Hey so, I thought you might like to hear a bit of a ramble of mine. Cause I was reading a few history related things about how people characterise Alastor given his time period. And I just thought, "What if it was Mimzy that found his body?" TW: description of corpse
Like, if the hunter realizes he shot a man through the head and his dogs, poorly trained, are ripping into two bodies. He knows he'll get in trouble if he tells someone. So he leaves the bodies there and hopes that if they're found it will be blamed on the local serial killer. And Mimzy goes looking for her friend after a few days of him missing. She and the others at the speakeasy would tell him not to wander the bayou alone. But that man practically lived there when he was doing radio or up on the bar's stage. She finds two bodies. Only recognizes one.
She recognizes him immediately.
Mimzy doesn't cry. Does scream or plead for things to not be real. She disassociates.
Of course the only time she would see Alastor without his signature smile was without a face. Most of his skull, really. She thinks most of the pulp is brain matter, as it's hard for her to decern bones fragments. His body black and blue where she can see attached skin. Some type of animal got him. Like wolves. Wolves have been hunted and were declining and they prefer to kill fresh catches. She remembers Alastor telling her that. So this happened while he was alive, or close to it. But wolves don't usually go for full grown adults and will almost never go for two full grown humans. So dogs. Someone's dogs. Someone ordered their dogs to do this. Which is why the arms and legs and throat are mutilated, but the torso is mostly intact. This wasn't to eat, they were ordered and trained to attack. His nice shirt was ruined with blood and mud and grass stains. She knows it as Alastor's become his arms are long and he likes his sleeves to fit a certain way because of always wearing baggy shirts as a kid. She sees they way the shoulders are stitched slightly to give more space to the shoulders and how the cuffs are made from a slightly different white fabric to be longer and more secure to malnourished wrists. His pants looked like they were pulled up wrong. Like they'd been taken off- (no don't think about that) but she recognizes his long legs. It was difficult for him to find pants both long enough and that fitted his waist. There's faint red stitches in the seam against brown fabric, from hip to waist to get rid of a lot of extra fabric.
More ways she could recognize her friend.
But she can't put them to words.
Her friend was lynched and she hadn't even noticed immediately. She feels disgusting on the inside. It follows her for the rest of her life. It wasn't her first taste of Hell. But it was the rot that lingered in her palette till the day she died.
When Angel Dust asks about Alastor, she tells him about her friend. How the big bad Overlord was a kitten with some rye. But when Angel pushed, something triggered and she disassociated again.
Looking at the distance in front of her, eyes unfocused.
Then to her drink, trying to bring herself back.
She knew she was staring blank at it.
Everything was getting muffled.
She looked Angel in the eyes, haunted. Described how she recognized her friend without his face. Made the morbid joke, "Of course, the only time I catch him without a smile is when he doesn't even have a face!"
And distantly describes it.
How green the grass was around his body. Vibrant. Unrealistic. The wildflowers that had started to bloom from between the gore.
How they buried him next to his mama, who was also rotting without all her skull. "Like mother, like son. Am I right?"
How his body was taken from him. She always suspected it was a 'friend' who wanted more or someone he had a 'partnership' with. After all she's seen how the men looked at her friend. How the masquerades had men follow him whether he was dressed as a boy or girl. How Alastor had a new John here and there, with his shirt popped open. How he'd wave off their other friends telling him to be cautious cause repressed people will do heinous things when they feel like you owe them something.
Imagine Vox hearing that through Angel in that moment?
Sir Pentious and Angel Dust might be even more shaken up than before!
I think this 'small' addition could cause a butterfly effect and lead to big changes in the future.
Perhaps Sir Pentious would rush to find Alastor in a panic to ask for help, interrupting Husk before he gets to make the leash comment? Husk might get a glimpse of how close Mimzy and Alastor truly are, seeing how she was traumatised by his death and possibly even blamed herself for it.
Alastor finds out about how she got to that state and would be pissed at Angel. Husk might try to defend Angel, but Alastor could snap at him for having no sense of boundaries, calling him too cowardly to ask such personal question about himself to his face and instead interrogating other more vulnerable sinners 'like a fucking creep.' He even drops a hint about how he knows he's a spy for Vox, snatches the phone out of his hand and destroys it. If Angel, Charlie and Vaggi try to complain, he gives them a crash course on both Voxtech Spyware and basic manners, and how if they won't punish their client for voyeurism he will.
Also, I don't think Alastor would kick Mimzy out after this, and after being triggered and remembering her best friend's murder, she might get a little clingy and sticks around.
I think Angel would already feel like an ass for pushing so far (why did he feel the need to do that?) before Alastor goes off on him, and as he likely has experience helping others out of dissociation would be working to help Mimzy out of it by the time the other's get back (but not before sending Vox what he heard).
After this, Sir Pentious and Angel Dust are brutally hit with the realisation that... Alastor was human, just like the rest of them, and start to treat him as such. And this would lead to two major changes:
Sir Pentious invites Alastor and Mimzy to go partying with them and the duo choose to take them up on the offer. They discover that the old timer knows how to party!
Angel Dust has everyone look for Alastor when he goes missing after fighting Adam, and Mimzy (knowing Alastor) leads him to the destroyed Radio Tower. The other's get to see his wound from Adam and are struck by the same revelation Pentious and Angel had.
This snowballs into Alastor generally being treated better by everyone at the Hotel (minus Lucifer, who is still an insecure dick) and he hates it. Why are you putting me on mandatory vacation?! Do you think I'm too weak to do my job?!!
Mimzy is still at the Hotel and she now works as an entertainer for the guests! She becomes quite popular.
She and Angel get really competitive on stage!
And then there's Vox and how he's handling all this horrifying information; naturally, his brain latches onto the 'Alastor getting betrayed and murdered by a friend who wanted more' and thinks back to That Day.
