Deer in Shark Infested Waters
Before Vox asks to be friends and business partners, him and Alastor got really drunk. He confesses his feeling and how much he loves the deer, and they had sex. (Non-sex repulsed Asexual Alastor.) Alastor remembers but doesn't know if Vox does. So Alastor is in this limbo of waiting for Vox to confess. Which is why being friendzoned made him crash out.
Come to find out, he's pregnant and fucking terrified. How the fuck? This should be impossible.
Because there's no access to baby items or healthcare in the Pride Ring, and he's a Sinner that can't go to the lower Rings. He gives birth to a mermaid purse, so he puts them in his bayou, hoping that there was enough algae for oxygen and water flow while trying to sustain them on his powers.
He catches a hammer head shark Hellborn who was in Pride and says that he wants to make a deal.
Hammer head is absolutely terrified, agrees to answer questions for his freedom, until Alastor starts asking question. Like, on what a shark Hellborn baby would need. And how to take care of a mermaid purse. Asking about commerce, how to buy items from the lower Rings, healthcare, and schooling for Hellborn. To which the shark asks if the Sinner was left with a shark Hellborn. To which Alastor tells him that he gave birth to one, and the father cut and run before that. And he wants to be able to provide for his kid.
The Hellborn was literally raised in a mob mentality, family and protecting your people is super important, so he offers to help. As long as Alastor has the cash to pay for the items, he can go down and get them. If the kid needs healthcare and Alastor can pay, he'll get a doctor or nurse to make a home visit. He, and the other loan sharks, can help teach him to take care of a shark/shark adjacent Demon.
This results in Alastor getting a community of people to help him.
(Chaz is on thin ice for flirting with him and being a general gross person. He's not welcome to the cook outs and no one tells him shit. Keep him away from Alastor and the kid.)
Alastor is brought in to their family to see how shark Hellborn children are raised. He becomes friends with the female sharks, who are all bigger and stronger than their male counter parts. They initially thought it was strange that this one was to become a mother, but then they see Kaiju Alastor and are trying to figure out how to get him a nice husband. Clearly, the male sharks are going to find him hot. Alastor even becomes an uncle to a lot of the little kids, also being trusted enough to babysit now and again. Especially with the clean, highly oxygenated, water in his bayou.
Baby girl hatches to a bunch of aunties and uncles and cousins. She's able to go to the lower Rings and is sent there occasionally to play with other Hellborn children while he gets a break. He watches over the other kids multiple times to give their poor mothers a break.
Her name is Alienor, for mercy. And to match Alastor.
She has a helmet like head with a screen face. Three metal parts on her face that look kinda like fins and kinda like prongs. The ones on either side of her face, attached from her cheekbone area, protect and conceal her transmitter and receiver antennas. While the one in the center looks like a nose and also the dorsal fin, acts like the ampullae of Lorenzini that sharks have (a biological electromagnetic antenna of jelly and fat). Dark grey, almost black, skin. Blue-white fur on her arms, legs, and back, to match Alastor's black fur patterns, that seemed to glow. Born with stubble of optical fiber; little dots on the ends of barely there transparent strands that were a glowing blue-white. The lower body of a deer with the tail of the thresher shark. The tail was 5 feet long. And she was already rolling herself over and trying to get her legs under her. Like a fawn.
"You know. Thresher sharks are supposed to be hatched while still in the mother and born live. But uh, I understand why your body couldn't handle that. She's seven feet long, and you're nine feet tall?"
"I'm very thankful I didn't have to give birth to that. She's already as tall as her sperm donor."
"Yeah. Uh. And her actual main body is probably going to be as tall as, or taller, than yours. Cause she's a female shark. And thresher are pretty long, her tail is already as long as a Common Thresher pup's body. And they get up to 20 feet long. That is not even touching that fact that she might have your kaiju form. Or the fact that she's not just a thresher, but mix of shark traits from different species. I think she has the venomous spines of a Dogfish shark. And she has bioluminescence. Like, she has so many different shark features, it feels like someone tried to create the ultimate killer."
"Well Lee, we'll just have to see where this leads us. Would you do me the honor of being my daughter's godfather?"
"O-oh. I'm going to be real with you: I'm going to cry."
"Okay? That's still not an answer."
"Of fu- of course! Of course I'll be her Godfather."
"Nice catch. And good. You get to give her her middle name."
"Uh. Dah-dang, I wish ya asked me sooner. I could have looked for some good baby names!"
"Just say the first thing off the top of your head."
"Oh har har, you already have dad jokes? Going to call her Meg, for Megalodon? Huh, Finley?" Alastor was giving the Hammerhead a shit eating grin, already writing Megan down after Aliénor.
"Ha! No." Lee wiped his eyes from tears with one arm, while still cradling the fawn/pup in the other. "It means 'little pearl'. Prescious treasure. Beautiful and rare beyond all value. The tears of nymphs, mermaids, and Aphrodite. Or Venus, if you want to go Roman."
Alastor looks at him in surprise. Lee can't help but be flushed at the attention. He knows that Alastor isn't in the know of why the name was so important. Finley could only tell part of the reason.
"It's an old name for us. For the aquatic type Hellborn. While Succubus, Incubus, and Concubus all want to be associated with Lilith's beauty, the aquatic type Hellborn tend to favor Lucifer. The morning star. The planet Venus. Inhuman beauty. One of God's most beautiful creations. Who was strong and cunning. Could make you the most faithful believer in God, or turn you away from that light with his own brilliance. Temptation, damnation, and the one to rule above us all here in Hell."
For now, this was all he would reveal. He wasn't brave enough yet to tell Alastor the other reason the name was so important.
"That's- beautiful." Alastor's voice was hushed. His eyes and smile soft. "Thank you."
"No. Thank you. For kidnapping me. For letting me help. For becoming part of our community and family. For this." He gestures towards the baby sleeping in his arms, tail dragging on the floor.
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