for all his infamous reputation and generally unpleasantness i don't think alastor is, naturally, a betrayer. we see how he handles his two canonical friends in the show ( rosie & mimzy ), who both have nothing but positive things to say, and not just miscellaneous good things, but stuff like “you love taking care of me” and “he's never steered me wrong before” ... mimzy literally puts alastor's life in danger with her problems and he never holds it against her, actively indulging this selfish behavior and seeing it as a point of pride. he allows the two a lot of leeway, a lot of touching, and isn't uncomfortable nor irritated about it. which isn't even mentioning how he clearly feels at home in cannibal town ; a place that's characterized by a rare sense of unity you hardly see in hell. where everyone helps each other and once charlie wins them over, they have no qualms giving her their loyalty and delivering on it. cannibals are the most loyal sort of demons we've seen so far! and alastor loves them, and loves it there with them. so i think he's much more loyal than he wants to be, but it's still inherently within him ( & is something he respects and likes ) regardless.
this doesn't mean he won't betray the hotel! because i think he will, and it'll be every bit as awful as it feels like it's going to be, except the point of it is less 'this is how alastor naturally is' and more so 'here is a man pushed to extremes from outside forces and inner turmoil he refuses to sort through, to the point he's doing things that he believes are something he'd do, when in fact the people who know him best will probably not understand him or his current actions' ... do you feel me!
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