Midwest Mud

🦌 He'll make excuse after excuse to keep you close, perhaps it's running into each other on the town while running chores or he is checking up on you during a work break. He wants to talk with his dear friend, make sure they are doin’ alright. Expect him to try and keep you with him or to linger longer than normal as your friendship deepens.  “Oh dear, it's quite late, you shouldn't walk home alone in the dark, there's a murderer going around, I don't even want to think about what could happen to you.” From time to time, he’ll just follow you around to make sure you're okay, it's also interesting to watch you on your own.

📻 Alastor shows you the world he built, his famous radio station, the parties, and connections he has. You always wanted to meet this musician, well golly, he had them on his show a few months ago and would love to introduce you to them. Never gone out to a speakeasy with live jazz music, fear not he’ll take you out to his favorite. He's the toast of New Orleans, he can't let his friend go without, he's very charitable when he wants to. Using his accomplishments and ritzy lifestyle to pull you in, the life he is inviting you into is impossible to resist, although this has a price on your personal life.

❤️ He has a constant need of knowing what you're doing, where you are, and who you are with. Hovering and stalking you to make sure you aren't in danger but, it's also nice to watch you do ‘you’ things, but he's always in your general vicinity. He is so hellbent on this that he won't let you out of his sight, he constantly drifts back to you or will sway the circumstances so you go back to him. “Now what are you doing with this fellow, sorry to interrupt your friend but I do believe we should be headed back to work.” 

🦌 Forget about any close friends that he doesn't like, he will not let you associate with individuals he doesn't approve of. Will probably introduce you to people he likes, Mimzy for example, “Isn’t she just a doll, I  knew you two would hit it off.” He’ll show you how the people he has introduced you to are better than those others you thought were your friends. Just be happy he doesn't get rid of them permanently, at least for the moment. He starts to drive a wedge between you and your pals he disapproves of, lightly criticizing or barring them from joining you two.

📻 Eventually Alastor will eliminate this person, either they will do something to aggravate him enough that it pushes him to this final action or he uses them as another way to coerce you back to him, however it is a mixture of likely both. He is comforting you about your loss, but in his head he is apathetic and indifferent, all while patting himself on the back. 

❤️ He pushes this situation in particular by manipulating you to feel the need to rely on him, “Honestly it was a matter of time that bird was gonna get knocked off, he was constantly in a jam with some crook.” By pushing the narrative that this was a natural consequence of the deceased, it makes you question how many of the friends that you have are either grifters or deceivers that don't act in your best interest (the hypocrisy is astounding.)

🦌 Smooth talking you and influencing the world you see around you to encapture and nurture the toxic relationship he longed to build. He’ll have you cut off the rest of your familiars he dislikes: friends, family, or potentially a partner, it doesn't matter to him. Having you cut them off is just another step in his plan, it was you that burned the bridge, not him, those people will most likely never reach back to you. 

📻 This leaves you isolated with him and the fellas he already had under his thumb. It's these subtle ways that further captivate you, pulling you even closer together. Separating your past life, destroying it in the process, changing the way you view the people you knew before, and charming you into fully appreciating him and his overbearing presence.

❤️ He’s gotcha, hook, line, and sinker. So begins a new era of companionship and secrecy, all during the vibrant nights of the Roaring Twenties. The companionship of someone who doesn't know that they have been stripped of a healthy life of independence, a life free from constant control and deceit. However there is a thin film of secrecy that is one of the only things holding your relationship together, if unraveled would disfigure countless lives and bring out the truth of the reason why so many died. While truly tragic, this dark shadow of reality is overcome with the blinding light of the glamour Alastor has shown you.

🦌 Now that he has you dependent on him, he'll take you out to show you his favorite spots in New Orleans. Hope you like coffee, I guess, cause you're going to this cafe that he thought you would like. Oh, you prefer a night at a Gin Mill, well he is always ready to party, oh Mimzy is here as well! "What a trio, takin’ the night by a storm, I wonder what kind of trouble us three will become!" Or maybe you just want a relaxing night to yourself, well he has some nice jazz on record from his personal library that you two could listen to, maybe read some books that he can recommend, just you two peas in a pod. Even when you go back to work, Alastor is ceaselessly there with you, if you didn't have a job with him before, now ya do. He pulled some strings in the station, to have you works at the Studio with him. Your job could range from being his assistant and getting him coffee when he needs to fully joining him in the booth room as his co-host, becoming as well known as he.

📻 This way of life with Alastor lasts for a while, you two are content with each other, it's honestly not a bad situation. Yea, sometimes he looks like he is drilling a hole into your head because of how he stares at you. Also yes, he does have a tight grip on you when dragging you from someone he finds particularly unsavory, he'll take care of them later. He seems irritated when one of his friends takes up too much of your attention, Mimzy has gotten chided by Alastor more than once in private because of her behavior, especially if it bothers you. 

❤️ After knowing you for as long as he has, he can read you like a book, all that time ‘observing’ you has really paid off. You don't even have to verbalize anything to him, that gleam in your eye when you see something you want to your way of wringing your hands when someone disturbs you. All of it, recognized and locked deep in his mind for safekeeping, from micro expressions to regular habits. "What's with the frown, is it that blasted neighbor of yours again, I've seen frogs with more class than that Dumb Dora"

🦌 While he wished to be near you all the time, Alastor needed his alone time, every once and a while, you would finally have some peace all by yourself. It's just a deer hunting trip, he needs to get outta the city and breathe some fresh air, a simple break from life. "It will be a quick trip my dear, I'll be back before you even know I'm gone." As we know this is merely a cover up of what he is really doing, taking ‘care’ of the people that he dislikes. The racist vermin that treat him badly and your ‘friends’ he wanted gone, all to be brutally murdered. It is during these trips that he also tries to contact Rosie, using the remains of the bodies he tarnished.

📻 After countless rituals it finally works out the way that he wanted, except, he has some added intentions to just being the most powerful sinner. Someone needs to be able to protect you in the cesspit which is hell, he knows you can't, at least one of you needs to be prepared. He was shot within a day of their deal, neither of you said proper goodbyes the day he left for his trip, that was something he would come to regret in hell. 

❤️ It was only after that last ‘deer hunt’ was it revealed that he was shot and killed, this eventually declared Alastor to be the very killer he ‘worried’ about. The shock of it is immediate, both for his death and the deaths he caused. Thoroughly shaken, you leave New Orleans and everything you had there, hopefully disappearing to somewhere was never swayed by Alastor.

🦌 Even years after he has passed, him and the friendship of yours still leaves a sour taste of regret and shame in the back of your throat. How many of his victims died for the sake of you, they were slain because of the connection between you and their murderer. Could you have stopped him in any way? The questions of ‘why me’ rings like tolling bell, why not hurt or kill me, why behave the way he did around me, why manipulate my situation with such precision, why did he do all of this. 

📻 He conned you of everything, and left you broken when he died. Nothing you had was yours. The people you knew were his, your job, your livelihood, your time on earth, your very being in the world created to trap you were all his. The one thing that he hadn't obtained was your very soul, what you would become after you leave the pitiful excuse of an existence on the mortal plane.

❤️ When you do eventually pass, you better hope that you get sent to the pearly gates and into the arms of the angels, or else Alastor will find you as he has been patiently waiting for you down in the fiery pits. You’ll return back to him, it's just a matter of time.