Curate, connect, and discover
Trigger warnings for body horror, some non-sexual nudity (not in detail), and Alastor really not having a good time. More details after the scene.
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Alastor was completely naked, and yet there wasn’t much skin to see. Numerous wires wrapped around the stick thin demon, some were threaded directly into his skin, while others powered devices connected to him, including an ankle monitor, something latched to his chest, and an electronic visor covering the deer’s eyes. Then there were thick tubes, the largest of which were shoved into his mouth, his nose, and his posterior, carrying various fluids Charlie did not want to think about into and out of his body. Smaller tubes looked like they carried blood, though whether it was adding or subtracting from the demon’s own supply was unknown.
He was suspended in some sort of clear, gelatinous substance, partially curled up on himself and not moving at all. No flick of the ears or twitch of the hand. He didn’t even breathe. Charlie guessed that one of the tubes did that for him, and couldn’t decide if that made this whole… thing more or less horrifying. She decided on more.
And then there were the antlers.
Alastor’s antlers eclipsed the deer in size many times over, an ebony forest sprouting from a single seed, an insect infected with fungus. They rose out of the chamber and into the skyline, interlaced with the Vee tower’s own lights and wires and antenna until he was just a part of the infrastructure. Hiding in plain sight.
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So… this was a scene (probably the most important scene tbh) I wrote for a so far unnamed fanfic I’ve been pecking away at. I keep jumping between chapters, this was actually the first thing I made for it, and in my current draft it’s around chapter 9. Out of around 25, tho that is subject to change.
I want to get at least the first half finished before officially posting it, since there’s a pretty natural cutoff point around halfway thro, just in case I’m not able to make it thro the entire 25 chapter marathon (I am not good at longer works. Even if that’s what I prefer reading.)
As for what the fic is actually about, it starts out as a standard “Vox kidnaps Alastor after the failed Extermination” fic, and things… escalate. To the point where Vox uses Alastor as a living signal booster for his own purposes. Tho, if you noticed in the scene, it is thro Charlie’s perspective, so that condition isn’t permanent. But it will have dire ramifications for everyone involved.
So yeah, I hope some people are interested! I’ll be posting this to Ao3, and maybe Fanfic.net since I have an account from when I was in high school. Fanfic.net mostly dead from what I’ve seen, at least on the Hazbin side, but there are a couple of really good Hazbin fics I’ve found on there. That haven’t updated in forever, but still. Maybe I’ll make a reccomendation list sometime. Oh and I might post the fic on here too if that would be helpful to people.
No idea when/if this will come out, hopefully I’ll get back into writing it soon. Having the first chapter out before Season 2 drops would be good (not that I’ll complain if S2 comes out next week or something crazy lol)