Minstrel of Light

Charlie redraw in my style ✨

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HERE WE GO. OH BOY OH BOY. I LOCKED TF IN and finished it now. Little bit late from my usual time, but i really can't wait myself to drop this angsty brick on you. I'm not throuwing it right now, just weighting it in my hand menacingly and kissing it mockingly

Totally real repulsed ace experience, thinking that maybe you're not as repulsed and can give it a try for your partner, but when it comes to it, you realise that NO, ACTUALLY, YOU DON'T WANT THIS AT ALL. And feeling stupid for being scared.... not like i went through any of it, but i just have good imagination. I've never even had a partner.

Um, anyway. Alastor got in it on his own, because of his poor judgement of himself...

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I want to know just how many floors it has and see the many, many rooms on each one; not just the main crew's bedrooms but other rooms you'd expect a hotel to have like a cafeteria, kitchen, swimming pool, along with other rooms and areas like a gym, movie theater, greenhouse/garden, library, that sort of thing. A majority of the episodes could feature the hazbin crew just taking care of the hotel together(or maybe fighting to keep it clean would be a better term), and the construction of new rooms as the hotel gains more visitors, volunteers and staff.

If you want to make things even more interesting have the building itself be somewhat magical, maybe semi-sentient in a way that the other buildings in hell aren't. Rooms and hallways that did not exist before suddenly appear and disappear without warning, some of these said rooms being a little backrooms-esque and reflecting the minds and souls of those who enter, though often not entirely accurate to reality. Some of these lead to passages that delve deep underground, leading to hidden secrets. If so, we could give the hotel a kind of backstory of its own to explain why.

But the Hazbin Hotel is different. Yeah, it's a little rough around the edges and not always in the best condition, it's all too content to throw a couple surprises your way and has certainly had a few holes blown in it from time to time but it is free rent, and most importantly unlike almost all the other buildings in the pentragram, its managed to stand firm against all the surrounding chaos that's ensued over the years and has never fallen once. It just utterly refuses to die. Just as strange and even miraculous, the hotel seems to have the ability to heal itself, reforming brick, wood, concrete and the like that was previously destroyed as if it were a living entity rebuilding tissue or torn skin. One of the only other buildings in the entire pentagram that's managed to last longer and has similar self-healing properties, is the heaven embassy building.

I REALLY do not like this reactionary culture shift away from “Girl power!” “Girls can do anything boys can!” into shit like “omg she’s just a girl teehee” “pathetic girlfailure wants her daddy heehee” it feels like such an intentional regression back into “women need to be put in their place”. I’ll take a million stale girlboss/pathetic man ships ANY DAY over going back to “divine femininity that must be pampered and spoiled and NEVER in charge 🥰💖”

Yes, there are a lot of weird attitudes people have about hetnorm sex roles, and by no means do I agree with the sentiment that they’re inherently misogynistic or anything like that. But some of y’all need to understand that in the grand scheme of things, it’s still seen as the default normal for cishet sex and makes up the majority of cishet sex portrayals. Soooo idk, acting like a woman enjoying hetnorm sex would be some kind of subversion of or fresh change from “she pegs him” scenarios (even if a lot of the “she pegs him” scenarios do treat it as just a femdom humiliation kink/joke or as a #girlboss thing) comes off a little weird. And there are better ways to address the problem of people thinking hetnorm sex is “anti-woke”.

Most m/f ships in media still have the man be the more competent one. Do I agree that fandom can exaggerate tropes and make the woman personality-less? Sure. I do think "girlboss and malewife" is a bit overplayed to some extent and done without regard for the actual characters. But in canon, it's still typically men who are the ones getting things done.

"Let the woman be a little pathetic!" We have entire tropes dedicated to it. Damsel In Distress, Neutral Female, a good portion of the Moe genre are all dedicated to emphasizing women as weak, vulnerable, and in need of protecting. "Girlfailure" was and still kind of is a 'thing' in many fandoms.

"Well *I* don't find pathetic men sexy!" That's perfectly fine and totally within your right. Some people do. They still make competent non-pathetic non-loser men, I promise you they didn't go away just because a bunch of autistic teenage girls are writing fanfiction about "boyfailures" and "malewives".

Let's be real they are ANYTHING but father daughterly

Charlie’s design could be kept and could signify that she is trying to relate to humans but doesn’t understand them. (Personally I’d keep the theme of a humanoid object and do something different, but still-) It could be a way to explain why she doesn’t know how redemption works without writing her as childish. I really wanted her to be written as old as she actually is! Charlie could be able to read situations, but overcorrects when putting trust in people. Another reason could be how extremely different her life is. She lived longer than any human, never had typical growth/change experiences, and never lived in the mortal realm. This information should inform all interactions she has with characters. I think it would also be why so many people didn’t take the hotel seriously or thought it was for something else! What would a demon know about humanity and being good? Charlie could have a moral system that is drastically different and may have committed a lot of bad things in the past, but tries to be better. I think it would be fun to write her as very off-putting but well meaning because she doesn’t know how to be good from the standards of everyone else.