[Alastor is quiet for the longest time, trying to figure out how to phrase it without going into too deep of detail.]
When we met that second time, you asked me if I was a noctaere. I told you that I wasn't, that I was a sinner who got his due for his misdeeds in life and got somehow redirected here. I've been dead for almost ninety years, princess, and most of that time was spent in a place where only the worst of the worst go to be punished for all eternity...or until I could take no more of existence and allowed an angel to run me through during the annual Cleanse. [He pauses.] I suppose I could allow someone with black market angelic weapons to do the same job, but I don't want to give any one of my fellow sinners the satisfaction.
[Seriously, whoever erases the much-hated Radio Demon will have quite the reputation in Hell.]
The point is that we all had our chance at Paradise in life, but we blew it. Hell is a Sinner's Paradise in we can freely indulge in any of our old sins or try new ones with only one consequence: we can never feel satisfied from them. And that's on top of our other, more tailor-made punishments.
What Charlie wants to do is find some way of getting sinners into Heaven to stop the Cleanses. Hell's grossly overcrowded, you see, so the angels have to come down to thin us out. Like exterminators thinning out vermin.
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When we met that second time, you asked me if I was a noctaere. I told you that I wasn't, that I was a sinner who got his due for his misdeeds in life and got somehow redirected here. I've been dead for almost ninety years, princess, and most of that time was spent in a place where only the worst of the worst go to be punished for all eternity...or until I could take no more of existence and allowed an angel to run me through during the annual Cleanse. [He pauses.] I suppose I could allow someone with black market angelic weapons to do the same job, but I don't want to give any one of my fellow sinners the satisfaction.
[Seriously, whoever erases the much-hated Radio Demon will have quite the reputation in Hell.]
The point is that we all had our chance at Paradise in life, but we blew it. Hell is a Sinner's Paradise in we can freely indulge in any of our old sins or try new ones with only one consequence: we can never feel satisfied from them. And that's on top of our other, more tailor-made punishments.
What Charlie wants to do is find some way of getting sinners into Heaven to stop the Cleanses. Hell's grossly overcrowded, you see, so the angels have to come down to thin us out. Like exterminators thinning out vermin.
[He shakes his head with a dark chuckle.]
♪♫ Inside of every demon is a rainbow! ♪♫
[Another headshake.]
Impossible. We're all lost causes.