IN SIN, IN GRIEF.

DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT, CONTENT WARNINGS ...

Religious theming and blasphemy, genocide, bigotry, neglect / parental abuse, abuse of various forms, depictions of mental health and grief, unhealthy and complicated dynamics, codependency, violent and sexual content, body horror, murder, cannibalism, snuff, animal death, drug and alcohol addictions, (gothic) horror themes in general, and the like.

* If it's been inferred in Hazbin, you can expect it to be mentioned here.

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I'M SO GLAD I have been insane for Charlastor since the very beginning pilot days when all we had were the clips and Alastor looming behind her stained glass window door. I'm really happy to be writing it as I am now, I never got the opportunity to explore it the way I currently do, and there's so many different directions it can be taken in; I find that popular fandom interpretation of Charlastor tends to fall on... very heteronormative ideas? Like them going on super romantic dates or Alastor confessing his love for her every two seconds, which while cute (and yes I'm aro so I know there's a spectrum) it fails to encapsulate the horror OF their relationship. It's gothic romance to the core, good vs evil, light vs dark, hunter vs prey but the fascinating thing about them is the way they both subvert the roles they've been given and idk I can't resist a little fighting for good while getting corrupted ship. Like he can make her worse and he will, but by this point she will have already wormed her way under his skin and thumbed at his open wounds with bloodied fingers that he's bitten or cut off and there's a care that he isn't sure how to stomach. So he never talks about it, and she doesn't either because she doesn't have to, the fact he's letting her this close is already her in!

Like I have many different thoughts of how the dynamic goes with my beloved friends who write Charlastor with me, and the closest it's ever gotten to cute is some weird insane domestic situation with Romeo's Alain but even that ends in ten layers of tragedy. She's the weird fucking cat he picked up off the streets who's limbs he hacks off occasionally for fun, while she keeps locks of his hair, stalks him, and sniffs his pillows. Like a fucking freak. AND THEN HE DIES AND SHE MOURNS HIM FOREVER, SEEING GLIMPSES OF HIM IN ALASTOR WHO IS NEVER GOING TO TELL HER THE TRUTH. LIKE HELLOOOOOOOOOO!

IN ALL FORMS THEY ARE FUCKED UP, MESSY, CODEPENDENT. EVIL GOTHIC SHIP THAT IS NOT HETSLOP IN THE SLIGHTEST AND I LOVE IT EVERY DAYYYYYY they are both playing chess on a board that Charlie wants no part of but she will play her role regardless.

What's also fun is they can be evil best friends too. Like they have range, absurdly so. They both genuinely enjoy being around each other but Charlie cannot stand what he stands for so it will always end poorly for them in some way. They may have a 'good' end but that is only as far as her peeling back the flesh that makes her to reveal the creature inside ykwim.

STATICBELLE ON THE OTHERHAND....... Ok while I confess this is a new ship to me because I didn't expect there to be such peak, I am actually in love with the 'we are the same person but I could never be you' dynamic. The stalker's tango 'Don't you see my dear, I am your doppelganger, I have your face'. They have so much depth like the explorative potential is so....

Likewise with Charlastor, you can make it really fucking dark. I do have a penchant towards truly toxic Staticbelle because charged enemies is my favorite, I can't lie. I have an entire playlist dedicated to toxic staticbelle lmao.

But they are very similar people, and they would make incredible friends. One of my fave aus exploring that is with Rune's Vox, where he gets to the Hotel before Alastor basically lol. It's fun! On the opposite end of the spectrum, exploring a centuries long friendship turned explosive enemies with Rise's Vox has been soooooo funny like the same thing really happened to him twice. I enjoy the way that he's the only person who is really able to get under her skin in a way she can usually curb, because while I do write her have outbursts every so often on here, they are isolated incidents unless you're Vox for some reason. With Alastor, there's a slower, more methodical climb to pissing Charlie off and even then she usually keeps her open rage under wraps unless he's REALLY trying to pull a reaction out of her. Something about Vox though.......

And like I said with exploration! That really unfurls at the end of season 2 with the Vox staying at the hotel AU, she can't understand what his problem is, and that bothers her. Why does he have such vitriol towards her, when they've barely even spoken? She wants to understand him! And she's nothing if not persistent. It's a complete clash of world views. But more importantly (depending on the canon, because in mine she does thrash him around a bit and makes an agreement with Heaven to take him under her wing bc you know. he tried inciting war. and she feels really guilty for beating him up lol)

She doesn't want to give up on him. She knows what abandonment feels like, it isn't something she would wish on anyone. LIKE THEY COULD BE SO CUTE IN A REALLY FUCKED UP WAY because he's so miserable and she's so joyous and she wants to help him. They are also challenge4challenge, they both seek to rise to whatever is thrown at them, to prove that they are right. Anything you can do, I can do better is a song made FOR THEM!!!!!

There's a lot of insight the two of them could gleam from the other truly, and they are a powerhouse together.

NOW HEAR ME OUT. MEDIABELLE COULD BE ONE OF THE SHIPS OF ALL TIME. Charlie is a neat little middle ground between Alastor and Vox, and she is holding both of their hands and humming her hummingbird song in between radio and tv static feedback. What a strange trio these three could make.... Like when you think about Charlie being a friction buffer, it's interesting. And they could both make her worse while she brings the love of the world into their lives and they laugh at her for it because she's not being realistic. HDGDSBDSDSMDSF