Hathunters

Hathunters is a fanfiction written by Afterlight\_MC, and co-written by ao3\_solace and APuffOfPink. It is mainly told from the perspective of Max Fleetwood, with occasional third-person perspective switches, during and after the events of Valiant Hero. Since this is an ongoing fanfiction, some of the information here is subject to change.

## Synopsis

When the Toppat Orbital Station was critically damaged by a Gov't prototype spaceship, only 400 Toppats managed to evacuate and land on Earth safely. However, as everyone evacuated in a hasty manner, the survivors were scattered across the globe with limited ways for them to contact each other.

Amongst the 400 are Toppat Elites Callie Weber and Max Fleetwood, the adept Division Leaders of the Toppat Heist Crew who own a secret stash of vehicles on Earth, and their close friend Alister Beckett, who (for some reason) frequently switches factions and has close ties with both the Toppats and the Gov't. With every member of the clan currently pinned to crimes internationally, would the Toppats be able to regroup and recuperate before the Gov't catches them?

## Characters

* Max Fleetwood (Main Protagonist)
* Callie Weber (Deuteragonist)
* Emily Blunt (Deutragonist)
* Alister Beckett (Tritagonist)
* Anne Copperbottom (Tritagonist)
* Sven Svensson (Quadragonist)
* Burt Curtis (Quadragonist)
* Over 30 other Original Toppat Characters
* Every member of the Toppat Clan who appeared in ItA, FtC, and CtM

* Christopher Fenceberg (Main Antagonist)
* Col. Emery Jones (Secondary Antagonist)
* CLAW (Main Antagonistic Faction)
* TALON (Secondary Antagonistic Faction)

## Trivia

* The tile of the fanfiction is a play on the term *Headhunters*.
* The embedded artworks seen in Chapters 1 and 2 were all drawn by Afterlight\_MC by early June 2021.
	+ He had no intention to make the fanfic at that time, getting the idea only after drawing another artwork in early August 2021.

### Chapter 1 Trivia:

* Callie and Max's room number (142), is Afterlight\_MC's favourite number.
* Wilhelm's remark about "Icepick complaining and Snowcap thinking that they'll be going to a tavern and drinking" is a reference to Icepick's appearances in *Stickmin Space Resort* and *Little Nest Egg* where he complains about the hot weather and being on caravan duty respectively.
	+ Snowcap's comment is a reference to how he thought that Icepick being on Caravan Duty meant "You get to sit on the train and hang out!" in *Little Next Egg*, despite that actually being *his* job instead of Icepick's.
* Skele-Gro is a reference to a dreadful-tasting potion from *Harry Potter* that could restore and regrow bones.
* The Global Hats System (GHS) is very obviously a reference to the real-life Global Positioning System (GPS).
* Frederick Muenster's stays in the room opposite the Callax room by himself, because nobody wants to be his bunkmate.
* Sven being forced to hack a laptop via password guessing is a reference to the Hack FAIL in Valiant Hero, where Charles Calvin attempts to use the same method to hack a panel.
* The 2 Gov't soldiers overheard by Icepick and Snowcap were not Josh Taylor and Drake Camper.
	+ This was hinted by the fact that their names did **not** appear in the list of characters debuting in Chapter 1, despite the list including characters who were mentioned.

### Chapter 2 Trivia:

* When the Toppats were reacting to the collision with the prototype Gov't spaceship, "Mamma mia!" was one of exclamations that Max heard from his room. It was in fact, yelled by Marty O.
	+ "Have we been attacked?!", "Did a meteor hit us?!", "Did someone sabotage us?!" were also some of the exclamations heard by Max. All these queries ultimately turned out to be partially true.
* The Gov't agents that were spotted by Bloodhound were not Henry Stickmin and Charles Calvin.
	+ Once again, this was hinted by the fact that their names did **not** appear in the list of characters debuting in Chapter 2.
* The scene where Callie beats up Oliver Smith is a reference to what happened to Oliver in a past roleplay session where he fired a machine gun at Callie and Max's adopted child.
* Burt's comment about Anne being Reginald's favourite niece is a reference to the fact that quite a number of young female Toppat OCs in the community have the last name Copperbottom.
* Escape Pod #24 was drawn as Escape Pod #32 in the artwork because the artwork wasn't intended to be drawn for the fanfiction.
	+ Ditto for Escape Pod #15 being drawn as Escape Pod #31.
* Riley Redwood is based on a *Geometry Dash* Icon.
* Kenshi's weapon of choice, the Kitchen Gun, is a reference to the titular skit featured in the 2007 British comedy sketch show, *The Peter Serafinowicz Show.*
* Max has actually never fired his AA-12 once. This is because he normally chooses to keep out of sight from guards and soldiers while he's on a heist.
	+ Amusingly enough, he chooses to use a fully automatic shotgun as a *self-defense weapon.*

### Chapter 3 Trivia:

* Callie owns 150 knives, which she keeps in her cloak.
	+ She eventually ended up brandishing all her weapons at least once, by the end of the chapter.
* Multiple readers thought that Callie actually *murdered* Alister at the end of the opening scene.
* Cloudface's beard is one of the exclamations exclusively used by Toppats.
	+ Cloudface was one of the previous Toppat Leaders whose portrait was seen in the Hall of Leaders, at the top of the orbital station.
* Angel's top hat has a hidden button near the bottom to press in case of emergencies which causes the "feathers" of the wings on his top hat to shoot outwards.
	+ Angel's hat was notably one of the hardest hats for Afterlight\_MC to draw, taking him 30 minutes to complete it.
* The communications satellite that was mentioned by multiple Toppats, is the one that's featured in a FAIL in *Free Man*, where Henry tries to use it only to find out that it's not weaponized.
* Kenshi's idea of stealing a tank is a reference to the artworks made by his creator u/Kenshi2900, which depict his OC Kenshi and multiple other Toppats stealing various tanks.
* Riley's idea of going undercover in an artistic community is based on what his creator u/JigglypuffGD said Riley would do if *Valiant Hero* happened.
	+ Similarly, Daniel's intention of becoming a rock star is based on a Reddit post made by his creator u/FireAngel250 on where Daniel is after he left the Toppat Clan.
* Deceiver's idea turned out to be exactly what the Toppats end up doing when the hunt begins.
* Oliver's idea is in-character for what he would have normally done in roleplay sessions.

### Chapter 4 Trivia:

* Anne's design is based on the Demons from the 2019 American comedy web animation *Hazbin Hotel*. Her birth name Anne Des**demon**a seems to reflect that.
	+ Altus Stuart is based on the character Alastor from the same web animation.
* The opening scene is ironically amusing because the ringing of church bells is traditionally believed to drive out demons. In this case, Anne (whose design is based on a demon) and Burt inadvertently struck the bell themselves, causing them the vacate the town on their own.
	+ Immediately after that, the irony abruptly transitions to an obligatory bike scene because they landed in France.
* Callie could speak French, English, Russian, German, Spanish, Polish, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Italian.