Hal Emmerich

* RP S5
* RP S2

**Hal Emmerich** was a contestant in Hell's Kitchen Roleplay: Season 2, and will be a contestant in Hell's Kitchen Roleplay Season 5: Rookies VS Veterans. He ranked in 3rd place in Season 22, and is still in the running in Season 25.

## Personality

Hal is a very kind and supportive chef, who could tend to be a little emotional due to his failures weighing down on him. Outside of the kitchen, Hal is a lover of anime and robotics, and he makes no secret about it. In the kitchen, Hal had initially been seen as a weak link by his team, but quickly managed to improve himself, becoming one of the strongest links on the Blue team. Despite his rocky start, he was well-liked by Akshay and Ewan, and got along well with Marcy, Robert and Ben. While he wasn't a huge fan of Hunter at first due to his arrogance, he eventually came to like him. He was initially not a huge fan of Jangue. While he believed that he could cook, he thought that Jangue should tone down the attitude lest he becomes the Red team's next target. However, he did grow to tolerate him more and more as his return to the red team progressed. He, unlike a lot of chefs that switch teams, stood out more in the Red Team in a positive way, even doing part of the 9th service by himself (well, partly himself). While he was nominated twice there, he managed to persevere with his great cooking skills and amazing second plea. The latter of which got him a Black Jacket. During the Black Jacket phase, his leadership stood out more and more, getting BoB one time and BoW the other time. After making Hell's Kitchen history twice by being part of the first 7 member Black Jacket team, and the first All Male Top 6, he made history a Third time by being part of Hell's Kitchen's first 3 way finale. Unfortunately, however, he was beaten out by Jangue and Danny. While he did have a voice, he had... Too much voice. And by that I mean he was screaming like a Super Saiyan In his defeat, he blasted Linkin Park's In The End.

## Season 22 (RP)

### Episode 1

Hal was one of the eighteen contestants were riding on a bus before it crashed. On the way to the restaurant, Hal talked about anime a lot before being given the choice to get to HK early. He flipped a coin, lost it, and was launched out of a cannon. When he landed, he sustained plenty of injures but the anime god healed him. He and his team studied the menu.

Hal was the first contestant to present their signature dish, which was a pan seared Rib-Eye doused in cheese dip and had rosemary on top. While the garnish was tasty, his steak turned out to be mid-rare on one end and well done on the other, which resulted in him getting a 2/5. In spite of that, the Blue Team won. While Hal thought he could've done better, he was happy he and his team won.

During service, Hal was assigned to the appetizers station, where he confused the appetizers station with the fish station. He managed to bounce back by cooking the risotto with Marcy. Marcy then sent him to help Michael on the flatbread and managed to get it sent out. He and Akshay were then assigned to the Meat station, where he made an acceptable steak, and improvement from his Rib-Eye. He then did one wellington out of three, while the others were assigned to Shaun and Akshay. The trio then served their wellington, and it was accepted. The blue team would win the service.

At elimination, Hal admitted that while he was happy he wasn't the first to go, he was worried that now that Smelly was eliminated, the blue team would need to step up their game or he might be next.

### Episode 2

Upon arriving in the dining room, he learned the challenge this time around was a relay challenge, where the teams were making mirepoix by chopping vegetables. Hal managed to get an unknown number of mirepoix accepted, but the blue team lost the challenge in the end.

During the punishment, Hal and his team were forced to prep chicken, and Hal encouraged the team by saying that while they lost the battle, they can still win the war.

Just as service was about to start, Hal injured his thumb and it bled. The issue was resolved quickly, but this caused Hal to respond to things slower. During service, Hal was assigned to Garnish. Hal helped Hunter out on his station while he was waiting for garnish. Akshay got Hal's order confused but Hal didn't get fooled by Akshay's mistake. Hal then miscommunicated how long he needed on his carbonara, but managed to rectify his mistake when Chef EA said it was perfectly cooked and sent it out. Hal wasn't seen as much for the rest of the service before the Blue team got kicked out when the NY strip was sent to the pass perfectly cooked, but charred.

Both teams lost the service, and Hal said goodbye to Michael as he was transferred over to the red team.

### Episode 3

During the Winner's Preference challenge, Hal made a couple of chicken wings with scotch bonnet pepper and callaloo. Hal and Ewan were called up, as they had the worst dishes of their teams. Hal's dish was criticized for having raw chicken and the bland garnishes. This caused Hal to panic, but EA calmed him saying this wasn't an elimination challenge. Hal then stated that his goal was to make it up to Chef EA, that his raw chicken was a fluke and didn't represent him as a chef.

Hal and his team mate Akshay were assigned to the fish station that service. Hal started off by identifying his problems but would have to wait on addressing the latter as he was not assigned to meat that service. Hal 's part of the service started off great, as he managed to properly communicate with the fresh-out-of-a-2-episode-long-coma Ben Dover to get scallops up to the pass. However, he made a tiny mistake by thinking tuna tartare was a part of the fish station given the name, but it didn't screw up the order so nothing too bad. Unfortunately, Marcy and Robert messed up on an order of wellingtons. Hal offered his assistance but Ben declined, leaving him on the fish station. Hal then watched the disaster that was the chef's performance on the meat station, he described the chef's performance as "like seeing a train wreck, it's tragic but you just can't look away." After a while, an order of salmon came in, which Hal cooked. While his fish and the meat was perfectly cooked, the pastry was raw, which lead to Hal refiring. Despite some out of character drama which didn't involve Hal but one of his teammates and Chef EA, for clarification, Hal sent up his refired salmon which did manage to get out to the customers. While the Blue Team did finish service and Hal redeemed himself, the Blue Team lost. Hal wasn't nominated for elimination, his only punishments were having to witness a heated argument and one of his team mates [SADLY BUT PEACEFULLY LEAVING THE COMPETITION].

### Episode 4

Episode 4 was an Episode where Hal really shined in. For the fish challenge, Hal competed against Ewan. Akshay was confident that Hal could deliver a good fish. Hal and Ewan were last. Hal brought up his dish... Which was regular Salmon with barely any garnish... However what the dish lacked in quantity, it MORE than made up for in quality. Chef EA said that this was the best salmon that she had ever tasted, giving his team a point and therefore giving them the win. Their reward was a trip to Paris.

During the dinner service, Hal was assigned to the Meat station. However he was unable to cook anything on that station due to the team's incompetency on fish and appetizers, much to Hal 's annoyance. The ticket took so long to the point where Akshay requested Hal 's assistance on the fish station. While the Scallops on the first order were perfectly cooked, Robert undercooked the risotto, leading to Hal having to refire. However, Robert left his oven off, leading to everyone except for Hunter and Hal getting kicked out. Hal took over the fish station and Hunter took over on the appetizers station. Chef EA herself took control of the Garnish station. From that point, the service went smoothly. Despite that, the Blue Team lost. However, Hunter and Hal were safe.

Hal was the announcer for their elimination, picking Chris for incompetence on appetizers and poor communication, and Robert for his increasingly weakening performances. Ultimately, neither of them were eliminated, instead, Chef EA chose Moe for abandoning his team.

### Episode 5

In this Episode, Hal and co went to an island. Unfortunately, his controller wasn't able to take part in the challenge due to him having a chiropractor appointment, but he did get a point during the challenge. Sadly though, his team lost the challenge. The team was slowly losing trust in Chris, including Hal . He was hoping that this was the service where the Blue Team would finally win.

Hal, along with Akshay were assigned to Garnish for that service. However, Hal was unable to do anything for the first half of the service because of the fact that he was on Garnish. That meant that he could only watch as Chris and Robert's incompetence on the appetizers nearly sunk the service to Davy Jones' locker. Hal wasn't that surprised to see Robert get ejected after Robert made 11 mistakes that night, but he was sad that he wasn't able to see Robert improve. After Robert's ejection, Hal asked if he could help Chris on apps, Chris declined. Hal was worried that he was going to screw up, but thankfully, Chris got it right this time. Afterwards, Akshay and Hal were finally able to do their jobs on the Garnish station, and while they nailed their performance, The Blue Team Lost... And so did the Red Team.

While in the dorms thinking about who should be the nominee for elimination, Hal was hesitant to say who he thought should go up since Chris was the BOW that night, and that he didn't want to ruin the friendship he had with Akshay and Ben. Ultimately though, Hunter was picked for elimination even though Hal didn't want to see him get put up there after seeing how great he was in the last service. Thankfully, he wasn't. Hal then went to the dorms, praying that the next service would go in the Blue Team's favor, as he was sick of losing.

### Episode 6

In this Episode, HK had a Breakfast challenge. Hal was assigned to French Toast. While he did do good on the station, he had to refire his French Toast due to Chris' poor timing and cooking. He also nearly had to refire another time because Shaun had walked his French Toast too early. Sadly, the Blue Team lost. You may have noticed that there isn't as much detail here as there was in the last Episodes, this is for a reason we'll get to in a bit.

For the punishment, Hal and his team had to revamp the bedrooms. However, all Hal really did was watch Chris argue with his team, and Hal later dragged Chris back from Disney World when Chris got pissed at Kelly for pinging the Team. Hal and co were then taken to one of Chef Emily's restaurants, where they had a CFYL challenge. For the top 14 challenge, the contestants had to make steak and fries. Hal also corrected Akshay and Shaun when they got confused about what they were cooking. While Hal tried his best, he unfortunately wasn't safe this round, as he and 7 others could still get eliminated. For the second round, the top 7 had to cook Pekin Duck. Hal later scolded Chris for "unintentionally" sabotaging Ewan. Thankfully, He and 3 others were spared from Eliminations. Hal was personally rooting for Ewan to win and was happy to see him get on the bus instead of Chris. Hal then offered Ewan a bottle of water, which he accepted. He then became a little guilt-ridden when he learned that Chris was rooting for Hal.

While they were returning, EA asked Hal, Akshay, Kelly and Droidette to hand in their jackets. Hal was confused by this, but then learned that he would be switching to the Red Team. He was a bit unhappy by this news, but at least he still had Akshay and he even formed a friendship with Ewan. He hoped that this change will benefit Hal and won't make chef EA regret her decision. Thankfully, it did.

### Episode 7

In this Episode, Hal was getting along with his new team when they got called down. Hal then learned that they were going to be making dishes for the Season 1 Runner Up Angie. For this challenge, Hal went first, he made a Polenta with sliced and diced pancetta, strips of salmon and red wine sauce. Hal took a big risk with this, however it payed off since he got a his team won the challenge. For the reward, he and his team went to the mall, there, he bought several video games.

For the dinner service, Hal was put on fish with Danny. He had all the confidence in the world with his new team, then the first ticket came in, which was 2 tuna. Hal ordered Danny to do one of his tunas, which he did. The tuna got accepted. The next ticket came in but it didn't involve fish, so Hal was put to the sidelines. The ticket after that came in, which involved 2 tuna, Hal and Danny did the same thing as before and got it accepted. Then the first entrée ticket came in. Which involved 1 Halibut and 1 Branzino. Hal did the Halibut while Danny did the Branzino, both dishes got accepted. The next ticket came in, which was 3 strip and 1 halibut. Danny requested to do the Halibut, Hal accepted and told Danny to make sure it "Tasted like heaven." To make a long story short, it did. After that, 2 orders of Salmon and 1 order of Branzino came in. Hal did both of the Salmon while Danny did the branzino. They both did their jobs and got it right, but not before Danny and Ewan messed up by thinking that the Branzino had to take 8 minutes to cook. The Red Team won the service.

Nothing of importance happened with Hal after that, though he was sad to see Ben go.

### Episode 8

After the elimination, Chef Emily didn't give the chefs time to breathe, as the next challenge had started. In this challenge, the red and the blue team had to guess what proteins a dish had. Hal was paired up with Akshay this challenge. Sadly, the red team lost, Akshay and Hal relied on Ewan a bit too much. The red team had to clean the dining room.

Speaking of Ewan, he injured his hand during the punishment, and the red team had to do the service without him. Tonight was charity night, and for this night, Hal was put in charge of the Rib-Eye. In retrospect, Hal was annoyed when Toasty had poisoned the well with how bad the charity night might turn out, but we'll get to that. Emily lead the charge for Ewan, out of 12 of the risottos the red team did, Hal did 6 of them, and they turned out perfectly. Tanner led the next course, and it was terrible. It went fine fore a bit until EA noticed that Akshay's oven was off, leading to them having to refire. Tanner didn't help much, but almost silent for the first while. Tanner unfortunately gave everyone the wrong time for the scallops, as they ended up being undercooked. Hunter and Hal were then brought to the pass, where Hunter asked how long they needed on his course. Hal mistook this as how long they needed on their scallops and gave the wrong time, he quickly corrected his mistake by explaining it and saying that he needed 6 minutes for his rib-eye. Hal steered the service back on course with the Rib-eyes, making damn sure everyone was in sync, the Rib-eyes turned out perfectly. Craig's course was similar to Hal except with salmon, same with Akshay and Morbius but with Venison and deserts respectively.

Unfortunately, the red team lost. Hal's first pick for elimination was Tanner because of his course. However, he and Akshay were backed into a corner. Hal, out of fear that he would fuck himself over by nominating himself despite the fact that he made only one mistake that service, and out of fear that his friendship with Akshay would be severed if he nominated him, AND not wanting to ruin his perfect not nominated once record, chose to nominate Morbius for his not-so-great performance on the line. Hal was the announcer, and he chose Tanner and Morbius. But just as Tanner was asked to give his plea, Ewan came back. Ewan stated that he won't be returning to Hell's Kitchen, Chef EA allowed him to keep his jacket, and Ewan left. Needless to say, Hal was sad to see Ewan go. He then apologized to Morbius for nominating him, it's unclear if Morbius accepted it. He also lost a lot of respect for Jangue after seeing his "good riddance" reaction to Ewan leaving and told Jangue to shove his mean words up his ass. He was tempted to punch him but, not wanting to get disqualified, he didn't (F O R E S H A D O W I N G ?!).

### Episode 9

The next day, Chef Emily called the Top 11 down. There, she informed the chefs that they were working with protein and will be working in pairs. Said proteins will be decided by the spin of a wheel. Hal chose to work with Tanner. Tanner however, was unconscious, so Hal dragged him everywhere they went for a bit. Hal and Tanner were given Tomahawk and a New York Strip to work with. Tanner was then dragged by Hal into the kitchen, where the latter made his dish. Hal and Tanner were the second group to be picked. The 2 (but mostly Hal) made a New York Strip and Tomahawk with Ranch Dressing, Asparagus and Rosemary. Hal was moving Tanner around like a puppet while Hal was presenting the dish. The dish got positive reviews and the 2 were given a point. Sadly, the red team lost. But during the punishment, Hal's team just... disappeared.

When he came back, Hal was the only person on the Red Team to show up. Hal, however, was still determined to finish the service with just himself. Just as service started, Akshay showed up. For that service, Akshay was on Meat and Apps while Hal was on Fish and Apps. Service was going great for them, then Akshay had to attend to something. Hal got so determined to complete service he started communicating with himself, almost forgetting that Chef EA was there. Hal and EA continued to do the rest of the appetizers... pretty much perfectly. Then Akshay came back to help Hal, the two then carried the service from there. Finally, the 2 finished the service with no mistakes made.

Chef EA congratulated both teams for completing service. Unfortunately, she told the 2 teams that Morbius won't be coming back to the competition due to an injury. Since the teams were unbalanced, The Blue Team had to send a member back. While Hal hoped that Danny would come back, Jangue came back instead. Hal, seeing what Jangue had become after not working with him for a while, was annoyed by his arrogance and rudeness. He also was upset that he pretty much dominated the service that night and THAT was the thanks he got. Jangue had noted that the Blue Team was "So fake" during the time he was there. Which lead to Hal giving Jangue his honest opinion (which was that he hated him). Hal also warned him that, if he sank the team the next service, he would be going up.

### Episode 10

The Episode started with Chef EA waking up the the Top 10. EA then informed the chefs that they would be remaking their signature dishes with some improvements. Hal and co then began working on their remade signature dishes, which was a rib-eye with cheese dip and rosemary. The challenge then came along. An issue with Hal's original signature dish was that it was mid rare on one side but well done on the other side, despite Hal saying it was mid-rare. That issue had been addressed in his remade signature dish, and because of that, EHal got a 4/5 score from Chef EA. Despite Akshay making, virtually the same dish as the OG signature dish challenge, the Red Team won, and the were rewarded with a trip to a bungee jumping place.

For this service, Chef EA told the chefs that they would be making their own menus for this service. Hal's contribution to the menu was Salmon with mashed potatoes. Hal was assigned to the appetizer station. The first order is something you've seen a lot throughout this page lately, Hal and co got their meals accepted. The second order, while everyone else got their part of the order accepted, Jangue messed up by undercooking a hushpuppy, much to Hal's shock and annoyance. However, Jangue did fix his mistake and that appetizer part of the service went by smoothly. Hal wasn't a part of the first order of the Entrée part of the service. Jangue noticed this and asked Hal to help Akshay with his chicken. Hal obliged and the order turned out great. The Red Team then finished the service and finished the Blue Team's service for them.

During elimination, his team was safe. While he was initially sad to see his old teammate, Shaun, go, he was quickly shocked when he saw Shaun rush up to Jangue and punch him and getting arrested for it. Jangue then dropped the nice guy act that he had during the episode, meanwhile Hal feared that the cycle might repeat again.

### Episode 11

Hal and the other members of the Top 9 woke up to another challenge. For this one, the contestants had to cook a dish with alcohol in it to serve it to EA and 2 other guests, Wolfgang Puck and Richard Blais. The team then got to working on their dishes and, once they were done, served it to the judges. Hal made a Prime Rib Steak covered in Red Wine sauce, parsnips and asparagus. The judges loved it, and Hal got a 14/15 on his dish. Like the last challenge, the Red Team once thanks to Droidette's disappointing dish. For the reward, the team went to Six Flags.

For the service, Hell's Kitchen was closed to the public for it's second charity night. For that night, Hal was assigned to getting to his team to make 12 Salmon. While the rest of the service was fine for Hal, he made 2 mistakes tonight, which was a first for him. His turn at the pass started off rough, with Hal not remembering how many customers were there, which slowed the Red Team down. However, he did eventually get the red team to get his 12 salmons out to the diners. However, while Tanner was at the pass, Hal made the biggest mistake he has made here up to that point, which was serving Chef EA 6 raw filets simultaneously. While Hal did rectify his mistake, this, and Tanner's bad performance as a leader made the Red Team lose.

It took Hal a bit for him to accept that he would be one of 3 candidates for elimination. Akshay, Tanner, and Hal were all nominated. However, Akshay's nomination was voided. Hal gave a plea that, while he did give Chef EA 6 raw filets, he argued that no chef is perfect, that he was better than that and that, if was given another chance, he'll prove to Chef EA that he is, indeed, better than that. Chef EA then asked Hal if he could lead and can run a restaurant, to which Hal replied "Yes" to both of them. While waiting for Tanner to reply, Hal's anxiety spiked. After Tanner gave his plea, Chef EA asked Hal if was a leader, to which Hal replied "I am a leader, I'm not done, I never will be." However, despite that, Emily requested that Hal hand over his jacket...

...Stating that it was dirty, and thus, Emily gave him a new one and eliminated Tanner. Hal then said goodbye to his teammate. Back in the dorms, however, it was taking a while for Hal's anxiety to wear off. Toasty asked if he needed a medic, and Danny checked to see if he was ok. Hal reassured them that he was fine. Jangue then took Hal into the red bedroom, to which he told him to be happy that he made it this far. Hal then opened up to Jangue, stating that he was not expecting to make it as far as he did, given the fact that the Blue Team carried him during the first service. Jangue then encouraged him to keep fighting and, while he was still gonna keep going, Hal obliged, and the 2 fist bumped. Hal, while upset that he wasn't able to keep his not nominated once at all goal, was happy that he made it to Episode 11 without being nominated once.

### Episode 12

Episode 12 started off with Hal wanting to fix the mistakes of his last service. He and his 8 remaining teammates, for this challenge, were given leftovers from the last service and were told to make a dish from them. While Hal was wondering if they had ditched the Blind Taste Test from the last 21 seasons, he decided to roll with it. For the challenge, he made a an angel hair pasta with cheese sauce and steak bites. It was so good that he got the top 2 for the challenge along with Droidette. However, he did not take home the winning point for the team, the he was glad that the punishment was just him not getting a trip to Vegas and wasn't borderline torture.

For the dinner service that night, Hal was assigned to meat. He didn't really do anything for the first ticket, but for the second ticket, Akshay ordered him to make sure that the scallops were perfectly cooked. Hal said yes chef top him before remembering that he wasn't on fish that night, which Akshay got yelled at by Chef EA for, much to Hal's annoyance. Jangue then noticed that Hal had done nothing and asked him to help Craig on spaghetti, to which he obliged. He, Craig and Jangue got the last order of appetizers up successfully. The next ticket was strictly meat, 2 chicken and 1 wellington requested medium, which Hal did, after they were done cooking, Hal touched the wellington to make damn sure that it was medium, which it was, and his food got sent to the diners. The next ticket included 2 Wellington, one rare and one mid-rare. Akshay had taken longer than necessary on garnish, but Hal got the team's communication back on track. Unfortunatly, that wasn't good enough and EA had ordered them to refire because of Akshay's mistake. Akshay had failed to deliver on garnish again, leading to the Red Team getting kicked out of service that night.

At elimination, Hal had hesitantly nominated Akshay for his piss poor performance on garnish. Akshay, to Hal's glee, was not sent home. Rather, Droidette was sent home for her awful performance on appetizers. After elimination, Hal was surprised to see Chris, Mehgan, Michael and Tanner back to try to get back into the game. He also wondered how Chris was allowed to come back for another chance due to the fact that he was one of the most hated chefs on the Blue Team. Regardless he and the top 7 soon to be top 8 again were sent back to the dorms for a day off.

### Episode 13

Hal described Danganronpa yet Hunter and Toast were like "AMOGUS." Eh, thought I'd add that in there cause why not? Anyway, after the challenge, Tanner was allowed back into the competition, much to Hal's shock. Then chef EA called them down to have the Black Jacket dinner service.

Whichever team won would get their black jackets first. For this service, Hal was put on appetizers. Akshay and Hal got their first ticket successfully served to the customers, but not before EA gave them panic a bit with a "Who cooked the Carb" fake out. Things were looking up for the 2. But on the 3rd order of appetizers, Akshay and Hal fucked up by cooking Carb rather than Spaghetti. The 2 then quickly fixed the mistake and the spaghetti was served. Then Hal helped get the last order of appetizers sent out. Jangue quickly putHal on garnish. While Hal had no problems when it came to the garnish station, his friend Akshay tanked on Meat. On one order, the first strip was overcooked while the refire was undercooked. Then Akshay's dish got sent back for being overcooked. Jangue and Hal were told to keep going while Akshay was sent to the pantry. Seeing Akshay tank was physically painful for Hal to watch. After that mistake, the team had no other problems for that service, however, they lost.

The Blue Team (Danny, Hunter, Kelly and Tanner) got their black jackets first. Akshay and Hal were nominated for elimination that night since they were the only ones who made mistakes that night. Before the 2 gave their pleas, Jangue and Craig got their Black Jackets. While Hal was melancholic that Akshay was definitely going home tonight, but also nervous that he might be the next "Robbed of a Black Jacket" contestant, he thought to himself that he wasn't going down without a fight. For his plea, Hal stated that he had been working his ass of in Hell's kitchen since day, had acknowledged that he fucked up but pointed out that every time he made a mistake, he would immediately fix it no questions asked, as demonstrated multiple times throughout the competition. He also noted that he's willing own to up when he makes a mistake and keeps getting better as a chef as time progresses. He also, in a loud voice, proved that can lead and does, indeed have a voice, and also noted that it felt amazing to yell. For his closing point, he said that he was ready to keep on fighting and that he would only stop once he's dead. And with that, his plea had beaten out Akshay and a teary-eyed Hal got the last Black Jacket and waved goodbye to his best friend. He joined the Top 7 in entering the Black Jacket longue, where he and others had happily chatted with one another.

### Episode 14

Hal and the other black jackets had arrived. Unfortunately, before Emily could explain the challenge, Hal got possessed. He doesn't remember anything from the challenge. After the challenge was done, the person possessing him left his body. Hal then woke up and was in despair to learn that he had lost the challenge and wasn't able to do anything about it. But nevertheless, did the punishment with Jangue, Tanner, Kelly and Craig. Meanwhile, Danny and Hunter were having the time of their lives and probably having gay sex.

For this service, Hal was put on Desserts. Because of this, Hal was unable to cook anything, all he could really do was communicate. He was a bit sad to see Kelly struggle, Tanner, not as much. Bored, Hal asked if he could do something. Then Danny ordered him to help Kelly if she kept being unable to keep up. Soon after that, the garnish got underdone for the 3rd time. Hal attempted to help her, but she stated that she was fine (Famous last words.) After the order got sent. Hal then requested if he could jump on the fish station, but Tanner turned it down. Wondering why he's still here, Hal drank a non-existent bottle of wine in the confessional and asked "Ain't life in Hell's Kitchen grand?" Then Kelly kept on sinking like the Titanic on Garnish. Infuriated, Hal asked if he could replace Kelly on garnish. But Chef EA told him that if she tanks, they'd be out of here. And then Tanner's raw Halibut got them kicked out, much to the Black Jacket's dismay. Hal was also mad that he didn't even get to cook anything before being suspended.

For elimination, while Hal wasn't the best of the worst, he knew for a fact Tanner and Kelly were going up. As much as Hal wanted Tanner to pack his bags, Kelly was sent home. And with that, Hal became a member of the first all-male Top 6.

### Episode 15

I'll update Episode 15 and beyond soon. Maybe...

### Episode 20

It starts with...

One thing I don't know why, It doesn't even matter how hard you try, Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme, To explain in due time, All I know, Time is a valuable thing, Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day, The clock ticks life away, It's so unreal, Didn't look out below, Watch the time go right out the window, Tryin' to hold on, did-didn't even know, I wasted it all just to watch you go, I kept everything inside and even though I tried, It all fell apart, What it meant to me will eventually, Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard,

I tried so hard and got so far, But in the end it doesn't even matter, I had to fall to lose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter.

## Season 25 (RP)

### Episode 1

Hal came back on the Veteran's Team. He used a device called the "Octocamo" to pretend to be someone else, in this case his friend David Pliskin. But you see, he tested this 100 times and NO ONE thought he looked anything like Hal. Yet Ayumu was like "Hey, you look like Hal." before he was supposed to figure that out. This caused Hal to think that Ayumu either has a supernatural ability to see through disguises or knew from the start and was acting like he didn't know. Anyway, he meets his fellow veterans. The only people he was expecting to be there were Kiibo and Michelle considering that they both got Black Jackets in their respective season, and Daisy and Morbius considering that they were both only injured and not eliminated. What he DIDN'T expect was non black jackets appearing, those being Pory, Riyonn, Brynn and ESPECIALLY Undead.

Then, the first day arrived. The veterans came downstairs and revealed their identities. Then they went to the kitchen to make their signature dishes. Gordon was happy to see Hal back and vice versa. Just like last time, Hal was called up for alongside S Travey. He was shocked yet thrilled to see S get the first 0/5 as well as talking back to Ramsay. For his signature dish, Hal made a New York Strip covered in Ranch dressing and Rosemary Potatoes as an additional topping. His dish was praised and given a 5/5. His team later went on to win the challenge and won a dinner with Ramsay in Las Vegas.

For dinner service, Hal was assigned to the fish station alongside Morbius. For the first order, Hal cooked scallops under Riyonn's direction and got it perfect. The same thing happened with the next order of appetizers. Hal saw the Morbius was just standing there, so he offered him help before realizing that he (Hal) could do this on his own. And just like the last 2 times, it was perfect. Hal and Morbius were on standby until the last ticket called for 3 salmon. Hal and Morbius then made an uncharacteristic mistake when they served up raw salmon. But hey, we all fuck up every once in a while, so the 2 got it back in the pan, cooked it right this time, served it, and the crisis was adverted. After this, The Veterans won the 1st dinner service.

Hal then went back to the dorms and praised everyone, especially Riyonn, for their performances. Then, they all went to the elimination ceremony. When S got nominated, Hal told him to stop screaming and that he was worse than him when it comes to their indoor voice. S then told him to go hump a body pillow. Hal could barely hold in his laughter. Hal was then surprised when S didn't get eliminated and Betsy got sent home. Back in the dorms, Hal criticized S for screaming so much, making a joke that he might just beat Goku and that he wouldn't be surprised if S started screaming in the middle of the night. Along with that, he also thinks that Betsy might just be the daughter of Terrance.

### Episode 2

Hal and the other contestants were aggressively woken up by pots and pans. But then he went to go do the challenge. He and the other chefs were challenged to make a surf and turf dish in a battle for the punishment pass. During the challenge, he didn't talk much, as he was heavily focused on his dish, that being a Ribeye and Scallops surf and turf with creamy garlic mushrooms and thymes. His dish was up there in the top 3 for the veteran's team. Unfortunately, while his dish was up there in the top 2, he lost to Ayumu. Hal was also shocked when he was S serve a dish with a shit-sac. He refused to believe that S was a real person.

Hal then got ready for service. This time, he was on Red meats solo. He didn't do anything until entrees, all he did on appetizers was cheer his team on. His first order was 2 NYS, which Ramsay complimented for being beautiful. Then the next order came in, which was 2 pork, 1 halibut and 1 bronzino. Hal, however, called back 2 halibut rather than one. No one noticed this mistake until Riyonn pointed it out. Even then, it didn't impact the service. For the last order, Hal to cook 1 beef wellington while Daisy had to cook 2 pork. Once again, Hal and Daisy did it perfectly. He then complimented Daisy for doing her part of the order right. The veterans won the service.

After this, Hal told S that he started to sound like Raj. In his words "S for Sanity Not Included." And Hal wasn't surprised to see her go. What *did* surprise him however was after this, Daisy was moved to the red team. After this, his team had a conversation about FlynnMasters, but it wasn't all that interesting.

### Episode 6

I like my women like I like my coffee, ground up and put in the freezer.

## Quotes

"This is like one of my Japanese Animes..." (Various)

"I mean, i'll take it." (Various)

"Hal Yeah!" (Various)

"Well... at least there was something postitive about it?" (Ep 1. Referring to his signature dish)

(Icey's Notes: I find it hilarious that Me and Danny were both got our dishes tasted first and dissed by other contestants. Not only did we both outlast all of the contestants that dissed us, but we later ended up becoming finalists.)

"I'm not getting the best vibes from that Smelly guy" (Ep 1. Obvious who he's referring to.)

"It's probably gonna be raw as fuck..." ",,,CALLED IT!" (Ep 1. Referring to Smelly's dish.)

"This is like one of my Japanese animes where the writers are backed into a corner but then Dues Ex Machina happens." (Ep. 1)

"20 Minutes?! Ok... That's Fine, I got this. Alright Emmerich, how long?! 1 Minute! 1 Minute Heard!" (Ep. 9. When Hal attempted to do the whole service by himself after his team mysteriously vanished.)

"Ain't life in Hell's Kitchen grand?" (Ep. 14. Referring to the disastrous 1st Black Jacket Service.)