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im very late for this meme but i thought it would be funny

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Dealbreaker

I found a fic "The Last Bus Stop in Hell, Now Boarding" by @prince-liest and… well, some scenes just stuck around in my head (read: tormented my artistic brain) long enough to get me down to sketching them out. Then a few hours, a few brushes and a few different colouring experiments later, it was no longer barely a sketch, at the expense of actual lunch... Oh well.

For those who haven’t read it (spoiler free), Angel and Alastor got their bodies swapped involuntarily, and the horrendous expression on Angel’s face belongs respectfully to Alastor.

Now, bear with me, because I’ve been overthinking this scene the whole time I was drawing it – Angel made a promise to Alastor, but one that is much more of a gesture of reassurance and what-happened-will-always-remain-in-this-room kind than anything resembling actual deal. And then, mere moments later, Angel realises that helping Al AND keeping the promise is impossible, so he dismisses the fact that he even said anything, and just jumps right onto the helping part, because he knows that that’s best thing to do for a friend. But Alastor doesn’t share that view – maybe it’s a mix of trauma, shame and the loss of control over almost anything, but he doesn’t think clearly at this point – normally, he’d sooner or later agree with Angel. But not there, not then – he’d rather expect the impossible to happen, and rage when it doesn’t.

And there’s the interesting choice of words – he could’ve called Angel anything at this point, we know how rich Alastor’s vocabulary is – but the word he chose was dealbreaker. Maybe, just maybe, from a perspective of hellish overlord, a sinner that twists and turns in an attempt to get rid of their contract is nothing less than pathetic, but what if the deal was only verbal, no signing, no contract, just "trust"… There are probably no other beings in Hell that, ironically, have less trust in somebody’s WORDS than the overlords, knowing what extremes the sinners are willing to go to just to squeeze their way out of a sticky situation. Also, one can only become a dealbreaker exactly in that scenario, when nothing was set in stone.

For Alastor, dealbreaker is a knife in the back. The worst kind of liar. The very being that reminds him so painfully that trust doesn’t exist without force applied to it by a binding contract, which, if you think about it, is a paradox. Dealbreakers are the reason he distances himself from everyone.

And here’s the sugar on the cream (pun intended): Angel is only trying to HELP. What a beautiful tragedy.

To end this little overthinking session: it’s been a long while since I’ve read anything that would make me genuinely terrified, and it’s even more amazing that it began as something quite hilarious. Do mind though that the topic is HEAVY, to say the least.

I can’t say I’ve read a lot of Hazbin fics, but so far Princeliest writes Alastor probably the closest to his original character, which I love. Please, keep up the good work!

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Finale song from the last episode of Season 1. What a ride, can't wait to see what's next. Also major spoilers, duh.

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"The constraints of my deal surely have a back door" MF WHAT DID YOU DO??

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The sheer terror I felt for husk at this moment:

(Alastor we need a talk.)

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leaving a fucking polycule is harder than leaving the mob

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#riptide #im done hiding

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girls will be like hm this song reminds me of the most tragic thing that has happened to me I think I'll listen to it on loop

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i am a loser in ways you can’t even wrap your head around

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Man I love Twitter

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I think vox's range of tastes in men is so incredibly fucking funny. first on one end you have probably-sex-repulsed asexual alastor and then on the very other end you have literal overlord of pornography.

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There is a huge hole in the market for sexy videos of nerds doing your taxes apparently.

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AAAAAAAAAAAA YOUR SWAP AU HAS TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN (in the good way of course)

but i also must know more about the Angel and Husk rivalry. like. do they do a version of Stayed Gone?? is there the one sided obsession?? are they gay for each other??

sfajvocxnosdjkcxno but also vee polycule is nice too

have a nice day/night

hello! i'm not sure if it's stayed gone, but they definitely do have some kind of quarreling song there is an obsession, but it's not one-sided - it's terribly, annoyingly mutual (though husk is a little better at hiding it) of course they are gay for each other. you dont even need to ask /lh overall, their dynamic can be more or less summed up like this:

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JESUS CHRIST IVE FINALLY DONE IT. I'VE FINISHED THIS. HOLY FUCK anyway um here's that argument leading up to loser baby but in the veeswap au + a little animatic :3 reblogs and compliments humongously appreciated this took a giant amount of time and effort

#when i realized there was an animated part i literally just went oh my god oh my god oh my god and started digging around for my headset #showstopping wonderful amazing

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me omw to make the sappiest most tooth-rotting fluff for the most toxic villain ship on earth (for staticmoth week day 4 - stargazing)

#IM CLAWING AT THE WALLS OF MY ENCLOSURE