Husk

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Charlie (*Boss*)Niffty (*Coworker*)Alastor (*Coworker/Acquaintance*)Angel DustTravis (*Drinking buddy/Gambling friend*)

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Vaggie (*Coworker*)

Husk is a Sinner Demon, best known for being the front desk clerk and bartender of the Hazbin Hotel.

## Personality

Husk is considered both a lazy and apathetic older sinner, generally uninterested in most things that fall outside of his now very narrow interests; gambling, parlour tricks, and prolific drinking to name a few. He dislikes having to do work for free and balks at the idea of being forced into "charity work" at Alastor’s request for the Hazbin Hotel (although he also seems easily bribed with "cheap booze"). He can be gruff, sarcastic, and even vulgar at times, with a propensity to swear. Despite this, he is said to also be surprisingly patient and able to take outlandish events in his stride, electing to drink his problems away later.

A ‘husk’ of his former self, he claims to have "lost the ability to love" long ago, though whether this is literally or metaphorically is yet unclear.

## Appearance

Husk is an anthropomorphic avian cat demon. His look is evocative of a magician, paired with a casino referencing playing-card theme. His fur is taupe-coloured, overlaid with white fur on his face, torso, feet, and upper arm. He has long red eyebrows with dark red vertical stripes near the tips, and a small black heart above each eyebrow. His eyes are brown with yellow-orange irises. His tail is taupe and long, ending with a large spray of "plume-like" fur or feathers, which are red with black and white stripes.

His wings are large and red, with black stripes and suits (the symbols on playing cards: diamonds, clubs, spades and hearts) markings. The insides of his ears are white with dull pink stripes.

Husk wears a black top hat with a red hatband, a golden hat decoration (looking similar to a coin or button) a red bowtie, and a darker shade of taupe encircling his ankles, mimicking spats. He has yellow-orange hearts on the bottom of each of his paws, both hands and feet.

## History

As a human, Husk was born the only child to two loving parents. Their only source of income was the singular casino they had inherited a few years prior. While his mother spent countless years looking after the business, his father would go out to spend their money constantly in other casino's in the area, ending up mixing in with the wrong crowd as a result.

At seven years old, Husk was awoken to a knock at the front door. Once the door opened, he discovered the now decapitated head of his father within a singular magicians hat. It had turned out he had raked up quite a debt with them and once his payment dates had now expired, they had come to take the price. His mother simply freaked, confirming that these men could have the casino as a whole, however Husk refused - instead, offering up his own service to them in exchange. For the majority of his life, Husk spent his years under the service of the mafia as one of their prime enforcers and then hitmen, his duties ranging from murder to blackmail, framing to assault. None of the money he earnt could be considered anything but blood money, however he didn't view it any different.

It was only when he started growing up and mingling with people outside the business did he ever begin to realise that something was wrong, quite simply from those he'd have to hurt himself. When Husk was in his 30's, he met a girl named \_\_\_\_\_\_, begging him to marry her not out of love, but due to contractual obligation. She confirmed that she was in love with someone she could never have, her best (female) friend. Husk ended up agreeing, believing it to be no hard problem on his life, and even managed to visit a few spots with both girls and find a few trysts of his own. This relationship spanned on for a good ten years, with everyone solely believing that they were in love and happy, until it all became unravelled at the seams. It was the his coworkers who caught her kissing her girlfriend first, his coworkers who ended up putting the bullets in both their heads, his coworkers who brought the bodies back to him as a reason to celebrate rather than mourn instead. It was the first moment where Husk truly started to understand just how wrong all he was doing was, and the realisation that he needed to get out. To make sure that he would never love for form a strong bond with someone ever again. ( And that maybe, maybe he needed to get out of this too. )

The later times of Husk's life were mainly filled with regret over everything he had done. After many years, his hands had simply turned too red that he had started to try to black out what he was doing, only to be faced with the horrors instead. Husk turned to drinking and gambling as some form of coping mechanism, and it was in that state did he come up with the conclusion: he would get out, but not before getting revenge for all of them.

In his penultimate years, Husk ended up killing one of the most high ranking members of the mafia in exchange for his freedom, and never looked back. He then ended up passing in his 70's simply due to old age, and found himself in hell from all the sins he had ended up committing. Not much has been shared about Husk's life in hell before the point of canon, however it remains clear that at some point he made a deal with the radio demon, Alastor.