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Post-Finale. The Hotel finds Alastor right on the front lawn, unconscious and bleeding, still injured from Adam's blade. While he recovers, all of Hell scrambles to find out who his mysterious rescuer is.
Meanwhile, Vox tries not to freak out that he might have accidentally made a soul bond to save that deer asshole's life. All he had wanted to do was to scope out the ruins of Alastor's radio tower. Fuck him for being curious, he supposed.
(not on hiatus anymore! woohoo)
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25 May 2026
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”You’d call everything off right now, just for this?”
Just for this, he says. As though it’s trivial. As though it isn’t everything that Vox has dreamt of every night for the past several decades. As though the rejection doesn’t sting just as sharply every time he wakes up and reaches to the other side of a cold bed, hands searching for a lover that will never be there, and hears callous laughter echoing in the back of his skull.
Vox sucks in a shaky breath, closing his eyes. He tilts his face downward, unable to look at Alastor when he admits it. He almost can’t bring himself to, sure that Alastor is already certain of the answer.
”Yes,” he whispers.
”You can’t be serious,” Alastor says quietly.
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In which many things come to light, all earth-shattering.
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18 Feb 2026
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““You might want to avert your eyes. I’m not completely sure what will greet us on the other side of the door.” Horrible, gory images flooded Angel’s brain and he was about to turn on his heel and leave. But before he could run away Alastor continued under his breath, in what could only be described as an exasperatedly fond sigh.
“Or in what state of dress it will be in.” Wait, what?”
Needing a leather jacket for Cherri’s birthday, Alastor offers to lend Angel one he stole from one of his victims. So now he found himself outside the Radio Demon’s fucking apartment. This would definitely end in some kind of disaster.
Now with a second chapter!
“Not that this isn’t a blast, but did you knock for a reason, or…?” Alright, he just had to get it out in the open.
“Husk asked me out.” Vox froze, eyes wide. Angel shifted on his feet as a grin slowly split Vox’s screen. A hand suddenly grabbed his arm, and he let out a yelp as he was yanked inside.
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18 Jan 2026
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The Family You Choose (is better?) by number1trashenthusiast
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
12 Apr 2026
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Lilith has returned. She has all the cards in her hands and Alastor's invisible leash wrapped around her perfect fingers - but no one who has played poker with Alastor would suggest counting him out before the game is over.
Alastor has faced some of the greatest evils that have ever existed - has stood firm in back alleys against overlords stronger than him, has several times dodged exorcist spears and even divine guitars.
He is NOT going to be defeated by a fucking HOTEL ROOM and the desperate housewife from HELL.
Alternative summary: Alastor spends a sizeable amount of time locked in single combat with a hotel room door, Vaggie grows as a person, Lucifer Morningstar is Very Concerned that his ex-wife and current-whatever may be getting along too well, Charlie spends a lot of time being confused, Frederick von Eldrich comes out of retirement with style, the Archangel Michael develops a headache, and Vox attempts to de-bug his conscience.
There are also copious musical references for no good reason whatsoever.
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- Part 2 of The Friends that Ruin You
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11 Jan 2026
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I really love thy dynamic and the banter between Alastor and Vox. Ch. 25 and especially ch. 26 are really fun. Ch. 27, too
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New Orleans, 1933.
Vincent Whittman’s assignment (punishment) seems simple enough: recruit Mr. Alastor Hartfelt, the city’s famed radio star.
But his trip derails the moment he meets the man dressed in a smile too sharp, with secrets too deep, and a presence that hums with something far beyond him.
One broken ritual binds them for decades, pulling them back to each other again and again, to the one soul neither can quite break away from.- Language:
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28 Dec 2025
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This story is extraordinary. The characters just seem to come alive, the writing is so vivid, it evoques genuine feelings. I love it
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Of all the demons who could have possibly inherited his contract. Why did it have to be Vox? The pompous, obnoxious, desperate television demon who had been oh so obsessed with him for ages. And Vox would never let him go. Not now that he had him. What he’d wanted for so long now, always just out of his reach. No, nothing could persuade him to give him up.
Vox gets ahold of Alastor's soul, and he intends to take full advantage of his new acquisition. Unfortunately, his feelings for the man make everything a bit more complicated. But Alastor might just come to realize that Vox owning his soul isn't actually the worst thing.
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26 Dec 2025
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Down in Hell, if there was one currency worth more than souls, it was credibility. If Al went back on his word, even for a silly little bet, that was the end of his career as a dealmaker. Al liked to gamble, and for the most part it seemed he had the devil’s own luck, but it was only a matter of time before he lost something- before his happy-go-lucky attitude came back to bite him on his narrow ass. “Hey, at least it’s not your soul, right?”
“Mimzy.” Alastor grinned at her. “You’re not helping.”
“Aw, Al, you’ll be fiiine.” Mimzy stroked the side of Alastor’s head and he leaned into it, like the hopeless sap that he was, his ears flopping. A real kitten. That was the thing that most people didn’t understand about the Radio Demon. Al might be terrifying, and powerful, and all those things, but at the heart of it, he was just a silly man. Mimzy gave his shoulder a squeeze. “It’s just the TV-head guy, right? You like him. I know you do, else youdda eaten him by now.”
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23 Dec 2025
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“I know you’re still adjusting,” he said, dropping to one knee again. “But our model is perfection and I can’t tolerate mistakes like that. This is what it takes to be a Vee.”
“I’m not. A Vee,” Alastor spat.
Vox chuckled. “You are now. The sooner you accept that, Al, the better off you’ll be.”
>───⇌••⇋───<
After years of servitude, there were only two options Alastor saw for himself: 1) being bound to his jailor forever, or 2) breaking his contract and finally being free.
He hadn't accounted for a third option.
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23 Dec 2025
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“You are something else,” Alastor mutters, his smirk turning kind of deranged as he watches the commotion in the water when an alligator thrashes in it to get to the human meat.
“Oh, darling,” Lucifer huffs, successfully pulling Alastor’s attention to him as he steps into his personal space. He stands on his tip toes until the barrel of the Winchester rests against the center of his forehead. “You don’t know the half of it,” he whispers with confidence, grinning a bit too wide with the slightly too sharp teeth and his eyes might have an unnatural red glow. Risky, putting it in one word.
And yet, he watches as the man’s pupils dilate slightly.
Got him.
or; Lucifer gets to know Alastor when the latter is still human
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- Part 1 of wrap me in your skin and bones
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23 Dec 2025
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The first time he meets the devil, Alastor is twenty-one years old.
It is not the last time, though it does set the course for everything that follows.
It is where it all begins.
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- Part 1 of All changed, changed utterly
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22 Dec 2025
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After capturing Lucifer in episode 7, Vox gets pulled away on business before he can connect him to the Might of Lilith... giving Lucifer and Alastor a stolen moment to chat. Alastor has a request - and a promise of something in return.
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21 Dec 2025
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He’s done some pretty insane things in his time alive—he’s been alive for a long, long, uh, very long time, after all—but, perhaps, this one, probably, takes the cake—the last nail in the coffin, one could say, of his persistent insanity.
(Or the last nail on the Bambi.)
He grins.
(Oh, well—worth it.)
AKA
In which Lucifer is determined to prove that Vox is a lying liar who lies and that Alastor does, indeed, have a tail—(for literally no reason at all).
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21 Dec 2025
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The wound on Alastor’s chest becomes badly infected and he’s unable to manage the pain even with drugs and alcohol. It gets to the point of him passing out in one of the hotel’s public spaces, unable to recover before he’s discovered by Charlie. Charlie drags Lucifer to Alastor’s side and tearfully begs Lucifer to save him. She’s having flashbacks to Pentious’s death and is terrified Lucifer might refuse out of spite towards Alastor and she just can’t lose another friend, she can’t!
Lucifer was never going to refuse, but the desperation and fear in his little girl’s voice breaks his heart all the same. Sure, he has his problems with the guy, but he wasn’t going to just leave Alastor for double dead. Who would he argue with over his morning coffee then? He overcompensates, just a tad, using his magic to not only mend the flesh but purge all foreign elements from the Sinner’s body…
Leaving behind a stranger with Alastor’s face and voice, but none of his demonic traits or abilities. Or memories.
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19 Dec 2025
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Alastor can admit, in the silence of his own head as he walks away from the first official overlord meeting since the Extermination Day that Wasn’t, that Charlie MIGHT have been right. He probably should have stayed home.
Not that he’d tell the girl that under pain of torture - that kind of hand-wringing and fretting wasn’t the sort of thing that should be encouraged in anyone, least of all the Princess of Hell.
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- Part 1 of The Friends that Ruin You
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Bookmarked by MJN
08 Dec 2025
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Absolutely amazong story. I love the fascinating deep dives into everyone's psyche and the slow burn romance - even though the action's of some of them are quite far removed from the show, they all feel believable
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There are a few things that Alastor can say are true: Hell is forever. Television was a terrible mistake. He should be dead.
That he is not dead is a source of some small ongoing difficulty. But if this is what Alastor has to work with, he’ll find a way.
Or, in this particular case, a way will find him.
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- Part 1 of AppleRadio One-Shots
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07 Dec 2025
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A remix of Act 2 in which Gale gets more of a character arc resolution.
“Gods damn it Gale!”
Astarion leaps over him. The guard, poised to land an entirely excessive final blow to Gale’s skull, topples backwards with a knife in his gut. The second pierces his neck, sending him crashing to the ground. Astarion yanks his blades back, and drops to his knees beside Gale.
“Oh no no no, you are not dying on me now.”
Gale attempts to express something, but it comes out as a gurgle of bloody bubbles. The world swings to the side, black and spinning.
“I swear, if it turns out I did just watch you spend the last of your magic sending your cat back to safety instead of saving your own damn skin-”
The threat remains unfinished. A healing potion trickles between Gale’s lips.
“Tressym,” Gale says, when he can finally trust his voice.
Astarion is still crouched over him, cheeks flushed, sweat running down his brow and someone else’s blood smeared across his cheek. Gale has the sudden urge to kiss him.
“What?”
“She’s a tressym. Not a cat.”
Astarion makes a noise of such furious, pained exasperation that Gale half expects the dagger to end up in his neck next.Series
- Part 1 of First Light
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10 Nov 2025
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Gale yelps as Astarion's very cold fingers find his midriff. Astarion laughs, burrowing deeper under Gale's robe.
“Ah-ha, Astarion, did you take an ice bath on the way here?” Gale protests.
“Well usually I wake up to somebody very ready to warm me up.” Astarion purrs.
“You know what they say; cold hands, warm heart,” Gale says, absently.
Astarion pinches him, gently.
“Ow!” Gale protests, “What, you're allowed to come and put your hands all over me but I'm not allowed to make comments like that?”
“You can do better, love,” Astarion says, sniffily. “That was practically lazy. I'm afraid I've become accustomed to a much higher calibre of charm.”
“Are you insinuating that I have somehow spoiled you, Astarion?”
“For anyone else, absolutely,” Astarion agrees, sadly.
Shadowheart sighs.
“Glad you two are as disgusting as ever,” she says.Series
- Part 2 of First Light
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09 Nov 2025
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I really like the characterisations. Also, how casually powerful Gale is just kinda tickles me (e.g. ch. 2 and the magical map)
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To Gale, flipping through his sketchbook is like strolling down a well-trodden path through the luscious woods of his mind, basking in the warm light of his favorite people, places and comforts. It's one of the reasons he keeps the book near his chest, literally and metaphorically close to his heart.
And thus, having Astarion peruse his art is terrifying, indeed.
“Gods, you draw everyone so happy." There is, for once, no bite in it. It's almost gentle.
“I…” Gale fidgets with the pencil still in his hand. “I draw what makes myself happy.”
Astarion runs his finger along the outer edge of the drawing of himself and Scratch strangely reverently.
“Sentimental,” Astarion chides, harmlessly. “How very you.”
In which Gale catalogues the entire journey since the crash of the Nautoloid in a sketchbook he hasn't drawn in since his exile and Astarion has enough confidence in his art for the both of them.
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05 Oct 2025
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Absolute poetry. I love ch. 3. I'd like to see it finished one day but even not quite complete it's a wonderful story
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an intolerable tenderness by hikaie for shadesofmidnightsun
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Apr 2024
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Astarion figured his soulmate a lost cause even before Cazador carved their words off of him; becoming a vampire spawn killed a lot of dreams, after all.
[For Bloodweave Brainrot’s 2024 Spring Fling]
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05 Oct 2025
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While sharing a moment of intimacy in the Shadowlands, Gale gives into the temptation to read Astarion's mind. He wants to feel their pleasure shared, to feel it amplified.
What he finds when he opens the link is nothing short of horrifying.
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30 Sep 2025
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So much Angst - wonderful. Really pulls at your heartstrings, especially after ch. 1