Crack idea. I saw those two Vark posts on here and @ultiastorm mentioned Jeff and @proshipper-on-ship and you were talking about other pets (that get turned into children but I'm kinda ignoring that part for the moment).
Imagine this, he has Vark. He would have chosen something else, that was just what he put on the adoption paperwork to get the pup and was expecting Vox to change it. It stuck, unfortunately. This one is a hammerhead land shark.
He is getting supplies when he finds two wounded Hell Beast 'babies' injured and whining in a dumpster. They have collars on. It's Jeff, a Great White Land-Shark pup, and Ken, the Septapus. One is very curious and the other is clingy.
He also manages to find an alligator hatchling with a collar still on, dubbed Gummy. This thing has never had a single thought. Does his new owners have hooves, big ears, and is always smiling? Yes? That's his person, now. Said alligator was with a disturbingly smart bunny that also had a collar, named Angel. Alastor being so sweet to animals, even though he definitely eats animals, has Angel thinking the guy is okay. But it's when said bunny realizes that Alastor pretends to be this big bad scary dude, and can definitely cause great chaos, the Demon is actually a sweetheart. Somewhere between Discord and Fluttershy, and now Angel is rude or die.
There is also the killer rabbit from Monty Python that Alastor found one day and was kinda reluctant to introduce to the other pets, but apparently Angel Bunny is a mixed breed from the species and they get along fine. And through Angel Bunny, Benny becomes family as well. Alastor throws him some of the worst of the worst of Sinners. Probably also the first he gets to truly name.
As for the baby deer without a mother and was bottle fed? He thought it was just another Hell Beast type. Technically, it is. But it's a classic styled, carnivorous, unicorn. You know, the one's with the legs and head of a deer/horse/goat, but a body somewhere between that and a lion, with a lion like tail? It sheds it's horn seasonally, like a deer with antlers. Maybe it has a set of wings that it usually hides, or Alastor hides, with magic if you're feeling frisky and whimsical.
Or maybe he found a couple of baby 'deer', just to get a mixed bag or deer adjacent creatures? The classical unicorn, a peryton, a kelpie, and a kirin. There's also one that looks and acts 100% like a deer most of the time. But that's, whatever it is, is not a deer. (IDK what to name them. But I 100% believe he gives his animals people names.)
Charlie is excited to see what is essentially a petting zoo. 10 Hell Beast animals that are genuinely sweet with her, mostly.
Now, for the last 70 years Vox didn't believe Alastor had land sharks. Never even saw them. Didn't believe he had any of the pets people said the other Sinner had. But Angel gets pictures. And now he has to know what started this collection.
Angel makes a joke about Alastor naming a bunny after him, to which Alastor denies and says that his Angel Bunny has been his companion long before the pornstar came to Hell. Angel then uses that as a segway to ask why Alastor has so many animals. And Alastor confesses most are rescues, except his first one: Vark. The only one no longer a baby. Given that Hell Beasts age slowly, he's still an adolescent.
"You see, I got him as a gift for someone I was dating at the time. An anniversary present, if you will. The fucker friendzoned me! In the middle of our anniversary date. And I had what you would probably call a crash out. Decided I couldn't just give up on the creature, considering I trained him, and so I kept him. Never got around to changing his name. It was only ever meant as a place holder and it stuck. V, for his initial, and Shark. Just smashed together. Oh well, he's a good boy and I'm glad I didn't waste him on a temporary man."
Alastor is saying this mostly to fuck with Vox's head. Because I like giving the picture box mental distress at the thought he had everything he wanted, without realizing it, and threw it away.
And Vox is distressed. He's borderline inconsolable. What do you mean this man bought him a land shark, trained it, and was going to give the puppy to Vox for an anniversary present? An anniversary date?!?! They were dating!?!?!
*HEAVY CRYING AND SOBBING*
I love this! Give Alastor all the pets! Give him unicorns and Perytons and a jackalope and Not Deer - and Vark! So precious! And murder bunnies and Alligators and - Charlie is in heaven.
And then Alastor deliberately messing with Vox - he doesn't use the term friendzoned, no he brings up that Vox was only trying to use him and his power - that he offered to be 'business partners' while using his power and then tried to manipulate him into giving in by calling them 'friends'! And so of course Alastor crashed out, broke up with him and kept the dog land shark.
Vox hears this and freaks the fuck out.
But this also means he reacts very differently when Alastor calls him out and wants to fight him, and after their deal. (Less humiliation parade more smoothie dates. And he wants to meet Vark!)
