I'm Sakura Moon and I'm the illustrator for the webtoon 'Love Is Never Ugly'. Here to share updates on the webtoon and future content to come. Artist, Webtoon Creator, Singer, & VA
This is also for an AU where Charlie is running a "school" of redemption, not a hotel. So I try to play on both circus and head mistress vibes with the outfit. Here, I made her goat features more defiant with her ears and nose. Her horns, nails, and hooves are all the same color. Speedpaint and discussion video of this AU we'll be out on Friday.
2026 is a new year and a new start of many new art projects and ideas that will never be finished. 🥲 But in all seriousness, Love Is Never Ugly is still in production. 2025 was a very busy year. With many new and crazy things happening. Hope to see you all in Chapter 2 this year.
If you could change anything in cannon hazbin hotel what would it be
my favorite aspects of charlie x alastor is that they’re both narcissists and wear masks, they both intend to prove that others are wrong about them, that they are above anyone
they both like to observe others and manipulate in their own ways, charlie just do it “for the sake of good”, and not really thinks that she’s “above” - but the way that she’s 100% sure she can change anyone says a lot about how she views herself
they’re a big entertainment for each other cause their dynamic is built on how they are attempting to expose each other: charlie seeks to prove alastor’s humanity, while alastor, in turn, aims to reveal charlie's inhumanity. while they’re both are indeed sociopathic, yet ironically alastor stands closer to something human than charlie does, simply because he was one, while charlie is literally an antichrist
in canon I would change too much things tbh, cause it just doesn’t work the way it is - I’d start with the tone of the show and focus on main characters, which are charlie, alastor, vaggie, diving deeper in the psychological aspects of one being the devil, other an angel and the other a human being
I’d also focus on charlie’s ideas of redemption and how she would try to change people not in a childish ways we saw in season 1
plus the status of charlie and lucifer as the royals would mean a lot, so as the lucifer’s age and that he would act absolutely opposite due to that
I think there’s a lot more tied into Alastor’s choice to help Charlie than just “he was bored” or “he wanted power.” The deal with Rosie seems to be weighing on him, and there’s a sense of sadness beneath his performance. Charlie isn’t just a project—there’s something bigger going on involving her. It really feels like some of the overlords know more about her role in a larger “grand scheme” than she does.
Alastor looks almost regretful about what he had to give up to be in that hotel. And I don’t think that regret is just about losing influence or status. Whatever his original plan regarding Charlie was, he tried to get Rosie to let it drop—that feels important. It makes me think he isn’t just protecting himself; in his own twisted way, he might actually be trying to protect Charlie from whatever those greater plans are.
Because at this point, he knows her. He knows she’s powerful and determined, but he also knows she’s naïve. So even if he won’t say it outright, there may be a part of him that’s actually worried for her.
The scene was quick, but there was a lot under the surface—emotion, tension, and meaning that wasn’t spoken aloud. And I really liked that.
Hope everyone is going to enjoy their Labor Day weekend. My job, let us have an extra day off to enjoy it. So I didn't have to work today. I got to sleep in and it was magical ✨️ 😌. I do have an event to go to this weekend but in the meantime, I will be working on episode 2 of my Charlastor webtoon that I've been promising for over a year now. I know some of you have been anticipating it. Not to worry, it's still alive and going. It's just been on a long hiatus. It's not easy making a webtoon from scratch. From planning out each panel, to the backgrounds, sketching, coloring, shading, etc. Every detail matters and I want you guys to love every single bit of it. Patient is key. Stay tuned for more updates.
I’m a hardcore Charlastor shipper, I have been since the pilot days. And it feels a little weird to ship him both with Charlie and her dad.
They’re so fucking mean to each other. Like to the point where it’s ridiculous. That, in my opinion, wouldn’t be a healthy relationship.
People use it as way to infantilize Charlie and give her two dads that can “take care” of her. She’s a grown woman, she doesn’t need another dad to take care of her.
I just feel like Alastor wouldn’t want to be with a man. (My opinion)
Above all, I’m an Alastor fangirl and I like ships with him that I can project myself onto. I want to be with him. And I can’t project myself onto Lucifer because he’s a man and I’m not.
I ship Alastor and Charlie like crazy, cause I feel like they’re two sides of the same coin and I love that dynamic for couples. I feel like they both have grown up in terrible conditions and being bullied by society while having big dreams, but while Charlie always relies on kindness and forgiveness causing some to grow to love her, but suffers from lack of self-confidence and assertiveness, Alastor is vengeful and takes what he wants while having the confidence and cunning to ensure he’s never taken advantage of.
I have read some of the season 2 leaks and I have…opinions. I believe a certain leaked season 2 episode strongly hints towards Alastor having feelings for Charlie and I’m going to explain it under the cut. Don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled!
Note: I'm still avoiding any spoilers on Vox or on Alastor's past so please don't mention them in the comments!
Episode 4 Season 2, that should be retitled “Getting rid of all the Alastor red herrings in Season 1”
A quick recap of Season 1 from Alastor’s point of view
Season 1 has seen Alastor starting to do good acts for evil reasons (becoming friends with Charlie to get a deal). Charlie has rewarded his good behaviour with kindness and that has tempted Alastor into his very first 100% good act: risking his life to fight against Adam.His first genuinely good act resulted in…failure and loss. He was forced to flee to survive, his mic was broken, and he lost his power. So what happens in one of the leaked episodes of season 2?
Alastor and Lucifer: the ‘dad Alastor’ joke finally put to rest
Alastor and Lucifer have a discussion.
Two things that Lucifer says make Alastor VERY angry:
He reminds Alastor that Charlie has a girlfriend
He accuses him of abandoning Charlie and not protecting her
Alastor gets so angry that he leaves the hotel.
If Lucifer thought that Alastor was just a friend/father figure, a simple "You failed to protect her" would have been enough. But the fact that he adds the note about Vaggie suggests that he wants to discourage a possible romance. As for Alastor, his anger after Lucifer reminds him that Charlie has a girlfriend could indicate that he feels frustrated about not being able to be with her.
Basically,now that Charlie is not around, they both have dropped the “who is the best dad” charade and they are admitting what is the real conflict between them: Lucifer doesn’t want Alastor as a boyfriend for Charlie and he doesn’t want him as a protector for Charlie. Alastor is pissed because he cannot be a boyfriend and he has failed as a protector.
The real conflict between Al and Luci is due to the fact that he doesn’t want him as a son in law, not as a…second dad to a very adult, college graduate daughter?(Seriously?)
I noticed it on my first watch but 90% of the fandom missed it, why?
Season 1 Episode 5 is a silent match between Alastor and Lucifer: Alastor wants to piss Lucifer off and the first thing that comes to his mind is to pretend to be her boyfriend without Charlie noticing (see pictures if you didn’t notice…) Lucifer squirming everytime Alastor touches Charlie is super hilarious.
Then when Charlie informs Lucifer that she has a girlfriend, Alastor quickly changes strategy to annoy him and starts singing about being a better dad. But someone that was ready to pose as her boyfriend 3 minutes ago is really not a plausible dad for Charlie :) . Even in the dad song Alastor can’t stop hugging Charlie inappropriately.
But back to Season 2!
We drop completely Alastor talking about “dying for his FRIENDS” or about “protecting the hotel”, the focus is on Charlie and Charlie alone. According to Lucifer he failed in protecting Charlie, not generically her friends.
Because everything was always only about Charlie even in season 1, but I won’t elaborate on this here because I want to stay on topic ;)
For me this essay can stop here and conclude that Alastor’s feelings for Charlie are canon, but wait,there’s more!
Charlie’s interview
Charlie has an interview and two important things happen:
Charlie confirms that she is bisexual (for all the viewers at home that didn’t know yet)
Charlie has a panic attack when Baxter starts reminding her of Sir Pentious, gets teased by the journalists and the crowd for it, and what does Vaggie do? She doesn’t help her and cringes in silence, covering her face as if pretending she doesn’t know her.
This behaviour by Vaggie is not new, she did the same in the pilot, being embarrassed by Charlie while her interview was failing. For people that think the showrunners have forgotten the pilot…they have not forgotten, they are just incorporating all the ideas very slowly in the main series :)
So in the same episode in which Alastor’s feelings become more obvious the viewer is reminded that Charlie is bi and that her current relationship has…issues.
Could this be…intentional?
Not intentional in the sense that Ch@ggie will ever break up in the future (no, the author has said they will have a sex scene, remember?). But the series probably wants the audience to start rooting for Charlastor, even if it’s an impossible romance.
Also notice that last time Charlie tried to impress a crowd (in cannibal town)it was a success because Alastor was helping Charlie. Now she fails again because no one is really helping her. (I want to make it clear that this is not character bashing of Vaggie on my part. It’s the show itself that is making those parallels, for who knows what reasons)
Alastor and Rosie
Alastor is super pissed that without his mic he is weakened, so he asks Rosie for help but she cannot fix it.
We learn that Rosie is Alastor’s master and she acts creepy toward him, calling him ‘handsome’ and ‘his pet’ .
Following his conversation with Lucifer, it becomes evident that Alastor’s objective in Season 2 is not only to regain his power but also to reclaim his role as Charlie’s protector.
We know that he hates being on a leash and observant viewers also know that he doesn’t like being touched by her (see pictures below), yet he’s willing to go into the lion’s den to fix his mic.
Rosie being Alastor’s master and not Lilith like everyone (me included) had assumed completely changes Alastor’s role in the story.
Alastor’s literary pattern: becoming the mask you wear
Alastor haters basically think that Alastor’s role in the story is going to be like the frontman’s role in Squid game, season 2. They both joined the heroes for evil reasons and they both helped them to gain their trust. Haters believe that,like the Frontman, Alastor will backstab Charlie and use her trust for him against her. But Alastor and Frontman have very important differences.
Alastor’s goal is sympathetic: Frontman’s goal is to make the Squid Game succeed to keep the rich guests happy. Alastor is a black man that wants freedom from the chains of a white woman, you can’t get more sympathetic than that.
Alastor and Charlie’s goals are not in conflict: 456 wants the Squid games to end, Frontman wants them to succeed. Alastor's evil plan against Charlie is probably to force Charlie to fight against Rosie. Since Rosie is not someone connected to Charlie (like Lilith),their goals (running the hotel vs getting his freedom back) can both become reality. That can explain why a character like Alastor could plot something against Charlie while simultaneously having feelings for her.
Alastor believes he is justified in seeking his freedom. Since Rosie holds no personal significance to Charlie, he does not view his actions as harmful to her, and he thinks that the only way to get help is to force the princess with a deal, because he has never had anyone on his side willingly,he always had to survive alone and force people to have any help. Will his outlook change in S2? Something tells me it will :)
I believe Alastor’s character arc in the whole show is going to be Becoming the mask
A trope that takes place when a spy, mole, Con Man or another character about to embark in an infiltration or deception mission takes an ide
A villain that joins the heroes and starts doing good acts for evil reasons, until the difference between what is fake and what is real starts to blur and he becomes more and more good as time passes. Note that the tv tropes page I linked mentions that “They might even fall in love with another person whom they're explicitly supposed to be taking advantage of.” :) :) :)
Because of those literary rules, it is unreasonable to completely discount every good act Alastor did in season 1 because his motivations are unclear. Doing something good for evil reasons is still doing good, and doing good for months (not a couple of days like Frontman…) changes you overtime. Charlie’s positive feedback is also making the act of doing good rewarding in itself and that encourages Alastor to become the hotel’s protector for real and risk his life against Adam.
But villains can’t become good so easily. Alastor suffering failure and loss because of his first truly selfless act is a classic step in a villain redemption arc. His role as hotel protector is also challenged by Lucifer who wants to take his place. Alastor will probably be tempted into starting to do evil again, but his friendship with Charlie has changed him for good and he won’t be able to follow through.
Alastor can fall in love despite being ace
In a recent episode of Helluva Boss, Masquerade, we see Mammon, a character that identifies as ace, flirting with Leviathan,a pretty demoness, and asking her for a date. That is 100% the author trying to tell us that ace people date in the hellaverse.
Rosie being Alastor’s master reframes her statement about any Alastor romance being impossible. She is not a well meaning friend who knows Alastor like the back of her pockets, she is his ENEMY, he is secretive with her and clearly touch-repulsed by her.
Rosie probably doesn’t know that he’s not aro and that he’s not as touch repulsed as he seems to be (at least not with Charlie! She can hug him with no problem.)
In season 1 Alastor being ace is used as a jab only against Charlie/Alastor, while with other people Alastor is explicitly shown to reject them or avoid being touched by them
He has openly rejected Angel twice (in the pilot and in ep1s1)
He doesn’t like when Rosie touches him
He cleans his hand after greeting Lucifer
He hugs Mimzy but when SHE tries to touch him he swats away her finger
He rejects people left and right without mercy and without care,yet with Charlie (and with Charlie only) we rely on second hand information from an unreliable source (Rosie) instead of the script having simply Alastor say “sorry Rosie, she’s just a friend”? Mmmmm…sounds like a red herring to me!
Why did the show choose to trick the viewers like that?Probably the show runners wanted to establish Alastor as a character in his own right before focusing on romance.
But I think this was a really bad choice on their part because some viewers will resent being tricked like that. Romance should never be a mystery to solve.
Conclusion
This is only episode 4 guys! In season 1 Charlie and Alastor barely interacted in the first 4 episodes and we still got two episodes with good Charlastor content (ep 5 and 7). Now that the good content is starting to flow even in the first episodes I wonder what on earth could happen in the later episodes.
As for Charlie…who knows? Based on the available information, it seems unlikely that Charlie will break up with Vaggie, despite Vaggie’s questionable behavior in the leaks. But maybe the couple will solve their problems for real this season?Only time will tell.
Personally I think Charlie/Alastor will be a story of an unrequited romance, like Phantom/Christine from Phantom of the Opera.(PotO is Vivziepop’s favourite musical,COINCIDENCE?)
Like Phantom, Alastor is an older villain (though not truly older, as Charlie is over 200 years old) who poses as a father figure while secretly harboring romantic feelings for the girl. But the girl loves someone else. What will happen?
It's been one year today since I posted chapter 1 of Love Is Never Ugly on Webtoon Canvas. I know that I should have released chapter 2 by now, like I promised back in January. But life this new year has been putting me through the ringer. So I haven't been able to make the time to work on the webtoon. I've also been seeing panels that needed fixing. I want to make it look 100% perfect for your viewing pleasure and as well as myself included. Hope you all understand as an artist that nobody is satisfied with their work until they're 100% sure themselves. At this time, I'd like to thank you, loyal followers who have been waiting patiently for the next chapter. I will definitely let you all know when it's fully ready.
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