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There is something very charming about bad guy characters, especially in cartoons. We learn to like them even though they are a threat to the actual hero of the show and we feel possibly a tiny bit bad about them getting defeated.

But in Hazbin Hotel, we get a bad guy who is on the heroes’ side due to shared interest, meaning that we don’t have to worry about who we should root for.

That is one of the many things that makes it so easy to fall in love with the Radio Demon who is most likely the most popular character in the show about the princess of Hell trying to redeem sinners.

What else makes this character so darn charming?

For starters, he is cheerfully evil.

Alastor doesn’t hide the fact that he is an evil piece of shit to win someone’s trust. In fact, he revels in letting others know how much of a bastard he is. The very first thing he says when he meets Charlie is that he enjoyed watching her make an ass of herself on live television AND that he thought that the stock-marked crash in 1929 was hilarious. But Alastor doesn’t have to let you think that he might not be such a bad guy. He WANTS you to know that he is the absolute worst, which is exactly the reason to why you would want him in your corner. So he has no restrains, he walks and talks as if he owns the place and treats people around him as he please with little to no respect. He is so much of a prick that you simply HAVE to love him:)

What I think make Alastor unique as a powerful demon character is the fact that he is old, but not ancient. See, Alastor has been in Hell since the 30s(roughly 80 years) which is a long time. But not really that long when you are a POWERFUL demon. Then you would expect him to be from the medieval period or at least the 19th century. So he is a relatively “young” demon who still has the status of overlord.

So Alastor is not ancient as such, but he is still of age since he is named after a piece of technology that still exists but is hardly used anymore; the radio. He has a radio theme with his easy to recognize voice as well as his microphone cane and even his fancy suit has elements of an old-timey radio. It could be argued that his monocle is part of the radio look since noises can be heard when he adjust it, as if he adjusts the button on an old radio. And the fact that he is so elegantly dressed gives him a retro feel that is to die for.

And let us not forget his smile.

Alastor is always smiling. Usually his smile is cartoonish and goes from one ear to the other. It is his philosophy that smiling is a sign of strength since you that way can look confident and possibly hide “weak” feelings such as anger, fear and such. His smile is an important part of his fun design, and he smiles in more than one way that can even give us a slight impression of what he might actually feel at specific moments.

Woke:

Alastor : (° u°) Hello

Charlie : Holy shit

Angel Dust : *doesn’t give a shit*

Vaggie :

My entire nervous system:

My art

Hi people. Last night the crew accomplished something amazing. More than 30k dollars will be donated to help the Australia wildlife affected by the fires. Thank you so much to the people who donated! Viv gave good pieces of information to the ones who donated and by getting to 25k and later to 30k she rewarded the fans with the real names of two of the protagonists. Here is the list of facts she said, enjoy. 

1.       The song that sounds for a couple of seconds when Alastor spins Charlie is Put it on the Ritz from Fred Astaire  

2.       Dealmakers are a group of sinners in hell. They have a lot of power because they deal with souls. Is not recommended to be near them.  

3.       Why vaggie is in hell? That’s spoilers

4.       The Goat bois Razze and Dazzle would like or dislike someone depending on Charlie’s attitude. They would get along with people Charlie likes (eg. Vaggie) and in the same way they wouldn’t get along with people Charlie hates.  

5.       The Headcanon voice for Rosie would be Barbara Streisand in Hello Dolly, because she is an adult lady but with the voice of a young woman.

6.       Alastor’s is a “food snob” which means he is a perfectionist in the kitchen. If Gordon Ramsay would be in hell they would get along very well.  

7.       Angel likes to cook, he has low standards for drugs but high ones about food.  

8.       The songs of the pilot can’t be on Spotify because is a huge process to put them there and viv is busy at the moment. Also the songs doesn’t have an extended version, what we hear in the pilot is all that is.    

9.       Viv doesn’t think Alastor sleeps, but if he does, he would probably be in the corner of the room with his eyes open.  

10.   Vox is very manipulative and an attention seeker

11.   Valentino has a lot of staffs. He constantly brakes them on people heads so he has to replace them a lot.  

12.   A headcanon voice for Vox would be the one of Mark Hamill

13.   Vox watch Tv game shows, he likes commercials too.  

14.   Angels watch soaps operas and trash realities to judge and roast the contestants

15.   How vaggie and Charlie meet? That’s spoilers

16.   In future episodes we will get to know how Alastor got so powerful

17.   Vox is almost as tall as Alastor

18.   Viv doesn’t like the Hazbin wiki and says the information there is wrong. According to her, most of the info in that webpage is very old, incorrect or just assumptions. So she recommends the fans not to take the wiki’s info as canon.  

19.   Alastor is like 7 feet tall and Angel 9, they are really big. (She still doesn’t have a size chart but I guess with those confirmed heights someone could calculate the other’s)  

20.   There will be a husk plushie? In this moment they are making new plushies and new merchandise of Helluva, but because plushies are expensive, is necessary to do only characters on demand and Viv doesn’t know how many people would be interested in buying a Husk plushie.  

21.   Arackniss would be redesigned when he appears in the show alongside with other old characters of Viv that could appear in Hazbin.  

22.   Velvet is a trendy stylish social media sinner and she gets along with Vox because they like technology and they try to know the most about technology advances. Something that separates them from Alastor because he doesn’t like those new artifacts at all.

23.   Velvet is really good at making food and potions

24.   Stolas is a born in hell demon and he is “a different level of demon”. Something that will be explored in Helluva.  

25.   Viv likes the fanon human version of Alastor. She says is very accurate because human Alastor would never have the same hairstyle he has now as a demon

26.   Viv doesn’t want the Voice Actors of her shows “to double up” (one VA making the voice of two or more characters), she likes every character to have their own VA, with the clear exception of background characters.  Because of this, there could be a new voice actor for Millie, while Erika would stay as the voice of Loona.

27.   After some thinking, Viv has decided for Cherri to be Australian.

28.   Viv would prefer a movie instead of a videogame about Hazbin.  

29.  Angel can play the accordion and other instruments but…not very well

30.  Husk can play the sax.  

31.  Vox and Velvet have real names, most sinners do. They prefer to be called by nicknames in order to leave their past names and human lives behind.

32.  Angel Dust real name is Anthony!!! 

33.  VAGGIE’S REAL NAME IS VAGATHA!!

34.  ….Alastor’s real name is Alastor (lol)

35.   Al doesn’t like nicknames so he decided to use his real name in hell and not change it (but he must have a last name isn’t it?)

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