#helluverse au

It starts with Alastor agreeing to take Vox up on his offer to be partners. They quickly end up rising the ranks of Hell, Alastor as the strongest sinner and Vox eventually making his way to number 2. This is, in part, because Alastor starts advertising him more and more. They also learn that Alastor can essentially share his power. Idk. The way they gain power isn’t important.

What is important is that, in the 80s, Vox and Alastor encounter angelic steel for the first time and Alastor cuts himself on accident. It scars over making Vox very interested in the potential properties of angelic steel. So, he goes to Baxter.

He has Baxter teach him everything he knows. And Vox goes even more in depth. Baxter eventually manages to separate the essence of angelic magic from angelic steel, creating Angelic Goop. Vox starts dunking things in for shits and giggles, eventually learning it… Changes creatures. Takes their latent demonic traits and makes them more. Alters their mental state, locking in on whatever emotion was felt the most strongly before being dunked. He shares this whole thing with Alastor, who becomes intrigued at the whole idea and the two start to modify others.

Ethan is first, being turned into a twisting mess of a creature with long, gangly limbs that can stretch anywhere. He’s clearly in excruciating pain, and half of his organs are outside of his body. He doesn’t survive long, but it’s long enough to prove the idea could work.

At the same time, Alastor comes across Charlie. She’s trying to help someone (and is failing) and he thinks “damn. What a great opportunity to get even more power!” And starts manipulating her. He introduces her to Vox and the two start the very long process of completely manipulating her.

Eventually, Valentino comes down to the labs to look for Vox to discuss a budget. Harmless stuff. But he sees the vats and gets curious, eventually accidentally falling into the Angelic Goop.

When he emerges, he turns into a gigantic creature with massive wings, six spindly limbs, hands that have insanely long claws, back eyes, and the ability to spew his toxins through his mouth. Said toxins have turned into more of a drug than anything- inhale it and you become incredibly suggestible. His tongue has also turned into a long proboscis, so speaking is difficult for him. And finally, he has long, poisonous spines on his back, and that poison is constantly poisoning him.

The moment Vox and Alastor learn “hey. Those toxins make hypnosis even better”, they end up collecting it and bottling it for future use.

After about 20 years or so of knowing Charlie, Alastor and Vox say goodbye to Charlie after a night of “hanging out” (the pair just nodding along as Charlie rants about how much she wants to redeem sinners). Since getting any sort of cameras into the Morningstar Palace is nearly impossible, they slip a recording device in her bag. It manages to get to Lucifer’s room and Vox gets to listen to talks about potential extensions.

Now, at this point, more than a couple people have been thrown into the goop. Velvette, Baxter, and Nifty included. And Vox is *everywhere* so he and Alastor hear the discussion about potential exterminations and formulate a plan. They go to Rosie and the rest of the Overlords with their news, and use a mixture of Val’s pheromones and hypnotism to persuade those who they can’t persuade normally to be willing to follow them to fight. Vox uses more hypnosis and transforms more sinners, all the while, they use Charlie to learn more.

They tell Charlie about it and she is, understandably horrified. They convince her that simply showing her parents and the Sins that there are so many who oppose the idea should get her to stop it, and she agrees wholeheartedly.

Vox approaches/hypnotizes Carmilla to a device that could theoretically shield the entirety of Pride from Heaven. Vox manages to get her to essentially build a power siphon that can store and use power.

While this is going on, they go to meet with some Goetia, claiming that the angels won’t stop at sinners and will go for them too. Some listen, some don’t, and since they tend to be incredibly powerful, the hypnosis doesn’t work on them nearly as well so they have to get creative. And by that? Those who say no get Alastor stabbing them with an angelic blade from behind using his shadows and then they get wrapped in angelic rope before being hauled out and forcibly shoved into the siphons.

For the ones that say yes, Vox asks them if they’d be willing to lend their power to create a shield around Pride. If they say no they get stabbed. If they say yes, they’re hooked up to the power siphons without much issue (and then they immediately realize it was a horrible idea).

Paimon was one of the first goetia to get brought in and Vox and Alastor, literally drain him dry before pushing the power into themselves. Vox goes first, entering his strongest sinner state and accidentally breaking Alastor’s deal. Alastor gets some too after that, which is good because Rosie comes to investigate and chew out Alastor. Vox wrapped an angelic steel necklace around her and she gets her ass thrown into The Vat and locked up with a super charged Val for company.

Eventually all of the siphons Vox ordered are created and hey, there’s a meeting happening with all the Sins! Perfect timing! Vox uses his newfound extreme power to broadcast to all of Hell what’s going down- lying to say Hellborn are gonna be targeted- and they should all go to the Morningstar Palace! (A large amount of hypnotism is involved in this).

They gather out front with Charlie and Vox keeps them calm as Charlie talks about how wrong this is but there’s no way the Sins won’t change their mind the moment they see such a big crowd! She then leads them into the Palace and to the meeting room.

The moment Charlie opens the door, Vox pushes the idea of fighting through the hypnosis and cuts it and he and Alastor vanish and it’s a bloodbath. An absolute bloodbath. Thousands of people die as the fight rages on for ages, but eventually it gets to the point where the Sins tire enough for Vox and Alastor join the fray. Using the goetia juice they had been siphoning, they manage to knock the Sins and Lilith out. Oh and Charlie after she approaches them horrified.

They then lock Charlie away (in case they need another battery) and put the Sins + Lilith into the siphons. They use their power to break the barrier that prevents them all from moving freely between rings and also puts up a shield that prevents Heaven from coming down. Oh and he and Alastor start slowly siphoning it into themselves.

They get bored rather quickly, however, and decide they want to start throwing people into the Goop. So they do. First they kidnap people, then they make it airborne so people are ever so slowly poisoned and Changed. The only people who aren’t are the ones that have enough magic to prevent it, stick around someone who can shield them, or are Pent, Cherri, and Angel who all have filters created by Pent.

They also throw Rosie and Susan into an angelic steel building in Envy, locking her up and forgetting about her.

The moment the shield went up, Heaven noticed. Because it’s damn hard to miss. They start panicking and wondering if there will be any retaliation. Any attempts to communicate with Lucifer or anyone else down there are unsuccessful so they decide to send their two best soldiers as a scouting party to check it out, equipping them with radios and shit.

Sera punches a small hole in the shield, enough for Vaggie and Lute to go down and the literal moment they enter, their radios are fucked. Now this wasn’t entirely unexpected so they had a plan- explore and then meet back up where they entered. So, they flew down and got to exploring.

They were met with multiple corpses and Pride being eerily quiet. This is when they learn that, oh shit, anyone who died and is supposed to go to Hell? Yeah. That’s not happening. No one is getting in or out of Hell. To make it worse, due to the angelic energy moving through the Changed, anyone they kill dies permanently. And then they see a shuffling, Changed sinner and realize that Hell is fucked. Absolutely fucked. And while Lute doesn’t entirely feel bad for sinners, there’s something about seeing the shambling, mindless… creature that was once human is eerie.

Now, the moment the shield was breached, Vox and Alastor were alerted. Vox tapped into the cameras and started watching Vaggie and Lute as they kill said shuffling sinner and start discussing going back to Heaven to say “yeah no, we need to nuke it”. So, Vox zips over to some of the closest Changed and sends them towards the angels.

He and Alastor wait until the pair are completely occupied fighting before dropping in and capturing the two, throwing Vaggie into a cell. Lute is dealt with immediately, and is furious (obviously) but is also terrified, and gets dunked and… stretches.

Her limbs end up long and end in claws, and her mouth is stretched into a feral grin. Her wings move up to her face, hiding it unless she’s furious. Her teeth sharped and her wrists have bone spurs coming out of them. Her vocal cords were mangled, so she can’t actually speak.

Vox also did something… different with her. He had never tried hypnotizing someone as he threw them in The Vat, however he focused on doing it as she was dunked, put the thought “hunt” in her head. She comes out practically mindless, only wanting to follow the directive given (but also desperately trying to find… something). So, they throw her into Pride and watch as she goes on a rampage. It’s great. Very entertaining.

They leave her there and then focus on the other angel. Vaggie. However, they made the mistake of throwing her next to Charlie (who has been locked up since the attack). Charlie has been fighting off the airborne goop that’s being pumped into her cell constantly, and is horrified when she realizes there’s someone next to her. She’s been pretty fucked up since being captured and decides that she’s going to do something to help someone. So, she diverts her energy from fighting the goop for a moment and puts a sort of anti-hypnosis shield on Vaggie by brushing their fingers together.

Vaggie gets dunked less than 15 minutes later, and Changes to look almost identical to Lute. However, she isn’t hypnotized and can speak, though it’s extremely hard. She acts like she is. She’s thrown out and stumbles around before coming across a scavenging Blitzø and Stolas.

Immediately, the pair on the offensive before Vaggie manages to kinda communicate that she isn’t under hypnosis. After some fake chasing (to keep Vox and Alastor from getting suspicious), they end up in one of the many dead zones that Stolas has created. She tells them what exactly has happened to her- mentions Charlie is still around- and they explain to her what they know. Eventually, she’s taken to Stolas’ palace which has so many wards up. Vassago, Octavia, Andralpheus, and Stolas are all keeping the palace safe (though reluctantly on Andralpheus’ side. He just wants this to stop so he and Stella can go back to being left alone by the gross poors and can relax without worrying about being transformed into horrific monsters.

There are a lot of refugees in the palace, all of whom are terrified of Vaggie until Stolas explains what is happening. And I mean a ton of refugees.

I.M.P. in its entirety, Husk, Angel, Cherri, Pentious, most of Millie’s family, Fizz, Verosika, a couple weaker Overlords who weren’t involved in the attack, Carmine’s single unchanged daughter Clara, and about twenty other hellborn and sinners.

It’s mentioned that Charlie is still alive and, knowing that she’s the closest in strength to Vox and Alastor, they come up with a plan to break her out. And it works! They lose Vassago and a couple overlords to Vox, Alastor, Val, Niffty, and Velvette, but they do get Charlie out.

Batterer, bruised, and exhausted, the get back to the palace where Charlie finally gets to stop fighting the toxins, at least for a little bit. She gets nursed back to health then starts talking with the group about what the hell they are supposed to do. Vox and Alastor are going to want her back (why that is, Charlie genuinely doesn’t know. She doesn’t know where the Sins + Lilith are, just that Vox and Alastor have them), so the hunkers down to try to wait Alastor and Vox out.

Charlie is free for about a year before Niffty manages to stumble across the cloaked palace and tells Vox and Alastor. Vox and Alastor then gather up a lot of their Changed and attack.

It’s a massacre. Almost the entirety of the group is killed (Verosika, all of Millie’s family, the other overlords, and most of the sinners), injured (Cherri, Pentious, Fizz, Octavia, a handful of sinners, Vaggie), or captured (Charlie, Stolas, all of I.M.P., Husk, Stella, Andralpheus, Angel). Those that are captured are Changed and Vox… isn’t nice about it.

People are starved, forced to watch others get dunked… and then Vox gets curious to see what would happen if they dunk multiple people at once. So, Blitzø, Millie, and Moxxie are all dunked together, merging into a massive creature. Husk, at the same time, gets cut up and then dunked because he threw angelic playing cards at Alastor and he is. Pissed.

Charlie gets locked up and is put to sleep, and while Vox and Alastor are doing this… Pentious manages to slip in and get many prisoners out. Stella and Andralpheus were given to Velvette to fuck around with, so they weren’t able to be saved but many others were. However, there little group of refugees is shattered.

Husk and Angel both choose to leave, with Husk slinking down to Envy and Angel leaving to Greed. Stolas, IMP (as they now call themselves), and the rest of the group head down to Lust where they reunite with the remaining refugees and set up another camp.

In retaliation, Vox and Alastor throw their brutes to all the rings. Lute gets Pride, Velvette gets Wrath, Niffty gets Gluttony, Val gets Greed, Baxter gets Lust, Shok.wav (who is a good boy and unchanged) gets Envy, and Alastor and Vox take on Sloth.

For the next couple years, things just… deteriorate. People lose lives. Limbs. People grow tired. And it’s getting to the point where people are just giving up. Sir Pentious watches all of this, and then, out of nowhere, he vanishes.

Up in heaven, Emily wakes up to a note on her nightstand.

Lute - Did not choose to be changed. Didn’t have the choice to support Vox/Alastor before being changed. Arguably the most changed. Shoved into angelic good and stretched. Her limbs end up long and end in claws, and her mouth is stretched into a feral grin. Her wings move up to her face, hiding it unless she’s furious. Her teeth sharped and her wrists have bone spurs coming out of them. Her vocal cords were mangled, so she can’t actually speak.

Mostly incapable of thought other than the single directive Vox put in her mind- hunt. Constantly searching for something. What that is, she doesn’t know. Always in pain. Specifically around her joints and back. Very nearsighted so can barely make out anything that isn’t movement. Highly durable due to her angelic nature. Takes the place of Huggy.

Was sent down with Vaggie to try to figure out what was going on with Hell. Ended up being jumped by a mutated Carmilla and Vassago who tried to tie her up with angelic rope. Took out Carmilla and blinded Vassago, but was caught off guard by Alastor taking down Vaggie. Has a bit of a sisterly relationship with Vaggie here, so immediately tried to help her only to get caught by Alastor. Was the first of the two transformed and was also seen as the more lethal of the two.

Velvette - Chose to be changed. Always supported Vox/Alastor. Velvette’s plasticity is pushed to an extreme. She’s still a doll, but her limbs are elastic now, and she has parts of her that are of various doll making material. A left porcelain cheek. Velvet on her right hip. Fabric on her chest. She’s a patchwork doll with more patchwork than anything else. Her eyes have a pink filter over them, allowing her to see any and all electronics. She can see wiring in walls and phones. Her limbs are a bit stretched out but she just. Wears long sleeved power suits to mitigate that whole thing.

Sent to essentially be the second line of defense if Charlie ever escapes and takes her job very seriously. However, she’s also rather lazy and values entertainment over simply handing them to Vox and Alastor. So, she sends Stella and Andralpheus after Emily and Charlie to film it, saying she’ll totally let them go if they beat them. She will not. Takes over Mommy’s role.

Fell right before the Hour of Freedom, and was taken in by Vox and Alastor after encountering Val. Offered to be Changed after hearing Vox and Alastor whispering about possible exterminations, simply saying she wasn’t going to bow to anyone and actually handled it better than most. Is incredibly lethal when she wants to be and loyal to Vox and Alastor, seeing both as her “friends”. Was the one to catch the peatwins, and thus was given control over them.

Stella- Did not choose to be Changed. A former rebellion member. Has no eyes. Her beak is massive and horizontal, taking up the vast majority of her face. Her arms were turned into wings, but she can’t use them to fly. She has hands but no claws and talons but dull ones. She can’t speak and uses the harsh tapping of her beak to echolocate and move.

Completely mindless. The pain and hunger she was feeling after being starved and tortured by Vox and Alastor after being caught was manipulated. She always feels pain and hunger, only getting some relief when she eats. So she’s constantly hunting, desperate to try to get relief. She takes the spot of Bunny Bunzo.

Originally fairly neutral to the whole thing. Didn’t like the idea of exterminations but also was of the opinion it wouldn’t affect her. However, her mind changed quickly when Vox tried taking her and Andralpheus’ power away, as well as his whole tyrannical government thing actually affecting her. Opted to join the rebellion, entering a rather terse alliance with Stolas for the sake of rebellion. Incredibly observant when she wants to be (good for picking up on insecurities). Isn’t doing this for any reason but wanting to get back to her life of parties and servants but does choose to alert Velvette to her presence so Octavia can escape in the end.

Andralpheus- Did not choose to be Changed. Former rebellion member. Like his sister, he was caught by Vox/Alastor during the rebellion and was forcibly Changed. Most of his senses were torn away, leaving him only able to see and feel. Like Lute, his sense of sight is abysmal, but his is worse. He can’t see if there’s any bright light, and has a tendency to freeze when than happens. His limbs are long and spindly, but he has no real strength within them. So, he’s forced to crawl on all fours. His beak is razor sharp, and he has a long neck and tail like a malnourished dragon.

Mindless like his sister. Watched his sister get completely managled before getting dunked so is very skittish and prone to instinctive panic. Can’t actually feel hunger so he’s basically twigs. Will peck anything to death he deems a threat, and that is a lot of things. Can actually cool down the surrounding area but that would involve him needing actual energy. Which he doesn’t have. Takes PJ Pugapiller’s place.

Very similar to his sister in that, this was not the plan. He mostly planned on ignoring what all was happening since he wasn’t poor until it finally affected him. Once that happened, he was willing to lend his assistance so long as orders came from Charlie herself. Actually starts caring a bit about Octavia due to forced proximity and tries (and fails) to save Stella. Horrified by watching her Change, he was forced to Change himself.

Valentino - Did not choose to change, but was only Changed because he got accidentally exposed. On Vox/Alastor’s side the whole time. The first one to be Changed. Massive wings, six spindly limbs, hands that have insanely long claws, back eyes, and the ability to spew his toxins through his mouth. Said toxins have turned into more of a drug than anything. Inhale it and you become incredibly suggestible. His tongue has turned into a long proboscis, so speaking is difficult for him. He always looks pale and ragged no matter what. His back has long, poisonous spines on them, and that poison is constantly poisoning him. Missing and antennae.

Already kind of obsessed with Vox before the incident. Now would do literally anything to protect him. Alastor not so much. Who Vox sends out when he needs something done. He can’t move particularly fast and is always in pain but has this overwhelming need to prove himself to Vox. Can be distracted by Angel, however, due to the fact that Angel tore off his antennae. Also not particularly intelligent. Takes CatNap’s role.

Literally Changed accidentally. He had come looking for Vox so Vox could approve something and fell into an open vat of Angelic Goop. Was pulled out quickly, but it was too late. His desire to find Vox ended up being amplified, and now he’s constantly trying to prove himself to him. Helped to take down the Sins and the rebellion. Seen as the strongest one Vox/Alastor can send.

Niffty - Purposefully Changed herself. Loyal to Alastor. Always Alastor. A massive, one eyed cyclops with hard chitin across her being. She’s grown to be taller than Alastor, though not by much. Her left arm is a needle, and her other arm is regular. Her limbs are very spindly, and she’s grown an extra two, though they aren’t very strong. She has a long, chitinous tail that she uses to stun her “prey”. Atop her head are two antennae. Wears an incredibly ragged maid outfit stained with blood.

About as sane here as she is in canon. She chose to become this, saying it gives her the opportunity to hunt more. Because of this, Vox and Alastor let her roam between the rings, giving her the opportunity to hunt down any remaining rebellion members. She usually hunts with Baxter by her side, and has grown incredibly good at staying hidden. Takes the role of Miss Delight.

Just kinda. Heard there was a chance to Change and hunt down the so-called “bugs” (just rebellion members). However, the Angelic Goop has its way of twisting mental states so she’s gone into even more of a hunter mode. She’s basically Alastor’s CatNap.

Baxter- Purposefully Changed. Always on Vox’s side. Baxter has shifted from more angler fish to more sea serpent. His body has elongated to be almost snakelike, and his single lure has blossomed into four. He has one major one on his tail and one on his head. He also has a second head at the back of his tail, as well as a sharp spines along his back- sharp enough to be impaled upon. His teeth can shoot out like a goblin shark’s too.

Spends most of his time in the lab in Lust. He thinks it’s his own decision but he’s been completely hypnotized. He can’t leave even if he wanted. He is in charge of overseeing changes and the production of Angel Goop, though Vox has a lot more of a hand in it than Baxter realizes. Thinks he chose to change himself. He didn’t. A master at misdirection, he uses the lures along his body to make one think the head is in one place where it’s in another. Often hunts with Niffty. Takes an almost Baba role before shifting into a more neutral role once Niffty dies and right before he himself dies (final moment of clarity).

The one who started it all. It was him who first distilled angelic magic down to a mere goop. It was him who figured out how to Change people. Out of everyone, Vox and Val included, he’s been exposed the most. As such, he’s not nearly as in control as he thinks he is. His mind is stuck on innovation. All it takes is a little push to keep him completely obedient.

Shok.wav- Literally just the same. He’s Yarnaby. He’s a good boy.

Rosie - Did not want to change. Serves herself and only herself. Has a large mass of prehensile finger bones where her hair used to be (almost appearing serpentine), actual roses where her cheeks were, thorns for nails and teeth, and her skin feels almost wooden. Her hair is a wild mess and she smells faintly like apple blossoms. Around her neck is a power dampener that is constantly siphoning power to Alastor.

Locked up in the Envy Ring, and left with no food. Constantly hungry and always searching for food. Can’t take the power dampener off and is kinda just forced to sit there. She was locked up with Susan but she ate Susan. She is under constant surveillance. However, Alastor lets her do her own thing. Mostly. Takes on a similar role to Lily Lovebraids.