Big Brothers is Back part 1

from /hhg/ - Hazbin Hotel #305: Heart-Hands Edition, #309, #317, #344, #352, #368, #370 and #650
https://twitter.com/winter_berryy/status/1364301465842573319
part 2: https://pastebin.com/7yHcR14j
part 3: https://pastebin.com/AfxC5i7f
part 4: https://pastebin.com/uHK1m26T
Big Brothers is Back - de-conditioning part 1: https://pastebin.com/mW1E0BCD
Big Brothers is Back - de-conditioning part 2: https://pastebin.com/T8gpjxCJ
DC timeline Octavia: https://pastebin.com/tmxYDp4t
Dictator charlie - alt-ending: https://pastebin.com/NREXyytV
DC what if part 1: https://pastebin.com/pErwRZ58
DC what if part 2: https://pastebin.com/9B0FTHnT
Dictator charlie dealing with her inner demons part 1: https://pastebin.com/eKiaizwB
Dictator charlie dealing with her inner demons part 2: https://pastebin.com/y2Zrm8e7
Dictator charlie dealing with her inner demons part 3: https://pastebin.com/4aCEZ0Nc
Timeline shenanigans happens: https://pastebin.com/C1jgFV52
Dictator Charlie - Revengance 5000: https://pastebin.com/CpfCQYji
Dictator charlie - Lilith is alive: https://pastebin.com/Uxe3mJ2Q
Dictator charlie - Vox's hell: https://pastebin.com/BrqsyJAA
Dictator charlie - seventeen eighty four help: https://pastebin.com/VSLGRc13
Dictator charlie - Big Sister is ALWAYS watching: https://pastebin.com/NYpVQZqr
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>Charlie sighs while at her desk doing paperwork
>She looks up from her work and at the spartan office
>The only decorations being pictures of the friends that followed her on her path
>There's an extra picture frame on her desk, face down
>She hesitantly picks it up
>It's a picture of her, her parents and...
>Anon.
>It's been years since she saw him
>He left before... The incident.
>He went to purgatory to see what was wrong with it and to try and fix it
>Communication and travel was cut off from the in-between og Heaven and Hell after her rise to power
>She had ordered Octavia to open a portal to Purgatory in order to retrieve her brother
>It was a massive failure.
>The portal opened, flickered and the imploded
>The resulting implosion scarred Octavia and burnt off many of her feathers
>No other attempts were made
>She sighs in frustration and sets the picture frame back down
>Anon would have a way to make her feel better if he was here
>Hell, she would even take his stupid puns at this point
>She hopes he's not...dead.
>She hates to admit it but she's secretly glad he isn't here, that way he can't see what she's done.
>She finishes her daily bureaucratic duty and goes to bed where vaggie is already sleeping
>She carefully climbs into bed after changing into nightwear
>She drifts off into a dreamless sleep once again

>Meanwhile in the ruins of Despair
>The quiet ruins are disturbed as a dull grey portal violently springs to life and spits a figure out of it before collapsing just as violently
"Fuuuck that shit burns!"
>Anon stands up and looks at himself
>He's covered in soot
"Aw what the fuck is this shit?"
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>Anon makes his way out of Despair, wiping soot off his face as he goes along
>Sinners and demons alike that were investigating started backing up from Anon
>Anon notices the look of fear on their faces
"What? Never seen a prince before?"
>The small crowd runs off and Anon groans
"Fucking fags."
>Anon does some stretching before doing something he finds unpleasant
>He lets his wings out
>The sounds of bones cracking and skin tearing is heard as the wings sprout from his back
>Anon shudders after they're done forming
"Okay, huuuagh... Three, two, one. Takeoff!"
>Anon flies into the air and to Pandemonium
>Not even five minutes into his journey he's shot down by anti-Exterminator weapons and bagged
>The nearly unconscious Anon looks at his surroundings as he's dragged off
>He sees all of the Charlie propoganda
>And all of the signs basically saying Obey Or Perish
>Anon looks at the demon dragging him along
>"Angel filth."
"But I'm no-"
>Anon is cut off from his sentence and his consciousness
>The demon feels satisfied, he just punched out an angel(ignorant fool)
>The queen will surely reward him for this
>Hell
>He's going to drop him at her feet
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And the related post
>after the takeover, Charlie more or less cleaned up the old guard
>it was the Mother of All Purges, the sort that made Stalin's look like a nursery school teacher send the naughty kids to the time-out corner
>with her dad dead, the rest of the Seven Princes followed, starting with Mammon and Moloch
>soon enough, she had all of Hell's finances and arms industry under her thumb
>Belphergor was quickly dealt with - suffocated in his sleep - and his overgrown zone in Pentagram was napalmed to a desert
>leaving no hideouts for the rest, other than the Wastes
>...but she put paid to them, too - with all of Hell's armies at her command, she eradicated the Warlords of the Wasteland
>it really was tantamount to genocide - "Leave non standing." was the order
>Beelzebub followed, alongside Azazel, just for good measure, lest they'd accuse her of nepotism
>with food production under her control, she effectively seized full control over Hell, and with Asmodeus' death, she stood practically unopposed - especially after she had hunted down Leviathan
>the concrete housing estates of Envy were deemed the most efficient when it comes to the usage of space - thus, all cities were demolished, and rebuilt based on one plan, wit the Wastes around them turned into proxy zones, separating each by walls
>leaving no place to hide
>"Useful" overlords, like Vox, and his thralls (Katie and Tom), Michael and Ezekiel, and even Sir Pentious, were left alive (if under unending scrutiny), while "useless" ones (such as Valentino, Velvet, and, eventually, the rebelling Cherri Bomb), were executed - permanently
>with her order solidified, and Hell made devoid of all pleasures, Charlie - now Queen Charlotte, or, the "Scarlet Queen" - began dealing with the overpopulation problem
>even after cramming everyone in concrete shoeboxes, there was still simply not enough room for all the sinners
>so, she set about "correcting" that

>only her old friends were shown "true" mercy
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This quarantine fucked my motivation
>Charlie is at her desk once again
>Signing forms and looking at petitions
>Michael and Ezekiel want to increase food production by five percent
"No."
>Vox wants to air something that isn't propoganda
"No."
>Sir Pentious wants to build anything other than enforcers
"No."
>There's rapid knocking on her door
"I'm busy. Please come back later."
>"Charlie! Charlie you need to see this!"
"Vaggie? What's wrong? Do we have another rebellion?"
>"No! Just come out and see this!"
>Vaggies tone makes it clear that she won't let up until Charlie complies
>Charlie sighs and gets up from her desk
>She follows an anxious Vaggie to the entrance of Pandemonium
>She sees a overjoyed looking demon and a beaten and battered...
>Anon.
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>to describe Charlie's regime as "draconian" or "hair-splittingly micromanaging" would've been understatements
>her precision and work ethic was such that it would've made even the most stereotypical German cower in awe and fear, would've made a Stakhanovite blush and a Swiss watchmaker cream his pants
>under her reign, Hell truly became fitting of the "Hellish" adjective, albeit with a 20th century spin on it
>while she didn't bother to monitor every apartment, Big Brother-style, no conspirator would escape her wrath - so, the people, even the newcomers, eventually gave up
>newbies landing in Hell would immediately be escorted to the "Population Registry Offfice", where they were given an ID (tattooed onto their forearms, or shoulders, along with a sign that identified their sin), were given their clothes and one replacement, and, tellingly, an "End Date" to their residence
>the level of regimentation was inhumane: people living in odd and even numbered flats could leave their apartments at different parts of the day, any fights or even arguments resulted in the immediate termination of both parties
>most menial jobs were done by robots, leaving people with little to do than wait in their homes for their fate - those driven insane were simply exterminated early on
>the remaining overlords formed an "inner party" of sorts, all with their own, dedicated tasks, with a practically free hand given as to whom they could hire - provided they do it without fuss
>news were dry, repetitive and miscellaneous, delivered by an expressionless Tom Trench and practically "sleep-reporting" Katie Killjoy: production results, the list of the executed that day (along with their sins), and a short recap of any minor accidents that happened
>without independent companies, there were no adds - there were, however, "personalized programs": each sinner got to (had to, really) "review" their own sins
>every single thing, from birth to death, that landed them in Hell
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I imagine she has this incomprehensibly vast room full of filing cabinets filled with every single individual sinners life story in it
>Magic files
>The page you pull out is always the one you want
>Cabinets do the same, the cabinet you open has the file you're looking for
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Okay so... Dictator charlie. How does she even stay in power? Ruling through fear just makes rebelling look like a better and better option. I know she has complete control over the media and communications(i think) but how does she keep the population from rebelling? What kind of propoganda does she have?
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She basically defeated her father, and, in the process, confirmed that bot he, and now, her, were/are seraphim, the most powerful form of angels.
And she just had his father's entire army, spy network and praetorian guard fall into her lap. Like all good dictatorships, she starts out slow and subtle, doing a mile a minute while Hell is still in shellshock over Lucifer's death.
She takes care of anyone from her dad's close circle who could harm her... Then has anyone outside of that bent to her will via blackmail, kidnappings, torture, or just good ol' fashioned executions.
Before any significant resistance could be mounted, she had already retooled Hell's power apparatus to serve her, and her only, with everything being centralized around her.
At this point, resistance is futile - but, just to make sure everyone gets the point across, she let's some rebels go down on a wild goose chase, before capturing them all and killing them.
And after that, with their spirits broken, she can finalize her authority.
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so how is she going to handle her (ignorant fairly innocent) brother who knows nothing of what she did returning?
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Probably with a mixture of relief and the slow realization that she now has to explain that she killed their father.
Considering this is the world were isekai (did I write that right) anon exists, but the other anons don't, there had to be something else to trigger Charlie's descend into tyranny - her mother could've died just the same, but for a different reason.
But yeah, there would be much awkward, guilty, heavy silence as she mulls over how to break the news to anon.
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considering how much shes changed i doubt she would tell him the truth and make up a cover story with sprinkles of truth in it
>oh anon it was terrible
>a rogue angel tried to start the apocalypse
>mom and dad died stopping them and i took the throne to keep order
i mean she would feel like shit for lying to her brother and keep telling herself that its for the best
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So i was thinking about the cold war because college and how the US and the Union would have little proxy wars by backing certain governments and groups
I think Heaven would do the same in the dictator charlie timeline
They would supply "rogue" angels with weapons and soldiers who would then go on to attack Hell
To give a feeling of how fucked these groups are here is a link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xJD5o1TwY
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>Anon discovers what his sister has done and flees
>She personally chases after him
>They end up running/flying into the wastes and get separated by a sand storm
>Anon finds a cave and tales shelter within it
>He ventures deep into the cave and finds four sealed vases
>They all have labels etched into the pedestals
>War
>Famine
>Pestilence
>Death
>Anon can hear the sealed away cataclysms whispering to him, encouraging him to use them
>TDLR anon runs away, finds the four horsemen of the apocalypse kinda and pulls a prince of egypt
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So in the dictator charlie au sinners are executed at a certain date
Did we every do anything for the natives, imps and such? Are they treated the same way or is imp city basically city 17? If it is then joining her regime would be a possible option for them
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I think it will become city 17.
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/659244889208520736/745522701476823160/1597815551602.png
>Dictator charlie
>Anons face when he finds out the state of hell without charlies lies
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I really want someone to pick up that idea and turn into a full on story.

that pic and greentext just make me want more of it.
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I may have missed it because I can't see straight at the moment, but who are the grunts, the peons of Dictator Charlie's version of Hell? Is she manufacturing her own version of the exterminators? Is she occasionally grafting damned souls into some kind of shell to turn them into automatons to just do what she says, Strogg-style?
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maybe or the grunts are hell born demons that look (something) like pic related
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Doesn't she use the imps and such like the combine use humans for civil protection and overwatch?
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yes
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Okay in order
>Grunts are manufactured all purpose machines, called oppressors i think
>The old overlords were either executed or forced to work for her, the overseers of Avarice produce most of Hells products, food and such
>Sir Pentious is forced to build more oppressors
>Katie and tom are still doing the news but they just list off sinners and their reasons for being in hell, shit sucks for them
>No soul grafting or stroggifying
>All sinners are given a date for execution
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As someone who detailed Charlie's rise to power, AAAAALL the way back when the whole Dictator idea was just a "bad end" timeline after "New Moon", and other anon-related shenanigans, here's my pitch on the idea:

>for Sinners, Hell is a soul-destroying phalaster, where they spend their lives in sensory deprivation, waiting until it is their time to be erased, while being forced to reflect upon their sins that brought them there
>for most demons it's a life of puritan squalor, with training for war being the only excitement
>others are grueling away in Hell's mines, or working on construction projects - everything is utilitarian and uncomfortable
>after millennia of living life extravagantly due to human vices and inventions, for most, it is maddening
>the nobility became reclusive, hiding away in their castles and palaces - some have even "hired" a large portion of the native demons as their "servants", in order to provide them with an environment safe from the Queen's rigor
>chaotic beings don't function well under most basic forms of order, let alone totalitarianism
>those working for the Queen herself wear little to no identifying marks, their uniforms conceals their faces, genders, alter their voices, and, in general, serve to completely dehumanize them, going as far as to break up their general visage from afar, making it difficult to recognize them as bipedal beings
>there's not a lot of them, and most work as overseers for troops of Oppressor droids - Hellish inversions of the Exterminators of Heaven, though, the change is only surface level
>functionally, they're almost the same
>it all appears stagnant, but it is, in fact, in perfect equilibrium
>Sinners are erased at the same pace as they arrive, and the economy is set up in a way that literally everyone is comfortably provided for
>humanity's dream of a Utopia - set up to be as inhumane as possible
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>Anon gets snatched up by oppressors when he returns from purgatory
>They take him to Charlie after his genetic code was scanned
>Now he lives with his sister again
>In the remodeled Pandemonium palace alongside Vaggie and the rest of Charlies remaining friends
>His golden cage
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>Charlie acts differently when she's around her brother
>Less grave, less frightening
>Grim topics are off the table for the most part
>Sometimes she'll even sing again, softly

>She seems to be trying to act like the woman her brother used to know
>Trying to get him to help her relive happier days, before things got to be...what they are now

>The others eventually pick up on this
>They realize that whenever Anon is around Charlie, things improve, going from '100% Pure Despair' to '99 & 44/100% Pure Despair'
>On occasions when the gravity of the dire situation of the afterlife gets to be too much for them, they seek out Anon
>They all but cling to him, knowing that his presence will temper Charlie's darker moods, using him as a shield against their queen's madness
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>progress is slow, but still noticeable
>she seems less tense, less on edge
>while nowhere near cordial, she use the grim, cold tone she had become infamous for instead of her singing less and less
>even offering small praises to those who impress her

>she becomes noticeably more relaxed around her friends
>even making polite conversation with some of them
>Vaggie can even confirm that some of the love had returned to their relationship
>Charlie had also confided her with some of her personal woes (which Vaggie wouldn't divulge in detail)
>she had even laughed at one of Angel's tamer jokes
>it seems like, slowly, but surely, she's thawing out - and it's not just delusional escapism
>one day, she makes a few landmark decisions, granting some of the requests posed to her - Vox is allowed to add a new program (it's only a nature documentary series on Hellish wildlife), Sir Pent is allowed to design and build new transport vehicles for the regime, and so on...
>of course, all activities are still strictly monitored for any sign of subversion or sabotage, and liquidations carry on as normal

>but it's a start
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I love this shit
>Anon can't get any dates
>Be it sinner or demon everyone doesn't want to fuck the queens brother
>It doesn't help that Charlie is a complete mama bear with him in that regard
>If she doesn't approve of someone courting Anon they "disappear"
>Shit, even Angel is wary of flirting with him
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Here's a little flavor we could inflect the Dictator Charlie AU with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLrBJYGxk4
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Waddya know, I got into that series on Friday, and now you post it here (as if you’d somehow read my mind).
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Funny thing is that I found out about it as sort of a snowball effect from watching the Hazbin pilot. I always liked animation as much as the next guy, but I didn't see much of it outside the mainstream. Ever since I hit that thumbs up on Hazbin and Helluva I've gotten more and more independent animations showing up in my suggestions on YT, and every time I give one of them a thumbs up I get even more animation suggestions, and the "Model Citizen" and "Friendly Shadow" videos just showed up for me a day or two ago.