it's not murder in every universe, sometimes it's just research and waste disposal
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it's not murder, it's research and waste disposal by mangotangerine
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
22 Jan 2026
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Vox is well-loved and respected in his community, which is great for getting away with unethical and highly illegal scientific research for personal gratification via human experimentation, but it's getting boring. So when he's offered relocation from the Midwest to New Orleans, he takes the opportunity to integrate himself into a new place, to insulate himself as he establishes hunting grounds outside his new community.
He's not expecting to meet the meanest man he's ever met in his entire life, one who absolutely despises him. Vox immediately falls in love and makes things worse by pulling pigtails to get attention. Nothing works to change the dynamic, until Alastor finds Vox trying to dispose of a dead body deep in the bayou and stays around instead of running away. They bond over their mutual interest.
They bond quite a bit over it.
There's a ton of bonding, really. And some plot and killing, but it's a lot of sex—I mean bonding—and sociopaths falling in love.
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vox is stupid and desperate and alastor mostly hates him until he doesn’t by mangotangerine
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
08 Sep 2024
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Key scenes from chapters one and two of it's not murder, it's research and waste disposal from Alastor's Point of View, plus some additional cute scenes of Alastor falling further in love with the town idiot.
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what consenting adults do in their own home is their business even if it's illegal and anyway it's hardly the worst thing they've done by mangotangerine
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
12 Aug 2024
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Alastor is minding his own business, about to rail Vox over the kitchen table like usual, when some obnoxious jackass won't stop knocking on the door. Luckily, it's just Vox's dad. This is the dirty nasty version of Chapter 22 of it's not murder, it's research and waste disposal.
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it’s not murder, it’s intimidation and data tampering by mangotangerine for Baubles_n_Bones
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
02 Dec 2025
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It's a thankless job, cleaning up after the CIA’s top agent (who just so happens to be Travis’s childhood best friend and unrequited love interest), but Travis didn't become an NSA agent just to let Vox get caught. A day in the life of Travis’s data manipulation, hacking, intimidating witnesses, being generally menacing, and running away from Vox (because god forbid that dweeb find out about the extent to which Travis makes sure Vox stays out of jail).
A side story to explore just what Travis does to keep Vox safe. Canon to the main fic (unlike the others, which are all like, AUs of the AU).
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this side of the boulevard might be paved with razorblades and broken glass but at least it's paved by mangotangerine
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
02 Oct 2024
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Husk heads back to the city he'd told himself he'd never return to for a job and finds himself back in his old stomping grounds, driven by a sick sense of nostalgia. He wanders into one of the dingy clubs on the bad end of the Strip, curious despite his better judgment, and gets a little taste of Heaven in the form of a pretty boy on a dimly-lit stage.
Is he really going to become one of those stereotypes, a sad-sack washed-up loser falling in love with a stripper? Or is there something more to the divine creature he'd been lucky enough to glimpse on that stage?
Or: the story of how Husk and
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the only thing hetero about travis is his chromia by mangotangerine
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
21 Feb 2026
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Travis is just trying to live his life, but the world—and his asshole childhood friend (and said asshole childhood friend's husband)—won't leave him the fuck alone. So what if he's in love with Vox and has been for the last 15 years? What does that have to do with anything?
Regardless, he gets bullied into a polyamorous relationship with two dumbass serial killers who have serious issues and are clingy as hell. Vox, he's used to. Alastor? He still hates the bastard. For now.
A series of vignettes in the it's not murder cinematic universe exploring the relationship (if you want to call it that) between Vox, Alastor, and Travis, for my ride-or-dies.
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Nothing in life is certain, except death, taxes, and Alastor and Vox. Somehow, no matter what universe they’re in, the two manage to find each other.
Alastor is nine years old when V and his fancy family move into the house at the end of his street. They’re not at all how Alastor expects. He’s never met anybody as cold and controlling as V’s parents, and he’s never met anyone he’s liked as much as he likes V. They quickly become friends after Alastor saves V from a cruel punishment in the Louisiana sun, and V finds himself welcomed into a family where nobody yells at each other, nobody gets hit for misbehaving, and where he can be free for the first time in his life.
What kind of men can two boys become when found family and love disrupt the cycle of isolation that creates monsters?
(A queer coming-of-age exploration of how connection, trauma, and environment shape who we become, told with grounded psychological realism. A litfic-style narrative following Alastor and Vox from childhood into adulthood as found family rewrites their trajectories.
A companion piece to It’s Not Murder, imagining what might have happened if the two hadn’t grown up in isolation, but readable as standalone.)
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vox is an aquarium and alastor is a cat by mangotangerine
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
09 Dec 2024
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No matter what universe they exist in, Alastor and Vox are meant to be. Their soul bond transcends realities, transcends dimensions, bringing them together in every lifetime.
This is the heartwarming, tragic, then heartwarming retelling of a love story between a top-of-the-line, high tech Visually Optimized Xenohabitat (Vox) aquarium and some goth girl’s weird-looking cat (Alastor).
Did I rewrite my Supernatural “Sam and Dean are Aquariums and Castiel is a Fish” fic for Hazbin Hotel? No. The term is “inspired by,” thank you very much.
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