You know that one exorcist angel Lute backhanded during Vaggie's flashback? The one who got dragged away?
What if that angel suffered the same fate as Vaggie?
Branded a coward, stripped of her wings, and thrown into Hell for being "weak-hearted."
Because let's be honest, if Adam and Lute were willing to mutilate one of their best exorcists for showing mercy a single time. How many others did they dispose of the exact same way?
Alastor is simply strolling through Pentagram City, minding his own business, when a glowing golden portal suddenly tears open in the sky.
An exorcist angel drops out of it.
She lands face-first on the pavement. (The Family Guy death pose.)
Naturally, Alastor is intrigued.
Seeing an opportunity, he offers her a deal: he'll protect her and keep her identity as a former exorcist a secret. In return, she serves him.
With nowhere else to go, she accepts.
At first, she assumes she's doomed. This is Hell. The place she'd spent believing was filled with monsters. She expects torture, cruelty, and endless suffering.
Instead, Alastor actually keeps his word. He sends her on errands, has her help with odd jobs, and occasionally uses her as an extra pair of hands.
But he never throws her to the wolves.
Compared to Adam the Douchebag and Lute the Crazy. It's practically peaceful.
The first few years are still miserable.
She jumps at every loud noise. Flinches whenever someone raises their voice. Sleeps with one eye open. She's convinced that one mistake will end with someone discovering what she really is.
But no one ever does. Because Alastor never lets them.
Over time, she learns how to survive.
More importantly, she learns how to survive Alastor.
She figures out exactly what irritates him, what makes him smile, when to disappear, and when to stay very, very quiet. She learns how to read the subtle shifts behind that permanent grin better than almost anyone.
Eventually, she settles into an odd little routine. Most of her days are spent around Husk and Niffty. She clicks with Niffty almost immediately.
The tiny maid doesn't care that she's awkward, overly polite, or jumps whenever someone sneaks up behind her. Niffty simply decides they're friends and never gives Clarissa a choice in the matter.
Husk, however, that takes longer.
Clarissa knows exactly what kind of Overlord Husk used to be before Alastor defeated him.
She's seen the stories. He wasn't a good person.
Being collared by Alastor didn't magically erase everything he'd done. But years under the Radio Demon's leash humbled him in ways nothing else ever could.
Eventually, distrust gives way to cautious respect.
At one point, Clarissa accidentally uncovers something she absolutely was not supposed to know.
Alastor is on Rosie's chain.
She never brings it up and pretended to not know anything. She enjoys being alive, thank you very much.
Then Alastor disappears for seven years. Clarissa is on her own again. When Extermination Day rolls around each year, she hides. She stays indoors, avoids the streets, and prays none of the exorcists recognize the wingless former comrade hiding among the sinners.
Sometimes, she wonders about Vaggie. The only other exorcist who ever showed her genuine kindness in Heaven.
One day, the chain around her soul tugs.
Alastor is calling. She appears inside a strange little hotel.
Then, she saw Vaggie. In Hell.
Missing an eye and standing beside the Princess of Hell like this is perfectly normal.
Clarissa just stares. "What the fuck happened while I was gone?" was the only thought she has in her head.
Her original Heaven-given name was Clitrossa.
Alastor took one look at it, declared it "completely unacceptable," and immediately renamed her Clarissa. She has been Clarissa ever since because arguing with him wasn't worth the effort.
Alastor knew Vaggie was an exorcist almost immediately. However, because of his deal with Clarissa, exposing Vaggie would also risk exposing Clarissa's identity. So he kept quiet.
That didn't stop him from sitting back with popcorn and thoroughly enjoying the spectacular disaster that unfolded once Vaggie's secret inevitably came to light.
Clitrosssa? Adam when I get my hands on you - so glad Alastor changed it.
Considering the Exterminations have only been going on seven years, and Alastor is missing for seven years - what if Adam and Lute send her through a portal somewhere other then pride? And that's where he finds her?
Would he...even know what an exorcist is? Or what they look like, rather.
Regardless, he absolutely realises after coming back to pentagram and seeing exorcists, but he doesn't care.
I am enjoying the mental image of Clarissa and Vaggie meeting! And like how Vaggie wants to devote herself to Charlie after she saved her, I can see Clarissa wanting to do that for Alastor.
I think he'd actually be softer with her then with others, because she's so clearly an abused woman, and it gets to him, so he doesn't treat her like, say, Husk - he's polite and gentlemanly and doesn't raise his voice and keeps his hands where she can see them.
He also brings her to the hotel, as the receptionist.
