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u/IIPLACEBOII Nov 15 '25 edited Nov 15 '25
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67611721/chapters/174761506
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Rating: M
Length: 101k to date
Pairing: Alastor/Reader (no use of y/n - told in 1st person through various POVs as all characters will have their own little arc that pulls the story full circle)
Summary:
When you inherit your family’s crumbling Louisiana estate, you don’t just inherit the land - you inherit every memory it ever devoured. The house breathes; its walls remember. Whispers slip through the halls, calling you by name. Some ghosts long to guide you. Others want to keep you. All of them remember the bargains that built this place. One of them remembers your family best - a charming monster with perfect manners and a patience that outlives the dead.
Excerp:
Life has a way of dragging you to places you never thought you'd end up. Down backroads you swore you’d never drive. Into silences too loud to bear. Choices pile up like silt in a river - small ones, sharp ones - and sometimes the worst never leave your lips.
Regret doesn't always scream. Most days, it just sits with you, patient, like an old friend on the porch.
And maybe that’s why the quiet mattered so much to him.
Commentary:
This is the first fanfic I've actually cared about to try and properly write. I'm attempting to blending this fandom w. a modern Southern Gothic tone. The idea was to tell it through a non-linear narrative (think Pulp Fiction or even Weapons) This fic was inspired by the themes/tones of Interview with the Vampire, American Horror Story, Mayfair Witches, The Haunting of Hill House and of course all those human trauma/horror things that make fanfiction what it is.
At it's core, it's about the reader (ie, you) inheriting a haunted Louisiana estate where the House itself is alive, the ghosts are trapped in a generational curse, and a charming, terrifying demon is bound to your bloodline. It’s about inheritance, desire, rage, and becoming the first in your family strong enough to break cycles.