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Everything about that response screamed fear. Alastor was fearful of his deal and fearful of the person he made it with. He wouldn’t have actually killed Husk, because if he wanted to, he would’ve already done so. Husk clearly serves a bigger purpose to Alastor, and Husk clearly knows a lot about Alastor, so I think that threat was genuinely to just shut him up… or to try and remind him that Alastor was powerful too. Alastor would hate if someone thought of him simply as a puppet bound to a leash.

Alastor is stuck at this hotel of redemption where he does not want to be, but where he has to be. He’s forced to follow Lilith's orders, he’s forced to deal with Lucifer who outranks him, so what can he do?

He can get Charlie’s soul.

And he did get Charlie’s soul. All it takes is a smile and some naivety and you’re already halfway there. He now has something to twist against Lucifer and Lilith. He has their daughter. This brings back some of his control. He finally feels powerful again.

Except for the fact that this stupid fucking hotel is growing on him.

He has been shown to protect the hotel, which simply is not part of his deal. He just has to be Lilith’s eyes, her camera. He’s to blame for his own attachment to the place. There is a scene where he admits to Niffty that he had grown accustomed to the place. He also assisted in the Extermination battle, and got Rosie to help with her Cannibals. He didn’t have to do that, but he chose to. He grew connected to the damn place and the damn people. He suffered because of it.

During the battle with Adam, the most daunting thing to him was slinking away and “cowering”. The last thing Alastor would’ve wanted to do at that moment is retreat from the battle. He had no other choice. It was losing, or death. Both of which are two important things to him. He was willing to take the sacrifice of his status over death. Knowing how much Alastor craves control, craves status, that shows you just how terrified he is of death. The wild look in his eyes too? Ugh.

If Lilith’s deal with him is centred around keeping an eye on Charlie, it makes sense why Alastor was absolutely horrified that he nearly died for them. He’s horrified at what the deal is forcing him to do, who it’s forcing him to be. When he originally made the deal there was no harm done, no real threat to him. But now he was sent to keep an eye on Charlie who was pissing off the entirety of Heaven and taking her father with her? Well, Christ. He really fucked up this time!

He had a panic attack in that damn Radio Tower, because he is absolutely fucking terrified. He’s losing control, everything that is happening around him is something he cannot control, and unless he finds a way around his deal, it’s not changing. He was literally pulling the hair out of his head because he couldn't believe what he was doing. It horrified him to no end.

To Summarize:

Alastor is a brilliantly methodically well crafted character. (Anyone who wants to say I’m looking too far into this, Alastor has been around since Viv was in high school so she has had a lot of time to let his personality and backstory cook.) He’s clever, and he’s powerful, but he’s also a little bit of a fool. He made a deal to gain control, and in return, it came back to bite him in the ass after a few decades. He knows he is nothing without his deal, but he also knows that his deal could ruin him.

Two: Alastor's Personal Contract:

There have been many theories floating around about who owns Alastor's soul, but my personal favourite one is the Lilith theory.

It’s not just the, "both Alastor and Lilith were gone for the same amount of time"l theory. It is a good point, but I believe it goes much deeper than that.

Lilith has been described in the show as someone who absolutely refuses to submit to the will of others. She is always the one in control. She has also been described to "empower demon kind with her voice." This may be a slight stretch, but does that not sound like gaining the trust of others? Offering trust in exchange for something larger? Alastor's tactic is manipulation; giving people a false sense of hope. Does that description not also seem like it could apply to Lilith simply based on the fact that she is teased to be coercive just like Alastor is…?

I'm not sure how accurate this information is, but I heard once that Viv confirmed that Mimzy's explanation of Alastor was accurate... so I'm using this to my advantage when I say this:

Mimzy said he was dismissed when he first manifested in Hell. He was essentially powerless and grew his power almost overnight. Realistically, the only possible way that this could've happened was if he made a deal with someone much more powerful than him for status and power... (Lilith). She let him have his fun. She let him kill Overlords to gain control, she let him build his name up, get used to deal making and learn the loopholes of it. Lilith gave him a false sense of control. She gave him decades of time to build his experience, before she really let her fun begin with him once she found out about Charlie and the hotel. Charlie was shown to be calling her mother around the same time that Alastor gained a sudden interest in her and the hotel. Odd coincidence If I do say so myself!

…What if Lilith's status in Heaven was due to a deal she made herself? If she can keep Hell under control... she can remain in Heaven? (Now I'm not sure why she'd want to be in Heaven, that'd be a whole other discussion post) Lucifer has stated that he has tried something similar to what Charlie is attempting, and he continuously was dismissed. If that's the case, Lilith was/is his wife, and it wouldn't be hard to notice Charlie attempting the same thing she watched her husband do. This would obviously cause a disruption in Heaven, so she calls upon her puppet that she has built from the ground up; Alastor. She sends him to the hotel to be her eyes.

I don't believe Alastor's powers are his own either.

I became more open to this idea after seeing @anthurak’s post about the same thing.

First off, aesthetically, the Overlord's powers match them. Valentino's are pink pheromones that move like air. It's sultry, It's sexy, It's everything that Valentino embodies. Vox has the ability to hypnotize people into listening to him, and he can manipulate other forms of technology. He is a literal television so yes, this too makes sense.

Alastor though? His entire character is composed of shades of red so why is it when he is using his powers, they're neon green and appear to be almost electric? Plus the tentacles? He is a deer, and there is no indication that he would have tentacles simply due to that fact It makes no sense. Whenever he uses his powers, It looks like he's throwing on an extension of himself. It doesn't seem like Alastor.

I'd also like to point out the green stitching along his mouth during the scene where he's making a deal with Charlie. A lot of people have said that it looks like they're keeping him smiling... but I think the opposite. His smile looks jagged almost like it was torn open, I think the thread is just a connotation to how he has to keep his mouth shut about his deal. Alastor uses his smile as a grapple on himself. He's losing control, and the best he can do is put a smile on and play a character.

The chains during the scene where he intimidates Husk too, aren't connected to him like they are shown to be with other Overlords... they're connected to his staff. This leads me to believe that the staff was given to him from (in this theory) Lilith. This links back to my, "Alastor is Lilith's eyes" theory, especially considering that there is an eye on his staff. That could be Lilith's way of spying.

This would also explain why Alastor suddenly became so powerless once it was broken during the Extermination scene. Alastor is nothing without that staff. It's his connection to Lilith, to his powers. His staff makes or breaks him. It would also explain why Husk seemed to have seemed to have believed he was out of his contract. If all the powers are held through the staff... Did he technically lose all his soul contracts?

Almost dying to Adam had an impact on him big time too. He spent years of being untouchably strong and easily overtaking everyone to the point it made his ego so large he thought he could take on THE Adam. Whether he lost due to powers being stripped or simply because it was Adam that he was attempting to take on, he definitely thought he’d have more power than he did. He realized he is as powerful as any other Sinner without his staff and powers. His deal makes him, but it's also going to break him and god that's insufferable in his eyes.

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