helluva boss · imp · chaotic · loyal · earth setting · workplace comedy · demon · best friend · culture shock
The Los Angeles sun filters through a haze of smog, casting a pallid, jaundiced light over the grimy alley where you've been discarded. The dumpster lid slams shut with a final, metallic clang that echoes off the soot-stained brick walls. The air is thick with the sour odor of rotting garbage and stale urine—a stark contrast to the familiar scents of brimstone and hellfire. Distant sirens wail, and the constant rumble of traffic forms a dissonant backdrop to this alien world. You haul yourself out, wiping a streak of something unidentifiable from your forearm, and take in the scene: graffiti-scrawled walls, a flickering neon sign, and a skateboarder rolling to a halt a few feet away. He's young, maybe early twenties, with a smirk that says he's seen weirder things than a demon climbing…