Hi, sinners and winners! I'm Margaret and this is my Hazbin Hotel related side blog. Probably will be reblogs, snippets of fan fiction I write, general enthusing about Hazbin Hotel, etc.
Minors DNI please!
To everyone who keeps saying "being in Hell is not an excuse for having your characters be horrible to each other, it's just bad writing"
In 1974, Marina Abramovic, a conceptual and performance artist, once had a performance called "Rhythm 0", in which she gave a group of people to do anything they want to her, using the props provided to them. While it started gentle, it started to escalate, and some of the things done to her include the following:
Cutting her skin
Placing a knife between her legs
Ripped her clothes off
Certain words like "Vile" written on paper, which are then attached to her body
This experiment and performance art proved that, if given the opportunity, humans can and will do the most fucked up shit they can imagine.
This applies to the Hellaverse, specifically to the way Sinners act. Being in Hell is not an excuse, but a reason that explains why they act like that. It's also an opportunity for them to continue their fucked up lives. No one is there to enforce the law and morals are optional. And since they're already damned, then why the fuck should they care about being decent?
This makes perfect sense! Are some of the people in Hell decent folks? Yes! Are a lot of them awful? Also yes!
Some of this is just basic human nature, decent people or not.
For those of you that may not know: Tristan and I recently started another podcast called Saturday Midnight Cartoons Checks In! (In the same stream as Saturday Midnight Cartoons.)
We will be going through season 1 of Hazbin Hotel episode by episode, then after that going over season 2.
HOWEVER, we recently released a bonus episode with our season 2 predictions! Our episodes about the pilot and about season 1, episode 1 are also up. Check us out!
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(I don't actually believe this is canon, I'm just having fun!) What if Zestial WASN'T that old, and he was just a Quaker back in the era when that religious group still used thee/thou amongst themselves, and the habit stuck?
Quaker Overlord would be an oxymoron, but hey! Shady people can exist in any faith.
Saturday Midnight Cartoons Checks In officially premiered today!
To our Corona After Dark and Saturday Midnight Cartoons listeners, I think this podcast is shaping up to be even more unhinged lol!
Side note: don't you just love the descriptions Tristan comes up with for our episodes? I can't say enough nice things about my brother!
Our new podcast Saturday Midnight Cartoons Checks In premieres September 13th! We're discussing Hazbin Hotel episode by episode, beginning with the pilot!
(Saturday Midnight Cartoons will be continuing, this new podcast will just run alongside it.)
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The first thing that pops into my head whenever a Hazbin character is confirmed to canonically have hooves:
(Content warning if you ever seek out the full clip: it contains cartoon gore and brief but questionable racial stereotypes)
Yaaaaay, just posted chapter 1 of my first ever Hazbin Hotel fic!
So excited!
The Overlord Fans United Collective (1356 words) by Glow_Decay
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Hazbin Hotel Character(s), Overlords (Hazbin Hotel)
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Alternate Universe - Canon, Some canon characters sometimes, Mostly Gen, maybe ships later, Canon-Typical Violence, Fandom Culture, Everyone is in hell for a reason, Pentagram City (Hazbin Hotel), Crack Treated Seriously
Summary:
Oh, you're an Alastor fan? Name 3 overlords he's defeated, you poser!
Ever since the bloody Shipping Wars of '08, the fan clubs of the Pride Ring's overlords have settled into an uneasy truce. Together, they formed the Overlord Fans United Collective (O.F.U.C.,) an alliance aimed at brokering peace between the fandoms!
A semi canon compliant AU. Very OC heavy! If that's your cup of tea, enjoy!
Headcanon: there are lots of sinners who take the form of various machines, and only some of them can afford the sort of upgrades and maintenance that Vox does. Lots of demons in an almost constant state of disrepair, in constant pain. Most mechanical demons look very dated.
Vox is one of the lucky ones in that he can afford upgrades, and Alastor is lucky in that he's partially an animal based demon. (Vox may also be part shark, it's not entirely clear.)
There's a sketchy market of secondhand parts catering to the ones who can't afford their upkeep, and much scavenging after exterminations.
I'm surprised we don't see more demons based on various machines! Think of how many peoples' lives and deaths are closely tied to human inventions. Some of the oldest industrial and post industrial demons are probably based on factory equipment and trains. The 20th century would have seen massive numbers of automobile demons!
One OC I'm working on has headlights for eyes and an 80s era car radio dial for a mouth, so he got me thinking about this. His worst sin is connected to cars, and his hobbies in life included running a pirate radio station in Tijuana.
But yeah, where are all my mechanical sinners at?!
I headcanon that Alastor has exceptionally poor hygiene. Not simply because of the yellow teeth jokes (even if that's what inspired me). Brushing your teeth only became common in the 1930s, and I could imagine that he completely refused to start the habit.
He never had to brush his teeth before, I headcanon that he already doesn't enjoy any other hygiene practices, so why would he add something else to that list?
An idea stuck in my brain: a sinner whose demon form is based off of a Norwegian lemming. They are aggressive, territorial little tribbles and it would be hilarious if a sinner who spent his life being wrathful was cursed with cuteness for eternity! He could never be an overlord or other high ranking sinner because nobody would take him seriously.
Do you think there was ever a time when Alastor's haircut was trending in Hell? Do you think sinners went to the barber/hairdresser and asked for "The Alastor?"
Vox has really bad neck and upper back pain from lugging around a whole-ass television set on his shoulders.
It used to be worse back when he had a CRT TV set instead of a flat screen. Television sets used to be much heavier. When he first went to Hell, he could barely even lift his head! A lot of his body modifications over the years were out of necessity to help him function better and lessen his pain. They just so happened to look cool too!
His favorite massage therapist is an octopus demon from the Envy ring who lives in Pride and exclusively serves celebrity clients.
He's finally done I think. WOAW! Radio demon time!!!
Okay time for comparison + breakdown rant ^ - ^ another SUPER long one I had a lot to say about this silly guy
ALRIGHT. So. Atp all that can be said has been said about Alastor but I'll gloss over it anyhow. Grossly historically inaccurate hair and clothing. Invisible deer theming. One of the main reasons he's got one of the most clowned on designs in the show is bc he's a pretty good representation of the worst it has to offer. He's absurdly red and has the waspiest waist in town. Also gotta zero in on the coat for a second bc I find it incredibly stupid that he went to that tailor bc of his coat being ripped and then left the shop with the exact same torn coat on oh goddd that felt like a complete joke who wrote this
Also his "redesign" was pointless. He stayed pretty much entirely the same except his colors got pinker and grosser and now he has this?? White trim on his lapels??? Even less 1930's accurate and it only serves to hurt the pallate in my eyes. It's the only spot of white on his entire design, it doesn't appear anywhere else so it throws it all off. And it's so bright. Is it supposed to be a focal point?? His tits????
Anyways onto my guy who I love so very deeply. I'm pretty sure sepia film was outdated by the 1930s but I gave him a palette inspired by it to emphasize how dated and stuck in old ways he is. Added blood red accents bc. Well. Cannibal murderer. Also bc I redid the sin colors so red is wrath and it seems like a fitting sin to pair him with.
After looking into 1930's men's fashion a tiny bit (thanks anon, this video was helpful!) and gave him a double breasted coat but wider and pointier so he looks a little less like just some normal guy and really emphasize how prideful and egotistical he is. "Ooo look at me I'm super big and imposing and powerfulll". I think it's a fun character trait of his. Definitely keeping it.
I liked him wearing gloves bc I feel like he wouldn't like getting his hands directly dirty and would always be covered when committing his murders. Maybe he's a germaphobe even. "I can excuse murder but I draw the line at dried blood on my skin". Also the gloves being white would contrast really well with blood so. Love that
I gave him a long tie to free him from the Vivziepop bow tie uniform and a fedora to add to the 1930's vibe and serve as something that can occasionally obscure his face in shadow. His glasses are also opaque and I imagine his eyes would rarely be shown if ever to make him seem more inhuman and off-putting, disconnecting him from personhood a bit. Wanted to add to that with his smiling mouth never opening and just being a static grin that can only occasionally widen or lessen, his voice cracking out of his "speaker" with fuzzy radio static. Seen multiple ppl use that idea and it always eats
I love Alastor's silly theatric nature (primarily in the pilot) and I'd probably keep it, but I'd add a layer of uncanny-ness to him where when he's not putting on his silly jovial facade, he gives off an unnerving vibe. Trying to appear approachable and charming and pleasant to lure people in before he's revealed to be less than human. Loveee thattt
I love Alastor being a deer. Predator becoming prey (animal) + "prey animal" lulling people into a false sense of security before striking. Love it. We should be CAPITALIZING ON IT❗So I gave him deer like legs, visible deer hooves, and more readable deer ears + the ham radio tower antenna antlers (sorry 4 calling them horns 💀)
Tried to make it a little more obvious that he's a mixed man of color by giving him dark wavy hair and the faintest hint of lip definition Viv uses in her style. I think it works. He's still not dark skinned tho
LASTLY the mic. Also not an original idea as I've seen tons of others turn it into a carbon mic but turned into a pentagram shape and I love the idea a lotttt so I joined the crew.
AND THAT DOES IT!!!! hope u like him as much as I do hehe. Just 1 supplemental doodle this time sorry :/ showing off how his face is probably obscured most of the time. He's. So hard to draw. I'm just bad at men but I'm tryinggggg guys
Alsoooo I've already finished the drawings for Niffty, Angel, and Husk! Once I've finished their breakdowns I'll add em right to the queue, and then I'll make a post with all of the main 6 together :3
I like the original design just fine, but I love this take too! You obviously put a lot of thought and research into it, and I love the truly 1930s vibes and the uncanny feel! I think it fits his background and personality.
