This world is LITTERED with the remains of empires that once believed they were eternal.
| CERVILE, a selective, independent portrayal of ALASTOR ( |
Eat them as you would gazelle or deer.
Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
ROMEO ISCARIOT
28 xe/xem mixed
18+ DEAD DOVE take heed, this blog is not for the faint of heart. there will be discussions of bigotry, including violence against marginalized people, as well as extensive animal death, abuse, murder, cannibalism, body horror, & brutal gore. much like life, i don’t pull punches, if you might read about in the news, then there’s a good chance you might read about it here. it is ill-advised for anyone who is sensitive to horror, violent imagery or social topics to follow or interact with this blog.
RULE ONE while i claim no ownership of HH or any of it’s adjoining properties, any additions or changes i have made are transformative & qualify as fair use. i reserve the right to, in whole or in part, use them in my own original work. do not use or copy my work without express permission & credit. do not interact if you are okay with copying, plagiarism or 'ai' programs, especially in the roleplay space. RULE TWO morality in art & propaganda. the topic requires nuance & that's sorely missing online. for the record, i am extremely ANTI-CENSORSHIP, but pro media-literacy & generally do not find that these conflict. i believe that i / people have the absolute right to create whatever they please with another consenting adult, including the tacky, transgressive & taboo. i do not however, interact with people who use fiction as a way to obfuscate their personal bigoted or regressive views. RULE THREE be patient with me. i work in manufacturing full time & part time as an activist & author. i'm spread very thin at the moment so please do not expect me to reply to anything promptly. i am not ignoring you, & i rarely drop threads. i put a lot of effort into my responses & to be worth the wait. RULE FOUR please respect my space. i am not a content mill. do not use me or this blog as a resource for your interpretation of alastor or any other character. reblog only from the source & limit how much you reblog from me in general unless it's to save something between us. i am not hostile towards duplicates, but i've experienced theft in the past & it usually starts through aesthetics & musings before escalating, so let's stop before we start. do NOT tell me how to format my posts, if you need a clean version for accessibility, i'm happy to provide one through GDOCS or another service. RULE FIVE standard roleplay etiquette applies. this is a collaborative hobby, while our muses may not be, we are all equals here. if i ever go too far in a reply, let me know & i'll rewrite it. no fuss on my end. if you want to do something particularly egregious to al i'd appreciate a heads up. don't godmod, infomod, etc. without permission & for any fight / fight based rp i'd prefer to plot out the winner in advance. RULE SIX content warnings & ooc expectations. i do not have many triggers when it comes to writing, but i'd appreciate if you'd refrain from discussing non-indigenous tulpamancy, endogenic systems, kinning, or fictives in my presence. i have OSDD & these practices make me extremely uncomfortable. additionally, i ask that you do not call my alastor a w*ndigo or use that word in my presence. tagging: CONTENT CW //
RULE SEVEN on respect, religion & blasphemy. this blog is not a condemnation of any religion, spiritual practice, nor its practitioners. h4zbin hotel is fictional entertainment & it & anything written from it should not be viewed as serious theological thought.
that said, i know alastor's use of voodoo imagery has become a serious point of contention. but after doing thorough research i have decided i am going to incorporate it into my interpretation. if this makes you uncomfortable, i understand, but i ask you keep an open mind & read my post explaining why. RULE EIGHT romance, relationships & the hunt. alastor is asexual. & while i do not personally write him as sex-repulsed, he is extremely unlikely pursue it on his own. a tease & a flirt, alastor is content entirely to string someone along for his own amusement & to achieve gratification through violence over physical intimacy. long term romantic & sexual partnerships with him are possible but are likely to be nontraditional, toxic & require a lot of time to develop. note: my alastor is a transgender man, & this information is not publicly known, which adds additional hesitance on his end. RULE NINE we're all adults, act like it. don't involve me in drama. take responsibility for your actions, your feelings, & communicate maturely or get off the computer. do not try & dictate what i or anyone do & do not write with others. don't send anon-hate or catty-anons. don't vague post or spread rumors. i'm here to write, not indulge in teenage gossip. if someone is legitimately dangerous, that's another thing, but i do care if you dislike one of my roleplay partners, nor am i overly interested to hear that someone else may have a problem with me. don't be a dick, & keep your drama to yourself. RULE TEN writing preferences. i am welcoming towards ocs, aus, & crossovers. (ocs intented to be involved in alastor's background will likely require some plotting). i prefer longer & semi-plotted threads over spontaneous interactions. i prioritize older threads & would much rather have one or two very long threads over many very short ones. i continue most asks as threads unless otherwise specified. i prefer writing on tumblr, but will move a thread over to discord if its deemed to triggering for dash, or for the comfort of a partner. RULE ELEVEN credits & citations. i will create an extensive post citing my various historical & technical sources & inspirations (mostly books) as i don't have room for that here. for now, credit for alastor goes to vivvienne medrano. additional art by: @kaledya_, @ShoutinS, & @sunlit-mess. graphics created by me with resources from (mostly) snail-pngs & rawpixel.
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IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK ON AIR!
NAME(S) alain sentille, alan sentell, alastor
MONIKERS the crescent city cannibal, the radio demon
BIRTH spring of 1905
DEATH october 13th, 1933
GENDER transgender male
ORIENTATION grey-ace
HEIGHT 5'7" human form, 6'7" base demon form
ETHNICITY mixed / creole
EYES hazel (human), red (demon), bright green.
BUILD wiry / underweight
FACE CLAIM(S) tyler ford, jacob anderson. (alt: justice smith)
VOICE CLAIM amir talai
MISC aries, intj-a, the magician PHYSICAL chronic wasting disease (CJD), light sensitivity, insomnia
MENTAL adhd & asd, aspd, c-ptsd
SPIRITUAL possession, the rot, redundant bones & organs.
a wolf in deer's clothing, alastor is charismatic, clever, & unhinged. with the grace of a southern belle, the charm of southern gentleman, & the hunger of starved animal, he has climbed the ranks in death & life.a drinker, dancer, & talented musician, his talent on stage is only rivaled by what he's capable of behind the curtain. a writer, radio technician, predator & a deal-maker; he might be a good pal to have in a jam, but it's rarely without a price.cynical, manipulative, & selfish, the radio demon is distrusts even those closest to him. caring for others is not his strong suit, & requires a level of deliberate effort he can choose to discontinue at a moments' notice. at least, so he'd have you believe.
ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE, &
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
* BIOGRAPHY, lIVING WORLD
ılıılııl ❝ Born to a Creole seamstress & an Irish Cajun canal worker just outside the French Quarter, Alain inherited poverty & racial tensions as his birthright. While unwed, his parents were initially amicable — his father, Samuel Kelly, visiting regularly & contributing to his upbringing. Overtime, conflict arose around the boy & eventually his mother, Claire Sentille, was forced to take on a number of additional odd jobs to make ends meet after the loss of his father’s income.Alain was a difficult child. While gifted, he had a peculiar interest in taking things apart. Often tormenting small animals or dissembling his father’s military radio. He was deeply antisocial & seemed to disdain boys his own age; choosing instead to accompany his mother to wealthy homes to assist her work, often pocketing small items for pawn & trade.Eventually, he was able to attain a bicycle & with it become a paperboy at the age of eleven. in spite of this, Alain's delinquent behaviors only worsened. He frequently got into brawls with his newsy competitors, skipped Sunday school, indulged in tobacco, & was even accused of killing one of the neighborhood dogs. By and by, he was caught stealing & intoxicated on his delivery route, & his mother reluctantly agreed to have him sent to a reform school.On the surface, Alain emerged from this place a changed young man, quiet, pious & attentive. in reality, the abuse he faced at the hands of this institution only instilled within him the need to adopt a mask, to suppress, & did nothing to pacify the boy’s growing anger or misanthropy. this mask, however, turned out to be a successful one.in his adolescence, he rejoined his former industry this time as a novice muckraker journalist by writing a few articles for the New Orleans Item. The paper misprinted his name as ‘Alan Sentell’ & he adopted the spelling to distance himself from his problematic background. It was under this name he wrote several more articles, worked as a stagehand & received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Orleans.He became acquainted with Mimzy while working the lyric theater & through her connections & his own background & technical expertise, began his radio show. Largely, his reports were on the theater itself & its upcoming shows, but expanded into more local & general news soon after. Professionals were quick to dismiss him as yet another example of the growing problem of ‘ham radio’ but his fans couldn’t get enough. He was launched into stardom after a series of scathing rants reports following the financial collapse of 1929 in which he condemned bureaucratic & government inaction by comparing the state to ‘a deer in headlights’.No one knows exactly when or how Alan Sentell began killing, his early victims appeared to be largely incorrigible drunks & vagrants; thus, many of their disappearances were never reported. It’s estimated he may have killed anywhere between 5 & 14 people, with some estimations reaching upwards of 30 & others insisting he may not have killed at all. But everyone agrees the killing stopped in October of 1933, when, following the death of Mimzy’s husband, his colleagues went searching for Alan in the bayou where the radio host ‘passed away in a tragic hunting accident’. As in life, Sentell became the focus of intense speculation after death. Authorities investigated his New Orleans studio & flat to find ‘satanic’ & ‘hoodoo’ inscriptions beneath the carpets & scrawled on the walls, as well as small amounts of what they suspected as human remains. This lead to some calling him ‘the crescent city cannibal’ but the moniker that truly stuck in the living world & what came after was THE RADIO DEMON.
* UPON DEATH,
proverbial ‘fresh meat’ in hell, alan was heckled for his mild demonic form & apparent indifference to the predators around him. he took up the name ALASTOR, a malevolent omen of man’s misdeeds, a personification of a curse. introducing himself under what was either a reference to grecian play or the esoteric (& often inaccurate) demonology of the living world did little to improve his credibility.in life, al used his knowledge of the occult, perverting & twisting both symbols of catholicism & voodoo, in order to call upon the departed. the same was true in death. now in hell, he became the first to tap into the seemingly endless well of hell’s ‘double dead’, using these poor, unfortunate, lost souls as means to his own ends. he assassinated seven overlords in total, & slaughtered countless of their peons & contracted. while originally he had intended to kill all the overlords his reign of terror came came to an end after he befriended overlord (& elected mayor of cannibal town) rosie. while many had suspected, alastor revealed himself as the killer & began a more … regular broadcast in the intermission of human & hellborn suffering.at some point, he took another sinner, ‘vox’, under his wing, initially fascinated by the progression of technology since his passing from the living world. the two were quite close, but found their values incompatible after a while. alastor came to resent the concessions (particularly of privacy & quality) modern technology came to represent, & laughed in the other demon’s face when vox approached him with a business deal. this outraged vox & a fight broke out (one of many leading up to that time) leaving them both injured in the process. shortly after, alastor went missing for seven years, allowing vox to frame the altercation in any way he liked. back in town & as much the subject of speculation as ever, he’s been working as a hotelier in uptown’s ‘redemption facility’ known as the Happy Hazbin Hotel.
* IMPORTANT NOTES,
this about is largely constructed to resemble what would likely be publicly available information about alastor, particularly the sections in life. because of that, much of it is vague & potentially misleading. for specifics you will have to consult my headcanon tags.
i have seen the leaks for season 2, these will NOT apply to my interpretation of alastor. i do not like the direction the team is taking with his character, it does not make sense to me & find much of it borderline offensive. if you write the character & are interested in writing something similar look here.
rather than one large soul contract, my interpretation finds himself caught in a spider web of complicated & sometimes contradictory deals. if you would like your muse to be one of those people, i’m generally happy to plot it out.
the deal he made while alive was with a member of double dead rather than anyone currently residing in hell’s larger population. that spirit currently resides in either alastor himself, or his shadow depending on who you ask. this deal is unnatural & bears with it many of the signs of demonic possession, including declining physical health. his battle with vox exacerbated his degeneration & he went into hiding for the purpose’s of recovery & to make a deal to stifle the decay of his soul & form.
WELCOME TO THE BROADCAST // VERSES
* THE COVER, THE BOOK
A morbo amarus in auras. Nihil horum sagittis tincidunt, gelida portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum oculos attonitos back zombies. An hoc incipere Clairvius Narcisse, an ante? Is bello mundi z?
* MY, WHAT A GORY PANTOMIME
A morbo amarus in auras. Nihil horum sagittis tincidunt, gelida portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum oculos attonitos back zombies. An hoc incipere Clairvius Narcisse, an ante? Is bello mundi z?
* WHAT LIES BENEATH,
A morbo amarus in auras. Nihil horum sagittis tincidunt, gelida portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum oculos attonitos back zombies. An hoc incipere Clairvius Narcisse, an ante? Is bello mundi z?
* WHAT LIES BENEATH,
A morbo amarus in auras. Nihil horum sagittis tincidunt, gelida portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum oculos attonitos back zombies. An hoc incipere Clairvius Narcisse, an ante? Is bello mundi z?