Charlie: Say what, now?
Alastor: *repeats himself* Help! Hahaha, hello? Is this thing on? *taps on his mic* Testing, testing!
Alastor's Mic: *opens its eye* Well, I heard you loud and clear!
* Luna furrows her eyebrows as her and Alfred just continue to watch*
Charlie: Um, you want to help? With...?
Alastor: *teleports behind the two with his shadow* This ridiculous thing you're trying to do! This hotel! I want to help you run it.
Charlie: Buuut... why?
Alastor: Hahaha, why does anyone do anything? Sheer, absolute boredom! I've lacked inspiration for decades. My work became mundane, lacking focus, *shoves Vaggie offscreen* aimless! I've come to crave a new form of entertainment! Hahaha!
* Alfred catches Vaggie as she is thrown while luna just looks back down at the tablet no longer interested in what is going on around her.*
Charlie: Does getting into a fistfight with a reporter count as entertainment...?
Luna: You did what now *looks up from tablet shocked*
Alastor: Hahaha! It's the purest kind, my dear: Reality! True passion! After all, the world is a stage and the stage is a world of entertainment.
Charlie: So, does this mean you think it's possible to rehabilitate a demon?
Alastor: Hahahahaha! *shakes hand in front of her* Of course not! That's wacky nonsense! *shakes head back and forth*Redemption, oh the non-existent humanity! No, no, no, no. I don't think there's anything left that could save such loathsome sinners! *looks over to Vaggie who is offended as well as luna, Alfred and Angel who just shrugs* The chance given was the life they lived before, the punishment is this! *puts his arms out, gesturing the entirety of Hell* There is no undoing what is done! * staring longer at luna for some reason*
Charlie: So, then. Why do you wanna help me if you don't believe in my cause?
[shaking alastor form his trance at staring at luna]
Alastor: Consider it an investment in ongoing entertainment for myself! *pulls Charlie close to him and twirls her* I want to watch the scum of the world struggle to climb up the hill of betterment only to repeatedly trip and tumble down to the fiery pit of failure!
Charlie: *removes his hand from her back* Riiiight.
Alastor: Yes, indeedy! *grabs her by the waist and drags her offscreen* I see big things coming your way and who better to help you than I? *trails off*
Angel Dust: Uh, so... uh, what's the deal with Smiles over there?
Vaggie: Wait, you've never heard of him before? You've been here longer than me!
Angel Dust: *shrugs cluelessly*
Vaggie: The Radio Demon. One of the most powerful beings Hell has ever seen?
Angel Dust: *shrugs a second time* Eh, not big on politics.
Luna: yeah and Alfred and I haven't been here long
Vaggie: Ugh! *leans in to them as she begins her story* Decades ago, Alastor manifested in Hell,
[Scene changes to a visual presentation of Vaggie's story regarding Alastor.]
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Inner monsters
FanfictionAfter endgame and the defeat of Thanos and unfortunate losses Luna Stark gets tasked with returning the time and space stone to its rightful timeline. Only to have it go terribly wrong and for her to get stuck in another dimension in the 1930's. Wha...
