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I'm wheezing. Yessssss. I couldn't help it, enjoy -

Alastor's been sipping from an empty glass for the past eight minutes, but Husk is not about to add more booze to that particular fire.

"You know, other people do have to sit on that couch." The Radio Demon huffs, setting his glass down with an aggressive thunk before immediately picking it back up and taking yet another imaginary swig.

Husk shoots a glance over to the aforementioned couch. They aren't even doing all that much, and watching Lucifer... kissing? Alastor’s shadow is incomprehensible at best, the edges of them fuzzing in a swirl of shadow and light. It makes his head hurt, but whatever Alastor’s feeling about it is far more of a headache.

Maybe he should be throwing more booze Alastor's way. Enough alcohol on that fire and they'd both go up in flames.

Another disappointed and very pointed sigh from the lone barfly was enough to make Husk grit his teeth. Might be worth it.

He didn't pour another drink, not in the end. Lucifer was enough of an unknown. And if the pyre of pining was going to be enough to take out the Radio Demon, it very well might take out the shadow too, and Husk didn't want to chance testing if Lucifer’s powers included resurrection.

RadioApple (Alastor / Lucifer)

Why Don't You Cast Yourself on Me? - An Alastor / Lucifer fic with a rotating outside perspective. Heaven and Hell are still reeling after the last extermination attempt and the death of Adam, and still the most confusing thing seems to be whatever these two have going on. What exactly is happening between the Radio Demon and the King of Hell? Where do Heaven and Hell go from here? What does the future look like when the dust finally settles?

It Takes the Truth to Fool Me. - Alastor/Lucifer and the intimacy of attempted murder. Set in the universe of Cast Yourself, can be read as stand alone. Alastor has no idea why the king of hell has decided to challenge him to 'kill him in a novel way' but he certainly won't turn down the opportunity. If he could only find a way to make it stick.

Tempestuous Moods - Alastor perspective fic - It wasn't as if he couldn't keep a garden alive, he'd taken his mother's guidance to heart! But if the damnable weather didn't cooperate soon, well. It would be irksome, to say the least. Less irksome than Charlie's recent proposal to ask Lucifer to stay at the hotel full time though, that's most definitely worse.

A Nightmare I've been Dreaming of - Rotating perspective between Alastor/Lucifer - Alastor isn't used to feeling this way about anyone. What started with the desire to push every single one of Lucifer's buttons has somehow turned into wooing the Devil himself. Pity the Devil isn't picking up on the signals.

Stay for the night, I'll Sell you a Dream - Mostly seen from Lucifer's perspective, this is a companion to A nightmare I've been dreaming of.

Things have changed a lot since Lucifer and Alastor started this new... situationship of theirs. Lucifer spent weeks thinking the guy was trying to kill him only to find out he was flirting, and now that they've taken this to the next level, Alastor's harder to understand than ever. Seriously, what's a devil to do??

Daydream Believer - Charlie Morningstar perspective - She'd thought her most important project would be the Hazbin Hotel, but sometimes you've got to re-adjust. Her dad's been alone for years - sequestered in the palace and drowning in apathy. Someone's gotten under his skin recently, and he's more involved than he's ever been. Charlie's going to get this relationship off the ground one way or another...but did it have to be Alastor?

Slice of life - Hotel as Found Family (Lucifer & Others)

Not the devil at your door - Scenes outside of the main plot of Cast Yourself that can be read as stand alone. After years of isolation, Lucifer is finally ready to start letting people in, at least on a surface level. Sometimes friendships start in unlikely places.

AppleShadow (Lucifer / Alastor's Shadow)

Pick me from the dark, Pull me from the Grave - Lucifer, King of Hell and Big Boss himself, keeps having the weirdest interactions with Alastor's Shadow. He's tempted to call it a joke, just another poor attempt by the Radio Demon to push his buttons, but there's something undeniably interesting about this being that keeps company with Alastor.

Multiple Ships

Alastor does not steal trinkets, but his Shadow sure does. Lucifer finds out on accident through another resident, and starts keeping a close eye on the Radio Demon, warding his wing of the hotel to keep the Demon out. Too bad he's put up no wards against the eldritch entity that is The Shadow, because his stuff is STILL going missing. Man. This radio demon guy is more powerful than Lucifer gave him credit for.

In the spirit of fairness, The Shadow also brings Lucifer gifts! Having been around Alastor for so long, most of these gifts come in the form of corpses. That one guy from market street that giggled when Lucifer had tripped the other day? The journalist who'd written a scathing article about the monarch? Guy from the deli who gave him wheat bread when he asked for rye? All fair game. And very romantic gifts. Lucifer views these as a threat.

Lucifer is perfectly threatening when he wants to be, but The Shadow seems to have taken extra precautions, leering menacingly at anyone that seems threatening. Lucifer is starting to wonder why people keep ending conversations with him so abruptly.

Other guests wrongly assume that the connection between Lucifer and Alastor's shadow has to do with a budding relationship between Lucifer and Alastor himself, which horrifies both men equally. It's the one thing they can agree on.

When he does find out, Lucifer threatens to sew Alastor's shadow to his shoes Peter Pan style if a single rubber duck goes missing.

When the Shadow annoys Lucifer, the first line of defense is light. Lucifer's room becomes an homage to Tesla himself, every corner of the place lit up brightly. He eventually gives this tactic up, because apparently even the Morningstar can get migraines from trying to sleep in a room bathed in brightness.

The Shadow, usually kept from Lucifer by his aura, loves the moments when Luci goes dark, when the aura fades - most often when he's alone in his room- because it will wrap itself around the King like a weighted blanket, finally able to get close.

The presence of the King in the hotel causes Alastor the utmost annoyance. He's loud, showy in a way that's unbecoming of royalty, and he leaves a mess everywhere he goes in the form of rubber ducks and red glitter. Unfortunately for Alastor, the characteristics that drive him to madness seem to endear the rest of the guests to the diminutive idiot and so it seems the little monarch will be staying around.

Alastor makes the barbed comment here and there - a little treat for himself, watching the pompous little King get riled up - but for the most part he avoids interaction with the short angel whenever possible. He's content with this. It isn't ideal, but he still manages to bend Charlotte's ear whenever the bumbling king isn't around. Everything would have been fine, if not for the King's insistence to taint everything he touched.

We could this ship

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