#viewers!au

Ooh yes!

They see Alastor interact with the Speaker, they see him plan to fight god - Father and Mother are both upset at this and remembering when THEIR Alastor insisted on Naming not just the Speaker, but the Guardians/Exorcists and so on, and then they get to see him bargain with Rosie, trick her, use his knowledge to his advantage!

Lucilith Magne are a bit flushed.

Hell, Expired, motherverse and so on Lucilith are ALSO a bit flushed!

(So is canon Lucifer)

Also, Mother and Father hear the 'child of Roo' bit and get VERY WORRIED - that's their baby! Their sibling can't steal THEIR baby, Alastor is THEIRS! Go Away Roo!

And then they see him experiment, discover how to use his new powers, him laughing and dancing among the lights like he's in the night sky, and they are so smitten, all of them.

(The Lucifers are ALL smug about him making APPLES lol)

And then they see his day, and they see the racism, how its constant. How its looks, sneers, glares, children pulled away, a back door, different fountains. Constant disrespect.

How Alastor is treated, by his coworkers, his producers, by Caleb...

And the difference, at the speakeasy.

You have to get both Jevil AND Spamton’s approval to even “court” Alastor once you befriend his shadow to start his route. The two former secret bosses sort of act as the player’s shoulder devil and angel, suggesting ways for the player to “woo” Alastor that may or may not work. Either way, they will be blaming the player when something they suggested makes Alastor upset.

—

It had been a tumultuous few days in Hell, not that He’ll was ever untumultous, anyway…

A new game had hit the market, compatible with most VoxTec systems and even the few remaining independent consoles and televisions hell had to offer. The infamous Hazbin Hotel’s own television seemed to miraculously gain a feature for gaming. Including an appropriate amount of Odd Controller’s with ugly pink and yellow buttons. But they worked. And now the Hotel had a vast variety of new games! Super Smashing Fighters, The Legend of Tenna, Mantle (the Sword Route game where you fight ERAM for the Shadow Mantle), and all of the Dragon Blazers games!

Not that anyone besides Alastor seemed to recognize any of those titles. Speaking of the Radio Demon, in an uncharacteristic showing of excitement, Alastor had been herding all of the to play video games.

Today, however, was the first day Lucifer came to join them. Alastor had long since disappeared to prepare the hotel resident’s lunch. Charlie was messing with her controller, occasionally having to take a break at the frustrating Quizzes in The Legend of Tenna that seemed to have no way of finding the right answer!

“Seriously, who is Kris?” She groaned, before perking up when she saw her father. The controller went flying from her hands as she bounded towards him and he towards her. Vaggie was left scrambling to catch the thing before it hit the ground.

“Char Char! How are you this… mmmmorning?” He asked, wheezing when Charlie squeezed him like his so beloved ducks.

Angel Dust and Cherri bomb, previously watching Charlie get stuck on Board 2 of the game, promptly went back to doom scrolling on Angel’s phone from where they were curled up on one of the couches.

Charlie smiled with gentle fondness. “It’s afternoon, Dad.”

Lucifer nodded, some agreement coming out of his mouth. Charlie scrambled to try and find and excuse for him to stay longer and not go pester Alastor when he was trying to cook. The last time she’d tried to distract him at all Jevil had summoned a carousel out of nowhere and sent her careening into the stairs. And no one seemed interested in listening to her insist she had an actual reason!

She did not want to see how Alastor’s 3 little gremlins would respond to someone who liked to antagonize Alastor on PURPOSE.

“So, I was thinking you could help me with this puzzle I can’t seem to get the hang of, hahaha…” Charlie feigned helplessness, batting her eyes at her dad and wringing her hands together. Like clockwork, Lucifer grinned and puffed his chest out, strutting towards the gaming system like it was a runway.

“Lead the way, Char Char! Your old man is great at puzzles!”

—

Lucifer was pretty sure he was looking at a pixel depiction of The Garden of Eden and not a Zelda-styled video game.

Not wanting to look back at Charlie like he was an idiot, he followed the prompt given to him to select an “Angel Name”, along with a warning that it wouldn’t be permanent.

“Uh, sir,” Vaggapalooza started, getting shushed by one of Lucifer’s spare hands coming out of a portal.

“I have got this handled, girls, don’t worry about it!”

—

“Dad, are you sure you don’t want to take a break? You look—“

He waved a hand in her direction, trying to laugh it off. This game was almost eerie in the depiction of falling from Heaven, the descriptions accurate in a way that made his still unruly feathers shudder in remembrance of holy flames.

Lucifer could feel that his face had more eyes than human-shaped things were supposed to. He could feel Angel and Cherri perk up and rush to see what could have rattled Lucifer so thoroughly.

—

The King had been sitting in one spot playing a single video game for 36 hours and Alastor was getting fed up of Charlie morosely trying to encourage the man to move.

He thought the manic little angel shared his views on how mind numbing television was! Sure, Alastor himself got a bit carried away in getting back into shape concerning his Smashing Fighter’s prowess, but none of that distracted him from important things!

What was worse was the fact that now half of his thralls were similarly entranced to the damn thing.

Spamton had been first, with the argument that things that [IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE, JIM] him were important enough to get distracted by. Jevil had joined if only to revel in the fact the King barely responded to the small Jester’s pestering now. And Niffty seemed oddly invested in peeking into what the man was doing as well. Of course, the darling still had the sense to focus on her job, but..

“Lucifer,” Alastor started, aware of the way his voice crackled with static. Jevil cackled and tackled Alastor’s midsection, sensing the reckoning the monarch was about to endure. The Jevilstail curled around his waist, comfortable and familiar. He picked Spamton up by the scruff and raised an eyebrow at him. The mailman dropped into the Dealmaker and Niffty giggled as she scuttered back to her roach-killing.

The king mechanically pressed buttons and the control. Alastor sighed, spinning his cane around and covering it enough magical-frost for it to burn on impact.

And then, using the technique Dess taught him proper way of swinging a bat, he whacked Lucifer over the head.

“QUACK!”

In his distraction, it seemed the King was actually taken off guard by the hit.

Alastor stared at his cane and then back at Lucifer. “Are you stupid?” He asked the man bluntly, stepping over the couch with ease. He brought down the cane by Lucifer’s face and relished in the pained squeak it gave him.

The man’s face had turned somehow paler and the impossibly orange. What?

Well, no matter.

—

Lucifer had to enlist Niffty’s help in sneaking video game time. Now everyone knew to get either Charlie or Alastor to restrict Lucifer’s time on the TV.

—

“I don’t get it, Whiskers. His version of Hell is somehow WORSE than like, any of the playthroughs I’ve seen!” Angel mused, halfway lying on the bar’s counter, squinting as he tried to lip read the conversation Charlie and Lucifer were having by the television.

Alastor let out a static filled snicker. It echoed twice in voices not his own.

Ooh hoo hoo! Lucifer, Spamton and Niffty got really invested in the Dating Sim! Niffty is gonna make so much fanart~

If we take inspiration from the Viewers!AU too, what if ☝︎✌︎💧︎❄︎☜︎☼︎ dropped a copy of 'Deltarune' and they ended up playing the game as 'Kris' and...

Accidental Redemption started off following the same beats as Canonverse, which would cause the Canon characters and the audience who watched the Canon verse to question what the differences were. Then they get to Welcome to Heaven and the plot diverges hard from there!

Actually, would they start the Accidental Redemption au series from the same point as Canon or would it start with when Alastor decided to make his community and then the souls started disappearing in flashes of light one by one and then there's a time skip?

Anyway, Welcom to Heaven makes a hard turn on the plot. Then the Vees joined the hotel to avoid death, which the audience members who saw the other aus would be against because the Lucifers and Liliths hate the Voxes and they noticed patterns. There's the Welcome to Hell party and the reveal that Lucifer wasn't actually paying attention or read the contract when he signed for the Exterminations.

Accidental Redemption!Lucifer is going to get yelled at by the other Lucifers

Then the Accidental Redemption season 2 has a very different plot and events than the other aus

Viewers au seeing AR! Hmm, I'm inclined to think it starts as in canon and they genuinely wonder what the difference is until welcome to heaven where they see all these winners in the courtroom - and then a flashback when its revealed what they are.

The other audience members are VERY UPSET that the Vees aren't gonna be murdered and that Alastor actually is acting to save Vox!

How does the audience react to Little Rose Bud?

Especially the fact that Etienne is Alastor’s daughter who he birthed and takes over Alastor’s role in Season 1 & 2. No one knows who the father is yet so the audience remains unaware too until she develops her wings.

Oh! And the fact Alastor died in childbirth but Etienne sleeps next to his corpse.

Ooh, I reckon, by this point, they've seen many different AU's so at first when they see this version of the pilot and there's a little girl there instead of Alastor, they're first thought is that this is a world where he's a little girl!

And then they see the shadow is still his shadow, see Vox's reaction and her going and sleeping next to his corpse, and realise no, she's his daughter, Expired!Lucifer is shrinking in his seat watching his counterpart treat this literal child - ALASTOR'S child - like trash out of jealousy, they all get to realise Alastor is DEAD - and maybe later the reveal he died in childbirth, he knew he would and chose to love and have her anyway, and then - the reveal.

The wings and Seraphim/divine power reveal just means they finally realise who the father was - and that that Lucifer has been treating his DAUGHTER, a literal, actual CHILD like that.

Would anyone in the audience have noticed that SS!Alastor's staff was gradually becoming more repaired throughout his capture or that his staff was fixed when he fought Vox in Curtain Call?

The reactions if they figure out that Alastor has been fixing his staff while he was a captive. I think Expired would have a moment of "Yep, that's Alastor" and the beings from Double Entry universes are like "Of course he would still be building/making stuff even when as a prisoner, the little inventor/maker"

Also, the audience's reactions/thoughts and feelings when SS!Alastor tore into SS!Vox so fast and when Vox immediately called for Shok.wav. I bet there were some shouts calling Vox a coward, especially for how fast he called for the shark.

And then when Shadow does show up right after the shark. I think there would be a chorus of "Finally!" and "He should have showed up sooner"

And when Shadow RIPS OFF Vox's head and brings it to Alastor for Alastor to choose Vox's fate. Does anyone in the audience think this is an adequate show of apology/affection to Alastor? "Hey Love, you win. I'm sorry, here's the head of your enemy. Should I permanently kill him?"

There would be some members that thought Alastor was way too forgiving of Vox with how he chose to return Vox back to the Vees instead of letting Shadow shred Vox's soul. The Voxs are trying to hide/avoid attention.

Would there be any smugness that Shadow "lost" the argument? That Shadow was the one that caved?

You know what? I think they would have - especially, dun dun dun - the Magne's, who have kidnapped Alastor and had him escape enough times to know what to look for lol. They're like - the staff is being fixed The moment its done he's gone. They have gone through this before!

They were ABSOLUTELY calling out SS!Vox for being a coward, everyone was happy to see that even in this verse where he's not an Overlord Alastor is still a badass, there were cheers when he went down and yelling when he called shock.wav, canon!Vox is shrinking down hoping no one notices him.

They absolutely are going 'Finally!' and 'he should have shown up sooner' and 'I would have shown up sooner! Regardless of the argument!'

And Charlie/s would be very happy Alastor chose to spare an enemies life, the Lucilith's (both Expired and Magne) are going 'yes, the head of your enemy IS an appropriate apology gift, but its not enough make him grovel more Alastor!

They are ALL smug that Shadow lost the argument, cause if he'd won it would have meant Alastor leaving the hotel!

They can clearly see immediately that this Al is visually different from most other Alastors, even more than just the cosmetic changes of different accessories or suit styles, and then they wonder why, and it gets quietly revealed throughout hints scattered in his actions, behaviours, and then words when he doesn't expect to be heard that his life started out far differently than most of the others' lives started out as

Imagine Charlie's devastation at finding out what it took to make her exist

Ooh this could be FUN. I imagine they are watching the verse, not having the characters show up, and see that this Alastor is very different - maybe he dress darker, or sometimes just stands and STARES, or comes in dripping blood sometimes, something is clearly OFF - and then the Extermination happens, and Adam recognises him as the White Witch, and reveals everything, and there's a flashback.

Charlie would be horrified, the Lucifer's would be horrified (yes, even Magne), Alastor/s have to awkwardly pat Charlie/s on the back/head and assure her that's not how SHE was made...

I think it would be funny for SS!Alastor to meet the other Alastors

The shock on both sides. The shock of the actually soul owned Alastors would have for this Alastor that pretends to be owned. Shadow!Alastor is like "Wait, you are ACTUALLY SOUL OWNED in your universe?! I've just been putting up an act because it was funny with unexpected benefits!"

This Alastor has a freer and more relaxed attitude

Shadow!Alastor and Canon!Alastor talk about their staffs and connections to Rosie. They are both surprised by their alternate's Rosie and their relations

I think it would be fun if they don't actually realise at first the difference, and only do when they start watching the shadow slayer version of the show, and hear Mimzy's version of his backstory/see the way he and his shadow are - and then, well, the Alastor's know, and are quietly discussing things among them selves...

But the other watchers don't!

Hilarious that the only ones that realize the trick that Shadow Slayer!Alastor was pulling were the other Alastors, the HCT!twins who have their own shadows, and the actual Gods who recognized a pattern!

NONE of the other viewers realized it! Shadow Slayer Alastor is so good at his con that it transcend other realities that could watch the full series!