’s she?” Angel sat down on one of the seats

“Heard she’s Alastor’s mother” Husk turned to Angel and offered him a shot.

“His mother? Why’s she here?”

“Gee, I wonder why someone would come to the hotel all about redemption” 𓋼 “So, you’re down here then, Alastor. No surprise there.”

“Oh please, you flatter me, Mother.” 𓋼 From the day you two were reunited, he always came to you to tell you about any recent achievements of his.

Everyone was absolutely terrified when they found out about you being his mother for 2 main reasons:

1 If Alastor is as scary as he is, then imagine how much scarier his mother would be! But in truth, you’re an absolute sweetheart, which shocked everyone, causing them to be more cautious around you, in case it was all a lie. (It wasn’t)

2 Alastor is incredibly protective of you, even though he hasn’t explicitly said anything, everyone saw how he watched them when they spoke with you. Especially Angel. 𓋼 One time, it just so happened that Alastor was 'out on business' as he called it. During that time, Charlie's father, Lucifer Morningstar, came by to check on his daughter and the hotel.

He saw you, and his first words were "Hey there, are ya single by chance?~"

Charlie saw him flirting with you so she ran up to him and introduced you as Alastor's mother, in an attempt to scare him off from you since Lucifer and Alastor don't exactly get along… although, instead of deterring him, it just motivated him to continue.

"Dad! This is [Name]! Alastor's mother!"

"Oooh! His mother you say?~"

"Dad!"

You and him were just talking, Charlie trying to pull him away from you, when Alastor returned to the hotel. Oh, he was not happy.

"Lucifer, you sly motherfucker."

"I for sure will be one tonight!"

Let's just say… Lucifer didn't return to the hotel when Alastor was around, for a good while… 𓋼 Whenever you were bored, you would bake things for the other hazbin residents and staff. Everyone adored whatever you made! When you told everyone you would always bake when you were alive, no one was surprised.

Speaking of when you were alive and baking, one day young Alastor had walked in on you baking and got curious.

"Mother! What are you doing?"

"I'm baking, darling"

"Can I help you??"

"Alright, but be careful"

You allowed him to mix the batter and check the oven. 𓋼 He would always come help you whenever he knew you were baking, even as he grew older. And after death, he always recalled those memories, missing those times, so when he saw you in the kitchen of the hotel, he wondered what you were doing.

"Mother! What are you doing?" he asked, looking over your shoulder at the ingredients.

"I'm going to bake something for everyone, darling!"

"Oh? Can I… help you?"

He was a bit shy. Just a little bit.

At some point during your baking time, Angel entered the kitchen for something, only to see Alastor mixing some batter whilst you were preparing other ingredients.

"What the fuck Alastor? What the fuck's wrong with ya?"

"Nothing is wrong with me, I'm simply baking with my mother."

"What the fuck…"

And then Husk entered.

"What is happening?"

"Get this, Alastor is baking"

Husk laughed and took the opportunity to tease Alastor, because why wouldn't he?

"You've gone soft, Alastor!"

"Haha! Shut up."

"Alastor! Be nice to your friends!" you exclaimed and lightly whacked him over the head with a wooden spoon.

Angel and Husk snickered and ran out of the kitchen after that, clearly on their way to cause mischief. 𓋼 Everyone was gathered in the lobby doing their own thing, when Angel and Husk ran into the room, laughing about something.

"You guys won't believe it! Alastor got hit over the head with a wooden spoon! By his mother!" he exclaimed, attracting everyone's attention.

It only took you and Alastor another hour to finish what you were baking, so when you both entered the lobby with the cookies you baked, everyone turned their attention to you, and the gossiping and questions began.

"Oh, look! It seems the almighty radio demon wasn't completely defeated by that wooden spoon, after all!" Angel laughed

𓋼 After that whole fiasco, Angel started calling Alastor the "Spoon Demon", which Alastor didn't appreciate but he understood it was all in good fun so eventually he, though begrudgingly, embraced it. 𓋼 One day, you decided that you were bored, so you took a bunch of hair accessories with you to Alastor and started decorating his hair with pins, most of them being sparkly, and he didn't have the heart to say no… at some point he tried to take them off but he noticed that it made you sad, so for the entire day, he walked around the hotel with them in his hair, prompting Angel to call him "Sparkles" that day. And maybe a few more 'days' after that too…

𓋼 On certain days, Alastor would be incredibly clingy, always hugging you and never leaving your side. He never told you why but whenever it was one of these days, no one seemed to bother him. You assumed he was in a bad mood.

𓋼 Alastor asked you how you died during one of his 'clingy days', and when you told him that you died of old age, he seemed much happier that week. He even helped Charlie renovate some of the hotel for free!

𓋼 Naturally, Vaggie was suspicious of him when she noticed he was this happy

"What's got you in such a bubbly mood?"

"Oh, nothing~"

"uh huh…"

"What? Can I not have a good day?" 𓋼 Charlie announced that as a 'team building' activity they'd be having a sleepover, which Alastor opted to skip out on, however, you convinced him to go. The next day, the tips of his claws, where his nails would be, were painted all sorts of colours. You were also shown pictures of Alastor in full makeup… this was certainly the work of Charlie and Angel.

"Never again."

"Oh come on, you need to spend time with them!"

"Absolutely not, Mother."

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fabuloustrash05 · 2 months

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Huskerdust: First Date Headcanons!

When the two started being in casual flirting territory, Angel would always jokingly ask Husk when they’re hanging out together when he was gonna take him on a “real date”. Angel was then caught off guard when one day, after saying the joke again, Husk responded nonchalantly with “How about tonight?”

Angel nearly choked on his drink. After processing that Husk was in fact serious, that he wants to take him on a date, Angel happily accepted.

Angel spent HOURS trying to pick out the perfect outfit for their date, texting Cherri for suggestions and panicking like crazy. Husk didn't think to much and just a wore nice shirt, pants and tie.

Niffty put together a small bouquet of flowers for Husk to give to Angel.

They were both extremely nervous and panicking on the inside. Husk especially, though on the outside he looked calm and chill, inside he was a nervous wreck, wanting the night to be perfect and fear one screw up will make Angel never want to talk to him again.

Husk referred to Angel as "Anthony" throughout the whole evening.

They went out for a dinner date to a nice fancy restaurant (Charlie was able to use her royal status to get them a reservation).

Charlie may or may not be spying on them (with Vaggie tagging along trying to convince her GF to go home and leave them alone).

Instead of walking back to the hotel, Husk actually carried Angel bridal style and flew back. This happened because Angel teasingly said during the date "So is this when you'll sweep me off my feet? Lol"

Finishing their evening Angel was CONVINCED Husk was gonna want to sleep with him. He was preparing for it, but as they made it back to the hotel and Husk walked Angel back to his room, Husk gave Angel a gentle kiss on the cheek, wishing him a goodnight, and that was it.

This left Angel speechless and very confused. Why would Husk go all out for him with a nice dinner and a romantic evening if he wasn’t expecting sex afterwards?! That’s when Angel confronts Husk, demanding to know why he did all that for him if he wasn’t going to sleep with him. Doesn’t he want to be rewarded for everything? Husk tells Angel straight up that that wasn’t his intention with the date and how he did all of this because he likes Angel and wanted him to feel special. He tells Angel that he does like him and cares for him deeply, but sex is not his top priority when it comes to a relationship. Husk wants to take things slow with Angel before anything between them even turns physical.

It would be at that moment Angel truly realizes that Husk is different and special, and he’s gonna appreciate every moment he shares with him. They would share a loving embrace before parting ways, wishing each a good night, sleeping in their own separate rooms, with Husk left absolutely smitten, and Angel on cloud 9, calling Cherri to tell her everything.

#fabtrash headcanons #hazbin headcanons #hazbin hotel #huskerdust #angelhusk #angel x husk #hazbin angel dust #Angel dust #hazbin husk #husk #charlie morningstar #hazbin vaggie #hazbin niffty #hazbin cherri bomb

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nixie-writes · 5 months

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Could I request headcanons for dad Alastor (dadlastor?) reacting to his lesbian daughter getting matching ear piercings with her gf Loona

(That's right, im bringing that plotline back, I've missed it, okay?)

oh hell yeah dad Alastor and gf Loona my beloved,,,,marry me

-you were at one of Bee's parties with Loona when it happened. You were both dancing when you found an imp doing piercings. Loona asked if you wanted to get a piercing, she'd pay for it. You suggested matching piercings and she agreed.

-when you walked into the hotel the next day you were adorning your new snake bite piercings. Alastor, being your father, was naturally the first to notice. He wasn't upset, you were grown and could do what you wanted, but he was still surprised to see you with piercings.

-he approached you and asked where you got the piercings. You explained you were at a party and Loona offered to pay. He nodded his head and said, "I'd like to talk to her about that - not that I'm upset dear! I just have a couple of questions," he told you. You were a little nervous but agreed, telling him you'd tell Loona to stop by the hotel.

-the next day Loona arrived at the hotel to talk to Alastor. By now everyone knew about your new piercings. Charlie supported you being yourself and Vaggie wasn't against it. Angel thought you looked cool as hell with them and Niffty thought they were pretty; Husk, being old fashioned, didn't understand the appeal of piercings but said you looked nice.

-Alastor pulled Loona into a room to speak with her. He asked her why she thought it was a good idea to get matching piercings and she shrugged, telling him it was a couple's thing and he wouldn't understand. He pursed his lips.

-he followed up his question by asking what kind of relationship she had with you. She explained that you and her did everything together, you'd sit on phone calls for hours talking assuming one of you didn't fall asleep, in which case the other would stay on the phone with them all night. You shared ice cream and watched old horror movies at her place. You raised hell together when you two were pissed and you were both passionate about each other, her recalling the time Blitzo said Loona could do better than you and you ripping him a new asshole with your words about how much you loved Loona and how you'd never leave her, even if Blitzo tried to force you two apart.

-Alastor was shocked to hear all this. He didn't realize just how much you loved Loona until now, and how much Loona loved you. He may not understand it but he supported it. He told Loona he had no more questions and let her leave, promising himself he'd keep a close eye on her, for your safety.

-when she left the room you approached her, asking if your dad hassled her too much. She said he was just like any other dad - worried about your safety but not mean about it. You let out a sigh of relief and took her hand, asking if she wanted to get some food.

#hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin x reader #helluva boss x reader #alastor x reader #alastor x daughter reader #alastor #loona x reader #loona x fem reader #loona

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onesidedradiostatic · 2 months

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husk in any image with valentino is going for his throat i imagine. pan on pan violence. (sort of imagining husk as a spitting kitty cat now, with valentino holding onto a chandelier or smthin near a ceiling for dear life)

charlie, cherri, sir pentious, vox -- well the two in the middle are making out, while charlie and vox stand to either side not quite sure where to look, because they also can't really look to each other for solidarity. alt. charlie is cheering cherri/sir pentious on, vox isn't sure how he ended up on this picture and why alastor isn't there :(

see at first id think alastor, vaggie, and angel would be pretty chill in the same picture, seeing as angel has been learning Boundaries, but i forgot that vaggie -- while chill with alastor in the battle + final bit -- potentially does not trust this guy in the slightest, considering he's made a deal with her gf. so like. nominally chill picture. for now. rosie is also there

is lucifer the token straight in this setup? (i wrote that and then remembered adam, but tbh loser bisexual adam hcs have compelled me) (and then the host of people who are ??? in my head atm. velvette, carmilla, lute, zestial, niffty -- oh NIFFTY does strike me as potentially straight in a "housewife from a terrible marriage" sort of way) (lol accidentally wrote my way into a "what about the straights" corner somehow, love a show where everyone is queer until proven otherwise and even then...)

(reference to this)

LMAOOOO this is all very real. "vox isn't sure how he ended up on this picture and why alastor isn't there :(" I'M CRYING??!?????

velvette is definitely some form of queer to me, wlw or aro are all acceptable to me. carmilla, zestial, niffty idk. for lute I do actually kinda like her with adam so she's at least a manliker to me but also like the idea of her having had something with vaggie in the past, so bi/pan to me

honestly I'm fine with bi lucifer or token straight lucifer both work for me but I was speaking in terms of canon sexualities in my post (because if it wasn't just canon there would probably be more bisexuals LMAO. and rosie would be with alastor in the aroace section)

btw regarding the lucifer thing, they've taken it out now but at some point he was listed as straight on the wiki and I got JUMPSCARED bad

I think the idea of it is very funny though. yes the one who oversees the PRIDE ring. straight. also him being token straight of the hotel (unless you count niffty???) where like everyone else is queer in some way and he's wondering why he gets left out and charlie just has to awkwardly go over and say "ummm... dad. you're uh. straight!" "well. do I get a flag?" "errrrm. yes, dad! the um. straight.... ally flag." "wow! is that what the a in lgbtqia+ stands for?" "no. no dad. that's alastor." "the a in lgbtqia+ stands for alastor??????" "DAD. NO."

(this is of course all for the fun and giggles I am still fully in support of bi lucifer I just think token straight lucifer is also funny)

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furby-organist · 3 months

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// ok no more theology. character thoughts!

- ALASTOR BE NICE TO HUSK! Man he really sucks. Alastor pull it TOGETHER.

- Alastor is Insane beefing with LUCIFER. Dawg where is your self-preservation. I've always written Local Alastor as having Some sense of self-preservation when it comes to interacting with like, Ozzie, for example, or someone's God muse once. HAHA. Canon Alastor is SO petty I love him.

- Angel eating popcorn at THE GIRLS FIGHTING.... YES PLEASE INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS...

- Angel like "I didn't think Alastor had friends" YELLS... I am glad that Angel was like, asking about what's up with Alastor. Because I want them to be friends! I want them to go from Single Resident (Loud and Annoying) / Mr Creepyface Fancy Pants to knowing each other as people and being chaos friends!

- I was really glad to see Alastor defending the hotel (again) because I think it's Good for him to feel useful and appreciated for his Talent (violence + cannibalism) instead of feared for it. (Also... I like that he and Charlie stood up for each other!)

- Alastor really out here like "maybe you know me from my killcast!!!!" he is so proud of that. ok he calls it his radio show. it is killcast in my heart.

- "I am happy to comply with her bizarre requests!" YOOOOO LMFAOOOOO

- Lucifer pulled out the accordion because he wants Alastor to act accordionly. Behave. (Alastor did not)

- ALASTOR DAD FIGURE HELL YEAH. I have to wonder if his own dad was absent and that's why he had some malding coping & seething opinions of Lucifer being a deadbeat.

- Angel is SO GOOD. He has a good heart, just bad circumstances and made some bad choices (like killing people. that's why he's in hell I think. mafia shit.) but when it came down to it, he stuck up for his friends. He didn't stick up for his friends To Get Into Heaven, he just did it because that's where his convictions lie. Idk, seems like having this group of fun friends who like chilling with him as a person is good for him. Wow!

- Man I wish Alastor got to do shots with the crowd. I want him to make more friends.

- They did my man Sir Pentious dirty... I want him to have his day to shine!! He is a brilliant and skilled inventor. I want him to kick ass one day!

- I would love it if Alastor didn't try to stop Vaggie from defending the hotel maybe later down the line. He's very good at what he does but I think it would be good for Vaggie to feel strong and protective of her gf's project.

- Mimzy wasn't what I expected! At all! I hope she grows on me.

- Man, Niffty seems like a REALLY traumatized person. Angel did a good job with her. I like that Angel is getting on with the staff, it's sweet.

- I had seen a lot of theories about Vaggie being a fallen angel but tbh it hadn't stuck with me! I was like "hmm didn't she used to be a pirate and then she died in the 2010's? Do humans become exorcists? I thought just angels who are spawned in heaven do that" but I was wrong! Good job to everyone who picked up on that!

- The heaven stuff... I will not shut up if I start on the politics. Good stuff tho!

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transmasc-wizard · 2 years

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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday ^^

how precisely does magic work in your world(s), and is it different depending on which story you're writing (for instance I'm assuming the nano thriller has a much different magic system than gfs)

ty for the ask! ok this is A Question that could have a very long answer, specifically because all 3 of my WIPs involve magic and all 3 have magic systems that are literally weird as fuck. But! short version. I will try. for the sake of dashboards.

So the one (1) uniting Thing about magic in all my WIPs is that Death is a person and her name is Susan. This is only actually focused on in GFS tho. It's mentioned in Val Saintly (mainly via Spacey, the resident dead-but-to-the-left person), sort of as a running joke, but like. Susan is an actual character in GFS. (she's just mentioned in a book in NT21 and they don't take it seriously lmao.) This isn't very relevant but it's important to me that you know that. [does this imply an extended universe? ehhhh technically sorta i guess yeah.]

so, in NT21, magic is creepy and dangerous. It mostly happens when very strong emotions band together (e.g. the hate and resentment of all the dying people that create the monster), and is very, very rare. It's paranormal-esque, too, with ghosts being allowed on the basis of "they're cool". It's too rare for people to get a proper hold on, so it's never really explained. (this is absolutely me being a bit lazy but u cant stop me.)

in Val Saintly, magic has only one rule: if it's weird and i like it, it goes in. I don't really care if it doesn't make sense. nothing in this book makes sense. it's batshit insane. I've never been happier

ANYWAY. under the cut you will get the Gay Fairytale Series Magic Explanation now, which you will regret. "short version" was a lie.

In GFS, magic is... not alive exactly, but it grows and changes and moves. People make magic in their own bodies, a bit, but for the most part they're sponges! It is very, very easy for people to pull magic into them, easier than it is for most other creatures. In fact, it's so easy, they're doing it constantly. Not in huge amounts, but at any given moment, a human is pulling magic from around them and into their blood. After awhile, it goes into their bones, something I talk about here. Bone magic is hard to access, so people automatically take magic from their blood, first. But if they use too much of that and start drawing from their bones, magic starts being even more fucked up!

Like. Using surface level magic (the stuff still circulating through your body) is already dangerous, because magic is essentially an ancient bioweapon. But when it's allowed to fester, to sink into your bones and become a part of you... shit gets bad.

fuck up with circulating magic: regardless of what way you fucked up; you'll puke, feel shaky, be nauseous, be at risk of dying, get a fever probably, maybe have a few effects related to what type of magic you used

fuck up with bone magic: ok. say the fuckup was 'i tried to hide myself with shadows, but i did it wrong'. It's likely that the shadows will follow you, slowly wrapping tighter and tighter, making their way into your lungs and heart and veins until they destroy you completely, turning you into nothing but a rotting husk caught between life and death for the rest of time.

Yeah that's fun. Also, "what counts as a fuckup" and "what doesn't" is on a very personal level of your own abilities and expertise, so usually people don't know until it's too late. How you use magic is also personal; it could be a mental thing, spoken words, music, written words, or maybe drawings. (example: Angel often writes spells out.)

Magic itself is relatively the same substance; what you use it for classifies whether it's pyromancy, metalurgy, necrokenisis, whatever. Just because you're really good at summoning up fire, btw, doesn't mean you'll ever be able to manipulate gravity or turn something invsible. Most people can't master more than 2 types of magic.

so that was the Basic explanation of GFS magic! have a nice day and drink water and thanks again for the ask and happy WBW

#wbw #worldbuilding #my worlds #magic system #wip gfs #wip nt21 #wip val saintly #asks #worldbuilding wednesday #void-fireworks

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pxppinmolly-archived · 4 years

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🔥 + how fandom treats characters bc i kno u got somethin good

Most Unpopular Opinons In School

Lemme start and say this is like. No shade to anyone and everyone is allowed to play characters how they want and be canon divergent, that’s fine. This is basically me talking as the FANDOM, aka, not RPers for the most part, but people who take the canon and try and put their fanon in as like. Truth and word of canon and all that.

Really tired of people like. Making these characters so one dimensional and other completely bastardizing them dude.

For example, I’ve talked a LOT about how the fandom makes Alastor out to be. I’ve seen SO many posts trying to theorize Alastor being not so bad a guy and getting redeemed (and falling in love with Charlie cus she SAVED HIM UWU) or whatever.

Like. Just let him be a villain dude. Let him be bad!! You can like an evil character dude!! You don’t have to try and excuse him or hope for a redemption !! If you have to have a redemption arc or try and jump through hoops to prove their not ALL bad to like a villain, you don’t like them you like the idea of them

One I don’t think I have talked about is Vaggie

People boil Vaggie to just a hot headed lesbian. That’s it.

When really she’s only ever shown Angry like… No way near the amount of time she’s been shown any other emotion.

I can only think of three times she’s been shown legit angry, at the camera man, in the limo, and with Alastor.

And wow, every time she was angry it was within reason? She only ever really BLEW UP with Angel, because he was being a fucking dick, and with Alastor because, it’s fucking Alastor.

Like if anything she’s shown to be rather like… Unsure of herself and kind of insecure. She’s very caring and compassionate and she cares a lot about Charlie. People really do sleep on Vaggie and treat her as Charlie’s angry accessory GF.

AND DON’T GET ME FUCKING STARTED ON ANGEL DUST BABY!!

I’ve seen SO MANY TIMES people boil Angel’s character to one dimensional. Hehehe he’s just a horny gay spider who’s a dick or whatever. Like he has a lot of depth behind it and we see bits and pieces of it but no the fandom just picks him up as a fucking. Horny sexual harasser.

ANGEL MERELY MADE A COUPLE FLIRTATIOUS COMMENTS, BUT HE NEVER.. DID ANYTHING… He cupped Husk’s face and all yeah but.

ALASTOR. SEXUALLY ASSAULTED MORE THAN ANGEL DID. (when he slapped Vaggie’s ass)

SO IT’S LIKE A BIG BRUH MOMENT.

Angel has so much going for him especially considering his background and there’s so much to explore and look into but. No. Funny horny silly spider and that’s it.

And the pilot itself just destroyed Niffty all on it’s own so I can’t even blame the fandom for that. Lmao.

People really be fucking spinning the most bullshit interpretations and treat it as canon.

This was a HUGE problem in the Homestuck fandom, and it was at least understandable because Homestuck is like over 8k pages long, not even including the flash games and shit. But just. Good god man I’m so tired of all these cold takes.

And you know what I’m gonna rant again bout how the fandom treated Molly.

I remember back in the day just barely this, and I know my friend Tord also told me about it, but they used to treat and write Molly off as uwu innocent babu spider who did nothing wrong and was just a baby.

Like she came from a CRIME FAMILY. SHE WAS IN AN ITALIAN MAFIA HOUSEHOLD. She was named after the drug ecstasy and was given eyes to match it. AND AT THE TIME, FOR WHAT EVERYONE KNEW, SHE WAS IN HELL! So it’s just.

God the takes are so cold they’re freezerburnt.

#royalreef #Interview (Ask)#long post

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bob-dude · 4 years

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Some Orange Jerk’s Hazbin thoughts, the longer version.

As I mentioned in a prior post, I thought the pilot was so-so. Don't hate it with a capital H but find everyone's love for this show to be... odd. Though considering the late 2000s Devinart vibe I get from the show’s art style, probably not too odd now that I think about it. So here’s my longer, more rambly, thoughts on Hazbin Hotel by some rando Orange Jerk on Tumblr. And as always, more power to ya if you do love it, obviously.

Art direction wise, I’m just not crazy about Viv’s color choice. The red and black and pinks give a Valintine’s day meets Wonderland Queen of Hearts vibe that just doesn't personally work for me on a visual level.

As for hell itself, I thought the background stuff like ‘Radio Hack’ and the main city being named Pentagram to be... eh? Like, that’s the kind of world-building we’re going with here? It felt less like Hell and more like a city with the trapings of Hell, at least for me.

So, main cast, the trio as it were. Eh. Meh. Like, Charlie is a Disney Princess of Hell... even though no one treats her as one respect wise which just strikes me as odd from a background perspective. And Charlie has that standard Disney nativity going on... even though she was born and raised in Hell? Like, why bother to make your most optimistic and native character a denizen of hell if she’s not going to look or act the part personality wise?

The reason the personality thing confuses me I guess, is that take Charlie out of Hell and we’ve seen her character a thousand times before: The bubbly sweet optimistic girl that’s been done so many times before. Is the ‘But in Hell!’ aspect really that much of a grabber for people? Guess it is and more power to em but it just strikes me as a strange creative choice where once again a character's personality doesn’t logically flow from their background.

Design-wise Charile is fine, red tux reminds me of the God from the 1977 Oh God movie so that gets a thumbs up in my book. Still a bit weird that a princess is wearing it but it makes sense with the Hotel set up and all so her outfit has a logic to it.

Then we have Vaggie. So, legit question here people: If you went into the pilot blind and Angle Dust didn’t make his ‘taco’ comment would you have ANY idea that Vaggie is supposed to be Latina? Because I legitimately had no idea that was what her design was supposed to say about her as a charchter. Also didn’t really get a moth vibe from her, either if I’m honest. As for her personality, she’s the standard ‘loving supportive’ GF but with an angry side protective side for Charile... and she’s a Latinia/Latinix. Does... Does no one else think that’s just a bit... off? Making the one clearly marked Latinia character the ‘angry girlfriend’ archetype?

Also, that weird pink X eye patch bugged the hell out of me when I was watching. Totally petty as shit nitpick, but I had to vent on that bit. Honestly, though Vaggie is also Meh? Like, she’s in a relationship with Charlie, cool and all but she just doesn’t strike me as a terribly interesting character if I’m honest. Gives me a sort of Lisa Simpson ‘stick-in-the-mud’ vibe.

And then we have Angle Dust. You know, in the words of Netflix’s Big Mouth, “Sassy and Gay” isn’t a personality. Angle Dust basically has that sort of ‘2000s Yaoi OC’ vibe and considering Vive once had a DA character sheet where she literally listed his personality is ‘Bitch’... Yeah.

Also, as I’ve said elsewhere, Viv and crew are doing too much with this guy. So he’s an ex mobster killed by his homophobic father in the 1920s (not mentioned in the pilot but it is a pilot in all fairness so you can’t throw all your cards on the table). And he’s a Spider Demon... even though per Word of Viv how everyone’s designed in hell doesn’t have anything to do with how they died on Earth (then why deign them that way?). And he’s a porn star (being ex Mob shouldn’t he be the one paying for porn stars as a power domination sort of thing?). AND he’s going for a Beetlejuice meets CJ from Regular Show sort of design.

It just seems a bit much, imo. Like, you could make him just a gay ex mob who mostly uses a Tommy Gun and design him to fit that and leave the Spider-Demon stuff out and it becomes a lot more manageable. Something like a simplified Zoot Suit, or the like. You could keep the sexual humor but throw it a bit more 1920s slang and pop culture references for characterization/comedy purposes (Vaggie, for example, has no idea what he’s talking about most of the time). Granted, I’d personally rather they ditch the ‘animal bits slapped on’ aspects of the designs as a whole but that, as always is just me.

For the record, I’m not ‘offended’ by Angle Dust as a character concept, I’m just not wowed or impressed, ultimately.

And then we have Alastor. Now, I LOVE Alastor as a character. He’s got that classic ‘reality warper’ vibe ala Bill Cipher or Discord but with a 1920s radio show host twist that I just think is amazing and the sound distortion they added to his voice was a really cool touch on top of it all. The problem, as always, comes more with the color choice. One one of your own characters can’t take someone seriously because they look like a ‘strawberry pimp’ that might be the time to maybe go with a different color pallet? Like, idk, maybe throw in some warm browns and brass golds to involve the 1920s radio vibe stronger? Radios of the 20s and 30s weren’t famous for being red, is what I’m getting at.

The other problem with Alastor is that he’s too strong a personality, ironically. He comes in at the tail end of the pilot and basically steals whatever interest a potential audience member (or at least fat orange jerks like me) might have had in Charlie's plight. It's like introducing Bill Cipher in the first episode of Gravity Falls. At that point whatever interest you might have had in the MC goes out the window and you think ‘what’s this dudes deal and can the show be about them instead please?’ Sure, Alastor in all of his pesudo deer (Those don’t look like horns in my opinion but whatever you say Viv) is fun to watch but he drowns out Charile through sheer force of charisma and showmen ship. Maybe the series itself will fix this but for the pilot at least I think it’s an issue.

Also, Nifty is Nifty and she needs her own spin-off ASAP. That is all.

Husk is literally Avocato from Final Space with wings and some gambling bits thrown in design-wise. That’s literally all I think of Husk, sorry Husk fans :(

The animation is good, but I do find it ironic that as much as people like the bitch about SU being off model, Hazbin I thought suffered from so many different animators tackling different scenes that it just felt jarring going from one scene to the next due to the difference in style and the shifts in animation pacing. Now, don’t get me wrong, a lot of it looks great but that switch in animators kinda just took me out of the experience in places. Well, that and the lack of proper scene transitions. Those are what also made the pilot feel like whiplash for me.

And now comes to Bob’s thoughts on the plot of the pilot and this is where the logical holes of the series start to get to me just a bit.

So. Charlie wants to reform the demons of hell of their sins so they can get to heaven and Hell can lower its population and angles down come down and deliver some righteous furry smiting on their asses. Okay. Stupid question but what the hell is Charlie basing this off of? I mean, was AD really THAT good an actor that Charlie thought going full steam ahead on the Hotel idea was the next reasonable step up?

Like, the Hotel was clearly a mess and her staff is literally just her and Vaggie and MAYBe Angel Dust. Even if the episode had ended with a horde of demons lining up to get into heaven by way of cleaning up their acts there’s no way two, three people could handle that (Or, you know, six if we throw in Nifty and Husk in fairness now that I think about it).

And that’s ultimately the thing with the pilot, the demons are assholes as you’d expect the citizens of hell to be but if they are assholes... why should we care if they get redeemed or not when not one of them is clearly interested in the idea? As cheesy as it would have been, the pilot ending with a horde of demons wanting to give this ‘become better’ thing a shot would have at least left the pilot on a better note to end on. As it is it just seems like Charlie is doomed to fail because no one but her gives a shit or belives about her idea for the Hotel and we have no proof that her idea will even work. Which just makes me wonder: Why should I care if no one else does?

Ultimately, the show has potential but the art style and aspects of the writing just don’t click for me. The show doesn’t say ‘adult’ to me so much as it does 'Hot Topic Teen trying to be adult' which works for a lot of people but for me I think Hellevua Boss as more potential concept-wise. And has scenes on Earth which do the red and black and pink and white colors of the demons a lot better visual justice contrast wise but that’s just me.

#hazbin hotel #sorry hazbin fans #your show is flawed and has room for improvement

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