( active ) hazbin hotel: alastor

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Plotting?

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You mentioned being interested in crosscanon plotting- So here are two general ideas, both gen.

1. Sabriel in Hell. Sub-ideas include that is that Something is happening and bits of the Old Kingdom and Death have started manifesting in Hell as the borders between worlds start getting a little too thin, bringing Old Kingdom Dead/necromancers with them if you want some plotty/action stuff. Maybe Sabriel's talking cat/pet eldritch abomination comes along for the ride.

2. Alastor in Sabriel's world. Her canon features two countries- The Old Kingdom, which is a zombie-infested pseudo-medieval fantasyland with cool magic and literal paper airplanes, and Ancelstierre, which is 1920's England with the serial numbers filed off, and shares a very strange border with the Old Kingdom. Also there's Death, which is cold, wet, and creepy.

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i'm so sorry for the delay on this! i'm normally quicker, but i've been scatterbrained this last week or so.

anyway!! i think the first one would be really cool... hazbin plays with the idea of heaven and hell being linked in some nebulous way where hell can invade heaven, but so far the mortal world has been inaccessible to both so it'd be something something completely new!

alastor is someone who tends to value stability/safety over active power grabs, but also someone who does fight tooth and nail for a certain amount of control, so he'd be all over whatever was going on there and the implications of that. also i want to see her lil eldritch abomination, that's so cute...

[bindsthedead]

It is basically spelled out at a few points in canon that the Ancelstierre, (AKA 1920s England with the serial numbers filed off) the country to the south of the Old Kingdom is literally another world that it's intruding on, which explains how it's often different times of day and different seasons on different sides of the border. Sabriel spent most of her childhood in northern Ancelstierre, so she's one of the few people in the Old Kingdom who understands what technology is. (Any tech from Ancelstierre stops working as soon as it crosses the border). So parallel worlds are technically canon!

The Old Kingdom itself is... Pseudo-medieval? It's pulling itself back together after two hundred years of decline and chaos since Sabriel stopped the architect of the decline and rescued the last royal heir.

There's both Charter Magic, which is more common, and Free Magic. It doesn't really have fantasy races or creatures, just humans, various flavors of undead monsters (lots of those) and occasional Free Magic creatures lurking in the wings. The locals are... unfortunately used to attacks by the Dead.

The Old Kingdom has its own afterlife... Sort of. Death is a weird spiritual realm with a lot of fog and a river with no banks whose current drags souls to an unknown destination. (It's not oblivion, but whatever's beyond the Ninth Gate is kept deliberately vague). So if you want creepy floods of black water and fog, there's that too!

Listen, Mogget is the best, he's such an asshole cat. (Until his collar comes off, then he's a horrifying eldritch entity from the dawn of time.)

Sorry for rambling! I'd be happy to write a starter, unless you'd like to! I tend to default to shortly after the first book in the series for Sabriel's canonpoint- what point in canon would you like for Hazbin?