~ Underneath The Smile ~

~ Keep Smiling ~

TW FOR WHOLE STORY
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- LGBTQIA+ (homophobs leave)
- Transmasc Alastor
- Mentions of Scars
- Starvation
- Panic Attacks
- Age Regression
- Schizophrenia
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The Radio Demon, also known as "Alastor Hartfelt", was doing his usual watch over the hotel, and smile routine. As usual, he wasn't very fond of by most of them. He looked around the hotel lobby as he saw Charlie, Vaggie, Husk, Niffty, Angel Dust, & Sir Pentious. Alastor had gotten up and walked over to Charlie, while smiling very widely, while holding his radio microphone.

A: "Hello, Charlie dear! what a wonderful day i. hell, isn't it?"

C: "Oh, Hello Alastor! Yes it is, i'm just trying to figure out how to get visitors at the hotel!"

A: "Wonderful, dear! That sounds lovely!"

Alastor looked over and saw Vaggie death staring him, so he backed off a few steps.

A: "I'm going to proceed to my room now!"

C: "Alright, Al! We're doing daily exercises later, so make sure to be here!"

A: "Noted, my dear!"

Alastor goes to his room, while closing the door behind him. He would set his microphone down, and stretched out for a moment. He decided to remove his coat, keeping on his bowtie and his shirt under it. He placed his coat on his dressed, and looked at the fact that he had a short sleeve shirt on. He stared at the scars on his arms from when he died (aka when he was mauled by the dogs). While doing this, he looked at himself in the mirror, moving the front of his hair to see where he was shot in the head. He immediately moved it back, and looked at his eyes bags drooping under his eyes.

A: "hm.. perhaps i should fix that, sometime soon.."

He sighed, and suddenly felt hungry by the growls of his stomach. He doesn't eat much, so he can "keep his figure", which he looked extremely slim all the time.

A: "Nonsense.. i can resist longer."

Alastor then looked over to see a dead deer he had targeted the previous night. This made his mouth water, and his cannibal instincts kick in. He just stared at it, extremely hungry, but he rapidly shook his head to snap out of it.

A: "I never knew how hungry cannibals could get when they see human meat, or in my case.. deer meat."

He took his attention away from the dead deer in his room, but it just.. smelled so good.. (to him). He sighed and just sat down and pulled an old school book from the 1930's out of his bookshelf.

A: "Maybe this will distract me.."

HOURS LATER

Alastor gets done with reading for the day, and he gets up and puts the book away. He walked back over to his dressed and looked in the mirror. He had suddenly zoned to himself for a moment, then started mumbling to himself.

A: "Oh mama.. if only you were here, to see where i've gotten now.."

He still had the large smile on his face, as per usual.

A: "I've been smiling.. if only i could see you again Mama.."

He sighed and walked out of his room, and looked around the hotel's walls and his surroundings. He hears everyone talking in the lobby, he decides to eavesdrop on them.

C: "Have you guys notice that Al has been more distant than usual, and more quiet?

V: "He's always like that. i don't know what you're worried about."

H: "Probably scheming betrayals and murders or some shit like that."

AD: "Eh, who knows. he's still a big ol' mystery."

Alastor listened as everyone talks about how odd he has been acting. He realized once he heard everything, that he had been acting strange. He felt like he needed to start acting less strange, so they wouldn't suspect anything, mainly Charlie. He had listened a little more, and then walked out where everyone else was.

A: "Hello everyone! I'm refreshed from my time alone."

C: "That's amazing, Alastor! We were just about to start our daily exercises!"

A: "Lovely! Shall we begin?"

C: "Of course!! Eeekk!"

Alastor and the others would follow Charlie's commands about the daily exercises for the day. Alastor thought there wasn't any point in them, and they were a waste of time. But, he played along with her silly little exercises and followed the princess's commands. Even though he thought the whole thing was silly, he wanted to show some hope for the happy Morningstar standing before him. He played along with everything she was saying, hoping to slowly gain everyone's trust fully. He had slowly warmed up to the group, even if they had been pains in the ass to him. He enjoys their company, he was no longer alone and on his own. This is a different feeling for him, he wasn't sure if it was natural, but it felt weird to him. He was actually enjoying the presence of someone else, other than just himself.

He watched everyone do the exercises, until it's time for him to take his turns. He spent most of the time being zoned out in his own world. He hardly knew anything that they were doing or saying. He didn't care much either, as per usual for the radio demon. He tried to stay in reality, but somehow he kept ending up zoning out. He seemed to stuck in his own world to care about his surroundings.

He suddenly just wandered off, walking back to his room. He suddenly felt someone grab his arm and his eyes widened.

C: "Al! Where are you going? You haven't done your turn yet!"

A: "Charlie, dear. Let. Go."

C: "But Al! I need you to-"

Charlie gets cut off ..

A: "I said.. GET OFF.

Alastor suddenly lost it, he threw Charlie off him. Vaggie ended up catching her, Alastor looked over with a pissed look, but kept his giant smile on his face.

V: "Charlie! Are you okay?!"

C: "Yeah!- I just provoked him too much.."

Vaggie looked at Alastor with an extremely hateful stare, Alastor sighed.

V: "As I suspected, you want nothing but pain caused towards us. Can't believe I was talked into trusting you."

Alastor said nothing, he just .. walked away. Vaggie was right, all he wants is to cause pain, but this time .. he didn't know if that was the case. After all, he wants people to fear him, he wants to be in control above everyone. He wanted to protect Charlie and the others, as promised. But, he continues to cause pain towards the people around him.

But he ..

KEEPS SMILING