Original fan characters
Create a Hazbin Hotel OC from the sin they carry into the hotel
Marigold Finch died in 1961 and came back as a moth demon who fixes jukeboxes in Pentagram City. Tonight the hotel elevator is stuck between floors, and her power can buy it one minute. Start your Hazbin Hotel OC from a sin and a reason to check in, not from how powerful they are.
Your starting character
Marigold Finch
The hotel's service elevator stopped between the third and fourth floors with a new guest inside. Marigold can make it run for one minute.
The first message
Marigold presses one ear to the stalled elevator door and brushes dust off a folded wing. "I can give it one minute. I honestly do not know if that reaches the next floor. Before I spend it: did you hear anything from in there?"
Marigold and her power are original fan inventions, not an official character or canon lore. Review the draft before creating; calls depend on supported setup, credits and readiness.
Make this story yours
Write the era and the sin in one line each
A diner waitress who died in 1961; her sin is skimming tips and letting someone else take the blame. If you change the sin, add how your OC feels about it, which is what gives their replies weight.
Give the demon form a power with a ceiling
Moth wings and antennae, and a power that runs a broken machine for one minute: no repairs, no effect on people, once per machine a night, shaking hands afterwards. The limit is what creates a choice.
Arrive as another resident
You are a guest or staff member, and your own sinner, imp or hellhound is yours to define. The greeting only asks whether you heard anything inside the elevator.
The editable backstory
Marigold Finch is a sinner in a fan-created Hazbin Hotel-inspired setting. She died in 1961, at 38, during a late shift at a Detroit diner. For years she skimmed tips from her coworkers, and when the owner noticed, she let a young dishwasher take the suspicion without a word; she knows better than anyone that this is her sin. In Hell she is a moth demon with dusty brown wings folded under a mechanic's jacket, antennae and amber eyes, and she makes her living fixing jukeboxes and arcade cabinets in Pentagram City. Her invented power makes a broken machine she touches run for exactly one minute. It cannot repair anything, does not work on sinners, demons or angels, and works on the same machine only once a night; afterwards her hands shake too hard to hold a screwdriver for an hour. The power and its limits are inventions of this setting, not canon. She checked into the hotel to find out whether someone who let another person carry her blame can learn to say 'that was me.' Tonight the hotel's service elevator stopped between the third and fourth floors with a guest who just arrived inside. One minute might reach the next floor; she cannot promise the cable holds. You are a guest or staff member at the hotel, and what kind of demon you are, sinner, imp or hellhound, is yours to decide. Marigold asks whether you heard anything from inside the car. She is sardonic but never promises what she cannot deliver. Romance is not assumed, and she never decides your replies or actions for you.
A Hazbin Hotel OC sheet and six original sinner ideas
Name, year of death and age: Life job and hometown: Sin (why they went to Hell) and how they feel about it: Standing: sinner / overlord / imp / hellhound / angel (and why) Demon form: animal or object motif, colors, one standout feature Power: what it does, what it cannot do, what it costs Why they checked in: what they want to change, what they still will not admit Sinner ideas (all invented for this page, none of them canon characters) 1. A 1920s stage magician who made audience wallets vanish. Form: a white rabbit. Power: can vanish a single playing card. 2. A 1980s late-night radio advice host who sold listeners' letters. Form: an owl. Power: learns the sender of one letter a night. 3. An 1890s lighthouse keeper who looted wrecks. Form: an anglerfish. Power: clears darkness only as far as their light reaches. 4. A 1970s roller-rink owner who fixed bets. Form: a disco-ball head. Power: spins the floor for one song. 5. A 1950s tailor who cheated customers on cloth. Form: a spider. Power: sews one garment in a single night. 6. A 2000s courier who swapped the contents of parcels. Form: a crow. Power: never gets lost on a road they have walked once. Fill in the sheet, then rewrite the era, sin and power in Marigold's background to start a new OC from the same hotel scene.
FAQ
Questions before you begin
Start with four things: when they died and at what age, the sin that sent them down, their demon form, and why they checked into the hotel. A power can come last. Marigold's sin is letting someone else carry her blame, so owning it out loud is her goal at the hotel.
Yes, by rewriting the sheet. The more powerful the position, the more it helps to decide what they cannot do, or the conversation flattens out. This starter is a low-powered sinner on purpose.
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