Just an Idea - Alastor x Varang ! Reader
You know, I'm not exactly a writer, I've only done a few fanfics outside of here, and I participate in RPGs, but I've had an idea for a one-shot for a long time, after seeing Avatar: Fire and Ashes, but I never knew how to execute it.
The idea for this one-shot revolves around an Indigenous character who lived in the early 1900s near a small town. Her tribe survived by selling handicrafts to white people: her mother made baskets, her father produced hockey sticks, and she herself had a more curious view of the outside world, especially after befriending a kind white girl who traded a scarf for a handcrafted necklace.
When church missionaries appear offering places in a "school for Indigenous people," promising education, jobs, and stability in the new modern world, her parents accept, believing it could guarantee a better future for their daughter. However, the school was actually inspired by Indigenous assimilation boarding schools: an abusive place that sought to erase the students' culture, forcing evangelization, punishments, and separation from families.
After months trapped in that place, without contact with her parents, she manages to escape and return to her village, only to find everything destroyed. Men sent by the school attacked the tribe trying to reclaim it; houses were burned, and many died trying to resist. Wounded and desperate, she flees again, but is eventually found and murdered, dying of hypothermia after running away wounded from the cold.
In the Hell of Hazbin Hotel, she takes on an appearance inspired by the series' aesthetic: bluish skin from the cold of her death, yellow eyes, feline features like ears and a snout because of her attachment to the kitten she had in life, as well as scars all over her body caused during her escape. Hating the cold, she loves the infernal heat and lives away from Pentagram City, in more isolated and tribal regions alongside other sinners from ancient peoples who haven't adapted to the city's excessive technology.
She would have a friend in Hell, the same white girl she knew in life, and eventually also a connection with Rosie. Rosie would be one of the few people in the city who would visit her occasionally. Rosie already knew stories about isolated peoples outside of Pentagram City and ended up finding her tribe during one of her "social trips." Fascinated by the culture and the protagonist's distrustful nature, Rosie became a kind of bridge between her and the rest of Hell, especially with Alastor.
The protagonist would almost never set foot in the city, but her entry into the main storyline would happen when Charlie needed the cannibals' help against the exterminating angels. Rosie would then admit that, despite loving the idea of โโa massacre, perhaps they weren't strong enough on their own, and would decide to ask for help from "an old friend who hates invaders more than anyone."
This also creates a very interesting dynamic with Alastor: while he is theatrical, manipulative, and charismatic, she would be quiet, distrustful, and deeply connected to her own roots. The relationship between the two would work precisely because of the contrast, him fascinated by someone impossible to completely control, and her slowly realizing that, despite being monstrous, he understands what it means to lose who you are in order to survive.