AU comic with an Abaddon who is way more reclusive and wary of humans after being bound to the vessel. Also he doesn't have seemingly magic hair and clothes that never change despite living through the entirety of history a hundred times.
He's like a cryptid, people don't see him very often but they do sometimes get glimpses of him so he's sort of a local legend. After being bound to the boy he ended up a lot more scared of people. Because the priest actually almost killed him and now he's stuck in this small body. At the beginning he did try to cause a bit of trouble (eating peoples crops, sitting on their tables at night or whatever he usually does) but people tried to get rid of him similarly to how they did in the show, burying him alive, throwing him in the lake, ect. While none of that could kill him, it wasn't pleasant so he's mostly been avoiding people and hiding in the woods this whole time.
He doesn't want people knowing he's a demon possessing a child because he's afraid another priest will come around that can destroy his essence, so this version of him doesn't go around bragging about all his titles.
I think he probably lives in the cave Esther had all her black magic stuff in in the show. Then after Nathan befriends him he starts staying at the hotel. He has it filled with bones and different items he has been able to collect over the years.
He used to go into the town and steal food at night more in the past but as time went on and technology got more advanced he avoids it more because people are up at night more often and he's more likely to get caught.
The hotel doesn't get too many occupants lately so he's been going there and digging through the trash at night. Nathan has seen him a few times there and he sees him every now and then in the woods and has been trying to befriend him for months. It's been similar to trying to befriend a feral stray cat. He's left food out in the woods a few times but he's never sure if Abaddon gets it or if he even knows it's there. He's tried leaving food out on the porch but he never knows when Abaddon is going to show up so a lot of the times it ends up getting eaten by ants or wild animals.
Nathan has tried calling the cops or cps about a child living in the woods but they don't take him seriously because they've heard about him before but no one's ever been able to find him. They just assume it's similar to all the calls they get about the hotel being haunted. Years ago people were sent out to search for the kid living in the woods but they never found Abaddon because he just hid at the bottom of the lake for days.
Abaddon decides to trust Nathan a bit after he leaves the ladder at the hole for him to climb out on his own time. If Nathan had tried to pull him out of the hole himself Abaddon would have started avoiding him way more after that or ended up scared of him. Or if he had put the ladder down and waited there Abaddon wouldn't have climbed out at all.
So he decides he can trust him after that. It takes weeks before he actually starts staying at the hotel though. For a bit he just knocks on the door like Nathan offered and then hides and waits for him to leave food out.
Eventually he trusts him enough to start staying at the hotel and let him clean him off, give him an awful new haircut and new? clothes. He's still pretty standoffish and stays in the vents a lot.
Nathan still isn't sure what Abaddon is, he doesn't think he's just a normal kid considering there's local legends of him going pretty far back and the way he sounds, but he never really looks into it or try to figure it out while he's alive.
He still kills himself, I think he was alive for a bit longer in this universe because it took him longer to befriend Abaddon and that gave him something to do and more of a purpose. But after when Abaddon is living in the hotel and things have settle into more of a routine his death ends up playing out pretty similar. I think it affects Abaddon more in this universe though.
I think Katherine is a bit more judgemental of Nathan in this one for killing himself while he had what she thinks is a child under his care. She is more motherly to Abaddon here because she thinks he's just a kid.
Esther definitely figures out what he is, because she knows black magic and stuff also she probably just googles his name.
I think their first meeting would have Abaddon unintentionally insulting her by saying something like, "Have you also been the unfortunate victim of one of Nathan's haircuts?"
Anyway, I don't have much more for this AU, idk if I'll ever draw more of it in the future, feel free to do whatever with it
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