🔗 Share this article Hazbin Hotel's Creator Unveils Rosie and Alastor's Backstory Serves as a Huge Teaser for Season Three Devoted fans of the show finally got a long-awaited backstory in the second season's episode 4, titled “It's a Deal.” This installment is likely to prompt a lot of discussion and pose numerous inquiries about the essence of a certain demonic Overlord who appears significantly stronger than any character previously realized. These fresh disclosures include a glimpse into the human life of a fan-favorite character prior to his death and sentence to Hell. A Major Tease for Upcoming Installments The show's creator shared an inside detail about “It's a Deal” – it serves as a major tease for the third season. Additionally, she offered more insight into the process of designing the human versions of her demonic cartoon figures. Warning: Spoilers for the fourth episode of Hazbin Hotel, the show's second season. Visual: Prime Video In the episode, a look back discloses that fan-favorite character Alastor, the Radio Demon was a serial killer in his human life. Knowing full well he was headed to the underworld, he made contact with the realm beyond beforehand to secure a strong position there. The charismatic leader, who leads the cannibal faction in Hell, promised Alastor he would become “the strongest Sinner in Hell” in return for his eternal spirit. This prompts an important query: In what way is Rosie sufficiently strong to raise Alastor over all other Demonic Sinners? “The Rosie and Alastor deal is the initial building block in a larger narrative that involves a great deal, leading into season 3,” the creator states. “Obviously that is a perfect question: How is she so strong? The answer could be many things, but the revelation is in season 3. I am thrilled for people to witness it.” There’s no telling the duration the audience will have to remain for Hazbin Hotel’s next season. The production companies have green-lit the third and fourth seasons, but the creator often notes that animated production is a slow, lengthy process, and later seasons are undated. Still, she says withholding on those details is an important part of maintaining the second season's focus where it belongs. “The difficulty of any kind of deal with infernal beings, or stories that have enigmas, is providing the audience just enough information to be like, Something's up here, and then revealing that gradually, and allowing that be satisfying,” she says. “So I am quite eager.” Picture: The Platform Questions Answered in The Next Season The creator assures that season 3 will address the queries followers have been posing, like why Rosie commanded Alastor to vanish for a seven-year period, which weakened his influence in Hell. “The entire seven-year span, and the deals these individuals are making, and all that — it's feeding into a bigger narrative,” she reveals. In the meantime, the origin story episode offers a further look into how the core cast of Sinner Demons appeared as as humans, following after viewing another character's Victorian-era human form in the second episode. She says that significant consideration went into these character designs. “The human versions of these personas hold great significance,” she notes. “They vary from looking quite distinct from their infernal version to seeming almost identical. With Pentious, the first one we see, there was some internal discussion within the team between going with something that symbolizes the personality, versus selecting an option that's historically correct. We leaned toward creating a design that just seemed like it was him.” Graphic: Prime Video She says the biggest debate over the mortal look of Pentious was his long hair: “We were like, ‘Nobody typically had long hair of that style in Victorian-era London.’ But simultaneously, we think the outline is extremely crucial, and we also just felt he looked good. We were like, ‘This seems correct.’ We kind of gave the excuse that he lived in seclusion, so he just allowed his hair to lengthen. So there's always a way. As we create the human versions of these personas […] it is a very enjoyable process to investigate and determine. I'm excited for fans to view additional of what the human forms look like.” New episodes of Hazbin Hotel season 2 are released on midweek on Prime Video.